Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WOGAN family 1660 was excepted from the Act of Oblivion. He surrendered on 27 June 1664 and was imprisoned, but on 27 July 1664 he escaped from the Tower with other prisoners. It seems that he fled to Holland, and in 1666 he was in Utrecht. He was still alive in 1669 (Trans. Cymm., 1946-7, 214). The Wogans remained at Wiston until the estate was sold to John Campbell (lord Cawdor) in 1794. (3) Boulston. In the
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies ) in the summer number of Lleufer, 1952, pp.57-65. (2) ALABAINA WOOD Her name in some districts became synonymous with 'gipsy.' J. Glyn Davies published some interesting details about her in the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society, 1929, 143-4. (3) THOMAS WOOD Born in a barn at Llan-y-bydder, and died at Ruthin at the age of 95. He had nine children, among whom may be mentioned (a) ROBERT WOOD, a
WYNN family Bodewryd, third wife, Jane, daughter of Rhys ap Howell. He died 1 March 1596/7, leaving the estate to his son, JOHN WYN EDWARD, who also styled himself JOHN EDWARD AP HUGH GWYN and JOHN EDWARDS. Under him the family advanced to a higher grade in society. He was collector of the subsidy in Anglesey in 1600, and was appointed escheator in 1606. In 1612-3 he was high sheriff of the county. He died in 1614 (before
WYNN family Gwydir, . (Gesail Gyfarch went to his half-brother, Humphrey). He rebuilt Gwydir in 1555 and was Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1551-3, and high sheriff for Caernarvonshire, 1544-5, 1553-4, and 1556-7. The career of his son, MAURICE WYNN (died 18 August 1580), was similar. The first to adopt the name ' Wynn ' as a surname, he was Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1553, 1554, 1559, and 1563-7
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, , Montgomeryshire, and through whom the Ynysmaengwyn line was continued, (2) Jane, (3) Elizabeth, and (4) Rachel. Corbet Owen and Richard Owen, the sons of Ann and Athelstan Owen, left no heirs, the line being continued by their sister ANN OWEN (died 1767) and her husband, PRYSE MAURICE (1699 - 1799), Lloran Ucha, etc., who assumed the name of CORBET, as did others who succeeded him, the last being ATHELSTAN JOHN
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, co-heiress of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, he was the father of OWEN WYNN (died 1682/3), of Glyn and Ystumcegid, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Robert Mostyn, of Nant, Flintshire, the issue of the marriage being two daughters, (1) MARGARET (died 1727), who married Sir ROBERT OWEN (died 1698), of Clenennau and Brogyntyn who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth, 1681-85, and was
WYNN family Wynnstay, Library to collect and conserve other documents which were at risk when the army took over some of the buildings. At the same time he placed the Wynnstay MSS. in the National Library for safe keeping. He died in Wynnstay, Saturday 24 May 1944 and was buried in Llangedwyn. He and his wife had divorced in 1898; she died in 1911. They had a son and 2 daughters. His son, Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS-WYNN (1891
WYNNE family Voelas, bequeathed his Cefn Amwlch estate to his cousin, JANE WYNNE, Voelas. The heir of Cadwaladr Wynne IV was WATKIN WYNNE (1717 - 1774), who was high sheriff of Denbighshire in 1755, and who built the first church at Pentrefoelas (1766). He married Jane, daughter of Richard Clayton, Leon Hall, Salop; they were the parents of JANE WYNNE (died 3 October 1811), sole heiress of Voelas, and by the will of her cousin
WYNNE family Peniarth, Charles James Apperley ('Nimrod'). The career of WILLIAM WATKIN EDWARD WYNNE (1801 - 1880) is described fully by G. Tibbott in Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, i, 69-76. Born at Pickhill Hall, 23 December 1801, he went to Westminster School in 1814 and matriculated at Oxford, as of Jesus College, 24 March 1820. On 8 May 1839 he married Mary, daughter of Robert Aglionby Slaney
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic that he was a student of the law before his kinsman, Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor and, afterwards, of Hereford, persuaded him to take holy orders. He was ordained deacon on 24 December, and priest on 31 December 1704. Ellis Wynne married (1), September 1698, Lowry Wynne of Moel-y-glo, a kinswoman and a neighbour (she died July 1699, at the birth of their first-born Edward, who died before he
WYNNE, SARAH EDITH (Eos Cymru; 1842 - 1897), vocalist Union, was a brother, and Kate Wynne-Mattieson, vocalist, was a sister. Her last appearance was in 1874, in S. James's Hall. In 1875 she married an Armenian barrister-at-law, Aviet Agabeg. She died 24 January 1897, and was buried in Hampstead cemetery.
YALE family Plâs yn Iâl, Plas Grono, (see under Edward Lloyd (1570 - 1648?), was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, of which he became Fellow (1544-67) on taking his bachelor's degree. Ten years after proceeding to M.A. (1546) he was admitted to minor orders (24 September 1556) by bishop William Glyn, who inducted him to the rectory of Llantrisant (Anglesey) a few weeks later. He never resided there, qualifying instead for a legal

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