Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest seminary priests, and in 1588 he appears on lord Burghley's list of priests in Wales as ' Clneycke Morgan.' He is known to have said Mass at Llandilo in 1590 and to have ministered elsewhere in Carmarthenshire. He was at Margam in 1591. In 1596 he was living with Jenkin Turberville at Pen-llin, Glamorganshire, and was still there in 1602. In 1606 the Benedictine, David Augustine Baker, brought him to
DAVIES, JOHN (1625 - 1693), translator his friend Henry Turberville.
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Born in Monmouthshire. His father was William Evans, and his mother, Winifred Morgan, was possibly of Llanfihangel Crucorney. He was educated at S. Omer and entered the Society of Jesus on 8 September 1665, was ordained in 1675 and sent to the Jesuit mission in South Wales. According to the informer, Edward Turberville, he visited Powis castle, but his activities centred on his native county and
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, Mansel Gamages. A Robert de Gamage was a free tenant of the Rodboroughs of Rogiet in 1334. Robert, son of Payn de Gamage, married the daughter and heiress of John Martel, lord of Llanfihangel Rogiet. Their son, WILLIAM GAMAGE of Rogiet, was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1325. He married Sarah, fourth daughter of Payn Turberville, kt., of Coety, and thereby forged the link with that Glamorgan manor. By
LLOYD, JOHN (d. 1679), Roman Catholic priest neighbourhood of Llandyfodwg, Glamorganshire. During the Titus Oates Plot agitation he was arrested on 20 November 1678, at the house of Mr. Turberville of Pen-llîn, Glamorganshire. He was imprisoned in Cardiff gaol with Father Philip Evans, S.J., and with him was sentenced to death on 9 May 1679, and executed on 22 July 1679.
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1317), nobleman, soldier and rebel martyr Clare, holding office under him and, possibly, acting as the earl's leading adviser on native affairs. With Gilbert's untimely death in 1314, Glamorgan passed for a time into royal custody, an event accompanied by changes in local administration, particularly when Pain de Turberville, lord of Coity, was appointed custos in 1315; Pain, a near neighbour and enemy of Llywelyn's kinsmen of Afan, was no
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (d. c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan sons of whom the third, Morgan Gam, succeeded him. A daughter, Sybil, appears to have married into the family of Turberville of Coity. Giraldus Cambrensis (Itin., i, cap. 8) recounts that it was Morgan ap Caradog who guided archbishop Baldwin in 1188 across the quicksands between the Afan and Tawe estuaries. Of the four sons of Morgan whose names are known to us, LLEISION was the eldest; in the
MORGAN GAM (d. 1241), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan Gronw ap Einion, though one of his charters refers to a wife called Matilda. He had at least three sons of whom Morgan Fychan is the best known. A daughter, Maud, married a Turberville of Coity. He died in February 1240-1, and was buried at Margam.
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver Thomas Picton was born on 24 August 1758 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the seventh of the twelve children of Thomas Picton (1723-1790), a landowner who traced his ancestry back to the Norman knight William de Pyketon, and his wife Cecil (1728-1806), daughter of the Reverend Edward Powell and a half-sister to Richard Turberville (TURBERVILLE family of Coity, Glamorganshire). Growing up at
TURBERVILLE family Coity, . There were numerous cadet branches of the Turberville family in Glamorgan; some of them were probably illegitimate in origin.
TURBERVILLE family Crickhowell, The genealogies are confused and contradictory; that given in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, mixes them up with the Coity family in Glamorgan, and with some English branches. Sir John Edward Lloyd supports Theophilus Jones in the theory that there is no evidence for the statement that the Burghills preceded the Turbervilles at Crickhowell. ROBERT TURBERVILLE appears as a
TURBERVILLE, EDWARD (c. 1648 - 1681), informer

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