Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORIEN MÔN - see HUWS, MORIEN MÔN
MORRIS, MORRIS ap RHISIART (1674 - 1763), farmer and cooper Father of the Morris brothers Lewis, Richard, William, and John Morris ('Morrisiaid Môn'). He was born at Tyddyn Melus in Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd in 1674 and married Margaret Owen (1671 - 1752) of Bodafon-y-glyn, a neighbouring farm in June 1699. After the birth of his eldest son Lewis on 2 March 1701, he went to live to Fferem; from there in 1707, he moved to Pentrerianell where he continued
NED MÔN - see JONES, EDWARD
OWAIN MÔN - see JONES, EDWARD
OWEN family Orielton, The Owen of Orielton family played a prominent part in the history of Pembrokeshire for nearly three centuries. The estate of Orielton in Castlemartin came into the possession of the Owen family by the marriage of HUGH ab OWEN to Elizabeth Wirriot in 1571. Hugh Owen (he dropped the 'ab') was the eldest son of Owen ap Hugh of Bodowen (or Bodeon), Anglesey, who claimed to be a descendant of Hwfa ap
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian court of quarter sessions, 1768-88 (1924); Beaumaris bailiff's accounts, 1779-1805 (1929); a volume of Beaumaris borough records, 1694-1723 (1932) and the diary of Bulkeley, Dronwy (1937). He also edited Braslun o hanes Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Môn, 1880-1935 (1937); and, with Gwilym Peredur Jones, Caernarvon court rolls, 1361-1402 (1951), and he published the following books: The life and works of
P. A. MÔN - see JONES, BENJAMIN
PARRY, RICHARD (Gwalchmai; 1803 - 1897), Independent minister, poet, and man of letters February 1897, and was buried in Llan-rhos churchyard, Llandudno. He was one of the joint editors of Y Dysgedydd from 1853 to 1864. He won ten eisteddfod chairs and a great number of other prizes. He published: Adgofion am John Elias, 1859; Enwogion Môn, 1877; Glan Geirionydd, with notes; Yr Adroddiadur Barddonol, 1877; and History of Ancient Eisteddfodau. He was one of the most prolific Welsh writers of
PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author , county councils, arbitration, etc. He was one of the founders of the newspaper called Y Werin, in 1885, and its first editor for three years. He also wrote for other periodicals - Y Dysgedydd, Y Cronicl, Y Geninen, Cymru (O.M.E.), etc. He published Cofiant Tanymarian, 1886; Cyfrol Jiwbili Capel Bethesda, 1900; Telyn Sankey, 1901; Cofiant Hwfa Môn, 1907; The English Hymnal, 1907; and numerous pamphlets
PRICHARD, JOHN (1821 - 1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author resigned his charge in 1884. He was a popular preacher in all parts of Wales, and a diligent contributor to periodicals; but he is best remembered for his history of Calvinistic Methodism in Anglesy - Methodistiaeth Môn, 1888. At the time of his death (18 October 1889), he was moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association. A biography, with a selection of his sermons, by his brother Thomas Prichard, was
PRIF ARWYDDFARDD MÔN - see JONES, BENJAMIN
PRYSE family Gogerddan, This family traces its descent from Gwaeth-foed, lord of Ceredigion, etc. The first member to be associated with the northern part of the county of Cardigan, i.e., with Gogerddan, was probably RHYS AP DAVID LLOYD (Burke, Peerage, Baronetage …, 1936 ed.), to whom poems were written by various bards, e.g., Siôn Ceri, Huw Arwystli, Mathew Brwmffild, and Lewis Môn (Cwrtmawr MS. 12B). The bard Lewis

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