Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer 1837, aged 10 months; (2), 9 June 1829, Catherine Joseph, also a widow, of Merthyr Tydfil (died 1841?). His will (dated 29 March 1838, proved 30 March 1840) refers to property at Merthyr Tydfil and mentions his wife Catherine; his brother John; his son Thomas ('who is missing and reputed to be dead'); his sisters Mary, Sarah, Elinor, and Gwen; another sister Martha, deceased, and her children, Thomas
THOMAS, HENRY (1712 - 1802), Methodist exhorter and Independent minister a native of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. He first comes to our notice as a teacher in the circulating schools in Glamorgan who occasionally exhorted in the Methodist societies. He married, c. 1747, Gwen, daughter of Jenkin David of Gellidochlaeth, near Crynant, and was given a house on the Gelli property in which to hold meetings - it was there, in all probability, that the early society of the
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, -9, 2025-6). He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, February 1624. He married Gwen, daughter of Hugh (Gwyn) Bodwrda, an alliance which was strengthened to the next generation by the marriage of their daughter, Catherine, to her cousin, John, grandson of Hugh Gwyn Bodwrda. In 1641, as deputy vice-admiral of North Wales, he reported a suspected plot by the recusants of Creuddyn to seize Conway. During the
WILLIAMS, DAFYDD RHYS (Index; 1851 - 1931), author and journalist (Aberdare) which had somewhat disturbed bardic circles in Wales. Between 1893 and 1919 he published (in America) a series of works, among them being Rhwng Gŵg a Gwên, 1903, Am Dro i Erstalwm, 1905?, Llyfr Pedair Dameg, 1907?, Llyfr Pawb, 1908?, Llyfr y Ddau Brawf, 1911?, Llyfr y Ddau Adda, 1919. He died 4 March 1931 at Cefn Coed y Cymer.
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar connexions with both North and South Wales. In 1946 he married Gwen Watkins of Abertridwr, Glamorganshire, a school-teacher, and their marriage sustained them both throughout their lives; they had no children. Caerwyn had excellent secondary schooling at Ystalyfera County School, where he concentrated on Welsh and Latin, gaining the highest marks in the whole of Wales in his Welsh examination for his
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, Dolau Gwyn, which is just off the road leading from Towyn to Abergynolwyn. LEWIS GWYN (died 1630) of Dolau Gwyn, who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1617, was the second son of John Wynn ab Humphrey (above). By his first wife, Jane, daughter of Hugh Nanney, of Nannau, Lewis Gwyn had two daughters, Gwen (below) and Elizabeth, who married Edward (?) Nanney, of Nannau. By his second wife, Annes
YORKE, PHILIP SCOTT (1905 - 1976), Squire of Erddig, near Wrexham -east England. He also played in Cork and Waterford. In his will he named Gwen Nelson and James Hayter, friends of those days. Philip joined the Education Corps during World War II, serving for the most part in Northern Ireland as a sergeant instructor. He was released with high commendation. Philip served as a lay reader in local churches though the diocese has no record of a licence to this effect

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