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WOOD family, Welsh gipsies which John Roberts was writing. But, according to Robert Roberts ' the great scholar ' (1834 - 1885), the Wood family were to be found round about Flintshire in 1765-8 (Roberts's autobiography 31-6). Abram was a fiddler and not a harpist - it was in Wales that his family learned to play the harp. He is said to have been 100 years old at the time of his death. The date is well known, for he died on the
WYNN, EDWARD (1618 - 1669), chancellor of Bangor cathedral the cathedral of Bangor. He died 17 December 1669, and was buried 23 December at Llangaffo. He left fifty pounds in his will for adorning the cathedral of Bangor, and £100 to create an exhibition in his old college at Cambridge. His second wife, Sydney, daughter of Rowland White, of the Friars, Llanfaes (whom he had married 7 April 1657), died in 1670. He published, at his own expense, a collection

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