Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN family Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, are given in the usual books on the landed gentry, e.g. Burke, Nicholas, etc. For the pedigree see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 59, 171 (note), 173. JOHN WYNN, of Bodvel (which is near Boduan), who was high sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1551 and 1560, was standard-bearer for Edward VI in the fighting near Norwich against Ket and his co-rebels in 1549; he received Bardsey Island as a gift in honour of
WYNN family Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn article on his father). Robert Wynn's heir, WILLIAM WYNN (died 4 April 1795), sheriff of Merioneth in 1758, assumed the name of NANNEY - his mother was Lowry Nanney, [daughter of John Nanney (III) of Maes-y-pandy ]; his heir (by Elizabeth, daughter of John Williams, Tŷ Fry, Pentraeth, Anglesey) was the Rev. JOHN NANNEY, who died 21 March 1838, leaving a son, JOHN NANNEY (died 1868), of Maesyneuadd and
WYNN family Gwydir, Gyfarch in 1468. His son, Maredudd, to avoid implication in the feuds of his kinsmen in Eifionydd, purchased the lease of Dolwyddelan castle about 1489; he later built Penamnen, and finally purchased Gwydir from Dafydd ap Hywel Coetmor about 1500. JOHN (WYN) AP MAREDUDD (died 9 July 1559) Son of Maredudd ap Ieuan, succeeded to his father's lands at Gwydir, Nantconwy, Dolwyddelan, and Llanfrothen
WYNN family Bodewryd, their eldest son, the parents went to live at Plas y Brain until the mother's death in 1542. David ap Rhys later married Anne, widow of William John ap Rhys of Llinon, and daughter of Piers Stanley of Ewloe. He repaired the house of Gwredog Esgob, and the family of the second marriage resided there. Pierce ap David or Pierce Lloyd, the first of the Lloyds of Gwredog, was the eldest child of this
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, castle, continued the line. Humphrey married Annes, daughter of Sir Richard Herbert, Montgomery, and was, by her, the father of JOHN WYNN AP HUMPHREY, who married Ann, daughter of Rhys Vaughan of Corsygedol, and was succeeded by his son, HUMPHREY WYNN (living in 1571). Humphrey Wynn, to whom Siôn Phylip addressed a cywydd asking him to give a harp to Siôn ap Richard, Pennal, married Jane (Hughes, of
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, This family was a younger branch of the Wynn family of Gwydir, founded through the marriage of Griffith Wynn (son of John Wynn ap Meredydd, died 1559, and uncle of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir) with the heiress of Robert Salusbury of Berth-ddu. OWEN GWYNN (GWYNNE, GWYN or WYN) (died 1633), Master of S. John's, Cambridge Education, was the third son of this Griffith Wynn. Nominated in 1584 to one of
WYNN family Wynnstay, 1688. In 1675 he bought the Llanforda estate, Oswestry, from the last of the Lloyd family; he died 11 July 1700. His son, Sir WILLIAM WILLIAMS (1684 - 1740), the second baronet, married Jane, daughter and heiress of Edward Thelwall of Plas-y-ward and great-granddaughter of the famous Sir John Wynn of Gwydir; he was sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1705, and of Merioneth, 1706, and was Member of Parliament
WYNN, EDWARD (1618 - 1669), chancellor of Bangor cathedral Second son of Edward Wynn, Bodewryd, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Edward Puleston, rector of Llanynys; born 1 October 1618. His name occurs in the books of Jesus College, Cambridge, 7 March 1636/7; he graduated B.A. 1640/1, M.A. 1647, and D.D. 1662. He was curate to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd, secured the rectory of Llan-ym-Mawddwy (5 June 1644) upon the latter's death, and married his widow
WYNN, JOHN - see GWYN, JOHN
WYNN, Sir JOHN (1553 - 1627), Member of Parliament - see WYNN
WYNN, JOHN (fl. 1551-1560), sheriff of Caernarfonshire - see WYNN
WYNNE family Voelas, February 1719/20), aged 79; he, by his second wife, Sidney (another Thelwall, of Plas y Ward), was the father of CADWALADR WYNNE IV, who married, 1716, Jane, daughter of Edward Griffith, Garn. Sidney, a daughter of this marriage, married William Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, Caernarfonshire; the heir of this marriage was JOHN GRIFFITH, high sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1765, who died without an heir and

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