Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1738 - 1817) Llandygái, antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry Born 1 March 1738 at Trefdraeth in Anglesey, of poor parents. For some time he worked as a weaver, then followed his long apprenticeship as a saddler at Llannerch-y-medd. He became one of the bardic disciples of Hugh Hughes ('y Bardd Coch') and quite friendly with Robert Hughes (the bard Robin Ddu yr Ail); through his friendship with Robin Ddu he became a corresponding member of the London
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (c. 1625 - 1684), antiquary Llanddyfnan, and daughter of William Jones of Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth. That he was a competent and reliable antiquary is proved by such of his work as has survived, i.e. 'Historia Bellomarisci,' 1669, published as a supplement to the revised edition of Fenton's Tours in Wales (Archæologia Cambrensis, Supplement, 1917); ' History of the Bulkeley Family ' (1673-4), first published in Transactions of the Anglesey
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ALBERT (1909 - 1946), organist, music critic and composer Born in Liverpool, 16 January 1909, son of Captain Richard Williams and Anne Williams, both from Marian-glas, Anglesey. His father drowned when Albert was 4 years old and his mother died when he was 15. His mother's sister, Mrs. Stanley Jones, Liverpool, then took care of him, his brother and sister. He began to have piano and organ lessons when he was very young, and he was appointed organist at
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MATTHEWS (1885 - 1972), musician Born 9 December 1885 at Pen y Bonc, Burwen, near Amlwch, Anglesey, the son of Richard and Ellen Williams, Victoria House, Amlwch. He showed musical promise at an early age. Encouraged by the local schoolmaster John Matthews, his parents bought him a small American organ, which he taught himself to play, and by the age of eight he was a regular accompanist at services in Capel Mawr, Amlwch. In
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 1950-55, editor 1955-69. He possessed a sharp mind and was ready to accept responsibilities. He had the gift of gaining people's trust and was a person with natural courtesy who sought to avoid harm or hurt to any one. He enjoyed company and was gifted both as a lecturer and as a conversationalist. As the first Caernarfonshire county archivist he succeeded in putting the
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM PRICHARD (1848 - 1916), co-founder of the Princes Road Presbyterian church, Bangor, and publisher of a new edition of Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr by Maurice Kyffin son of David Williams (born c. 1824) of Glasdo, Llan Ffestiniog, (a descendant of William Prichard of Clwchdyrnog, Anglesey), and his wife Ann Owen (c.1823-1867). He was born 21 July 1848. After getting a little education at a dame's school in the village, he obtained employment in the firm of J. and N. Phillips of Manchester, and spent the rest of his life travelling for it in North Wales. He
WILLIAMSON, ROBERT (MONA) (Bardd Du Môn; 1807 - 1852), teacher and poet Newborough, Anglesey, where he married Jane Roberts, and became friendly with the incumbent Henry Rowlands, a descendant of Henry Rowlands, author of Mona Antiqua. He competed on the subject of the awdl at the Aberffraw eisteddfod, 1849, but was not awarded the prize; his poem was published at Caernarvon that year under the title of Awdl y Greadigaeth. Other published works by him were Awdl ar yr
WYNN family Cesail Gyfarch, Penmorfa Tregaian, Anglesey
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, Parys Mountain (Anglesey) copper mines, and in 1625 suggested to Sir Hugh Myddelton a project for reclaiming Traeth Mawr, separating Caernarvonshire from Merioneth. He founded [?] a school and alms houses at Llanrwst in 1610 [but see under John Williams (fl. 1584-1627?). One of the petitioners for a royal commission to hold an eisteddfod in 1594, he encouraged the literary activities of his kinsmen
WYNN family Bodewryd, The Wynns of Bodewryd in Twrcelyn, Anglesey, were descended from GWEIRYDD AP RHYS who is reputed to have fl. in the commote of Talybolion about 1170 and is considered to have been the father of one of the Fifteen Tribes. His eldest son was TRAHAEARN, who was also called Cadhaearn, after whom an ancient mill in Caerdegog, ' Melin Cathayran,' is supposed to have been called. His son, MEYRICK, gave
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, 19 March 1713, and graduated LL.B. 1719, and LL.D. 1728. Ordained in London in 1720, he was presented to the livings of Dolgelley, Merionethshire, and Llanidan, Anglesey, in 1725, resigning the latter in 1731, after becoming precentor (not chancellor, as in obituary, Gent. Mag., 1754, 283) of Bangor cathedral (1730-44), a post which he combined with the living of Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd

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