Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, JOHN (1779 - 1847), cleric, afterwards Calvinistic Methodist minister Born October 1779 at Cwm-gwen, Llanfihangel Iorath parish, Carmarthenshire, son of John and Rachel Evans. He was brought up as an Independent but, after hearing David Jones (1736 - 1810) of Llan-gan preach at Gwaun Ifor, he joined the Methodists there, and later at New Inn. He was educated by some of the local clerics and afterwards opened his own school at Llanpumpsaint where, in 1796, he began
EVANS, JONAH (1836 - 1896), preparatory school tutor, and minister (Congl.) Born 7 February 1836 in Llanfihangel, Carmarthenshire. He enjoyed very few privileges early in life, and was a farm servant for years. He attended Carmarthen College, 1859-61, and opened a preparatory school at Llanybydder in 1861, before moving it to Llansawel under the name ' Sawel Academy '. He prepared students for the ministry and other callings. He was a prominent leader in establishing the
EVANS, MARY (Whitemantle, y Fantell Wen; 1735 - 1789), mystic Harlech - it seems to be agreed that apart from their credulity her followers were quite harmless and indeed good-living folk. Mary ended her days at Talsarnau. She had announced that she would never die, and accordingly her body was kept unburied for a long time; but eventually it had to be buried (28 October 1789), in Llanfihangel-y-traethau churchyard - the tombstone gives her age as 54. For some
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Born in Monmouthshire. His father was William Evans, and his mother, Winifred Morgan, was possibly of Llanfihangel Crucorney. He was educated at S. Omer and entered the Society of Jesus on 8 September 1665, was ordained in 1675 and sent to the Jesuit mission in South Wales. According to the informer, Edward Turberville, he visited Powis castle, but his activities centred on his native county and
EVANS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1805), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born at Ystrad, Llangwm, Denbighshire, but the family moved to Fedw Arian, Bala. He was baptised 31 November 1734. He was a freeholder and afterwards bought the farm of Maesgwyn in Llanfihangel-glyn-myfyr, Denbighshire, letting this out in 1781, and afterwards raising mortgages upon it - the last occasion being in 1797, when he mortgaged it to his son Morris for £500. His wife Gwen died in 1772
EVANS, WILLIAM MEIRION (1826 - 1883), miner, Calvinistic Methodist minister in U.S.A. and Australia, and editor of journals published in Australia Born 12 August 1826 at Isallt Fawr, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Caernarfonshire His parents, Edmund and Mary Evans, moved to Gatws y Parc, Llanfrothen, and from there the son started to work in the Ffestiniog slate quarries. He emigrated to Australia, landing in Adelaide on 19 May 1849. He worked in the Yuttala copper mines, the Willinga slate quarries and later at the copper mines of Burrah, about
FOULKES, WILLIAM (d. 1691), cleric and translator Son (says Ashton) of a cleric called John Foulkes; he went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1650 (his age at that time is not given), and graduated in 1653. He was sinecure rector of Cwm (near Rhuddlan) in 1660-1, rector of Llanfyllin (and also of Llanbrynmair) 1661-91 - together with Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa after 1680 - and canon of St Asaph from 1662. He died at Llanfyllin at the beginning of 1691
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, Mansel Gamages. A Robert de Gamage was a free tenant of the Rodboroughs of Rogiet in 1334. Robert, son of Payn de Gamage, married the daughter and heiress of John Martel, lord of Llanfihangel Rogiet. Their son, WILLIAM GAMAGE of Rogiet, was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1325. He married Sarah, fourth daughter of Payn Turberville, kt., of Coety, and thereby forged the link with that Glamorgan manor. By
GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister quarter sessions on 30 July 1762. Upon the death of Philip Pugh in 1762 he was called to be pastor of the Independent churches at Llwynpiod and Abermeurig, Cardiganshire. He married Letitia (née Jenkins), widow of Theophilus Jones of Blaenplwyf, Llanfihangel Ystrad, a local squire upon whose death in 1758 William Williams, Pantycelyn, wrote an elegy. They settled at Sychbant, Nantcwnlle, a farm on the
GRIFFITH family Garn, Plasnewydd, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire. JOHN WYNNE GRIFFITH (1763 - 1834), recorder of Denbigh, 1817-34, was returned as M.P. for Denbigh Boroughs in 1818 and again in 1826, and was a prominent agriculturist. EDWARD HUMPHREY GRIFFITH (1792 - 1872), one of whose seats was Gwastadfryn in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Meironnydd, was sheriff of that county for the year 1850-1.
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster death, and the schoolmastership till 23 October 1801, when George Albert Barker succeeded him. He held other incumbencies - the joint curacy of Llandeilo'r Fan and Llanfihangel Nant Bran (1759-1816), the perpetual curacy of Dyffryn Honddu (1765-96), the prebend of Llandegley in the collegiate church of Christ, Brecon (1776-95), and the rectory of Llanbadarn-fawr, Radnorshire (1804-5). These country
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1719 - 1782), farmer - 1801). This was due less directly to Griffith than to his wife ALICE (1730 - 1808), daughter of Rhys Ellis of Tyddyn Mawr, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire (another literary family), whom he married 16 November 1753. Griffith died 20 April 1782; his widow died 6 March 1808; both were buried at Beddgelert. They had a son (who emigrated to U.S.A.) and eight daughters; five of these became active

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