Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WOODING, DAVID LEWIS (1828 - 1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper briefly back to Ffrwdfâl Academy but left October 1845 to assist his father in the family business, travelling extensively in both England and Wales. He married Marianne, daughter of Peter Jones, at Llanddewi Abergwesyn parish church on 18 June 1858. He died on 2 May 1891 after a brief illness and was buried in Beulah (Congl.) cemetery. In 1861 he took over responsibility for the shop. This enabled him
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, elected for Caernarvon boroughs in 1698 (Sir Robert Owen was grandson of Sir John Owen of Clenennau, (1600 - 1666), the Royalist soldier; through his mother, Catherine, daughter and heiress of Lewis Anwyl, Park, Llanfrothen, he inherited the Anwyl library, included in which was a copy of a Shakespeare ' Folio,' lately at Brogyntyn), and (2) Catherine (died 1700), who became the first wife of Peter
WYNN family Gwydir, by Sir George Booth and Sir Thomas Myddelton (whose daughter, Sarah, he had married in 1654) and was for a while imprisoned at Caernarvon. On his death in 1674 his estate passed to his daughter Mary (1661 - 1689), who married, in 1678, Robert Bertie, baron Willoughby de Eresby later marquis of Lindsey and duke of Ancaster, in whose family Gwydir remained until 1895. The baronetcy passed to John
WYNN family Wynnstay, is no lack of evidence to show that Sir Watkin hated the Methodists; Peter Williams and others experienced fierce persecution at his hands and great was their rejoicing when he died suddenly, 26 September 1749, as a result of a fall from his horse while hunting. Sir Watkin had added extensively to the Wynnstay estate by his marriage with Ann, daughter and heiress of Edward Vaughan of Llwydiarth and
WYNNE, ROBERT (d. 1720), cleric and poet Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph, in 1681, involved him in the consequences of the latter's determined attempt to regain the patronage of which the Price family of Plas Iolyn had deprived the bishops of St Asaph. There followed a series of court actions in Merioneth, Shropshire, and at the Exchequer Bar. Thomas Price, son of Peter Price of Cynllwyd, after incurring in the course of this litigation the

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