The Ancestors of Griffith Owen



by William Addams Reitwiesner

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Ancestry of Griffith Owen
1 a Griffith Owen
* ... [ca. 1647]
+ ... [will dated 15 1mo 1716/7, proved 6 Jan. 1717/8]
He was a chemist in Prescott, Lancashire; fined for Quakerism between October and January 1683 [Rev. Benjamin Nightingale, Early Stages of the Quaker Movement in Lancashire (London: Congregational Union, 1922), pp. 158-159]; fined again in April 1684 [Nightingale, op. cit., pp. 146-147]; obtained a certificate [of emigration] from the monthly meeting at Hartshaw Southwest, Lancashire, 27 3mo 1684; arrived in Philadelphia on the "Vine" 17 7mo 1684, with his wife and family; noted physician and surgeon; member of the Provincial Council,
m. Sarah Songhurst
[George Englert McCracken, The Welcome Claimants: Proved, Disproved and Doubtful (Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, no. 2) (Baltimore: Genealogical, l970), pp. 303-308; DNB XLII: 412; BC 662; DWB 704; PACF 201; WFP I:53-54].
1 b Edward Owen
*
+
emigrated to Pennsylvania
m. 15 Jan. 1684/5 Hannah Baxter
[WFP I:55].
1 c Lewis Owen
*
emigrated to Pennsylvania 1684
+ ... [Will dated 22 Jan. 1708/9]
m. Lowry
[WFP I:55]
PARENTS
2 Robert Owen, of Dolserau, Tal-y-bont, Merionethshire
*
+
Militia commissioner for Merioneth from May 1657; Governor of Beaumaris; converted to Quakerism 1660; jailed for refusing the oaths of allegiance and supremacy in 1661 and released after fifteen months; in 1674 he was imprisoned at Dolgelly for five and a half years; emigrated with his wife and family to Philadelphia on the "Vine", arriving 17 7mo 1684
[BC 677-678; DWB 720; PACF 363; MWT 385; WFP I:52-53].
m.
3 Jane Vaughan
*
+
[PACF 201]
GRANDPARENTS
4 Humphrey Owen of Dolserau
*
+
[PACF 363; WFP I: 52]
m.
5 [unknown]
*
+
6 Robert Vaughan, of Hengwrt, Tal-y-bont, Merionethshire, the noted antiquary and genealogist
* Gwengraig ... [ca. 1592]
+ Ascension Day (16 May) 1667
[BC 944-945; DWB 1005-1006; DNB 58: 174-175; PACF 201; WFP I:56]
m.
7 Catherine Nanney
* ... b. 12 Dec. 1594
+ ... 25 Jan. 1662/3
[PACF 200]
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
8 Robert Owen of Dolserau, attorney in the Court of Marches of Wales
* ... [before 1555]
+
[PACF 363; WFP I:52]
m.
9 Elizabeth f. Robert
*
+
12 Howel Vaughan, of Gwengraig, Merionethshire
*
+ ... [living 24 Nov. 6 Jac. I (1608), d. 1639]
[PACF 201]
m.
13 Margaret Owen
*
+
[PACF 363; WFP I:56]
14 Gruffudd Nanney, of Nannau, Tal-y-bont, Merionethshire
* ... 11 June 1568
+ ... [living 1592]
[PACF 200]
m.
15 Elen Wynn f. John
*
+
[PACF 247]
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
16 (=52) Lewis Owen, of Cwrt Plas-yn-dre, Tal-y-bont, Merionethshire; Vice Chamberlain of North Wales; Baron of the Exchequer of North Wales (thus called "Baron Owen"); High Sheriff for Merionethshire 1545-6 and 1554-5; Member of Parliament for Merionethshire 1547, 1553, and 1554
*
ambushed and murdered by the Mawaddwy banditti at what is now called "Llidiart-y-barwn" (Baron's gate), near Mallwyd, Merionethshire, 11 Oct. 1555
[DNB 42:430-431; BC 673; DWB 715; WFP I:50-52; WG2 Lln. ap G. 10 (A)].
m.
17 (=53) Margred Puleston
*
+
[WG2 Puleston (A1)]
18 (=54) Robert ap Morgan, Parson of Llanaber
*
+
[WG2 Morgan Hir 5 (A)]
m.
19 (=55) [unknown wife]
*
+
24 Gruffudd ap Hywel of Gwengraig
*
+ ... [living 20 Eliz. I (1577)]
[WG2 Bl. ap C. 49 (C)]
m.
25 Catrin f. Lewis
*
+
[WG2 Genillin 1 (D1)]
26 Edward Owen of Hengwrt
*
+ ... [living 20 Nov. 1 Eliz. and 10 May 1601]
[PACF 363; WFP I:56]
m.
27 Elen Llwyd f. Robert
*
+
28 Hugh Nanney, of Nannau; High Sheriff for Merionethshire 1587
*
+ ... 4 May 1603
[PACF 200]
m.
29 Annes f. Rhys Vaughan
*
+
[PACF 279]
30 John Wynn ap Cadwaladr, of Plas Rhiwlas, Cynllaith, Merionethshire; High Sheriff for Merionethshire 1577 and 1586
*
+
[PACF 247]
m.
31 Jane f. Thomas
*
+
[WG2 Bl. ap C. 21 (B1)]
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
52 - 53 Same as 16 - 17, above.
54 - 55 Same as 18 - 19, above.
56 Gruffudd Nanney, of Nannau
*
+ ... [living 33 Hen VIII]
[WG2 Bl. ap C. 51 (A)]
m.
57 Jane f. Humphrey
*
+
[WG2 Osbwrn 2 (G2); Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical, 2004), p. 286; Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical, 2005), p. 296]
58 Rhys Vaughan of Corsygedol, Ardudwy, Carnarvonshire
*
+ ... [living 1554]
[WG2 Osbwrn 1 (A1)]
m.
59 Gwen f. Gruffudd
*
+
[WG2 Marchudd 17 (C1)]
60 Cadwaladr Price ap Robert, of Plas Rhiwlas
*
+
[WG2 Marchw. 2 (A5)]
m.
61 Jane f. Maredudd
*
+
[WG2 Gr. ap C. 15 (B2)]




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SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS






BC -- Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas Y Cymmrodorion, Llundain, 1953.

DNB -- [London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1900], 63 volumes.

DWB -- The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 under the auspices of The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion [London, 1959]

MWT -- Thomas Allen Glenn, Merion in the Welsh tract [Norristown: Herald Press, 1896]

PACF -- John Edwards Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families [Horncastle: for the Author, 1914]

WFP -- Thomas Allen Glenn, Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania, two volumes [Oxford: Fox Jones & Co., 1911-1913]










William Addams Reitwiesner


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