The Ancestors of Thomas Yale



by William Addams Reitwiesner

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For the Yale pedigree, see "Erddig and the Yales of Plas Grono", Chapter XIII (pp. 211-256) of Alfred Neobard Palmer's History of the Thirteen County Townships of the Old Parish of Wrexham [Wrexham: Hughes, 1903], the fifth part of his A History of the Town and Parish of Wrexham, especially pp. 211-224 and 243-256.


Ancestry of Thomas Yale
1 Capt. Thomas Yale, J.P.
* ... [ca. 1616]
+ New Haven, Conn., 27 March 1683
[Ben LeGrande Cash, St. John and Harries ([Albuquerque, N. M.?], 1973), p. 53; RJC XX; PGV 19; FANH 2031-2041]
PARENTS
2 Thomas Yale, of Plas Grono, nr. Wrexham, Denbighshire
*
+ ... [will dated 15 Oct. 1619, recorded 27 March 1620]
[The American Genealogist XX: 30-33; RJC XIX; PGV 18]
m. ... (license 13 April 1612)
3 Ann Lloyd
*
+ ... 1659, having married, 2ndly, bef. 1628, Theophilus Eaton, who was b. Stony Stratford, Bucks, ca. 1590 and d. 7/8 Jan. 1657/8, Governor of New Haven Colony from 1639 to his death
[DNB XVI: 340-341; DAB V: 612-613; HBH XVII; FANH 591]
By Gov. Eaton she had, among others, a daughter named Hannah Eaton, who married William Jones [FANH 1058-1066].
GRANDPARENTS
4 Rev. David Yale, LL.D., of Erddig Park and Plas Grono
*
+ ... [will dated 15 Aug 1625, probated 16 June 1626, bur. Chester Cathedral]
Rector of Llandegla, Denbighshire, 1564-1573; Vicar of High Offley, Staffordshire, 1572-1573; Prebendary of Y Faenol in St. Asaph, 1578; Prebendary of Chester, 1582-1608; Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester, 1587-1608; Vicar General to Bishop George Lloyd [whose daughter married Rev. Yale's son] from 23 June 1607
[BC 1042; DWB 1110; JV IV: 486; PGV 17]
m.
5 Frances Lloyd
*
+
[RJC XVIII]
6 Right Reverend George Lloyd, D.D., Rector of Llanwrst 1597; Rector of Heswal, Cheshire, 1597-1613; Rector of Bangor Iscoed, 1612-1615; Rector of Thornton-le-Moors (no dates); Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1600; translated to Chester, Dec. 1604
* Bryneuryn ... [ca. 1560]
+ ... 1 Aug. 1615, buried in the Quire of Chester Cathedral
[PACF 290; George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Second edition (revised by Thomas Helsby) [London: Routledge, 1882], 3 vols., I: 99, 174; DNB XXXIII: 420; BC 547; DWB 579; JV III: 94; HBH XVI]
m.
7 Anne Wilkinson
*
+
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
8 John Wynn Yale, heir of Plas-yn-Ial
*
+
[PACF 189; PGV 16; WG2 Osbwrn 1 (A2)].
[non-marital liaison]
9 Agnes Lloyd f. John Lloyd
*
+
10 John Lloyd, D.C.L., of Harteshorne, Derbyshire, presented to the Deanery of St. Asaph, 4 April 1559 and deprived 3 Nov. following; Advocate of the Canterbury Court of Arches 1566; Judge of the Admiralty
* ... 1533
+ ... 20 Feb. 1607/8, buried in Chester Cathedral
[PACF 166; Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxoniensis, Early Series (1500-1714) (Oxford: Parker & Co., 1891-1892), 4 vols., p. 925; The Visitations of Shropshire taken in the year 1632, edited by George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, Part II [Publications of the Harleian Society, vol. 29, 1889], pp. 329-330]
m.
11 Elizabeth Pigott
*
+ ... 12 Dec. 1590, buried in Chester Cathedral
[RJC XVII]
12 Maredudd Lloyd ap John of Beaumaris, Dindaethwy, Anglesey
*
+
[WG2 Marchudd 16 (B2)]
m.
13 Jonet Conwy f. Hugh Conwy Vychan
*
+
[WG2 Marchudd 22 (B2)]
14 - 15 English ancestry ignored.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
20 Dafydd Lloyd of Nantgwnadl
*
+ ... [will dated 1587]
[WG2 Tr. G. 3 (E2)]
m.
21 Margred f. John
*
+
[WG2 Meirion G. 2 (B2)]
22 - 23 English ancestry ignored [see RJC I-XVI and Ben LeGrande Cash, St. John and Harries ([Albuquerque, N. M.?], 1973), p. 103, etc. See also Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical, 2004), pp. 786-788 and Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical, 2005), pp. 908-910].









SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS






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

DAB -- Dictionary of American Biography, [New York: Scribner, 1946-1958], 20 vols.

DNB -- Dictionary of National Biography [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]

FANH -- Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven [Baltimore: Genealogical, 1974], Nine volumes in three, originally published as volumes 1 - 8 of the New Haven Genealogical Magazine, precursor of The American Genealogist

HBH -- Henry B. Hoff, "Lloyd-Yale-Eaton Royal Descent" in The American Genealogist, vol. 52 (1976), pp. 142-144. Roman numerals refer to generations.

JV -- Alumni Cantabrigienses, compiled by John Venn and John Archibald Venn, Part I to 1751) [Cambridge: University Press, 1922-1927], 4 vols.

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

PGV -- Peter G. Van der Poel, "Notes on the Yale Ancestry with a Royal Descent", in The American Genealogist, vol. 32 (1956), pp. 71-79. Numerals refer to generations.

RJC -- Robert Joseph Curfman, "The Yale descent from Braiose and Clare" in Ther American Genealogist, vol. 56 (1980), pp. 1-11 and 101-105. Roman numerals refer to generations.










William Addams Reitwiesner


wargs@wargs.com