Husband Meurig ap Llewelyn of Bodorgan 1 2 3 4
AKA: Meirig ap Llywelyn of Bodorgan, Meyrick Ap Llywelyn of Bodorgan
Born: Bef 1451 - Bodorgan, Llangadwaladr, Anglesey, Wales
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Father: Llywelyn ap Heilyn of Bodorgan (Cir 1400- ) 5 6 7
Mother: Angharad verch Gwilym ap Gruffydd ( - ) 6
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Other Spouse: Margaret verch Rowland ap Howell of Caer Geilwg ( - )
Wife Margaret ferch Ieuan Fychan ap Ieuan 1
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1 M Owen ap Meurig 8
AKA: Owain ap Meuric of Bodeon, Owen ap Meyrick
Born: Cir 1465 - <Bodorgan, Llangadwaladr, Anglesey, Wales>
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Spouse: Eleanor ferch Robert ap Meredydd ( - ) 9
Research Notes: Husband - Meurig ap Llewelyn of Bodorgan
Archives Network Wales - Bodorgan Manuscripts (University of Wales Bangor GB0222 BOD):
"The Meyricks are descended from Cadfael, lord of Cedewain in Powys, but it was in the Tudor period that they first came into prominence. Llywelyn ap Heilyn fought under Henry Tudor [1457-1509; later King Henry VII] at the battle of Bosworth [22 Aug 1485]; his son Meyrick [ap Llywelyn] served under Henry VIII [1491-1547], was promoted to be captain of the bodyguard, and was given the Crown Lease of the manor of Aberffraw. In the late sixteenth century trouble erupted between Richard Meyrick II (d. 1596) and Hugh Owen of Bodeon concerning part of the Aberffraw manor lands. The Bodorgan estate was crushed by the cost of the litigation, and by 1590 a substantial portion had been sold to discharge Meyrick's debts. Richard Meyrick III (d. 1644) was the first of the family to be appointed sheriff of Anglesey. It was Owen Meyrick (1682-1760) who was the real founder of the later fortunes of the family. He was the second son of William Meyrick (1644-1717), and grandson of Richard Meyrick IV (d.1669). He was a keen supervisor of his estates and set it on a strong foundation. He looked after it ceaselessly and carefully, and considerably enlarged its boundaries. In the parliamentary election of 1708 for the county of Anglesey, he very seriously and almost successfully challenged the supremacy of the Bulkeleys and, although unsuccessful on this occasion, effectively challenged the Bulkeley supremacy on the island. For some years he did represent the county in Parliament (1715-1722). He was also High Sheriff in 1706, and Custos Rotulorum of Anglesey from 1715 till his death in 1759. Interestingly, he also commissioned Lewis Morris, the most famous of the three Morris brothers, to make a survey of the Bodorgan lands. Owen Meyrick was succeeded by his son Owen Meyrick (1705-1770), who married a wealthy heiress, the daughter of John Putland of London. His grandson, Owen Putland Meyrick (1752-1825) was also equally fortunate in his marriage to Clara, daughter and heiress to Richard Garth of Morden, Surrrey. The estate acquired additional wealth through the marriage of the latter's daughter and co-heiress, Clara, to Augustus Elliot Fuller of Ashdowne House, Sussex. Their son Owen Augustus Fuller (1804-1876) adopted the name Meyrick when he inherited the Bodorgan estate on the death of his grandfather.
In the course of time three other branches of the family were established at Gwyddelwern, Merioneth, at Cefn Coch, Llanfechell, co. Anglesey and at Monkton in Pembrokeshire. The strongest of these was the last, of which the founder was Rowland Meyrick (1505-1566), second son of Meurig ap Llywelyn and brother of Richard Meyrick I.
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From Welsh Biography Online (http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-MEYR-BOD-1485.html) :
"MEYRICK family, Bodorgan , Anglesey . This family is descended from Cadafael, lord of Cedewain in Powys, but it was in the Tudor period that it first came into prominence. LLEWELYN AP HEILYN fought under Henry Tudor at the battle of Bosworth; his son MEURIG AP LLEWELYN served under Henry VIII, was promoted to be captain of the bodyguard, and was given the Crown Lease of the manor of Aberffraw."
Husband David ab Ieuan Vychan of Llanuwchllyn
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1 M Rhys ab David of Trev Brysg
AKA: Rhys of Trev Brysg
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Spouse: Elen verch David ab Howel ab Gruffydd ( - )
Research Notes: Husband - David ab Ieuan Vychan of Llanuwchllyn
Source: The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, Vol. 6, by J. Y. W. Lloyd, London, 1887, p. 124
Husband Gruffydd Ddû ap Ievan of Llanvendigaild, Llangelynin 11 12
AKA: Gruffydd Dew ab Ieuan of Llanfendigaid
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1 F Gwenllian verch Gruffydd Ddu ap Ievan of Llanvendigaild, Llangelynin 11 12
AKA: Gwenllian verch Gwffydd Ddu ap Ievan of Llanvendigaid, Llangelynin
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Spouse: Aron ap Ednyfed of Llangelynin, Talybont ( -Bef 1397) 11 13
Research Notes: Husband - Gruffydd Ddû ap Ievan of Llanvendigaild, Llangelynin
Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry, edited by Thomas Allen Glenn (Philadelphia, 1902), provided by books.google.com, p. 39
Husband Ievan Lloyd Fychan ap Ievan 11 14
AKA: Ieuan Lloyd Fychan ab Ieuan ab Llywelyn
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1 F Llowry verch Ievan Lloyd Fychan of Pwll Dyfach, Pembrokeshire 11 14
AKA: Lowri verch Ieuan Lloyd Fychan
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Spouse: Ednyfed ap Aron of Llangelynin, Talybont (Bef 1397-Bef 1419) 11 15
Research Notes: Husband - Ievan Lloyd Fychan ap Ievan
From the book Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry, edited by Thomas Allen Glenn (Philadelphia, 1902), provided by books.google.com, p. 40:
"[Ednyfed ap Aron] married Llowry, daughter of Ievan Lloyd Fychan ap Ievan ap Llewelyn ap Ievan Lloyd Fychan, of Pwll Dyfach, in Pembrokeshire, descended from Cadifor ap Dyfnwall, Lord of Castle Howell, in Caermarthenshire."
Husband Madoc ap Ievan ap David Goch Lord of Grainianoc
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1 M Deikws Ddu ap Madoc ap Ievan
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Research Notes: Husband - Madoc ap Ievan ap David Goch Lord of Grainianoc
or Grainoc
Source: Welsh Settlement of Pensylvania by Charles H. Browning (Philadelphia, 1912), p. 282
Husband Gruffyd ap Ievan ap Owen of Abergynolwyn 16
Born: Bef 1516 - <Abergynolwyn, Tal-y-Llyn, Merionethshire (Gwynedd)>, Wales
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Died: After 1550
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Father: Ievan ap Owen of Abergynolwyn, Merioneth (Bef 1516- ) 16
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1 M John ap Gruffydd ap Ievan of Abergynolwyn, Merioneth 16 17
Born: Abt 1522 - <Abergynolwyn, Tal-y-Llyn, Merionethshire (Gwynedd)>, Wales
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Research Notes: Husband - Gruffyd ap Ievan ap Owen of Abergynolwyn
From Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry, pp. 45-46:
"Rhydderch ap John, of Abergydolwyn, living 1583, was a son of John ap Gruffyd, of Abergydolwyn, grantee in a deed 1 February, 1553, and living 1583, son of Gruffyd ap Ievan [footnote 5], of Abergydolwyn, grantee in a deed 1516, living 1550, son of Ievan ap Owen, of Abergydolwyn, which Owen was born about 1430. Nothing further is known concerning the ancestry of the Abergydolwyn family."
Footnote 5, p. 45:
"Gruffydd is the Welsh form of Griffith; as the name is so spelled in the original deeds it is not changed. Rowland Ellis, in his pedigree of 1697, uses the Welsh form of spelling throughout. In Dwnn's visitations both forms are used. In the same manner Humphrey is often written Humffrey, etc. Note that Rowland Ellis in his pedigree of 1697, calls Catherine daughter of "Sion ap Rhydderch," i.e., John ap Rhydderch, which, however, is clearly a clerical error, as Sion ap Rhydderch was her brother."
Husband Llewelyn ap Ievan Lloyd Fychan of Pwll Dyfach in Pembrokeshire 11 14
AKA: Llywelyn ab Ieuan Lloyd Fychan of Pwll Dyfach
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1 M Ievan ap Llewelyn 11 14
AKA: Ieuan ab Llywelyn ab Ieuan Lloyd Fychan of Pwll Dyfach
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Research Notes: Husband - Llewelyn ap Ievan Lloyd Fychan of Pwll Dyfach in Pembrokeshire
Source: Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry, edited by Thomas Allen Glenn (Philadelphia, 1902), provided by books.google.com, p. 40
Husband Philip ap Ifor Lord of Is Coed
AKA: Philip ap Ivor Lord of Iscoed
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Wife Catherine verch Llewellyn Gryffyth
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Father: Llywelyn II Prince of North Wales (Abt 1252-1282)
Mother: Elinor de Montfort (Abt 1252-1282)
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1 F Eleanor ferch Philip ap Ifor
AKA: Eleanor Goch verch Philip
Born: 1318
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Spouse: Thomas ap Llywelyn ap Owain of Iscoed Uch Hirwen, Cardiganshire (Bef 1343- ) 18 19
Research Notes: Husband - Philip ap Ifor Lord of Is Coed
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 254-33 (Thomas ap Llewellyn)
Research Notes: Wife - Catherine verch Llewellyn Gryffyth
Source: Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania by Charles H. Browning, Philadelphia, 1912, p. 290.
Husband Hraerek "Hnauggvanbaug" Ingjaldsson 20
Born: Abt 533 - <Hleithra, Denmark>
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Father: Ingjald Frodasson (Abt 0501- ) 20
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1 M Frodi Hraereksson 20
Born: Abt 565 - <Hleithra, Denmark>
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Husband Hrolf Ingjaldsson 20
Born: Abt 700 - <Dyflinni (Dublin), Ireland>
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1 F Hlif Hrolfsdatter 20
Born: Abt 798 - <Amle, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway>
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Spouse: Bjarni Hrolfsson (Abt 0794-Abt 0870) 20
Sources
1. Website:, http://www.varrall.net/pafg43.htm#944.
2. Lloyd, Jacob Youde William, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog (Vol. 6. London: Whiting & Co., 1887.).
3. Website:, Archives Network Wales - Bodorgan Manuscripts.
4. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Dictionary of Welsh Biography (National Library of Wales. 2007. Welsh Biography Online. <http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/index.html> ), http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-MEYR-BOD-1485.html.
5. Website:, http://www.varrall.net/pafg43.htm#947.
6. Lloyd, Jacob Youde William, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog (Vol. 6. London: Whiting & Co., 1887.), p. 202.
7. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Dictionary of Welsh Biography (National Library of Wales. 2007. Welsh Biography Online. <http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/index.html> ), ttp://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-MEYR-BOD-1485.html.
8. Website:, http://www.varrall.net/pafg42.htm#936.
9. Website:, http://www.varrall.net/pafg42.htm#938.
10. Lloyd, Jacob Youde William, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog (Vol. 6. London: Whiting & Co., 1887.), pp. 121-122.
11. Lloyd, Jacob Youde William, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd. (Vol. 5. London: Whiting & Co., 1885.), p. 102.
12. Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed, Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry. (Philadelphia: (Privately Printed), 1902.), p. 39.
13. Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed, Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry. (Philadelphia: (Privately Printed), 1902.), pp. 38-39.
14. Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed, Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry. (Philadelphia: (Privately Printed), 1902.), p. 40.
15. Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed, Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry. (Philadelphia: (Privately Printed), 1902.), pp. 39-41.
16. Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed, Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry. (Philadelphia: (Privately Printed), 1902.), pp. 45-46.
17. http://www.familysearch.org.
18. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 254-33.
19. Wikipedia.org, Gruffydd Fychan II.
20. http://www.familysearch.org, Cit. Date: 25 Jul 2009.