PICTON OF
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Brian Picton Swann
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Exchequer, King's Remembrancer, Ancient Deeds, Series D (PRO)
List of Wills and a few Lawsuits
Background
In
order to set the scene on the early history of this branch of the Picton family
it is essential to understand the history of the development of the ancient
Borough of Newport in Pembrokeshire, the adjacent parish of Nevern and the
history of the Lordship and Barony of Cemais [also sometimes written as Kemes or
Kemmys].[1] It is only the survival of so much
material from this Lordship that makes it possible to reconstruct so much of the
early history of the family. A good
recent introduction is given in the book by
Discussion of
Source Materials
Other useful
books for the early history of the Picton families in
The seminal work
by Peter C. Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies AD
1400-1500, 18 Volumes, 1983, ISBN
0-907158-08-0. The article by Michael Powell Siddons,
Using Peter Bartrum’s Welsh
Genealogies, in
The
Golden Grove Books of Welsh
Pedigrees (4 Volumes), now at the
For
Pembrokeshire pedigrees, Bartrum’s conclusion was that the work of David Edwardes of Rhyd-y-Gors
(c1630-1690) is the most useful starting point. This manuscript work is in the
The
work of David Edwardes formed the basis of further
work by William Lewes of Llwynderw (1652-1722),
through whom the work of David Edwardes found its way
ultimately into the Golden Grove Books.
This is a fair copy, in four Volumes, neatly written and made about 1765,
by an unknown writer. They now are
kept at the
A
Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts in the College of
Arms, written by
Francis
Another useful
book is by Michael Powell Siddons, the Welsh Herald, Visitations by the Heralds in
There is also
much assistance given also by the survival of a number of Ancient Deeds in which
the Picton surname, and spelling variants thereof [Pictone, Pycton, Pikton, Piketon, Piketun and even
Piccethon]
are given on documents within Class E 210, Ancient Deeds, at the National
Archives [TNA].[3] The survival of these valuable deeds is
due to them forming part of the large deed collection relating to the
sequestrated estates in Wales of Sir
This volume provides
the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other written acts
issued by native rulers of
This
account begins, therefore, with an account of the descent of the Lordship of
Kemes, and how the papers came into the family of Lloyd of Bronwydd, by whom
they were deposited in the National Library of
Another
remarkable survival is of a manuscript volume of services, which, from the
various entries therein, seems to have served as the family bible of the Perrots of Haroldston and their relations. It dates to at least the fifteenth
century, and consists of 93 sheets of vellum, the last 10 of which are fly-leaves and contain various memoranda of the
family. The volume is said to have
been the property of Sir Herbert Perrot (d. 1683), and from him it passed to the
family of Captain Harris of Brunton, near Hereford,
and was sold around 1859 to the British Museum by his son, the Revd. Beresford
Harris. It is now registered as
Addl. MSS No. 22720. It has been suggested that Alice Picton,
who died in 1441 [see below] was descended from Philip Picton, a brother of the
last William Picton of Picton, whose daughter conveyed the Picton estate, where
Picton Castle now stands, to the Wogan family [Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1865,
Notes on the Perrot Family, p. 38
and p. 179-181].
PHELIP
(PHILIP) PICTON, born ca 1250. He
married Maud or Amy Dyer of
In
1294/95
In
1281 David
ap Yevan ap Luke de Menethmelyn
pl
A
WILLIAM PICTON, born possibly ca 1280 at
He
also took part in several land transactions. In 1312
On
the Saturday before the feast of St. Vincent, 1318, at Newport in Kemes, Gruffydd ap Ieuan granted to William Piketune [Picton] land in the holding of Llanaran and :Melyndrene at Penkayr [Pencaer] for 8 years, in consideration of payment to Gruffydd of 8 marks; William Piketune was to deliver back the land to the grantor upon
repayment of the said 8 marks at any time following expiry of 8 years [E
210/556]. Also in 1318 William
Vechan [
In
1319 William Piketon granted a lease to William Cornepig with an indenture of a burgage in Haverfordwest [E
210/6868]. There were also three
undated transactions, possibly around this date, of a lease from Rhys
.------- to William Piccethon of Newport (Novo Burgo)
of land and wood in 'Talleronock' [E 210/2265]; a
grant from Philip Hervi [Harvey] to William Piketon of
half a burgage, etc., in Haverfordwest [E 210/7390] and an assignment by Griffin
son of
William
Piketon was a juror at
William
Picton married Agnes, "daughter of Philip Horton" [as per Tucker MS, NLW 10871B
and the Golden Grove MS, p. 177]. Francis Green, relying on Lewys Dwnn [Heraldic Visitations
of
WILLIAM PICTON
and Agnes HORTON probably had the following
children:
i. THOMAS PICTON, living in
1344.
ii. PHILIP PICTON, living
in 1337, 1344. In 1337 Philip
de Pyketon gave a bond to William Cendell and
THOMAS PICTON,
born ca 1310, was alive in 1337 and 1344.
A Thomas Picton is described by Lewys Dwnn as of
On
the other hand
Llewellyn,
son of David ap Iuaf of Tref
Ruffut, quitclaimed to Thomas Piketon, son of William
Piketon of Newport [de Novo Burgo in Kemmeys], and Margaret, daughter of Philip ap
Gwilim, his wife, of a
messuage and land in Tref
Ruffut in the fee of Moldegrave and Bachongle, both in
the Barony of Kemmeys [Cemais] in 1336 [E
210/9299]. About 1342 Adam Cole
gave a bond to Thomas Pyketon for the payment of
£13:13s:4d secured by right of distraint on Reymerston Mill [E 210/8184]. On Michaelmas
Day 1344, Thomas Picton, son and heir of William Picton of New Burgh [Newport],
granted lands lying within the precincts of the burgages of Fishguard called “Tyr
Roys” to William, son of Warin ap David Voil, for two years
[E 210/1233]. Note that this
William ap Warin ap David
Voil was ancestor of the Voyle family of Philbeach,
Haverfordwest, and St. Elvis. He
was a first cousin of Thomas Picton.
In 1349 Thomas Picton of
Further
transactions then took place on the land at Ambleston. In
1356 Thomas Piketon, son of William Piketon, demised to Richard Flemyng, by indenture, a messuage
and land at Ambleston [Hamalston] [E 210/8118]. In the same year Thomas Piketon leased
to Walter Seuer of Hamlaston
[Ambleston], by indenture, a plot with one-third of a
plough-land, dated at
Thomas Picton
conveyed to Stephen le Hock a burgage in Newport by deed poll, reciting a feoffment, in 1362 [E
210/1640]. In 1364 Thomas Pykton was a witness to a deed concerning lands at Newport
in Kemes [D.A. and M. G. Bassett, Eds., Baronia de Kemeys,
printed for the Cambrian Archaeological Association, Archaeologia Cambrensis,
Supplement, London, 1862] and in the same year he held lands at Mynydd Melyn of the Lord of Kemes
[ibid., p. 88].
In 1365 Thomas
Pictone demised by indenture to Philip Balyn and Agnes, his wife, a burgage in Haverfordwest [E
210/9318]. A deed of 1371 records
the grant of a third part of a burgage in Dark Street, Haverfordwest, adjacent
to the tenement of Thomas Pycton [grant by
Thomas Picton was
married to Agnes Blackman, daughter of
i. WILLIAM PICTON. Class E 135/15/22, Exchequer,
Miscellaneous Ecclesiastical Documents, relates to the marriage of William and Eleanor Picton
in 1379. This
marriage does relate to the Pembrokeshire family and helps confirm the Picton
pedigree in the Golden Grove MS p. 88.
He seems to be the ancestor of the elder Picton male family line, which
became extinct in the marriage of Alice Picton to Thomas Perrot [see
below].
ii. JOHN PICTON. He was the founder of the Picton lines
at Newport and Nevern and married Rose, daughter of
iii. ROSE PICTON. She married Warin ap David Voel [Voyle; Golden Grove MSS p.
62; Francis
a. IEUAN ap
WARYN. He held land at Trewern in 1363/4 and was Mayor of
b. WILLIAM ap
WARYN. A deed in the TNA dated 1344
describes him as William ap Warin ap David Voil, holding lands
at Fishguard. From him descends the
family of Voyle of Philbeach, Haverfordwest, and St.
Elvis.
c. HOWELL VOEL ap WARING (WARYN). He held a share in land at Trewern, 1363/4 and was married to Isabel Devonald in 1390/1
[Bronwydd MS No. 1089]. See also
Golden Grove MS, p. 62.
iv. MABEL PICTON. She was married to Sherman [Sturmin] [son of (?)] David Le Stokes of Haverfordwest
[Golden Grove MS, p. 88]. The Sturmin family of Haverfordwest appear in several ancient
deeds in Class E 210.
Picton of
WILLIAM PICTON
was from Newport and he was married to Eleanor Meline,
daughter of
In the deeds of
Foley of Ridgeway [No. 10, latin], is a Grant for life between Phillip David and
Alice Montaigne, dated on the Feast of the
Purification of the Blessed Mary 1385/6 at Lawadyen
[Llawhaden], of a messuage
called Thomlymyslond and 5½ acres of land lying
together in the field called Wymberislond, two of
which acres lie between the land of
William and
Elizabeth/Eleanor PICTON had the following
children:
i. JOHN PICTON of Haverfordwest. A deed of 1369/70 records the grant of a
tenement in
A deed of 1379
records the grant of a fourth part of a burgage in Haverfordwest, "between the tenements of
On 8 February
1386 the Collectors of Customs in the port of Southampton were ordered, upon the
petition of
It is clear that
In 1418 there was
a grant by William Smyth of Cheriton, and Margery his wife, to
Class E 210/4687
records a grant for life to
Certainly one
There are two
final Picton references which cannot yet be incorporated. In 1456 Thomas Perrot, esquire, of Eastington (in Rhoscrowther)
granted to
ii. AGNES PICTON. She was a was a widow in 1418/19 [E
210/1290] when Agnes Picton, late the wife of Walter Neste, granted to Philip Lloyd, chaplain, a messuage in ‘le Marketstret’,
Haverford[west], on Thursday after the Feast of St. Ambrose, 6 Henry V
[1419]. Was she the widow of
iii ROSE PICTON, married to William Howell
Voyle [Golden Grove MS, p. 62]. He could be a son of Waryn ap David Voel.
More
work needs to be done, if possible, to distinguish between the different
i. ALICE PICTON. Alice Picton died on
a. William Perrot/Parrot. He was married to Jane Wogan. William Perrot and Jane Wogan had the
following children:
i. Owen Perrot/Parrot. He was later knighted and had an Inqusition Post Mortem into his death, 14 Hen. VIII [1523].
Class E 210/1570
records Thomas Perrot, Esquire to
PICTON of
JOHN
PICTON of Newport, was probably a younger son of Thomas Picton of Newport, who
had married Agnes, daughter of
i. JENKIN PICTON. A Rental of the Borough of
Most of these
holdings passed from the family’s tenure over the next 150 years, although it
seems likely that some of the burgages in Newport and
other lands in the parish of Nevern [e.g. Voelgoch and
Castell-y-garn], held by Owen Picton in 1600, were
among those which Jenkin Picton possessed in
1434.
The descent from
Jenkin Picton of
ii. JANE PICTON, she married William Lloyd of
Cilciffith [Golden Grove MS, p. 63; see also Francis
a. OWEN LLOYD, he
succeeded to Cilciffith.
b. JOHN
LLOYD
c. PHILIP LLOYD. He married a daughter of Howell ap Jenkin, and had a son, Lewis
Lloyd.
d. DAVID LLOYD and
WILLIAM LLOYD, both died without issue.
e. JAMES LLOYD of Castlebythe, who married Elen,
daughter of William Llewellyn.
f.
LLEUCU LLOYD, she
married Morris Philip Howell.
JENKIN PICTON had
the following children, according to the Golden Grove MS (p.
88):
i. JOHN PICTON. See
below.
ii. THOMAS PICTON. Class E 210/490, Exchequer, King’s Remembrancer, Ancient Deeds, Series D, records a Grant by David ap Howell, tanner, and
Richard Taillour, of Haverford[west], to
iii.
WILLIAM
PICTON. A William Picton was alive
in 1529 and from
On 6 June 1449
Howel ap Jankyn ap Robyn
Peverell had granted to Davyd Lloit [Lloyd] ap Guillim ap Atkyn 7½ acres of
arable land at [?voel] goch within the Borough (burgagerie) of Newport, lying
between the land formerly of William Picton, senior, and the land formerly of
Howel ap Oweyn ap Res [Rees]
within the Barony of Kemmeys [Bronwydd MS I, No. 820,
latin with seal].
iv.
JENKIN
PICTON, the younger, is not mentioned in the Golden Grove MS but he was alive
between 1477 and 1493, and was from Bayvil. Bronwydd MS II [No. 813] of 6 April 1483
has a Grant between Owen ap Jankyn ap Llewelyn ap
Oweyn and Jankyn Picton, the younger, of a messuage and lands at the Vill
[Town] of Bayvyll [Bayvil] in the Barony of Kemmeys [Kemes] for the term of ten years [Latin with
seal].
JOHN PICTON, the
(eldest) son of Jenkin Picton, died before
JOHN PICTON had
the following children:
i. HOWEL(L)
PICTON, see below.
ii. ELIZABETH PICTON. She was married to Lewis Gwillym, son of David Gwillym
[Lewis ap David Gwillym [see
Lewis Dwnn, Golden Grove MS (p. 50) and Tucker
MS].
iii. JANE PICTON. She was shown as married William ap
Jenkin Lloyd of Morvil [Dwnn
and Protheroe V MS; not shown as such in the Tucker
MS, which show Jane Picton as wife of William Lloyd, and as a sister of Jenkin
Picton and aunt of
HOWELL
PICTON appears in the Golden Grove MS, p. 88 where he is described as “of
In
1505 Agnes, widow of Llewelyn ap Llewelyn ap Gwillym
Young and daughter of Llewelyn ap
Howell
Picton was dead by 5 February 1513/4 when his son, Owen Picton, was a Ward of
the Barony of Kemes. Howell Picton
was the father of:
1. OWEN PICTON of Newport, see
below.
2. MARGARET PICTON, who married Thomas Young
of Tregaman.
He was the youngest son of Hywel ap Jenkin Young
of Tredrysi [Tredressi].
George Owen states that “He married
Margaret the daughter of Hywel Picton, by whom he had issue Philip, who was the
father to Rowland Young of Tredrysi,
a. PHILIP YOUNG [see above for his children,
and Protheroe MS V]. He was father to Rowland Young of Tredrysi,
OWEN
PICTON of
Owen
Picton was born about 1500 and was living up to at least 1582. He was in Wardship within the Barony of Kemes on
Probably
further details of his early life can be gleaned from the records of the Barony
of Cemais. He is next found as a
witness to the will of James Lloyd of Nevern [Will, PCC, 1551], whose will was
dated
Owen
Pycton, gent., and Elizabeth his wife, of
Haverfordwest, and Rice Howell, mercer, of the same place, were parties to a
suit against Eleanor Sutton, widow and executrix of
There
is a grant of burgage on the west side of St. Mary’s Street, Newport, dated 14
December 1562, which refers to the burgage of Owen Picton on the south side
[Bronwydd MS I, No. 865]. In 1566
he was tenant of a dwelling house in Dew Street, Haverfordwest, which he held
from Hugh Harries, Mayor of Haverfordwest in 1538 and 1553; and husband of
Margaret, daughter of
He
was a Merchant of
Owen
Picton acted as an arbitrator in a dispute between David Llewellyn of Bayvil and
Ieuan ap Rees of Moylgrove,
and gave his award on
Owen
Picton married, as his first wife, Jenet [Rees],
daughter of Rees ap David ap Howell of Penybenglog in the parish of Meline [Golden Grove MS, p. 69]. She must have died before 1556, as by
that date he was married, as his second wife, to
In
the Tithe Apportionment of Nevern, made on 10 September 1840, and the
accompanying 1843 Tithe Map, surveyed by H. P. Goode and Philpot, Surveyors of
Haverfordwest at a scale of 10 inches to 1 mile (8 chains) Trellyfain farm [spelt thus] extends right out to the coast
and had an area of 370 acres 1 rood and 16 perches [Piece Nos. 110-145]. It was owned by Owen Owen and farmed by William Morris. The farm of Castell y Garn was immediately to the west, likewise
extending to the coast and the farm of Tredrissi was
adjoining to the southwest. Both
these farms occur in the account of the Picton
family.
The
children of OWEN PICTON were:
1. JOHN Picton of Trellifen [Trellyfaint], see
below.
2.
LUCY
PICTON (LLEUCU/LLYKY Picton), who
married William Bowen of Pontgynon, in the parish of
Meline, son of Mathias Bowen [died 1559], and grandson
of Sir James Bowen of Pentre Evan. His mother was Mary Phillips, sister of
Thomas Phillips of Rushmoor, Martletwy, High Sheriff
of Pembrokeshire in 1549, and grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Phillipps of Picton by his wife, Jane Dwnn. His elder
brother was James Bowen of Llwyngwair, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1624
[see Lewis Dwnn i, 166, 171;
The
wife of Mathias Bowen was Jane Philipps, daughter of
i.
JAMES
BOWEN, of Pontgynon, living in 1637. He married Agnes, daughter of William
Lloyd ap Ieuan Lloyd ychan of
Pennywern.
They were the parents of:
a. WILLIAM
BOWEN of Pontgynon, living in 1635, 1637, 1638 and
1652.
b. JAMES
BOWEN
c. ALICE
BOWEN
ii. THOMAS
BOWEN
iii. EINON BOWEN
iv. WILLIAM BOWEN,
jun.
v. MATHIAS
BOWEN
vi. HARRY BOWEN
vii. ROBERT
BOWEN
viii. ELEN
BOWEN
3. MAUD PICTON, wife of
4. JANE PICTON, wife of Thomas Lloyd of Fagwyr
goch in the parish of Llantood, according to Caroline
Charles-
JOHN
PICTON of Trellifen
[Trellyfaint]
He
was the son of Owen Picton of
George
Owen granted to
Through
this marriage,
JOHN
PICTON had the following children:
1. OWEN PICTON of Trellifen [Trellyfaint], see
below.
2. JOHN PICTON, who is mentioned as a son of
It
would, nevertheless, be interesting to know what became of this
3. GRACE PICTON, mentioned in Pembrokeshire
Plea Rolls, No. 50. She is probably
the daughter of
4. MARGARET PICTON, mentioned in
Pembrokeshire Plea Rolls, No. 50; married to Thomas Young, son of Rowland Young
of Tredrissi in the parish of Nevern, as his first
wife and had issue by him [who was third in descent from Margaret Picton’s
great-aunt]). See the Tucker MS and
pedigree of the Young/Mathias families [NLW 10871B, Protheroe MS V and the Golden Grove MS, p.
124].
5. LUCY (LLEUCU) PICTON, said by Francis
Green [WWHR, Volume X, 1924] to have married William Bowen of Pontcynon [Pontgynon], in the
parish of Meline. This is almost certainly a confusion with Lucy, daughter of Owen Picton, and sister of
OWEN
PICTON of Trellyfaint
Owen
Picton, son and heir of
There
can be little doubt that the fortunes of this branch of the Picton family were
on the wane from the late 16th century.
It is almost certain that this decline was associated with the revival of
feudalism in Kemes under the Lordship of George Owen of Henllys [B. G.
Charles, George Owen, A Welsh Elizabethan, National Library of Wales,
1973]. George Owen’s father had
purchased the Lordship of Kemes from the Audley family in 1543, and his son succeeded to the Lordship in 1574. The regime of the Audleys, who had been absentees, had been a relaxed one,
with little enforcement of manorial rights or collection of feudal dues. However William and
George Owen were typical creatures of Tudor and early Elizabethan
England. They were
avaricious parvenus, with a hunger for land and an ability to deploy their legal
training and skills to the end of self-enrichment. Henllys formed part of the Knight’s fee
of Bayvil, which took in the parish of Bayvil and a small part of the parish of
Nevern. The fee was divided into a
number of ploughlands, a ploughland was sometimes reckoned to be about 100
acres.
Under
George Owen of Henllys rights and franchises which had been in abeyance for more
than a century were revived, and the jurisdiction of the local Manorial Courts
enforced. “He made full use of his legal training and his
researches into the early manorial sources . . . to discover evidence which
could justify the extraction of a wide range of dues which had been enjoyed by
earlier Lords” [B. E. and K. A. Howells, The Extent of Cemais, 1594, Pembrokeshire
Record Series, 3, 1977, p. 3]. His
attitude is reflected in the preamble to a Rental of the Manor of Newport:
“The rents that follow are found in diverse
auncient rentrolls, were not
leveyed for diverse yeares
past by reason of necligent officers, and therefore
yt must be inquired who are now owners of those landes, and where the landes lyeth, and who doth occupy the same. For the same was not
vuyed by the jurors that made the rent rowle”.
The
attempt to revive the incidents of old tenures provoked much hostility from the
freeholders of Kemes, and, to enforce obedience, Owen prosecuted many of them
both in the local and in the Crown Courts.
“Between 1603 and 1614 George Owen
sued William Warren, William Williams, George Lewis, Richard Wilkin, William Bowen and
The
twin assaults upon freeholders and leaseholders established a familiar
pattern. Freeholds were sold or
surrendered to George Owen, in order that feudal dues might be settled, and in
exchange for a lease-back of strictly limited duration. Lease renewals were granted on terms
which ruined the tenants, resulting in forfeitures, and enabled Owen to exact
divestment of further freeholds lingering in the hands of his leaseholders. This strategy undoubtedly enhanced the
standards of husbandry in Kemes, and brought into earnest cultivation many areas
which had been fallow for decades; but it reduced some of the proud families of
the Lordship, ultimately, to the status of landless
peasants.
This
new feudalism in Kemes probably took its first toll on the Picton family in the
time of
When
The
1594 Rental from the Vairdre Book, mentioned above,
shows that Owen Picton paid rent of assize of 12 pence per annum to the Lord of
Kemes in respect of his tenement of Castell-y-garn,
then in the occupation of Thomas Lewis Rees. In respect of each of his Mansion House
and land called Trellifen, and “his lands from the two headlands of the long
meadow” at Trellifen, all in Kemes
supra. That he paid 4 shillings per
annum rent of assize, as a bond tenant, in respect of his tenement of Penallt y Carthei Ycha, then in the occupation of Mor(r)is Harry, in Coedywinog and
Bayvil. That 4 pence per annum was
due from him by way of rent as a free tenant in respect of each of his parcels
of land at Tregriffith and Diffryn Kibwr in Moylgrove, the former being occupied by Thomas David and the
latter, called Tir y Picton, by Howell ap David. The Rental also notes that George Owen
was the owner of land at Trefvoel in Bayvil which he
had recently acquired from Owen Picton “through an exchange of lands”. It will be interesting to see if these
lands can be identified on the Tithe Maps, made some 250 years
later.
George
Owen in his “Description of
Pembrokeshire”, published as Volume 2 of the Pembrokeshire Record
Series in 1973, records “Trellyfant is the Mansion House of Owain [Owen] Picton, as it hath been to three or four of his
ancestors before, but in ancient time the lands of Hywel ap Jenkin of
Nevern” [p. 91]. The
coat of the Pictons is gules, three pikes nayant
argent.
A
Rental of the town of Newport for the same year, 1594 [Bronwydd MS I, No. 303]
shows that Owen Picton held half a burgage in St. Mary’s Street, five and a half
burgages on the main Fishguard road through Newport,
two burgages in a lane running west from St. Mary’s
Street and another to the west of Bridge Street, and land at Comdewi in Brithdir outside the
town limits. Of his total of nine
burgages, six and a half are described in the rental
as in decay; and it is noted, somewhat menacingly, that “the custome is that the
Lordes Officers maye demise
and sell the decaied burgages to whom he listethe to
make the most profytt thereof to the Lorde”.
Owen Picton appears in the Subsidy Roll of 1604 for Pembrokeshire [E
179/204/507] to a value of one pound.
On
3 May 1604 James Perrot, knight, Walter Rees, knight, Cicil [Cecil], daughter of James Perrott, Owen Picton, gent.,
In
1611 Hugh Lewis brought a suit against Owen Picton for £200 damages in respect
of loss of benefit of wardship and marriage. As noted above, Lewis had obtained a
grant of his wardship from the Crown on 16 October
1595. It appears that Hugh Lewis
subsequently arranged a marriage between Owen Picton and Elizabeth Symyns; but that Owen Picton refused to contract to this
marriage, and entered upon his property.
He contested the claim brought by Lewis on the ground that the proposed
bride was not an acceptable match, since her mother had been illegitimately and
incestuously begotten. Picton
pleaded that the girl’s mother, Matilda Symyns, wife
of
Nothing
useful can really be deduced from all this at present. Agnes Symins,
wife of
The
outcome of Hugh Lewis’s suit against Owen Picton is not recorded in the Plea
Rolls. This may well be because he
died, as Hugh Lewis of Nevern made a will, dated 11 October 1611, which shows
that Owen Picton had already married against his wishes. What is somewhat puzzling about the suit
is that it did not come before the courts until 1611, when Owen Picton would
have been about 30 years of age.
Also, by 1611, Owen Picton had been married for some time to his first
wife, Mary [Young], the daughter of Thomas Philip Young of Tregaman, his second cousin [see issue of Howell Picton;
Golden Grove MS, p. 124]. Several
of the Newport burgages, held by Owen Picton in 1594,
were in the occupation of Owen Philip Young, a substantial merchant and brother
[or son] of Thomas Philip Young.
In
1611 Owen Picton may have undertaken further alieniation of his lands. In that year he paid 6s:8d for a licence
to make an agreement with Owen Jevan [Owen
On
1 October 1616 Owen Picton also witnessed a deed between Sir James Perrott of Haroldston and
It
may be that in 1625 Trellifen [Trellyfaint] was in the
hands of a tenant farmer, since in that year Owen Picton contributed to the Lay
Subsidy, as of the parish of St. Dogmaels, whilst
there was no Picton contributor in Nevern.
There is also a record that in 1698 Evan Lloyd, of the Hendre and Cwmgloyne family,
married Elinor, heiress of Owen Young of Trellyfant.
This suggests the property passed from the Picton family to the Young
family – perfectly logical as they had lived next door to each other in the
parish of Nevern for many years.
Perhaps this happened after the death of Thomas Picton in February
1655/6, as he seems to have been in difficult personal circumstances at the time
of his death.
By
3 April 1626 Owen Picton’s first wife had died, and he had remarried Elizabeth
Bowen, who is described as his spouse, in a fine between
Another
claim is that Elizabeth Bowen was the daughter of
Margaret,
daughter of Thomas Peter, who married
Morgan
ap Owen married Isobel, daughter of William Llewellin
Also, Lucy Picton,
sister to Sage’s grandfather, married William Bowen of Pontgynon who was the second son of Mathias Bowen of
Llwyngwair, and this couple’s son (William Bowen Junior) married his first
cousin, Elliw, 16th. child of his father’s eldest brother
James.
p-father could possibly be Maud, daughter of Mathias Bowen of
Llwyngwair and his wife, Mary Philipps, as Maud is the alternate name for
Matilda. Maud married David Morris
of Llangynog, Carmarthenshire, and had three
daughters. Her father, Mathias Bowen of Llwyngwair, was the eldest son from
the second marriage of Sir James ap Owen, knight, of
Pentre Ifan to Mary Herle.
Mary Philipps was
a daughter of
References:
Heraldic Visitations of Wales 1586-1613 by Lewis Dwnn.
Golden Grove Ms. –
Gwynfardd Dyfed pages D.807, 808, 810, 813; Golden
Grove Ms. = Cadifor Vawr
page D.855
Bartrum – Cadifor Vawr & Gwynfardd Dyfed Pedigrees from "Welsh Genealogies 300 – 1400
AD"
Major Francis
The
Picton family parted with more property in 1629, probably as part of a
comprehensive sale and lease-back, the details of which are difficult to
divine. On 12 March 1629 George
Owen of Henllys [son of Alban Owen, High Sheriff of Co. Pembroke in 1620 and
1643, and grandson of George Owen of Henllys (d. 1614)] granted to Owen and
Thomas Picton a yearly tenancy, at a rent of £4 per annum, of a messuage called Trellifen
[Trellyfaint], with two parcels of land, one at Pantyllydy and the other at Castell-y-garn in Nevern. On 3 April 1629 Owen Picton, gent., and Thomas Picton, gent. granted to George Owen, gent. a messuage and garden, 100 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow,
40 acres of pasture, 1 acre of wood and 40 acres of furze and heath at Nevern
[184 acres total]. It seems clear
that these transactions represented the end of the Picton family’s freehold
tenure of their Mansion House at Trellifen
[Trellyfaint].
A
conveyance earlier in the same year, dated 1 March 1628/9, indicated the scale
of other recent disposals. The
conveyance involved a settlement by James Bowen of Llwyngwair, upon trust, of
“lands called Rhosimaen, two parcels of land at Voelgoch, called Tir Scurlagg and Tir Sienkin Voell, one messuage called Rhos y Maen Ycha, one parcel of arable
land at Voelgoch called Knwckey Duon, four parcels of
arable land lying on the north side of the highway leading from Newport bridge
to Cardigan town, and two parcels of land containing 12 Welsh acres, which were
late the lands of Owen Picton, gent.” [Bronwydd MS
I, No. 725; 980]. One of the
trustees of the settlement was James Morgan of Nevern, possibly Owen Picton’s
son-in-law; the other was George William Griffith of Penybenglog in Meline, the
antiquary, and son-in-law of James Bowen.
The
lease of Trellifen [Trellyfaint] to Owen and Thomas
Picton seems to have produced little income for George Owen. In 1633 he sued the Pictons for arrears
of rent of £14 under the letting, which probably indicates that they had not
paid any rent since the grant of 1629 [Pembrokeshire Plea Rolls, No. 140]. Presumably the arrears were cleared, and
the Pictons allowed to remain in possession of Trellifen. Owen
Picton was still described as of Trellifen when
proceedings were brought against his estate in
1640.
The
next Picton property dealings which are recorded are also difficult to
understand. In 1636 Thomas Picton,
doubtless the son of Owen Picton, paid 6s:8d for a licence to make an agreement
with Owen Picton concerning two messuages and lands in Nevern [Pembrokeshire
Plea Rolls, No. 147]. This
agreement seems to have taken the form of a fine, whereby on 12 September 1636
there was a grant of 2 messuages and gardens, 50 acres of land, 3 acres of
meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 3 acres of wood and 40 acres of furze and heath in
Nevern by Owen Picton, gent., Elizabeth his wife and
In
the Spring of 1639, at the Court of the Great Sessions, his widow, Elizabeth
Picton, sought from Margaret Owen one third of the messuages and lands in
Nevern, as dower from her late husband [Margaret Owen was the widow of George
Owen, the son of Alban Owen]. She
was Margaret Lewis, the daughter of Sir
In
1698 the great uncle of Thomas Lloyd, Evan Lloyd, had married Elinor Young, the heiress of Owen Young of Trellyffant.
This suggests that the Young family took over the lease on Trellyffant, but exactly when after 1640 is not yet
known.
According
to conventional construction [e.g. Francis Green, West Wales Historical Records, Volume X,
1924] Owen Picton was around 50 years of age at the time of his death [i.e. born
around 1586]. However, the evidence
presented here suggests he was born around 1580, and was thus around age 56/57
at his demise. One important item
of evidence to substantiate this construction is that Owen Picton, gent.,
brought proceedings against
OWEN
PICTON was the father of the following
children:
1.
THOMAS
PICTON of Nevern, was the eldest and possibly only son of Owen Picton, by his
first wife, Mary Young [Golden Grove MS, pp. 88, 124]. Mary Young’s mother was Sage Peter,
daughter of Thomas Peter of Nevern, who held appreciate land in Nevern. She may
have named her son after her own father, Thomas Philip Young. The year of the birth of Thomas Picton
is uncertain, but it is suggested he reached his majority by the mid-1620s. One Thomas Picton held the tithes of
Llanhowell during the period 1621-1625, as mentioned
above, and may have obtained a lease of the tithes through the Bowen connection
of his step-mother. The tithes of
Llanhowell were later leased to the Prichard family,
from whom the southern branch of the Picton family acquired Poyston. However, there is no evidence of any
link between the northern and southern branches of the Picton
family.
However,
there is a reference in the will of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Pritchard, dated 25 May
1646, and proved on 10 February 1646/7 whose daughter, Elizabeth Prichard, had
the Llanhowell tithes in 1660, where he refers to his
“cozen Thomas Picton”, who can
only be of the northern branch of the family [PCC, 1646/7, PROB 11/199]. This Thomas Pritchard, who was Rector of
Nevern in 1625, appears to have been one of the two sons of the Rev. Robert
Prichard, Rector of Ludchurch, by his wife, Jane Warren, daughter of Mathias
Warren [died 1561]. Jane Warren’s
nephew, Thomas Warren of Trewern, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Evan Lloyd of Cwmgloyne by Mary, a
daughter of George Owen of Henllys, and had by her a daughter, Elizabeth Warren,
who married Thomas Picton of Nevern.[10] Whether Dr. Prichard called Thomas
Picton his “cozen” on account of
this relationship, or of a more proximate connection, is not clear [see Golden
Grove MS, p. 62 and Francis
Thomas Warren
matriculated from Jesus College Oxford on 20 November 1607, aged 18 [born 1588/9] and was an alderman of Newport
and served as mayor in 1619-1621 and in 1624. He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in
1638/9. Thomas Warren died in
1665. Besides his daughter,
Elizabeth Warren, who married Thomas Picton, he had two sons, George Warren and
Alban Warren. On 23 October 1665
the burgesses for the Court Leet of Newport returned
that his rightful heir was his grandson, William Warren. George Warren, his eldest son, had
married
Alban
Warren was an Alderman of Newport, and Mayor there in 1653 and 1672-1675. He married his cousin, Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Trerees, brother of Evan
Lloyd of Cwmgloyne. He was buried at Nevern on 25 September
1687. Administration of his goods
was granted on 24 November 1687 but was a mere
£3:12s:6d.
As
noted above, Thomas Picton was involved in a series of transactions relative to
lands in Nevern in 1636. In 1638,
William Young, probably the same William Young who was a cousin of Thomas
Picton, and Thomas Lloyd, gave 20 shillings for a licence to grant 3 messuages
and lands in Nevern to Thomas Picton.
It may seem surprising that Thomas Picton was engaged in the acquisition
of property after what seems like a long history of disposals by his
family. It may well be that his
marriage to Elizabeth Warren enhanced his financial position. The date of this marriage is difficult
to plot exactly. Thomas Picton was
a witness to the will of Morgan
According
to a number of sources [e.g. Francis
Thomas
Picton’s will was dated
Thomas
Picton also left 10 shillings each to his unmarried brothers and sisters; and
also to his niece, Mary Picton, daughter of his brother,
Thomas
Picton went on to say that “If my daughters
prove obstinate, and match without the consent, especially of my father
(-in-law), Warren; my cozen Young; my cozen Wogan and my cozen Matthias (or do
worse) which God forbid”, then he directed that his “best deserving
daughter” should receive all the profit from his land, when 21; and that his
“delinquent daughter” should have only £10 instead of her half-share in his
residual estate, and in the profits of the land. To his wife, Elin [Picton], he gave “for her widowhood an annuity of £3, yearly charged
on Croft Vach and Gwndwn
Dywatty and other pieces of land in . . . Castle Game
[Castell y garn] purchased of my cozen, William Young,
and Rowland Jenkin; the said annuity to be also levied on Llain Vawr, on the west side of
Voel Goch, in the tenure of
James Morgan, for which I have at present but a third sheafe (share)”. He added sadly “my wife deserves better at my hands, yet her
mother’s non-performance with her and me of the bargains between them hath
utterly disabled me to give her any more, without gross injury to my poor
children, who are to pay about £100 of my debt”. The will was proved on
There
are a number of interesting points to make on this will. (1) Thomas Picton calls his wife Elin; (2) He has both a daughter and a step-daughter called
Grace; (3) While his father-in-law and brother-in-law Warren have his respect,
his dealings with his wife’s mother have been troubled; (4) He speaks of his
“poor children” and his wife as if their interests are mutually exclusive; (5)
His wife’s mother has entered into some bargain in her own
right.
These
factors point to the mother of Thomas Picton’s children not being the wife whom
he mentions in his will. Whilst it
may be possible that his wife was variously called Elizabeth and/or Elin; that she had two daughters named Grace, and that her
mother was on less congenial terms with Thomas Picton than were her father and
brother, together they provide a cumulative element of improbability. Moreover, while a potential conflict of
interest between a mother and her children can be recognised in the prospect of
the mother’s remarriage and subsequent claim for dower, to the potential
advantage of her new husband, Thomas Picton seems to have apprehended a need to
protect his daughters’ position, even during Elin
Picton’s widowhood. Most telling of
all, perhaps, is the fact that Elin Picton’s mother
had made some agreement with her daughter, presumably involving a disposition of
property, but had failed to perform it.
This suggests that Thomas Picton’s mother-in-law was able to deal with
property in her own right, without the intercession of a husband. Thus she was a widow, yet Thomas
Picton’s father-in-law, Warren, did not die until
1665.
The
pedigree of the Picton family in the Tucker MS, written down in the 17th
Century, simply states that Thomas Picton married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Warren. It does not indicate that
she was the widow of one
The
most plausible explanation for all this is that Thomas Picton was twice married;
firstly to Elizabeth Warren, by whom he had daughters Elizabeth and Grace
Picton, who were probably in their early teens at the time of their father’s
death; and secondly to Elin(or) Griffith, a widow with
two children by her previous marriage.
The will of Grace Young of Argoed, Nevern,
offers some evidence in support of this construction. Her will is dated
These
conjectures are reinforced by two further wills. Grace Young’s husband, Rees Young of
Argoed in the parish of Nevern, left a will, dated 14
July 1645, and proved on
The
Tucker MS pedigree suggests that Thomas Picton’s cousin, William Young,
discharged his function as guardian of Elizabeth and Grace Picton to very
satisfactory effect. They were
married to his own sons, William Young and Owen Young. Thus through one of Thomas Picton’s
daughters the Trellifen [Trellyfaint] property seems
to have passed into the hands of the Young family. In 1697 Elinor Young, presumably a daughter of one of the above, and
described as the heiress of Trellifen, married a
younger son of
A
preliminary attempt has been made to try and trace a will or administration for
either Elinor [Ellen] or Thomas Pugh, but with no
success to date. There are burials
of an Eleanor Pugh at
The
pedigree account given by Francis Green [West Wales Historical Records, Volume
X, 1924], is very confusing regarding the children of Owen Picton by his two
wives, Mary Young and Elizabeth Bowen.
Perhaps the best relatively contemporary pedigree occurs in the Protheroe MS V, p. 160 at the
2. SAGE PICTON, married
a. THOMAS DEVONALD, the eldest son. He was not a favourite with his
father. He appears to have had a
liaison with Mary Devonald of Llantood, who may have
been his cousin. Thomas Devonald of
Llanfyrnach left a will, dated 7 February 1671/2, and administered in April 1672
[SD 1672/66]. He mentions his aunt,
Catherine Myles in the parish of Whitechurch in Kemes, who had 4 sheep which he
willed to his son, Morris Thomas, als Devonald.
He gave to his cousin, Mary Picton, one horse, one cow and all the other
sheep with Catherine Myles, not formerly given and bequeathed. This Mary Picton is probably the
daughter of Owen Picton of Cardigan.
Thomas and Mary Devonald were the parents
of:
i. MATILDA DEVONALD,
ii. JOAN
DEVONALD,
iii. MORRIS
DEVONALD, alias Thomas
b. JOHN DEVONALD, he inherited his father’s
estate. He was to receive 1
shilling in the will of his brother, Owen Devonald, in
1697.
c. JAMES DEVONALD, of Blaenawen. He
married Mary Lloyd, daughter of George Lloyd of
Nevern.
d. OWEN DEVONALD, of Mynachlogddu.
He left a will, dated 7 October 1697 and made his brother, Rees Devonald,
his executor [SD 1697/7; will written in Welsh]. An inventory also survives. He left 10 shillings to William Picton
[his uncle]. William Sandbrook [Sambrook] of St. Dogmaels is mentioned in this will and may have been married
to one of Owen Devonald’s sisters, or one of Morris
Devonald’s sisters. Perhaps, even, one of his sisters could
have married their cousin, William Picton of
Whitechurch.
e. DAVID
DEVONALD, he inherited Trewenfron in the parish of
Nevern, in the tenure of
f. REES DEVONALD, he was living at
Carmarthen in 1708.
g. PHILLIP
DEVONALD, he received a pair of shoes and two coats in his brother’s will,
1697.
h. JOAN DEVONALD, she received £10 in her
father’s will, 1665.
i. ELIZABETH DEVONALD, she received
£10 in her father’s will, 1665.
j. JANE DEVONALD, she received £5 in
her father’s will, 1665. She was to
receive a small sum in her brother’s will of
1697.
k. AGNES DEVONALD, she received £5 in her
father’s will, 1665. She was living
in 1697.
3.
MARGARET
PICTON, married James Morgan of Tredrissy.
James and Margaret Morgan had a son, Owen Morgan, mentioned in the will
of Thomas Picton [1655]. James
Morgan had at least one other son, possibly by a previous marriage, who is
called James ap James Morgan, alias Browne, of Nevern,
yeoman, in a suit of 1659. James
Morgan senior, and James his son, were two of the
witnesses to the will of Thomas Picton in 1655. James Morgan senior is probably also to
be identified with the James Morgan, who was one of the trustees under a
settlement made by James Bowen of Llwyngwair in 1629 concerning lands formerly
owned by Owen Picton [Bronwydd MS I, No. 725]; and who witnessed, and was a
bondsman, for the due administration of the will of Eynon Young of Nevern in
1635.
James
Morgan was the son of Morgan Thomas, who married Jane, daughter of Mathias Bowen
of Llwyngwair. Morgan Thomas was
the son of Thomas Mathias, who lived at Frongoch in
the parish of Nevern. He was a
minor when he inherited the property from his father, Mathias Bowen, around
October 1598 [Golden Grove MS, p. 144].
James
Morgan was living on 20 March 1657/8, when he gave a bond for £214 to George
Bowen; but was dead by May 1659, and in August 1659 his widow, Margaret Morgan,
and son, James Morgan, as his executors, were sued on the bond [Pembrokeshire
Plea Rolls, No. 185]. A formal
grant of administration was not made until the restoration of Charles II, when
it was granted to his widow, Margaret Morgan, and Owen Picton of Cardigan, his
brother-in-law, on 7 December 1660.
Thomas Aubrey also appears in the administration. The estate had been apprised on 23 May 1659 by Owen
a. JAMES
MORGAN, of Nevern living in 1679.
He left an administration bond and inventory in 1700.
4. JONETT [JENNETT] PICTON, buried at Nevern
on 23 May 1664. She is listed as a
daughter in the Golden Grove MS, p. 88.
5. OWEN PICTON, son of Owen Picton of Trellifen, Nevern.
He became a Puritan and was appointed to a teaching post under the
Commonwealth by Commissioners for the Propagation of God in
a. ELIZABETH PICTON, born 11 January 1651
and bapt. 15 January 1651 at Cardigan. She died on 18 July and was buried on 20
July 1656 at Cardigan.
b. JOHN PICTON, born
Volume
28, Part II, p. 79 of Treasury Warrents [1708-1709] states that William Nixon
was appointed waiter and searcher at Cardigan in place of
His
wife and widow, Elinor Picton, was a defendant, along
with her son, Robert Picton, to a dispute in Chancery concerning the estate of
her brother, Thomas Davies of Cardigan, in 1747/8 [C5/]. Other parties involved in this case were
Hugh Parry of St. Margaret’s Westminster, and Jane his wife; Ann Tindall, widow of
i. OWEN PICTON, bapt.
ii. ELIZABETH PICTON, bapt.
iii. JOHN PICTON, bapt.
iv. ROBERT PICTON, bapt.
v. WILLIAM PICTON, bapt. 5 May 1719 at
Cardigan. He was buried at Cardigan
on
c. BRIDGET
PICTON, born
d.
e. ELIZABETH PICTON, born
6. GEORGE PICTON, of
Nevern. He was possibly the eldest son of the
second marriage of Owen Picton of Trellifen. He was an appraisor of the estate of
7. JOHN PICTON, of
Whitechurch. He was an appraisor of the estate of William Myles of Eglwyswrw,
clerk, along with William Owen, gent. and George Lewis,
taken on
Catherine
Picton, a widow, paid one shilling towards a present for Charles II on
i.
OWEN
PICTON, born between 1646 and 1653. He is mentioned in the administration of his
father, 1661/2, and in his mother’s will of 1679. He is probably to be identified with the
Owen Picton who was buried at Whitechurch on
ii.
8. JAMES PICTON, of
His
career became a series of tribulations soon afterwards. He was won over to the Quaker faith in
the crusade of 1657/8, and by the end of 1658 was described as “late
schoolmaster” of Tenby. He was
probably succeeded there by Edward Carver, who had previously been Usher to Picton there at a salary of £21 per annum, and who,
according to Calamy, was ejected in 1661/2. James Owen, an informant of Calamy, is
said to have been “educated first under James Picton” - but since Owen was not
born until 1654 he can scarcely have been Picton’s pupil in Tenby; and regular
loss of liberty after 1661 would have made it difficult for Picton to provide
sustained instruction for any scholar.
James
Picton brought an action against William Young, presumably his kinsman, in
1660/1 on a bond for £10, dated
He
was set free under Charles II’s Declaration of
Indulgence in 1672. “No sooner was he set free than he went on with his
old work of teaching publicly and without licence”. Such contempt of the constitutional
powers, almost at the door of the Episcopal Palace at Abergwili, could not
possibly be tolerated. He was soon
put back in prison once more; with this sensational sequel as described by the
Bishop, William Lucy himself.
“A writ de homine replagiando
was brought, the prison doores broken open, and he, thus delivered by the rabble, keepes schoole again in despight of the statute, and hath 70 or 80
scholars”. In a later
letter the Bishop devoutly hopes that such a case is not known anywhere else,
for he knows not how to have it amended.
“It tastes of too much violence to be
suffered in any commonwealth” [Tanner MS 146, ff. 113, 138-138v; also
Tanner MS 314, ff. 40]. By the
beginning of April 1673 James Picton had been restored to his prison lodging
again, only to teach from that vantage point scholars who came in crowds to hear
him under the windows of the gaol [T. Richards, Nonconformity and Methodism in Wales, p.
154; and Wales Under the Indulgence,
1672-1675, 1920, London, p. 171].
Some
historians of the Quaker movement have suggested that this glimpse of ‘the man
at the window’ is the last sight which posterity has of James Picton. This is clearly not so. Picton regained his liberty [he was
presumably a free man by
How
long James Picton’s enforced residence in
James
Picton does not appear to have attended the Yearly Meetings of the Welsh Quakers
after 1696, although an epistle from him was read at the 1701 Meeting, held at
Llanidloes on
James
Picton left a will, dated
9. WILLIAM PICTON of
Whitechurch. His early life is at present unknown and
his name does not appear on the Golden Grove MS. He was one of the appraisors of the estate of Catherine Picton of Whitechurch
in 1679. He signed both the
testament and the inventory of her effects; and unless he took to writing later
in life, is different from the illiterate William Picton of Nevern, gent., who
obtained a grant of administration in respect of the goods of George Picton in
1662. He was an appraisor of the estate of Owen Bowen of Whitechurch on
Administration
of the goods of William Picton, deceased, was granted to his widow, Mary Picton,
on
i. OWEN PICTON, probably the Owen
Picton bapt. at Whitechurch on
ii. A daughter, living in 1709, mentioned in
the will of James Picton of
[1] For a discussion of the
origin and spellings of this name, see B. G. Charles, The Place-Names of Pembrokeshire, Cemais,
National Library of
[2] Bartrum makes the point that there is a steady deterioration
in the accuracy of the early parts of genealogies after the time of Griffith
Hiraethog, that is about 1560. Errors tended to multiply because
copyists normally used the latest texts available. They were generally uncritical, and
seldom interested in going back to the earlier texts to review what actually had
been written down. Thus an error,
once introduced, tended to be promulgated indefinitely, and often became more or
less standard. It is easy to
understand how these events happened, if not to condone them. The difficulties of travel at the time
must be taken into account. Most of
the manuscripts were in private hands, and individuals were quite understandably
not over-anxious to lend manuscripts which they possessed. The line of least resistance was to copy
the nearest manuscript available, and it was easier to read and copy a recent
manuscript than one a hundred years old or
more.
[3] Again the survival of
so many early deeds is entirely a stroke of coincidence. They owe their existence to the career
and fate of Sir
[4] Deposited by A. T.
Woods, esq., Gray’s Inn Square, London, per The British Records Association (BRA
1333), 1964. A Schedule compiled by
B. G. Charles in 1964, Records of the estate of the family of Foley of Ridgeway,
Co. Pembroke, mainly in that County, 1366-1869, 81 pp. This collection was formerly in the
possession of Messrs Richard Furber & Son, 2 Gray’s Inn Square, WC1, of which the depositor was the last
principal; but Foley of Ridgeway 10 and 11 were deposited by Mrs Sylvia R.
Woods, Tadworth, Surrey in February 1994. Photocopies only were available previous
to that date. This Grant is No. 10
in the Schedule.
[5] B. G. Charles in his
book, The Place-Names of
Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, 1992, p. 30 gives the
following variants for the spelling of Tre-Foel in the
parish of Bayvil: Tref Iorwerth Voel, 1444, 1476, 1505
[Bronwydd MS – as above]; Treyerwerth Voel, 1591, 1592 [Bronwydd MS]; Tref yerwerth voel, 1593, 1595 [Bronwydd MS]; Trevoell, 1547 [Bronwydd MS]; Trefvoell, 1584 [Bronwydd MS]; Trevoel, 1585, 1586 [Bronwydd MS], 1639 [Green vi 117];
Trefoell, 1584 [Bronwydd MS]; Y dre voel, 1572 [Bronwydd MS];
Trevowel, 1818 [FB]. Iorwerth Voel held lands in Bayvil in 1273 [BK
51-52].
He also says in a
footnote [p. 27] that “The parish [of
Bayvil], if it coincided with the bounds of the Manor of Bayvil, extended at one
time into parts of the present parishes of Nevern and Moylgrove, but the old boundary cannot now be plotted, and
some of the lost names dealt with under this heading [i.e. Bayvil] may be in
Nevern”.
[6] This was a grant from
Nicholas, son of Martin, Lord of Kemmys to the heirs
of Guwaret, son of Cuhelyn,
and the heirs of Llewelyn, son of Cuhelyn, of all his
lands in Presselewe (Prescelli). Nicholas Fitzmartin, Lord of Cemais, died in 1282. This Charter is set out in Baronia de Kemeys,
Arch. Camb. Supplement, 1862, p.
48.
[7] The actual phrase,
translated from the latin is And he has it; and the same day is given to the said
Philip and Jenet.
[8] Owen Mathias ap Owen married Margaret, the daughter of Richard Warren
[Rhyderch
Warin].
Owen Mathias ap Owen was the son of Mathias ap Owen, who had married
Dyddgu ----- , an
heiress. Mathias ap Owen was a brother to Sir James ap Owen of Pentre Ivan and his wife, Catherine, also wife of
[9]
[11] Thomas Wogan of Llanstinan was a son of Rees Wogan, son of Sir
[12]
Bartholomew Young of Cardigan left a will in 1678 [SD 1678/154]. Jane Young of cardigan left a will in
1686 [SD 1686/55].
[13] Other people mentioned in the
will of Grace Young include her niece, Grace
[14] Other people mentioned in the will of Rees Young include David ap Evan, tailor, his sister’s son; Elizabeth Evan, his sister; Margaret Owen, another sister of David ap Evan; George Owen, his sister’s son; Evan Young, his brother’s son; David Griffith, shoemaker, his half-brother; Margaret Griffith, his half-sister and Nicholas Griffith, his half-brother. Also mentioned are his two reputed sons, Thomas Young and Rees Young, who were to receive 3s:4d apiece.
[15] The Manor of Redwalles received grant of a weekly market and a three day annual fair in 1293 [Calendar of Charter Rolls 2, 1906], probably representing a large-scale 13th century assart of relatively poor land, which had already 'failed' by the 16th century, when only four tenements of demesne were recorded. Its three gale tenants held their land by mixed English and Welsh custom, and indeed the name 'Redwalles' is probably a corruption of Rudvall, a term given in Pembrokeshire to a form of local tenure by which strip fields were amassed and grazed in common.