| Disgrifiad | to various component parts of the Ymwlch estate, as bases of security for the numerous mortgages on the property. The crucial point was the marriage of Mary, heiress to the Whyte property at Neigwl Ucha in Llyn with Anthony Thomas of Hendre in Llangelynnin, co. Merioneth; their son and heir was Hugh Thomas whose sister Jane was mother to the Rev. Griffith Owen of Llanenddwyn; he [H.T.] seems to have got into serious financial difficulties, with consequent mortgages and assignments of such - at one time the mortgage was held by Bulkeley Hatchett of Lee in Shrpshire whose wife Martha was a direct descendant of the famous Hugh Owen of Bron-y-clydwr; at a later time by the Rev. John Griffith [always signed himself Gryffydh], rector of Ffestiniog, one of whose daughter married Thomas Love Peacock, and one of whose grand-daughters married George Meredith. Some of these abstracts give information about Anthony Thomas, eldest son of Hugh Thomas, that is unknown to the Pedigrees: how he had held livings at Streatham in Surrey and Yeovil in Somerset (he was there 1789), how he was a Doctor of Laws, and had a son also named Anthony, student at Magdalen Hall in Oxford in 1789, whence he graduated B.A. in 1792. The son is sometimes referred to as Anthony Keighley Thomas, but spelt Keiley in one of these abstracts.
In several of these abstracts reference is made to a Griffith Owen of Dolgellau, farmer, who made his will on 12 December 1789 (proved 26 September 1791), and whose hereditaments were devised to the Rev. Griffith Owen of Llanenddwyn. It seems certain - though it is nowhere so expressed - that the Rev. Owen was his son; if so, the description in Pedigrees 288, that the Rev. Owen's father was the Rev. Griffith Owen of Pencader is wofully inaccurate. |