| AdminHistory | There is no evidence to connect the Owen ap John Owen of CYN/133 with William John Griffith of CYN/134 (cp. CYN/131 - CYN/132), with very near 100 years between one and the other. There is considerable doubt (CYN/139) that the William G. of Cefn Coch who made his will in 1802 and died in 1805 (BMSS/2140) was descended from W.J.G. of 1713; there is no doubt that he was a very substantial yeoman with 976 sheep and an inventory amounting to £1,448.3.2. (CYN/136 is a copy of this will). The chief beneficiary under this will was his nephew William Griffith who died in 1812; he was followed by his son Owen Griffith, one of the most respected and dependable men of his generation in Eifionydd - suffice it to say that he was one of the executors named in the will of Ellis Owen of Cefn-y-meysydd. Probably the very detailed plan of Cefn Coch (CYN/137) and the very interesting account of the sale held at Cefn Coch, with the names of buyers and the prices they respectively paid (CYN/138) were papers that arose out of arrangements made at the death of O.G. in 1878 (or 1879). Document CYN/139 - an abstract of title, supplies much information on the family side, and explains how Cefn Coch and other allied property was eventually merged in the Ymwlch estate. Document CYN/133 is a release (30 June, 1618) by John Owen ap John of Pennant and Owen ap John Owen, son and heir, of Brithdir and Cae Bach, to Robert ap Rees ap Hugh and Robert ap Howell ap Robert [both of Penyfed] in trust as part of the marriage settlement of Owen ap John Owen and Jane vch Rees ap Hugh [sister, evidently, to the feofee Robert ap Rees ap Hugh]. Six witnesses, the last being the Maurice Johnes who drew up the document. |