| Description | The feofees in trust were two Bulkeleys of Glan-y-gore and Coningsby Williams who was also closely related to nthese Bulkeleys - he was of the Williams family of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, but his mother was a Coningsby of North Mynes, co. Hereford, the same family that owned the Black Friars at Hersford itself.
His first wife was the heiress of Penmynydd; he represented the Anglesey boroughs in parliament for two periods in the reigns of William III and Anne.
The document does throw a little welcome light on the series of lacunae in the Hampton marriage records of 1670-1720: the 'Pedigrees' are uncertain on at least four of these marriages, that of William (d. 1665), and of three Roberts. There is no information at all about the wife of one Robert, the wives of the other two are described as 'Jane' only.
This indenture of 1696 seems to establish the name of his mother as 'Jane Hughes' (but with no further family particulars about her), and his wife as Jane (buried at Llangoed, January 15th, 1708), and in addition that she was 'the neare kinswoman of him the said Coningsby Williams' (but no more details are given). The Robert Hampton of this document must be the 'second' Robert in the Henllys table.
Jane Hughes - further note. On re-examination of the 'Pedigrees' a good case can be made out that the 'Jane Hughes, widow', of this document was the daughter of Hugh Hughes of Tre'rdriw (p.139); there is a mysterious 'Jane' in the Tre'rdriw table - without a single detail of birth, marriage, or death - who would fit in very naturally with this theory, and would account for the great interest taken by the later Hamptons in the fortunes of the Hughes family. One mystery that remains unsolved is that J.E.G. was unaware of the marriage of this 'Jane'; a more difficult matter to explain is why the two Richrd Hughes of Bodrwyn, son and grandson of H.H., are referred to as of 'Castellior' (see also 'Morris Letters', i. 55) |