| Description | Thus the statement (Pedigrees, 1) by Mr. J.E. Griffith is wofully inaccurate: he says that David Owen sold Trefeilir to William Evans of Henblas in 1775. It may be said that D.O.'s effective hold on Trefeilir had come to an end with the mortgages of 1681-1682; he was finally paid off by Owen Meyrick in 1717; Trefeilir was not sold by D.O. at all, but by his mortgagees, "by his direction", to the squire of Bodorgan; and it was O.M., as this doct. testifies, who released it to William Evans in 1728. Moreover, there was no William Evans at Henblas in 1775 (there was, at Glan Alaw, son of the William Evans of Vaenol who had died in 1748). |