| Description | Mr J.E. Griffith in his great book of Pedigrees has blundered very badly over the parties to this marriage (compare 20, 123, 178); he makes Jane to be the daughter of Edward Wynn of Plas Ucha in Llannefydd; and seems in a note to get this proved by reference to the 'Morris Letters', ii, 278. What William Morris tells his brother Lewis in that letter is that the mother of Charles Evans of Trefeilir's wife was daughter to "meistr Williams o'r Ty Fry", with never a word about the Wynn connection. It is, of course, well known that Charles Evans in 1761 married Elizabeth, sole heiress of Hugh Lewis and Jane Williams.
The marriage portion was £1,000 but it was covenanted that a good deal of it was to go to ease the incumbrances on the Bont Newydd lands (which are particularly named). Feofees in trust were William Williams of Pen'rallt and Thomas Lloyd of Hendrefeinws.
Note: There is some confusion over the date of the marriage of Charles Evans to the heiress of Bont Newydd: J.E. Griffith in two places definitely names it July 14, 1761, at the parish church of Llanbeblig (Pedigrees, 122, 123), but William Morris in two separate letters (ii, 263, 278) says they were married in 1760, and that before October. Has J.E. Griffith mistaken 1761 for 1760? |