| Disgrifiad | Burial of William (3 March 1768); burial of Henry (20 July 1769); baptism of (second) William (17 May 1771) - he lived to be married in 1807. The other two died in infancy.
Then follows a copy of the marriage settlement of William Evans above (born 1771) with Hannah, daughter of Elizabeth Rylands of Llannerch-y-medd, widow of William Rylands, flax dresser; portion, £330; feofees in trust, Hugh Evans of Henblas (William Evans's cousin) and Richard Jones of Trewyn. The marriage was solemnised on 19 February 1807, and lasted only nine days. The fact that Hannah was the widow of the son is categorically supported by an abstract of title examined in 1818 (see HENB/295). J.E. Griffith in his Pedigrees, 122 - though on the whole an exact and competent genealogist - has indeed made a woeful mess of the Glan Alaw branch: he makes the father die in 1807 when he had passed away in 1787; this makes him to give the father a second wife who really belonged to his son (William Evans did marry twice, but J.E. Griffith has no record of this real first marriage); though the father is supposed to have married a second time in 1807, the Pedigrees' stroke of descent makes William a son of the first marriage and born in 1771 (which is beyond ridicule). Nor has he any idea who the son's wife really was: he has not heard of the Llannerch-y-medd flax dresser, and gives the wife's name as Margaret instead of Hannah. Nor do we know whether the Rylands family were natives of Anglesey, or were mere immigrants who had made money there by their industry. |