| Description | This transaction is made interesting by the persons that figure in the absracts of title, introducing Thomas Owen of Bodgedwydd, the prosperous Anglesey corn-factor, who bought the ancient estate of Ty'nllwydan, devising it to his three nephews; eventually they agreed to a deed of partition by which Cae'r Merddyn fell to the share of nephew Thomas Williams of Ty Mawr in Llantrisant - his daughter Margaret married Richard Williams of Pentre Bwâu in Llandrygarn, one of the sons of William Prichard of Clwchdernog - the Llangefni watchmaker was son to Richard and Margaret. The negotiations were made more difficult by mischances: the will of Thomas Owen (17 August 1756) could nowhere be found in the Bangor Registry, although his name was on the index for 1757 - the Registrar is pleased to say that its loss was due to the carelessness of a former holder of the office (HENB/350, pp.6-7). More, an important deed of 15 December 1777 could nowhere be found, and its purport had to depend on its recital in a later deed of 1786. It was no wonder, therefore, that counsel's opinion had to be asked - it was given on 9 August 1813, by "Richard Richards, junior", the son of the much more famous Richard Richards of Caerynwch, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer from 1817 to 1823. Little attention was paid to the loss of the will and the deed; his main advice was over the proper procedure at Great Sessions. It would be well to examine Pedigrees, 378; the one mistake there is to call Richard Williams of "Pentre Waun", instead of "Pentre Bwâu". |