| AdminHistory | It appears that a Robert Lloyd, father of the above three Lloyds, died in 1721, in more or less active possession of Cefn Gwyn and Gryddyn bach in Bryncroes, but very heavily incumbered. A brother to Robert Lloyd was Owen Lloyd, 'clericus', who was said to have spent a considerable sum on the education of Robert's son William, at school and in Oxford (William appears in Foster's 'Alumni Oxon'., 1715-1886, p. 865, as having graduated from Jesus College in 1723). This William seems to have been a luckless father who wasted his fortune, while his sister Elizabeth had to go into service in London. It is next to certain that Owen Lloyd was rector or Llanaber in Merioneth as is obliquely proved by a reference to his wife Catherine and to a co-executor named Maurice Wynn, a half-brother of his (all this appears from a collation of the personnel of the doct. with 'Pedigrees', 166).
Owen and Robert Lloyd were brothers of the more powerful Francis Lloyd of Hirdrefaig, who happened to be grandfather of Mary, wife of the Rev William Lloyd of Trallwyn.
There is no other way of accounting for the presence of this Bryncroes paper among the Trallwyn MSS. There must be no confusing William Lloyd of Bryncroes who graduated at Oxford in 1723 with William of Trallwyn who 'entered' Jesus College in Cambridge as sizer in 1736; and no mistaking Robert Lloyd who died at Cefn Gwyn in 1721 with the Robert Lloyd who figured in his brother William's will in 1794. |