William Williams

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6474/SALESBU... (April 8, 2017; Anne Brannen, curator)

Please see Peter Bartrum: Iorwerth Goch (A); https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173409183982 & Marchudd 6 (D1); https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173426981925 [NOTE: Bartrum charts Margred ferch Thomas as a mistress of William ap Gruffudd, but that man died c.1500. She fits better as a partner of that man's son, also named William] (Steven Ferry, December 27, 2023.)

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WILLIAMS, William Wynn (by 1500-59), of Cochwillan, Caern.

Family and Education b. by 1500, 1st s. of William ap Gruffydd ap Robin of Cochwillan by Angharad, da. of Dafydd ab Ifan of Cryniarth and Hendwr, Merion. m. Lowri, da. of Henry Salusbury of Llanrhaiadr, Denb., 6s. 4da. suc. fa. by 1500.1

Offices Held

Commr. tenths of spiritualities, Bangor and St. Asaph dioceses 1535, relief, Caern. 1550; sheriff 1541-2, 1546-7; j.p. 1555.2

Biography The Williams family of Cochwillan, founded by William Wynn Williams’s great-grandfather, was linked with the Wynns of Gwydir, John Wynn ap Meredydd being Williams’s nephew. A supporter of the Tudor cause, Williams’s father had been made sheriff of the old ‘county’ of Caernarvon in 1485 and granted denizenship in the following year.3

Williams was presumably the William ap William whom Edward Gruffydd of Penrhyn reported to Cromwell in 1534 as having vexed him before the royal commissioners. As William Gruffydd alias Williams he was sheriff in 1541-2 and as William Williams alias Gruffydd he had a second term in 1546-7, but the William ap William esquire who served in 1552-3 is more likely to have been his son, from whom he was sometimes distinguished by the suffix ‘senior’, as on the plea roll of the Caernarvonshire great sessions in the time of Edward VI. He was then assessed on lands worth £10 a year in the commote of Uchaf, and at about the same time he was sued by one James ap Robert over lands in the lordship of Bangor.4

In 1555 Williams was one of the Caernarvonshire gentlemen, his nephew John Wyn ap Hugh and John Wyn ap Meredydd being among them, to whom the council in the marches recommended Sir Rhys Gruffydd (q.v.) as knight of the, shire; Gruffydd was married to a great-niece of Williams. His own return at the next election, despite his age, is the less hard to credit in the light of his eldest son’s death some months earlier and of his nephew John Wynn ap Meredydd’s shrievalty until shortly before the election. It was to this nephew that he was to write not long before his own death in 1559 describing himself as ‘old and stricken in age’; the hope which he expressed that ‘your sons and mine shall be loving together’ was not to be realized, his heir William Williams and John Wynn† of Gwydir proving the worst of enemies.5

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558 Author: P. S. Edwards Notes 1. Date of birth estimated from fa.’s death. Griffith, Peds. 186, with dating errors; Dwnn. Vis. Wales, ii. 86-87 and n; DWB app. (Williams fam.). 2. LP Hen. VIII, viii; CPR, 1553, p. 363. 3. CPR, 1485-94, p. 55. 4. LP Hen. VIII, vii, xx; UCNW Penrhyn ms 63; NLW ms Wales 20/4, m. 92; E179/264/24; C1/1283/2. 5. NLW Add. ms 464/E19; ms 9051E; Cal. Wynn (of Gwydir) Pprs. 1515-1690, p. 3; DWB app. mentions Williams’s will but this has not been located from the references there given.

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References

1. Monnet family genealogy [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data:Monnette, Orra Eugene. "Monnet family genealogy : an emphasis of a noble Huguenot heritage ... " (1911) Section: XIX. The Williams Family. Page 1109. < AncestryImage >
2. Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Page 182. < AncestrySharing >. 37. Dorothy Griffith, by (1); m. as 1st wife, William Williams, Esq., of Cochwillan, co. Carnarvon (son, according to Burke, of William Williams and Lowry, dau. of Henry Salusbury, Esq., of Llanrhaidadr). (cf. Burke, Peerage (1847), p. 1046). (Ibid 166).
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochwillan Cochwillan is a medieval hall house situated in the lower Ogwen Valley, south of the village of Talybont in the parish of Llanllechid, between Bethesda and Llandygai. It is designated by Cadw as a Grade I listed building.[1][2] Cochwillan was built around 1465 by William ap Gruffudd who for supporting Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth was rewarded by being named Sheriff of Caernarvonshire. In the 17th century John Williams, Archbishop of York combined the hall with the Penrhyn estate. By 1969 it was in use as a barn when it was restored by Cadw and the Penhryn estate.[3]
4. Roberts, G., (1959). WILLIAMS family, of Cochwillan.. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 8 Oct 2024, from https://biography.wales/article/s1-WILL-COC-1389 WILLIAM AP GRIFFITH (died c. 1500), soldier and sheriff of Caernarfonshire WILLIAM WILLIAMS (died c. 1559), commissioner and sheriff of Caernarfonshire Son of William ap Griffith, and the first of the family to adopt the surname Williams. He married Lowry, daughter of Henry Salesbury of Llanrhaeadr, and described himself as an old man before 1559. He was one of the commissioners of inquiry for the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph appointed in 1535 in pursuance of articles and instructions relating to tenths and spiritualities. He was sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1542, 1547, and 1553. His will was dated 24 June 1558 and proved 3 June 1559. (His third son, Thomas, founded the family of Williams of Faenol, see Griffith, Pedigrees, 190).