3rd Generation Richard Leighs

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6th Generation of Leighs

41. WILLIAM LEIGH (chr 7 May 1699 - 21 Apr 1762 both St Peter's), gent, mayor. Father 37. JONATHAN LEIGH
md SARAH MATHERS, granddau of MARY EVANS (?-1731) in 1725.

43. Jonathan LEIGH (chr 3 Jul 1727 - 20 Sep 1729 both St Peter's)

44. Elizabeth LEIGH (chr 6 May 1729 - 23 Nov 1750 both St Peter's)

45. Margaret LEIGH (chr 6 Oct 1730 St Peter's - ?)

46. Jonathan LEIGH

47. Joanna LEIGH (chr 15 Apr 1735 - 28 Mar 1766 both St Peter's)

48. William LEIGH (chr 28 Jul 1738 - 3 Mar 1808 both St Peter's)
md (1) Anne GEORGE (? - ?) on 30 Dec 1775 St Peter's church
William has no known descendants, though possibly 55 William Nash LEIGH, attributed to his brother 46.JONATHAN LEIGH, may belong to him. The dates, however, make this unlikely.

49. Mary LEIGH (chr 24 Aug 1739 - 6 Dec 1739 St Peter's)

50. Sarah LEIGH (chr 10 Dec 1741 - 21 Mar 1742 St Peter's)

51. Richard LEIGH (chr 16 May 1743 - 23 Sep 1743 St Peter's)

52. John LEIGH (chr 21 Jun 1744 - 12 Aug 1744 St Peter's)

53. DAVID NASH LEIGH (chr 19 Feb 1746 - 7 Mar 1808 St Peter's) Father 41. WILLIAM LEIGH

St Peter's Collocation of Names gave only the name David Leigh, but WILLIAM LEIGH's will making him executor listed him as DAVID NASH LEIGH. It is conceivable that William Nash LEIGH was the son of this DAVID, who might have named him NASH also for himself, but DAVID would have been too young to marry.

54. Oakley LEIGH (chr 23 Feb 1749 - 17 Jun 1750 St Peter's)

Of WILLIAM LEIGH's twelve children only four are known as adults, and his two grown daughters died unmarried. His occupation is not clear, because inconclusive sources refer to him as a trunk maker and a painter, yet he was styled gent in several documents. He had been sheriff as early as 1736, and was twice elected mayor, in 1755 and 1757 for the Tory party in the royalist tradition of his earlier family. Political rivalry with the Whig party was severe and undisciplined, including double elections with competing mayors and periodic loading of the council with new burgesses eligible to vote. In both of WILLIAM's terms as mayor, mob violence occurred with looting and occasional deaths (Lloyd, II, 39-44). Such political instability and great financial corruption existed throughout Britain, not only Carmarthenshire, into the mid-19th century.
 
WILLIAM's will in 1762 bequeathed various legacies of money, and his eldest son Jonathan received his father's "Blue Coat together also with the Silver Buttons thereon and also my Silver waistcoat Buttons together likewise with my Silver medal of King Charles the first."

Sources: St Peter's Collocation of Names (Film no.104504); wills of Alice Woodford (Film no.105240), Catherine GWYNNE (Film no.105240), and WILLIAM LEIGH (Film no.105248): Lloyd, History of Carmarthenshire, Vol II.