tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250122140675073632024-03-18T20:53:38.028-06:00"Early" Welsh LeighsThis blog contains genealogies and stories of the early Leighs (and related side lines) who are connected to the earliest-known Leigh in Wales, Ralph Leigh. The whole Leigh family tree is spread over two blogs, this blog and the blog that describes the later Leigh families. The various branches of our family tree are linked between the two blogs.Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-90755225811402793272017-03-17T23:59:00.000-06:002019-03-27T13:39:50.657-06:00<table align="center" bgcolor="#ff2200" border="0" cellpadding="4" style="width: 718px;">
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/about-me.html">About Me</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-new.html">What's New</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-overview.html">DNA Overview</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/nash-ancestry.html">Nash Ancestry</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/prichared-ancestry.html">Prichard Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html">Oakley Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/david-family.html">David Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/this-section-servesas-supplement-to.html">Biographies</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/blog-post.html">Flag/Map of Wales</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="1=5%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/pronunciation-and-patronymics.html">Welsh Names</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">GENEALOGY
OF THE LEIGHS OF WALES 1550 - 1850</span></b></i></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b><span style="font-size: normal;">Introduction</span></b></i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">My name is Allen Leigh. Welcome
to my blog that presents the genealogies and histories of the Leigh families and appropriate sidelines who lived in Wales prior to about 1850. This information is based on the research of my sister, Norma Leigh Rudinsky, and several distant cousins. Since doing her research, Norma has passed, and her nieces, Tova Leigh Choate and Sara Leigh Maisey, are considering becoming our family genealogists. Norma was assisted in her research by several distant cousins, and Tova and Sara hope that assistance will be extended to them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">A few of the pages in this blog were written by Derek Williams, a distant cousin, but t</span></span></span>he remainder of this page and most of the pages in this blog were written by Norma. Some of the pages, however, have been modified since Norma's passing.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">If
you're concerned about the use of the red and green colors used
in this blog, be aware that those colors are from the Welsh flag, although the shade of the colors may be different than that used in the flag.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The LEIGH name is
very well known as an English name from the Anglo-Saxon LEGH, a dweller by a
wood or clearing (<i>Surnames of the United Kingdom</i>), and many separate
families took the name <i>Leigh</i> independently of each other. So, where in
England did our earliest people live? We're still searching for that connection.</span></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">The first Leighs in
Wales were educated, and they married into gentry families, so we expected
they came from a branch of the large and varied Leigh/Legh family of gentry or
nobility in Cheshire. Perhaps the earliest Leigh was an illegitimate son, or certainly he would have been a
younger son without title or inheritance. Alternatively, our Leigh family may
have come from a prosperous yeoman whose son went away to school and entered the
growing middle class in the cities. Richard Leigh, our first recorded ancestor,
apparently entered the cloth trade, and his son Raffe/Ralph Leigh signed himself
<i>gent</i>. and became a mercer or merchant in Carmarthen
by 1597.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our family has now
turned to <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/persons-who-have-been-tested-three.html" target="_blank">DNA Studies</a>, not only to confirm our documented evidence of our LEIGH lines in South Wales, but especially to find
the unknown English roots and origins of our known ancestors. In England there
are many families named <i><b>Leigh</b>,<b> Lee</b>,<b> Ley</b>,<b> Lye</b>, </i>
or other variations who could come from our unknown ancestors. Besides our own
work we are also collaborating with other projects that have a reasonable match
with the DNA of our Leigh line.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our
Leighs were a very healthy and prolific family, and we have stopped their
pedigree in approximately 1850 with the many grandchildren of the rural parson <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/xxxxx.html#74edmund" target="_blank">Reverend 74 Edmund Leigh</a> of Llanedi and Llandeilo-Talybont. Their descendants in Wales
are easily found and documented, as are the descendants of the Leighs who moved
from Carmarthenshire to Cardiganshire, England, Canada, Idaho, Utah, or
elsewhere (see our <a href="http://welshleigh.blogspot.com/">blog</a> containing histories and stories of the more recent Leigh
families). Whenever possible we cite current descendants who are now pursuing
genealogy and can help those who are still finding their way back to the
earliest Leighs in Wales.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">In the
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Descendancy Chart</a> we try to follow all of the early lines from Richard and Raffe/Ralph
Leigh. Most of our ancestors and collateral relatives were not famous. They were
the <i>salt of the earth</i>-- the ordinary, generally decent folk who don't start
wars or rule over other people, and I think that many would have made good
company and been good friends. For a few relatives, we were fortunate to find
enough information for a small biography, such as that of
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html" target="_blank">Bridgett Leigh</a>,
beloved <i>concubine</i> of Sir Francis Lloyd of Maesyfelin, and that of the infamous
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/oakley-leigh-biography.html" target="_blank">Oakley Leigh</a>, steward of Peterwell. They became sources for the legends of the murder of
the Vicar of Llandovery's son and the cruel trick of the black ram -- legends
still current in Cardiganshire. So please look also at the
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/this-section-servesas-supplement-to.html" target="_blank">Biographies</a> section, which
supplements the slots of our pedigrees with biographical and historical narratives.
Particularly, we have followed the surprising and wonderful lines of the Leigh
wives. One of these lines, the
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/prichared-ancestry.html">Prichard line</a>, takes us back to Rhodri Mawr or Rhodri
<i>the</i> <i>Great</i>, king
of the Welsh (d. 877), king Hywel Dda or Hywel <i>the</i> <i>Good</i>, who codified Welsh law
(d. 950), and other great figures. This same wife was also a cousin 2-times
removed of Lucy Walter, the Welsh beauty who became mistress of Charles Stuart,
later King Charles II, and mother of the Duke of Monmouth (beheaded in the Tower
of London in 1685). See Lucy’s
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/lucy-walker-biography.html" target="_blank">Biography</a>.
</span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">Another wife Dorothy Oakley had
ancestors in the English Severne, Ingram, and Sheldon families who knew William
Shakespeare and his father in Stratford-upon-Avon, and some were slightly
related to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (See the
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610_17.html" target="_blank">OAKLEY ANCESTRY</a></span>).<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b> </b></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b><br />Sources used</b></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Many
of our Leighs are found in the </span><i>Ancestral File</i><span style="font-size: small;"> and the </span><i>International
Genealogical Index</i><span style="font-size: small;">, but they show so many errors and confusing repetitions
that we began anew. The first Leigh genealogists labored remarkably well with
index cards and hand copies, and we are deeply grateful to them. With new
electronic resources, we were able to test, confirm, correct, clarify, and
enlarge their work.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Where available our basic source was church records in Wales, either originals or on microfilm from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Equally
valuable were wills and similar documents at the National Library of Wales in
Aberystwyth, whether originals, film, photocopies, or online. Our other basic
source was the massive work on Welsh pedigrees by Peter C. Bartrum published as
<i>Welsh Genealogies AD 300 - 1400</i> in 1974 and as <i>Welsh Genealogies AD
1400 - 1500</i> in 1983, a total of 26 volumes, and we utilized Dr. Bartrum's
system for testing the internal consistency and chronology of a pedigree in the
Prichard ancestry. As a source for genealogies after 1500 not included by Bartrum, we used the contemporary pedigrees of the
Nashes (signed by <i>Richard
Nashe </i>in 1597) and the Leighs (signed by <i>Raffe Leighe </i>in 1597 with
his four children added in 1608), which were recorded by Lewys Dwnn in <i>
Heraldic Visitations of Wales ... between 1586 and 1613</i>. For the next two
generations, we consulted microfilms of the Herald David Edwardes’ manuscripts
in the Bodleian library at Oxford University and used his pedigrees of our
Leighs and Prichards. These were especially valuable because Edwardes was
personally acquainted with our family, as well as a distant relative. For
convenience and accessibility we also used the <i>Golden Grove Books</i>
compiled in the 18<sup>th</sup> century, using both the original volumes in the
Carmarthenshire Record Office and the handwritten copy made in 1911 in the
Public Record Office in London and later microfilmed (Film
nos.104349, 104350, 104351, 104352). For details on these sources and all of the specialized
references we used, see the bibliographies with each section of our work.</span></span></span>Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-47213085464620394142017-03-17T23:45:00.000-06:002019-03-02T17:38:05.010-07:00About Me<br />
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/">Home</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%">About Me</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-new.html">What's New</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-overview.html">DNA Overview</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/nash-ancestry.html">Nash Ancestry</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/prichared-ancestry.html">Prichard Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html">Oakley Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/david-family.html">David Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/this-section-servesas-supplement-to.html">Biographies</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/blog-post.html">Flag/Map of Wales</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/pronunciation-and-patronymics.html">Welsh Names</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-following-files-have-been-used-by.html">Research Files</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/theweb-is-wonderful-resource-for.html">Links</a></td>
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<br />
If you're interested in your early family tree, and your ancestors came from Wales, then this blog is for you!<br />
<br />
This blog presents genealogical data and stories about the ancestors and descendants
of the Richard Leigh families that came from England to Wales from about 1560 AD to approximately 1850 AD.
My name is Allen Leigh, and I am the great grandson of Samuel Leigh who
emigrated to the USA from Wales in the mid 1850s.<br />
<br />
I have a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Utah State
University and a master's degree in Computer Information Systems from
Boston University. I am now retired from software development, but I have
served as an Adjunct Instructor in Computer Science at Westminster
College in Salt Lake City.<br />
<br />
I'm webmaster of several blogs, including<br />
<blockquote>
<a href="http://welshleigh.blogspot.com/">http://welshleigh.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="http://oldmanrunningblog.blogspot.com/">http://oldmanrunningblog.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="http://runninginjuryfree.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://runninginjuryfree.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="http://bergstedtchristiansenpaulsen.blogspot.com/">http://bergstedtchristiansenpaulsen.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="http://wymondhamwebsters.blogspot.com/">http://wymondhamwebsters.blogspot.com</a> <br />
<a href="http://fieldinglangford.blogspot.com/">http://fieldinglangford.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="https://mormonsite.wordpress.com/">https://mormonsite.wordpress.com</a> (this is a blog not a website)<br />
<a href="http://sciencemormonism.blogspot.com/">http://sciencemormonism.blogspot.com</a> <br />
<a href="http://speculationsmormonism.blogspot.com/">http://speculationsmormonism.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="http://hamradionets.blogspot.com/">http://hamradionets.blogspot.com/</a></blockquote>
All pages in this blog and the blogs listed above are copyright © 2017, 2019 by Allen W. Leigh, all rights reserved. Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-31265014487424201762017-03-17T23:30:00.000-06:002017-06-05T12:40:40.128-06:00What's New<table align="center" bgcolor="#ff2200" border="0" cellpadding="4" style="width: 720px;">
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/">Home</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/about-me.html">About Me</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%">What's New</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-overview.html">DNA Overview</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/nash-ancestry.html">Nash Ancestry</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/prichared-ancestry.html">Prichard Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html">Oakley Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/david-family.html">David Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/this-section-servesas-supplement-to.html">Biographies</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/blog-post.html">Flag/Map of Wales</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/pronunciation-and-patronymics.html">Welsh Names</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-following-files-have-been-used-by.html">Research Files</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/theweb-is-wonderful-resource-for.html">Links</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;">Been here before? Great! This page will brief you on additions or
corrections to the blog since you were last here. The most recent changes are at the top of the list.</span>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Updated a few records per information from Rev. Edmund Leigh's Bible. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Added Family Group Records for members of the David ancestry. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Added pages for the David ancestry of Samuel Leigh's fir<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">st wife</span> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Created a Research Files folder and added files received from Lynne Nielsen<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"> and Tova Leigh Choate</span> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Completed conversion of the embedded lin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">ks in this blog</span> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Began conversion of the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">embedded</span> links in this blog </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Completed conversion of the web pages at welshleigh.org/genealogy. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Began conversion of this web site to a blog at http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Removed the name-ID and am re<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">lying on the context of the text to avoid <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">confusing</span> names<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">. Example: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">RICHARD LEIGH (II) becomes RICHARD LEIGH.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%">DNA Overview</td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Genealogists
have traditionally used documents such as census records, vital statistic
records, wills, parish records, etc. to determine the ancestry of a person.
These documents are sometimes referred to as a "paper trail" of ones ancestry.
These records may identify a person's ancestry for a number of generations, but
eventually all family trees reach the point where the paper trail stops. This is
the current situation with our Leigh line in Wales. We suspect the line goes
back to England, but we have not found documents that prove that
connection. We are thus turning to DNA testing to obtain information about our
ancestors that will give us a general idea of where in England and when those ancestors
lived. This page gives an overview of DNA testing.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">In
DNA testing, information from a person's DNA is obtained and is placed in a
database. The information is then compared with the DNA of other donors, and if a
match (either an exact match or a near match) is found, the approximate number
of generations back to the closest ancestor that is common to both people is calculated.
If no matches are found, the information is retained in the database for use in
future comparisons with others. Thus, one goal of DNA testing is an estimation
of the approximate time in generations back to the closest common ancestor of two people.
Our hope is that distant relatives in England will have their DNA tested and
that the comparison of our DNA with their DNA will provide a connection between
the Leighs in Wales and the Leighs in England.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">Note:
None of the DNA information taken during the testing contains personal
information about the person. The DNA that is tested comes from "junk DNA", DNA
that is called "junk" because it has no useful information about the donor. The only information extracted from the person's
DNA is information that is helpful in determining when a potential common ancestor lived.</span></i></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: green; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Y-DNA
Testing</span></span></span></i></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">When
an embryo is conceived, two chromosomes are combined to determine the
gender of the
embryo. These chromosomes are known as X and Y chromosomes. The mother
always
contributes an X chromosome, but the father may contribute either an X
or a Y chromosome. If the father contributes an X chromosome, the offspring
will be a female. If the father contributes a Y chromosome, the
offspring will be a male. The Y chromosome contributed by the father is passed from father to son,
normally without change although infrequent changes or mutations may occur to the
Y-chromosome.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">Because
the Y-chromosome is passed from father to son, that
chromosome can be used to identify father-son relationships and thus
genealogical relationships. The testing of the Y chromosomes is called Y-DNA
testing. For example, Ralph Leigh is currently our earliest
Leigh male ancestor in Wales. His Y-chromosome was passed to his son, Richard, and from
Richard to his two sons, and so on. Allen Leigh, the webmaster of this site, is a
direct descendant of Ralph Leigh and thus has Ralph's Y-chromosome. However, Allen's
Y-chromosome may not be exactly the same as Ralph's Y-chromosome, because
mutations might have occurred as the
chromosome was passed from father to son. Thus, in using Y-DNA to locate
descendants of an ancestor, we are looking for matches between the Y-chromosome
in a person who is known to be a descendant and the Y-chromosome in persons who
may or may not be descendants,
with the realization that because of mutations the matches may not be exact.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b><span style="color: green; font-size: normal;">Markers</span></b></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">Markers are short segments of DNA, and Y-DNA testing involves
comparisons of these markers. In the example given above of Ralph Leigh and
Allen Leigh, Ralph has certain values for his markers. Likewise, Allen has
particular values for his markers. If the two sets of markers are exactly the
same, there is a high probability that Ralph and Allen are related. However, if
differences (caused by mutations) exist between the two sets of markers, the
probability decreases of Ralph and Allen being related. The results obtained
from Y-DNA testing include a set of markers and the values of those markers. This data
is useful only when comparisons are made between two or more people. Y-DNA
testing can be done for various amounts of markers, such as 12, 25, or 37
markers. Having more markers involved in the testing means a more accurate
estimation of the relationship can be made. In our example of Ralph Leigh, since we don't have Y-DNA from
Ralph, we use Y-DNA from two or more living persons who are believed to be
descended from Ralph.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: green; font-size: x-small;"> </span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="color: green; font-size: normal;">Genetic
Distance</span></i></b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">The "closeness" of a relationship between two people that was determined via Y-DNA testing is expressed as the Genetic Distance
of those persons. Genetic Distance is the number of differences between the
markers of the people. For example, if two people have 5 differences in their
markers, they have a Genetic Distance of 5. This could be one marker that
differed by 5. It could also be 5 markers that differed by 1, or any other
combination of markers & differences, such that the number of differences is
equal to 5. If two people have a perfect match, their genetic distance is 0.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><b><span style="color: green; font-size: large;">Most
Recent Common Ancestor</span></b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">If
two men are related, there must be at least one person in their ancestral
lines that is common to both persons. The closest person who is common to the two
men is known as the Most Recent Common Ancestor or MRCA of the two people, and the number of generations from
a person to his or her MRCA is known as
the Time to MRCA or TMRCA. In the case of Y-DNA testing, the markers of two men
who are believed to be in unbroken male lines from a common ancestor are
compared, and the TMRCA for the two men is calculated. It is important to
understand that the calculated TMRCA is an upper limit, and the common ancestor could have
lived at any time within the range specified by the TMRCA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">Mutations
to the Y-DNA occur infrequently and there may be several generations between changes to
the Y-DNA. Since Genetic Distance is the number of changes that have occurred, a larger number of
mutations requires a larger amount of time to have expired since the two lines
separated, resulting in a common ancestor
who probably lived a larger number of generations before the persons being
tested.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b><span style="color: green; font-size: normal;">Y-DNA
Haplogroups</span></b></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">When a man has his Y-DNA tested, he is told the
name of his <i>Haplogroup. </i>The Haplogroup
identifies the <b><i>origin</i></b> of the male line and thus gives information
about the major population group of the line.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="color: green; font-size: normal;"> </span></b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b><span style="color: green; font-size: normal;">mtDNA
Testing</span></b></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">There is another type of DNA test that has been used by some genealogists. This test is known as mtDNA
and involves DNA that is passed from a mother to all children. Men receive this DNA but do not pass it to their children. This test is not
commonly used by genealogists because of the social custom of married women
taking the surname of their husbands, thus making it difficult to have good
correlation between the results of this maternal test and the paternal surname
lines commonly used in genealogy. However, the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">use of this test is <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">becoming popular among genealogists<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">, because it gives another view of the relationships in genealogic<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">al resea<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">rch.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ourearliest-known-leighs-in-england-1.html">Earliest in England</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html">Earliest in Wales</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html">3rd Gen Leighs </a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-bridgett-leigh.html">1st Gen Bridgett Leighs</a></td>
<td 18="" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/5th-generation-bridgett-leigh.html">2nd Gen Bridgett Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-leigh.html">1st Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/37.html">2nd Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-generation-oakley-leighs.html">1st Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/58.html">2nd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/68.html">3rd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/xxxxx.html">4th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/8th-generation-oakley-leighs.html">Begin 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/more-5th-gen-oakley-leighs.html">More 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/end-5th-gen-oakley-leighs.html">End 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/starting-in-5th-generation-of-leighs.html">1st Gen Other Oakley Leigh </a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/126.html">2nd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/134.html">3rd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/144.html">4th Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">T<span style="font-size: normal;">h<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">is blog </span><span style="font-size: normal;">gives the known genealogical information for the
Leighs in Wales. This i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">nformation</span> is given in the form of a Descendancy chart in which the information about our oldest ancestor is given<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"> first, and informatio<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">n about<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"> later ancestors i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">s given in subsequent pages of the chart.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /> </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">Our Earliest Known LEIGH<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">s</span> in England estimated 1540</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">Earliest LEIGH<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">s</span> in Wales by 1597</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">3rd Generation
of LEIGHs</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">4th Generation of LEIGHs </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">Bridgett Leigh</span></span></li>
<li> Richard Leigh</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">Oakley Leigh</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">Infamous Oakley Leig<span lang="en-us">h</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The eight sections of the Descendancy C<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">hart are given in two groups. </span>The earliest three generations (starting from the earliest known LEIGH in England) had only a
single LEIGH male with offspring, and information about th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">e</span>se families is given in the first group. T</span>hree male lines, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">howeve<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">r, </span></span>appeared in
the 4th and 5th generations with two sons and one grandson. Also a female line appeared with BRIDGETT LEIGH and
Sir FRANCIS LLOYD which was quite distinct from the other LEIGH lines.
In addition, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">other lines appeared <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">contained the descendants of particular <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">individuals</span>, and i</span></span></span>nformation about these families is given<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"> in the second group. Starting i</span>n the 4th generation BRIDGETT LEIGH'<span lang="en-us">s</span> line is taken for the two
generations of her known descendants<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">T</span>hen we return to pick up the line
of her brother RICHARD LEIGH<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">.</span> After RICHARD we return to the
4th generation to pick up the line of her brother OAKLEY LEIGH. This line continued to the 8th generation. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">Finall<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">y,</span></span> we
return to the 5th generation for the line of grandson OAKLEY LEIGH, which ends the Chart in the 8th generation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Parents of
all illegitimate LEIGH children are treated genealogically as spouses.
Various other Leighs (from the large Cheshire<b> </b>family and "strays" from
the border counties) have appeared at times in Wales, but we include only those
we could trace to our family. Capital letters are used for the surnames of known LEIGH<span lang="en-us">s</span> and their
spouses and also for the first or Christian name of every LEIGH and<b> </b>spouse
who had issue, i.e. known LEIGH ancestors. If a LEIGH died young
and childless or had no known descendants, we give all our data with
his/her listing as a child in the parents' generation, but if descendants
were found we link to the descendants in the next
generation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">Descendancy</span> Chart shows our LEIGH<span lang="en-us">s</span> from <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">the most distant or earliest ancestor</span> down to the grandchildren of </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/xxxxx.html#74edmund" target="_blank">Reverend Edmund Leigh</a></span></span> (1736-1819). For later LEIGH<span lang="en-us">s</span>, go to our <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">blog</span> for
<a href="http://welshleigh.blogspot.com/">modern families</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">e Des<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">cendancy</span></span> Chart is documented to the best of our current knowledge,
and we hope for corrections and additions! By using small and large
fonts, we want to satisfy the kind of genealogists who demand <i>proof,
proof, proof </i>as well as those who enjoy <i>names<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">,</span> names, names</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Hot links to the spouse<span lang="en-us">s' lines and ancestors <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">are given</span>, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">specifically</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">, to the</span></span>
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-gen-nash-ancestry.html"><span lang="en-us">Elizabeth </span>NASH</a>,
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html"><span lang="en-us">Dorothy O</span>AKLEY</a>, and <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/prichard-ac-1.html#1margaretta"> Margaretta PRICHARD</a> lines, and to
the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/this-section-servesas-supplement-to.html"> BIOGRAPHIES</a> of selected figures whose known lives outgrew the slots of a pedigree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Suggestion for Using the <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";">Descendancy</span> Chart</span></span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">If
you prefer to navigate the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">Descendancy</span> Chart from later generations
to earlier generations, we suggest the following:</span></span></span></span>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Go to the
<a href="http://welshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/family-tree.html">Family Tree</a>
page of our "modern" site (that site covers the period from
approximately 1850 to the present). That page provides links into
this site.</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Find your ancestor on that page
and click on the link to bring up the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">page</span> for that person.
When the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">page</span> comes up, click on the <i>Connection</i> link to go to that
person's page in this <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">blog</span>. Th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is</span> page is the last generation of your direct ancestry that is
covered by this <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">blog</span>.</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Follow the Father/Mother links to
trace your direct line back to the earliest known L<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">EIGH</span>.</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span lang="en-us" style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">If your direct ancestor is not
listed on the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Family Tree</span></span></span>
page, contact Allen Leigh with the genealogical information he will
need to add your ancestor to that page.</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
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Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-47270401306868907022017-03-17T22:45:00.000-06:002017-04-23T12:13:48.417-06:00Nash Ancestry<table align="center" bgcolor="#ff2200" border="0" cellpadding="4" style="width: 726px;">
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-gen-nash-ancestry.html">1st Gen Nash Ancestry </a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/2nd-gen-nash-ancestry.html">2nd Gen Nash Ancestry </a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-gen-nash-ancestors.html">3rd Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-nash-ancestry.html">4th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/5th-gen-nash-ancestry.html">5th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/6th-generation-nash-ancestry.html">6th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/64.html">7th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/8th-generation-nash-ancestry.html">8th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/9th-generation-nash-ancestry.html">9th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/768.html">10th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1536.html">11th Gen Nash Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/nash-bibliography.html">Bibliography</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times"; font-size: normal;">Ancestry Chart of Elizabeth Nash<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"> </span>(abt 1565-?aft 1608)</span></b></i></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-size: largest;"><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i>Introduction</i></span></span></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">The surname "Nash" probably originated as a place name from a grove of ash trees as in "Robert atten Ash" and the Latin "Robertus de
Fraxino," since <i>fraxinus</i> was the Latin name for the ash
tree. The name likely arose independently in different areas of
England and Wales, so various families of the same name may not be
related. Among the earliest known Nash families were those in
North Wales who went to Ireland in 1172 with the conqueror of
Ireland, Richard de Clare, known as "Strongbow" (Davies 126).</span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span 1285="" 1317="" 1323="" according="" adam="" and="" but="" de="" derek="" fraxino="" haverfordwest="" in="" lang="en-us" nasse="" ohn="" our="" span="" style="font-size: normal;" to="" williams=""><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span 1285="" 1317="" 1323="" according="" adam="" and="" but="" de="" derek="" fraxino="" haverfordwest="" in="" lang="en-us" nasse="" ohn="" our="" span="" style="font-size: normal;" to="" williams=""><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;">Our NASHE<span lang="en-us">s</span> appeared first in southern Pembrokeshire<span lang="en-us">
(Wales)</span> in the more
fertile half of the county which had been heavily settled by the
Anglo-Normans and is still largely English in language. The Picton
Castle papers refer to "Adam de fraxino" in Haverfordwest in 1285
and "John de Nasse" in 1317 and 1323, according to Derek Williams,
but our </span>traced</span> ancestors appear later. They may have been
connected to a Nash family known in the 15th to 18th centuries in
Worcestershire<span lang="en-us">, England</span>, which had the same coat of arms. The Nash arms are
given as <i>"Sable, on a chevron three greyhounds courant Argent
as many Ash slips proper Vert,"</i> i.e. A black shield with a
silver chevron, three running greyhounds and three green ash
branches.</span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surprisingly, the arms are often
shown without the three ash branches (which refer to the Nash name
itself), as here in this drawing made as a souvenir coaster sold
in Wales</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>
<span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b>NASH Pedigree</b></i></span></b></i></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
<span style="font-size: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;">Socially,
the NASH<span lang="en-us">es</span> were a comfortable and important gentr<span lang="en-us">y</span> family with its pride of ancestry and its coat of arms, and they married into similar
families. Thus they joined old Welsh families with pedigrees back to
both historical and legendary Welsh chieftains and princes, such as the
BOWEN line of ELIZABETH NASH’<span lang="en-us">s</span> mother ELIZABETH BOWEN. Moreover, the
NASH family also figured among the English who made the southern half of Pembrokeshire a "<i>Little England beyond Wales</i>" as Edward Laws
called it in a later century. Among their relatives of English origin
who had moved to Wales, the line of EVA SCOURFIELD (ELIZABETH NASH’<span lang="en-us">s</span>
great-grandmother) was notable for its falsely claimed Norman ancestors
relating the family to all the crowned heads of Europe, including
Charlemagne (Derek Williams 17-24). Otherwise, however, the SCOURFIELD<span lang="en-us">s</span>
were a rich and important family well documented in Pembrokeshire by
1439 and continuing to hold landed estates for four hundred years into
the 19th century.<span lang="en-us"> </span>The parish church of St Mary’s in
Haverfordwest shows several marble plaques on its walls memorializing members of
the BOWEN and SCOURFIELD families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
<span font-size:="" normal="" style="color: #0e6c09;">BOWEN Pedigree</span></span></i></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span style="font-size: normal;">
Derek Williams used the genealogical information from RICHARD NASH’s
court case against
his brother-in-law and his wife ELIZABETH BOWEN to relate the Bowens in
Haverfordwest to their ancestors in the main line of Bowens of the ancient Welsh
estate </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">of <i>Llwch meilir</i>,
anglicized to Lochmeyler, a few miles from St David’s cathedral on the
spectacular Pembrokeshire coastline. The Welsh word means <i>"the pool of Meyler,"</i>
and the former BOWEN estate is now<span lang="en-us"> </span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;">
a four-star farmhouse accommodation with 32 beds, according
to the St David's Peninsula Tourist Bureau. See the website </span>
<a href="http://www.lochmeyler.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: normal;">www.lochmeyler.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-size: normal;">
for the Lochmeyler Farm Guest House. Six generations back from ELIZABETH, her
great-great-great-grandfather HENRY BOWEN (b.est.1430), a younger son in
Lochmeyler, moved to Haverfordwest in east Pembrokeshire, and his descendants
usually lived by commerce, not large estates. In this economic respect they
paralleled our families of the LEIGH<span lang="en-us">s</span> and OAKLEY<span lang="en-us">s</span> in Carmarthenshire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><i>
<span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b><i><b><i><b><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Organization of the Chart</span></span></b></i></b></i></b></i></span></i></b></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">
The following pedigree is usually called an
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ahnentafel<span lang="en-us"> </span></span>
</i>or ancestry list because it creates a numerical list of ancestors
to reveal parental relations by simple arithmetic. In pre-computer
days this was a great advantage over the figural or pictorial
trees and pedigrees that required special type-setting. The
ancestry table is still very convenient for uneven pedigrees with
large gaps in some lines, because it merely leaves out unused
numbers instead of leaving large patches of white unused space for
lacking information. Also, the number system allows easy additions
or corrections. The person who is the subject of the pedigree is given number 1 and his or her parents are given numbers 2 and 3, the father
always first and the mother always with his number plus 1. The
father's father is then given the number 4 (=2 X 2) and the
father's mother is given the number 4 + 1 = 5. The same
occurs with the subject's mother's parents: her father is
given the number 6 (=2 X her number 3), and her mother is
given the number 6 + 1 = 7. The great-grandparents are then
treated the same, the father's grandfather first (8), then his
grandmother (8 + 1 = 9), and the mother's grandfather (10) and her
grandmother (10 + 1 = 11). The list is unlimited, and moving
through the numbers is simple. For example, the subject's
2X-great-grandfather is numbered 16, so one can find his father
easily as number 32, and his mother as number 33 (= 32 + 1). For
foolproof orientation, our generations below are also numbered and
labeled, but note that they are numbered back from ELIZABETH
NASH, not from our own present time. We have used capital letters
for the last names of any family member, and also capital letters
for the first names of the persons whose ancestral line is given
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-;">Paternal Ancest<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ry of ?Margaretta Prichard</span> (est 1650 –?1728)</span></b></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Overview</span></span></i></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">The extensive and diverse family line of ?MARGARETTA PRICHARD is our longest and in parts our
richest line, though in other parts it is totally blank. We give only the
paternal line because ?MARGARETTA’<span lang="en-us">s</span> mother’s name does not appear in any known
pedigree, so we have no data at all on her maternal ancestry. For these reasons,
it is so far a work in progress, and we hope for help from other family
genealogists and historians.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">In fact, we are
not even certain of the first name of our ancestor given here as ?Margaretta
Prichard. In the pedigrees she is clearly identified as the <i>"ferch"</i> i.e.
daughter, of <span lang="en-us">JOHN PRICHARD</span> and as the wife of
<span lang="en-us">OAKLEY LEIGH</span>, but no Christian
name appears for her. Neither her will nor that of her husband is now known, and
her children’s wills are either unknown or do not mention their mother.<span lang="en-us"> </span>To avoid
the awkward use of NN, we selected the name of an otherwise unidentified
Margaretta Leigh who was buried at St Peter’s church in Carmarthen on 7 May
1728, which is within the possible time frame of OAKLEY LEIGH’<span lang="en-us">s</span> widow. This
first name <i>Margaretta</i> appeared often in the parish records of Abergwili,
where the PRICHARD family lived earlier, but the marriage was not recorded
there. It probably took place in Carmarthen, but the Carmarthen church records
are extant only from 1671 when she was already a child-bearing adult. Thus, the
question mark indicates the speculative nature of her Christian name, but not
her family status nor her place in our LEIGH pedigree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We chose to present ?MARGARETTA'<span lang="en-us">s</span> complex ancestry in two
separate forms<span lang="en-us"> or sections</span>: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a historical narrative to cover its richness in Welsh and English history, and </span></span>an ancestry chart or <i>ahnentafel</i> to cover its detail. These
formats cover much of the same information, but the ancestry chart begins with ?MARGARETTA
and goes back in time to our earliest ancestors, whereas the narrative begins
with our earliest ancestors and follows the history of Wales up to the time of ?MARGARETTA.
To create a link between the two forms, in the <i>HISTORICAL NARRATIVE</i> we identified major figures by their numbers from the
<i>ANCESTRY CHART</i>, with Roman numeral I
preceding numbers from the Primary Chart and Roman numeral II preceding numbers
from the Branch Chart.<span lang="en-us"> </span> We also referred figures in the ANCESTRY CHART to their
historical time in the various sections of the <i>HISTORICAL NARRATIVE</i> from the
<i>Welsh Princes 1,2</i> to the <i>Gentry l,2,3,4</i>. There is also a difference in the
inclusiveness of each format. The <i>HISTORICAL NARRATIVE</i> gives all those
ancestors we consider reasonably well supported by pedigree and historical
documentation. In the <i>ANCESTRY CHART</i> we added other figures who are given in the
pedigrees but so far are not well enough supported to be considered certain or
even reliably likely ancestors, and for both sets of people we give the evidence
we found for their identity and family status. Our sources for both the
<i>HISTORICAL NARRATIVE</i> and the <i>ANCESTRY CHART</i> are listed in<span lang="en-us"> the
third section,</span> the<i> PRICHARD BIBLIOGRAPHY</i>.<span lang="en-us"> </span>
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-us">The
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<b><span style="color: green; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: green; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: green; font-family: "times new roman";">Historical Narrative</span></i></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></i></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Useful as an ancestry
chart is for numbers of ancestors, it does not handily give historical
information about them or place them in their contemporary context. Going <i>
back </i>in time, it shows an effect before its cause, and
response before stimulus of that response. Thus it cannot support description of
the historical process through time. As we were discovering pedigree lines to
most of the major figures of Welsh history, we felt the need to explain the
historical periods those figures lived and worked in. Additionally,
?MARGARETTA’<span lang="en-us">s</span> ancestry is known in many branches and periods, so we needed to
show each branch separately in a classic pedigree, and also give the
intermarriages and collateral lines that are important in placing the families
in their historical context. The richness coming from ?MARGARETTA’<span lang="en-us">s</span> single known
grandmother is especially gratifying since it brings the whole long pageant of
Welsh history, sometimes joyful, sometimes tragic, and always complex in the
fact that Wales remained a distinct geographical country whose inhabitants had
their own laws and customs and their own unique language, but it never became
unified as a politically independent kingdom or state accepted as such by most
of its inhabitants and so recognized by its neighboring states and international
law.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">Unlike the
<i>ANCESTRY CHART</i>, the
<i>NARRATIVE</i> begins at the earliest times and traces events and their
results in chronological order up to ?MARGARETTA’<span lang="en-us">s</span> life in the late 1600’s.<b><i>
</i></b>It first encompasses the period of the major Welsh princes, who reached
their peak of power then were diminished and defeated, roughly 825 to 1282
A.D. This section is titled <i>The Welsh Princes</i>.
Then we cover the era of the pre-eminent gentry and official class down to the
late 17th and early 18th centuries. This section is
titled <i>The Gentry</i>.
Again, to reduce download time especially for numerous illustrations, we split
the </span><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>NARRATIVE</i>
into numbered sections but with a seamless link to the next section.</span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: green; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></i></span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: green; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: green; font-family: "times new roman";">Ancestry Chart</span></i></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The long PRICHARD ancestry made a single chart unwieldy and clumsy, so</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: normal;">we divided all the known and many of the
tentative ancestors of ?MARGARETTA into two groups and thus divided her long,
complex ancestry chart into two parts with continuing numbers. They can be
easily reconstructed and seen as a single ancestry chart. The first part,
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Primary Chart</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, gives her immediate family in the short
PRICHARD line and then many ancestors of her only known grandmother, the unnamed
daughter of 10.JOHN ap REES and 11.ELIZABETH ferch THOMAS ap RHYS of Ravensdale.
Our second part was separated from the first because it formed a compact unit
itself, and especially because its figures included Welsh royalty. This second
part is titled the Vaughan & Lewis Branch Chart,
and it starts with two lines of royal descendants in gentry families (the lines
of 46.HUGH VAUGHAN and 95.JANE LEWIS) and goes back to the earliest princely
figures who were reliably documented. To reduce the download time, we split each
chart in half and numbered it as <span lang="en-us">"1" </span>or
<span lang="en-us">"2"</span>, but the link between the
sections is seamless.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><b>Pedigrees--<span lang="en-us">A</span>dvantage &
<span lang="en-us">D</span>isadvantage</b></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">?MARGARETTA’<span lang="en-us">s</span> ancestry was first compiled
from a succession of pedigrees progressing back through several branches of her
ancestry, and for almost all of her ancestry we do not have the church and
testamentary records we used to prove the pedigrees of the <i>descendants</i> of
OAKLEY LEIGH and</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"> MARGARETTA in the
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Descendancy</span> Chart</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Thus we did
not find independent evidence of the marriage of OAKLEY LEIGH to the daughter of
JOHN PRICHARD, nor of the marriage of JOHN’<span lang="en-us">s</span> father RICHARD to the daughter of
JOHN ap REES, so for these relations we had to rely upon the pedigrees of the
family. Therefore it is important to give our general principles governing the
use of pedigrees, especially since pedigrees may carry a bad reputation as they
can easily be falsified.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The pedigree of
?MARGARETTA’<span lang="en-us">s immediate</span> family was recorded in 1685 by David Edwardes (ca.1630-1690),
Deputy Herald for South Wales, who is generally considered reliable in his
records of his contemporaries. He recorded the LEIGH pedigree in the following
year, and gave a cross-reference to OAKLEY’<span lang="en-us">s</span> wife’s pedigree. Edwardes’ father
was mayor of Carmarthen at about the same time as OAKLEY’<span lang="en-us">s</span> relatives were active
in borough government, and he would have known them well. Edwardes’ pedigree
manuscripts are divided into county books, and ours are in the Carmarthenshire
book (pp.10, 98, 148, 165). These books are now at Oxford University titled
<i>Bodleian Additional Manuscripts</i>, C177,178,179 and are available on Film
no.230630. They were transcribed into the <i>Golden Grove Books</i> in about the
mid-18th century, which were also later filmed. Edwardes was familiar with the
pedigrees of many branches of ?MARGARETTA’<span lang="en-us">s</span> long ancestry lines, which had been
recorded by Gruffudd Hiraethog (d.1564) who was the first Deputy Herald for
Wales appointed by the English kings of arms. Many of his extensive pedigrees
are in the Peniarth Collection at the National Library of Wales, and they are
particularly useful for study as he quoted his sources. He is also considered to
be reliable, and his copying of older material appears to be accurate (Bartrum,
"Notes on the Welsh Genealogical Manuscripts," pp.<span lang="en-us">
</span>63-98).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">The earliest surviving
genealogical manuscripts were originally written in the ninth and tenth
centuries, and contain the pedigrees of the rulers of various Welsh dynasties
and of important families, but where the original manuscripts have not survived
we have only later copies (Siddons, "Printed and Manuscript Pedigrees," p.215).
We are fortunate to have access to these valuable old pedigrees. The kinship
group was very important in Welsh law for the inheritance of land, settlement of
disputes, and payment of compensation, and the Welsh were described by the 12th
century as being able to recite from memory the names of their ancestors back to
the 6th or 7th generation. Even after English law was introduced and knowledge
of one’s pedigree was no longer legally necessary, the Welsh still attached
great importance to ties of kinship – and they continue to do so to this day, as
demonstrated by the fact that you are reading this! From the 14th century on,
the Welsh bards extolled their patrons’ ancestry, in some cases giving their
male-line ancestors for many generations, and they were succeeded by
gentlemen-antiquarians such as David Edwardes (Siddons, "Printed and Manuscript
Pedigrees," pp.209, 216).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">For these old documents
we used the extensive compilations published by Peter C. Bartrum. Over a period
of 40 years Dr Bartrum examined all existing pedigree manuscripts written up to
1580, as well as a large selection of later sources, then compared, analyzed,
and date-tested them, adding historical and biographical evidence when possible.
He published the most probable versions of these pedigrees with indexes in 26
volumes as <i>Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400</i> in 1974 and <i>Welsh Genealogies
AD 1400-1500</i> in 1983. To keep the project within practical bounds he limited
the period covered to the generation born about 1500. Bartrum retained the
custom of grouping family pedigrees under a single historic figure, like a <i>
patriarch</i> of a tribe, and titling the long pedigree by the patriarch’s name
even if the line had large gaps. Thus, for example, we cite the pedigree of JOHN
ap REES by the name of its patriarch Elystan Glodrydd (a ruler of part of Wales
in the 10th century) with Bartrum’s pedigree number (e.g. Elystan Glodrydd
52(D).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">Bartrum found that the
early genealogies are remarkably reliable when allowance is made for accidental
mistakes due to carelessness or ignorance, but complete historical accuracy is
not claimed. Where possible he gives cross-references for all marriages, and he
concluded that <i>"nearly all marriages recorded up to the end of the 16th
century are bona fide</i> [given in good faith] <i>if not always correct."</i>
For these reasons, Dr Michael Siddons, the present Wales Herald Extraordinary,
advises that <i>"it is wise to take pedigree evidence as a signpost to be
followed rather than as proof of a particular descent, and wherever possible to
check the accuracy of the pedigree against independent evidence at every step"</i>
("Manuscript Pedigrees," p.224). He also quotes the advice of J. Gwenogvryn
Evans, that when a pedigree reaches back beyond the third generation before the
one in which it was drawn up, it should not be trusted unless supported by
independent evidence. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">The LEIGH pedigree and
those giving the descent of ?MARGARETTA from WILLIAM PRICHARD and JOHN ap REES
pass our reliability test because they fall within the three-generations limit
from the time when they were recorded by David Edwardes, and because
<span style="color: black;">Edwardes had both professional and personal knowledge of
the LEIGH and PRICHARD families. He was also familiar with the JOHN ap REES
pedigree because he himself descended from a line which branched off from JOHN’<span lang="en-us">s</span>
line in about 1400, so he was a distant cousin of OAKLEY LEIGH’<span lang="en-us">s</span> wife.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">With all pedigrees of any length but especially those longer than the three-generation PRICHARD and LEIGH lines down to the time of David Edwardes, we
rely upon historical confirmation by independent evidence. Earlier than the
periods when parish records are extant, we rely largely on deeds and on state
records of occupation, location, court decisions etc to provide supporting
evidence of the existence of ancestors named in the pedigrees. These and other
kinds of historical evidence such as that provided by the bards have been
studied and published by historians and genealogists, whose work we used. JOHN
ap REES’<span lang="en-us">s</span> long pedigree goes back in the male line to GRONO GOCH, who in the
late 13th century was Constable of Dryslwyn Castle. Fortunately, many of his
line held office in Carmarthenshire under the Crown or appeared in deeds and so
were found in State records, and these have been analyzed and published by the
historian Ralph A. Griffiths in two authoritative books, <i>The Principality of
Wales in</i> <i>the Later Middle Ages</i> in 1972 and <i>Sir Rhys ap Thomas and
His Family</i> in 1993. JOHN’S wife ELIZABETH also lived near Carmarthen, and
the pedigree by Gruffudd Hiraethog of her father THOMAS traces the ownership of
his estate back to his great grandfather, who inherited it in turn through two
female lines from the earliest known owner in the 14th century. A much longer
line is that of ELIZABETH’S maternal grandmother JANE BOWEN, which is recorded
in State records given in Griffiths’ books. Indeed, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, whose
family forms the subject of one of the books, was a <span lang="en-us">first</span> cousin of JANE’<span lang="en-us">s</span>
father.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">These ancestors all
lived in Carmarthenshire, but two of JANE BOWEN’<span lang="en-us">s</span> relations, her husband HUGH
VAUGHAN and her mother JANE LEWIS, came from other parts of the country. Both
have claims to descent from the Welsh princes, and those claims appear to be
justified. Most writers on HUGH’<span lang="en-us">s</span> family concentrated on his descendants at
Golden Grove near Carmarthen, who for 200 years were the premier family in the
county, but they ignored his claim to descent from EINION EFELL, illegitimate
son of MADOG ap MAREDUDD, the last of the Princes of Powys in north Wales in the
12th century. This claim was based on the pedigree recorded by Gruffudd
Hiraethog, who was a contemporary of HUGH VAUGHAN, so his immediate descent from
a gentry family in Powys can be trusted. We found little documentary evidence
for the earlier generations, but Welsh Herald Francis Jones concluded that the
line had no inherent problems ("The Vaughans of Golden Grove," p.98), and
Jones’s successor Dr Siddons agrees that it is reasonable to accept this
pedigree (Private communication, 23 March 2005).</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The ancestry of HUGH’<span lang="en-us">s</span> mother-in-law JANE LEWIS in Monmouthshire is generally well documented. Her father THOMAS was killed at the
battle of Banbury in 1469 (Evans p.108). His descent within three generations
from the lords of Tredegar was recorded around 1590, and though we have no
documentary evidence for part of this line, Dr Siddons considers it likely
(private comm. 23 March 2005). THOMAS LEWIS’<span lang="en-us">s</span> wife ELIZABETH was descended
through a cadet line with fuller documentation of her father’s connection. These
families are described in Volume 4 of J.A. Bradney’s <i>History of Monmouthshire</i>,
which was drawn from the traditional pedigrees brought up to date, and from much
record research. Documents of 1333-1411 provide very strong circumstantial
evidence of descent of the lords of Tredegar from the LORD RHYS of Dinefwr
(c.1132-1197) in the maternal lines of the Welsh lords of Caerleon. RHYS was
descended from the early kings HYWEL DDA and RHODRI MAWR, and his wife GWENLLIAN
was the daughter of MADOG ap MAREDUDD, prince of Powys, who was also claimed as
an ancestor by HUGH VAUGHAN.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;">The whole work on ?MARGARETTA PRICHARD’<span lang="en-us">s</span> ancestry was a truly joint project of three LEIGH descendants: Norma Leigh Rudinsky, Derek Williams, and webmaster
Allen Leigh. Derek’s expertise was invaluable in dealing with Welsh pedigrees,
geography, and history, based on his 20 year study of his and his late wife’s
Welsh descent. His own account of the ancestry of the Rev. Edmund Leigh with its
earlier branches has been deposited in Carmarthenshire Archive Service, Parc
Myrddin, Richmond Terrace, Carmarthen, SA31 1DS, as item CDX/661.<span lang="en-us"> </span>He also
prepared the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/blog-post.html">Map</a>, and the section on
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/pronunciation-and-patronymics.html"><b style="font-weight: 400;">Welsh Names</b></a> for readers unfamiliar with the Welsh
language and its patronymic naming system (he didn't<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">, of course, design the Welsh flag)</span>. Norma did part of the research since
1993, compiled many of the pedigrees into a computer program,<i> </i>and with
Derek as co-author composed the text. Allen turned our routine typed documents
into interesting and flexible web pages and made possible their online
presentation.<span style="font-size: normal;"><nobr> </nobr></span></span></div>
Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-80775964043992163052017-03-17T22:15:00.000-06:002017-04-23T12:08:23.244-06:00Oakley Ancestry<br /><br /><table align="center" bgcolor="#ff2200" border="0" cellpadding="4" style="width: 720px;">
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-following-files-have-been-used-by.html">Research Files</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610_74.html">Ingram Family</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/sheldon-family-history.html">Sheldon Family</a></td>
<td><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/oakley-bibliograhy.html">Bibliography</a></td>
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<b>Ancestry of Dorothy Oakley (est 1610 - ?)</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Overview</i></span></b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span 1980s="" 1990s="" all="" ancestral="" and="" begun="" by="" carmarthen="" centuries.="" connections="" culture="" derek="" descendants="" dorothy="" early="" english="" families="" forces.="" gene="" hetherington="" history="" in="" interesting="" joined="" lang="en-us" leigh="" lines="" live="" met="" native="" near="" oakley="" of="" on="" origin="" over="" region="" research="" richard="" separately="" several="" showed="" span="" studied="" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;" that="" the="" then="" these="" they="" three="" through="" to="" two="" us="" very="" was="" we="" who="" wife="" williams=""><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">DOROTHY OAKLEY, the wife of RICHARD LEIGH of
Carmarthen, was of English origin through all the ancestral lines that we
studied, and they showed very interesting connections to English history and
culture over several centuries. Research on these families was begun separately
in the 1980s by three LEIGH descendants, who then met in the early 1990s and
joined forces. Two of us, Gene Hetherington and Derek Williams, live near the
native region of DOROTHY’<span lang="en-us">s</span> ancestor</span>s</span> ancestors in the West Midlands of England, and have
easy access to its record offices and libraries. The third, Von Leigh (actually
the wife of a LEIGH descendant), lives conveniently near Carmarthen in Wales.
The combined results of our work are given here.<span lang="en-us"> We would
also like to acknowledge the assistance given by Mr L. F. Thompson and by Mr Guy
Ward.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">For convenience, the results of the
research are presented in three parts. The first part describes DOROTHY OAKLEY<span lang="en-us">'s
</span>ancestors, her mother’s SEVERNE family, and the WHITE family of her paternal
grandmother. The second part describes the INGRAM ancestors of her paternal
great grandmother. The third part describes the SHELDON and HEATH ancestors of
her maternal grandmother. In the text, the names of these ancestors are shown in
capital letters. We also found much interesting material on collateral branches
of these families, and they are distinguished from our direct blood line by
using capital letters for their surnames only.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We were fortunate to find documentary evidence of
the families in parish records, in wills and property deeds, and in pedigrees of
the families that had been recorded by the heralds. Called “Visitations”<span lang="en-us">,</span> these
heralds’ records are now kept at the appropriate county Record Office, and the
pedigree of each family is indexed by surname. Diocesan records such as parish
records and wills are now usually located with the county records at the Record
Office in the corresponding county town, which for most of the examples quoted
here are Worcester, Oxford, Gloucester, and Carmarthen. Exceptionally, the
Warwickshire parishes to which reference will be made were formerly in the
diocese of Worcester, and their records are now found at Worcester Record
Office. Most Warwickshire county records, such as pedigrees and deeds, are at
Warwick Record Office, but some have been deposited at the Record Office in
Stratford, and others at Birmingham Central Library. Many of the gentry wills
were probated in London at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) instead of
the diocesan court, and are located at the Public Record Office (PRO), now known
as the <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/" target="_blank">National Archives</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium;">.
Further information about some of the families was obtained from published
histories of the counties in which they lived.<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></span>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/richard-nash-abt-1530-aft-1597-son-of.html">Richard Nash</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/lucy-walker-biography.html">Lucy Walter</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html">Bridgett Leigh</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/stelphen-hughes-biography.html">Stephen Hughes</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/oakley-leigh-biography.html">Oakley Leigh</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/rev-edmund-leigh-biographt.html">Rev. Edmund Leigh</a></td>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This section serves
as a supplement to the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html" target="_blank">Leigh Descendancy Chart</a>. It fleshes out, develops,
and expands several of the chart's slight figures revealed only by dates,
locations, marital status, a few comments, and source notes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Many LEIGH people from our past have to remain such blank figures because we can find no more information on them. But with several ancestors and
relatives, we are very fortunate in learning of their personalities, their
characters, and sometimes their place in history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In some of these biographies I have also speculated on people's lives
about which we cannot find exact information. Such speculation is not for
readers who want only facts and don't enjoy unsolved puzzles and
unanswerable questions. But for those of us who do enjoy speculation,
genealogy provides lots of "maybes" and "what
ifs." As for myself, I don't find life clear cut and explainable
now, and believe the past was the same for our ancestors. So some of the
following biographies raise questions and leave them unsolved.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Three of the biographies are related to the notorious legendary curse upon
the Lloyd family of Maesyfelin. They are biographies of <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html">Bridgett Leigh</a>, <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/stelphen-hughes-biography.html">Stephen Hughes</a>,
and <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/oakley-leigh-biography.html">Oakley Leigh</a>. They should be read together in that order<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-new.html">What's New</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-overview.html">DNA Overview</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/nash-ancestry.html">Nash Ancestry</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html">Oakley Ancestry</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/pronunciation-and-patronymics.html">Welsh Names</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-following-files-have-been-used-by.html">Research Files</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-overview.html">DNA Overview</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html">Oakley Ancestry</a></td>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "times new roman" , "times"; font-size: large;"><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><b><i><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Pronunciation</span></span></i></b></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></span><br />The Welsh language derives from the language of the Celts who
came to Britain during the first millennium BC. That Celt language survived the
Roman occupation, adding words such as <i>ffenestr</i> (<i>window</i>),
from the Latin <i>fenestra</i>, and by the middle of the sixth century AD it had
evolved into Old Welsh. Thus it is one of the most ancient living languages in
Europe, and is still spoken by a significant proportion of Welsh people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">Although Welsh words with their proliferation of <i><b>w</b></i>
and <i><b>y</b></i> may seem strange to the non-Welsh speaker, pronunciation is
not difficult. Apart from <i><b>ch </b></i>and <i><b>ll</b></i>, all the sounds
are found in English, and Welsh pronunciation follows simple, definite rules, in
contrast to English. Welsh spelling is much more phonetic than either English or
French, i.e. there is a closer correspondence between symbol and sound; and
every letter is pronounced. Each consonant has one sound only. Vowel sounds vary
in length, some short, some long, but are subject to definite rules. Vowel
sounds are <i>pure</i>, similar to those in German or Italian, and do not glide
into other vowel sounds as happens in English speech. For example, <i>pane </i>
in English is pronounced as if it were <i>pain</i>, but in Welsh the sound is
clipped to avoid the <i><b>ee</b></i> sound at the end of the vowel; though in
Welsh the sound is represented by the letter <b>e </b>as in <b>Hen</b> (which
sounds quite different from the English <i>hen</i>)<i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />The accent or stress in Welsh words and personal names falls
regularly on the last syllable but one, as in <b>An<u>ar</u>awd</b>. In place
names the stress sometimes falls on the last syllable, and where this occurs a
hyphen is usually inserted, as in <b>Rhyd-y-<u>gors </u></b>(ford of the marsh:
here the penultimate syllable <b>y </b>means <i>the</i>, and would not be
accented). In the examples of pronunciation shown below, the accented syllable
is also underlined to provide an additional indication of pronunciation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: normal;">Welsh has no <i>k, q</i>,<i> v</i>,<i> x </i>or<i> z</i>, and<i> j </i>occurs
only in borrowed words<i>.</i> The sound <i>k</i> is represented by c, <i>
v </i>by f, <i>x</i> by cs, and the <i>q </i>and<i> z</i> sounds
do not occur.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">always the <i>k </i>sound as in English <i>can</i>, never
the <i>s </i>sound as in <i>city.</i></span></span></td>
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<td width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ch</b> </span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">as in Scottish <i>loch</i> and German <i>
Bach</i>, never as in English <i>church.</i></span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>Rhydd</u>er<i>ch</i></span></b></span></td>
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<td width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>dd</b> </span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">always the <i>th </i>sound as in English
<i>the</i>, never as in English <i>theme</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>Gruff</u>u<i>dd</i></span></b></span></td>
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<td width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>f</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">always the <i>v </i>sound as in English
<i>of </i>and <i>van</i>, never as in <i>off</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u><i>F</i>ych</u>an</span></b></span></td>
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<td width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ff</b> </span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">always the <i>f </i>sound as in English
<i>off</i>, never the <i>v </i>sound.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" font-size: normal;"><u>Gru<i>ff</i></u>udd</span></b></span></td>
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<td width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>g</b> </span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">always hard as in English <i>get</i>,
never soft as in <i>gentle</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u><i>G</i>eth</u>in</span></b></span></td>
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<td valign="top" width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ng</b> </span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">as in English <i>sing</i>, never as in
<i>danger,<br />
</i>but<b> </b>in place names<b> n </b>and<b>
g </b>can be separate sounds.</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>A<i>ng</i></u>harad<br />
Lla<i>n<u>g</u></i><u>oll</u>en</span></b></span></td>
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<td valign="top" width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ll</b> </span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">A letter not found in other European languages. Pronounced<br />
by putting the<span lang="en-us"> </span>tongue in the position for <i>l
</i>and blowing/hissing.</span></span></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b><i>Ll</i>y<u>wel</u>yn</b></span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">trilled in Welsh as in a Scottish accent
and in Spanish and Italian.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><u><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">fe<i>r</i>ch</span></b></u></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">aspirated, as in English <i>perhaps</i>,
but with trilled <i>r</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><u><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><i>Rh</i>ys</span></b></u></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">always as in English <i>sit</i>, never
as in <i>nose</i>.</span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">always as in English <i>theme</i>, never
as in <i>the</i>.</span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">at the beginning of a syllable, like
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"> like short English <i>oo </i>sound
as in <i>water </i></span></span></td>
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<td valign="top" width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>a</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short as in English <i>cat</i> (never as
in <i>cape</i>),<br />
or long as in English <i>bar.</i></span></span></td>
<td valign="top" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><i>A</i>n<u><i>a</i>r</u><i>a</i>wd<br />
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<td valign="top" width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>e</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short as in English <i>hen</i>,<br />
or
long as in English <i>pane</i> (see above).</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>T<i>e</i>w</u>dwr<br />
<u><i>E</i></u>fell</span></b></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short as in English <i>pit </i>(never as
in <i>like</i>),</span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">or long as in English <i>meet</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>Gwen<u>ll<i>i</i></u>an</b></span></span></td>
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<td valign="top" width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>o</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short as in English <i>not</i> (never as
in <i>book</i>),<br />
or long as in English <i>robe</i> (never
as in <i>groove</i>).</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>Rh<i>o</i>d</u>ri<br />
</span></b><u><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">G<i>o</i>ch</span></b></u></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short, rather like the English <i>i </i>
sound in <i>pit </i>(never as in <i>hut</i>),</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>Gr<i>u</i>ff</u><i>u</i>dd</span></b></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">or long like a French <i>u </i>or as in
English <i>meet</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">De<u>he<i>u</i></u>barth</span></b></span></td>
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<td valign="top" width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>w</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short as in English <i>book</i>,<br />
or long as in English <i>groove</i>.</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u><b>D<i>w</i>nn<br />
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<td valign="top" width="20"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>y</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">represents two distinct vowel
sounds, ‘obscure’ and ‘clear’:<br />
‘obscure’, rather like the <i>e </i>in
<i>hover</i> or the <i>u</i> in <i>hut;</i><br />
‘clear’, either short like the English
<i>i</i> sound in <i>pit</i>,<br />
or long as in English <i>meet </i>(never
as in <i>my</i>).</span></span></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b><u>H<i>y</i>w</u>el</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">Lly<u>wel</u><i>y</i>n</span></b><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">Rh<i>y</i>s</span></b></u></span></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">A vowel is long at the end of a word and before certain letters
such as <i>s</i>, <i>w</i>, <i>ch</i>, <i>d</i> and <i>f</i> except in clusters
of consonants.</span></span></div>
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<td width="23"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>y<span lang="en-us"> </span></b></span></span></td>
<td width="407"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b> </b>is obscure in the first
syllable, and clear in a later syllable.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>Ll<i>y</i>wel<i>y</i>n</b></span></span></td>
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</span>When two vowels occur together in a word they should be
pronounced separately and quickly, and the first vowel is the main one:</div>
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<td valign="top"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ae</b>, <b>ai</b>, <b>au</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"> like the English <i>bike</i>.<br />
<b>aw </b>short <b>a</b> and short <b>w</b>.</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">Tra<u>h<i>ae</i></u>arn<br />
</span><u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">F<i>aw</i>r</span></u></b></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ei</b>, <b>eu</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">like the English <i>eye</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u><i>Ei</i>n</u>ion</span></b></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ew</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short <b>e</b> and short <b>w</b>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>T<i>ew</i></u>dwr</span></b></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>iw</b>, <b>uw</b>, <b>yw </b></span>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">like the English <i>dew</i>, but
emphasis on the first letter.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>Rh<i>iw</i><u>all</u>on</b> </span>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>oe</b>, <b>oi</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">like the English <i>oil</i>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>F<i>oe</i></u>thus</span></b></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>ow</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">long <b>o</b> and short <b>w</b>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u><i>Ow</i></u>ain</span></b></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>yw</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">obscure <b>y</b> and short <b>w</b>.</span></span></td>
<td width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><u>H<i>yw</i></u>el</span></b></span></td>
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<td valign="top"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>wy</b></span></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">short <b>w</b> and clear-short <b>y</b>,<br />
except where <b>y</b> is long (see rules
above).</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" width="80"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><u><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">G<i>wy</i>n<br />
</span></b></u><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">Go<u>ron</u><i>wy</i></span></b></span></td>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><i><b><b><i><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">WELSH PATRONYMICS</span></span></i></b></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></b></i></span></span><br />The development of surnames in Wales reflects the history of a small country with its own social structure in which the kinship group was
very important. Individuals were identified by the name of their father. The
Welsh for <i>son</i> is <i>mab</i>, often written in old Welsh as <i>map</i>,
cognate with the Irish <i>mac</i>, and a process of mutation and elision
produced <i>ab</i> (usually before vowels) and <i>ap</i> (before
consonants). Thus Madog the son of Rhys would be known as Madog ap Rhys.
Women were also known by their father’s name, taking the form Gwenllian ferch
(daughter of) Rhys, and they would not take up their husband’s patronymic
on marriage. Such was the acceptance of this system that it lasted in many parts
of Wales until the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries, and other
European regions such as Scandinavia also had long-lasting patronymic systems.</span></div>
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In this respect the situation was very different from that in England, where fixed surnames were adopted between the 12<sup>th</sup> and the
14<sup>th</sup> centuries, largely in response to the needs of growing towns and
bureaucracy. Wales had few towns, and the Welsh were initially excluded from
them when they were founded by the Normans. Some English surnames were derived
from a personal name (<i>Roberts, Johnson</i>), but in much smaller proportion
than in Wales. Other surnames were derived from a location, as with <i>Leigh,
Nash, Scourfield</i> and <i>Oakley</i> in our ancestry, from occupation or
status (<i>Smith, Taylor</i>), and from nicknames or descriptions (<i>Hardy</i>,
<i>Merriman</i>).</div>
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Fixed surnames were generally adopted by the Welsh gentry in the
16<sup>th</sup> century and by yeomen in the 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup>
centuries, but the change was first introduced by families in close geographical
and social contact with England. Thus THOMAS ap LEWIS of St Pierre who was
killed at Banbury in 1469 was also known as THOMAS LEWIS, and his son was the
first to adopt <b><i>Lewis</i> </b>as a fixed surname.</div>
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Before this change to fixed surnames, naming patterns had
altered. Some old Welsh names, such as <i><b>Anarawd, Cadell</b></i> and <i><b>
Cynfyn</b></i>, had fallen out of use, and others were anglicized. Thus <i><b>
Gwilym</b></i> changed to <i>William</i>, <i><b>Dafydd</b></i> to <i>David</i>,
<i><b>Gruffudd</b></i> to <i>Griffith</i>, <i><b>Rhys</b></i> to <i>Rees</i>, <i>
<b>Ieuan</b></i> (which derived from Latin <i>Johannes</i>) became <i>John</i>
or <i>Evan</i>, <i><b>Maredudd</b></i> changed to <i>Meredith</i>, and <i><b>
Trahaearn</b></i> to <i>Treharne</i>, while other names were replaced by
approximations, <i><b>Llywelyn</b></i> being changed to <i>Lewis</i>, <i><b>
Iorwerth</b></i> to <i>Edward</i>, and, particularly in north Wales, <b><i>Hywel</i>
</b>being replaced by <i>Hugh.</i> A few Welsh names, such as <i><b>Morgan</b></i>,
continued unchanged. The end result was that by the 15<sup>th</sup> century the
range of names in use was affected by the great popularity of a limited number
of names such as <i>John, William</i> and <i>Thomas</i>, which had also been
adopted in England by that time.</div>
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The <i><b>ap</b></i> system gradually decayed, so that someone
whose name was <i><b>David ap William</b></i> became <i><b>David William</b></i>,
though both forms continued in use together, sometimes by the same person.</div>
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In some cases, a vestige of <i><b>ap</b></i> and <i><b>ab</b></i>
remained by attaching itself to the name which followed it, so that <i><b>ab
Owain</b></i> became <i><b>Bowen</b></i>, <i><b>ap Rhys</b></i> became <i><b>
Price</b></i>, the new name <i><b>Richard</b></i> became <i><b>Prichard</b></i>,
<i><b>ab Evan</b></i> became <i><b>Bevan</b></i>, <i><b>Rhydderch</b></i> became
<i><b>Prydderch</b></i> or <i><b>Protheroe</b></i>, <i><b>ap Hywel</b></i>
became <i><b>Powell</b></i>, and <i><b>ap Hugh</b></i> became <i><b>Pugh</b></i>.
In most cases, however, the second name cannot be described as a surname at this
stage, because the <b>ap </b>was implied and the patronymic system remained, the
name continuing to change generation by generation.</div>
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The change to a fixed surname took place gradually and at
different times, even within the same family. The eldest brother would usually
be named after his grandfather, so he might take the grandfather’s second name
as his surname when the rest of the family kept to the patronymic system, or one
brother might take the father’s second name as his surname. We will see later
that HUGH VAUGHAN took his grandfather’s second name FYCHAN in anglicized form
as his surname, and Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, the grandfather of Henry VII,
did the same, thus ensuring that his descendants reigned as the Tudor and not
the Meredith dynasty.</div>
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At a slightly later stage, many newly acquired surnames had an
<i>"s"</i> attached to them. This was a practice used in England when surnames
were forming, and represented the possessive case of the father’s name used for
his children and wife. It was adopted much later in Wales, and though in some
cases it came into use at the same time as the surname became fixed, in many
areas it was not generally adopted until the early 19<sup>th</sup> century. In
this way John and his family became <i><b>Jones</b></i>, William and his became
<i><b>William</b>s</i>, and David and his became <b>Davies</b>. Not all surnames
changed in this way, some families keeping the surname <i><b>John</b></i> for
example, and some surnames rarely changed, such as <i><b>Morgan</b></i> and the
surnames in which <i><b>ap</b> </i>had been absorbed. The Christian names that
were popular in the 15<sup>th</sup> century continued in use because of the
traditional practice of naming children after grandparents and other close
relations, so the ten most common surnames in Wales 400 years later were <i><b>
Jones, Williams, Davies, Thomas, Evans, Roberts,</b></i> <i><b>Hughes, Lewis,
Morgan</b> </i>and<i> <b>Griffiths</b></i>, and they were held by over 50% of
the population. These were still the most common names found in Welsh telephone
directories in 1959.</div>
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A few Welsh surnames came from personal characteristics, as had
been the case in England. A person might become known as <i><b>Dafydd Llwyd</b></i>
because he had brown hair, and in some cases this attribute was retained by the
family and became a fixed surname in the anglicized form <i><b>Lloyd</b></i>.
Similarly the epithet <i><b>Goch</b></i> for <i>red hair</i> or <i>ruddy
complexion</i> could if continued in use become the surname <i><b>Gough</b></i>
(in both of these cases the pronunciation also changing significantly), and <b>
<i>Wyn</i> </b>for <i>white hair</i> or <i>complexion</i> became <b><i>Wyn, Wynn</i>
</b>or <i><b>Wynne</b></i>. Sometimes a less pleasant description was applied,
such as <i><b>gam</b></i> for <i>crooked, lame</i> or <i>squinting</i>, and in
one case it eventually become the surname <i><b>Games</b></i>, presumably after
the original meaning had been lost.</div>
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Another distinguishing adjective that could be applied was <i>
<b>Fychan</b></i> <i>(junior)</i> for a son with the same name as his father,
particularly in the gentry class. When it became a surname it was usually
anglicized to <i><b>Vaughan</b></i>, again with a change in pronunciation. In
the case of our ancestor HUGH VAUGHAN the name began with his grandfather DAFYDD
FYCHAN ap DAFYDD, following which his father was known as GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD
FYCHAN. HUGH would have been <i><b>Hugh ap Gruffudd</b></i>, or <i><b>Hugh ap
Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan</b></i>, but instead he was known as <b><i>Hugh</i> <i>
Fychan</i></b><i> (junior)</i> even though his father’s name was not <i><b>Hugh</b></i>.
The word <i><b>Fychan</b></i> had become a surname (perhaps in the style of a
pet name, a common source of surnames in England), and was anglicized to <i><b>
Vaughan</b></i>. The change took place early and in a single lifetime in the
case of our other <b><i>Vaughan</i> </b>family who lived just over the
Herefordshire border in Bredwardine. ROGER VAUGHAN who died at Agincourt in 1415
was also known as ROGER FYCHAN, and as most of his sons were called <b><i>Fychan</i>
</b>or <i><b>Vaughan</b></i>, it is clear that it had become their surname.</div>
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Place-names were often attached colloquially to a personal name,
and farm names in particular were used in this way, but only in special
conditions did they become surnames. One of HUGH VAUGHAN’S ancestors who lived
close to the boundary of England and Wales was known as MADOG KYFFIN, from <i>
<b>Cyffin</b></i> meaning <i>border</i>. This went out of use for several
generations but was adopted later by one branch of the family as a fixed
surname.</div>
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Non-Welsh surnames such as <i>Nash</i> first appeared in Wales
in areas of Anglo-Norman settlement, and many have continued to the present day,
though some families did follow the patronymic system. The Edwardian conquest
and the establishment of new boroughs brought further new names, including <i>
Scourfield</i>, and around 1600 our <i>Leigh</i> and <i>Oakley</i> ancestors
arrived in Carmarthen, where other English surnames appeared during that
century. Sometimes the patronymic system continued under cover of fixed
surnames, as for example in the <i>Games</i> family, descendants of the Welshman
DAFYDD GAM: here David the son of William Henry Games would take the name <i>
David William Games</i>. With the Industrial Revolution, many more English
people came to live and work in Wales, and now surnames from many countries are
present.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="color: green; font-family: "times new roman" , "times"; font-size: normal;"><i><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">RESOURCES for FURTHER STUDY</span></span></i></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;"><div align="left">
<span style="font-size: normal;">T. J. Rhys Jones, <i>Teach Yourself Welsh</i> (Hodder and
Stoughton, 1992).</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">M. Auronwy James, "Some Basic Welsh for Family Historians," in
<i>Welsh Family History</i>, ed. John Rowlands and others (Association of Family
History Societies of Wales, 1993).</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">Sheila Rowlands, "The Surnames of Wales," in <i>Welsh Family
History</i>, ed<i>.</i> John Rowlands and others (Association of Family History
Societies of Wales, 1993).</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">John and Sheila Rowlands, <i>The Surnames of Wales</i>
(Federation of Family History Societies, 1996).</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">T. J. Morgan and Prys Morgan, <i>Welsh Surnames</i> (University
of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1985).</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">P. C. Bartrum, "Personal Names in Wales in the fifteenth
century," <i>NLWJ</i>, 22, 4 (quoted by J. and S. Rowlands).</span></div>
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By <span lang="en-us">Derek Williams<br />
</span>March 200<span lang="en-us">6</span></span></span>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html">Oakley Ancestry</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/this-section-servesas-supplement-to.html">Biographies</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/blog-post.html">Flag/Map</a><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/blog-post.html"> of Wales</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/pronunciation-and-patronymics.html">Welsh Names</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-following-files-have-been-used-by.html">Research Files</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">The
web is a wonderful resource for genealogical research. Here are links to
sites that might be <span lang="en-us">interesting</span> to you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: large;"><i><b><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;">Welsh Genealogy</span></span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
</span>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/davies/" target="_blank">
</a>
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<ul>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.castlewales.com/carmarth.html" target="_blank">Carmarthen
Castle</a></span></li>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://ihaploleighlee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Clearing House for
Leigh/Lee Lines of the I-Haplogroup</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><a href="http://www.cyndislist.com/wales.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Cyndi's List for Wales</span></span></span></span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.castlewales.com/manor.html" target="_blank">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Manorbier Castle</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (an ancestor of Elizabeth Nash was an
official there)</span>.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://www.netministries.org/churches/spetercarm"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">St. Peters Church, Carmarthen</span></a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><a href="http://www.ukgenealogy.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: normal;">UK Genealogy</span></a></span> </span></li>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/">Home</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-overview.html">DNA Overview</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-following-files-have-been-used-by.html">Research Files</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%">Y-DNA Tests</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/persons-who-have-been-tested-three.html">Y-DNA Results</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-relatives.html">Y-DNA Relatives</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="18%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/home-about-me-whats-new-dna-overview.html">Possible Immigrants</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="18%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/call-for-volunteers.html">Call for Volunteers</a></td>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">If
you are interested in DNA testing of other people that are of the I haplogroup,
go to the <a href="http://ihaploleighlee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Clearing
House for Leigh/Lee Lines of the I-Haplogroup</a>. </span>That blog explains the results given by the two companies we are using for our testing
of descendants of our ancestor, Ralph Leigh. This information is necessary for one to understand and interpret correctly the
actual data returned from the testing. Be aware, though, that the data in that blog are several years old. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The companies that
we are using for DNA testing are
<a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/" target="_blank">FamilyTree-DNA</a><span style="color: black;">
and </span><a href="http://dna.ancestry.com/welcome.aspx" target="_blank">DNA-Ancestry</a>.
</span>
<br />
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: maroon; font-size: medium;">FamilyTree-DNA</span></i></b></h1>
<div align="left">
<br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/" target="_blank">FamilyTree</a>
is closely coupled with <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/about">geneticists</a> at the University of Arizona and other
universities. The choice of markers to be tested, the testing procedure, and
the interpretation of the results obtained are based on recommendations from these scientists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">After
completing Y-DNA testing of a person, FamilyTree
returns the following information.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: normal;">M</span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: normal;">arker
Values</span></b></i></span></div>
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A<span style="font-size: normal;"> certificate certifying that the person had their Y-DNA tested and
giving the values of the markers is given to the person who was tested. In addition, FamilyTree has a website, called </span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><a href="http://www.ysearch.org/" target="_blank">ysearch.org</a>, that
can be used by anyone to perform
comparisons of the markers with the markers from other persons tested by
FamilyTree. Persons who have been tested are encouraged to but not
required to
submit their markers and values to ysearch.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: normal;">Genetic
Distance and Likelihood of a Relationship</span></b></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">The
scientists associated with FamilyTree developed recommendations whether or
not two people who have exact or close matches in their markers are related.
These recommendations are relative to the number of markers involved in the
testing and the Genetic Distance between the two people. Here are links to
the recommendations. As you read the recommendations, you will notice that the
scientists assumed the two people have a common surname. This is the usual case,
but it may not be the case if the common ancestor lived before the adoption of
surnames or if that ancestor was an adopted or illegitimate child. Even if the
two people have different surnames, the recommendations are still valid for
them, since a change in a surname does not change the genetic relationship
between them. The recommendations
are the basis for our acceptance or not of a relationship between the two people.</span></span></span>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Haplogroup</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">The name of the person's Haplogroup. For an additional cost, Family Tree will perform a Deep Clade
test on the DNA to obtain a greater resolution on the person's Haplogroup.</span><br />
<h2>
</h2>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">The probabilities of the TMRCA to a common ancestor, for matches identified by FamilyTree and reported to the persons who were tested. These
probabilities are based on technical information from the scientists associated
with FamilyTree, and the probabilities take into account the random and volatile
nature of the marker values.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-normal;">For results imported into Ysearch from other testing companies,
the following table
can be used to yield the probabilities of when the common ancestor
likely lived.
In some cases, the values in the table are rounded to whole numbers. A
note should be made that tests results from other companies may have to
be
<a href="http://www.ysearch.org/conversion_page.asp#OA" target="_blank">modified</a>
before they are imported into Ysearch.</span><br />
<br />
<table border="1" style="width: 100%px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">Number of matching markers</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">50% probability that the MRCA was no longer than
this number of generations</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">90% probability that the MRCA was no longer than
this number of generations</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">95% probability that the MRCA was no longer than
this number of generations</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">10 of 12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">16</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">56</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">72</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">11 of 12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">17</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">39</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">47</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">12 of 12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">23</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">23 of 25</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">23</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">27</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: center;">24 of 25</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">16</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">20</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: center;">25 of 25</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">13</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">33 of 37</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">19</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">22</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">34 of 37</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">15</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: center;">35 of 37</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">14</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: center;">36 of 37</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">10</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">37 of 37</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">2 to 3</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">7</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: center;">62 of 67</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">15</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">64 of 67</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">14</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: center;">65 of 67</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">12</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">66 of 67</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">67 of 67</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">6</td>
</tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: normal;">Contact Information</span></b></i></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">The
name and email address of the contact person for the testing. The contact person
doesn't have to be the person providing the DNA sample.</span><br />
<h1 style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: maroon; font-size: medium;">DNA-Ancestry</span></i></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></h1>
<h1 style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ancestry.com/" target="_blank">DNA
Ancestry</a> partners with </span>Sorenson Genomics to analyze
the DNA samples that are submitted. Sorensen has a modern DNA lab that uses
state of the art techniques to analyze the samples.</span></span></span></b></h1>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">After completing the Y-DNA testing of a person, Ancestry
returns the following information.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman";">M</span></i></b><i><b><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman";">arker
Values</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">When
the contact person logs into his or her account and clicks the DNA button, they
are taken to their My DNA Console where they can vie</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">w their test results (marker
values) and find paternal matches. A pdf file containing the marker values can
be downloaded</span></span>.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br />
<span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Haplogroup</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The name of the person's Haplogroup. Running a separate Deep Clade test is not necessary.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span left="" style="font-size: large;">Generations to Common Ancestor</span></i></span></b></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The number of
generations to a common ancestor for a 50% probability. This number is given
under a MRCA column instead of a TMRCA column.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #0e6c09; font-family: "times new roman";">Contact Information</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The
name of the contact person is given, but the email address of that person is not
given. Instead, the website will send your message to the contact person without
divulging the email address of the person</span>.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">y Allen Leigh</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/">Home</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-overview.html">DNA Overview</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-following-files-have-been-used-by.html">Research Files</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/f-you-are-interested-in-dna-testing-of.html">Y-DNA Tests</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">Y-DNA Results</td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-relatives.html">Y-DNA Relatives</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="18%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/home-about-me-whats-new-dna-overview.html">Possible Immigrants</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="18%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/call-for-volunteers.html">Call for Volunteers</a></td>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Persons who have been Tested</i></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">Three
persons in the extended Leigh family have had their Y-DNA tested by<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/" target="_blank">familytreedna.com</a></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">A great grandso<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n</span> of
103 Samuel Leigh had his Y-DNA
tested for 67 </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">markers </span></span>(later updated to 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11</span> markers). The markers have been
placed in the FamilyTree website,
<a href="http://www.ysearch.org/" target="_blank">ysearch.org</a><span style="color: black;">,
and h</span>is ID is
66XXS (<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y</span>search.org is a web site that allows comparisons to be made on the
database maintained by FamilyTree). This great grandson had the Deep Clade test performed, and his Haplogroup is I1. The descendant also had his Y-DNA tested by <a href="http://dna.ancestry.com/welcome.aspx" target="_blank">dna-ancestry.com</a> for 46 markers,
and the markers have been imported to ysearch.org and given the ID of QQHTY. His
testing by Ancestry identified his Haplogroup as I1a. There
are several people who have had their Y-DNA tested by Ancestry that have a close match with this descendant. These
comparisons are discussed in the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-relatives.html">Y-DNA Relatives</a>
page.</span></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">A great grandson of Rector Daniel Leigh had his Y-DNA tested for 67 markers.
The markers have been placed in <a href="http://www.ysearch.org/" target="_blank">ysearch.org</a><span style="color: black;">, and h</span>is ID is H8G3U. His Haplogroup is I1.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">A great grandson of William Leigh had his Y-DNA tested by for 67 markers. The
markers have been placed in<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.ysearch.org/" target="_blank">ysearch.org</a><span style="color: black;">,
and h</span>is ID is KGYRY. His Haplogroup is I1.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">The following
diagram, created from data in the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Descendancy Chart</a>, shows the position in the Leigh family tree of the three persons
who were tested<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The earliest known Leigh ancestor in Wales is 2 Ralph Leigh. The number "2" is the number assigned to Ralph Leigh in the Descendancy Chart, and that number, along with the appropriate numbers for the other names in the
diagram, is given to provide correlation of our DNA testing with the paper
trail given in the Descendancy Chart. The diagram given above shows the descendants of Ralph
Leigh down to the three persons who voluntarily had their DNA tested. The actual
names of the three persons and of their immediate ancestors are not given to
preserve the privacy of those persons. Each of the three persons is the great
grandson (ggson) of the last name given in the line of that person. The three
persons are 7th cousins.</span><i><span style="color: maroon; font-size: medium;"> </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large;">Analysis of the Test Results</span></i></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Common Ancestors</span></i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
discussions of DNA testing, the important person in a discussion is the common
ancestor. Ralph Leigh is the common ancestor of all the Leighs in Wales who are
known at this time (Ralph Leigh was born approximately 1560 and died after May
1614). We would like to know the Y-DNA markers (DNA markers are short segments of
DNA, and they have values) of Ralph Leigh so we can compare them with Y-DNA markers of persons living in England. However, since Ralph Leigh isn't living, we don't know his Y-DNA markers. Our first goal
in doing Y-DNA testing, then, is to obtain an approximation of the Y-DNA markers
of Ralph Leigh. This goal has been reached, and our review of the Y-DNA testing
results and our conclusion are discussed in this page. Our second goal is to locate other families who are related to us. Even though we will always be working towards this goal, we have had some success, and this is discussed in detail in </span><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-relatives.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y-DNA Relati</span>ves</a>.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Genetic Distances of the Three Leigh
Descendants</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">According
to the paper trails given in the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Descendancy Chart</a>, the three persons are distant cousins, and their Y-DNA markers should be relatively closely matched. The Y-DNA testing confirms that
their markers are closely matched. The following table gives the Genetic Distance of the three persons (Genetic
Distance is a numerical way of expressing the DNA "closeness" of two people).</span></span></div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" width="220"><b>Names</b></td>
<td><b>67-Marker<br />
Genetic<br />
Distance </b></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" width="220">ggson of 103 Samuel Leigh<br />
ggson of 153 William Leigh</td>
<td>1</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" width="220">ggson of 122 Daniel Leigh<br />
ggson of 153 William Leigh</td>
<td>4</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" width="220">ggson of 103 Samuel Leigh<br />
ggson of 122 Daniel Leigh</td>
<td>4</td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notice that the Genetic Distance of the great grandson of Rector Daniel Leigh to both of the other two great grandsons is greater than the Genetic
Distance of the other two great grandsons to each other. This implies there were
mutations occurring in the descendants of Rector 122 Daniel Leigh that didn't occur in the
descendants of 103 Samuel Leigh or 153 William Leigh. Because of this, our focus will be
on the Y-DNA markers of the descendants of 103 Samuel Leigh and 153 William Leigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Markers of the Three Leigh Descendants</span></span></span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">The markers of the three great grandsons are given in the following spreadsheet. To read the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mbers, you will need to click the spreadsheet <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to get a larger image. </span></span></span>The
values of markers that are different than the corresponding values for the
descendant of Samuel Leigh are shaded in green. The spreadsheet also contains
the markers of several other people who have been tested, and the Y-DNA of these
people is discussed below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Approximating the Markers for Ralph Leigh</i></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that we have the values of the markers, let's compare the
markers of the great grandsons of Samuel and William Leigh. There are only two
markers that are different, 464b and 464d. This is significant, because it means
that the markers that are not different have the same values as Oakley Leigh,
the common ancestor of the two men. Initially, we don't know which line had the
mutations that we see in the Y-DNA of the two men. However, if we bring in the
marker-values of other persons, we can possibly get a more accurate comparison
for those two markers. The following table gives values for 464b and 464d for
four persons, the three great grandsons who were tested and a fourth person who
has a close Y-DNA match with our Leigh lines but is not in our paper trail.</span></div>
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<td width="191"><b>Name</b></td>
<td width="31"><b>464b</b></td>
<td><b>464d</b></td>
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<td width="191">ggson of 103 Samuel Leigh</td>
<td width="31">14</td>
<td>15</td>
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<td width="191">ggson of 153 William Leigh</td>
<td width="31">12</td>
<td>14</td>
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<td width="191">ggson of 122 Daniel Leigh</td>
<td width="31">14</td>
<td>14</td>
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<td width="191">SR-1 of the
Brookings website</td>
<td width="31">14</td>
<td>15</td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The entry for SR-1 is significant. That person lives in England, and his Y-DNA markers have a close match with the great grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh. His surname, however, is not Leigh; it is Brookings. He has a strong
paper trail of his Brookings line that goes back to the 16th century, just as we
have a strong paper trail of our Leigh line that goes back to the 16th century.
This means it is likely that the common ancestor of the great grandson of 10<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 </span>Samuel
Leigh and SR-1 lived before 2 Ralph Leigh and that the markers of this common
ancestor were passed to 2 Ralph Leigh and from him through two different paths to
the great grandsons of 103 Samuel Leigh and 153 William Leigh. The markers were also
passed by the common ancestor through a different path to SR-1. Notice that SR-1
has the same values as the great grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh for the two markers in
question, even though the two markers reached SR-1 and the great grandson via
different paths.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This allows us to conclude that those two markers in the Y-DNA of SR-1 and in the Y-DNA of the great grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh have with
a high likelihood the correct values. The rest of the markers
in the Y-DNA of the great grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh are the same as the
markers passed through a different path to the great grandson of 153 William Leigh.
Thus, it is likely there is a perfect match between 2 Ralph Leigh and the great
grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh. To strengthen this conclusion, the Y-Markers of six other
people who have been tested by FamilyTree and have a reasonable match with the
great grandson of Samuel Leigh are given in the spreadsheet. Five of the six
people have the same values as SR-1 and the great grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh for
the two markers. In addition, there are 14 people who have been tested by
Ancestry.com with good matches to the great grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh, and all 14
persons have the same values for the 464 markers as the great grandson of 103 Samuel
Leigh and SR-1. The conclusion mentioned above is described as "likely" because
there is a possibility of mutations that compensate for
each other and for random matches between the great grandsons of 103 Samuel
Leigh and 153 William Leigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Technical Analysis of the Y-DNA Markers</span></span></span></i></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those interested in the technical details, the following
analysis was given by a person at FTDNA of the changes in the markers for the great grandson
of Rector 122 Daniel Leigh.</span></div>
<blockquote>
<i>[This person] experienced a
recombinational-loss-of-heterozygosity (recloh) event, meaning one segment of
his Y chromosome containing 2 copies of the DYS464, 1 copy of DYS459, and 1 copy
of CDY duplicated itself and replaced the matching segment that contained the
remaining copies of these three markers. The 8-9 for DYS459 became 9-9; the
12-14-14-15 (or 12-12-14-14) for DYS464 became 14-14-14-14, and the 34-35 for
CDY became 34-34.</i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The person also gave the following analysis of the markers for the great grandson of 153 William Leigh.
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<i>[This person] experienced the same type of mutation, but on a smaller scale.
This time it only affected DYS464; he went from 12-14-14-15 to 12-12-14-14. In
both cases you should consider the above listed changes as 1 mutation per
lineage. Their genetic distance is of course higher because the mutation
affected multiple loci.</i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The person giving the analysis concluded that "The simplest explanation then
is that all the mutations moved lineages away from the 12-14-14-15 or a similar
set of ancestral values."
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mportant for Future Research</span></i></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From our viewpoint, having the Y-DNA markers for the great grandson of 103 Samuel
Leigh is important, because those markers are likely an exact match with the
markers of 2 Ralph Leigh and will hopefully help us identify the family in England of Ralph
Leigh. Having the Y-DNA markers for the other two great grandsons is
important, because if the same patterns of values in the 464 markers of the other
two great grandsons appear in the Y-DNA of
some of our <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-relatives.html">Y-DNA Relatives,</a> those values may be a clue as to when and from which lines the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">im</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">migration took place
that brought our DNA relatives to the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Our
second goal in DNA testing is to locate families that are unknown to us but are
related to us in some way. We hope we can learn where Ralph Leigh came from when
he settled in Wales. We
are having success with this goal. We have located a distant relative in England
in a Brookings line, and we have located more recent relatives in the United
States. This page describes these relatives. If future research in
genealogical documents verifies our relationship to the genealogical lines in this section, the
families will be removed from this section and placed in an appropriate section
of the website. This section lists the lines and explains why we accept them as
lines related to us. Because they are more recent, the relatives in the United
States are discussed first, and the distant relative in England is discussed
afterwards.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #663300;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lee Lines in the
Eastern United States</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></h1>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There
is a family group at <i>ancestry.com</i> called <i>Lee DNA Genealogy Project</i>, and
14 members of that group, who live in the United States and were tested by
Ancestry for 46 markers, have a close DNA match with the great grandson of Samuel Leigh.
For 13 of the men, the Genetic Distance is 1. The Genetic Distance for the 14th
person is 2. A Genetic Distance of 1 indicates
there is a tight connection between the 13 persons who were tested by Ancestry and the
great grandson of 103 Samuel Leigh. A Genetic Distance of 2 indicates there is a
connection. Because of this, we have accepted the 14 men as
being related to our Leigh line.Two of the men are descended from David
Lee, so there are 13 unique ancestors plus our ancestor, 103 Samuel Leigh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FamilyTree
does not test for 46 markers, and I am using their probability table for 37
markers to get an idea how far back our Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) is
for these people. Here is the statement
from FamilyTree about a Genetic Distance of 1 and 37 markers. Since the Ancestry
test was for 46 markers, the results are slightly better than those described in the
statement.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Genetic Distance of 1. Tightly
related.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">36/37 You share the same surname (or
a variant) with another male and you mismatch by only one 'point' at only one
marker--a 36/37 match. It's most likely that you matched 24/25 or 25/25 on a
previous Y-DNA test and your mismatch will be found within DYS 576, 570, CDYa or
CDYb. Very few people achieve this close level of a match. Your mismatch is
within the range of most well established surname lineages in Western Europe.</span></span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
estimated time in generations to the MRCA connecting the Lee lines
and our Leigh line is taken from the table given in
Y-DNA Tests for 36 of 37 markers, as follows.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">50%<br />
Probability</span></span></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">90%</span></span></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">95%</span></span></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4</span></span></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8</span></span></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10</span></span></td>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That
range of generations is within the scope of the traditional genealogical
research that is reported in this site. Four generations from us is the
generation of Samuel Leigh's father,
Daniel Leigh. Ten generations back is the generation of
2 Ralph Leigh, who
currently is our oldest known ancestor in Wales. Since 103 Samuel Leigh immigrated
directly from Wales to Utah, his descendants are not in the direct lines of the
Lee families in the eastern United States. Thus, our search for a common ancestor involves one or
more <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">migrations</span> from the British Isles by male relatives of 103 Samuel Leigh. The
first immigration would probably have
been after the Pilgrims arrived in 1620 and not later than the birth of the
oldest known ancestor of the 14 men. That ancestor is Needham Lee, who is
believed to be have been born in c1746 in North Carolina. The search for
subsequent <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">migrations</span> should go until 1858, the year Thomas
Green(e) Lee was
born in Mississippi. Thomas Green(e) is the youngest known ancestor of the 14 men.
This gives a date-range for the search for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">migrations</span> to be 1620-1858,
However, if I were doing the research, I would extend the search from 1600 to
1870 to allow for unknown conditions that might affect the results.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There
are a number of places in the Leigh lines reported in the
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html" target="_blank">Leigh <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Descendancy</span> Chart</a> where collateral lines could have
formed and furnished the immigrant(s) who came to the United States. The
Possible Immigrants page lists the persons who
might have formed such lines, and we hope this information will be helpful to
those doing research to discover the connections between their ancestors in the United
States and the British Isles.</span></span></div>
<div align="left">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To
locate the 14 men in the <i>Lee DNA Genealogy Project</i>, do the following.
This procedure is valid as of 9/8/2009 and may change if the ancestry.com web site is
changed.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
<br />
<ul>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go to <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">
http://www.ancestry.com</a> and click the <i>DNA</i> button.<br />
</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the <i>Search Our Database by Last Name</i>
field, enter Lee and click the <i>Go!</i> button.<br />
</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scroll down to the <i>Lee DNA Genealogy Project</i> and
click the link.<br />
</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The guest Username and Password are given for the
project. Log into the project using the <i>Sign In</i>
button at the top of the page. You will be returned to the page that gives the
Username and Password.<br />
</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click the <i>Home</i> button at the top of the
page (in the green bar, to the right) to go to the home page for the project. If
you don't see a <i>Home</i> button, click the <i>Dashboard</i> button at the
top-left of the page. The Dashboard page will list two Lee projects. Click the <i>Lee DNA Genealogy Project</i>,
and you will be taken to the home page of the project.<br />
</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click the <i>Compare DNA</i> button that is in
the navigation bar at the top of the page.<br />
</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scroll down to the entry for <i>Closely related
to Desc of Randaulph Lee<br />
</i></span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Find the entry for <i>Desc of Samuel Leigh </i>
and click that name.
Click the scroll (down) arrow to the left of the <i>Desc of Samuel Leigh</i> name and
select <i>Make this the Reference Person.<br />
</i></span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click the scroll (down) arrow to the left of the <i>Closely
related to Desc of Randaulph Lee</i> and click the <i>Sort by Distance</i> entry.<br />
</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will find the 14 men listed immediately below the
descendant of Samuel Leigh.</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">These men are listed in the
<a href="http://ihaploleighlee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Clearing House for
Leigh/Lee Lines of the I-Haplogroup</a>.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brookings Line in
England</span></span></i></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A
member of a Brookings family in England had his Y-DNA tested for 67 markers by FamilyTree.
His markers are listed with an ID of SR-1 in the
<a href="http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/brooking/DNA%20Results%202008.htm" target="_blank">
Brookings</a> web site. The results indicate he has a Genetic Distance of 5 with
the great grandson of Samuel Leigh, and that Genetic Distance for 67 markers indicates
there is a distant connection between the two persons who were tested. Because of this, we have accepted the Brookings line as
being related to our Leigh line even though we don't have a paper trail giving a
connection to the Brookings line. Here is the statement
from FamilyTree about a Genetic Distance of 5 and 67 markers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
<br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Genetic Distance of 5-6. Connection is Related. <br />
<br />
61-62 of 67 markers matched. You share the same surname (or a variant) with
another male and you mismatch by five or six 'points'. Because of the volatility
within some of the markers this is slightly tighter than being 11/12, 23/25, or
33/37, and it's most likely that you matched closely on previous Y-DNA tests. It's most likely that you
matched 24/25, 36/37 or 37/37 on previous Y-DNA tests and your mismatch will be
found within the second panel at DYS #'s 458, 459 a, 459b, 449, or within 464
a-d, or at DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb in our third panel of markers. <b>Your common
ancestor is not very recent</b>, but your mismatch is likely within the range of
most well established surname lineages in Western Europe. [Bold added for
emphasis]</i></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition to the test of 67 markers, a test of 37 markers
was performed, and the Genetic Distance was 3. That value of Genetic Distance
for 37 markers indicates that a relationship exists.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
<br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Genetic Distance of 3. Connection is Related.<br />
<br />
34/37 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male and you
mismatch by three 'points' --a 34/37 match. Because of the volatility within
some of the markers this is slightly tighter then being 11/12 or 23/25 and it's
most likely that you matched 24/25 or 25/25 on previous Y-DNA tests. Your
mismatch will most often be found within DYS 439 or DYS 385 A, 385 B,389-1 and
389-2 from our first panel of 12 markers, or within the second panel: DYS #'s
458, 459 a, 459b, 449, or within 464 a-d. If you matched exactly on previous
tests you probably have a mismatch at DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb in our newest
panel of markers. Your mismatch is likely within the range of most well
established surname lineages in Western Europe.</i></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The time
in generations to the MRCA
connecting the Brookings and Leigh lines was calculated by FamilyTree to be the following.</span></span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In comparing 67 markers, the probability that ---------
and --------- shared a common ancestor within the last...<i><br />
<br />
4 generations is 23.08%<br />
8 generations is 67.86%<br />
12 generations is 90.72%<br />
16 generations is 97.84%<br />
20 generations is 99.56%<br />
24 generations is 99.92%</i></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It
is thus likely that our connection with this Brookings family came through a common
ancestor who lived up to 16 - 20 generations ago. Ralph Leigh, who
currently is our earliest Leigh ancestor in Wales is 10 generations from us.
This means that our common ancestor with the Brookings family could have lived
up to
6 - 10 generations before Ralph Leigh, putting that ancestor in the late 1300s
or 1400s, and this could have been before surnames became common in the British
Isles; the two branches could have later adopted different surnames. Another
reason for the different surnames could be if an adopted or illegitimate male child
was the common ancestor. Of course these comments are speculation, and the number of generations and
probabilities given above are just calculated estimates that give the earliest
time that the common ancestor likely lived. The common ancestor could have
actually lived closer to Ralph Leigh, although the Genetic Distance of 5 implies
that the common ancestor is a distant connection. Confirmation that the MRCA for
the Brookings relative is a distant relative is that the male Brookings line has
a good paper trail going back to the 16th century with no mention of a
connection to our Leigh line, and our Leigh line has a good paper trail going
back to the 16th century with no mention of a connection to the Brookings line.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
the</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">
<a href="http://http//earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html" target="_blank">Leigh Descendancy Chart</a></span>
was created, we focused on our direct descent from 2 Ralph Leigh in 1597, and we
paid less attention to our collateral lines. If no data about such collateral
uncles, aunts, and cousins appeared within the records we used on the life
events and deaths of our own ancestors, we did not try to locate other documents
to fill out the lives of these other relatives. In fact, we often assumed that
lack of documents meant lack of life, and thus wrote the suggestion of an “early
death?” by all names without data! The advent of Y-DNA studies, however, forced
us to recognize that this new tool to identify family members separated by great
distance and time gave equal importance to all males in the male-to-male line. A
paternal uncle or male cousin carried the ancestral Y-DNA as effectively as the
direct ancestor we had earlier considered unique and essential to finding our
Leigh family line.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During 2008 DNA tests identified a group of 14 men named Lee whose Y-DNA samples
are a close match to the Y-DNA sample of a great grandson of
103 Samuel Leigh (see
the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-relatives.html">Y-DNA Relatives</a> page). This degree of closeness in the match indicates that 103 Samuel Leigh’s descendant and the 14 men
named Lee have a common ancestor within about 4-10 generations of those living donors.
So we set about to understand this new DNA relation.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Unfortunately, the 14 Lee men know their family tree only a few
generations back, and none yet know their ancestry in England. Our</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html" target="_blank">Leigh Dencendancy Chart</a></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;">was less helpful than we expected. It showed no one who was known to have
emigrated from Wales in the relevant time period except our own well-documented
ancestors, 103 Samuel Leigh and his brother 102 Daniel Leigh, as well as two
distant cousins who left England quite late (both died in the US in the 1940s).
Clearly we need to focus on male family members who might have emigrated to
America without our finding any record of their emigration. Such emigrants could
scarcely be found among those whose life in Wales or England was well
documented, so they probably existed among those we have labeled as likely dead.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To
make the search easier, now that we know it must have a new focus, we have
extracted from the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html" target="_blank">Leigh Dencendancy Chart</a></span></span></span> a list of all names of men in a clear unbroken
male-to-male line, whose life events we cannot document and thus do not know if
or where they lived. We consider them as possible <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e</span>migrants</span>. Obviously these men
might not be </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e</span>migrants</span></span></span></span> themselves, but they may have had descendants who later
emigrated. Such information should be added to the list,</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
the list, the numbers to the left of the names correspond to the numbers in the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Descendancy Chart<i>,</i> and the names are links to the position of that person in the Chart, so click on any name to
bring you to whatever we presently know of that person. The first two men listed
in the Chart<i> </i>were last known (or at least
last said to be) in England, but from then on all persons were last documented
in Wales, except the sons of
83.Eliezer Leigh
who settled in England by 1808. It is important to keep in mind that the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">l</span>ist
gives only the names we could identify from documents in Wales, but likely there
were parallel families growing up in England as descendants of relatives who
stayed in England when our Ralph Leigh moved to Wales. These later descendant
English Leighs could not appear on the List, of course, but notice that Ralph's
one known brother James Leigh is listed with a possible location in England, and
the name James was carried on for at least the next generation in James, son of
Richard. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1.Richard Leigh (est b. 1540 – ?bef 1597) Staffordshire? a
clothier?<br />
wife Ann Galand? Galant? Garland? (est b. 1545 - ?bef 1597) Devon?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.James Leigh ( ?living 1597 ) “of Lyndon” = in old county
of Rutland?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5.James Leigh (bef 1608 - ? ) died young or emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6.Harri Leigh (bef 1608 - ? ) died young or emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12.Francis Leigh (abt 1630 to 1654 – aft 22 Oct 1660) died
early or emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">33.John Leigh (est 1650 – aft Feb 1696) dyer in Carmarthen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">34.Richard Nash Leigh (est 1654 – aft 18 Jun 1696) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">35.Harry/Henry Leigh (bef 1671 – aft 19 Mar 1696) died early or emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">38.Thomas Leigh (bef 1671 – ?bur 10 Mar 1742 St Peter, Carm)
wrong identification?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">56.Richard Leigh (chr 5 Dec 1671 - ? ) died young or emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">62.Sheldon Leigh (chr 29 Apr 1684 - ? ) died young or emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">72.Edmond Leigh (chr 29 Dec 1711 – bef 3 Mar 1743 father’s will) died early or emigrated by age 22 years?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">75.David Leigh (chr 29 Sep 1738 Caldicott Mons. – aft Feb
1750 guardianship) died early or emigrated after age 12? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">79.Ebenezer Leigh (chr 31 Jul 1775 - ?) died young or emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">107.William Flexney Leigh, bur 1890, Father 83 ELIEZER LEIGH ,
had three wives (his several sons and grandsons are mostly unnumbered in the </span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">
<a href="http://http//earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html" target="_blank">Leigh Dencendancy Chart</a></span></span></span>). Two are known emigrants to Massachusetts in
the US, Albert in 1889 and Arthur in 1904, but they may have had no surviving sons. Email <a href="mailto:normarudinsky@bergstedt.org">normarudinsky@bergstedt.org</a> for contact with the active researcher of this Leigh
branch in England, including 108a,108c, and 108d below.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">108a.Edmund Flexney Leigh (chr 18 Nov 1812 – aft 1871,
possibly 1890) Father 83 ELIEZER LEIGH emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">108c.Samuel Flexney Leigh (abt 1819 – aft 1838 marriage) Father
83 ELIEZER LEIGH emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">108d.Joseph William Flexney Leigh (1821 – 18 Jul 1890) Father
83 ELIEZER LEIGH died in England but he had 3 sons & 2 grandsons who might have
emigrated?<br />
Joseph Emmanuel (2nd marriage 1902), Montague C. (living London 1891), and
Alexander F. Leigh (marriage 1891) had at least 2 sons Archibald and Sidney of
whom we know nothing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">109. Dafydd LEIGH (chr 23 Mar 1822 – aft 1861 census) farm
laborer, emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">110a.
Edward Huntingdon LEIGH (abt 1826 – aft 1841 census}
emigrated?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">126.Oakley Leigh/159.David Leigh. Oakley had at least nine illegitimate sons by various women, many of
them being recognized in his will as his “natural” children. Several sons are
traced into the 20th century but others are unknown and they or their sons could
well have emigrated. This group requires careful study.</span></span><br />
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</span>Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-39105325380878994662017-03-17T20:00:00.000-06:002017-04-22T16:18:57.026-06:00Call for Volunteers<table align="center" bgcolor="#ff0000" border="0" style="width: 720px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The
DNA of our long-dead ancestors is not, of course, available for research, but
through the “miracle” of Y-DNA we can approximate a male ancestor’s Y-DNA by
testing that of his male descendants in his unbroken male line. Therefore, we
need to have additional Y-DNA testing of at least three or four donors who are
well-documented male descendants of 2 Ralph Leigh, our earliest known Leigh
ancestor (estimated birth in 1560). These new tests are expected to confirm the
genealogical relationships previously established by our “paper trail” of
documentary evidence given in the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/leigh-descendancy-chart.html">Leigh Descendancy Chart</a>. And, if the new tests are sufficiently similar to
the Y-DNA already tested from a descendant of 103 Samuel Leigh, they will together
show a composite profile that can be assumed to be sufficiently close to the
Y-DNA of Ralph Leigh. Once we have determined the Y-DNA profile of Ralph Leigh
we will use that profile to help us locate other relatives of Ralph, people who
are presently unknown to us.</span></span></span>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Be
assured that the Y-DNA extracted from a donor does not contain any personal
information about him. The only information extracted from the person's Y-DNA is
information useful in determining when a potential common ancestor lived. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since</span>
the test involves only wiping the inside of your mouth with cotton swabs and
mailing the swabs to FamilyTreeDNA<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, i</span>t takes just a few minutes to do the wiping,
and the procedure is noninvasive.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Volunteers
for Y-DNA testing must satisfy the following conditions:</span></span></span><br />
<ul>
<li>Be a male descendant in an unbroken all-male line from Ralph Leigh. Only males carry the Y-DNA.</li>
<br />
<li>Be willing to sign a release to have
our webmaster, Allen W. Leigh, be your contact for your testing. This release
will authorize FamilyTreeDNA to post Allen's email address so other persons can
reach him when they have been tested and believe they have a match with you. You
will be identified by your test code number, not your name, and you will not
receive emails from other researchers unless you desire to be included in all
such correspondence with Allen.</li>
<br />
<li>Be willing to have your markers and
haplogroup posted anonymously in <a href="http://ysearch.org/">ysearch.org</a> and in the public database at FamilyTreeDNA. Allen W. Leigh will be listed as the contact person.</li>
<br />
<li>Be willing to have your general line from Ralph Leigh to the year 1900, your <a href="http://ysearch.org/">ysearch</a> ID (code number),
and your haplogroup listed in our <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/persons-who-have-been-tested-three.html" target="_blank">Y-DNA Results</a> and/or <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/dna-relatives.html" target="_blank">Y-DNA Relatives</a>
pages of our web site. Your name will not be listed.</li>
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<li>The cost of this testing will be born by the person being tested.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: norml;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">If
you fit these conditions we should like very much to hear from you! Some people
start out slowly by having only a few markers tested, but ultimately the
superior test of 67 or 128 markers will be needed, so we choose it at the beginning for
all those shown by our paper trail to be descendants of 2 Ralph Leigh.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: norml;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Norma Leigh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Rudinsk<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y and Allen Leigh</span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html">Earliest in Wales</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-bridgett-leigh.html">1st Gen Bridgett Leighs</a></td>
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<td 16="" style="text-align: center;" width="16%"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/37.html">2nd Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/68.html">3rd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/8th-generation-oakley-leighs.html">Begin 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/starting-in-5th-generation-of-leighs.html">1st Gen Other Oakley Leighs </a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/126.html">2nd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/134.html">3rd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><i><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Our E<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";">arliest</span> K<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";">nown</span> L<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";">eigh</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";">in</span></span> E<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";">ngland</span></span></i></b></i></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: normal;">1. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1richard"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">R</span>ICHARD LEIGH (<span lang="en-us">e</span>stimated <span lang="en-us">birth </span>1540 -
<span lang="en-us">died </span>?be<span lang="en-us">f</span>ore 1597)<br />
md ANN <span lang="en-us">GALAND [</span>GALANT?/GARLAND?<span lang="en-us">]</span> (est 1545 - ?bef 1597)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">
2. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html#2ralph"> RAFFE LEIGH</a>, gent</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">3. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="3james"></a>James LEIGH
(living 1597) <span lang="en-us">o</span>f Lyndon = Rutlandshire?, England</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="4elsbeth"></a>4.
Elsbeth LEIGH (living 1597)<br />
md William KYTSSON of Staffordshire, England before 1597</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">
</span><span style="font-size: normal;">For the first four generations we followed two contemporary
pedigrees. T</span><span lang="en-us">h</span><span style="font-size: small;">e earliest, which appears here, is from Lewys Dwnn’s </span><i>
<span style="font-size: normal;">Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches</span></i><span style="font-size: normal;">, based upon
information given to Lewys by Ralph Leigh, who also signed Dwnn’s
pedigree dated in Queen Elizabeth’s reign </span><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>R.R. Elsbeth 39. 1597.</i></span><span style="font-size: normal;">
Lewys gave the family name as </span><i>Lee,</i><span style="font-size: normal;"> but Ralph signed <i>Raffe
Leighe.</i> Dwnn also listed RALPH’S four children in 1608, and they are
given in the second generation. As a contemporary record, the pedigree
is very valuable, though Dwnn’s manuscript (published only in 1826)
presented difficulties in legibility, so it must be used carefully. The
second contemporary pedigree was recorded by David Edwardes ninety years
later, and we used it for the second and later generations of the LEIGH
family.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">RICHARD'</span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: normal;">s</span><span style="font-size: normal;"> wife ANN’</span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: normal;">s</span><span style="font-size: normal;"> surname is<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">u</span></span>ncertain, but possibly she belonged
to the Garlands of Devon, England who moved to Wales, though we found no
connection in the few available records of the Garland family. More
likely she and RICHARD remained in England when RALPH left. We have
found nothing more of the other two children, James and Elsbeth/Elizabeth
in England. A Kyttson family of this period appears in the ancestry of
George Washington and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, so a thorough
search might be rewarding. So far, our attempts to find RICHARD and ANN
in Staffordshire records have been fruitless, and we do not know if it
is significant that Dwnn gives no occupation for either RICHARD or RALPH
(though the second pedigree does), and Dwnn adds <i>gent</i> to RALPH’s name.</span><br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><b>Sources:</b> Lewys Dwnn I,201. The later Herald David Edwardes in
about 1686 lists RICHARD only as "... Leigh of ... in Staffordshire, a
cloathier" and gives no </span><span style="font-size: normal;">wife. Edwardes names only one of the children,
Ralph, but identifies him as a mercer or merchant (like his
father-in-law, RICHARD NASH). Edwardes does not add <i>gent</i> to RALPH’s name.</span></span></span>Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-26038998259781176912017-03-17T19:30:00.000-06:002017-04-18T09:13:23.395-06:00Earliest Leigh in Wales<table align="center" bgcolor="#ff2200" border="0" cellpadding="4" style="width: 720px;">
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html">3rd Gen Leighs </a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-bridgett-leigh.html">1st Gen Bridgett Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-leigh.html">1st Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/37.html">2nd Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-generation-oakley-leighs.html">1st Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/58.html">2nd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/68.html">3rd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/xxxxx.html">4th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/8th-generation-oakley-leighs.html">Begin 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/more-5th-gen-oakley-leighs.html">More 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/end-5th-gen-oakley-leighs.html">End 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/starting-in-5th-generation-of-leighs.html">1st Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/126.html">2nd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/134.html">3rd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/144.html">4th Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2ralph"></a><span style="font-size: normal;"> 2. RALPH
LEIGH (est 1560 - <span lang="en-us">aft May 1614</span>)<span lang="en-us"> of
Carmarthen, mercer.</span> Father: <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ourearliest-known-leighs-in-england-1.html#1richard">1.RICHARD LEIGH</a><br />
md <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-gen-nash-ancestry.html">ELIZABETH NASH</a>
(est 1565 - ?<span lang="en-us">aft 1597</span>), dau of <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/richard-nash-abt-1530-aft-1597-son-of.html">RICHARD NASH</a>, mercer of Carmarthen and ELIZABETH BOWEN of
Haverfordwest, P<span lang="en-us">e</span>mbrokeshire.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">5.
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="5james"></a>James LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>(before 1608 - ?) died young?</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><br />
6. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="6harri"></a>Harri LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>(before 1608 - ?) died young?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><br />7. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html#7elnor">ELNOR/HONORA LEIGH</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">8. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html#8richard">RICHARD LEIGH</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">We give here RALPH’</span><span lang="en-us">s</span><span style="font-size: normal;"> four children listed by Lewys Dwnn, though we found nothing more on two of them and those two may have been forgotten by
the family, as they are not listed in the second pedigree. The later Herald
David Edwardes recorded the LEIGH pedigree while both the LEIGH family and his
own Edwardes family were active in Carmarthen borough government, and the two
families must have been acquainted. Edwardes’ surviving manuscripts are
cataloged as the Bodleian Additional Manuscripts C177,178,179 at Oxford
University, and we did not view them directly but used them in two formats: Film
no.230630 from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and the
transcription in the </span><i>Golden Grove Books</i><span style="font-size: small;"> on microfilm no.104351, where
they are identified as the Bodleian collection with almost identical pagination
and cross references. In Edwardes’ pedigree, RALPH’</span><span lang="en-us">s</span><span style="font-size: normal;"> daughter ELNOR was changed
to HONORA and given a spouse, and the son RICHARD </span><span style="font-size: normal;"> was given a spouse and five
children, then six grandchildren, which we treat in the next three generations
along with available church records.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The pedigrees are supported by historical documentation. RALPH
was a newcomer in Carmarthen, but he quickly assumed a fairly substantial
position. He did not appear on the Lay Subsidy Tax lists for 1590/1, but in
1597-8 "Rauffe Leighe" was assessed for property in King Street ward in
Carmarthen, at a time when only 49 names were returned on the tax lists from a
population of about 2,100. In 1600 he was elected by the town burgesses as one
of the two bailiffs (later called sheriffs) of Carmarthen, which required a
three-year residency, so he must have arrived in Carmarthen before 1597. His
family escaped the plague ravaging the town in 1603-05, and in 1608 Lewys Dwnn
added RALPH’</span><span lang="en-us">s</span><span style="font-size: normal;"> four children. Derek Williams found a new reference in letters
dated 1 May 1614 between two Carmarthen attorneys about one Rees James in
debtors’ prison, because RALPH LEIGH would not agree to accept part payment owed
to him, although the man's other debtors accepted less repayment (NLW website).
By 1625 RALPH may have died, for he does not appear on the Lay Subsidy levy for
that year, as searched by Derek Williams.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">ELIZABETH NASH doubtless helped RALPH LEIGH’</span><span lang="en-us">s</span><span style="font-size: normal;"> career by her
merchant father's prominence.
</span><a href="http://welshleigh.org/genealogy/biographies/richardnash.htm">RICHARD
NASH</a><span style="font-size: small;"> was active against Portuguese and Spanish trade boycotts and embargoes</span><span lang="en-us">,</span><span style="font-size: normal;">
and </span><span lang="en-us">he </span><span style="font-size: normal;">was said by Lewys Dwnn to have sailed with Sir Francis Drake on his Portuguese expedition a year after the great battle and defeat of the Spanish
Armada in 1588. We used Dwnn’s pedigree of the NASH family, which shows
ELIZABETH’S marriage to RALPH. For details, see the NASH
<a href="http://welshleigh.org/genealogy/nashancestrychart/index.html">ancestry chart</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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still beautiful old stone church of St Peter's, not far from King Street where
RALPH LEIGH owned property. Our christenings, marriages, and burials took place
there for at least two hundred years, though the parish records have survived
only since 1671. Fortunately these records of St Peter’s church in Carmarthen
were collated alphabetically in a very clear hand in the early 19</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: normal;">century (see "Collocation of Names" which is item 3, Film no.104504). From that
date on, we need not depend upon pedigrees alone, and can often confirm them
with church records.</span></span></span><br />
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RALPH'S activity comes from the research of Derek Williams with the Lay Subsidy
Tax lists at the PRO, with MS 12366D on Carmarthen sheriffs and mayors at the
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Leighs</span></b></i></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="7elnor"></a></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">7. ELNOR/HONORA
LEIGH (before 1608 - 27 Oct 1672 St Peter's, Carm)<span lang="en-us">.
</span>Father: <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html#2ralph">2. RALPH LEIGH</a><br />
md REES GRIFFITH <span lang="en-us">the Elder </span>(? - aft 20 Feb 1663)</span></span><br />
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Rees GRIFFITH (? - 27 Sep 1716 St Peter's)<br />
md
Likia [Lleucu] PUGH (? - 3 M<span lang="en-us">a</span>y 1706 St Peter's) on 1 Nov
1671 in St Peter's, Carmarthen</span></span></blockquote>
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David Edwardes’ pedigree gives the five children of RICHARD and
his wife DOROTHY OAKLEY, but we were also able to find other children
(such as this Rees GRIFFITH the younger and Francis LEIGH, a brother to
the five children below) through various kinds of documentation
including wills and estate appraisals. Edwardes lists the spouses of
those five children of RICHARD and DOROTHY, and we were able to confirm
some of them with the church record of their marriage.<br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">We know little of HONORA in this first couple, but REES GRIFFITH
signed the estate inventory of THOMAS HAWKER, apothecary and late
husband of HONORA’<span lang="en-us">s</span> niece URSULA LEIGH on 20 Feb 1663 (NLW SD/1663/25
I). At that time he was called "Rees Griffith the Elder," so presumably
he and HONORA had a son to be Rees Griffith the younger. This son was
probably the Rees Griffith who appraised URSULA LEIGH'<span lang="en-us">s</span> estate in late
1690 or early 1691 (NLW SD/1690/26 1). Also signing the first inventory
in 1663 was "Thomas Griffith, alderman," apparently mayor in 1645 and
likely a relative. Thus, the family of HONORA'<span lang="en-us">s</span> husband, like the other
early LEIGH spouses, was important in Carmarthen city and county
government. The PUGH family of the younger Rees’s wife had only a few
members in St Peter's records (mainly burials), and we found nothing
more on her. This couple may have had a son named "Rice Griffith" who
christened children in St Peter's church in 1700 - 1711.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="8richard"></a>8.
RICHARD LEIGH (before 1608 - ?), mercer?, "haberdasher of hats".
Father: <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html#2ralph">2. RALPH LEIGH</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;">md
DOROTHY OAKLEY (abt 1610 in Great Wolford, Warwicks - ?), dau of EDWARD OAKLEY, <i><span style="font-size: small;">gent</span><span lang="en-us">,</span></i> and URSULA SEVERNE of Shrawley, Worcs., who
moved to Llanarthney in Carms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;">10. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-leighs-10.html#10abigail">ABIGAIL LEIGH</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;"> 11. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-leighs-10.html#11ursula">URSULA LEIGH</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">12.
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="12francis"></a>Francis LEIGH (? - aft 22 Oct 1660)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;">He was listed with OAKLEY LEIGH, URSULA LEIGH HAWKER, ABIGAIL
LEIGH (and an unknown Elizabeth Fitzsymonds) as nephews and nieces
in Catherine Oakley Knight's will dated 22 Oct 1660. We assume
Francis was also a son of Catherine's sister DOROTHY OAKLEY, but one
who died young so was not listed in David Edwardes’ pedigree.
Possibly Francis was named after Sir FRANCIS LLOYD.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">1</span>3. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-bridgett-leigh.html#13bridgett">BRIDGETT LEIGH</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">14. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-leigh.html#14richard">RICHARD LEIGH</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">15. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-generation-oakley-leighs.html#15oakley">OAKLEY LEIGH</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Less is known about RICHARD LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>than about his father RALPH. If he was a mercer, he may have exported general goods like his grandfather
RICHARD NASH, or perhaps his chief product was cloth, particularly wool
from Welsh flocks. If his grandfather RICHARD was a clothier, as said
in the David Edwardes pedigree, RICHARD likely inherited the cloth
trade and passed it on to his descendants who became dyers and clothiers
as well as mercers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Either RICHARD or his son RICHARD
was among the four men who founded the Carmarthen Fraternity of Hatters or Feltmakers in 1652, as
shown by Derek Williams from the second Carmarthen town council Order
Book. The other three petitioners (William Lloyd, John Jones, and Thomas
Phillipp Matho) were identified as trained skillful felt hat makers, but
RICHARD was called a "<i>haberdasher of hats.</i>" So the LEIGH part in
the guild was likely organizational to stabilize hat production by
others and thus improve their own position as sellers of hats. I should
like to believe our men were not hatters, because the process of making
hats involved so much mercury that hatters often became insane from
mercury poisoning, hence the phrase <i>mad as a hatter</i>! In any
event, various hat makers seem to have remained close to the LEIGH<span lang="en-us">s</span> for
at least a generation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Like ELIZABETH NASH with RALPH LEIGH, DOROTHY OAKLEY'<span lang="en-us">s</span> family must have contributed to the career of RICHARD LEIGH. Her brother George
Oakley was a well-known mayor (often cited for his support of the
beleaguered King Charles I during the Civil War), and the LEIGH<span lang="en-us">s</span> and
OAKLEY<span lang="en-us">s</span> gave bequests and signed each other's wills for three
generations. It seems likely that some of our unidentified wives may
come from this family interaction. The major study of the long
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/ancestry-of-dorothy-oakley-est-1610.html">OAKLEY</a> line by
descendants Derek Williams and Gene Heatherington reveals fascinating
connections to the SEVERNE family, the SHELDON tapestry family, the
Catesby family of Gunpowder plot fame, and William Shakespeare and his
father in Stratford-upon-Avon, and much more.</span><br />
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<b>Sources</b>: parish records of St Peter's in Carmarthen, Collocation
of Names (Film no.104504); original Bishop's Transcripts in Latin (Film
no.105132); Llanarthney Bishop's Transcripts (Film no.105151); wills,
inventories, administration bonds, etc of the following: Catherine
Oakley Knight 1660 (NLW SD/1660/132 W); EDWARD OAKLEY 1662 (Film
no.105231); George Lewis 1673 (Film no.105232); Maria NN Oakley widow
1676 (NLW SD/1677/19 W and Film no.105232); Jonathan Oakley 1677 (Film
no .105232); Thomas Phillips 1678 (Film no.105234); John Oakley 1688
(Film no.105235); Carmarthen council Order Book 2 (CRO MUS 155, also
published by Alcwyn Evans in <i>Local History Lore </i>in 1914).</span></span>Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-9219254233664286232017-03-17T19:00:00.000-06:002017-04-18T09:13:53.400-06:004th Generation of Leighs<table align="center" bgcolor="#ff2200" border="0" cellpadding="4" style="width: 720px;">
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html">Earliest in Wales</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-bridgett-leigh.html">1st Gen Bridgett Leigh</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/5th-generation-bridgett-leigh.html">2nd Gen Bridgett Leigh</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-leigh.html">1st Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/37.html">2nd Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/41.html">3rd Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/68.html">3rd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/xxxxx.html">4th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/8th-generation-oakley-leighs.html">Begin 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/starting-in-5th-generation-of-leighs.html">1st Gen Other Oakley Leighs </a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/134.html">3rd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="10abigail"></a><span style="font-size: small;"><br />10. ABIGAIL LEIGH (est
1654 - 6 Mar 1684 St Peter's)<span lang="en-us">. Father: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-us"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html#8.richard">8. Richard Leigh</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
md LEWIS RICHARD on 28 Oct 1674 St Peter's</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">16. Dorothy
RICHARD (chr 24 Aug 1676 St Peter's - ?)</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">ABIGAIL paid tax on two hearths in 1673 (found by Derek Williams) and kept her maiden name in the Welsh custom at burial at St Peter's
church (Film no.104504)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">, so we are
not certain that she is the same Abigail Leigh who married Lewis Richard.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="11ursula"></a>11.
URSULA LEIGH (est 1630 - b<span lang="en-us">e</span>fore 24 Feb 1691 w.p.)<span lang="en-us">.
Father: <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html#8.richard">8. Richard Leigh</a></span><br />
md (1) THOMAS HAWKER (? - before Feb 1663), apothecary</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;">17. Rowland HAWKER (after Oct 1660 - aft 4 Jan 1691)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;">18. Lettice HAWKER (same time period)</span><span style="color: black;">19.
Dorothy HAWKER (same time period)<br />
md NN SMITH before Ursula's will dated 1690</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">md (2)
JOHN FFARMER (? - before 8 July 1679), apothecary</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black;">20. George <span lang="en-us">F</span>FARMER (? - 21 Jun 1708 St Peter's)</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span style="color: black;">md (3) Richard LLOYD (est 1625 - before 13 Jan 1691 w.p.), <i>gent</i>, son of
John LLOYD and Margaret BROCK of Essex, on 6 Dec 1680 in St
Peter's church. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The records of St Peter's for 1689 - 99 have not survived, but URSULA'<span lang="en-us">s</span> will refers to "my son Rowland Hawker, Lettice Hawker my
daughter, Dorothea Smith my daughter, and George Ffarmer my son." She
also makes several bequests to Ursula Rees, wife of "Jenkin Rees
feltmaker" who elsewhere is called "hatter." Likely Ursula Rees was her
daughter, named after URSULA and her maternal grandmother URSULA SEVERNE
(wife of EDWARD OAKLEY). Or alternatively Ursula Rees was related to
Richard LLOYD, who left "all his Wearing Apparel" to John Rees, the son
of Jenkin Rees, instead of to his own son John Lloyd. But without an
explicit statement of blood ties, occupational ties seem also likely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">URSULA may have been a second wife to JOHN FFARMER since we found the
undated marriage of "John Ffarmer an apothecary at Carmarthen" to
Elizabeth Lloyd, dau of Edward Llwyd of Ffrood (<i>GG</i>, Kradoc
Vreichfras, Film no.104350). Derek Williams' calculations of this Lloyd
family suggest Elizabeth's birth date as between 1610 - 30, so it is
unlikely that this John Ffarmer could have been instead a son of URSULA
and JOHN FFARMER. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Interestingly, URSULA was able to sign her name (<i>Urcil LL</i>) to her will at a time when many gentrywomen signed by mark X. This supports
the belief that literacy was higher in the commercial class than the
landed gentry. The inventories of her three husbands' possessions, as
well as her own inventory, and the spaciousness of the houses and
gardens they leased, suggest a comfortable life. Example items in the
inventories include "11 pillowcases and 7 dozen napkins, a silver beer
bowl ... 6 small silver spoons... 4 dozen pewter dishes and salt
cellars" (JOHN FFARMER, NLW SD/1679/223 I0), and the rooms in URSULA'<span lang="en-us">s</span>
last house included the Upper Parlour, the Hall, the Wainscot Room, the
Lower Parlour, besides the Kitchen, Cellar, and Shop (NLW SD/1690/26 1).</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Sources</b><span style="font-size: normal;">: parish records of St Peter's, Collocation of Names (Film
no.104504); original Bishop's Transcripts in Latin (Film no.105132);
URSULA'S will in 1690 (NLW SD/1690/26 W and Film no.105235); Richard
LLOYD'S will in 1690 (NLW SD/1691/20 W): his brother John Lloyd's will
in 1680 (NLW SD/1680/13 and Film no.105234): John Lloyd's wife
Elizabeth's will and inventory in 1685 (NLW SD/1685/25 W2 and I): </span><i>GG
</i><span style="font-size: normal;">Adv Carm on Lloyd pedigree (Film no.???)</span></span>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html">Earliest in Wales</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html">3rd Gen Leighs </a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/5th-generation-bridgett-leigh.html">2nd Gen Bridgett Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-leigh.html">1st Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/37.html">2nd Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/41.html">3rd Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-gen-of-richard-leigh.html">4th Gen Richard Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-generation-oakley-leighs.html">1st Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/58.html">2nd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/68.html">3rd Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/xxxxx.html">4th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/8th-generation-oakley-leighs.html">Begin 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/more-5th-gen-oakley-leighs.html">More 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/end-5th-gen-oakley-leighs.html">End 5th Gen Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/starting-in-5th-generation-of-leighs.html">1st Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/126.html">2nd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/134.html">3rd Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/144.html">4th Gen Other Oakley Leighs</a></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">This
romantic love story was turned into wild legends involving alleged
murder and a family curse, despite considerable disproof and
contrary documentation. See <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html" target="_blank"> Bridgett's biography </a>for folk tradition, photographs, and all of the sources we found
<span lang="en-us">a</span>bout this line that became extinct despite great efforts to secure
the heirs' future.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="13bridgett"></a>13.
BRIDGETT LEIGH (est 1640 - aft 1669)<span lang="en-us">. Father:
</span><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html#8richard">8. RICHAR<span lang="en-us">D LEIGH</span></a><br />
"concubine", mistress of Sir FRANCIS LLOYD (abt 1610 - before Nov 1669 w.p.)<br />
of Maesyfelin, son of Sir MARMADUKE LLOYD of Maesyfelin and MARY STEDMAN<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Sir FRANCIS'
wife Mary Vaughan was childless through at least twenty years of
marriage. Their pre-nuptial bond was dated 1 Oct 1633 (as
summarized in a legal document in a later Lloyd suit against Sir
FRANCIS' heirs (NLW 1704 Cynwyl Gaeo (Box 6), though the
marriage may have occurred several years later. In any event,
Sir FRANCIS must have been much older than BRIDGETT and their
life together was a December and May romance (GG, Tydwal Gloff
23A83, Film no.104351, and Adv Carm 212, Film no.104349). For
this relation and the lives of their children and grandchildren, see the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html">biography</a>
of<span lang="en-us"> BRIDGETT</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Sir FRANCIS LLOYD’<span lang="en-us">s</span> family had an ancient coat of
arms showing a ladder used to scale Norman castle walls during
Strongbow’s 12th century invasion of Wales. His father Sir
Marmaduke Lloyd was an important chief justice in Wales and the
Marches, and Sir FRANCIS himself was MP for Carmarthen from
1640. He served as Comptroller of the Household to King Charles
I, from whom he received a knighthood and for whom he fought as
commander-in-chief of the horse in Pembrokeshire and was
captured in battle twice during the Civil War. After the
Restoration in 1660 he became a gentleman of the privy chamber
to Charles II and obviously could feel assured of the Merry
Monarch’s understanding of his marital situation and his
mistress BRIDGETT. This high status is probably relevant to the
folk tradition of the so-called Curse of Maesyfelin, which is
treated in <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html" target="_blank">BRIDGETT’s</a> biography as well as the biographies of
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/stelphen-hughes-biography.html" target="_blank">Stephen Hughes</a> and
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/oakley-leigh-biography.html" target="_blank">OAKLEY LEIGH</a><span lang="en-us">.</span> For the story of King
Charles II and his Welsh mistress, doubtless known at least in
outline to Sir FRANCIS LLOYD, see the Biography of
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/lucy-walker-biography.html" target="_blank">Lucy Walter</a>.</span></span></div>
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Sir Lucius LLOYD (est 1660 - ?before 30 Dec 1690)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">His
death date was nowhere found, but likely it was before the
pre-nuptial bond was dated<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"> </span>30 Dec 1690 (according to
its summary in an Indenture of Release dated 28 Sep 1752, p.7),
which referred to "Charles Lloyd of Maes y velin in the
County of Cardigan Esquire." Lucius committed suicide
but no reason is known.</span></span></div>
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Frances LLOYD (est 1664 - ?1680 Lampeter church, Cards)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">Little is known of
Frances except the <i>GGB</i> reference to her marriage to "... <i>Murrel of
Staffordshire</i>" (Tydwal Gloff 23A83, Film no.104351). It adds that she died
in 1680 and was buried at Lampeter, which we could not confirm because extant
Lampeter parish records do not cover that year (Film nos.104502-3). If the <i>
GGB</i> date is correct, Frances was probably BRIDGETT'<span lang="en-us">s</span> eldest child with an
earlier birth year than I give as 1664. In August 1667 she was listed in her
father’s will as living in the city of Worcester, England (p.1. line 27)
presumably with her brother Lucius Lloyd (alias Baker), but by the Codicil three
months later she was "<i>of Staneway. Shropshire</i>" though Lucius was still in
Worcester (Cod. lines 15,17. Possibly more could be learned by study of those
locations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">With the married name <i>
Murrel,</i> Frances may have been related to the Elizabeth Murrel, widow, who is
listed as buried at St Peter’s church on 19 January 1733 (Film no.104504). St
Peter's record says that Elizabeth’s arms included a <i>griffin sergeant</i>,
but the Murrel family was otherwise unknown in Carmarthen, and I have not
studied it in Staffordshire. It is also possible that the burial record was an
error for Elizabeth Murrow, widow of the county burough of Carmarthen, whose
will was found by Derek Williams, written on 8 November 1732 and probated in
Carmarthen for St David’s diocese on 21 March of the next year (SD/1732/26).
Thus her burial should appear in St Peter’s records, but does not. In this case,
the burial would have nothing to do with Bridgett’s daughter Frances. For the <i>
Murrow</i> name see <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-leigh.html#33john">33.John LEIGH</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="22charles"></a>22. Sir CHARLES LLOYD (abt 1662 - 31 Dec 1723 Lampeter), baronet<span lang="en-us">.
Mother: <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-bridgett-leigh.html#13bridgett">13. BRIDGETT LEIGH</a></span><br />
md (1) JANE LLOYD (abt 1657 - 20 Jul 1689 Lampeter), dau of MORGAN LLOYD of Green Grove and ELINOR LLOYD of Cilgwyn.
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<span style="font-size: normal;">See the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">b</span>iography of <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html">Bridgett Leigh</a> for a</span>
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portrait</span><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">
of Sir Charles Lloyd.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">24. Jane LLOYD (bef 1689 - aft 1711)<br />
md 1. James FARMAR (marriage voided)<br />
md 2. William GOWER of Carmarthen bef 1706</span></span><br />
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We know nothing of her "voided" marriage, but possibly James FARMER was related to
the second husband of URSULA LEIGH. Jane inherited part of the Green Grove estate
from her mother and. sold it to her father in 1706 and 1711 for 700 pounds
(Conveyance summarized in NLW Isgarn Miscell. Indenture of Release dated 28 Sep
1752, p. 6). Of William GOWER we learned only that he bought part of a mortgage of
Green Castle in September 1711 (Green, "Annals of ...," p.13). He is sometimes
called Glover, but the above sources give Gower. There was also a Glover family in
Carmarthen of the right dates.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">25. Eleanor LLOYD (bef 1689 - bef 1701 in
Maesyfelin)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">md (2) Lady FRANCES CORNWALLIS (? - 1753), dau of FRANCIS CORNWALLIS Kt of Abermarlais, in ?1691</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">26. Elizabeth LLOYD (chr 4 Apr 1700 Lampeter - aft 15
Jun 1750)<br />
md (1) NN SHERBURNE of Herefordshire</span></span><br />
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She is named as "Mrs Sherburne sister of Sir Lucius" in a Millfield account book
(NLW Gwernyfed, Millfield Rent Roll A 1750, p.6).</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">27. Frances LLOYD (chr 22 Nov 1702 - 28 Feb 1703
both Lampeter)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">28. EMMA LLOYD (? - aft 28 Sep 1752)<br />
md Dr (?THOMAS<span lang="en-us">)</span> FFOYE of Carmarthen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">
No christening appears for EMMA in the Lampeter Bishop's Transcripts, but she was
identified as daughter EMMA in the <i> GG</i> reference cited below and in the Indenture of
Release dated 28 Sep 1752 (p.8) cited below. Her husband's name is sometimes given
as Toye, but both references give Ffoye. St Peter's Collocation of Names lists the
family of Thomas Ffoy. Chyrurgus et Medicus with children's christening dates in
1725 - 32. The girls' names suggest a family relation: Frances, Emma, and
Elizabeth, with a brother Edward. The apparent mother (Mrs NN Ffoy) of this family
was buried on 15 Aug. 1767.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;">29. Sir Charles Cornwallis LLOYD (chr 24 Jan 1706 - bur
4 Mar 1729 both Lampeter)</span>
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<span style="font-size: normal;">md Jennings ANDERTON (? - aft 9 Apr 1753) aft 2 Aug
1727 in Lampeter?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">
Her name is often misconstrued as "NN Jennings of Anderton, Somersetshire." In
John Lloyd's mortgage of Millfield to Horace Walpole (NLW Isgarn. Miscell.. Mortgage
dated 9 April 1753), a summary of her pre-nuptial bond with Sir Charles Cornwallis
dated 2 Aug 1727 identified her clearly as <b> ''</b><i>Jennings Anderton Spinster only
surviving Daughter of the said Elizabeth [now married to John Trevillian Esq] by
James Anderton Esquire ... deceased</i><b>"</b> (p.14). She was elsewhere called Dame
Jennings, and her second husband George Speke was party to the mortgage to ensure
settlement of her annuity of 450 pounds per annum (unpaid for years). Her various
lawsuits to gain her annuity (p.19) added to Sir Lucius's financial woes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">30. Anna Maria LLOYD (chr 12 Feb 1710 - bur 17 Mar 1710 both Lampeter)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">31. Edith LLOYD (chr 28 Oct 1712 Lampeter - bef 28 Sep 1752)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">
The Indenture refers to the <b> "</b><i>other two daughters Frances and Edith Lloyd Spinsters
both since deceased</i><b>"</b> (p.8). In fact Frances died as an infant.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;">32. Lucius Christianus LLOYD (chr 27 Dec 1715 -
20 Jan 1750 Lampeter)<br />
md Anne LLOYD (chr 1 Feb 1719 - 21 Dec 1746
Lampeter), dau Sir Walter LLOYD of Peterwell and
Elizabeth EVANS, before 18 May 1743 in Lampeter?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">
<span style="color: black;">Both Sir Lucius Christianus (as the last male heir) and his wife Anne (who shared
his financial helplessness) reflect a sort of tragic fatalism suited to the folk
tradition of the <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html#curse"> curse of Maesyfelin</a> </span>
as described in the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">b</span>iography of Bridgett Leigh.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;">
<b>Sources</b>: Lampeter Bishop's Transcripts (Film no.104502) for christening and burial dates;
<i> GG</i> book Tydwal Gloff 23A83 (Film no.104351) for all daughters'
spouses' names, several also found elsewhere as given above; NLW
Gwernyfed, Millfield Rent Roll A 1750; NLW Isgarn Miscell. Indenture of
Release dated 28 Sep 1752; NLW Isgarn Miscell. Indenture of Release
dated 14 June 1731, pp.l-2 for various mortgages; NLW Isgarn Miscell. Mortgage dated 9 April
1753); will of Sir FRANCIS LLOYD (SD/1669/63 W and Film no.105231);
will of Anne LLOYD dated 18 May 1743 (NLW SD/1750/61 W); will, codicil,
anal various administration grants for Sir Walter LLOYD of Peterwell
(NLW SD/1747/83 Wi,ii,X,G1,G2;
William Edmunds, <i> On some old Families in the neighbourhood of Lampeter. Cardiganshire</i> (1860) on Film no.839711; Francis Green, "Annals of an old Manor House: Green Castle,"
<i> Carmarthenshire Antiquary. XXVII (1991). 3-20:</i> Elisabeth Inglis-Jones,<i> Peacocks in Paradise</i> (1988); Bethan Phillips,
<i> Peterwell</i> (1983). See also biographies of <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html"> BridgettLeigh</a>, <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/stelphen-hughes-biography.html">Stephen Hughes</a>,
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/oakley-leigh-biography.html">Oakley Leigh</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-size: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="14richard"></a>14. RICHARD LEIGH (est
1630 - bur 3 Aug 1681 St Peter's)
mercer? mayor/alderman<span lang="en-us">.</span><br />
<span lang="en-us">Father </span><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/3rd-generation-of-leighs.html#8richard">8. RICHARD LEIGH</a><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;">md SARAH WILLIAM (? - bef Mar 1696), dau of IEVAN WILLIAM<span lang="en-us">
"cousin german to vicar Llandyffry"</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="33john"></a>33. John LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>(est 1650 - aft Feb 1696)</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">It is fortunate that the
children of RICHARD and SARAH were listed in David Edwardes’ pedigree (Carms.
Book, p.148), because they were born earlier than the extant records of St Peter’s
parish.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">This son John
and two
other adult sons of RICHARD are intriguing because their signatures show
education, but we found little evidence of their activities. The three brothers
(John, Richard Nash, JONATHAN) with their cousin OAKLEY
signed the borough Association Oath Roll of February 1696 in support of the Crown against a
"Papist plot," so they likely participated in borough affairs (PRO Document C
213/342, found by Derek Williams). This John LEIGH may be the man of that name
who earlier (13 Feb 1679) witnessed the will of Thomas Lloyd of Cilfachwen,
Cards. (Film no.105234). He must also be the John Leigh noted in the Carmarthen
rent roll as <i>John Leigh dyer</i> where the paid rent on the dye house was
listed, though his name was written in the margin so it was added in a later
year than 1684, according to Derek Williams. Thus he must have been a dyer like
his cousin OAKLEY LEIGH, who was already renting the dye house in 1684.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">Though we have not yet
established a family connection, one of these brothers may have had a son. Both
John and Richard Nash LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>would have been of the right age to father the
Rev. John Leigh recently found in Freystrop, Pembs. This Rev. John must have
been born around 1684, as he was ordained deacon and licensed as curate in
Brechfa, Carms in 1707. He was ordained a priest in 1711 and in 1713 instituted
as rector of Freystrop, Pembs., where he remained until he became rector of
Llanfalteg, Carms. in 1735. He died in that position at Llanfalteg about 12
March 1750/1. Thanks for this information to Paul Vivash and the Transcription
Project making available all data on clergymen in St David’s records.
Unfortunately the filmed parish records of Freystrop and Llanfalteg do not
include the relevant years. In 1724 in Freystrop, however, Rev.John witnessed
two wills as <i>John Leigh</i> <i>clerk,</i> one for Edward Murrow, yeoman
(SD/1724/49) and one for John Lloyd, farmer (SD/1724/48), the latter will being
witnessed also by <i>Mary Leigh</i>, possibly John’s wife. Further study will
have to show whether this was merely coincidence, or whether these two new
Leighs in Pembrokeshire belonged to our line, possibly the clerk John being a
son of one of the young LEIGH men known in Carmarthen in 1696. In support of
that possibility is the fact that our John LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>witnessed the will of
Elizabeth Murrow widow in Carmarthen in 1732, though we otherwise cannot relate
our line to the few people named <i>Murrow</i> who appear at that time in St
Peter’s parish records.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">34. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="34richard"></a>Richard Nash LEIGH (abt 1654 - aft 18 Jun 1696)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
This seems to be the first memorial use of the name of ancestor <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/richard-nash-abt-1530-aft-1597-son-of.html" target="_blank">RICHARD NASH</a><span style="font-family: "arial";">, well-known mercer and great-great-grandfather of this
generation. The NASH name was later honored in this way by many descendants.
Other than his signature on the Association Oath Roll of February 1696, we know
nothing of young Richard Nash or his career, presumably in some part of the
cloth trade like many of his relatives. Apparently he administered his late
mother SARAH'<span lang="en-us">s</span> estate, signing the Obligation Bond dated 8 June 1696 with a
clear, practiced hand and adding "gent" to his name. Surprisingly, SARAH’<span lang="en-us">s</span>
estate administration had earlier been granted on 19 March 1696 to his brother
Harry, <i>"Henrye Lleigh liberus dict defuncti,"</i> i.e. son of the said
deceased woman.</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">35. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="35harry"></a>Harry/Henry LEIGH (bef 1671 - aft 19 Mar 1696)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
See above with Richard Nash LEIGH for our only information about Harry. Since
he did not continue as administrator of his mother’s estate, he may have moved
away or died between March and June 1696, but Harry also did not sign the
borough Association Oath with his brothers John and Richard Nash in February
1696. Listed as Harry in the Edwardes pedigree, he was probably named for his
great-uncle </span><span style="font-size: normal;">
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/earliestleigh-in-wales-by-1597-2.html#6harri" target="_blank">6.Harri LEIGH</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">,
son of RALPH LEIGH listed in the Dwnn pedigree, but otherwise unknown.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">36. Elizabeth LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>(est 1660 - ?)<br />
md William LLEWELYN on 3 Oct 1680 in St Peter's</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
Her name is given as RICHARD’<span lang="en-us">s</span> daughter in Edwardes’ pedigree, and her
marriage is listed in St Peter’s records, but we found nothing else on her or
her husband.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="37jonathan"></a>37. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/37.html#37jonathan"> JONATHAN LEIG<span lang="en-us">H</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">38. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="38thomas"></a>Thomas LEIGH (bef 1671 - bur 10 Mar 1742 St
Peter's)</span></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.17in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">This burial date is attributed to him because no other
Thomas Leigh is known for the man of that name whose burial was listed as <i>
"out of the county gaol"</i> in St Peter's church records (Film no.104504).
Three other men were buried from the county prison in the same week: Evan Jones,
John Wilson, & Sam’l Thomas, which should be an interesting story. However, the
son of RICHARD would have been quite elderly by 1742, so it is equally
likely that he may have been an unlisted son of a different male LEIGH.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-size: normal;">39. Charles LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>(chr 8 June 1672 - bur 21 Oct 1674
St Peter's), "son of Alderman Richard Leigh"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
This son may have been named for his wealthy cousin Charles LLOYD, illegitimate
son of Sir FRANCIS LLOYD and </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"> <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/4th-generation-of-bridgett-leigh.html#13bridgett"> BRIDGETT LEIGH</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">,
his aunt. As mayor in 1666 RICHARD supported the efforts of
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/bridgett-leigh-biograhu.html">Sir FRANCIS LLOYD</a> to secure his estate to
his illegitimate children. The other
LEIGH boys named Charles may likewise be namesakes of </span> <span style="font-size: normal;"> <a href="http://welshleigh.org/genealogy/leighdescendancychart/bridgetta.htm#22charles"> Sir CHARLES LLOYD</a>,
<a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-generation-oakley-leighs.html#59charles">59 Charles LEIGH</a> or <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/starting-in-5th-generation-of-leighs.html#127charles">127 Charles LEIGH</a>.</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">As already said, either the father RICHARD or the son RICHARD signed the petition to incorporate the Fraternity of Hatters or Feltmakers in 1652. The
son perhaps would be too young, but he was old enough to be sheriff of
Carmarthen in 1655. By 1666 he was mayor of Carmarthen. In 1674 and 1676-77 he
signed as <i>"quardianus"</i> or warden of St Peter's church. He was called
Alderman (=city councilmember) of Carmarthen at his son Charles's burial in 1674
and his own burial in 1681.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">RICHARD'<span lang="en-us">s</span> will dated the year of his death in 1681 was probated and indexed but apparently later lost. His son JONATHAN signed a bond dated 2 June 1716 to remove the will from the archives, and perhaps did not return it. This
seems a great loss because wills usually reveal personality and character.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">David Edwardes’ pedigree said SARAH WILLIAM was related to Rev. Rhys Prichard, the "Vicar of Llandovery" whose popular religious verses made him a
beloved figure important enough to be cited as her father's "cousin german" in
the pedigree of the LEIGH<span lang="en-us">s</span>. Her father IEVAN WILLIAM does not appear on any of
the Williams family pedigrees, nor the pedigree of Rhys Prichard, which
otherwise shows numerous connections between Prichard.and Williams families (<i>GG</i>,
Kadwgan Vawr of Talgarth, K1513-1520, 193204, Film no.104350). The Vicar's wife
was NN daughter of George Williams of Llanegwad, who was not otherwise
identified, and it is possible that SARAH was related to this wife, not the
Vicar himself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>
</b><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>Sources:</b> St Peter's Collocation of Names (Film no.104504) and original
Bishop's Transcripts in Latin (Film no.105132}; administration, bond, and
inventory for SARAH WILLIAM'<span lang="en-us">s</span> estate in 1696 (NLW SD/1695/21 GiD, B,I);
will of Thomas Lloyd 1679 (Film no.105234); index of wills (Film no.105108);
bond for removal of RICHARD LEIGH'<span lang="en-us">s</span> will (NLW SD/1716/21 X); Order Book forming the
Hatters Fraternity in the Carmarthen Record Office (CRO MUS 155), also published
by Alcwyn Evans, <i>Local History Lore in 1914</i>, as found by Derek Williams.</span></span></span>Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225012214067507363.post-83588174071793534672017-03-17T18:00:00.000-06:002017-04-18T09:15:46.159-06:002nd Generation Richard Leighs<table align="center" bgcolor="#ff2200" border="0" cellpadding="4" style="width: 725px;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="37jonathan"></a>37. JONATHAN LEIGH (bef 1671 - abt Jan 1717), <i>gent</i>.
Father: <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-leigh.html#14richard">14. RICHARD LEIGH</a><br />
md (1) NN UNKNOWN (? - 19 Mar 1703 St Peter's) before 1699</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: normal;">40. Richard LEIGH (abt 1698 - 1 Apr 1767 St Peter's), ?trunk maker</span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">41. <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/41.html#41william"> WILLIAM LEIG<span lang="en-us">H</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">42. Sarah LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>(chr 19 Nov 1702 St Peter's - aft 2
May 1720)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;">
We know nothing about this Sarah's adult life, and perhaps she died as a young
girl. She appears to be well treated by Catherine Gwynne LEIGH, who became her
stepmother when she was two years old. Not only Catherine willed her thirty pounds
in 1720, but also she had been bequeathed three pounds by Catherine's aunt Alice
Woodford in 1714.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-size: normal;">md (2) Catherin<span lang="en-us">e</span> GWYNNE (? - between 7 - 27 May 1720 w.p.) on 29 Feb 1704 in St Peter's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">JONATHAN was said to be a trunk maker but
he was called <i>gent</i> in Alice Woodford’s will and elsewhere. He was sheriff in 1707, according to Derek
Williams. He witnessed the will of his aunt URSULA LEIGH in 1690. His death date
is taken from the document naming his minor son Richard as the administrator of
his estate on 4 February 1718ns. The bond was signed for the minor son by two
cousins of JONATHAN, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/58.html#63john" target="_blank">63 JOHN LEIGH</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">
clothier and <a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-generation-oakley-leighs.html#59charles">59 Charles LEIGH</a> dyer, both<span lang="en-us"> sons of </span></span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://earlywelshleigh.blogspot.com/2017/03/1st-generation-oakley-leighs.html#15oakley" target="_blank">15 OAKLEY LEIGH</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"> (NLW SD/1717/22 B). As a widow, Catherine GWYNNE left bequests to two of her step-children (William and Sarah, but not Richard) in 1720.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><b>Sources: </b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;">St. Peter's Collocation of Names (Film no.104504); administration, bond, and inventory for SARAH WILLIAM'S estate in 1696 (NLW
SD/1695/21 GiD, B,1): index of wills (Film no.105108); bond for removal of
RICHARD LEIGH'<span lang="en-us">s</span> will (NLW SD/1716/21 X); wills of Alice Woodford (Film
no.105240), Catherine GWYNNE (Film no.105240), and WILLIAM LEIGH<span lang="en-us"> </span>(Film
no.105248).</span></span></span>Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879512265582253237noreply@blogger.com0