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- Evan ap Robert1585 - 1668
Facts and Events
From Mrs. Watson Winslow, History of Perquimans County [N.C.] (1931, repr. 1990), p. 345: "Ievan (known as Evan Robert Lewis) living 1601, removed from Rhiwlas, in Merionothshire to Vron Goch, and died there. He had five sons, all after the Welsh custom taking the name of EVAN, as follows: 1. John ap Evan, 2. Cadwalader ap Evan, 3. Griffith ap Evan, 4. Owen ap Evan, 5. Evan ap Evan. Many of this family immigrated to Va., and from the state to Albermarle at a very early date."
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- 1. IEVAN KNOWN AS EVAN ROBERT LEWIS was born Abt. 1585 in Yspytty Ifan Parish, Denbighshire, Wales, and died September 1668 in Cynlas, Merionethshire, Wales (now part of the administrative district of Gwynedd). He married JANE VERCH CADWALADER, daughter of CADWALADER AP MEREDYDD. She was born Abt. 1585 in Wales.
H.M. Jenkins: From the sons of Evan Robert Lewis, many of the Welsh settlers of Pennsylvania were descended. John ap Evan, it is stated, had several children, and one account says that two of them were William John, of Gwynedd (the purchaser, with Thomas Evans, of the township), and Griffith John, of Merion, (who d. 1707). This would make William John and Thomas Evans first cousins, and such a relationship is very probable.
Cadwalader ap Evan, the second son of Evan Robert Lewis, it is stated, left no children. "Of Griffith ap Evan nothing is known." The descendants of Owen ap Evan are very numerous; they form the Owen family, the posterity of Robert (and Jane) Owen, of Merion, who came from Wales in 1690, and d. 1697; and the Cadwalader family are his descendants also, in the female line." (Note we now know quite a bit more about Griffith ap Evan - JQ).
Frongoch in Wales is in a mountain valley wherein flows the River Treweren. It is just north of the market town of Y Bala.
Thomas Allen Glenn (Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, p. 85):
Evan Robert Lewis, fourth son of Robert Lewis was born in the parish town of Yspytty Evan, Denbighshire (Evans MS. ped.; Swnn, ii., 278.] He appears to have acquired or assumed the epithet of Llwyd (or Lloyd), by which he was occasionally designated, and which his son, Evan Lloyd Evan (otherwise Evan ap Evan), adopted as a surname.
43 Eliz. (1601). Named as fourth son of Robert Lewis in the pedigree by Lewys Dwnn, Deputy Herald, and certified by the Rev. Evan Lloyd [ap William Lewis] 43 Eliz. (1601). [Dwnn, ii., 278-9]
"Evan Robert Lewis, an honest sober man, born near the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth." [Owen MS. genealogy in possession of the late George S. Conarroe, Esq. of Philadelphia; see "Historical Collection of Gwynedd," H. M. Jenkins, 1st ed., 144-5.]
"Ieuan, known as Evan Robert Lewis... He removed from Rhiwlas (or its neighborhood), in Merionethshire to Vron Goch, also in Merionethshire, and there passed the remainder of his life. He had five sons, all taking for themselves, in the Welsh manner, the surname of Evan." [Historical Collections of Gwynedd, H.M. Jenkins, 1st ed., 144; from Evans MSS.]
Fron Goch, which gave its name to the present ecclesiastical district of the same name, is a large farm partly in the parish of Llandderfel, to which it still pays tithes, but mostly in the township of Ucheldre, in the parish of Llanfor, Merionethshire. It was formerly of much greater extent than at the present time, several parcels of land having been cut out of it, and appears to have extended into the township of Cynlas, formerly part of Llanderfel, but now locally in Llanfor. The principle residence was in Llanfor, near the present Fron Goch station, but there were other tenements, some of them on detached parcels, belonging to Fron Goch. The tenants have of late times always baptized and buried at Llanfor Church, but in earlier days they occasionally were buried at Llandderfel, especially if residing at the time in any of those tenements belonging to Fron Goch which lay in the latter parish. There is evidence to show that Fron Goch was sometimes considered to be a township of itself.
Evan Robert Lewis's daughter, and presumably oldest child, Alice, was married in 1624, so that if she was then aged about 16 years, her father's birth cannot be placed much later than 1586-7. The visitation pedigree dated 1601, gives him as the fourth son among twelve children (there were also six daughters) of Robert Lewis, all born before the above date, so that if he was, say, the seventh child, and the youngest of the twelve was an infant in 1601, which seems to have been the case, the approximate date of Evan's birth would be circa 1684.
Rhiwlas is an estate, with the mansion house near Bala, about one and a half miles from Fron Goch, which now forms part of the Rhiwlas property. Evan Robert Lewis, may, upon his removal from Yspytty Evan, have lived for a time very near Rhiwlas and subsequently gone to Fron Goch, but it seems more probable that the original MS. from which R. E. Evans acquired his data referred to a Rhiwlas in Yspytty Evan, in Denbighshire, and that he accidentally reversed the names of the counties. Fron Goch is about three miles from the border of Yspytty Evan parish. Rhiwlas (the green slope), is a very common name, and scores of farms were formerly so called, some of which are now known by other names.
1606-7, 4 Feb. Named as a creditor in the will of Thomas ap Evan ap Robert of "Sputty" (Yspytty Evan), Denbighshire (to which his brother Hugh Robert, and his kinsman, John Griffith ap Edward were witnesses), proved Feb. 1606-7. [Probate Registry of St. Asaph; filed will]
Evan Robert Lewis removed to Penllyn before 8 Dec., 1624, and on that date is described as of the parish of "Llanfawr" (Llanfor). [Llandderfel parish register, anno 1624.]
Evan Robert Lewis, after his second marriage and at the time of his death, if we are right in supposing that the following refers to him, lived in the township of Cynlas, about one mile from Fron Goch House, and probably on land then incuded in the farm of Fron Goch.
1668, 28 Sept. "Evan ap Robert [Lewis] de Kynlas sepultus est vicesimo octavo die Septembris." [Llandderfel Parish Register, anno 1668.][burial record.]
1668, 12 Nov. "Robert filius Evani ap Robt. Lewis ex ijus uxore Gaynor sepultus fuit duodecimo die Novembris." [Llandderfel Parish Register, anno 1668.] As no reference to the will or an administration of Robert Evan Lewis can be found in the Act Book 1637/1670 at St. Asaph, or at London, it is presumed that, as was then frequently the case, he had some time before his decease vested any property he may have owned in trustees for the use of himself during life, and for the benefit of his widow and children after his decease.
The name of the first wife of Evan Robert Lewis is given in one of the Evans MSS. as Jane, and there is no doubt, although not proven, that she was one of the daughters and eventual co-heiresses of Cadwaladr ap Maredydd, of Coed y Foel, in the township of Penmaen, Llanfor. At any rate, Cadwaladr (or Cadwalader) ap Evan, eldest son of Evan Robert Lewis, and heir to his mother, acquired, apparently by inheritance, one half of Coed y Foel, and John Wynne, the grandson of Thomas Wynne who is proved to have married the other daughter of Cadwaladr ap Maredydd, held the other half, in 1698, hence the place, so divided, was afterwards known as Coed y Foel isaf and Coed y Foel uchaf (viz., lowest and uppermost). Coed y Foel adjoins Fron Goch. The mother of Cadwaladr ap Maredydd was Elin, daughter of Cadwaladr ap Robert, of Rhiwlas, son of Sir Robert ap Rhys of Yspytty Evan (see Roberts pedigree). [Add. MS. 9864, British Mus.; Dwnn, ii., 228.]
Evan Robert Lewis married, secondly, Gainor.
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