Welsh Journals

found himself the heir as nearest of kin to the Gellidywyll family in 1795- W. O. Brigstocke continued to live at Blaenpant, and shortly after 1800 Gellidywyll was let to Dr Evan Jones (member of the Jones' of Penrallt in Llangoedmor) who remained there until he inherited the Dolwilym estate in 1813. Gellidywyll was then given to W. O. Brig- stocke's second son, the Revd. Augustus Brigstocke, vicar of Cenarth, who held it until his death in 1852. The property then passed to the vicar's son, William Owen Brigstocke (1831-1900), who lived princi- pally at his Cardiganshire seat, and in 1873 advertised Gellidywyll to be let as a mansion consisting of an entrance hall, dining, drawing and sitting rooms, eleven bedrooms, rooms for housekeeper, butler, and other servants, numerous outhouses, garden, pleasure ground, coach house, stables for eight horses, dog kennels, and other out-buildings. The walls of some of the rooms in the mansion were panelled. How- ever, the sands were running out, and before the end of the nineteenth century, W.O. Bridgstocke had sold Gellidywyll to the Earl Cawdor. And thus the link between Gellidywyll and the blood of Ednowain ap Bradwen, after a period of over three hundred years, was finally severed. FRANCIS JONES Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary