Welsh Journals

The Family of Griffiths of Llandisilio, Glaiv havren, Trederwen Feibion Gynwas, and Keel. By WILIAM ARTHUR GRIFFITHS, OFFICIER d'Acadbmie. (Continued from Vol. XL., p. 140). In 1905 the centenary of the death of Mrs. Ann Griffiths of Dolwar, the hynm writer, was celebrated. I was then asked by the late Sir O. M. Edwards to write some articles for his magazine "Cymru" on other members of the Keel,. Meifod, family, who had done so much in the cause of religious toleration in Montgomeryshire at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th cen- turies. The present article is part of the result of that request. I should like to take this opportunity of thanking publicly those friends who so kindly helped me in this work, particularly Mr. Robert Owen of Welsh- pool, Miss Owen, the late Archdeacon Thomas, and the late Mr. T. G. Jones of Llansantffraid. My special thanks are due to Mr. Jones for the loan of some books preserved by his father,. Cyffin," who wrote a short account of the Keel family. One memorandum book was of special interest as it commenced in 1650 with notes on the administration of the estates of Richard Griffiths. mercer (of Pool, Glanhavren, and Trederwen House). It also bore the inscription Nathanial Griffiths, aged 20 years, Candlemas, 1723." It continued with various entries concerning the Deytheur district and mentioned John Griffiths of Llanercheela, Deytheur, and his brother, Nathaniel Griffiths, of Colfryn, near Meifod. A receipt was mentioned from Edward and Elizabeth Griffiths, of Keel, Meifod, in connection with the burial of John Griffiths of Llanercheela. in Febuary, 1769. Thus Elizabethan times are almost linked up with those within living memories. The Public Record Office, etc., supplied most of the remainder. These present notes were written about 1920, but limitation of space in the Montgomeryshire Collections has necessitated a revision to avoid any appendices. I have, therefore, had to repeat some items already given in the Montgomeryshire Collections of 1924, and also amend one or two details. I hope that the present article will serve to preserve the memory of those Powysians who served their day and generation so well and faithfully. W. A. GRIFFITHS. H.M. Dockyard, Malta. July, 1937.