Hugh Gwyn of Peniarth., High Sheriff of Carnaerfonshire

   Other names for Hugh were Hugh ap Gwyn of Peniarth., High Sheriff of Carnaerfonshire and Hugh Gwynn.

  Research Notes:

Source: FamilySearch.org AFN: 1VXC-6QS (11/10/06) has b. and christened 1538.

From the bookReifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry, edited by Thomas Allen Glenn (Philadelphia, 1902), provided by books.google.com, p. 47:

"[John Powell, aka John ap Howell Gôch] married Sibill, daughter (seventh child) of Hugh Gwyn, Esquire, of Peniarth, Caernarvonshire, by Jane, daughter of Owen ap Hugh, of Bodeon, Anglesey [see footnote 5, p. 47], and sister unto Sir Hugh Owen, Barrister-at-Law and Recorder of Caermarthen, ancestor to the Owens, Baronets, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire. Hugh Gwyn [see footnote 6, p. 47] was High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire from 2 December 1599-1600, and was commissioned one of the Justices of the Peace for that county, 11 May, 1611.

"Owen ap Hugh, of Bodeon, Anglesey, was High Sheriff of Anglesey, 30 November, 1562-63, 1579-80 (30 November), and died 1613. His second wife, mother of Jane, who married Hugh Gwyn, was Sibill, youngest daughter of Sir William Griffith, Knt., of Penrhyn, Caernarvonshire, Chamberlain of North Wales, by his second wife, Jane, daughter of John Puleston, of Bers and Havod y Wern."

From p. 59:

"X. JANE OWEN, who married Hugh Gwyn, of Peniarth, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire from 2 December, 1599-1600, and Justice of the Peace 11 May, 1611. Their daughter, Sibill (XI), married John Powell, of Gadfa, Llanwddyn, Montygomeryshire, and had Elizabeth (XII), who married Humphrey ap Hugh, of Llwyn du (see page 47)."

  Noted events in his life were:

• Appointed: High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 2 Dec 1599 or 1600.

• Appointed: Justice of the Peace, 11 May 1611.

Hugh married Jane verch Owen ap Hugh Owen, daughter of Owen Ap Hugh Owen of Bodeon, High Sheriff of Anglesey and Sibill Griffith, in 1565 in Penarth, Caernarfon, Caernarfonshire, Wales. (Jane verch Owen ap Hugh Owen was born in 1538-1550 in Bodeon, [Llangadwaladr], Anglesey, Wales.)