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Highmead mansion was built in 1777 by Herbert Evans (c.1744-1787) on the estate of his mother Elizabeth Lloyd, the last of the Llanfechan branch of the Lloyds of Castell Howell. Her father, David Lloyd, left Llanfechan and settled at Cardigan, but Elizabeth had several farms, on one of which Highmead was built. Herbert Evans was succeeded by his sons John who died without issue in 1799 and by another Herbert who also died without issue in 1848. The estate passed eventually to Mary Anne Evans, the daughter of Watkin Evans (d. 1816), a younger brother of John and Herbert, who had married Elizabeth Griffiths, the heiress of Dolgadfan, Montgomeryshire. She married Delme Seymour Davies (d. 1869), the son of William Griffith Davies (1762-1814) of Penylan. Herbert Davies (b. 1842), their son, assumed the surname Davies-Evans in 1884 in order to succeed to the estates of his great-uncle Herbert Evans (dsp 1848) of Highmead.
Major Herbert Davies-Evans (1842-1928) was a descendent of the Davies family of Penylan who appear to have owned the Penylan estate since the 1640s at least. Penylan was sold by Delme Seymour Davies (1807-1869) to David Jones of Pantglas, but Major Herbert Davies-Evans's secnd son, Delme William Campbell Davies-Evans (1873-1953), bought back Penylan when it came on the market.
According to the 1873 return of owners of land the Highmead estate measured 6,307 acres in Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire and carried an annual rental of £3915. In 1956 Highmead became a school for the disabled but closed down sometime after 1975.

The Rosser family lived at Trehyddion, and later Penpicillion, in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire. The family was resident in the parish of Llansteffan by the early 17th century. By 1763 William Rosser (died 1791) was residing at Trehyddion; he was married to Esther (died 1827), the daughter of John Edward of Llangynog, Carmarthenshire. As well as being a farmer and gentleman, William also appears to have worked as a mariner and coal merchant. They had five children, Hester (born c. 1778), Ann, John, Mary (1781-1851) and Jennet. In the early 19th century, the family moved from Trehyddion to Penpicillion.

Trefayog (Trefaeog) is situated in St Nicholas parish, some miles from Llwyngwaren in Pembrokeshire. Cilau-wen is situated in Llanstinan parish, also in Pembrokeshire. Both estates were in the possession of the Evans family during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Members of the Evans family of Maenol include Thomas Evans (d. pre-1853) of Maenol, Anne Evans (d. c.1843), spinster, Eleanor otherwise Ellen Evans (d. c.1868) spinster, and Marianne Evans (d. pre-1873) of Llanidloes, neice and contingent heir of Thomas Evans, and wife of William Hunt (d. pre-1867) of Llanidloes.

The estate appears to have come into the hands of Mrs Elizabeth Hayward (alive 1827-1888) of Maenol, Llanidloes, widow, and Thomas Hayward (alive 1828-1873) of Llanidloes, solicitor. The estate was later held by Margaret Eleanor Phillips (alive 1871-1928) of Aberystwyth, formerly M. E. Hayward, spinster, grand niece of Thomas Hayward, and wife of the Rev. Canon Evan Owen Phillips (d. pre-1897). The Phillips family owned an estate in the parishes of St Dogmaels and St Davids, Pembrokeshire. Evan Owen and Margaret Eleanor Phillips had a daughter Ellen Margaret Phillips (alive 1900) of Aberystwyth.