Holland family, of Pennant, Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire

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Holland family, of Pennant, Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire

The Holland family of Berw, Anglesey, claimed descent from John Holland (c. 1355-1400), earl of Huntingdon and duke of Exeter, and through him from Robert de Holland, baron Holland (fl. temp. Edward I), of Lancashire, and Joan Plantagenet, the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, the sixth son of Edward I.

John Holland (alive 1461) of Pennant, married Elinor, daughter and co-heir of Ithel ap Hywel ap Llywelyn of Berw. In the next generation, Owen Holland (d. 1529) the eldest son took Berw, and the younger son, Morgan Holland, took Pennant. The Holland family remained in possession of the Pennant estate until at least 1723. The estate was owned by a Thomas Edwards in the second half of the eighteenth century who was succeeded by the Rev. Canon Howell Holland Edwards, a well known collector of manuscripts, who died in 1842. His niece Miss Margaret Grace Jones of Bryneisteddfod, near Conway, succeeded to Pennant Ereithlyn after the death of the Rev. John Boulger. She bequeathed her estate to the children of Mr Francis W. Lloyd Edwards of Nanhoron, one of whom, Mary Georgiana Lloyd, married Alan Percy George Gough of Gelliwig, Caernarfonshire, in 1895.