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Brogyntyn Estate and Family Records Elections -- Wales -- Caernarfon.
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Letters to Lady Margaret Owen,

Letters to Lady Margaret Owen, [c. 1682]-1727. Correspondents and subjects not previously mentioned are James Brynker, 1718-1727, Margaret Godolphin, 1718, Hugh Williams of Coedmawr, 1713, Edward Wynn(e) at Oxford, Griffith Wynne, 1699, family members [1683x1702] and others about a land exchange and disputes mainly affecting the Caernarfonshire and Glyn estates; condolences on the deaths of her father, Owen Wynn [c. 1682] and her husband, Sir Robert Owen, 1698; college life at Oxford; petition procedure and expenses following William Owen 's defeat in the Caernarfon borough elections, 1713; and non-family trusts. Further correspondents are Edmund [Gibson], Bishop of Lincoln, on his family and recommendation of Mr Lewis [Owen] for an academic fellowship, 1716-1718; and Ellis Wynne, vicar of Llandanwg, requesting permission to build a chapel on the site of the old Shire Hall at Harlech, 1706. The file also contains three letters by Margaret Owen to Richard Mostyn of Penbedw concerning trusts in the will of Sir Robert Owen, 1698-1699.

Brynker, James, 1668-1740.

Correspondence of William Owen of Brogyntyn,

Letters received by William Owen, [c. 1705]-1767, together with a number of copies or drafts of his replies. Some of the letters are from members of the Godolphin and Owen families, [c. 1705]-1758, and others are from solicitors, bankers, national figures and local gentry, including several from Edward Wynn(e) of Bodewryd. General topics include charitable bequests and legacies by Anne Jones of Clenennau, [c. 1705]-1716; William Owen 's role in local government; elections in Shropshire and North Wales, particularly corrupt practices in the Caernarfon Borough elections for 1713 and 1722; improvements to Brogyntyn (Porkington) Hall, 1734; the appointment of Dr Hutton as bishop of Bangor, 1743; the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746; the purchase of Dolbenmaen, 1735; litigation relating to the estates of Richard Clayton and Arthur Owen, 1740-1760, boundary disputes in Gest and Penyfed, and quarrels with Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, 1741. The last file contains correspondence between William Owen, Edward Wynn(e), a Flemish lawyer and others, in an attempt to prove his claim to £500 out of the Bodysgallen estate, following the death of a distant kinsman John Francis Ouwens, 1710-1711, 1785.

Wynne, Edward, 1681-1755