Kenrick family, of Woore, Shropshire, Cerniogau and Nantclwyd, Denbighshire.

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Kenrick family, of Woore, Shropshire, Cerniogau and Nantclwyd, Denbighshire.

The Gethin family, early owners of the Cernioge estate in Denbighshire, descended from Rhys ap Maredudd ap Tudur, of Plas Iolyn and Lowry, daughter and heiress of Howel ap Gruffydd Goch. Their third son, Maurice Gethin, steward of the abbey of Aberconway in 1501, married Ann, daughter of David Myddelton Hen, Gwaynynog. Their son was Robert Wynn Gethin of Cernioge. His eldest son, Robert Gethin died without issue and the estate passed to his brother, Morris Gethin, a merchant in London, who served as sheriff for Denbighshire in 1667.

The Cernioge estate passed from the hands of the Gethin family with the marriage of Morris Gethin's daughter Rebecca to Richard Kenrick of Nantclwyd. The Kenrick family also acquired the Woore estate, mainly in Woore and Gravenhonger, Shropshire, following the marriage of Richard Kenrick's son, also named Richard, with Dorothy, sister and co-heiress with Sir Richard Barker, of Woore Manor. Their heir was Andrew Kenrick, who married Martha, daughter and heiress of Eubele Thelwall of Nantclwyd, so that Nantclwyd also passed to the Kenrick family. Andrew and Martha Kenrick were succeeded by Colonel Richard Hughes Kenrick and his eldest son was Richard Kyffin Kenrick who sold the Cernioge estate (but not Woore or Nantclwyd) to James Blair of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, solicitor, in a number of complicated transactions (after heavily mortgaging the estate) between 1817 and 1828.