Lewis family, of Llwyngrawys, Cardiganshire, and Clynfiew, Pembrokeshire

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Lewis family, of Llwyngrawys, Cardiganshire, and Clynfiew, Pembrokeshire

David Lloyd of Clements Inn, London, sold Clynfyw in the parish of Boncath, Pembrokeshire, to David Llewelin, Penalltcych, Clydey, in 1685. David Llewelin's grandson, Owen Davies of Westminster, sold the same estate in 1753 to Thomas Lewis of Llwyngrawys in the parish of Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire.

William Lewis, Thomas Lewis's son by Catherine his second wife, married Margaret Bowen in 1776, by which marriage the Lewis family acquired the Pantyderi estate in the parish of Llanfair Nantgwyn, Pembrokeshire. Margaret was the daughter of Thomas Bowen (d. 1763) who had acquired Pantyderi through the will of his uncle John Jones. William and Margaret's daughter Elizabeth (b. 1779) married Thomas Lewis (1768-1845) of Clynfyw, grandson of Thomas Lewis of Llwyngrawys and Magdalen so that the estates reverted back to the Bowen family.

Thomas Lewis of Clynfyw acquired the estate of his cousin Henry Greswood Lewis (d. 1829), and in 1831 his trustees purchased the Clydau estate in the parish of Clydau, Pembrokeshire, from George Bowen of Llwynygwair, Pembrokeshire, who had in turn purchased it from Wiliam Thomas of Castell Gorfod. In 1784, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Lewis of Llwyngrawys, became the third wife of William Williams of Tre-fach in the parish of Whitchurch, Pembrokeshire, who owned an estate in Whitchurch and Bridell and elsewhere in the same county, and properties in the town of Cardigan. Their heiress married Thomas Bowen of Pantyderi. James William Bowen, their son, seems to have acquired not only all the family estates, but also the Plas y Bridell estate in Pembrokeshire. James William Bowen's son, Thomas Edward Lewis Bowen, sold almost 1,300 acres of the estate in 1912.