Cadet — not the barony · Welsh chokepoint
Hooton · Griffith · Owen
c. 1380 – 1690
Carries. Stanley of Hooton into Penrhyn, then Humphrey of Llwyn du, then Pennsylvania.
Breaks. Leaves the honour. Does not carry the 1313 writ across the ocean.
Jonet Stanley of Hooton marries Gwilym ap Gruffydd and becomes Lady of Penrhyn. Sir William Griffith marries Joan Troutbeck — Stanleys, Goushills, FitzAlans, Bohuns in one household. Owen Humphrey of Llwyn du sends his daughter Rebecca Owen to Merion Township, Pennsylvania, in 1690.
This is the other American door. It is a sister of the Watkins trunk. Same 1192 split. Not the 1313 writ.
Sister houses
Women of this house
Men of this house
Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn
c. 1445 – c. 1539 · Chamberlain of North Wales. × Joan Troutbeck.
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Owen Humphrey of Llwyn du
17th c. · Welsh descendant who sends a daughter west.
Words used here
- Writ
- A royal letter calling a man to sit in Parliament — and, in this family, the legal act that created the barony.