John St. John.

Thomas ap Gruffydd [Parents] died ¹ about 1470. He was buried ² in Abbey of Bardsey Caernarvonshire. Thomas married Elizabeth.

His last duel took place some time toward the end of Henry the Sixth's reign or the beginning of that of Edward the Fourth when he fought with David Gough somewhere in Merionethshire and killed him Having laid aside his armour and thrown himself upon the ground to rest after the combat he was treacherously run through the body and killed by one of Cough's retainers He was buried in the Abbey of Bardsey Caernarvonshire.

Elizabeth [Parents]. Elizabeth married Thomas ap Gruffydd.

Henry ap Gwilyn.

Gruffyd ap Nicholas [Parents] died on 2 Feb 1461 in Herefordshire. Gruffyd married Mabel.

Nicholas ap Philip and Janet ap Gruffyd had an only son and heir ap Nicholas who was a remarkable and most ingenious gentleman The possessor of an ample fortune and allied by marriage some of the principal families both in North and South Wales power and influence in Caermarthenshire were very great He to have had property in Caermarthen town for his mother there and was bu at Whitland.
    
His hasty spirit and violence of temper often involved him in complications with his neighbours from which it required the exercise of all his ingenuity to extricate himself He even incurred the enmity of no less a personage than Richard Duke of York by withholding from him a piece of land in Herefordshire and he insolently and peremptorily refused to obey the summons of the Sheriff to answer for his conduct At the head of a numerous and warlike clan which was strongly attached to him he gave shelter and encouragement to innumerable Welsh thieves who were in the constant habit of plundering and ravaging the English border The frequency and severity of these predatory incursions raised against him a host of enemies the most powerful of whom Humphrey Duke of Buckingham Richard of York Jasper Tudor Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Warwick made such representations to the King Henry VI accusing him of being an encourager and harbourer of thieves that he was deprived of the Commission of the Peace and Captaincy of Kilgarran Castle which that sovereign had granted him It is alleged that his hatred of the English was Gruffyd's reason for harbouring those who ravaged their territory A Commission was finally appointed by the King in 1441 to arrest the accused and investigate the charges against him...

Mabel [Parents]. Mabel married Gruffyd ap Nicholas.

Sir John Griffith.

Sir John Griffith of Abermarlais.

Nicholas ap Philip ¹. Nicholas married Janet ap Gruffyd.

Some authorities derive Sir Rhys ap Thomas [great-grandson of Nicholas ap Philip] from Owain through S. Kentigern, but the family history and the Welsh annalists usually make Pasgen the eldest son of Urien, his ancestor. He succeeded his father in the principality of Rheged, but was deposed for his cru elty, his sister's husband, Morgan Morganwdd, being put in his place. The Triads called Pasgen one of the " three haughty chiefs of Britain." He had issue : Mor,1 who became a saint, i.e., a Celtic monk, and is bit. at Enlli or Bardsey Island ; Nidiaw,1 also an anchorite ; and Gwrvyn,1 who founded a church in Anglesey and had a son, Nidan,2 Confessor to the monastic community of Pennion, in Anglesey. Mor was the lineal ancestor of Rhys ap Goronwy, ap Einion, ap Lloarch, ap Kymbathwye, ap Gurwared, ap Syssylt, ap Rhyne, ap Llarch, ap Mor, ap Pasgen, of whom nothing more than their names 1 has descended to posterity. Rhys ap Goronwy m. Margaret, dau. and heir, of Griffin ap Kiddy, Lord of Gwynvey, and had a son, Elider ap Rhys, m. Gladwys, dau. of Philip ap Bah ap Gwathvoed. Gwathvoed was possibly the Gwath- voed Vawr who m. Morfyd, dau. and heir, of Ynys Ddu, King of Gwent, and refused to be one of the subject princes who rowed King Edgar, the Saxon, in his boat upon the River Dee, in 973, bidding the King in reply to his threats, rather "ofncr na ofni angau " — "fear him who fears not death." Another Gwathvoed lived a century later and was Prince of Ceredigion and Lord of Cilwyr. Some say Gladwys who in. Elider ap Rhys was his descendant ; Philip ap Bah, Lord of Esginbrath, being his grandson. Elider and Gladwys had a son, Sir Elidur Ddu, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, who m. Cecily, dau. of Syssilt ap Llewelyn, Lord of Cantrescliffe, and had issue : Katherine, m. David Morthye, Lord of Odyn Castle and Fountain Gate ; and Philip, m. Gladys, dau. of David Vras, and was the father of Philip, who had issue : Crisley, m. Richard Aubrey ; Gwylliam (ancestor of Captain John Vonderhorst Rees, of Killymaenllwyd, J. P., in 1872) ; and Nicholas his eldest son, who m. Janet, dau. and heir, of Gruffyd ap Llewelyn Voethes, descended from Elystan Gloddryd, Prince of Ferlys, sometimes called Ethelystan. He was a godson of King Athelstane, of England, and son of Cuhelyn ap Ivor, Lord of Builth, descended in the seventh generation from Teon, Bishop of Glouces ter, who had Cassibelaunus as his ancestor. Elystan was Lord of Caermarthen and Prince of Ferlys between the Wye and Severn rivers, m. Gladys, dau. of Rhun ap Ednowen, or Gwenllian, dau. of Einion ap Howel Dda, and

Janet ap Gruffyd. Janet married Nicholas ap Philip.

Meredith ap Henry Donne ¹.

Captian John Collier [Parents] was born ¹ in 1685. He died ¹ in 1765 in Virginia. John married Elizabeth Ironmonger.

Elizabeth Ironmonger. Elizabeth married Captian John Collier.

Other marriages:

Gaines,

Samuel Meredith.

Charles Collier [Parents] was born ¹ in 1660 in England. He died ¹ in 1735 in King and Queen County, Virginia. Charles married Mary Eyers.

Mary Eyers [Parents] was born ¹ in 1665 in Norfolk, Virginia. She died ¹ in 1701. Mary married Charles Collier.