Welsh Journals

of Cilgwyn-see later. 2. David Lloyd. 3. William Lloyd, who lived at Cilgwyn his eldest brother granted him an annuity of two guineas on 15 February 1729-30, and he was portreeve of Adpar in 1733. 4. Thomas Lloyd of Coedmore-see page 92. 5. Jane, married John Howells of Penybailey, the pre-nuptial settlement dated 28 May 1725, and had issue. 6. James Lloyd, born posthumously on 8 October 1702, died in the Mediterranean in 1722 or 1723. John Lloyd, the eldest son of John and Elinor Lloyd succeeded to Cilgwyn. He served as High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1731, and appointed his younger brother Thomas Lloyd of Coedmore to be under-sheriff. He married firstly in 1722 to Anne, daughter of the Revd. Thomas Davids, rector of St. Thomas, Haverfordwest (then deceased), by Hester his wife. Their prenuptial settlement is dated 16 and 17 October 1722, the trustees being Thomas Phillipps of Cringae, Carmarthen, John Stephens of Haverfordwest, gentleman, Samuel Hughes of Llwynybrain, Carmarthenshire, and Hugh Fowler of Haverfordwest, esquire. She died without issue. He married, secondly, on 7 February 1741, Elizabeth Davies of St. Stephen's parish, Bristol, daughter of John Davies of Bristol, by whom he had three children a note in Mr. G. R. Brigstocke's MSS describes her father as John David of Newcastle Emlyn, corvisor. On 2 August 1721, John Lloyd, his mother Elinor Morley, and her husband, Walter Morley of Capel Tydist, Llangadock, gentleman, mortgaged the Cilgwyn estate for £ 237 to James Johnson of the county borough of Carmarthen, merchant, and on the same date they assigned the Cilgwyn estate to trustees, to secure £ 50 per annum for Elinor, and John Lloyd further agreed to pay the £ 237 to the Morleys. The final concords in the transaction, describe the Carmarthenshire part of the property as comprising 5 messuages, 4 cottages, a water grist mill, 9 gardens, and 733 acres in the parishes of Llanfihangel Yeroth and Llangeler, and the Cardiganshire part of the property as 25 messuages, 25 gardens, and 2,200 acres in Llandyfriog and Llandysul, and the moiety of 20 messuages, 10 cottages, a water grist mill, a fulling mill, 25 gardens, and 2,910 acres in Llandyfriog, Trodyroyre, Penbryn, and Brongwyn. Thus by this time, the Cilgwyn estate had grown into a very substantial one. On 29 September 1722 a partition of the estate was made between Stephen Parry of Noyadd Trefawr, Cardiganshire, and John Lloyd. On 19 September 1724 John Lloyd cleared a mortgage of £ 400 created in 1665, and paid the money to William Howell of Morvil parish, Pembrokeshire, and Edward Emanuell of Kilgerran parish, and Margaret his wife (described as descendants and heirs-at- law of William ap Jevan John of Llandyfriog, yeoman, deceased) and on 15 June 1730 Gabriel Powell of Swansea, gentleman, assigned