Welsh Journals

of Thomas Skyrme, gentleman, muster-master of Pembrokeshire.29 He is mentioned in the wills of his brother John in 1687, and his nephew James in 1696, and was evidently unmarried. 4. Arthur Laugharne. As he is not named in the family settlement of 1654, it seems probable that he had died before that date. 5. Jannett Laugharne, living in 1654. 6. Ursula, married after 1654, William Tucker of Sealyham, and secondly John Wogan son of Morris Wogan of Welsh Hook in St Lawrence parish, and both lived at Sealyham till their death. By the first husband (who died in 1706) she had three sons, and by the second, one son and three daughters. 7. Margaret, spinster in 1654, afterwards married a Mr. Gwynn. Vaughan Laugharne succeeded to Pontfaen. In the Civil War he supported the Parliamentary party, and on 1 October 1644 his uncle, Major-General Rowland Laugharne, granted him a commission as Cornet in a troop of horse commanded by Captain Thomas Evans of Crickmarren in south Pembrokeshire. He married Anne a younger daughter of Griffith Hawkwell of St. Kennox, Llawhaden, seneschal of the manor of Trecadwgan and Llanddinog in Dewsland. They were married at Llawhaden on 30 January 1655-6, by John Lloyd, esquire, in the presence of Richard Johns, Thomas Colby, and others. By the prenuptial settlement made on 15 November 1655, Vaughan Laugharne conveyed to trustees his estate then consisting of Plas y Pontvaen, Doledwym, a water corn mill and a fulling or tucking mill, a house and garden called Court y Cwm, three houses and gardens in Trenewydd, four messuages in Trenewydd, Tir dan y Coed, a parcel of land called Cwm du, and another parcel beneath the road from Trenewydd to Bontbridd, in the parishes of Pontfaen, Llanichaeth, and Morvill; Asheston and Knaveston in Brawdy; and a messuage in the township of Castle Kenlas in Mathry; to be held to the uses of Vaughan and Anne in survivorship, with remainder to their issue.30 The trustees were John Gibbon of Lampeter Velfrey, John Colby of Bletherston, John Jones of Llawhaden, and Richard Bateman of Haverfordwest, gentlemen. Anne died some eight years after the marriage, administration of her goods being granted to her husband on 2 May 1664. The inventory compiled on 29 April by Owen Lewis of Llanychlwydog and John Lewis the elder of Nantybugail, included a lease for 21 years of Whitehook in Bletherston which had been granted to her by her father.31 Vaughan Laugharne died not long afterwards leaving three children, all under age: 1. James Laugharne, born 12 February 1656-7, see later. 2. John Laugharne, born 17 July 1658, married Mary daughter of George Scourfield, widow of Thomas Vaughan of Farthingshook. They lived at Farthingshook, where he made his will on 19 February 1701. He bequeathed to his niece Anne Laugharne £ 20 to be paid by his nephew Vaughan Laugharne; to his step-daughter Mary Vaughan, £ 20; to his aunt Margaret Gwynn, £$; the legacies to be charged on