John Games

The first of his line to take the surname "Games."

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• GAMES, Thomas (d. by 1593), of Aberbrân, Brec.
• 2nd s. of John Games of Aberbrân by Ann, da. of Sir William Vaughan of Talgarth; bro. of Walter. m. Eleanor, da. of John Morgan of Pencraig, wid. of Harry Morgan of Penllwyn Sarth, 4s. 2 or 3da. suc. bro. c.1579.
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Brec. from c.1582, q. by 1583, sheriff 1579-80, commr. musters 1580.
• Games, who came from a junior branch of an ancient Brecon house, sat for Breconshire through the influence of his relatives the Vaughans. That Games was first elected for the county during his elder brother’s lifetime may perhaps be explained by the latter’s failing health. As knight for Breconshire, Games might have attended subsidy committees appointed on 24 Feb. 1585 and 22 Feb. 1587. The omission of his name from the commission of the peace, 1593, suggests that he had died.
• G. T. Clark, Limbus, 198-9; T. Jones, Brec. ii. 177; D’Ewes, 409; APC, xii. 350; Flenley, Cal. Reg. Council, Marches of Wales, 137, 213, 237; Lansd. 737, f. 165v; Lansd. 43 anon. jnl. f. 171; Exchequer, ed. E. G. Jones (Univ. Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law. ser. iv), 31-5.
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• GAMES, Walter, of Aberbrân, Brec.
• 3rd s. of John Games of Aberbrân and bro. of Thomas. m. Wenllian, da. of William Walbe[offe] of Llanhamlach, Brec., wid. of Thomas John Lloyd.
• When Games was returned for Brecon Boroughs in 1572, his brother was knight of the shire. In June 1569 he leased lands at Brecon for 21 years, and in May 1576 he leased the rectory of Devynock. No other references to him have been found.
• G. T. Clark, Limbus, 198-9; W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Wales, 22; Augmentations, ed. Lewis and Davies (Univ. Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law ser. xiii), 207, 210, 217, 220.
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• Eleanor MORGAN
• Born: ABT 1552, Newport, Pembroke, Wales
• Father: John MORGAN
• Mother: Elizabeth STRADLING
• Married 1: Thomas GAMES (b. ABT 1540) (son of John Games and Anne Vaughan)
• Married 2: Henry MORGAN of Penllwyn Sarth
• Children:
  • 1. Elizabeth MORGAN
  • 2. Edmund MORGAN of Penhow (Sir Knight)
  • 3. William MORGAN (b. ABT 1566)
  • 4. Mary MORGAN
  • 5. Hannah MORGAN
  • 6. Henry MORGAN
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/MORGAN.htm#Eleanor MORGAN1 _____________
• WILLIAMS, David (d.1613), of Gwernyfed, Aberllyfni, Brec.; Serjeants' Inn, London and Kingston House, Kingston Bagpuze, Berks.
• Yr. s. of Gwilym ap John Vaughan of Blaen newydd, Ystradfellte, Brec. educ. M. Temple 1568, called 1576. m. (1) bef. 1579, Margery, da. of John Games of Aberbrân, Brec., 9s. inc. Henry 2da.; (2) 1597, Dorothy, da. and coh. of Oliver Wellesborne of East Hanney, Berks., wid. of John Latton of Kingston Bagpuze, 1s. 1da. Kntd. 23 July 1603.1
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Brec. from c.1577, Carm. from c.1584, Rad. from c. bencher, M. Temple 1590, Lent reader 1591,1594; attorney-gen. for S. Wales in ct. of great sessions 1581-95; recorder, Brecon 1581-1604; serjeant-at-law 1593; puisne justice of King’s bench 1604.2
• Williams came of an obscure brach of an ancient border family. His father was a ‘substantial yeoman’ and cousin to Sir John Price† of The Priory. His first wife was sister to Thomas Games, who represented the shire in 1572 and the two succeeding Parliaments, and to Walter Games, who had preceded Williams in the representation of the boroughs; her family was also related to that of Vaughan of Porthaml. .... etc.
• .... But in 1585 he himself was accused of having ‘instigated’ John Games (his father-in-law), Robert Knollys and others to dispute in a disorderly manner the possession of the demesne lands of Dinas, Breconshire, by Blanche Parry, the Queen’s ‘chief gentlewoman’; and in 1601 of having, as lessee of the lands of Mary Price, a royal ward (and probably a kinswoman of his), encroached on property in Aylton, Herefordshire.5
• .... etc.
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