John Hughes

John HUGHES: b. 6 Oct 1805, ? - d. 4 July 1883, ?

cf.

p.76-7. The Seize Quartiers of the Family of Bryan Cooke, Esq of Owston, Hafod-Y-Wern, and Gwysaney, and of Frances His Wife, Daughter and Heir of Philip Puleston

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Seize_Quartiers_of_...

and ...

p.78-9. The Seize Quartiers of the Family of Bryan Cooke, Esq of Owston, Hafod-Y-Wern, and Gwysaney, and of Frances His Wife, Daughter and Heir of Philip Puleston

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Seize_Quartiers_of_...

"... Of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, educated at the University of Edinburgh; born 6th. October, 1805; married at Llanferres, Co. Denbigh, 5th. July 1832, his kinswoman (cousin), Dorothea ..." ... "By Dorothea his wife, who died in Cleveland Row, St. James's, 27th of January 1848, and was buried within Gayton Church, Mr. John Hughes has one child: Talbot de BASHALL HUGHES, born at Gayton Mansion, 15th. December 1836; Ensign Cape Mounted Riflemen, who descending paternally from the heirs male, derives through his mother, from the heirs-general, of the Hugheses of Gwerclas, Barons of Kymmer-yn-Edeirnion."

http://pearsall.tripod.com/RobertLucas.html

"... married September 17, 1857, at the Bavarian Chapel, St. James, Westminster, John Hughes, Esq., Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, son (by Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Davies Esq., of Trefyman, co. Denbigh) of William Hughes of Gwerclas and Kymmer in Edeirnion, co. Merioneth, Lords of Kymmer and Barons of Edeirnion, descended from the last reigning prince of Powis. He died July 4, 1883. No children."

and also:

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Page 388 | Document Viewer

http://www.mocavo.com/A-Genealogical-and-Heraldic-Dictionary-of-the...

" ... m. 17 Sept. 1857, to John HUGHES, Esq., barrister-at-law, a scion of the house of Gwerclas, of the royal lineage of Powys, co-heirs of the Sovereign dynasties of North Wales, south Wales and Powys (see HUGHES of Gwerclas)."

plus ...

Read the eBook Wells Cathedral: its monumental inscriptions and heraldry : together with the heraldry of the palace, deanery, and vicar's close : with annotations from wills, registers, etc., and illustrations of by Arthur John Jewers online for free (page

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: John Hughes of Cleveland Row,= St. James's, Westminster, and the Inner Temple, Barrister-at- Law, 3rd son of William Hughes of Penylhaudd, co. Denbigh, and some time of Gayton Mansion, co. Northampton ; heir male of Hughes of Gwerclasin Edeirnon, co. Merioneth, Lords of Kimmer and Barons of Edwinon. Descended from Prince Owen Brogyntyn, Lord of Edeirnon, Dynmael, and Abertanet in Powys, son of Madoc ap Meredith, last reigning Prince of Powys. Born 6 Oct. 1805.

Arms : Argent, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules.

Information about the whole dynasty:

Hughes of Gwerclas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_of_Gwerclas

Hughes of Gwerclas were a native Welsh royal family descended from Owain Brogyntyn the illegitimate but acknowledged son of Madog ap Maredudd (one of the last kings of Powys, of the House of Mathrafal) by a daughter of the "Maer du" or "black mayor" of Rûg in Edernion. His father granted to him and his successors the Cantref of Edeyrnion and the Lordship of Dinmael. These areas were both remote frontier lands situated between Powys and the neighbouring ascendant kingdom of Gwynedd. From the earlier part of the 12th Century both lordships usually paid homage to Gwynedd.[1] Owain had three sons. It is from the youngest of these sons, Iorwerth ab Owain ap Madog ap Maredudd, that the barons of Cymmer yn Edeyrnion claim descent. Iorwerth's son, Gruffudd ab Iorwerth, was confirmed in his lands by Edward I in 1284. The first recorded use of the Kymmer yn Edernion baronial title is by Llywelyn Ddu (great-great grandson of Owain Brogyntyn) in 1370 who resided at Gwerclas Castle in the parish of Llangar, Merionethshire (in that part of the county historically included within the cantref of Edeyrnion). The family started using the surname "Hughes of Gwerclas" after Hugh ap William in 1546. Thomas Hughes, "Esquire of Gwerclas and Hendreforfydd" is recorded as having served as a captain under the Royalist standard for Charles I and died in 1670. His third and only surviving son John Hughes married a descendant of Ednyfed Fychan. John was succeeded first by his brother Hugh, and then his son Daniel. Daniel married Catherine daughter of John Wynn "of Pen y Clawdd". He died in 1754 and from this time the Hughes of Gwerclas resided at Pen y Clawdd, thought to be in the vicinity of Chirk in Flintshire. In 1851 the XVIIth Baron of Kymmer yn Edernion is recorded as being William Hughes Esq. (b. 1801 at Pen y Clawdd). He spent a long time living at Gayton Mansion in Northamptonshire. In the 1851 National Census of England and Wales he, along with his wife, children, and domestic servants are recorded as living in Twyford, Hampshire. He contributed to antiquarian debate and was employed as a barrister at the Inner Temple. His only son, William O'Farrel Hughes, a direct patrilineal descendant of King Madog ap Maredudd, and de jure heir to the throne of Powys was still living in 1911 but by then a 73-year old retired clergyman with no children. It is not known if the Baronetcy of Kymmer yn Edeirnion became extinct upon his death, but it seems likely. His cousin - Lieutenant Talbot de Bashall Hughes (b. 1836) - had joined the Cape Mounted Riflemen in the 1850s and disappears from the record. It is possible that he may have died in South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu Wars. Nevertheless, any princely title to Powys or Powys Fadog had been in abeyance under Welsh Law since 1353 and neither had had any nominal claimant since the pardon of Maredudd ab Owain Glyndwr in 1421).[2] "Few families can establish a loftier lineage, or deduce their descent through more numerous stocks of historic distinction, than the Hughes of Gwerclas, Barons of Kymmer yn Edeirnion, within the ancient Principality of Powys and Kingdom of Wales. Derived, by uninterrupted lineal male succession, from Owain Brogyntyn, Lord of Edeirnion, Dinmael and Abertanat in Powys, son of Madoc, last Sovereign Prince of Powys, the existing heir of the Hughes's deduces, through the Baronial Lords of Kymmer, and the Royal Line of Powys, a genealogy of twenty eight descents, extending over ten centuries, transmitted in common with the lineage of the monarchs of North Wales and South Wales, from Rhodri Mawr, renowned in the annals of the Cymri as the Egbert of his race, who, uniting the several states of North Wales, South Wales and Powys, became King of all Wales, AD 843." Burkes Landed Gentry, 1850, p.603 Footnotes The Royal Tribes of Wales, pg. 120 Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, p. 114

References The Royal Tribes of Wales, Philip Yorke, London (1799), The Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales, John Bernard Burke (1851), vol. 1, pedigree L11 A Genealogical History of Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, by Bernard Burke, John Burke, Published by Harrison, 1866, Oxford University

Gwerclas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwerclas

Gwerclas usually refers to a former castle and farmstead close to Cymmer in the parish of Llangar in the ancient cantref of Edeyrnion, Wales. It is now just an uninhabited upland area. The modest castle found at the site during the early Middle Ages is now completely ruinous. The ancient Barons of Cymmer yn Edeyrnion (known as the Hughes of Gwerclas) cite this place as their ancestral home. Prior to the resettling of the castle in 1186 by the ancestors of the Hughes family it was the power base of the mysterious Maer Du or "Black Mayors" of Edeyrnion.

According to the 1884 catalogue, the following family portrait was displayed in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London:

Exhibition of the Royal Academy - Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) - Google Books

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“Middle Room:

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No. 228. - Portrait of the late Mrs. Hughes*, John Hughes, Esq., Mrs. John Hughes** and Master Talbot de Bashall Hughes (J.Wood)***”

• i.e. Mrs. Elisabeth HUGHES, née DAVIES, who died on 4 April 1844
  • i.e. Mrs. Dorothea HUGHES, née HUGHES-LLOYD, first wife of John HUGHES, mother of Talbot de Bashall HUGHES.
• John Wood, history & portrait painter, 1801-1870 ...?