Please see Darrell Wolcott: Marchweithian of Is Aled - Further Notes; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id318.html. (Steven Ferry, September 10, 2023.)

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(see media for Welsh naming scheme..... Cadwalader to to Roberts... and such)

• Resource: An Inventory of the Roberts Family Genealogical Papers, ca. 1864-1918

(2 boxes and 2 bound volumes; 2 linear ft.) RG 5/131Abstract This collection consists of unpublished books and papers compiled by Charles and Lucy Roberts on the

descendants of Robert Cadwalader of Wales and his children who came to America, settled in Gwynedd Township, and took the surname Roberts.

• After the death of Charles Roberts in 1902, his widow, Lucy Roberts, hired Gilbert Cope to continue the compilation and put it in useful order with the intention of publication. Cope had family group sheets bound into two large volumes, which he called “Book A” and “Book B”, and these form the bulk of this collection. The remainder of the collection consists of related books, notes, papers, and correspondence.
• Location:

Friends Historical Library
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•Another Source: Descendants of Robert CADWALADER one of the Roberts families of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania

Introduction from Howard Jenkins "Historical Collections of Gwynedd" (1897), chapter 14 Note that the other Gwynedd Roberts families can be found on a separate web page.

It is designed in this chapter to give systematically what is known concerning the descendants of Robert Cadwalader, of Wales, whose children, in the Welsh manner, took the surname Robert, subsequently changed to Roberts. His sons were Cadwalader, Morris, Nicholas, John and Rowland, and he had one daughter, Elizabeth. All these, as well as their father, were in Gwynedd or Montgomery [township], within a few years after the earliest company of settlers. They came, there is good evidence to prove, from Bala, in Merionethshire; the journal of an English Friend, mentioning Rowland Robert's religious visit, speaks of Bala as his birthplace. Cadwalader is said to have come with the first settlers in 1698, and there is reason to believe that he was accompanied by Morris. That they were among the company on the Robert and Elizabeth is not certain, but the family tradition is that upon the ship which brought them there was much sickness, and that Cadwalader, who was noted for his kind and benevolent character, was active in assisting those who were ill. Subsequently, the father, Robert Cadwalader, came over with his wife, and their other children: Nicholas, John, Rowland, and Elizabeth. Some of them, certainly John, settled first near Philadelphia, in Oxford township, but all of them had located in Gwynedd or Montgomery, within a few years after the first settlement. An old account book of Ellis Roberts, of Gwynedd, tailor (not of this family), shows that Morris Roberts bought buttons (Ellis spells it "butnes") of him, in the 9th mo., 1704, and that he had other dealings with Nicholas Roberts, as early as the 5th mo., 1705. Cadwalader's name appears as witness, on a marriage certificate, 3rd mo. 22, 1699. He bought land of Robert John in 1710, and his name is on the subscription paper for building the new meeting-house of 1712, - the subscriptions for the purpose being raised in 1710-11. The parents, Robert Cadwalader and his wife, were old people when they came, and did not long survive. In the marriage certificate of their daughter Elizabeth, and Daniel Morgan, in 9th mo., 1718, Robert is spoken of as "late of Gwynedd," showing his death to have occurred previous to that time. It is the tradition that none of the family were Friends at the time of their immigration, but if not, they soon joined the Society. John was married according to the order of Friends in 1706; Rowland in like manner in 1713; Cadwalader, in 1714; Nicholas in 1717; and Morris and Elizabeth, in 1718. Rowland was a minister among Friends, and so also was Elizabeth, as well as her husband Daniel Morgan.

From the marriage certificates (Gwynedd and Radnor MM) it is apparent that a second Roberts family of Gwynedd consisting of Evan, Ellis, John, William, Lowry and Jane are first cousins or other close relatives of the children of Robert Cadwalader. They sign the marriage certificates of Robert Cadwalader's children as a group and vice versa. The parents of this second Roberts family are not known.

Robert Cadwalader, of Wales, whose children, in the Welsh manner, took the surname Robert, subsequently changed to Roberts. His sons were Cadwalader, Morris, Nicholas, John and Rowland, and he had one daughter, Elizabeth. All these, as well as their father, were in Gwynedd or Montgomery [township], within a few years after the earliest company of settlers. They came, there is good evidence to prove, from Bala, in Merionethshire; the journal of an English Friend, mentioning Rowland Robert's religious visit, speaks of Bala as his birthplace.

Robert Cadwalader and his wife, were old people when they came, and did not long survive. In the marriage certificate of their daughter Elizabeth, and Daniel Morgan, in 9th mo., 1718, Robert is spoken of as "late of Gwynedd," showing his death to have occurred previous to that time

Robert Cadwalader is a lineal descendent of Marchweithian of Isaled, a chieftain who was by legend a head of the eleventh of the "Fifteen Tribes" of North Wales, but in fact lived later (contemporary with Gruffydd ap Cynan 1080-1137 with whom he went into battle as an ally). The commot of Isaled is in the cantref of Rhuvoniog, in Perfeddwlad, Gwynedd containing part of Llanrahiadr and Denbigh in Merionethshire and Denbighshire and a portion of the Vale of Clwyd. Penllyn and Penmaen had been largely depopulated in the fight between Edward I and the Welsh, with most of the inhabitants killed and the land laid in ruins.

b) The ancestry of Robert Cadwalader, who removed to Gwynedd, is described thusly: his father was Cadwaladr ap Robert (ap Howel) who is named in 1636 in the Lay subsidy of Llangower. His father was Robert ap Howel, named in connection with a debt for a trifling sum, in the will of John ap Lewsi of Llangower dated 24 Mar 1572/3 and who died prior ot 3 Charles I (1627/8), leaving a son and heir Cadwaladr. His father was Howel ap Cadwaladr, lessee of the "Grange of Penllyn" also known as "of Llangower." His father was Cadwallader ap Robert and his grandfather was Sir Robert ap Rhys and the Llangower lands had probably been passed down throught them as part of the land held by Sir Robert ap Rhys under the Abbey of Basingwork. Howel or his grandson Cadwaladr secured other lands in Llanycil later, probably a leasehold.

c) Robert ap Rhys and his parents, Rhys "Fawr" ap Meredydd and his wife Lowry, have effigies on their tombs pictured in Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania. Rhys Fawr was of Plas Iolyn (a ruin also photographed in Welsh Founders) and was one of the Lancastrian Captains at Bosworth Field on the Lancastrian side. He was entrusted by Henry VII with the Standard of England after Sir William Brandon was slain. Rhys was steward of the Abbey of Aberconwy, a position he inherited from his father Meredydd ap Tudor.

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