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About Robert Owen
- not to be confused with Robert Owen who was also a Quaker and from Wales....
Robert Owen was born in Fron Goch, Merionethshire, Wales, England, eldest son of Owen ap Evan Robert Lewis, of Fron Goch near Bala in Merioneth, Wales, and his wife, Gainor John.
Robert married Rebecca Humphrey, daughter of Owen and Jane Humphrey on January 11, 1678 in Llangelynin Parish, Merionethshire, Wales, England.
Robert and Rebecca came to America on a William Penn voyage in 1690.
"After his arrival, Robert Owen purchased, by deed dated 5. 6mo. 1691, for one hundred pounds, the lands from Thomas Lloyd, variously estimated, according to surveys, at 442, 450, or 548 acres. This land lay west of the present settlement of Wynnewood, towards the village of Ardmore, north of the P.R.R., and was the plantation, which was confirmed to his eldest son and heir, Evan Owen, by the Commissioners, on 8. 12 mo. 1704, who conveyed it, by deed dated 31 Dec, 1707, to his brother-in-law, Jonathan Jones." (Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania
By Charles Henry Browning) _____________________
note: the Thomas Lloyd, mentioned above hasd secured 5,000 acres from Penn in 1684 (Welsh Tract)
About a mile up the trail going west (on Montgomery Avenue), Robert Owen’s house, Penn Cottage, was built at the same time as Merion’s meetinghouse, probably by the same workmen. An old journal tells of a boy climbing an outside stairway at the Owen house to spy on William Penn saying his prayers in an upper room ..."Penn thanking God for providing comfort in the wilderness."
From this story we judge it possible that there was an outside stair up the back wall of the meetinghouse for pupils and schoolmaster to use. Jonathan Wynne, only son of Dr. Thomas Wynne...a Quaker minister and physician to William Penn...had a farmhouse built about the same time about a mile and a half east toward the city in the midst of "Wynne’s fields" (now Wynnefield), a sturdy house that withstood a Revolutionary War skirmish. Though modified, these three stone buildings, the Owen house, the Friends’ Meetinghouse, and Wynnestay, bear similarities to one another.
History of the building of the meeting house:Merion Friends Meetinghouse has stood as a landmark for 300 years. It is the most pictured Quaker meetinghouse in America, was the first public building in the area, and in 1998 was named a National Landmark by the U. S. Department of the Interior. Not only does its age, largely unaltered design, and continuous use make it a notable structure, but also the fact that Welsh members of the Society of Friends who built it represent the earliest migration of Celtic speaking Welsh in the Western Hemisphere. These "Merioneth Adventurers" were not accustomed to building meetinghouses in Wales. In the homeland they were not even permitted to meet for worship in each other’s houses when being persecuted as nonconformists. So here in the freedom of America, they built what they knew, something like a barn or a house, with a loft up above to be used as a schoolroom.
In or before 1695, the Welshmen who constituted Merion Meeting contributed labor, materials, loads of stone and wood to construct a meetinghouse. First indication that it was ready for use is found in Monthly Meeting minutes which records that Daniel Humphrey and Hannah Wynne, youngest daughter of Dr. Thomas Wynne, were married "at the public meeting house in Meirion" on October 20, 1695.
Observable evidence suggests that the building was executed as a single unit, according to National Park Service historians, but not until investigative deconstruction or judicious archaeological work under the floor, can more be known.
http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/texts/first300/part03.htmlnother
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Robert's royal lineage is traced through Rhy-Mechyllt, feudal lord of Llandovery Castle, to Howell-DDA, King of All Wales (948) and through Rhy-Mechyllt's wife Lady Jane to Hugh Capet, King of France (940-996).
Robert Owen became a Quaker minister in Wales and was instrumental in working with William Penn to help Quakers immigrate to Pennsylvania. The Quakers were much persecuted in Wales by the Church of England. Robert was fined many times and imprisoned at Dolgelly Gaole in 1654 for "being absent from National Worship".
Robert and Rebecca and their children came to Pennsylvania with a certificate of removal to Merion Monthly Meeting, PA from Tyddyn Garrey, Merionethshire Quarterly Meeting filed June 8,1690. The certificate is preserved in the archives of the Haverford (Radnor) monthly meeting.
Robert was elected to Justice of the Peace and to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1695 and 1697. He was a trustee of the Merion Meeting.
Robert and Rebecca's home was known as "Penn Cottage" by tradition known as a place where William Penn stayed during his travels.
Robert died October 8, 1697 in Philadelphia Co., PA. His will is published in Joseph West and Jane Owen which notes source as Will Book "B" Page 422, No 15 Year 1705, He is buried at the Merion Friends Meeting Grounds, Philadelphia.
They had eight children.
Elizabeth (1680-?) married David Evans Evan (1682-1727 married Mary Hoskins Jane (1682-?) Gainor (1688-?) married Jonathan Jones Owen (1690-1741) married Ann Wood John (1692-1752) married Hannah Maris Robert, Jr. (1695-?) married Susanna Hudson Rebecca (1697-1697)
______________________________ Merion Meeting Records By Charles Henry Browning p. 121 Anne, a daughter of Griffith ap John, or Jones, of Merion (a son of John ap Evan, of Penllyn, "old Merion," and a cousin of Robert Owen,, of "New Merion") who owned a 187 acre place northeast of Bala, Philadelphia County, and whose sons John and Evan, and their descendants took the name of Griffith.
p. 109 Calwalader Thomas married a sister of Robert Owen, a prominent resident in Merion "Welsh Tract" and one of their sons is mentioned in the will of his uncle John Thomas founder of the well known family of Calwalader. Merion Meeting Records By Charles Henry Browning
Pedigree
Source: Browning, Charles Henry, (1969). “Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families …” Page 415. < GoogleBooks >
https://books.google.com/books?id=i_cMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&d...
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Robert Owen's Timeline
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1657
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Bala, Gwynedd, Wales
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1677
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1681
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March 1682
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Fron Goch, Merion, Wales
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1682
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1683
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1683
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Merionethshire, Wales
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October 26, 1688
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Gilfach Goch, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales, United Kingdom
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