Bridget (Pryse) Corbet (abt. 1592 - 1677)

Born about 1592 in Ynysymaengwyn, Tywyn, Merionethshire, Wales

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Corbet — married 1614 (to 1644) in Ynysymaengwyn, Tywyn, Merionethshire, Wales

Descendants

Died 1677 at about age 85 in Ynysymaengwyn, Tywyn, Merionethshire, Wales

Bridget Pryse was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Merged profile had:

Bridget Pryce was born in 1592 at Ynysymaengwyn.^{[citation needed]} Ynysymaengwyn was a gentry house in the parish of Tywyn, Gwynedd (formerly Merioneth),^[1] Wales.

• From "The Family of Corbet" :

Bridget m. 1st to Robert Corbet. Robert had succeeded to the Humfreston estate from his mother Frances, dau. and heiress of William Humfreston, Esq.

Robert became known also as "of Ynysymaengwyn", after he married Bridget, who was the daughter and heiress* of Sir James Pryse of Ynysymaengwyn.

Robert Corbet died in 1644, and his widow, Bridget, remarried to Sir Walter Lloyd, of Llanfair, Clewedogan, Co. Cardiff, at no very distant date after her first husband's death.

• Shown in the attached Corbet pedigree:

Bridget, dau. & co-heir* of Sir James Price, m. 1st to Robert Corbet "of Ynysymaengwyn and Humfreston". Robert succeeded to the Humfreston estate from his mother Frances, dau. and heiress of William Humfreston, Esq.

*The Corbet pedigree shows her as "co-heir", but Burke states that when James died in 1642, he left Elizabeth and an "only dau. and heiress".

Bridget Corbett died in 1665. ^{[citation needed]}

Ynysymaengwyn

• as sketched in the 1700's by T. Bluck

Ynysymaengwyn was a gentry house in the parish of Tywyn, Merionethshire, (now Gwynedd), Wales, situated near the south bank of the River Dysynni. The name means 'the meadow of the white stone'.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Ynysymaengwyn, accessed 10 January 2015.

• Burke, J. (1851). "Families of Corbet of Moreton Corbet and Powell of Nanteos," in The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, 2, pp. Google Books.
• "The family of Corbet, its life and times", by Mrs. Augusta Elizabeth Brickdale Corbet Corbet
• A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Volume 3 - google books - pages 190 & on 467 - bottom right.

• http://turnerwhakapapa.weebly.com/owen---corbet.html