Meredith Lloyd (1526)

Born 1526 in Denbigh, Wales

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Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales

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Biography

Wales. The Lloyd family of Maesyfelin in Cardiganshire is believed to date back to a Welsh ancestor who captured Cardigan castle from the Norman invaders in 1164. The first of this family to adopt the Lloyd name was Gwilym Lloyd in the 14th century. The main branch moved to Carmarthenshire in the early 1600's. But other Lloyds came into the Cardigan area, notably the 18th century farmer and poet David Lloyd.

As English-style surnames started to replace the old Welsh patronymical names, the Lloyd name began to appear in north Wales. Meredith Lloyd lived at Llanelian-yn-Rhos in Denbighshire in the mid 1500's. His son George was a bishop, best remembered for Bishop Lloyd's palace in Chester built in the early 1600's. Another Lloyd family held lands near Bala in Merionethshire, first at Rhiwaedog and then at Hendwr.^[1]

Sources

• Lloyd, Select Surname, online.
• [1], Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume III, Chapter LIV, page 191, Lloyd, Baton, Morrison, Tallman, Dudley, Field, et al.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Lloyd

Contributors

25 September 2010, Gedcom Geer imported the data for Meredith Lloyd from Geer.ged; adopted by Michelle Brooks on 2013-12-02.