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- Meurig, to whom he left Bodowen. He witnessed a deed at Bodedern, 30 HENRY VII, (1459), and d. in 1550. His wife was Margaret, dau. (by Anghared, dau. and co-heir of Ednyfed ap Sir Tudor, paternal uncle of Owen Tudor, of Ievan Vychan ap Adha, of Pengwern, co. Denbigh, and jure uxoris of Mostyn, co. Flint, ancestor of the Mostyns of Mostyn, derived from Tudor Trevor, Lord of Hereford. By this lady he had two sons,
1 Owen ap Meurig, of Bodowen, in Anglesey, whose great-grandson, Sir Hugh Owen, Knt., of Bodowen, m. Elizabeth, dau. and heir of George Wiriot, Esq. Of Orielton, co. Pembroke, and had two sons,
William Owen, ancestor of the Owens of Bodowen, and John Owen, grandfather of Sir Hugh Owen, Knt. Of Orielton, created a Bart. In 1611.
2 John Owen, ancestor of the Owens of Bodsilin, subsequently also of Clenenneu, co. Carnarvon, and Brogyntyn, Salop. Their heir, Margaret, dau. of William, Owen, Esq. was mother, by her husband, Owen Ormsby, Esq. of Willow Brook, co. Sligo, of a dau. and heir, Mary Jane, who inherited the family estates. She m. 11 Jan. 1815, William Gore, Esq. M.P., who assumed the additional surname of Ormsby, and by him is the mother of John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, Esq., created Baron Harlech, 1875.
source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1. London, UK: Harrison, 1882.
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