Anwyl of Tywyn Family - Descendants of Evan Anwyl (6)

Descendants of Evan Anwyl (6)

The present Anwyl of Tywyn Family descend from the sixth son, Evan (Ieuan), whose descendants became head of the family on the deaths of his brothers and their male issue.

• Evan (Ieuan) Anwyl of Brynkir, Caernarfonshire later Llugwy, Merionethshire (1610–1666) and = Catherine daughter of Maurice Williams. He was High Sheriff of Merionethshire in 1649 and again in 1664. He had issue;

• Maurice Anwyl of Llugwy (c.1645-c.1695) = Joane daughter of Hugh Pryce, of Penmaendyfi, Caernarfonshire.

Maurice Anwyl is recorded by Thomas Nicholas in Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales (1872);

"The ancient family of Anwyl have resided at Llugwy from the time when Maurice Anwyl (circa 1695) m. Joan, the heiress of that place, but previously for many ages at Parc, in the parish of Llanfrothen, in the same county of Merionethshire. There Lewys Dwnn, Deputy Herald, found them, in the 16th century, when pursuing his Heraldic Visitation of Wales; and there they had then been seated for several generations. Their lineage is from Owain Gwynedd, the illustrious Prince of North Wales (12th cent.), son of Prince Gruffydd ap Cynan, of the direct line (through the eldest son, Anarawd) of Rhodri Mawr, King, first of N. Wales, then of all Wales (9th cent.)."

Maurice had issue;

• Evan Anwyl of Llugwy (c.1680 – 1722) = Mallt. He had issue: two sons, Maurice (see below) and Evan (see Descendants of Evan (b.1718));
• Maurice Anwyl of Llugwy (c. 1717 – 1783) = Anne daughter of Hugh Evans, of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire. Had issue two sons, Evan (son A) and Maurice (son B);

• Evan Anwyl of Llugwy (son A) (1745–1817) = Margaret Davies grand daughter of Jonathan Bunce, of Glanfread. Had issue one son;
• Jonathan Bunce Anwyl of Llugwy (1789–1852). He died unmarried and without issue and this line expires with him.