Pedigree of the Watkins family of Usk

Pedigree and achievement, dated 1637, of the Watkins family of Usk, Monmouthshire, with fifty-one fully painted coats of arms, mostly impaled, apparently compiled by Walter Hopkins of Brecon.
The pedigree shows the Watkins family's descent, in four parallel lines, from Bennett Pencla[w]dd [Sir Bennet de Penclawdd], lord of Kilfigyn [Cilfeigan, near Usk], as well as Kydifor Vawr of Kilsant, Barnard Newmarch [Bernard de Neufmarché] and Iestyn ap Gwrgan[t], down to the brothers William and Thomas Watkins of Usk (both alive 1637); some collateral branches are also noted. An inscription concerning Bennett Penclawdd is inserted in a cartouche at the beginning of the pedigree, with a further inscription, mostly illegible, on the dorse. Several roundels, for the Watkins brothers's wives and immediate descendants, have been left blank; two escutcheons have been added below the last generation and then carefully erased with white paint; the roll also retains pencil markings used to sketch out the pedigree before painting. A missing individual ('Gronow Benet') has been interpolated in a later seventeenth-century hand. The pedigree is an example of 'Style 3' in Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), pp. 11-12.

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Bloomsbury Auctions; London; Purchased at auction, lot 44; 6 December 2017; 99817036202419.

Title based on contents.

'28' on dorse.

The pedigree is not recorded in Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996) or its subsequent additions and corrections.

Affected by dirt and insects. Damage, primarily at upper end, repaired at NLW, 2019.

April 2019

Description compiled by Rhys Jones.

Usual copyright laws apply.

For other pedigrees by Walter Hopkins see NLW Rolls 7, 148, 224, 265, NLW Facs 664, Cwrtmawr MS 185A and NLW, Tredegar Estate Records P1/4, P1/6-8.

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