Plas Bodafon Papers

Descending from Cadrod Hardd, and intermarrying with the Maesoglan, Llwydiarth and the Henllys families. Throughout the generations they have been staunch members of the Church of England, and during the Great Civil War were naturally ranged on the King's side; and it is not at all fanciful to think that the Richard and John Williams who were prominent in supporting the Anglesey insurrection of 1648 were father and son of Bodafon and not of Rhodogeidio as is usually supposed (see J.R.Phillips:Hist.Civil War, ii, 400-401, where names of domiciles are not given, thus making overt proof impossible). One of the most notable of the family was the Richard Williams who flourished in the reigns of Queen Anne and the first George; he was a doughty defender of his rights, as witness his demurrer to the unjust rent-charge of Fferam Ucha (doct.4634), his defence of the ancient Bodafon sitting places in Penrhoslligwy church (4633), and his successful effort to save Pant-y-gwred in Llangwyllog from the debacle in the early twenties of the 18th. century (4638). He was followed in succession by three clergymen, all named Richard, each at work in Anglesey, and two of them at some time rectors of Llanrhuddlad. The daughter and heiress of the third Rev.Richard Williams was married in 1815 to Dr.William Mason of Caernarvon, a distinguished physician who was invited to attend professionally to H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent and her daughter (the later Queen Victoria) when on their visit to Anglesey in 1832; from this marriage were born three brothers who became clergymen, one a proxime for the Hertford Prize in Oxford, the other an Honorary Canon of Manchester.

Deposited by Mrs. Dorothy Williams Mason, representative of one of the most ancient families in Anglesey.

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