Preface Some Say Ones Parentage Does Not Matter. Sometimes

’ ’ ’ c e r . r le C est ici l image de qui du e Le culte des mo ts , c est sens ’ ’ — o r é r . u c e V ie o de n t e destin e immo telle Q est que la d un h mme , ’ ’ qu est c c que m avie si le passé e t l avenis me leur donnaie nt leur ’ ’ véritable sens ! Tu l avais l o ublié lo rsque tu poursuivis ton destin ’ ’ I I n et il individu el. y a pas de beau destin individuel n est de C r r r . r sa s a r g andeu qui dans la se vitude On se t famille , pat ie , Dieu , ’ a e r — m ém o i r S u n é . Ho n e ! S l a t , la cience , id al nte qui se t que soi , ’ ad ur r 1 é . L ho nne tu t ouvais ton appui en nous , mais aussi pendance ’ ’ ” de l homme est d acc ept er s as ub o r dinatio n . ’ — Le; R o guem llar d par Henry BO R D EAUX . PR E FACE ’ r Some say one s parentage does not matter . Sometimes pe haps they are not living up to the standar d their ancestors set befor e them and . r have got enough conscience left to speak to them about it Othe s , r r when they a rive at what the wo ld may consider a good position , may be inclined to make out that their ancestors wer e much more r important than they eally were . ’ r exam ine well r Is it not bette to one s blood, so that misplacedp ide , vain pretence and hereditary failings may be avoided ! and so learn r o r r that one family is not much bette wo se than another , for the bad penny turns up in every Family history sooner o r later as inevitably as the family genius . It was hoped that when this account was begun it would prove the r elationship between two o r three differ ent families of GWATKI N . It seems probable that the GWATKI N S of Pencoyd are the for bears of that line which we call the Reynolds GWATKI N S (owing to one of rr A R Sir REY them having ma ied Theophila P LME , niece to Joshua N OLDS . ts ) But the link which connec the two lines is not found, neither are those which would prove the connections with the lines we call the Twickenham GWATKI N S and the Br ighton GWATKI NS . Another question it was hoped would be answer ed was as to whether GWATKI N rr r S ARD Thomas , who ma ied fi stly, Rebecca EW , and secondly ” r r r r Ma garet , had any child en by Ma ga et but this question has gained no reply. r a 1 8 2 Mrs GWATKI N s In a lette , d ted December 9 , Jane say to “ her ‘ r GWATKI N r f r son , the Revd Richa d , If you pass th ough Ox o d perhaps you will call on Mr Nevil GWATKI N but his identity has not been revealed . r r 1 82 1 Mrs In anothe lette , dated , to her son , Jane mentions ” ’ Mistr ess MAYO . My Father once told me that Madam .MAYo s T maiden name was GWA KI N ; he thought she was related . In the will GWATKI N r 2 . 1 1 of john of B idstow, dated 5 Nov , 774, page 5 , we r r-in- A r find he had a b othe law, Thomas M YO ; but the e is nothing r a to p ove that he w s related to the Fownhope line . The names James and Charles appear ing in the pedigr ee of the Amer ican GWATKI N S “ make me wonder whether they are anyt hing to do with those of S ellack . My Father once told me that there was a traditio n that t he ” GWA' KI N s r r GAM . r r r we e descended f om Davy This pe son , afte a ” l s r r ife of violence and rapine , di g aced even mo e by his attempt to r-i - D R LYN D R as n W G W , W assassinate his fathe law, Owen GLEN O E ( ) one of the three— the other two being Sir Roger VAUGHAN and Sir Walter L D— r r L OY who we e knighted on the field of Agincou t , having given vi PR EFACE a L L h r H r . t eir lives to defend the pe son of en y V David p L EWE YN , generally called David GAM was fourth in descent from Einio n ’ ” SA S Gentlem an s Maaz ine Librar — To o rah I ( g y p g p y, Monmouth , r . 1 20 . t ; 20 ; . 2 c pa t II pp , 4 Vol VII , p 93) and conne ed in some way r r with the princely house of Po wI s. Ifthere is any t uth in this t adition ’ the co nne étio n with David GAM (squint eye) is probably through some — maternal line perhaps a HAVAR D . No name has been put down in this account unless some evidence r r r fo r t of its bea e can be p oduced , and this I have to hank my Father fo r permitting me to look thr ough the family paper s and getting books H r on e efor dshire for me to sear ch in . BU L enealo If Mr . J . C . L had not introduced me to the Society of G ‘L R . A gists I should not have had the kind help the ev T . C D LE and ’ Mr . R HER OOD s . A T no r Mr . r S W A J G B Y N have given me, yet Geo ge most useful assistance . r A r l r Miss Fanny Luc etia W LE , who so gene ously did the il ust ations fo r s r r me , al o encou aged me to stick to my pu pose in writing out the account of my family— that Family which my Mother tried to teach r us neve to dis grace . THE SILURES . My Father once told me that we were ancient Br itis h so far as race as w concerned . ’ In Richar d BLOME s B r itannia it says of Herefor dshire that r S r r Its ancient Inhabitants we e the ilu es , a stout and wa like people, r r fo r r r who so ely pe plexed the Romans nine yea s space , th ough the ” noble valour and exploits of their commander CARACTACUS . r in r One day I was eading one of the magazines , I fo get which, a ” r piece entitled The Spanish People . It said they we e the con ” ne ctin r g link between Asia and Eu ope , and could best claim to r epresent the primitive Eur opean stock that they were ser ious r r r yet chee ful, wa like, though acco ding a high place to woman , r rr in extremely independent and p efe ing to live small clannish , closely k r . nit communities , jealous and hostile towa d other social units They r r r constitute an admi able human mate ial , though one that is peculia ly ” r r difficult to tame to the ends ofcivilization . It is said that this Be be o r r r r r S r are r r Ibe ian ace sp ead th ough pain , whe e they still ep esented r r r h are r r r by the Basques , and ac oss F ance , whe e t ey ep esented pe haps r r by the Auve gnats and Bretons , and then on to Co nwall and the r r H r r s r n southe n pa ts of e efo d hire and Wales , whe e the Romans fou d ” D c m r S r them as Silures . un u b desc ibes the ilu ians as Longheaded ” “ are r r r r . He gene ally, da k, cu ly hai says they still savage, have a r r i , , childl ke simplicity, intensity of feelings ha dness and auste ity fo r fl r combined with disdain the super uous , love of idleness tempe ed PREFACE vii ' aétivit indifierence r by the aptitude for violent y, to pe sons and things ” r Duncum b outside the circle of thei own spher e of life . quotes f a Tacitus , who gives an account of the di ficulty the Rom ns had in subduing this people . When my second brother went to the Pyr enees for his honeymoon he told me the people kept asking ifhe was a Spaniar d . I have noticed the peculiar typ e of the people who have come fr om H r r r — VAUGHAN s L TTS MAYo s e efo dshire and those pa ts , PHI PO , and ATKI NS— — GW to mention a few they are all alike . I think my Father must have been right when I read the characters l ” given to this peop e savage and unsociable , serious yet ” r chee ful .

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