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Williams is a common patronymic form of the name William that originated in medieval England, Wales, France, and Italy. [ 2 ] The meaning is derived from son or descendant of William , the Northern French form that also gave the English name William.
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts. The Williams-Wynn baronets had been begun in 1688 by the politician Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, but had inherited, in the time of the 3rd baronet, Sir Watkin's father, the estates of the Wynn baronets, and changed their name to reflect this.
An analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people in Wales, nearly 35% of the Welsh population, have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States. A total of 16.3 million ...
1: Kingdom of Deheubarth (later borne by the Talbot family, Earl of Shrewsbury); 2: Philip ap Ivor (Lord of Iscoed); from Prince Owain Gwynedd; 3: Gruffydd ap Cynan; 4: Edwin of Tegeingl; Key features shown are the predominance of the Welsh dragon, the use of colour differences to distinguish branches of a family, and the use of crests. The ...
Lt-Col. Sir Owen Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet, CBE, KStJ (30 November 1904 – 13 May 1988), was a Welsh soldier and landowner. He was Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire from 1966 to 1974, then Lord Lieutenant of Clwyd from 1976 to 1979.
The Williams-Wynn Baronetcy, of Gray's Inn in the County of Middlesex was created in the Baronetage of England on 6 July 1688 for William Williams, a prominent Welsh politician and lawyer from Anglesey, Wales. [1] A member of the family, Sir Watkin, became one of the richest men in Britain. [2]
Williams-Wynn family (12 P) Y. Yale family (136 P) Pages in category "Welsh families" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
His grandfather, Morgan ap William, was the son of a man named William, and also used the name Williams, but his father abandoned the Welsh patronymic system completely and adopted the name of Cromwell, in honour of an uncle Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex. The family then consistently used and wrote its name as "Williams, alias Cromwell ...