Owen Evans (1659 - 1729)

Born 1659 in Ucheldre, Merionethshire, Wales

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Gainor — married about 1685 in Wales

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1729 at about age 70 in Gwynedd, Bucks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Name

Name: Owen /Evans/^[1]

Owen Evans was born Evan ap Evan (also known as Evan Lloyd Evan) in Merionethshire Wales about the year 1659. A Quaker, Owen emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1698 with his brothers Thomas, Robert, and Cadwallader and a cohort of Welsh Quaker neighbors on the ship Robert and Elizabeth mastered by Ralph Williams, which set sail April 18 from Liverpool and ported briefly in Dublin before sailing for Philadelphia on May 1, arriving on July 17^[2]. His older brother, Thomas, and William John had arrived the previous year and served as agents for the group, acquiring from Robert Turner of Philadelphia an intact, contiguous tract of 7820 acres that was to become the Township of Gwynedd. Though 45 of the company perished of dysentery in the crossing, the Welsh community in Gwynedd soon thrived, and Owen and his wife raised a family of ten children (8 born in Wales prior to the voyage). In addition to their families, the Evans family carried their extensive pedigree tracing back to the Princes of Wales -- a family lineage documented in detail by Thomas Allen Glenn in his books, Merion in the Welsh tract. With sketches of the townships of Haverford and Radnor. Historical and genealogical collections concerning the Welsh barony in the provinces of Pennsylvania, settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682 and "Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania.

Owen passed away in 1729.

Sources

1. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13232476&pid=-32593239
2. ↑ Jenkins, Howard M., Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Pennsylvania), 2nd ed., 1897, Ch. 4

See also:

• Descendants of Ievan known as Evan Robert Lewis--The Evans family of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania; generation 2; 3. 12. Iii. Owen Evans; http://www.gwyneddmeeting.org/history/evans.htm
• U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Green Street Monthly Meeting, Births, 1690-1805.
• Glenn, Thomas Allen, Welsh founders of Pennsylvania. Oxford: Fox, Jones and Co., 1911-1913.
• Glenn, Thomas Allen, Merion in the Welsh tract. With sketches of the townships of Haverford and Radnor. Historical and genealogical collections concerning the Welsh barony in the provinces of Pennsylvania, settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682, Morristown, PA: Herald Press, 1894, p. 112-153 & 230.

Pay Site Links (Potential Sources)

• Ancestry.com; edited Last Will and Testament; http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/9ca0d137-d490-4795-bd0c-909dd784fb24/41563642/28106463364
• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=45143398&pid=3504

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Evans-2323 created through the import of 2010-09-14.ged on Jul 28, 2011 by Bob Carson.