In what follows, I have followed the notes of eminent antiquarians, though not without question, as some genealogies of this time confound one generation with another. This said, I believe the following to be a reasonable outline of the ancestry of Major William Harris.

1. Tudor ap Rhys, fl. 1078-1086 (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 300-1400, vol. 12, p. 871). Domesday tenant of Roger de Montgomery in Whittington and the Marches of Wales, paying a rent of of four pounds, five shillings (J. Morris, Shropshire Genealogies, vol. 7, p. 3612). He m. Jane ferch Rhys “Fychan”, dau. of Rhys “Fychan” ap Rhys, of Llanymddyfri, Llandingad, Carmarthenshire.

2. Bleddyn ap Tudur, Lord of Chirk, Nantheudwy, and Maelor Saesneg, m. Annes ferch Llywelyn, dau. of Llywelyn ap Idnerth.

3. Owain ap Bleddyn, Lord of Chirk, Nantheudwy, and Maelor Saesneg, m. Efa ferch Madog “Gôch”, dau. of Madog “Gôch” ap Iorwerth “Gôch”, lord of Sutton.

4. Iorwerth “Yr Hên” ap Owain “Yr Hên”, seneschal to Madog ap Gruffudd, m. Angharad ferch Gruffudd, dau. of Gruffudd ap Meilir “Eutun”, of Eyton, Erbistog, Denbighshire (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 300-1400, vol. 12, p. 878).

5. Iorwerth “Foel” ap Iorwerth “Fychan”, lord of Chirk, Maelor Saesneg and Nanheudwy, granted lands by Roger Mortimer, Lord of Chirk, in the townships of Gwen Osbern and Pen-y-Clawdd (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 4, p. 190); m. Gwladus ferch Iorwerth, of Fron-goch, Llanymynech, Shropshire.

6. Ednyfed “Gam” ap Iorwerth “Foel”, m. Gwladus ferch Llywelyn, of Tegeingl cantref, Flintshire, dau. of Llywelyn ap Madog.

7. Iorwerth “Ddû” ap Ednyfed “Gam”, fl. 1332, m. Angharad ferch Adda “Gôch”, of Trefor, Llangollen, Denbighshire (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 300-1400, vol. 12, p. 882), dau. of Adda “Gôch” ab Ieuaf, of Traean Trefor, Llangollen, one of the witnesses to the Charter of Richard Arundel, Earl of Arundel, and Lord of Chirk, in 1356. (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 4 p. 109, 137).

8. Adda ab Iorwerth “Ddû, m. Elizabeth or Isabel ferch Gruffudd “Fychan”, of Rhuddallt, Rhiwabon, Denbighshire, dau. of Gruffudd “Fychan” ap Gruffudd “Llwyd”, Baron of Glyndyfrdwy, son of Gruffudd “Llwyd” ap Madog “Fychan”, Steward of Oswestry under Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, 1347 (Bridgeman, History of the Princes of South Wales, pp. 250-252), and Elizabeth le Strange, of Knockin.’Sir John l’Estrange, Lord of Knockin, brought for his daughter Elizabeth, from Madoc ap Griffith, the marriage of the said Griffith, his son and heir, for which he paid £50 sterling’ (Rot. Parl., vol. 1, p. 306). ‘The First Court called Pengwern, in Chirkland, being part of the possessions of the aforesaid Adda ap Ierwerth Ddu, and Elizabeth his wife, who was daughter of Gruffydd Vychan, ap Gruffydd, of Rhuddallt, which Elizabeth was also sister to Owen Glyndwrdwy (Glendower): she was also the mother of Ievan ap Adda, ap Iorwerth ddu’ (Lewis Dwnn).

9 a. Ieuan ap Adda, d. ante. 1437, of Pengwern (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 6, p. 156), m. Angharad ferch Ednyfed, of Trecastell, Llangoed, Anglesey. He was br. of Rhys ap Adda, Maredudd ap Adda, and Harry ap Adda.

Goronwy, son of Ednyfed Fychan, held Trecastell, Penmynydd and Erddreiniog, all in the commote of Dindaethwy, in the thirteenth century. His grandson, Goronwy ap Tudur similarly held those townships, together with the township of Tregaian. These passed to Tudur Fychan, who is thought to have maintained Trecastell as his principal residence, and he was followed by Ednyfed Fychan ap Tudur in the later fourteenth century. Ednyfed’s daughter, Angharad, heiress of Trecastell, married Ieuan ap Adda ap Iorwerth Du of Pengwern. Ednyfed was the brother of Maredudd ap Tudur, Escheator of Anglesey, fl. 1392-1406, whose son was Owen Tudor (Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur), who was the second husband of Catherine of Valois (1401–1437), Henry V’s widow. He was the grandfather of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty, thus:

1. Edmund, Earl of Richmond, m. (1455) Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond.

1.1. King Henry VII., 1485-1509, Earl of Richmond, m. (1486) Elizabeth of York, Plantagenet.

1.1.1. Arthur, Prince of Wales, m. (1501) Catalina of Aragon.

1.1.2. King Henry VIII of England, m. 1. Catalina of Aragon, 2. Anna Boleyn, 3. Jane Seymour, 4. Anna of Cleves, 5. Katharina Howard, 6. Katherine Parr.

10 a. Ieuan “Fychan” ap Ieuan, obit. 1477. He appears in the Minister’s accounts for 26 Henry VI as ‘firmar’ of the ville of Mostyn, at Michaelmas, 1447 (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations of Wales, vol. 2, p. 125 fn. 4). He was an esquire in the retinue of Thomas FitzAlan, earl of Arundel, and lord of Chirk. He m. Angharad ferch Hywel, dau. of Hywel ap Tudor, of Mostyn, Chwitffordd, Flintshire, and, according to N.L.W. MS. 1557, widow of Edward Stanley. He was a bard and a harpist; on the maternal side he was second-cousin to Edmund, earl of Richmond, and Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke. A summary of Ieuan “Fychan” ap Ieuan’s family connections is givwn in ‘Guto’s patrons’, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, the University of Wales: ‘Ieuan Fychan was descended from a family who had played a prominent role in the administration of Nanheudwy both before the Edwardian conquest and subsequently, when the commote became part of the new lordship of Chirk, Chirkland. His ancestors Iorwerth Hen, Iorwerth Fychan and Iorwerth Foel held key positions in the court of the princes of Powys over three generations. As A.D. Carr (1976: 8) noted: ‘It is … possible that the office of seneschal of Powys Fadog became hereditary in the family of Pengwern, just as the corresponding office of Gwynedd became the preserve of the family of Ednyfed Fychan.’ These were two old and important Welsh families who served the native princes, and it is not surprising that they regarded each other as suitable marriage material: Myfanwy daughter of Iorwerth Ddu (sister of Addaf, Ieuan Fychan’s grandfather) had married Goronwy ap Tudur of Penmynydd, Anglesey. Myfanwy was the young lady from Dinas Brân to whom Hywel ab Einion Lygliw sang a love ode (GGLl poem 1). Ieuan Fychan’s mother, Angharad, was also descended from the same family, being the daughter of Ednyfed ap Tudur of Trecastell (therefore Myfanwy’s sister in law). By referring to Ieuan’s mother as merch Ednyfed naf (106.65), Guto reminds us of this important family connection. Ieuan’s surname ‘Fychan’ probably came from this family, and can be traced back to its effective founder Ednyfed Fychan’.

11 a. John ap Ieuan “Fychan”, d.s.p. of Pengwern, Llangollen, Denbighshire. Younger brother of Hywel of Mostyn. (J. Morris, Shropshire Genealogies, vol. 2, p. 973).

12 a. Roger Baker, alias Roger ap John. See Harl. MSS. 1977, 50, ‘Roger Baker, ap John ap Jeuan Vychan, descended from Llwddocca ap Tudor Trevor’.

13 a. Anne Baker, m. Sir Thomas Leighton, 1443-1519. He m. (1) Elizabeth Devereux, dau. of Walter Devereux, obit. 1485, and Anne Ferrers, dau. and heir of Sir William Ferrers of Chartley, and relict of Sir Richard Corbet, 1451-1493, of Morton Corbet. By Sir Richard Corbet, Elizabeth Devereux had issue: Elizabeth Corbet, wife of Thomas Trentham; by whom she had five daughters: Anne Trentham, who married Ralph Leighton, gentleman, of Cotes, Shropshire; Elizabeth Trentham, who m. Richard Hussey of Albright Hussey, Salop; Katherine, who m. (1) Thomas Hakluyt (d. 1544), esquire, of Eyton in Leominster, Herefordshire, Clerk of the Council in the Marches of Wales; (2) Edmund Foxe (d. 1550) of Ludlow, son and heir of William Foxe of Ludlow. Edmund Fox: educ. Broadgates Hall, Oxf. in Sept. 1531; L. Inn, adm. 28 June 1536. Edmund Foxe and his younger brother Charles obtained in 1537 the reversion to two offices under the council in the marches. ‘Foxe leased from his father the estates of the hospital of St. John in Ludlow, and it was at the hospital’s ‘capital house’ in Ludford that he died. By his will, made when he was ill on 7 Oct. 1550 and proved on the following 27 Nov., he named Reginald Corbet, Richard Cupper and his brother-in-law William Hopton feoffees to a settlement of his property on his father and wife, with remainders to his children and relatives. He provided for the payment to his stepchildren of their legacies under their father’s will, remembered his servant Edward Upton, and appointed Richard Corbet and Edward Hosier amongst others to assist his wife in executing the will. The wardship of his five year-old son Edward was acquired by Nicholas Bacon, and his widow married as her third husband Nicholas Depden’ (Alan Harding, Hist. Parl. Trust, cit. PCC 28 Coode; C142/93/96; CPR, 1550-3, p. 109; 1553, p. 377).

14 a. Margaret Leighton, m. John Parry, alias John ap Harry.

15 a. John Harris of Cruckton, d. c. 1550.

16 a. Richard Harris, m. Eleanor Jenyns, dau. of William Jenyns, of Wallyburne, Salop, evidenced in these deeds: ‘1 Robert Jenyns son of William Jenyns late of Morton Corbett alias Morton Tyret (dec’d) 2 Humphrey Jenyns of the same
1 conveys to 2 all his premises in Moreton, part of which descended to him after the death of William his father’. S/A X322/2/325/9. 11 Oct 1522. ‘Indenture made between Adam Minton, William Jenyns, Robert Dudley, Edmund Collis et al commissioners for assessing of King’s levy in town of Shrewsbury with Roger Barton and other collectors. Names and amounts only, sums raised from 4d to 3.6.8d, total 28.19s.4d’. S.A. XSB/D/2/1/22. 1523-1524. ‘In the term of Thomas Knight and William Jenyns, bailiffs. 28 Oct 9 Hen VIII. Peter Neuton, lately of Petton, Esq., and John Maynwaring, lately of Ightfield, knight, acknowledged his bond to Roger Corbett, son and heir of Robert Corbett, lately of Morton Corbett, knight, deceased’. S.A. X3365/67/64v. 1517-1518.

17 a. John Harris of Cruckton, bur. Apr. 12, 1614, burgess of Shrewsbury, m. Eleanor, dau. Thomas Prowde of Sutton, son of John Prowde, tenant of the Onslows, and grandson of ‘Thomas Prowde of Ludlowe’.

18 a. Rowland Harris of Ludlow, obit. 1605, m. Jane Langford, dau. of Thomas Langford, mentioned here: ‘1. William Beck and Edmond Lloyd, Bailiffs of the Corporation of Ludlow 2. Thomas [Langford], Ludlow, Gent 1-2 ‘All that their fourth part and parcel the arable land commonly called the demesne land …’ (boundaries given) Consideration: ‘… third part of all manner of corn and grain …’ S/A. XLB/4/1/157. 19 July 1598.

He was the son of William Langford, as appears here: ‘Indenture: 8 January 4 Edward VI: between William Langford, Warden of the Palmers Gild of Ludlow and the Brethren etc. with the consent of Thomas Blashefield and John Cockes bailiffs of the town of Ludlowe and the Common Councel of the one part and Charles Foxe gent of the other part; Witnesseth that the said Warden etc. have granted to Charles Foxe their cottage with etc. in Corvestrete between the tenement of John Hucke on one side and of William Cleburye on the other side …’. S/A. XLB/5/2/625. 8 Jan 1551. ‘Indenture made 9 April A.R. 3 Edward VI: Between William Langford, Warden of … the Gild of Our Blessed Lady and St. John the Evangelist of Ludlow …. the one part, and Thomas Coxe of the same town of the other part; witnesseth that the Warden and his brethren with one assent and in consideration of good service by the said Thomas done and to be done in the quyre of the parish church of Ludlow have to farm set and demised etc. to the said Thomas one tenement with appurtenances sett in the street called Shewmaker Rewe between the tenement of the said Thomas on one side to the south and a tenement belonging to the said Gild nowe in the tenure of Humfrey Hynton on the west side’.  S.A. XLB/5/2/307. 9 Apr 1549.

19 a. John Harris, bapt. March. 16, 1604, St Lawrence, Ludlow, m. ‘Margaret, d.o. Charles Bough‘ (Baugh), b. January 24, 1613, St. Lawrence, Ludlow, br. of Henry Baugh of Aldon Court, who m. Alice Holland, dau. of William Holland, baptized at Burwarton in 1574, and buried there in 1642 (Will proved P.C.C. 94 Campbell), son of Thomas Holland, bur. at Stottesden in 1612, and Alicia, ‘fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne’ (Will pr. P.C.C. 19 Capell, 1613); styled ‘of Pickthorne’, aunt of Richard Cocke, b. 1597 at Pickthorne, Stottesdon, Shropshire; bapt. December 13, 1597 at Sidbury in Shropshire; obit. Bremo Bluff, Henrico, 1665.

20.a. Major William Harris, b. January 13, 1627/8, St. Larence, Ludlow; neighbour of the Cocke and Baugh families in Virginia.

9 b. Harry ap Adda. (Joseph Morris, Genealogy of Shropshire, vol. 4, p. 1933). See also Treswell’s Vis., Salop, 1623, p. 70, ped. Brome, which wrongly omits Harry ap Richard, but is otherwise correct.

10 b. Richard ap Harry.

11 b. Harry ap Richard.

12 b. John ap Harry, m. Margaret Leighton, dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and Anne Baker.

13 b. John Harris, obit 1550. His sister, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Brome, son of John Brome and Margaret Corbet, sister of Richard Corbet of Abrighton, and aunt of Thomas Corbet ‘of Longnor’, who m. Jane Burton; their issue inc. Edward Corbet of Longnor (dsp), who m. Katharine Lee, dau of Thomas Lee of Langley.

14 b. Richard Harris, obit. 1543, m. Eleanor Jennyns.

15 b. John Harris of Cruckton, bur. Apr. 12, 1614, burgess of Shrewsbury, m. Eleanor, dau. Thomas Prowde of Sutton, grandson of a namesake given in this deed: ‘William Haye gent have transferred and to farm let to Thomas Prowde of Ludlowe … at Ludelowe 10 September A.R. 2 Henry VII’. S/A. XLB/5/2/490. He was the son of John Prowde, evidenced here: ‘Ralph Lee of Longley, Esq., grants to Edward Gabett of Acton Burnell all his lands and tenements, rents and services in the township and fields of Acton Burnell … of which lands and tenements do John Leighton of [Church] Stretton, Esq.bought one half from the said John Esthop which the said Ralph Lee lately had of the gift of the same John Leighton, but the other half of the lands and tenements to Ralph lately had of the gift of Sybil and Philip, son and heir of the said Roger and Sibil, as appears by deeds made by John Leighton to Ralph. Witnesses: Thomas Acton of Longnor, Richard Lee Esq., William Lyster of Salop, mercer, John Adams of Ponsbury, John Knycght of Cressege, John Prowde of Conde’. S/A. X1514/3/1/3/67. 2 Feb 1470.

16 b. Rowland Harris of Ludlow, obit. 1605, m. Jane Langford. Rowland was the br. of (1) Arthur Harris, Esq. of Prescot, near Baschurch, m. Jane Newton. Their son, Thomas Harris, m. (1632) Alice Holland, dau. of William Holland, baptized at Burwarton in 1574, and buried there in 1642 (Will proved P.C.C. 94 Campbell), son of Thomas Holland, bur. at Stottesden in 1612, and Alicia, ‘fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne’ (Will pr. P.C.C. 19 Capell, 1613); styled ‘of Pickthorne’, aunt of Richard Cocke, b. 1597 at Pickthorn, Stottesdon, Shropshire; bapt. Dec. 13, 1597 at Sidbury in Shropshire; obit. Bremo Bluff, Henrico, 1665.

17 b. John Harris, bapt. March. 16, 1604, St Lawrence, Ludlow.

18 b. Major William Harris, b. January 13, 1627/8, St. Lawrence, Ludlow.

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