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Cefyn y Coed

Llanegwad

Grid Ref: SN 5093 2116

Also called Cencoed, Kincoed and located south of Pontargothi. During the Middle Ages home of the descendants of Grono Goch Constable of Dryslwyn Castle 1280-1. The first to settle there was Howel ap David ‘a’i Blas efoedd Cefn y Coed yn Llanegwad fawr; efe a briododd (Annes) ferch Sir Thomas Perrot knight’ (NLW Bronwydd Pedigrees, 1452, fo. 94b). His grandson, James ap Griffith ap Howel, lived first at Cefn Coed, but moved to Castell Malgwyn in North Pembrokeshire, and became the central figure of a cause celebre of the 16th century. The last of the line seems to have been Rhys John of Cefn Coed, 6th in descent from the aforesaid Howel. 

The property passed through several hands. In 1754 Illtyd Evans married Mary Davies of Cencoed, and came to live at his wife’s home. The daughter Jane Evans, eventual heiress of her  father, married Thomas Howell, attorney, and their daughter Janet Illtyda married in 1796 Henry J. Lucas of Brecon and Carmarthen, surgeon, and had issue.

By 1839 the farm had become the property of John Hensleigh Allen of Creselly, Pembrokeshire.

References

Carmarthen Record Office, G.G.B. I [E. Glodrudd]

NLW

Llanegwad PRs

Alcwyn Evans Ms. 12356, p.398

Francis Jones, ‘The Trail of the Fugitive’, Car ms. Historian, VII, 1970, 7-19

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