Friday, July 28, 2023

Networking

       The more numerous the family becomes as one climbs out all the branches, the more difficulty arises sorting through all the leaves. You can certainly imagine if you add all this Welsh language stuff, as well as the surname Jones, you might not want to start climbing this tree altogether. Anyway, during this junction of all the languages and, facing the threat of Norman invasion from all sides [starting after 1066 A.D.], you might want to link-up with all the branches of the family. The following figure shows the descendants of Cynwrig (JF-1) doing exactly the same. The branches of all three sons of Tudor Trevor (JC-1); Gronwy (JD-1), Llydocka (JD-2) and, Dingad (JD-3) [my Jones branch of the family], all joined hands at this point in time. 


      Now let's look. Cynwrig (JF-1) was slain in 1073 A.D. and surprising enough, old Rhys Sais (JG-4) was slain in 1070 A.D. By the time of his death, he had married a daughter of Cynwrig (JF-1) and she was a sister to my line of descent Ninnan (JG-1). Can you believe it, Rhys Sais (JG-4) was the son-in-law of Cynwrig (JF-1). No wonder his sons did all the fighting in 1081 A.D. for their father, and grandfather, were slain pretty much at the same time period and by the same folks. Then, the grandson of Cynwrig (JF-1) married Eva (JH-18) who was linked to the oldest son of Tudor Trevor (JC-1) through the line of Ethelystan Glodrydd (JF-6). All three branches of the family brought together...wow, networking indeed.  

P.S. Poor Eva (JH-18) was the 18th individual discovered in this generation of ancestors. As time moves down my family tree, the higher the number coded, the longer in duration it took to find this person among the branches.

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