Paternal Family Tree: Williams Wynn
On 6th June 1687 [his father] William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 22] and [his mother] Jane Thelwall were married.
Around 1692 Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet was born to William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 27] and Jane Thelwall.
On 11th July 1700 [his grandfather] William Williams 1st Baronet [aged 66] died. He was buried at Llansilin. His son [his father] William [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Baronet Williams of Gray's Inn.
In 1706 [his mother] Jane Thelwall died.
After 1706 [his father] William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 41] and Catherine Davies were married.
On 11th January 1719 John Wynn 5th Baronet [aged 91] died without issue. Baronet Wynn of Gwydir extinct. He bequeathed his estates, the second or third largest in Wales, to his second-cousin once-removed [his mother] Jane Thelwall, who had predeceased him, daughter of his great-aunt [his grandmother] Sydney Wynn [aged 79]. By doing so the his estates and the Williams estates of her former husband [his father] William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 54], also the second or third largest in Wales, were combined into the largest estate in Wales which far execeeded any other. At this time William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet changed his surname from Williams to Williams-Wynn.
Before 1733. Michael Dahl [aged 73]. Portrait of Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 40].
In 1740 Thomas Hudson [aged 39]. Portrait of Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 48].
On 20th October 1740 [his father] William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 75] died. His son Watkin [aged 48] succeeded 3rd Baronet Williams of Gray's Inn.
In March 1748 [his future wife] Ann Vaughan [aged 53] died.
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Before July 1748 Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 56] and Ann Vaughan were married.
In July 1748 Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 56] and Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 27] were married. She was his god-daughter. The difference in their ages was 29 years.
On 23rd September 1749 [his son] Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 57] and [his wife] Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 28]. He married (1) 13th April 1769 Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn, daughter of Charles Noel Somerset 4th Duke Beaufort and Elizabeth Berkeley Duchess Beaufort, and had issue (2) December 1771 Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn and had issue.
On 26th September 1749 Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 57] died. His son Watkin succeeded 4th Baronet Williams of Gray's Inn. Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 1] by marriage Lady Williams of Gray's Inn.
On 19th April 1750 [his son] William Watkins William-Wynn was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet and [his former wife] Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 29]. He was born posthumously his father having died seven months previously.
1755. Monument [Map] to Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet.
His widow [his former wife] Lady Frances [aged 34] chose Michael Rysbrack [aged 60] to erect her husband's monument in the classical style. The Agreement was made on the 21 March 1750 and cost £485. The long Latin inscription was composed by William King [aged 69], principal of St Mary's Hall, Oxford.
The size of the monument created a problem. A Faculty was granted to Lady Frances, in 1753, to add a chapel at the south east end of the church, adjacent to the chancel "… to make erect and build a handsome convenient Isle or building… in order to erect monuments seats and pews therein and making a burying vault underneath the same or otherwise to apply the same to Godly purposes" .The work was carried out in 1755.
Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn: In 1721 she was born to George Shackerley of Hulme and Anne Bagot. In July 1748 Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet and she were married. She was his god-daughter. The difference in their ages was 29 years. In 1803 she died.
William King: On 16th March 1685 he was born to Reverend Peregrine King and Margaret Smyth. On 30th December 1763 he died.
In 1803 [his former wife] Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 82] died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Williams
Grandfather: William Williams 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandmother: Emma Dolben
father: William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet
Grandmother: Margaret Kyffin
Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet
Grandfather: Edward Thelwall of Plas-y-Ward
mother: Jane Thelwall
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Wynn" ap Maredudd
Great x 3 Grandfather: Maurice Wynn
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Wynn 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sian Bulkeley
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Griffith
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Wynn
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Gerard
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Gerard
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sidney Gerard
Grandmother: Sydney Wynn