Individual Details
Sir John Edward Gaines Sir
(1559 - 1606)
•Note: Book lists Sir Gaines of Newton County, Brecon, Wales. [There doesn't appear to be such a place. The closest I can find is Brecon, Brecknock, Wales. In addition, there is not a Newton County in Wales, though there is a Newton town about 1 mile from Brecon.] 7 4
•Event: History of Brecon, Wales Note Brecon, , Brecknock, Wales
•Note: The name Brecknock is an anglicized form of Brycheiniog, the Welsh name of the territory of Brychan (whence the alter-native form of Brecon), a Goidelic chieftain, who gained possession of the Usk valley in the 5th century. 4
•Residence: home still in existence Newton, Brecon, Wales
•Note: There are several houses of interest, notably the Priory and Dr Awbrey's residence (now called Buckingham House), both built about the middle of the 16th century, but the finest specimen is Newton (about a mile out, near Llanfaes) built in 1582 by Sir John Games (a descendant of Sir David Gam), but now a farmhouse. 4
•Event: see multiple ancestry and descendant lines Note 2
•Residence: Newton Newton, Brecon, Wales
•Note:
On the Usk River in Brecon, Wales, in the general area where early legends relate King Arthur had his residence and called meetiings of his Knights of the Round Table, there stands an ancient farmhouse, the first part of which was built in the Twelfth Century. Sir David Gam's great-great-grandson, Sir John Games (1559-1606) came into possession of the ancient house, "Newton," and enlarged it.
About four stories high, the house is a very impressive place; it is beautifully situated in the midst of the most pleasant surroundings one could imagine, with green, rollng hills about. On the vast grounds the Brecon golf-course has been laid out. The house is of such historical interest that the English government has allotted funds to keep it in a state of preservation. The caretaker uses only three rooms and the kitchen. The reception room, where one enters from the front door, is nicely furnished with some antiques, but not any that belong to the house.
The Great Hall is huge, about fifty by twenty feet with very high ceilings. There are two floor leels; the lord of the manor and his family dined at tables set on the raised portion and others at those placed on the lower part of the floor. Near the ceiling and in the walls are openings from which music could be heard when played by the minstrels. There is a big staircase of hand-hewn oaken timbers and a large chimney in the center of the house with four huge fireplaces connecting.
The fireplace is about ten feet wide and six feet high with a stone mantel over the top. On this stone is carved an inscription showing the ancestral line from Sir David Gam to Sir John Games and the Games coat of arms with the motto: Ar. Duw. Y. Gyd. . . . "All depends on God"; also translated "Nothing without God" and "On God depends everything."
One of the most common ways in which Welsh surnames were formed was by the use of the father's baptismal name on the son's surname. This meant that the last name would usually change from generation to generation since the baptismal name would differ between father and son. The prefix "ap" or "ab," which means "son of" would precede the father's personal name, thus David ap Llewellyn means David, son of Llewellyn. During the time of Henry VII, the "ap" or "ab" fell into disuse and the prefix was absorbed into the name or dropped altogether, then surnames were passed from generation to generation.
Quoted from:
Virginia Background of Some Georgia Gaines Families, by Mary R. Riley
A Family Named Gaines, by Rev. Joseph A. Gaines
Notes on the Parent Stem of the Gaines Stock, by Richard Venable Gaines
A compilation of Gaines Family Data with Special Emphasis on the Lineage of William and Isabella Pendleton Gaines, by Calvin E. Sutherd
Sources:
1.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Descendants of John Gaines
Title: Descendants of John Gaines
Publication: http://www.keenekreations.net/genealogy/gaines.html 2.Media: Book
Abbrev: History of the Gaines Family
Title: One Line from 1620 to the Present Time, 1918
Author: Lewis Pendleton Gaines
Publication: Brazelton-Wallis Printing Company, Inc., Rome, Georgia 1973, see file for copied pages
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
3.Media: Book
Abbrev: Our Gaines Family in America
Title: Our Gaines Family in America from Wales to Virginia to South Carolina, Georgia and Texas, 1641-2002
Author: Thomas B. and Lorene Taylor Gaines
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
4.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Brecon or Brecknock
Title: Brecon or Brecknock
Publication: Online Encyclopedia
Text: BRECON, or BRECKNOCK , a market town and municipal borough, the
capital
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CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)
of Breconshire, Wales, 183 m. from London by rail, picturesquely situated nearly in the centre of the county, at the confluence of the Honddu with the Usk. Half a mile higher up the Tarell also falls into the Usk from the south. The ecclesiastical parish of Brecon consists of the two civil parishes of St John the Evangelist and St Mary, both on the left bank of the Usk, while St David's in Llanfaes is on the other side of the river, and was wholly outside the town walls. Pop. (1901) 5875. There is only one line of railway, over which several companies, however, have running powers, so that the town may be reached by the Brecon & Merthyr railway from Merthyr, Cardiff and Newport, by the Cambrian from
Builth
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BUILTH, or BUILTH WELLS
Wells, or by the Midland from Hereford and Swansea respectively. The Great Western railway has also a service of road motors between Abergavenny and Brecon. A canal running past Abergavenny connects Brecon with Merthyr. The Priory church of St John, a massive cruciform building, originally Norman with Early English and Decorated additions, is the finest parish church in Wales, and even taking into account the cathedrals it is according to E. A. Freeman " indisputably the third church not in a state of ruin in the principality," its choir furnishing " one of the choicest examples of the Early English style." Previous to the dissolution, a rood-screen bearing a gigantic rood, the object of many pilgrimages, stood to the west of the tower. The church was restored under Sir Gilbert Scott between 1861 and 1875. St Mary's, in the centre of the town, and St David's, beyond the Usk, are now mainly modern, though the former has some of the Norman arches of the original church. There is also a Roman Catholic church (St Michael's) opened in 1851, and chapels belonging to the Baptists, Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, and to the Congregationalists. In Llanfaes there was formerly a Dominican priory, but in 1542 Henry VIII. granted it with all its possessions to a collegiate church, which was transferred thither from Abergwili, and was given the name of Christ College. Many of the bishops of St David's during the 17th century occasionally resided here, and several are also buried here. A small part of the revenues went to the maintenance of a grammar-school, but in 1841 the collegiate body was dissolved, and its revenues, then amounting to about 800e a year, were transferred to the ecclesiastical commissioners. In 1853 Henry VIII.'s charter was repealed, and under a chancery
scheme
See Also:
SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
adopted two years later, 1200 a year was appropriated for the school. New school buildings were erected at a cost of about 10,000 in 1862, and these were enlarged at a cost of about 5000 in I880. The chancel of the old Dominican chapel, dating from the 13th century, was restored in 1864, and is now the school chapel. There is also a Congregationalist theological college, built in 1869 at a cost of I2,000, and now affiliated with the university of Wales. The other chief buildings of the town are the shire
hall
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HALL
HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
built in 1842 in the Doric style from designs by T. H. Wyatt; the Guildhall; the barracks, which are the headquarters of two battalions of the South Wales Borderers; the county infirmary founded in 1832; and the prison (in Llanfaes) for the counties of Brecon and Radnor. There is a bronze statue of the duke of Wellington (erected in 1854) by John Evan Thomas, a native of the town. The town commands a magnificent view of the Brecknock Beacons, and is noted for its promenades on the banks of the Usk, and in the priory groves. Brecon is favourably known as a fishing centre, and there is also boating on the Usk and the canal. There are several houses of
interest
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INTEREST
, notably the Priory and Dr Awbrey's residence (now called Buckingham House), both built about the middle of the 16th century, but the finest specimen is Newton (about a mile out, near Llanfaes) built in 1582 by Sir John Games (a descendant of Sir David Gam), but now a farmhouse. The " Shoulder of Mutton " Inn, now known as the " Siddons Wine Vaults," was the birthplace in 1755 of Mrs Siddons. The name Brecknock is an anglicized form of Brycheiniog, the Welsh name of the territory of Brychan (whence the alter-native form of Brecon), a Goidelic chieftain, who gained possession of the Usk valley in the 5th century. The Welsh name of the town, on the other hand, has always been Aber-Honddu (the estuary of the Honddu). There is no evidence of any settlement on the site of the present town prior to about 1092, when
Bernard
See Also:
BERNARD, CHARLES DE
BERNARD, CLAUDE (1813-1878)
BERNARD, JACQUES (1658--1718)
BERNARD, SAINT
BERNARD, SAINT (Iogo-1153)
BERNARD, SIR THOMAS, BART
Newmarch, after defeating Bleddin ab Maenarch, built here a castle which he made his residence and the chief stronghold of his new lordship. For this purpose he utilized what remained of the materials of the Roman fort, 3 M. to the west, at Y Gaer, which some identify as Bannium. He subsequently founded, near the castle, the
Benedictine
See Also:
BENEDICTINE
priory of St John, which he endowed and constituted a cell of Battle Abbey. In time a town grew up outside the castle, and its inhabitants received a series of charters from the de Bohuns, into which family the castle and lordship passed, the earliest recorded charter being granted by Humphrey, 3rd
earl
See Also:
EARL
of Hereford. Under the patronage of his great-grandson, the last
earl
See Also:
EARL
of Hereford (who lived in great splendour at the castle), the town became one of the chief centres of trade in South Wales, and a sixteen days' fair, which he granted, still survives as a hiring fair held in November. Further charters were granted by Henry IV. (who married Hereford's co-heiress), by Henry V., who gave the town two more fairs, and by the Stafford family, to which the castle and lordship were allotted on the partition of the
Bohun
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BOHUN
estates in 1421. Henry Stafford, 2nd duke of Buckingham, resided a good deal at the castle, and Morton, bishop of Ely, whose custody as a prisoner was entrusted to him, plotted with him there for the dethronement of Richard III., for which Stafford was executed in 1483. His son, Edward, the 3rd duke, who was born in the castle in 1478, had the estates restored to him, but, in 1521, suffered a like fate with his father, and the lordship and castle then vested in the crown. Both were acquired in the next century by the ancestors of Viscount Tredegar, to whom they now belong. By a statute of 1535 Brecon was made the county town of the new shire of Brecknock, and was granted the right of electing one burgess to represent it in parliament, a right which it retained till it was merged in the county representation in 1885. A chancery and exchequer for the counties of Brecknock and Radnor were also established at Brecon Castle, and from 1542 till 1830 the great sessions, and since then the assizes, and at all times the quarter sessions for the county, have been held at Brecon. The borough had also a separate court of quarter sessions till 1835. The town was incorporated by a charter granted by Philip and Mary in 1556 and confirmed by Elizabeth in the nineteenth year of her reign. A charter granted by James II. was never acted upon. The borough was placed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and until then the town of Llywel, which is 10 m. off, formed a ward of the borough. There were formerly five trade gilds in the town, the chief industries being cloth and leather manufactures. There are five ancient fairs for stock, and formerly each of them was preceded by a leather fair. The fairs held in May and November were also for hiring, much of the hiring being now done at the Guildhall, and not in the streets as used to be the case. During the Civil War the greater part of the castle and of the town walls (which with their four gates were until then well preserved) were demolished by the inhabitants in order to prevent the town being either garrisoned or besieged. Charles I., however, stayed a night at the priory house shortly after the battle of Naseby. The chief ruins of the castle are now enclosed in the grounds of the Castle Hotel, the principal object being Ely tower, where Bishop Morton was imprisoned. Besides those already mentioned the persons of note born in the town include Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham; Dr Hugh Price, founder of Jesus College, Oxford; Dr Thomas Coke, the first Wesleyan missionary bishop in America; and Theophilus Jones, the historian of the county. Henry Vaughan, the Silurist, at one time practised here as a doctor 5.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Ancestors of Veronica Rowe
Title: Ancestors of Veronica Rowe
Repository:
Name: www.familytreemaker.com
Page: WFT Vol. 8, #3552
Quality: 3
Date: 13 Sep 2000 6.Abbrev: Ancestral File
Title: Ancestral File
Publication: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
7.Media: Book
Abbrev: Gaines Family Records
Title: Gaines Family Records
Author: Compiled by Mabel Hon Woods
Text: From "The Compendium of American Genealogy" Vol. 5:
Gaines
Arms: Sable, a chevron between three spear's heads, argent, embrued gules.
Crest: Out of ducal coronet or a lion rampant
Gaines: The Gaines family was originally the Llewellyn family, and the lion, its heraldic charte - described as follows: Argent, a lion passant gules. (This means that on a silver background there is a lion walking and looking to the right and the lion is colored red.)
Pendleton: gules, a shield between four escallops (shells)
Taylor: Argent, a cross engrailed sable, in chief and base, a heart gules, in flanks, a cinquefoil vert. (This means that on a silver background there is a cross ornamented with curved indentations and colored black. At the top and bottom are hearts colored red and at the sides there are plants of the genes of the rose family in a green color.)
Crest: A lion rampant bules, issuing from a crown. (This means that there is a lion standing up on hind legs and oming out from a crown.)
Motto: Consequitor Quodcunque Petit (Translated this means "He accomplishes whatever he undertakes.")
The helmet and mantling must be of the principal colors of the shield, which are silver and black.
The mantling represents the drapery hanging from the helet of the knight, to protect his neck from the sun and heat.
-- Miss Frances M. Smith
Pinebridege Road
Chappaqua, New York
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The Reverend Theoplidus Jones in his history of Brecon City, Wales (a folio edition of which is to be found in the Congressional Library of Washington, D.C.) has given the origin and history of a number of families which embraced some of the earlier settlers of Virginia. From the Virginia Record in the Land Office of Virginia and the State Library, we find that six members of the Gaines family had located in the colonies prior to 1650....
The Virginia Gaines family entered America by way of the Chesapeake Bay and settled on the Eastern shores in Accomack County.
Thomas Gaines and his son James Gaines settled on the Eastern shore inAccomack County in the 1620's. Edward Gaines (30 years old), the oldest of Thomas Gaines' children, settled in Virginia in 1634. Thomas Gaines apears in the Old Rappahannock in 1622, and an Alexander Gaines in 1635.
In 1634 the Old Dominion had been divided into eight shares -- and James Gaines' name appeared in the Rappahannock.
see Research Binder "Gaines" for full information;
Also contains "Royal Descent of the Gaines Family through Mary Gregory" listing a direct line from Charlemagne through Mary Gregory and a few descendants. This royal list is from a copied record of Vol. V, Compendium of American Genealogy.
Repository:
Name: copy in poss of Jill Rigg Johnson
8.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Laird-Jeffrey Family Home Page
Title: Laird-Jeffrey Family Home Page
Publication: Larry D. Laird, 67092 Highway W, Latham, MO 65050; 660-458-6675; ldlaird@mid-mo.net; www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/a/i/Larry-D-Laird/index.html 9.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Gaines Pedigree Chart
Title: Gaines Pedigree Chart
Author: Michelle thomasgenie@netscape.net
Publication:
Repository:
Name: copy in poss of Jill Rigg Johnson
This connection is unproven.
Seen his name as 'Games' or 'Gaines'
It is known for sure that Sir John was g-g-g- grandson of the famous David Gam.
Sir John built, in 1582, and lived in the manor fortress called Newton
on a piece of land that had been in his family for hundreds of years.
This farm, Newton, is still in existence.
•Event: History of Brecon, Wales Note Brecon, , Brecknock, Wales
•Note: The name Brecknock is an anglicized form of Brycheiniog, the Welsh name of the territory of Brychan (whence the alter-native form of Brecon), a Goidelic chieftain, who gained possession of the Usk valley in the 5th century. 4
•Residence: home still in existence Newton, Brecon, Wales
•Note: There are several houses of interest, notably the Priory and Dr Awbrey's residence (now called Buckingham House), both built about the middle of the 16th century, but the finest specimen is Newton (about a mile out, near Llanfaes) built in 1582 by Sir John Games (a descendant of Sir David Gam), but now a farmhouse. 4
•Event: see multiple ancestry and descendant lines Note 2
•Residence: Newton Newton, Brecon, Wales
•Note:
On the Usk River in Brecon, Wales, in the general area where early legends relate King Arthur had his residence and called meetiings of his Knights of the Round Table, there stands an ancient farmhouse, the first part of which was built in the Twelfth Century. Sir David Gam's great-great-grandson, Sir John Games (1559-1606) came into possession of the ancient house, "Newton," and enlarged it.
About four stories high, the house is a very impressive place; it is beautifully situated in the midst of the most pleasant surroundings one could imagine, with green, rollng hills about. On the vast grounds the Brecon golf-course has been laid out. The house is of such historical interest that the English government has allotted funds to keep it in a state of preservation. The caretaker uses only three rooms and the kitchen. The reception room, where one enters from the front door, is nicely furnished with some antiques, but not any that belong to the house.
The Great Hall is huge, about fifty by twenty feet with very high ceilings. There are two floor leels; the lord of the manor and his family dined at tables set on the raised portion and others at those placed on the lower part of the floor. Near the ceiling and in the walls are openings from which music could be heard when played by the minstrels. There is a big staircase of hand-hewn oaken timbers and a large chimney in the center of the house with four huge fireplaces connecting.
The fireplace is about ten feet wide and six feet high with a stone mantel over the top. On this stone is carved an inscription showing the ancestral line from Sir David Gam to Sir John Games and the Games coat of arms with the motto: Ar. Duw. Y. Gyd. . . . "All depends on God"; also translated "Nothing without God" and "On God depends everything."
One of the most common ways in which Welsh surnames were formed was by the use of the father's baptismal name on the son's surname. This meant that the last name would usually change from generation to generation since the baptismal name would differ between father and son. The prefix "ap" or "ab," which means "son of" would precede the father's personal name, thus David ap Llewellyn means David, son of Llewellyn. During the time of Henry VII, the "ap" or "ab" fell into disuse and the prefix was absorbed into the name or dropped altogether, then surnames were passed from generation to generation.
Quoted from:
Virginia Background of Some Georgia Gaines Families, by Mary R. Riley
A Family Named Gaines, by Rev. Joseph A. Gaines
Notes on the Parent Stem of the Gaines Stock, by Richard Venable Gaines
A compilation of Gaines Family Data with Special Emphasis on the Lineage of William and Isabella Pendleton Gaines, by Calvin E. Sutherd
Sources:
1.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Descendants of John Gaines
Title: Descendants of John Gaines
Publication: http://www.keenekreations.net/genealogy/gaines.html 2.Media: Book
Abbrev: History of the Gaines Family
Title: One Line from 1620 to the Present Time, 1918
Author: Lewis Pendleton Gaines
Publication: Brazelton-Wallis Printing Company, Inc., Rome, Georgia 1973, see file for copied pages
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
3.Media: Book
Abbrev: Our Gaines Family in America
Title: Our Gaines Family in America from Wales to Virginia to South Carolina, Georgia and Texas, 1641-2002
Author: Thomas B. and Lorene Taylor Gaines
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
4.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Brecon or Brecknock
Title: Brecon or Brecknock
Publication: Online Encyclopedia
Text: BRECON, or BRECKNOCK , a market town and municipal borough, the
capital
See Also:
CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)
of Breconshire, Wales, 183 m. from London by rail, picturesquely situated nearly in the centre of the county, at the confluence of the Honddu with the Usk. Half a mile higher up the Tarell also falls into the Usk from the south. The ecclesiastical parish of Brecon consists of the two civil parishes of St John the Evangelist and St Mary, both on the left bank of the Usk, while St David's in Llanfaes is on the other side of the river, and was wholly outside the town walls. Pop. (1901) 5875. There is only one line of railway, over which several companies, however, have running powers, so that the town may be reached by the Brecon & Merthyr railway from Merthyr, Cardiff and Newport, by the Cambrian from
Builth
See Also:
BUILTH, or BUILTH WELLS
Wells, or by the Midland from Hereford and Swansea respectively. The Great Western railway has also a service of road motors between Abergavenny and Brecon. A canal running past Abergavenny connects Brecon with Merthyr. The Priory church of St John, a massive cruciform building, originally Norman with Early English and Decorated additions, is the finest parish church in Wales, and even taking into account the cathedrals it is according to E. A. Freeman " indisputably the third church not in a state of ruin in the principality," its choir furnishing " one of the choicest examples of the Early English style." Previous to the dissolution, a rood-screen bearing a gigantic rood, the object of many pilgrimages, stood to the west of the tower. The church was restored under Sir Gilbert Scott between 1861 and 1875. St Mary's, in the centre of the town, and St David's, beyond the Usk, are now mainly modern, though the former has some of the Norman arches of the original church. There is also a Roman Catholic church (St Michael's) opened in 1851, and chapels belonging to the Baptists, Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, and to the Congregationalists. In Llanfaes there was formerly a Dominican priory, but in 1542 Henry VIII. granted it with all its possessions to a collegiate church, which was transferred thither from Abergwili, and was given the name of Christ College. Many of the bishops of St David's during the 17th century occasionally resided here, and several are also buried here. A small part of the revenues went to the maintenance of a grammar-school, but in 1841 the collegiate body was dissolved, and its revenues, then amounting to about 800e a year, were transferred to the ecclesiastical commissioners. In 1853 Henry VIII.'s charter was repealed, and under a chancery
scheme
See Also:
SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
adopted two years later, 1200 a year was appropriated for the school. New school buildings were erected at a cost of about 10,000 in 1862, and these were enlarged at a cost of about 5000 in I880. The chancel of the old Dominican chapel, dating from the 13th century, was restored in 1864, and is now the school chapel. There is also a Congregationalist theological college, built in 1869 at a cost of I2,000, and now affiliated with the university of Wales. The other chief buildings of the town are the shire
hall
See Also:
HALL
HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
built in 1842 in the Doric style from designs by T. H. Wyatt; the Guildhall; the barracks, which are the headquarters of two battalions of the South Wales Borderers; the county infirmary founded in 1832; and the prison (in Llanfaes) for the counties of Brecon and Radnor. There is a bronze statue of the duke of Wellington (erected in 1854) by John Evan Thomas, a native of the town. The town commands a magnificent view of the Brecknock Beacons, and is noted for its promenades on the banks of the Usk, and in the priory groves. Brecon is favourably known as a fishing centre, and there is also boating on the Usk and the canal. There are several houses of
interest
See Also:
INTEREST
, notably the Priory and Dr Awbrey's residence (now called Buckingham House), both built about the middle of the 16th century, but the finest specimen is Newton (about a mile out, near Llanfaes) built in 1582 by Sir John Games (a descendant of Sir David Gam), but now a farmhouse. The " Shoulder of Mutton " Inn, now known as the " Siddons Wine Vaults," was the birthplace in 1755 of Mrs Siddons. The name Brecknock is an anglicized form of Brycheiniog, the Welsh name of the territory of Brychan (whence the alter-native form of Brecon), a Goidelic chieftain, who gained possession of the Usk valley in the 5th century. The Welsh name of the town, on the other hand, has always been Aber-Honddu (the estuary of the Honddu). There is no evidence of any settlement on the site of the present town prior to about 1092, when
Bernard
See Also:
BERNARD, CHARLES DE
BERNARD, CLAUDE (1813-1878)
BERNARD, JACQUES (1658--1718)
BERNARD, SAINT
BERNARD, SAINT (Iogo-1153)
BERNARD, SIR THOMAS, BART
Newmarch, after defeating Bleddin ab Maenarch, built here a castle which he made his residence and the chief stronghold of his new lordship. For this purpose he utilized what remained of the materials of the Roman fort, 3 M. to the west, at Y Gaer, which some identify as Bannium. He subsequently founded, near the castle, the
Benedictine
See Also:
BENEDICTINE
priory of St John, which he endowed and constituted a cell of Battle Abbey. In time a town grew up outside the castle, and its inhabitants received a series of charters from the de Bohuns, into which family the castle and lordship passed, the earliest recorded charter being granted by Humphrey, 3rd
earl
See Also:
EARL
of Hereford. Under the patronage of his great-grandson, the last
earl
See Also:
EARL
of Hereford (who lived in great splendour at the castle), the town became one of the chief centres of trade in South Wales, and a sixteen days' fair, which he granted, still survives as a hiring fair held in November. Further charters were granted by Henry IV. (who married Hereford's co-heiress), by Henry V., who gave the town two more fairs, and by the Stafford family, to which the castle and lordship were allotted on the partition of the
Bohun
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estates in 1421. Henry Stafford, 2nd duke of Buckingham, resided a good deal at the castle, and Morton, bishop of Ely, whose custody as a prisoner was entrusted to him, plotted with him there for the dethronement of Richard III., for which Stafford was executed in 1483. His son, Edward, the 3rd duke, who was born in the castle in 1478, had the estates restored to him, but, in 1521, suffered a like fate with his father, and the lordship and castle then vested in the crown. Both were acquired in the next century by the ancestors of Viscount Tredegar, to whom they now belong. By a statute of 1535 Brecon was made the county town of the new shire of Brecknock, and was granted the right of electing one burgess to represent it in parliament, a right which it retained till it was merged in the county representation in 1885. A chancery and exchequer for the counties of Brecknock and Radnor were also established at Brecon Castle, and from 1542 till 1830 the great sessions, and since then the assizes, and at all times the quarter sessions for the county, have been held at Brecon. The borough had also a separate court of quarter sessions till 1835. The town was incorporated by a charter granted by Philip and Mary in 1556 and confirmed by Elizabeth in the nineteenth year of her reign. A charter granted by James II. was never acted upon. The borough was placed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and until then the town of Llywel, which is 10 m. off, formed a ward of the borough. There were formerly five trade gilds in the town, the chief industries being cloth and leather manufactures. There are five ancient fairs for stock, and formerly each of them was preceded by a leather fair. The fairs held in May and November were also for hiring, much of the hiring being now done at the Guildhall, and not in the streets as used to be the case. During the Civil War the greater part of the castle and of the town walls (which with their four gates were until then well preserved) were demolished by the inhabitants in order to prevent the town being either garrisoned or besieged. Charles I., however, stayed a night at the priory house shortly after the battle of Naseby. The chief ruins of the castle are now enclosed in the grounds of the Castle Hotel, the principal object being Ely tower, where Bishop Morton was imprisoned. Besides those already mentioned the persons of note born in the town include Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham; Dr Hugh Price, founder of Jesus College, Oxford; Dr Thomas Coke, the first Wesleyan missionary bishop in America; and Theophilus Jones, the historian of the county. Henry Vaughan, the Silurist, at one time practised here as a doctor 5.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Ancestors of Veronica Rowe
Title: Ancestors of Veronica Rowe
Repository:
Name: www.familytreemaker.com
Page: WFT Vol. 8, #3552
Quality: 3
Date: 13 Sep 2000 6.Abbrev: Ancestral File
Title: Ancestral File
Publication: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
7.Media: Book
Abbrev: Gaines Family Records
Title: Gaines Family Records
Author: Compiled by Mabel Hon Woods
Text: From "The Compendium of American Genealogy" Vol. 5:
Gaines
Arms: Sable, a chevron between three spear's heads, argent, embrued gules.
Crest: Out of ducal coronet or a lion rampant
Gaines: The Gaines family was originally the Llewellyn family, and the lion, its heraldic charte - described as follows: Argent, a lion passant gules. (This means that on a silver background there is a lion walking and looking to the right and the lion is colored red.)
Pendleton: gules, a shield between four escallops (shells)
Taylor: Argent, a cross engrailed sable, in chief and base, a heart gules, in flanks, a cinquefoil vert. (This means that on a silver background there is a cross ornamented with curved indentations and colored black. At the top and bottom are hearts colored red and at the sides there are plants of the genes of the rose family in a green color.)
Crest: A lion rampant bules, issuing from a crown. (This means that there is a lion standing up on hind legs and oming out from a crown.)
Motto: Consequitor Quodcunque Petit (Translated this means "He accomplishes whatever he undertakes.")
The helmet and mantling must be of the principal colors of the shield, which are silver and black.
The mantling represents the drapery hanging from the helet of the knight, to protect his neck from the sun and heat.
-- Miss Frances M. Smith
Pinebridege Road
Chappaqua, New York
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The Reverend Theoplidus Jones in his history of Brecon City, Wales (a folio edition of which is to be found in the Congressional Library of Washington, D.C.) has given the origin and history of a number of families which embraced some of the earlier settlers of Virginia. From the Virginia Record in the Land Office of Virginia and the State Library, we find that six members of the Gaines family had located in the colonies prior to 1650....
The Virginia Gaines family entered America by way of the Chesapeake Bay and settled on the Eastern shores in Accomack County.
Thomas Gaines and his son James Gaines settled on the Eastern shore inAccomack County in the 1620's. Edward Gaines (30 years old), the oldest of Thomas Gaines' children, settled in Virginia in 1634. Thomas Gaines apears in the Old Rappahannock in 1622, and an Alexander Gaines in 1635.
In 1634 the Old Dominion had been divided into eight shares -- and James Gaines' name appeared in the Rappahannock.
see Research Binder "Gaines" for full information;
Also contains "Royal Descent of the Gaines Family through Mary Gregory" listing a direct line from Charlemagne through Mary Gregory and a few descendants. This royal list is from a copied record of Vol. V, Compendium of American Genealogy.
Repository:
Name: copy in poss of Jill Rigg Johnson
8.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Laird-Jeffrey Family Home Page
Title: Laird-Jeffrey Family Home Page
Publication: Larry D. Laird, 67092 Highway W, Latham, MO 65050; 660-458-6675; ldlaird@mid-mo.net; www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/a/i/Larry-D-Laird/index.html 9.Media: Internet
Abbrev: Gaines Pedigree Chart
Title: Gaines Pedigree Chart
Author: Michelle thomasgenie@netscape.net
Publication:
Repository:
Name: copy in poss of Jill Rigg Johnson
This connection is unproven.
Seen his name as 'Games' or 'Gaines'
It is known for sure that Sir John was g-g-g- grandson of the famous David Gam.
Sir John built, in 1582, and lived in the manor fortress called Newton
on a piece of land that had been in his family for hundreds of years.
This farm, Newton, is still in existence.
Events
| Birth | 1559 | Newton, Breconshire, Wales | |||
| Death | 1606 | Newton, Breconshire, Wales | |||
| Alt name | Sir John Games | ||||
| Burial |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Ann Games (1560 - 1640) |
| Child | Thomas "the Immigrant" "" The Immigrant"" Gaines Sr (1584 - 1640) |
| Father | John Gaines Sr (1520 - ) |
| Mother | Jane Ales Havard (1537 - ) |