Elen ferch Richard ap Hywel

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Richard ap Hywel ab Ieuan Fychan (died 1539/40).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 13 (C2)). It is given by Lewys Dwnn (1:281, 3:308, and 3:315), Lloyd (4:149, 5:266), and Carr (p. 319).

Mother: Catrin Salusbury.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 13 (C2)). It is given by Lewys Dwnn (3:308), Lloyd (4:149) and Carr.

Spouse: George Ravenscroft

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 13 (C2)). It is given by Lewys Dwnn (1:281, 3:308, and 3:315), Lloyd (5:266), Ravenscroft (p. 10), and Carr (p. 319). The 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (Rylands, p. 195) gives the marriage, but calls Elen “Elenor d. to Thomas Powell of Moston.” (Other sources give Thomas Powell as Elen’s brother, not her father.)

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Anne Ravenscroft married someone with the surname Rodishe.

Thomas Ravenscroft married Catherine Grosvenor. Thomas was High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1595.

Peter Ravenscroft (died 1574) married (1) Jane the widow of Henry Voyce on 4 February 1550/1 in Horsham, Sussex, England; married (2) Elizabeth Hall on 5 December 1569 in Horsham.

References

“Tudur Trefor 13 (C2)” in Bartrum, Peter C. An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources that Bartrum cites for Elen are Peniarth 134 (a manuscript by Gruffudd Hiraethog written between 1550 and 1562) and Lewys Dwynn 3:308.]

Carr, Antony David. The Mostyn Family and Estate, 1200-1643 (PhD thesis, University of Wales, 1975).

Lloyd, Jacob Youde William. The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fodog and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd. (London: T. Richards, 1881-1887).

“Moiston Hall”, in Dwnn, Lewys, and Samuel Rush Meyrick. Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the marches between the years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn. (Llandovery: William Rees, 1846).

Ravenscroft, William, and Raymond Bathurst Ravenscroft. The Family of Ravenscroft. (London: Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 1915).

Rylands, J. Paul. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 (London, 1882).