Sunday, April 07, 2013

The Bodorgan Connection 1

We are now on holiday in Wales and have visited St. Cadwaladr Church in Llangwaladr, which is on the Bodorgan Estate. Jack Fuller's will provided for two main beneficiaries: his nephew (by his sister Elizabeth) Peregrine Palmer Fuller Palmer Acland and Augustus Elliot Fuller, the son of his first cousin John Trayton Fuller of Forest Row, Sussex. Augustus Elliot Fuller married Clara Meyrick of Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales. This memorial, in the church, is to Clara Meyrick's father Owen Putland Meyrick:



IN MEMORY OF 
OWEN PUTLAND, THE SON OF OWEN MEYRICK, ESQR 
OF BODORGAN; 
WHO DIED MARCH 24TH 1825, AGED 72 YEARS, 
A TRULY HONEST MAN: 
WHOSE DELIGHT WAS TO DO GOOD, 
AND
 "TO DWELL AMONG HIS OWN PEOPLE." 
HIS DISCONSOLATE WIDOW 
HERE RECORDS HIS WORTH AND HER OWN AFFLICTION: 

He married Clara, daughter of Richard Garth, 
Esqr of Morden, Surry (sic), with whom he lived in happy 
union 50 years, and by her has left two only 
surviving children, CLARA, the Wife of 
AUGUSTUS ELLIOT FULLER, and LUCY ELIZABETH 
now the widow of ISAAC HARTMAN, Esqr. His only 
son, OWEN GARTH, was born August the 16th 1776
 and died September 1783, aged 7 Years.

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