General Notes

(Research): ty in MD and are all of the ancient line of Lle
wellyn ap Griffith of Wales.  Llewellyns ap Griffith derive
d from a Welsh king, Griffin ap Cynan, King of Noah Wales
. He was slain 12-10-1282 by forces of Edward I, King of En
gland. He married 10-3-1278 Eleanor daughter of Symon de Wo
ntfort, Earl of Leicester, by Eleanor, widow of William, Ea
rl of Pembroke and second daughter of King John of England
. Eleanor, wife of Llewellyn ap Griffith died in 1280. Thei
r only daughter and heiress, Catherine, married Philip ap I
vor, Lord of lsold in Cardiga and had a daughter,m Eleanor
, who married Thomas ap Llewellyn, last lord of South Wales
. There were two daughters to this marriage, one, Eleanor
, who married Griffith Vaughan, Lord of Glyndwrdwy. They ha
d issue Owen Glendower, and a second son, Tudor ap Griffith
, male heir of his brother Glendower from whom descended b
y maternal representation the Hughes of Gwerclas. The secon
d daughter of Eleanor and Thomas ap Llewellyn was Margare
t who married Sir Turor ap Grone, Knight, and was the mothe
r of an eldest son Mere-dith ap Tudor who was the father o
f Owen Tudor the father of King Henry VII and the royal hou
se of Tudor. From this line descended the Tudor Kings of En
gland and Scotland.  Among the early settlers of St. Mary'
s county, MD, was John Llewellyn, a lineal descendant of  P
rince David ap Lleweilyn the Great, whose mother, Princes
s Joan was a natural daughter of  King John of England by A
gatha, daughter of Ferrars, fourth Earl of Derby.  The earl
y Llewellyn immigrants to VA, Daniel in 1637; John in 165
5 to Gloucester County, VA, and John in 1637 to Charles Cit
y County, VA. All came from St. Marys County in MD, descend
ants of John Llewellyn above.  The ancestor of the NC Lewel
lyns was William who died in Norfolk County, VA, in 1752. H
e originally came to VA from St. Marys County, MD. His wif
e , Frances Llewellyn died in Tyrrell County, NC, in 1 775
. One of her daughters, Chloe, born 1747, died 1794, marrie
d Thomas Grimes, born 1745, died 1797 and the Grimes Famil
y Bible (now in Bethel, NC) begins with them. Their son, Wi
lliam Grimes, born 1769 died 1850 married Talitha Mayo, bor
n 1770 died 1855, daughter of Colonel Nathan Mayo and Juli
a Williams Mayo. I believe that Frances Llewellyn after Wil
liam's death in 1752 in Norfolk County, VA came to NC. He
r son John Llewellyn took up land grants in the Conetoe sec
tion of Martin and Edgecombe counties, NC in 1778, 1784, an
d 1801. Source: Memory of Miriam" by Edna Guilford Cook  Th
e first Llewellyns in America came from England with Lord B
altimore. Sealed in St. Mary’s County, MD staunch Catholics
. They date from the beginning of this coun