Lloyd Manuscripts e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The genealogical MSS. left by Mr. Howard Williams Lloyd consist of a number of volumes of notes and correspondence relating to those early settlers in Pennsylvania from whom he was descended, and, incidentally, to some of their relations, neighbours, and posterity. The reports which, from time to time, he received from his several correspondents in England and Wales, are included, for the most part, in four folio volumes, and are inserted without classification, and not always in the order in which they were received.<br><br>In common with others engaged in such research, he himself collected, and also received from abroad, much data which, eventually, proved to have no bearing whatever on the lines in which he was interested. For instance, there are among his MSS. a large number of wills of persons named Pennell, Panall, etc., who died during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in places very distant from Balderton, Notts, where Robert Pennell was born in 1640, and whose connection, if any, with the Notts family must have been exceedingly remote. The same thing may be said as to searches in re the Sloper, Newman, Knight, Jackson and other families. There are, likewise, a considerable number of abstracts of Welsh wills, administrations, and extracts from parish registers, concerning miscellaneous Lloyds, Wynnes, Griffiths, and others, none of which relate to persons even remotely connected with the individuals Mr. Lloyd was attempting to trace, or with each other.<br><br>Scattered through the MSS., also, are numerous copies of pedigrees, from the Heralds Visitations, of families bearing the same names as those from which Mr. Lloyd descended; but the connection, if any, between the two is usually more than problematical. This is exceptionally true as to the Welsh pedigrees, of which there are many, all copied from Dwnn's Visitations of Wales, Lloyd's History of Powys Fadog, the Montgomeryshire Collections and simil