Not the wife of John Roberts, Sr.

Biography

WikiTree contributors, "Gaynor Roberts (1653-1722)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Roberts-44843 : accessed 17 August 2024).

Gaynor (or Gainor) was born in 1653 in Llynded-wydd, near Bala, Merionethshire, Wales and she was the daughter of Robert Hugh and Elizabeth Williams.

She married JOHN ROBERTS OF PENCOYD [1]

Gainor married John Roberts on 20 March 1685 in Montgomery, Pennsylvania.[2]

Gainor died on 20 February 1722 and was buried in Merion Station, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.[3]

Family

There has been some confusion about his marriage ...

m: January 1684 Gainor Roberts [16]
m: 28 Jul 1685 Gaynor Hugh(es) or Pugh [17]

Children

1. Robert Roberts 1685–1768
2. Richard Roberts 1687-1690 (d.y.)
3. Elizabeth Roberts 1690–1690 (d.y.)
4. Elizabeth Roberts 1692–1746.

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JOHN ROBERTS OF PENCOYD

http://lowermerionhistory.org/?page_id=186945

PENCOYD AND THE ROBERTS FAMILY FULL TEXT

https://archive.org/details/pencoydrobertsfa00loth/page/n5/mode/2up

"At Pencoyd reading seems to have been one of the chief diversions, as it was in many Quaker homes, for this was one of the few approved pastimes. Much of it. doubtless, was reading aloud, for John and Gaynor Roberts had two children to listen, Robert born February 16,1685 and Elizabeth March 21.1692. Two other children died in infancy. Richard, born December 18, 1687. and a last? Elizabeth, born July 28. 1680."

https://cdn.website-editor.net/020d9c979f77483189db333592c7de7f/fil... Page 96

Hugh Roberts, Hugh Robert, or "Hugh ap Robert, of Kiltalgarth, yeoman," headed the second party of settlers from Merionethshire bound for the Thomas & Jones tract. In his immediate party, were his mother, his wife, his sister, Ganior Roberts, five children, and four servants. Hugh Roberts was a man of education, a pleasant writer, and an eminent minister among Fi'iends, whom he joined in 1666, and many sketches of his ministerial life have appeared in Friends' pubhcations.

But little is now known of his ancestry, excepting that he was the son of Robert ap Hugh, or "Robert Pugh, gent," of Llyndedwydd, a leased farm, near Bala, and the lake, in Penllyn, Merioneth, by his wife, Katherine Roberts, who, then being a widow, accompanied her son to Pensylvania, and was buried at the Merion Meeting, in 1699. She was the daughter of William ap Owen, of Llanvawr parish,in Penllyn, . where Hugh Roberts resided when he set out for America.

Katharine Robert, of Llaethgwn, widow, and her daughter, Gaynor Robert, of Kiltalgarth, spinster, both brought Certificates, dated 18. 5mo. 1683, from the Men's and Women's Meeting, Penllyn, and signed by the same Friends, namely. ...

References

1. "Merion in the Welsh Tract" page 100, "An account of John Roberts ..." (document attached)