MRS. GAINOR ROBERTS. MERION, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
GAINOR ROBERTS, a spinster, was about 30years old, a daughter of Robert ap Hugh, or Pugh, of Llyndedwydd, near Bala, in Merioneth, (by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Owen, of Llanfawr), and a sister of the Friends' minister, Hugh Roberts, when she bought on her own account 156 1/2 acres of the Thomas and Jones tract, and came over to Pennsylvania with her celebrated brother, with whom she lived in Kiltalgarth, on the ship "Morning Star," in 1683. Part of her purchase, 76 1/2 acres, was laid out in Merion, back of Cadwalader Morgan's land, and the reminder in Goshen township, and these lands she took to her husband as a marriage portion.She married at Merion Meeting, 20. 1mo. 1683-4, whether in the traditional log Meeting House, the predecessor of the present stone one, or at her brother's home, is not known, John Roberts, who came over also on this trip of the "Morning Star."
She died 20. 12mo. 1722, aged 69 years, and was buried with her husband at the Merion Meeting House.
They were the founders of the Roberts family of "Pencoyd," merion, and theirs was the first marriage in the Welsh tract on record.
Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania.
MRS. GAINOR ROBERTS. MERION, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Gainor Roberts, wife of John Roberts, Malster, of Pencoyd, died Feb. 20, 1722, aged 69.She was a sister of Hugh Roberts and was married to John Roberts soon after his arrival in 1683.
John Robert of Merion and Gainor Robert of the same towne and Co., married 1 Mo. 20, 1684, at their public meeting place.