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Wales, Ruabon

Jane heiress of Eyton Evans of Wynnstay kneels beside her husband Sir John Wynn 1628-1718 the last baronet of the direct Gwydir line

John left his Wynnstay estates to Watkins Willliams Wynn 3rd Bart related to him via his mother Jane Thelwall www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7576694738/ on condition he took the name of Wynn, quartered his coat of arms in the first place" and built this monument described by Philip Yorke of Erddig in 1799 as a "mass and massacre of marble, ludicrous to look on"

 

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Uploaded on July 15, 2012
Taken on April 28, 2007