Iltyd NICHOLL (b. abt. 1500) Llantwitt Major {Llanilltud Fawr}.

His son John Iltyd NICHOLL (abt. 1530 -1599) married Margred (b. abt. 1530) of Llanilltud Fawr.

 Their son  Iltyd NICHOLL of the Ham or Y Garn, Llantwit Magor {Llanilltud Fawr} c.1570 - aft.1651. Surgeon.

married Cecily TURBERVILLE (1599- 1616) only daughter descended from the Turbervilles, traceable to Payn Turberville (c.1070 - aft.1130) of Coity Castle           (See Fitzhamon's Knights.)

Their son John NICHOLL (1605 - 1643) married Katherine or Catrin SEYES (1606 - 1669) daughter of Alexander SEYES of Caerleon. (Family traceable to Cudd c. 970)

Their son Iltyd John NICHOLL (1634 -1696) married Anne DEW (or DEARE) or daughter of John DEW (or DEERE) of Llanmaes, Glamorganshire.

Their son William (Gullmi) NICHOLL (1658 - 1703) married Florence MORGAN (born 1693) only daughter and heiress of William MORGAN of Ty Mawr (of Tredunnock or Tredynog))

Their son John NICHOLL (1701 - 1777) married Anne HERBERT (1711 - 1777) only daughter  and heiress of Edward HERBERT* (c.1670 - 1718) of Magor or Magwyr, Monmouthshire. Her mother was Susan JONES (c. 1670 - 1743)

Their children were -

  1. Florence NICHOLL (b.1730) who married Thomas NORMAN (b. abt 1734) Malster of Caerllion, Llangadog, Monmouthshire,
                                                        Their children were - i) Anne NORMAN (1750- 1788) who married Lewis EVANS of Basaleg, later Froxfield.
                                                                                        ii) John NORMAN (ran away from the College School, Gloucester, after knocking down the
                                                                                                                                                        Master.)
                                                                                        iii) Herbert NORMAN
                                                                                        iv) Thomas NORMAN
                                                                                        v)  William NORMAN

  2. Elizabeth NICHOLL

  3. William NICHOLL (.... - d. 1813)

  4. John NICHOLL (.... - d. 1790)

  5. Susan (or Susanna) NICHOLL (1733 - 1774)

  6. Anne NICHOLL

 

 

* = "From Sir George HERBERT, Knt. of St Julian's-upon-Usk(e), in Monmouthshire; descended the Herberts of St Julian's and Magor. They are represented by Mrs. Jane Hawkins of Tredunnock." Burkes Peerage. 1841. Pembroke. E. of.)

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NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH LLANTWIT MAJOR -
NICHOLL. The family was first resident at Ty Mawr, High St. where John Nicholl lived until 1599. His son and heir took up residence at another Llantwit property, The Ham. He was called Illtyd after the founding Saint of Llantwit Major. This became a given name for the Nicholls through succeeding generations. The family sons followed the professions, the law, the Church, medicine. The Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1746 was Whitlock Nicholl who had 14 children.
The family also had property  in Monmouthshire near Tredunnock, and at Usk, which came to the family when George Nicholl married Eleanor Bond. The last of the Nicholls at the Ham was Mary Nicholl who died in 1905, and the last at Llanmaes, another Nicholl home, was Illtyd Bond Nicholl who died in 1941.

SEYS  This family name was brought to Boverton around 1560 by Roger Seys of Cowbridge who married Elizabeth Voss. She inherited Boverton land on which they built a large mansion, Boverton Place. Roger was a lawyer becoming Attorney General for the Principality of Wales under Elizabeth I. He died in 1600 and there is a wall plaque to his memory in St. Illtud’s Church. His descendants were also lawyers, the most notable of whom was Evan Seys, 1604-1685 who was MP for Glamorgan and later for Gloucester. He survived the political situations under Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell and Charles II.
Among his direct descendents is Ada Augusta Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, and collaborator with Babbage on developing the ideas behind  computers. 
The Seys properties at Boverton were transferred in 1774 to Robert Jones of Fonmon who had married the heiress to Boverton, Jane Seys .She died without producing an heir  and so the property reverted to him.  

 

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