Cyfronnydd Estate (Wales)

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Cyfronnydd Estate (Wales)

Cyfronydd Hall lay in Castell Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and the estate included lands in the nearby parishes of Welshpool, Guilsfield and Llangynyw. The Pryce ancestry descended from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. By the seventeenth century Cyfronnydd was in the hands of William, son of Oliver Pryce. William Pryce married Margaret vch John Bishop. Their son, Thomas (?d. 1699), married Lydia, daughter of Lodwick Lewis of Arwystli. The estate was owned by John Pryce in 1733, when he married Grace Carreg of Cemaes Bychan, Montgomeryshire. Pryce Jones (1767-1858) inherited Cyfronnydd and he married three times, firstly to Mary Browne of Mellington, secondly to Jane Davies (died 1825) and thirdly to Elizabeth Davies, daughter of Rev. Robert Davies, brother of John Davies. The Aberllefenni estate in Tal-y-llyn, Merioneth, was acquired through his second wife, Jane Davies, the daughter of John Davies of Machynlleth, owner of the Aberllefenni estate and slate quarries. Their son, Robert Davies Jones, adopted the surname Pryce in 1858. He married Jane Charlton of Apley. Their eldest son was Athelstan Robert Pryce, born in 1849. By 1938, Cyfronnydd Hall was purchased by Montgomeryshire County Council and it was used for a girls' residential school until the 1990s. The present building dates from 1865, replacing the earlier seventeenth century structure.

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