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- NOTE 1./
The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America - Denver Public Library - with additions from Samuel Mathews
Lineage of the Mathews in America beginning in Wales
1. GWAETHFOED, 1st Lord of Cardigan, Wales m. MORVYDD daughter & heir of OWAIN, Lord of Cardigan
2. AYDAN
3. GWILIM
4. SITSYLT
5. JEVAN
6. MEYRIC
7. JEVAN
8. CARADOC
9. MEYRIC
10. MADOC
11. GRIFFITH GETHYN
12. SIR EVAN m. CECIL dau. of ?
13. SIR MATHEW m. JANET, dau. of RICHARD FLEMING and had 3 sons, ROBERT, Lewis and Sir David (the eldest).
SIR MATHEW was knighted by Richard II in 1386 and is the source of the Mathews surname.
(Sir David Mathews was "Grand Standard Bearer to Henry VI" and was one of the most distinguished men of his time.)
14. ROBERT MATHEWS, the 2nd son of SIR MATHEW, of Castle-Mynech, Wales
15. WILLIAM MATHEWS
16. ROBERT MATHEWS
17. JOHN MATHEWS
[Note: Tobias Mathews, Archbishop of York m. FRANCES BARLOW was, most probably, not related to the below Samuel Mathews. (Sam Elswick, July 2001)]
18. SAMUEL MATHEWS (1592/3? - Mar 1660) m.1(?) FRANCES HINTON. Samuel m.2(?) Frances Greville West Peirsley, her (m.3) She imm. Jan. 29, 1620/1 on the ship Supply. Recent information from Linda Lawhorn indicates that Samuel Mathews "may" have been married previously in England, and that his son, the governor, was by that wife (Samuel's 1st of 3 wives).
SAMUEL MATHEWS was sent to VA ca 1615 (bef. 1619) by King James I.
19. LT. COL. SAMUEL MATHEWS, jr (1718/19? bef. 1629 - 1660) He was Governor of the Colony of VA from 1656 until his death in 1660.
20. JOHN MATHEWS m. ELIZABETH TAVENOR - ca 1674? She was the dau. of MICHAEL TAVENOR & (?).
21. CAPT. SAMUEL MATHEWS (m.1) MISS PAULIN (she d. bef. 1706), of King George Co. VA She was the dau. of COL. THOMAS & ELIZABETH PAULIN.
22. ELIZABETH MATHEWS (ca 1695 - 1751) m. ROBERT TALIAFERRO - ca 1720 (ca 1688 - Feb 1, 1728)
NOTE 2./
Source: History of Greenbrier County
J.R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV
1917
p. 67-72
THE MATHEWS FAMILY
The name of Mathews, in any of its Anglo-Saxon variants, was adopted by the sons of Sir Mathew ap Jevan ap Griffyth Gethyn, tenth in lineal descent from Gwaettfoed, Prince of Cardigan, Wales, whose descendants were long deemed feudal barons of Llandaff, County Glamorgan, Wales. Sir Mathew was knighted in 1386 by Richard II, and his descendants took the name of Mathew or Mathews instead of the Welsh "ap" or "son of," the addition of the "S" signifying to the English the same thing as the Welsh "ap," the Irish "0" and the Scotch "Mac."
The armorial bearings of the Mathews are numerous, Burke, in his General Armoury, devoting over two and one-half pages to the arms, crests and mottoes. In nearly all.the lion is an important figure, and it is said the lion was used as a distinctive device by the descendants of Gwaettfoed, Prince of Cardigan, long before the dawn of heraldry. The bearings used by the Mathews of Virginia and West Virginia are described as follows: Arms: Gyronny of eight, sable and gules, a lion rampant, or. Crest: A demi lion rampant, or. Motto: Heb-d-Dhuw Heb-d-dim a-d-Dhuw a-digon. (Without God nothing, with God enough.)
Sir Mathew ap levan married Jenet, daughter of Richard Fleming, and had three sons: David, Robert and Lewis. The oldest, Sir David, was one of the most distinguished men of his time, having been made grand standard bearer of England by Edward IV, as a reward for saving his life at the battle of
Towton, Palm Sunday 1461. Sir Davis died about 1480 and his tomb, ornamented with his full length figure in full armor. is still in existence in the cathedral in Llandaff, Wales.
The second son, Robert, of Castell-y-Mynach, Wales, was the progenitor of the Mathews family in Virginia. His great-great-grandson was Tobias Mathew, archbishop of York, who married Frances Barlow, and whose son, Samuel Mathews, was horn in 1592 and was sent to Virginia by James I in 1622 as one
of five commissioners "to make particular and diligent inquiry concern-mg the present state of the colony." In 1623 he was commissioned captain of a company to go against the Tanx Powhatan Indians. in 1625 he was appointed one of the king's council in Virginia, Sir Francis Wyatt being governor. He
remained a member of that body until 1644. In December, 1656, he was elected to the council again, this time to that place nearest the governor, and on March 13, 1657, was elected governor of the colony by the House of Burgesses, and remained in office till his death in i660. He owned several plantations,
one of which was first called "Mathews Manour," but afterwards known as "Denbeigh," and it is from the latter that the county seat of Warwick county takes its name, it being located upon that plantation. He also owned "Fleur de Hundred," near Point Comfort. He married the daughter of Sir Thomas Hinton and had by her two sons, Samuel and Francis.
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