Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Robert LLOYD
Robert Lloyd, the pioneer ancestor of this branch of the Lloyd family, was born in Merionethshire, Wales, in 1669, came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Lion" of Liverpool in 1683, with his cousins Robert and Rebecca (Humphrey) Lloyd, with whom he lived in Merion township, Philadelphia county, until after he had arrived at his majority, when he married, October 11, 1698, Lowry Jones, also a native of Wales, a daughter of Rees John Williams, one of the prominent settlers in the "Welsh Tract," and in the same year purchased a large plantation near Bryn Mawr, on which he settled. The Welsh ancestry of Robert and Lowry (Jones) Lloyd extending back through a long line of princes of Wales, and the noble family of Percy of Northumberland, may be found in detail in Glenn's "Merion in the Welsh Tract."
Robert Lloyd died, May 29, 1714. He and his wife Lowry Jones had six children, three sons and three daughters. Of his sons, David Lloyd removed to North Carolina, Rees Lloyd settled in Gwynedd township, now Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and Richard in Darby, Chester county, Pennsylvania.
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