1703 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1703 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 30 March - Catherine Price, sister of Richard Price, marries William Thomas of Cefn Ydfa, Llangynwyd; they would become the parents of Ann Maddocks.[1]
- July - John Hanbury II marries Bridget Ayscough, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Ayscough of Stallingbough, Lincolnshire. Sir Edward's only son having died, Bridget inherits a share of his estates and brings a fortune of £10,000 to the marriage.[2]
- 20 July - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch, daughter of the Earl of Nottingham.[3]
- 28 August - Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor, marries Charlotte Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, and widow of John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys[4]
- date unknown
- Baptist leader Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.[5]
Arts and literature
New books
- James Owen - Moderation a Virtue[6]
- Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc[7]
- Pasc y Christion (translation of a work by Thomas Doolittle)[8]
Music
- Thomas Baddy - hymns appended to Pasc y Christion[9]
Births
- 2 February - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)[10]
- probable - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (d. 1772)[11]
Deaths
- 10 May - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[12]
See also
References
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Maddocks (née Thomas), Ann (1704-1727), 'the Maid of Cefn Ydfa'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Robert Stephen. "Hanbury family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "Complete baronetage Volume 3". W. Pollard & co. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Herbert family, earls of Pembroke (second creation)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Benjamin George Owens. "Griffiths, Thomas (1645-1725), first minister of the Welsh Tract Baptist church in the present state of Delaware, U.S.A." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Owen, James (1654-1706), Dissenting divine and tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Lloyd, John Edward (1900). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 261–262.
- ^ David Walker (1976). A History of the Church in Wales. Church in Wales Publications for the Historical Society of the Church in Wales. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-85326-010-3.
- ^ "Baddy, Thomas (died 1729), Independent minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Shropshire Parish Registers, Hereford Diocese, Volume V - Bromfield Registers 1559-1812. Shropshire Parish Register Society. 1909. p. 76.Baptism date.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.