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First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name PRICHARD
Birth year 1607
Baptism year 1607
Baptism day 13
Baptism month Jul
Place CHEPSTOW
Mother's first name(s) -
Father's first name(s) Thomas
County Monmouthshire
Country Wales
Record set Monmouthshire Baptisms
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Record collection Births & baptisms
Collections from United Kingdom
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PRI CHARD. 483
PRICHARD.
The ancient house of Prichard (Welch contraction of ap
Richard, son of Richard) is a family of great antiquity. The
fatherland of all the Prichards in the world is Wales. The lineage
has an unbroken male record back to 520, and is exceedingly in-
teresting. Before Wales became annexed to Great Britain it was
divided into principalities. One of these lying between the rivers
Nye and Severn had for its ruler an ancient prince known Car-
adoc Varich Vras (Strong Arm), pronounced Ffraish Ffraish, in
English Earl of Hereford. He married Togae, dau. of the King
Beleanace of Monmoth. Their children inherited the crown and
ruled this principality for more than five hundred years (520-
1090), the last prince being in unbroken male descent.
This Caradoc dynasty continued to give to posterity Welch
names to the time of Henry VIII of England. The frequent re-
petition of the Welch word "ap" (properly ab) caused much con-
fusion, so the Bishop of Wales put forth an edict ordering all
Welsh families to take a surname.
The house of Caradoc had a ruling prince named Richard, and
his son and heir to the crown was named William ap Richard,
which became William P. Richard, in 1537 changed to Prichard,
the first by that name. The inscription over his tomb in Llanover
Church, Wales, 1622, surmounted by the family coat of arms:
"Here lyeth ye bodies of William Prichard of Llanover, Esq., and
of Mathew Prichard his sonne of Llanover, and heirs lineally
descended from the lodge of Caradoc Vraish Uras, Earl of Here-
ford, Prince between Nye and Severn."
John, b. in 1665, was a member of Old South Church of
Boston, Mass. His son, Paul Prichard, was b. in Falmouth, Me.,
now Portland, Me., in 172 1. He m. Hannah Perley, and settled
in Ipswich, Mass., in 1772. He was a "Captain of the Horse" in
the Revolutionary War. He d. in 1787.
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