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Saint Mary's Church
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Pentraeth Station
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Plas Gwyn
Cliciwch yma am y fersiwn Cymraeg
Plas Gwyn was built by William Jones, 1688-1755. It is a house with three floors, built of
red brick and a slate roof. The house was completed in 1754.
John Jones was the son of Plas Gwyn and he was born in 1650. He died in 1727. He became
Dean of Bangor Cathedral. He opened a school at Pentraeth in 1719, a school to teach 10
children to read Welsh, English, write and do sums.
He left £100 in his will to run the school. We do not know much about the school but it
was the first school at Pentraeth and the pupils did not have to pay a penny for being
taught.
In 1787 the schoolmaster’s name was Robert Owen. The only thing we now about him is
that he had attacked someone called John Williams. This happened on September 8th. Poor
John Williams was badly beaten. Robert Owen, the schoolmaster had to go before the court
at Beaumaris but we do not know what happened there.
In 1756 Paul Panton married the Plas Gwyn heiress, Jane, the daughter of William Jones.
It is said that Paul Panton took his duties as the squireof Plas Gwyn seriously. He showed
interest in Welsh literature although his grasp of Welsh was weak. He was given a
collection of manuscripts after Ieuan Fardd after his death in 1787.
The Plas Gwyn family owned the majority of the houses around Pentraeth and the majority of
the farms.
In 1840 the Vivien family were the owners of Plas Gwyn. It was Lord Vivien who gave the
land on which the school was built in 1863. Today Mrs Margaret Eleanor Lowrie is the owner
of Plas Gwyn. Her first husband was Claude Panton Vivian. She remarried after Vivian was
killed in the Second World War in 1944 at 24 years of age.
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