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A child at the time of his father's fall, in 1531, he was taken back to Wales, where he grew up and occupied lands in the parish of Ebbernaut, in Carmarthenshire. It appears that all by the name of on record seems to have sprung from a ancestor Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Wales who died before 1585 Welsh ap is equivalent to the Mac Mc in the Scots and means son of Rhys ap Thomas married Sybell daughter Philip Scidamore and his wife Joan of Walter Kyle and granddaughter of Scidamore gentleman usher to Henry VIII. John Philip Thomas inherited Grosmont Manor in 1585 m in Swansea Referring then to the genealogy of Sir Rhys ap Thomas for its earlier history, we begin the present family with this Thomas ap Rhys, b. after 1478, whose son Philip ap Thomas m. Sybell, dau. of Philip and Joan (Warnecombe) Scudamore, and dying before 1585 left a son and heir, John Philip Thomas, who appears to have inherited from his mother the demesne lands of Grosmount Manor, Monmouthshire, and a grist-mill near by, before 1585, when he held them "in right of Philip Skudamore," and in 1591 was Queen's lessee of mills at Kentchurch in the same shire. He m. Gwenllian, fourth dau. of Walter Herbert, Esq (q.v.), of Skenfrith, Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1552, and had issue: Evan Thomas, b. 1580, whose name begins the pedigree compiled by the late Philip E. Thomas, Esq., of Baltimore… His wife's name is unknown. Philip, his son, was b. about 1600
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