Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameJames Meyrick 
[23, Meyrick art, Vol III, p. 634]
[23, Meyrick art, Vol III, p. 634]Deathaft 1660
General1st s., reputedly, of Gelly Meyrick. Of Herefords, somewhere.
Notes for James Meyrick
Mentioned in the will of his sister-in-law in 1660.
Burke’s Commoners and 1847 LG have a long line of Meyricks going back to a Rowland Meyrick, bishop of Bangor in 1559. I'll leave them with a pinch of salt... Though the Meyricks of the 16th century, Rowland the bishop, his son Sir Gelly steward to the earl of Essex who was executed for treason and Rowland the son of Gelly are all well documented; Gelly the father of this James is said to be the son of Rowland.
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Interestingly this connection is restated in Burke’s 2001 Peerage in the article for a Sir John Charleton Meyrick, bt, of Bush, Pembs. It says, vol 2, p. 2677 that the Meyricks of Bush were a branch of the Meyricks of Goodrich Court and then quote an ancestry that include Bishop Rowland Meyrick but does not include any Meyricks of Goodrich. This Goodrich connection was stated also in the Burke’s Peerage of 1885, near to the first edition after the creation in 1880 of the baronetcy.
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Burke’s Commoners and 1847 LG have a long line of Meyricks going back to a Rowland Meyrick, bishop of Bangor in 1559. I'll leave them with a pinch of salt... Though the Meyricks of the 16th century, Rowland the bishop, his son Sir Gelly steward to the earl of Essex who was executed for treason and Rowland the son of Gelly are all well documented; Gelly the father of this James is said to be the son of Rowland.
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Interestingly this connection is restated in Burke’s 2001 Peerage in the article for a Sir John Charleton Meyrick, bt, of Bush, Pembs. It says, vol 2, p. 2677 that the Meyricks of Bush were a branch of the Meyricks of Goodrich Court and then quote an ancestry that include Bishop Rowland Meyrick but does not include any Meyricks of Goodrich. This Goodrich connection was stated also in the Burke’s Peerage of 1885, near to the first edition after the creation in 1880 of the baronetcy.
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