Here is a list of a few that i picked out:
- The 3rd president of America, Thomas Jefferson was a welshman.
- 11 of America's presidents have come from welsh descent.
- Yale (university) derives from Ial, the village of Llanarmon yn Ial, near Wrexham in Clwyd. The Yales had a house here and David Yale was one of the pilgrim fathers who sailed to America.
- Bryn Mawr, the leading female college in the USA, is of welsh origins and Brown University, Rhode Island, was founded by a welshman, Morgan Edwards of Pontypool who died in Delaware in 1795.
- In the early 1800's, the Daniels family from Cardigan, with another welsh family, the Molows and started production of the Jack Daniels brind in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
- Hall of Fame country star (often appearing on Family Guy) Conway Twitty, was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins.
- Swansea Jack was a dog in the 1930s that famously saved the lives of people and other dogs in Swansea docks.
- Off the coast of Harlech in 1964 the oldest surviving life form in the world was found, the organism Kakabekia Barghoorn Iana, which has been in existence for 2000 million years.
- In 1536 the Act of Union stated that welsh cold no longer be used for legal or official purposes, so surnames had to be Anglicanised;
- Ap Robert - Probert
- Ap Hywel - Powell
- Ap Siencyn - Jenkins
- Ap Rhys - Price, Preece
- Ap Harry - Parry
- Ap Huw - Puw, Pugh
- Ap Henri - Penri
- Ap Evan - Bevan
- Ap Owen - Bowen
- Ioan - Jones
- The longbow was developed in Gwent.
Brangwyn, Cadwallader, Cadwaladr, Caradoc, Craddock, Cecil, Cethin - Gethin, Charles,
Clwyd, David, Davids, Davis, Davies, Dafydd, Dee, Dyfed, Edward, Edwards, Emyr, Evans,
Evan - Bevan, Eynon, Einion - Beynon, Gough, Gooch, Griffith, Griffiths, Gwynne, Wynn,
Gwynedd, Harry - Parri, Barry, Herbert, Henri - Penri, Hopkins, Howel, Howells,
Hywel - Powell, Hughes, Huw - Pugh, Puw, Iestyn, James, Jenkin, Jenkins, Jones, John,
Johns, Llywelyn, Lewelyn, Lewis, Lloyd, Loyd from llwyd 'grey', Madoc, Maddocks, Map,
Mapp - 'son', Mathew, Matthew, Medwyn, Medwin, Meredith, Meurig, Merrick, Morgan,
Morgans, Morris, Morus, Nash, Owen, Owens - Bowen, Phillips, Philip, Powys,
Rhydderch - Pritchard, Robert, Roberts - Probert, Rosser - Prosser, Rowlands, Samuel,
Samuels, Thomas, Tomos, Traherne, Tudor, Vaughan, Vivian, Watkins, Williams, Yale,
Ial, Yorath.
I feel that researching information about my welsh heritage is very important to my work, although the information i have gathered here is not directly related to my work.
