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Hello! I'm David Tudor Griffiths and this is my study of the Griffiths/Tudor Family in and around the parishes of High Ercall(Ercall Magna),Shawbury and Stanton on Hine Heath in North Shropshire,England. My father farmed in Shawbury parish.My mothers family the Hughes were farmers and drapers in the Llanfair and Shrewsbuy,area .My special thanks for her help in finding more family records goes to my cousin Margaret Adey,Reader at The County Record Office,Shrewsbury.
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The Next Generation of the Griffiths's.

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It all began in the early 1960's,when I was doing some research on Charles Darwin at the County Record Office in Shrewsbury.I discovered there were shelves full of County Court and Church Records and I was fascinated by the following extract from one of the Medieval Court Rolls "Madoc son of Griffin held Rowton and Ellerdine in 1255 by service of conducting the King in Wales in time of War".                                                                                  

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Madoc ap Griffin guiding  King Henry III through Wales  during his Welsh Campaigns.

Griffin is a Norman corruption of the Welsh name Gruffydd or Griffiths. Were these two hamlets given as a reward to a Welsh sheep/cattle drover for leading   Henry III through the mountains of North Wales during his Welsh Campaigns? Anyway the Griffiths and Madoc(Maddox) surnames are commonly found in and around these High Ercall hamlets from that time to the present day.

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