John Sorton 1701 - post 1749
John Sorton , of Gelliwig in LLeyn. HISTORY OF PLAS GELLIWIG It is understood back in the late 17th century, Randolph Sorton built Plas Gelliwig on land purchased from the descendants of the Prince of Gwynedd, Gruffydd ap Llewelyn. It was to be the home of the Sortons and their descendants, the Jones Williams family for some 200 years. The southern wing of Plas Gelliwig was extended by Colonel Evan Jones, the great grandson of Randolph Sorton to what we see today. Colonel Jones was a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and served at the battle of the Nile. His experiences in the Mediterranean appeared to have influenced him to a certain extent in the transformation of Plas Gelliwig. New rooms of large eighteen century proportions were built and the whole house extended in length and breadth with corridors of stone, imposing carved and panelled pitch- pine doorways, decorated archways, crow stepped gabling, clover leaf and mullioned windows, transforming the 17th country house into the graceful light and airy grade two listed mansion of today. Plas Gelliwig is unique and has been described by the British heritage photographer as the prettiest house on the peninsular. By 1840 the box hedging was in place, along with the walls, terracing, lake, round pond, dovecot and greenhouse. At the end of the 19th century Plas Gelliwig was purchased by Colonel Gough, whose wife was Mary Georgina Lloyd Edwards of Nanhoron. On his retirement from the Great War, Colonel Gough built an extension to the north end of Plas Gelliwig. When he died in 1933 the property became part of the Nanhoron Estate, until the mid 1950's when it was sold.
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| Born: Lleyn, , , Wales 1701 | Baptised:
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| | Family: Sorton |
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