Family and Education
b. 4 May 1604,Calculated from WARD 7/49/211. 1st s. of John Owen (d.1612) of Orielton and Dorothy, da. of Rowland Laugharne of St. Bride’s, Pemb.; bro. of Arthur I†. educ. L. Inn 1622. m. (1) Frances (d. aft. 1635), da. of (Sir) John Philips†, 1st bt. of Picton Castle, Pemb., 2s. d.v.p. 2da.; (2) by 1645, Catherine, da. of Evan Lloyd of Yale, Denb., wid. of John Lewis of Presaddfed, Anglesey, 2s. 1da. Dwnn, Vis. Wales ed. S.R. Meyrick, i. 247; J.E. Griffith Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 58; LI Admiss. For evidence that his 1st w. was still living in 1635, see HEHL, EL7206. suc. grandfa. 1614; Kntd. 10 Aug. 1641; cr. bt. 11 Aug. 1641. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 210; CB. d. by 9 June 1671.
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J.p. Pemb. 1629 – 43, 22 July – 6 Sept. 1652, 1656 – d., Anglesey 1637–43 (custos rot. 1642–3), 1649–53, 1656 – d., Haverfordwest, Pemb. 1656–d.; JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 11–15, 216–25, 242–6. commr. knighthood fines, Pemb. 1630, E178/7154, f. 140c. wreck inquiry 1631; SP16/182/82. mayor, Pembroke, Pemb. 1632 – 34, 1639–40, ‘Mayors of Pembroke’, W. Wales Historical Soc. v. 121. Haverfordwest 1656–7; Cal. of Recs. of Bor. of Haverfordwest 1597–1660 ed. B.G. Charles (Univ. Wales, Bd. of Celtic Studs. Hist. and Law ser. xxiv), 131, 151. sheriff, Pemb. 1633 – 34, 1653 – 54, 1663–4; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 266. commr. exacted fees, Pemb., Carm., Card. 1635, C181/5, f. 31v. i.p.m. Sir John Wogan of Boulston, Pemb. 1637; F. Green, ‘Wogans of Boulston’, Y Cymmrodor, xv. 126. common councilman, Haverfordwest by 1651-at least 1659; He was still a councilman on 9 Dec. 1659 but seems to have been replaced by May 1660: Cal. Haverfordwest Bor. Recs. 96, 134, 171. dep. lt. Pemb. by 1637 – at least42, 1661; HEHL, EL7443; SP29/42/70. commr. subsidy, Anglesey 1641–2, NLW, Carreglwyd ms I/803; E179/219/23. Pemb. 1641 – 42, Poll Tax, Pemb. 1641, Irish aid 1642, SR, v. 91, 107, 158. assessment 1657, 1660 – 61, 1663 – 65, Anglesey 1650, 1660 – 61, 1663 – 65, Haverfordwest 1657, 1660 – 61, 1663–5, Ibid. 141, 221, 223, 342, 344, 469, 471, 544, 546, 570; A. and O. ii. 481, 1087, 1384, 1448. militia 1642, 1655, 1660, LJ, v. 304; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 79; A. and O. ii. 1448. scandalous ministers, S. Wales 1654, accts. pertaining to the propagation and preaching of the Gospel 1654. A. and O. ii. 976, 991.

Main residence: Orielton, Pemb.
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Commons 1604-1629
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OWEN, Hugh (1604-by 1671)

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Oxford 1644
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