Morris connection to Shelby and Alexander lineage in Wales

8x great grandfather Phillip Selby (Shelby) and his wife Margaretta Alexander

Notes:

a. Alexander is a 'new' last/maiden name for Margaretta Selby. With genealogy research it is always good to periodically check heritage sharing sites to see what others have gleaned through their time, energy, travel, and/or pocketbooks. As of a 3 weeks ago or so, I have not had a maiden name for Margaretta so I was delighted to discover a site listing her as an Alexander. 

b. This supplier for information says her parents are Thomas and Lucy Alexander. Thomas born in 1630 in Swaffham Prior, Cambridge, England and died in 1669 in Tregaron, Wales (an ancient market town for its area of Cardiganshire). Lucy is believed to be born about 1635 but otherwise unknown maiden name, birth location, death year, and death location.

c. Cardiganshire (county) has recently been renamed "Ceredigion".

d. Phillip Selby's occupation was a yeoman of gentleman status, owning farmland named "Derlyn" which still exists today belonging to another family.

e. According to St. Carons Church in Tregaron, the old cemetery stone markers of long ago were removed, so only a general area of the cemetery yard can be attributed for Phillip's and Margaretta's final earthly location. Phillip (1731) outlived his wife (1696).

f. Margaretta Alexander Selby lived from 1650 to 1696 however one source has stated circa 1655 with their children born between 1682-1696; married in 1673 in Tregaron:

(1) Mary/Maria born in February 1682;

(2) Elinora born in February 1683;

(3) Evan Sr. born in 1690; 

(4) Riceus born in 1693; and 

(5) Elizabeth born in 1696.

A recent source on the internet I read for their children attributed a "Rowland Shelby" with an unknown birth year and a death year of 1736 as another child of theirs.

Speculation for a 7 year gap between Elinora and Evan could be due to a miscarriage or stillborn or infant who died shortly after birth but not baptized or listed in church records. 

g. Evan Sr begat David (Sr.) who begat David Jr. who begat Charity Shelby (my "Morris" generations 4x great grandmother) married to Henry O'Neill Morris. Thus in Ohio in early 1800s the Shelby lineage enters or is 'grafted' into the Morris family tree.