FOULKE, FOULK, FOLK, FOLKE, FAULK VARIANTS
INCLUDES KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCES, & LORDS OF POWIS, WALES,
ENGLAND, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

POWIS CASTLE

Powis Castle was a fortress built about 1200 in
Powys, Wales for the Welsh Prince of Powys. The castle
sits on a rock overlooking extensive terraces of beautiful
flowers gardens and plants. The grounds also include a lake.

RHIRID FLAIDD AP GWRGENEU distinguished warrior and chieftain whom the Bards designated as a "wolf of the field of battle."

ARMS & HERALDRY of RHIRID FLAIDD

Cynddelw thanks Rhirid Flaidd for the Gift of a Sword I have a wolf who loves me from having me by him as a check on presumption, not the forest wolf that has lost its holding but the wolf of battle, courteous and generous I wear a fame scattering sword on my thigh between my body and my shield, a sword with fine bosses the sword of the intrepid Rhirid Flaidd. Proprietor of Pennant, chief nobleman, leader of noblemen, I sing not to the wolf of prey but to the wolf who is the leader of the bravest.

Edward & Eleanor (Hughes) Foulke along with their
nine children left Wales on 2 February 1698 sailing on
the ship "Robert and Elizabeth" to the province of Pennsylvania
and arrived at Philadelphia about May 17, 1698.

QUOTES FROM EDWARD FOULKE: "I, Edward Foulke, was the son of Foulke Thomas, the son of Evan, the son of Robert, the son of David Lloyd, the son of David, the son of Evan Vaughan, the son of Griffith the son of Madock, the son of Jerworth, the son of Madock, the son of Ririd blaidd of the Poole, who was Lord of Penllyn, one of the northern divisions of Wales." "My mother's name was Lowry, the daughter of Edward the son of David, the son of Ellis, the son of Robert, of the Parish of Llanvor, in Merionethshire." "I was born on the 13th of Fifth month [July], 1651, and when arrived at mature age, I married Eleanor, the daughter of Hugh ap Cadwallader, ap Rhys, of the Parish of Spytu, in Denbighshire. I had by my said wife nine children, whose names are as follows: Thomas, Hugh, Cadwallader and Evan; Grace, Gwen, Jane, Catherine and Margaret. We lived at a place called Coed-y-foel, a farm belonging to Roger Price, Esquire, of Rhiwlas, Merionethshire, aforesaid. But in process of time, I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pennsylvania; and in order thereto, we set out on the 3d day of the Second month [April], A.D., 1698, and came in two days to Liverpool, where, with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping, the 17th of the same month on board the 'Robert and Elizabeth', and the next day we set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and staid until the 1st of the Third Month (May), and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the bloody flux [dysentery] broke out in the vessel, of which died five and forty persons in our passage. The distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast overboard every day while it lasted. But through the favor and mercy of Divine Providence, I, with my wife and nine children, escaped the sore mortality, and arrived safe at Philadelphia the 17th of the Fifth month (July), where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintances." "I soon purchased a tract of land of about seven hundred acres, sixteen miles from Philadelphia, on a part of which I settled, and divers others of our company who came over the sea with us settled near me at the same time. This was the beginning of November, 1698, aforsaid, and the township was called Gwynedd, or North Wales. This account was written the 14th of the eleventh month (January), A.D. 1702." (Edward Foulke's own words, translated from Welsh)

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