“Gent of Bodangharad in the County of Denbigh” Referred to in the Marriage Settlement between his son and “heir apparent” Richard Jones and Mary Williams “of Cadwyan in the County of Denbigh” dated 1716. His different surname from his son demonstrates the change of Welsh surnames at this time for gentry (later for others) from the patronymic to fixed surnames. Bodyangharad is near Ruthin in the parish of Llanfwrog, not far from Penygaltegva where his second son Thomas Jones, father of Magdalen, was described of in Ruth Speed’s will.

Since Penygalltegva was in Bodangharad Ucha (upper) township this could refer to one and the same place. There is stil standing a large house called Bodangharad Farm.

Certainly Richard Jones and later Ruth Speed held property in Bodangharad which Richard Jones inherited from John Davies.

The nearest large house is Pool Park, which during the 18th Century was owned by Edward Jones. it was sold to the Bagot family (see Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage) in 1810.