Maddog
1st Lord of Nannau.
m. Efa
Daughter and heiress of Madoc ap Philip ap Uchdryd.

Meurig
Lord of Nannau.
m. Gwenlian
Daughter and heiress of Ierwerth ap Peredyr ap Ednowain.

Ynyr Hen
born c.1200 / d. c.1250.
m. Gwerfyl
Daughter and heiress of Madog ap Llowarch Vychan ap Llowarch Goch.

Ynyr Vychan
Helped to capture the rebel Madog ap Llywelyn in 1295.
m. Gwenhwyfar
Daughter and heiress of Gruffydd ap Grono ap Einion at Seissyllt.

Howel Sele
Died c.1401.

Daffydd ap Meurig Vychan
10th Lord of Nannau.
died c.1494.
Buried at Cymer Abbey.
Bequeathed eight shillings and six pence for the building of Llanfachreth Church, and four nobles for the construction of St. Mary’s Church in Dolgellau.
m. Ellen Salisbury
Daughter of Hywel ap Rhys ap Dafydd, Lord of Rug.

Hywel ap Daffydd ap Meurig Vychan
born. c.1480 (a minor at the time of his fathers death).
Died c.1540.
m. Elin
Daughter of Robert Salesbury.

Gruffydd Nanney – 15th Lord of Nannau
born 1600 / d. 1655.
High Sheriff of Merioneth (1640-42).
m. Mary Gwyn
Daughter of Lewis Gwyn.

Hugh Nanney – 16th Lord of Nannau.
born circa 1630 / d. after 1667.
m. Jonet Salusbury.
born c.1630.

Col. Hugh Nanney, MP – 17th Lord of Nannau.
born 1669 / d. 1701.
MP for Merioneth (1695-1701). High Sheriff of Merioneth. Vice-Admiral of North Wales.
Knight of the Shire (three times).
Colonel of a Regiment of Militia (which he raised himself).
m. Catherine Vaughan
Daughter of William Vaughan of Corsygedol.
born c.1659 / d. 1733.

Janet Nanney
born 1692 / d. 1728.
m. Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt Uchaf.
born 1695 / d. 1749.
High Sheriff of Merioneth.

Sir Robert Howell Vaughan and his son start building the new ‘Georgian’ house.

The Georgian House is Completed.

There was a house-warming celebration on January 1st 1797 with a set of glasses engraved for the event.

Sir Robert Williams Vaughan (2nd Baronet) dies and the estate passes to his wife Anna Maria.

Brigadier Charles Hilary Vaughan Pritchard
born 1905 / died 1976.
m. Mary Patricia Monck in 1935.
Daughter of Hon. Charles Henry Stanley Monck.
born 1911 / died 1996.
Nannau Was Sold and Left The Family After Brigadier Vaughan Died.

Nannau was one of many large houses commandeered as short-term hospitals during WWI. Nannau was chosen due to it’s quiet location and private grounds. The nearby house at Maes-y-Bryner was used as a guest house for the relatives of the sick patients.

Nannau During WWI
With Fondest Love, Trev. (Letters Home)

Bedgebury Park School for Girls, in Kent, was evacuated to Nannau during World War Two (on May 24th, 1940).

Information courtesy of Alan S. Nipper:

“This private school for girls moved to Wales in 1940, returning to Goudhurst, Kent in 1945. The school was founded in 1920 and closed circa 2002. I believe the younger pupils were housed in Llanelltyd . They and the seniors were also given facilities at Dr Williams School.”

Bedgebury Park School Website.

Major-General John Vaughan describes Nannau in his war memoirs, “Cavalry and Sporting Memories”, published in 1954:

“Nannau is about the best built Georgian house I have ever seen. With huge blocks of stone and round, pointed and projecting mortar. Incidentally, I cannot find out the composition of the cement but I have been told that it was burnt lime, fine river sand and bullocks’ blood or white of eggs. It is previous to Portland cement. All the stone was, of course, hand dressed and the interior woodwork and ceilings are a monument to the old Welsh craftsmen, who have now entirely ceased to exist”.

He describes the estate as “one of the most beautiful in the United Kingdom.”

The Nannau Estate is split from the house and sold (the estate is still in the same hands)