Twin: One of a twin other twin is Sarah
In 1798 Thomas bought a property in Pembroke called the Royal George, (a pub or restaurant). In modern days it was called Jock's Bar. Also bought Caldy Island from the Earl of Warwick, George Greville for £3,000 in 1798 - it passed to Cabot on Thomas' death
There have been monks on Caldey Island for as long as anyone can remember. History tells us that they have been residents on this tiny island off the coast of the United Kingdom near Tenby in South Wales for over 1500 years.The island was known as Ynys Pyr, the Island of Pyr. It was so named for the first abbot who headed the island monastery in the sixth century. During the Norman invasion in the 10th century, the island took on its present name.
Human remains, flint tools, and long extinct animal bones have been found on the island dating back to 8000BC. Starting in 1113, the island ownership passed though many changes of ownership on its journey though history.
In 1113, King Henry I gave the island to a nobleman of Norman distinction, Robert Fitzmartin, who presented the island as a gift to his mother. In 1136 the island was passed over to an order of Benedictine monks, who had already founded an abbey at St. Donymael near Cardigan.
The monks built a new priory on the site of the sixth century abbot’s settlement. This priory remains largely intact today, a testament to its construction. During the new construction, the island stream was channeled and used to power a mill. A watch-tower was built to augment the defenses of the priory, as the seas around Caldey were ripe with pirates and invaders.
IN 1536 Henry VIII decreed that he had had enough of the monks and they were expelled from their island home. Henry then gave the island to John Bradshaw. The island saw many new owners of the next 260 years. It was sold to Walter Philpin in 1577, then to Reeve Williams from the Gower and then in 1653 to Robert Williams of Loughor.The Earl of Warwick decided to be ownership a go in 1786 for £3000. After 12 years he decided he was through as an island owner and sold the island. The next owner of Caldey would prove to be probably the most dynamic and fortuitous in the island’s history.
1798 saw a new start in the history of Caldey Island. The Earl of Warwick had sold the island and its new owner was not a man to sit back and just enjoy the scenery. Thomas Kynaston set up new buildings and economic prosperity for the island.
Kynaston was a very charismatic man who built a lovely mansion house in the priory grounds and added farm buildings to the compound. His more enduring legacy to the island was the building of a new and very large quarry to extract Caldey limestone.Although there were a number of other quarries on Caldey on the island, this quarry yielded up to 20,000 tons of ore a year, which was exported to capture some of the then booming building and road-making industries. Thomas passed away in 1812 and his son Cabot took over the island.
Twin: One of a twin other is Dennes
My husband is a descendant of Thomas and Cabot KYNASTON who owned and lived on Caldey Island, off the coast of Tenby, South Wales. Thomas KYNASTON of Pembroke, .bought the Island from the Earl of Warwick in 1798. Thomas KYNASTON was born January 23, 1758 - it is not known where he was born. He married Sarah BRIDGER, on March 1, 1777 in Gretna Green, SCOTLAND and died on December 16, 1812. His son, Cabot KYNASTON, born about 1792, inherited Caldey Island, after his father died in 1812. Cabot died on Caldey Island, Pembrokeshie, South Wales on December 16, 1866. My husband's great great grandmother, Anna Maria Elizabeth KYNASTON, was born January 14, 1824 in Penally, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. She was the sixth daughter of Cabot KYNASTON and Martha JENKINS, who had these 6 daughters out-of-wedlock, before he finally married her on July 18, 1833. (Cabot seems to have been married at the time toanother woman named Sarah.) There seems to have been no doubt (at the time) that he was the father of all 6 daughters of Martha JENKINS, as the records seem to indicate this, without actually stating it. In the 1841 Census, the family is listed as a normal family with Martha, Cabot's wife and the six girls, last name, KYNASTON. All of this information has been investigated and researched by Roscoe Howells, who has written many books about the history of the area and other subjects. The book with this information is, "CALDEY" by Roscoe Howells, First Impression - 1984, Reprinted - March 1996, printed by Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed. Anna Maria E. KYNASTON married Andrew Stevens REED, Esquire, of Tenby and after having nine children, they emigrated from Tenby to Clay Co., KS., USA in about 1871. They lived and died in a town called Wakefield, Clay Co., KS., USA. There was another KYNASTON family who immigrated to Wakefield, lived and died there but I have not found a connection yet. They were from a different part of ENGLAND.
Twin: one of a twin other is John