A history of the family of Morgan, from the year 1089 to present times

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by  Morgan, Appleton, 1845-1928

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PREFATORY.
The word IMor-gan is a Cymric derivative, meaning one
bort» by the sea, or, a son ofthe sea {mut'r, sea ; gin, begotten).
It is not infrequently found writte—n Margan', or Morfxan. and
its iiitiquity in anyofthese forms even in the fourth c itury,
wi.^n the heresiarch Pelagius, a Celtic monk named Th—omas
M' 1 an, rendered his name into Greek {TleXayoi '///«?) was,
S3 wi: would say now, pre-historic.
Ttj3 date of Pelagiu—s precedes by a long interval the next
reference to the n—ame, a shadowy one, yet—not to be omitted
from the record, as follows : King Arthur a legendaiy king
ofBritain, but not improbab—ly the adumbration ofa real local
"kiiig" or chieftain therein ^is said, aftera defeat in someone
of hts battles with another local potentate, to have removed
his queen for safety to the coast of what is now Glamorgan-
shire ; and her c—hild, Arthur's younger son, there bom, was
named —Mor-gan the man bom by the sea; whence Gla-
morgan the country ofthe man bom by the sea.
Th»» Greek form of it, as used by the theologian who first -
Jet. . ! the doctrine of original sin, seems to have been the
first ii;<pearance of the name in undoubted history. Much
etymological teaming, and much of it no doubt misleading,
has be^m expended on the name. Shakespeare's use of it for
—one ofhis characters—the good old Belarius in "Cymbeline"
I find made the subject ofa nott by a little-read authority