Meyrick Family of Bodorgan Manor

The Meyrick Family is descended from the purist Celtic stock as established from the best of authorities, to wit Burke's Peerage and noblest Cambrian blood and have possessed the same ancestral estate at Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales without interruption for about 1,000 years.

They have the rare distinction of being lineally descended from the soverign Prince of Wales of the Welsh Royal family and from King Edward I, eldest son, the first Prince of Wales of the English Royal family."

The Meyrick family has been in Wales since at least the 6th century and probably before. The family estate of Bodorgan Manor in on the island of Anglesey, in northern Wales, across the Menai Strait from Bangor. The Cathedral in Bangor is on the oldest site of worship (525AD)older than Canterbury by 50 years. One of the Meyrick men was the first Protestant Bishop of Bangor. The estate house is a Manor not a castle. It is of grey stone with some kind of ivy or other climber on the front that turns brilliant red in the fall. The sword and shield are in the front hall of the Manor.

The name Meyrick is pronounced Mayrick with a long "a" When the family came to the new world, those who went into the south changed the spelling to Myrick.