The Morgans were a Welsh family, as the name indicates. Anthony Morgan, father of Mrs. Middlemore, was of Triley, died 1640, and son of Rhys Morgan, also of Triley, seventh in descent from David, the second son of Gwylym ap Jenkin, a cadet branch of the great Welsh family of Herbert. Having sold his lands in Monmouthshire he settled in Northamptonshire. His wife was Bridget, only daughter and heir of another Anthony Morgan, of Nether Heyford, in Northamptonshire. Thomas Morgan, the brother of the last-named Anthony, acquired Westonunder-Wetherley, in Warwickshire, by his marriage with Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Sanders, Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Elizabeth's reign. Having no family he settled Weston on his niece Bridget and her issue by any husband of the name of Morgan, which condition; as already shown, she fully complied with. The eldest son of, Bridget Morgan was Thomas Morgan, who was slain at the battle of Newbury in 1644. The second daughter married Richard Middlemore, whilst Bridget, a younger daughter, became the wife of Ralph Sheldon, of Weston. Anthony Morgan, the son of Rhys, died in 1610, and his widow, Bridget, on marrying again remembered her uncle's injunction, and took for her second husband Sir William Morgan, of Tredegar, knight, M.P. (she being his second wife) who died in 1653 aged 93, and had issue also by him. Sir William Morgan was sixteenth in descent from Cadivor-fawr, a chieftain in Pembrokeshire in the eleventh century and not related to her first husband, who came from the famous Herbert stock. Anthony Morgan, of Nether Heyford, was descended from Francis Morgan, esquire, justice of the King's Bench in the reign of Queen Mary who in 1553 pronounced sentence of death on Lady Jane Grey, soon after which he is said to have gone mad, crying out in his fits, "Take away the Lady Jane from me! " and in this distraction he ended his life. By Anne, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Christopher Pemberton, he left issue, Thomas Morgan, esquire, his son and heir, who succeeded on his father's decease in the last year of Queen Mary. From this gentleman, who died 1 James I, it descended to Anthony Morgan, his brother and heir. In 2 Charles I, upon the death of Lady Bridget Morgan it passed to Thomas her son, then a minor of twelve,, whose sister, Mary Morgan, married Richard Middlemore. It is not known if the two Anthony Morgans were related to one another.