When Sir John Morgan was born about 1468, in Glamorgan, Wales, his father, Morgan Ap Llewelyn, was 91 and his mother, Margred ferch Dafydd Mathew, was 43. He married Lady Margaret Saint John Countess of Bedford about 1495, in Duffryn, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters.
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Welsh (especially Glamorgan): from the medieval Welsh personal name Morgan, Morgant (Old Welsh Morcant, of uncertain etymology).
Irish: importation of the Welsh surname (see 1 above), to which has been assimilated more than one Gaelic surname, notably Ó Muireagáin (see Merrigan ).
Scottish: probably from a Gaelic personal name cognate with Welsh Morcant.
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