This document presents the two independent ancestral lines of Linda Jane Elizabeth Emmanuel (née Williams), born 26 April 1963 in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, and died 4 July 2015 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. The two lines had no recorded connection before her parents, Gordon George Williams and Elizabeth Anne Burley, married in 1957. Each carries an unbroken documented descent reaching back more than eight hundred years into very different corners of British and Welsh history.

Through her father's line, Linda descended from Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd (c.1097–1136), princess of Gwynedd and daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd. Gwenllian died defending the kingdom of Deheubarth on the field outside Kidwelly Castle in 1136, the town where Linda herself would later make her home. The descent passes through Gwenllian's son Rhys ap Gruffudd, The Lord Rhys, ruler of Deheubarth and founder of the first recorded Eisteddfod at Cardigan Castle in 1176, and onward through the Morgan Lords of Tredegar including Sir John Morgan, builder of Tredegar House (c.1490), and the family of Ifor Hael, patron of the poet Dafydd ap Gwilym before passing through the Nicholl, Jenkins, Davis, Frost and Williams families across twenty-five documented generations to Gordon George Williams, Linda's father.

Through her mother's line, Linda descended from Geoffrey de Ketenore (c.1180–c.1250), a Norman knight who held the manors of Culbone and Timberscombe on the edge of Exmoor in Somerset, recorded in court proceedings of 1227 and 1230 and in the inquisitions of the 1230s held under Reynold de Mohun, Lord of Dunster. The surname, carrying through many variant spellings from de Ketenore to Kidner across more than three centuries, passed through Carhampton and Cannington Hundreds in Somerset before crossing into Monmouthshire with Joseph Kidner's marriage at Bassaleg in 1815. The line includes Christopher Kidner of Croesyceiliog, a butcher caught up in the Newport Rising of November 1839 and subsequently cleared, and reaches Linda's mother, Elizabeth Anne Burley, twenty-four generations after Geoffrey.

Both lines are presented generation by generation, with dates, locations and sources given wherever surviving records allow, and gaps acknowledged where they exist. A comparative descent chart sets the two lines side by side. The document also includes full narrative histories of each line, drawing on the Brut y Tywysogion, the Lloyd–Emmanuel Heritage Archive, the Kidner family descent records, census and civil registration records for Monmouthshire and Somerset, and the magistrates' examinations held following the Newport Rising now held at the Gwent Archives.

Graham Tudor Emmanuel · Kidwelly · 2026