Research Notes:

Hughes wife Anne is mentioned briefly in a poem on her death in 1627 and also in the Nannau MS. The entry for Nannau MS no. 300 (1624) in which she appears, mentions a bond of obligation by Agnes [aka Anne] Nanney widow, of Dolegwyn and Lewis Gwyn of the same, and by Edward Nanney to Hugh Nanney [the younger] of Nannau to accept the arbitrament of Willam Vaughan of Corsygedol .....dated 4 August 1624. In a note for this MS catalogue entry, Richards says that this Agnes is sometimes called Annes and that she is one and the same with Hugh Nanney's widow Anne.

That this is Anne, Hugh Nanney the elder's widow would seem to be reasonable based on what we know. Besides this Anne Nanney, who was a widow of the Hugh Nanney the elder who died in 1623, the only other Anne Nanney that might be a candidate was another Anne, the wife of Hugh Nanney the younger (d. 1647) and she was not a widow at the time of MS no. 300, because he was still living in 1624. Anne the widow is called "of Dolwgwyn," the entry note says, because she went to live with her daughter Jane and her husband Lewis Gwyn at Dolegwyn [Probably because Hugh Nanney the younger's father had died and he now occupied the family seat at Nannau.]

Anne, the daughter of Rhys Vaughan and widow of Hugh Nanney, died probably in 1627. The following is a table of contents entry for an MS Welsh poem that is likely an elegy to her:

-- Report of Manuscripts in the Welsh Language (RMW), vol. 1, p 269 (Mostyn MS #165):
Richard Philip, "Marwnad [elegy] Annes v[erch] Rys Fychan qwraig [wife of] H. Nanney (1627)."

According to a reading of this poem by E.D. Jones, The Family of Nanney of Nannau, JMHRS, vol. 2, p11, Anne and Hugh Nanney had feasted the poets at Nannau for over 60 years. He also says that she died in her 82nd year [so possibly born about the same time as her husband in 1545]. The elegy of their grandson, (same JMHRS article) Rowland Vaughan of Cargai, "Hugh and pure Ann with one grave/ in the earth here lying" says that she died in her sleep.

Possibly because of the Hugh Nanney's marriage to Anne daughter of Rhys Vaughan of Corsygedol, the Vaughans of Corsygedol appear in the Nannau family MS. Griffith Vaughan signed Dwnn's Corsygedol pedigree in 1588 (Heraldic Visitations of Wales edited by Meyrick, vol. 2 p 220) and given Hugh Nanney's standing in the community, he probably would have known of his aunt Anne's marriage to Hugh Nanney when he signed the Corsygedol pedigree. ¹