Button’s mother was therefore Emilia (or Anne) Eames née Button. The widow Eames married Rev. Samuel Gwinnett, Curate of St Nicholas. Samuel was the son of George Gwinnett and Eliazabeth Coxe.

The Arms of George Gwynnedd are described as being Azure a chevron between three spear-heads erect Argent embrued at the points proper. Crest- A horses head couped Sable, in mouth a broken spear-handle proper head Argent embrued Gules. [1, 2]

A manuscript (Harl. MS 1543, fo. 190) gives a pedigree dated “about 1697″ and names “George Gwynethh descended out of Carnarvonshire, North Wales” as father of “Richard Gwyneth of Sherdington” who married “Mary, daughter of Richard Estcourt”. Thus the link to this family is confirmed by this manuscript. [5]
George’s alternative surname, ‘Gwyneth’, [1] is similar to a name in use in Carnarvon during this period, namely ‘Gwynneth’, a name used by John Gwynneth (a.k.a. John ap David ap Llewelyn ap Ithel, of Llŷn [ b. abt. 1490, d. 1562), one of the sons of David ap Llewelyn ap Ithel, in Llŷn.[3] John Gwynneth was a Roman Catholic priest, musician and polemicist, active as a controversial writer on behalf of Roman Catholicism and counter reformation.[3] He wrote several books in reply to those of John Frith, the friend and ally of Tyndale, who had been martyred in 1533. His works show wide learning and a good degree of dialectical skill. John Gwynneth lived on into the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and may have suffered imprisonment for refusing to accept the Act of Uniformity of 1559.[3] His brother was Robert ap Llewelyn ap Ithel, of Castellmarch, in Llŷn.[3] While no, proven relationship is known for George Gwynnedd, John Gwynneth and Robert Gwynneth, there may have been a connection given that George was involved in religious disputes with the Roman Catholic church. Families were known to have been divided by religious struggles of the period during Reformation and Counter-reformation as Protestantism and Catholicism vied for supremacy. George Gwynnedd/Gwyneth left his native home on account of religious persecution of him, by policies pursued under Queen Mary. Presumably he was a Protestant.[1]
The name ‘Gwynedd’ is derived possibly from Brythonic Ueneda (Land of the warrior bands), or it may be a Welsh muted form of Kenneth (in Welsh the hard k becomes muted to g, thus Kenneth mutates to Cunneda < Gwyneth(a), thus Gwynedd or Gwynnedd means, 'Kenneth's Land.' Cunneda (Kenneth) is the name of a legendary, 5th Century prince from Manaw Gododdin (part of the Old North that included Stirling and Bernicia), who fled the invading Picts in the north of ancient Briton and colonised the lands that became Gwynedd. Hence the family name 'Gwynnedd', 'Gwynedd' or 'Gwyneth', derives from the Welsh locality of Gwynnedd, in North-west Wales named after the Old Kingdom of Gwynnedd, suggesting that there is a family connection to the landed gentry and perhaps the nobility of the Old Kingdom of Gwynnedd.

Owain "Gwynedd" ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd (b c1100, d 23.12.1169/70) is the first person of the line of princes of Gwynnedd to have the sobriquet 'Gwynedd' which became a family name in later descendants. Perhaps our George Gwynnedd / Gwyneth is of that line or a branch of the family of Gwynnedd (strictly speaking, the House of Aberffraw, a branch of the House of Manaw), connected to Carnarvon. However, no connection has been found yet.

Carnarvon is an old name for lands of Gwynedd that became part of Caernarvonshire, in 1926, in the western part of the modern county of Gwynnedd. It was originally a county created under the terms of the Statute of Rhuddlan, in 1284, following the conquest of the principality of Wales by Edward I of England.

In Carnavon, George Gwynnedd saw changes in Wales during his lifetime, including Protestantism spreading and Henry VIII declaring the Pope no longer head of the church in England (1534); the Act of Union (1536), uniting Wales to England and giving Welshmen equal citizenship and representation in the English Parliament; the agrarian changes following the dissolution of monasteries (1536-1539, also under Henry VIII); the establishment of Protestantism under Edward VI; and of course, Mary I's bloody, counter revolution that sought to re-establish Papal authority over the English church and Roman catholicism as the established church. George Gwynnedd was greatly affected by the latter cause and the vicious, Catholic zeal it precipitated. He was given cause to flee from Carnavon due to "persecution under Queen Mary". [1] The act of flight indicates that he was a Protestant fleeing Catholic persecution under Mary I Tudor and her support for counter-reformation of the churches in England and Wales.

The time of George Gwynnedd's flight from Carnavon to Gloucester, can be given an approximate date, being between 1555-1558. Mary's persecution of Protestants commenced in 1555, with the burning at the stake of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, and continued until the end of her reign in November, 1558. During that period, three Welsh Protestants were burned to death in Wales and a rebellion in Kent had been put down firmly and over 800 leading Protestants left Britain. As Mary and her supporters tried to undo the changes to a Protestant church enacted by her father and her brother, nearly three hundred (280) victims of Roman Catholic attempts at counter reformation, had been burnt as heretics, giving George Gwynnedd good cause for prudent migration. It is interesting that he should choose Gloucester as his new home, however, as it was an early centre of presecution of Protestants. Perhaps it was safer, closer to the fire.

Eventually, when Queen Mary died in 1558, her half-sister, Elizabeth I, re-established Protestantism. By that time, George and his family were settled in Great Shurneton (Shurdington), in the Parish of Badgworth, County of the City of Gloucester. [1] His prospects and prosperity improved, as England thrived and grew in world power during the Elizabethan Period.

The manor at Shurdington included Great and Little Shurdington and Badgeworth; messuages and cottages in Great Shurdington, including Wellhay House and the adjoining King's Tenement or Gwinnett's tenement, Randles tenement, Collin's House, Dring's tenement, Thomas Townsend's tenement and Brewton's tenement.[4]

After 46 years free of persecution, George Gwynnedd was interred "under a fair altar tomb", at Badgworth, Gloucestershire. [1]
National Archive repository, [no title] D189/II/1/F1 1646 – 1732. Contents:
Bonds and marriage settlements of the Gwinnett family of Great Shurdington, relating to the manor of Badgeworth; capital messuage called The Farmhouse or Crippetts, messuage and land (100 a., field names) in Badgeworth, Great Shurdington and Down Hatherley; includes deed of messuage called The Black Boy or The Peacock, St. Martins, Ludgate, London, 1732.
Settlements before marriage of Richard Gwinnett of Great Shurdington, gent. and Anne, daughter of Wm. Caple, esq., alderman of the city of Gloucester, 1646; Geo. Gwinnett of Great Shurdington, gent., and Sarah Browne of Tirley, 1674; Geo. Gwinnett, jun., citizen and merchant taylor of London and Mary Gough of London, gentlewoman, 1721; wills or copy wills of Richard Banaster, of Apperley, gent., 1646; M. E. Stansbye of Badgeworth, 1683; Wm. Browne of Tirley, gent., 1691, proved 1692; Thos. Button of Cottrell (Glam.), 1710, proved 1711; Thos. Clay of Little Shurdington, 1712; Mary Brown, late of Tirley, now of Gloucester, spinster, 1717; Richard Gwinnett of Great Shurdington, gent., 1717, proved 1717; Geo. Gwinnett of Badgeworth, gent., 1729, proved 1729. [4]
References
[1] Unknown Author, Extract "Gwinnett of Shurdington, Badgworth, and Wormington" Chart pp. 84-86, Photocopy made by Pat Horton from an Unrecorded Book, and given in an personal Email, 2 September, 2009.
[2] Sims, Richard, "An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms Contained in the Heralds' Visitations, and Other Genealogical manuscripts in the british Museum. (1970, Clearfield) p.111., citing 'Gwinnett of Shurdington, 1543, fo. 190.
[3] Welsh Biographies Online, s.v. 'John Gwynneth', downloaded 12/12/2009, URL: http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-GWYN-JOH-1490.html/.
[4] National Archives, UK., [no title] D189/II/1/T1 1621 – 1763. URL: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=040-d189&cid=-1#-1
[5] Manuscript (Harl. MS 1543, fo. 190).