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Oh, how wonderful!  Look at this link I just came across.  It has the history of Wales in a summarized version right through the run of years I'm looking at.  I've already scoured Wikipedia, but this runs through a nice brief timeline all on one page.
http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/timeline/tl03.html

I still can't decide exactly when "she" would have been born but "the name Aranwen Ridhelic is a spelling appropriate for around 1200. The byname comes from 1194, when it appears in Geraldus Cambrensis' Descriptio Cambriae as Ridhelic."

The first Eisteddfod was held in 1176. Was she perhaps a youth at this time? Or maybe she was born in that year.  I was born in 1976 so I fancy this '76 year a bit. 

Isn't this bit quite fascinating?
"According to a popular Welsh legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd, accompanied by a group of followers, made landfall on what is now Mobile Bay, Alabama some time in 1169."

Welsh Titles -- Arglwyddes/Bonesig/Boneddiges
Stress in Welsh is easy. In any word longer than one syllable, the emphasis is always on the next-to-last syllable.


bonesig
‹bo- ne -sig› feminine noun
1 (title) Lady (peer; wife of a peer)
Y Fonesig Rees Lady Rees

ETYMOLOGY: Michael D. Jones (the founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia) coined the word boneddes (= lady) (First example c.1876).

This is (bonedd = nobility) + (-es noun suffix indicating a female); by removing the syllable -edd he came up with the reduced form Bones

Bonesig (First example c. 1898) is (bones = lady) + (-ig diminutive suffix added to nouns)

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boneddigion ‹bo ne DHIG yon› (npl)
1 nobility,

boneddiges, PLURAL: boneddigesau ‹bo ne DHI ges, bo ne dhi GE se› (feminine noun)
1 noblewoman
y foneddiges the noblewoman

(just an old post in progress I forgot to move to this journal)

Name:

Submitter desires a name of Welsh origin for reasons of ancestry, with surname holding meaning to her English heritage, through the placename of Will Ford.  


Welsh 13th century name structure followed the pattern of given name followed by byname: being one of patronym, descriptive nickname, occupation, or place-name.


Aranwen
Arianwen
Arganwen can be traced back to 5th century \ ar-YAHN-wen\


Arganwen de Rhyd-helyg "Aranwen of Willow Ford"


Rhyd-helg, Welsh for Willow Ford.  Eluded to in Welsh poetry.

The history of the Williford family name begins after the Norman Conquest of 1066. They lived in Nottinghamshire, at Wilford. This placename is derived from the name Norman-French name Will, a pet form of William and the word ford, meaning a river crossing, and indicates that the ford in question belonged to William.

Device:

Argent, an oak tree proper blasted and eradicated, 
a base barry wavy azure and argent,
in chief three ravens sable elevated and addorsed.


(Wings addorsed are raised as if about to take flight, so that only the top of the bird's right wing shows behind the fully displayed left wing.)