He is likely to have been a victim of the Atlantic Slave Trade and was taken as a child to the Wynn family's Ystumllyn Estate in Criccieth.
Mae'n debygol ei fod wedi dioddef yn sgil Masnach Gaethwasiaeth yr Iwerydd a'i fod wedi cyrraedd Ystad Ystumllyn teulu Wynn yng Nghricieth pan oedd yn blentyn.