Owen? Well, then, me cousin was Welshman Daniel Owen, poet laureate
to none other than good old Queen Vic herself. First Welshman to
write a novels in native Welsh in the 'modern' era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Owen

I have the fortune (or misfortune) of being his very image.

My understanding is that his mother ran the bawdy house in
his native Mold, Clywyd, where he is immortalized in the town
square.