File Box 11, a parcel labelled 'Gwrych Castle Estate - Old Letters & papers'. - (1) Twenty-nine papers, 1855-1860, including correspondence, receipts, and plans, relating to the purchase and lease of portions of Abergele foreshore ...,

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Box 11, a parcel labelled 'Gwrych Castle Estate - Old Letters & papers'.

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(1) Twenty-nine papers, 1855-1860, including correspondence, receipts, and plans, relating to the purchase and lease of portions of Abergele foreshore ...,

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  • 1703-1860. (Creation)

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(1) Twenty-nine papers, 1855-1860, including correspondence, receipts, and plans, relating to the purchase and lease of portions of Abergele foreshore from the Crown, 1860. [Returned to Mr Jessop by instruction from Messrs Dawson. Copy conveyance. Words of thanks to Hesketh. 24 May 1943. Returned by Mr Jessop, 8 June 1943]; (2) five miscellaneous papers including a note of Robert Hesketh's income, 1799, a copy of the will of Robert Bamford Hesketh, 1823, opinion on the surname Bamford Hesketh, 1827, abstract of the will and codicils of the Dowager Countess Beauchamp, 1837-1839, and a statement of the personal estate of Sir Charles Wm Kent, bart, 1848; (3) nine papers relating to exchanges of land between the Kinmel and Gwrych estates, in St Asaph and Abergele, and the purchase of Bronhaul and Tynytwll in Abergele, 1814-1859; (4) twenty-seven papers including a rental of the estates of Mr Bamford in Bury, Rochdale, and Middleton, 1796, a rental of the Bamford estate in Lancashire with observations, 1806, a valuation of twelve estates of Robert Bamford, 1809, minutes and particulars of lands sold, 1809-1815, and John Elliotts accounts of rents, profits, and disbursements, 1810-1826; (5) about one hundred papers including correspondence relating to boundaries and exchanges of land in Abergele, 1829-1860, conditions of sale of Sirrior Hir, Abergele, 1843, and correspondence relating to the same, correspondence relating to Wyddfa and Ffosyblydd mines, 1846-1853, receipts for crown rents, 1825-1849, and correspondence relating to purchase, 1852, and letters from the Office of Woods and Forests re Abergele beach and Llysfaen enclosure, 1856-1860; (6) over one hundred and fifty letters and papers from S. Boothroyd, estate agent at Stockport, 1850-1860; (7) about one hundred papers including correspondence and accounts relating to property in Wrexham, 1827-1860; letters by Richard Llwyd, 1813, Simon Yorke, 1820, J. Meredith and Viscount Combermere, 1854, relating to genealogy, heraldry, and manuscripts; pedigrees and memoranda relating to the families of Lloyd, Bamford, and Hesketh, 1848-1849; a commission of lieutenancy granted to John Lloyd of Gwrych, 1703, and of the deputy-lieutenancy of Chester to Robert Hesketh, 1783; papers relating to the estate of Sir Charles W. Kent, bart, etc., 1848-1852; and. (8) About one hundred and fourteen papers, mainly correspondence and accounts, relating to the Lancashire and Cheshire estates, 1753-1826; plans of Glanymor farm, 1795, Tan y Goppa, Pen y dared, diversion of a road near Didsbury; a statement by John Matthews for surveying Gwrych demesne etc., 1809; particulars of properties etc.

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Preferred citation: Box 11, a parcel labelled 'Gwrych Castle Estate - Old Letters & papers'.

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