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Title
Date(s)
- mid 17 cent.-1874 / (Creation)
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Extent and medium
vii, 89 ff. with insertions (f. 49 wanting; ff. 57 verso-62 verso blank) ; 365 x 240 mm. Suede leather binding with silver corner-pieces and gold-tooled red leather recessed centre-pieces on both covers inscribed 'Vaughan. Burlton Hall' in gold; covered in navy blue felt.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Armorial book-plates of Robert Chambre Vaughan, Burlton Hall, inside front and back covers.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Miles Wynn Cato; London; Purchase; 1995
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume compiled, c. 1846-1874, by Robert Chambre Vaughan, Burlton Hall, co. Salop [see DWB under Wynn (aft. Nanney, etc.) family of Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn], containing pedigrees of families from whom he claimed descent, mostly Welsh or co. Salop, in particular those of Chambre of Burlton and Petton, and Vaughan of Burlton. Pasted or tipped into the volume are additional biographical, genealogical and heraldic documents and memoranda, mid-seventeenth cent.-1874, drawn from diverse manuscript and printed soruces, including certificates of baptism, marriage and burial and copies of monumental inscriptions, over a hundred emblazoned coats of arms, and letters, 1846-52, to Robert Chambre Vaughan, together with a list of sources and an index to the pedigrees (ff. 63-4).
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Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23471E.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Burlton Hall (England) -- Genealogy (Subject)
- Petton Hall (Petton, England : Mansion) -- Genealogy (Subject)
- Vaughan, Robert Chambre, 1796-1876 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Chambre family, Burlton Hall and Petton Hall (Subject)
- Vaughan family, Burlton Hall (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);