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Title
Date(s)
- [1830s]-1896 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
NLW MS 23967iE: 378 ff. (original pagination 1-747 with errors) ; 370 x 240 mm.
NLW MS 23967iiE: 750 ff. (original pagination 748-1437 with errors, continued 1438-51, and continued further 1452-98; pp. 1451-93 blank) ; 370 x 240 mm.
NLW MS 23967iE: Original reversed calf stationery binding, with blind tooling; 'PEDIGREES' (gold on spine), 'Vol I' and 'A' (ink on spine).
NLW MS 23967iiE: Original reversed calf stationery binding, with blind tooling; 'PEDIGREES' (gold on spine), 'Vol: 2' and 'A' (ink on spine).
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr Michael David Lewis Moore, great-grandson of the younger David Jones Lewis; Wellingborough; Donation (with NLW MS 23968i-iiE and NLW ex 2511); September 2007; 006104656.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A two-volume collection of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families, compiled during the 1830s (23967iE watermark 1828; 23967iiE watermark 1831), with some later additions, by David Jones Lewis, Gilfach, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire.
A duplicate set of these volumes, also written by David Jones Lewis, are the 8 volumes of Gilfach MSS in the College of Arms, London (see Francis Jones, A Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts in the College of Arms (London, 1988), pp. 69-71), which are dated by colophon to 1830. This duplication is mentioned in a note, dated 8 July 1895, in 23967iE, p. 1, by Lewis's grandson, David Jones Lewis of Llwyncelyn, Llanwrda, who has also overwritten parts of the earlier text, as well as adding pedigrees relating to the Lewis family, [1895] (pp. 1438-50), and a copy of 'an account of the Lewis family in the handwriting of my late grandfather', 1896 (pp. 1494-6). There are minor additions relating to the Lewis family, to at least 1978, in several different hands (pp. 1438-41, 1448-50). A copy of an unpublished account, [1990s], of the Lewis family of Gilfach and Llwyncelyn, including references to the Pedigree Books, is now NLW ex 2511. An index to these two volumes is now NLW MS 23968i-iiE.
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Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23967i-iiE.
Alternative identifier(s)
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Lewis, David Jones, 1848-1917. (Subject)
- Lewis family, of Gilfach, Llanwrda. (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
March 2013.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones.