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Probate of the will of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech, 1876, and executors’ accounts, 1876-1877.

Title deeds and other papers relating to fish ponds called Porkington Pools in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1686-1823.

Title deeds, which appear to relate to two separate parts of a property called Pentre David in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, 1707-1827. One part, together with Hen Plassey, was purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Frederick West in 1827, and the other, Pentre David Farm, had been purchased from Thomas Jackson in 1822

Title deeds relating to a farm house and lands in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from David Jameson of Oswestry, 1808-1820

Title deeds and various other documents relating to miscellanous properties mainly in Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington in the county of Salop (Shropshire) purchased by or belonging to the Brogyntyn estate, 1740-1939. The most substantial files are for the Parados estate, Selatyn, 1748-1829, a messuage in Porkington purchased from Edward Roberts, 1764-1826, Oerley Hall and adjoining lands, 1783-1830, Mount Pleasant, Selatyn, and land purchased from John Basnett, 1810-1819. Others include purchases from John Mytton of Halston, 1805-1826, and from John Lloyd, 1805-1829, Tynewydd or New Barns, Selatyn, 1805-1901, several fields near Oswestry, 1810-1848, Hengoed Vicarage, 1854-1897, Porkington Terrace, Oswestry, 1888-1892, the Burnt House farm, Selatyn, 1893-1901, and the Almshouses, Oswestry, 1911. A small number of deeds record the sale or lease of land by Lord Harlech to Liverpool Corporation, Oswestry Rural District Council and Oswestry Corporation for the provision of a water supply and a site for a hospital, 1895-1908.

A schedule of lands and a draft licence relating to coal mining in the parishes of Whittington, Selatyn and Oswestry, Salop, (Watermark 1873)-1874

Title deeds for Bank Farm, Guilsfield, 1729-1870, parcels of meadow in Broniarth purchased by Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat in 1740, and for a cottage in Broniarth purchased by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn in 1826, and a few later documents, 1830-1885.

Title deeds for properties at Sarnau in the parish of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1828-1902

Mainly leases by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, Mary Jane his wife, and John Ralph Ormsby Gore, of parts of Borth-y-gest farm in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, for development as building plots, 1847-1860, and for the erection of a quay wall, 1867. There is also a lease for the site of Borth-y-gest Independent Chapel, 1871; and an acknowledgement for the conveyance of a garden plot, 1924.

Leases and licences granted by members of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, of minerals and slate quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890. The locations include Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1845-1872, 1875-1881, Hendre Ddu, Dolbenmaen, 1860-1874, Mynyddednyfed and Braich-y-Sant, Cricieth, 1861, Plas yn Pennant, Penmorfa, 1862-1866, Ty Cerrig, Penmorfa, 1864-1880, and elsewhere in Beddgelert, Cricieth, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, 1849-1890. One file contains licences to make railways or tramways for the transport of slate from the quarries, 1855-1873

Licences or take notes granted by John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Baron Harlech and other papers relating mainly to the Ereiniog Prepared Peat Fuel Works or the Ereiniog Prepared Peat and Brick Works, 1874-1880, but also including other items relating to parish matters in Cricieth and quarrying at Llanfrothen, 1871-1883.

Deeds and other documents relating to properties in the parish of Llangollen, Denbighshire, owned by the Brogyntyn estate, 1844-1898. The locations include Dinbren and Siamber Wen, Erw Garn Ucha, Trefor, Canal Side, land sold to Thomas Gee in 1895, and Llangollen School, 1898.

Miscellaneous deeds and documents relating to freehold and leasehold properties of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn at various locations in Wales and England, mainly Salop (Shropshire), Caernarfonshire, Merioneth, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Berkshire, Essex, London and Cornwall, [1600x1899], 1729-1937, and one file concerning the pension of Gwilym Maeran P. Jones of Oswestry, 1968-1977. The various properties include the Trewylan estate, Montgomeryshire, 1748, a leasehold in Welbeck Street, Marylebone, 1760-1806, Brentwood, Essex, 1777, Pentre David, Selatyn, 1777, 1821, Fron, Cernybwch and the Hills, Porkington and Selatyn, 1808-1819, Little Forsters, Egham, Surrey, 1802, Canister House, Datchet, 1805, lands in Stoke Poges and Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 1810-1823, fields in Sithney in the manor of Peventon, Cornwall, 1828-1830, Drenewydd estate, Oswestry and Whittington, 1829, premises in Oswestry and Selatyn leased for brick-making purposes, 1832-1847, and Tetworth House, Sunninghill, Berkshire, 1863. Families mentioned include Owen and Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, Owen of Woodhouse, Lloyd of Aston and Jackson of Pentre David. There are also sundry legal cases, 1767-1819, a description of the manor of Broniarth, 1773 (ref. 64/2), useful abstracts of title, abstracts of family settlements and of wills of the Owen and Ormsby Gore family and others, 1729-182, and a schedule of deeds compiled by Longueville and Co., [1896x1904].

Papers relating to applications by the Brogyntyn estate mainly between 1870 and 1955, under government schemes in accordance with the Improvement of Lands Acts 1864 and 1899, the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890, and the Town and Country Planning Acts, 1947 and 1954. The lands in question included Brogyntyn mansion, Home Farm (Ty Coch), Glyn, Sylfaen and Ystumcegid, 1870-1883; Penrhos, Old Port and Cross Lanes (Pentrepant), 1903-1905; Mardy Farm, Selatyn, 1905-1906; Ystumcegid Isaf, 1911; and Brogyntyn mansion and farm, Oerley Hall, The Mount, Brick Kilns, Harlech Camp, stone quarries and sand pits in Shropshire, Caernarfonshire and Harlech, 1949-1955.

Files of miscellaneous letters and papers mainly concerning the management of the Brogyntyn estates, 1830-1880. The letters are mostly to Longueville and Co. and they concern estate business, finance, legal matters, and insurance claims following a fire at Brogyntyn Hall in 1874. The estate papers include lease agreements, valuations, building accounts, notices served on tenants; there are also small quantities of legal papers and Ormsby Gore family documents [post-1863]-1871.

Rentals of various parts of the Brogyntyn (Porkington) estate in Merioneth, Caernarfonshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, 1795-1913. Specific rentals exist for Cemais and Darowen, Drenewydd, Glyn and Porkington.

Miscellaneous vouchers from the Welsh and Irish estates of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech (Watermark 1828)-1887, found at NLW after the cataloguing of the main groups was complete (!) Some bundles relate separately to the Glyn estate in Merioneth and Caernarfonshire, Cemais and Penrhos in Montgomeryshire, or the Irish estates in Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Westmeath; other bundles contain a combination of these and the Brogyntyn estate in Shropshire and Denbighshire. The presence of original labels and wrappers suggests that these groupings, though irregular, are genuine. Some bundles contain several smaller packets inside, in which the individual items were once numbered; many of the numbers are missing or out of sequence. Some packets are conveniently labelled by the agent’s name or by category. Typically the contents comprise large numbers of bills and receipts for estate labour and wages, agents’ remittances, building materials, ironmongery, farriery, provisions, stationery, freight of goods by railway, repairs to estate properties and school buildings, marsh drainage, forestry plantations, surveys and valuations, legal expenses, poor rates, highway rates, land tax, property tax, income tax, the grand jury cess (Ireland), quit rents, crown rents, chief rents, tithe rents, insurance, and subscriptions to schools, churches, clothing clubs, other charities and freemasons, together with some accounts and covering letters by the collectors and agents. There are particularly large numbers of poor rate receipts from the unions of Tobercurry, Sligo, Mohill, Bawnboy, Carrick-on-Shannon, Granard, Strokestown and Swinford, Ireland. One file in this series (72/3) contains the papers of John Edward Parry, agent of the Glyn estate, 1856-1876

Game books recording game birds, hares, rabbits, and occasionally deer, shot at Brogyntyn (Porkington), Glyn, Penrhos, Cemais, and other estates in Wales, England, Ireland and Scotland, and listing game given or received as presents, 1822-1933, 1951 They also record persons present at the shoots, such as the Ormsby Gore family (Lords Harlech), the Egerton family, Lord Kenyon, Lord Spencer Chichester, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the Duke of Portland, Lord Gordon, the Duke of Grafton, the Bentinck family, Sir John Gladstone, Lord Churchill, the Prince and Duke of Teck, Lord Penrhyn, Lord Powis and numerous other members of the aristocracy.