Dangos 446 canlyniad

The series comprises accounts for building work and supplies required at Trellewelyn, with sketch plans included.

The group comprises title deeds for lands in Cerrigydrudion, 1690, 1794, Denbigh, 1572-1871, Henllan, 1630-1867, Llanefydd, 1662-1903, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, 1741, Llanrwst, 1575-1801, Llanrhaeadr-yng-nghinmeirch, 1636-1815, Ysbyty Ifan and Cerrigydrudion (combined), 1666, 1728-1730 and miscellaneous parishes, 1726, 1747.

The file comprises a copy of an attested copy and two extracts of the will of Ellis Davies of Cerrigydrudion, gent., dated 13 Jan. 1689, containing a bequest of money to the church and a messuage called Tu Du, the rents and profits of which are to be used for relief of the poor of the parish. [Tu Du was later owned by Mary Wynne of Plasnewydd, but it was apparently in the management of her daughter, Jane Griffith of Garn, by 1792.]

The file comprises deeds of a croft in Denbigh purchased in 1784 by John Wynne Griffith from bankrupt William Hughes of Denbigh, of whom his father, John Griffith (3) of Garn, was a major creditor. The area was once the site of houses, which had been set up as a charitable trust in 1736 to benefit the poor of Henllan, but which were derelict by 1768. -- The bundle includes a mortgage of 1729; the assignment in trust to the parish clerk for the benefit of the poor by the mortgagee, Elizabeth Parry of Denbigh, 1736; sale by the officers of the poor to William Hughes, 1768; mortgage of the croft and other properties by William Hughes, 1772; sale by the commissioners of bankruptcy to John Griffith (3), 1783, and subsequent sale to John Wynne Griffith, 1784. [Later, the croft was settled to uses and trusts of a settlement of compromise between J.W.G. and his mother in 1801].

The file comprises deeds for Ty Gwyn and premises in Tre'r-llan, and Ty Coch, Henllan, which were described in the marriage settlement of Thomas Lloyd of Vaynol and Mary, daughter of Richard ap Harry Peake, in 1630. By 1731, the properties were in the ownership of William Lloyd, who mortgaged them to Jane Hughes of Henllan in 1742. He sold them in 1749, together with a seat in Henllan church, to Robert Thomas of Henllan, still encumbered by the unpaid mortgage and subject to leases and a life estate to himself in a room with fireplace. Robert Thomas, in his will, proved 1770, instructed that his daughter, Susan, wife of William Hughes of Plasmyvod, was to receive the rents and profits. There appears to have been a purchase of a further cottage by Susan's son, John Williams, in 1784. Ty Gwyn and Ty Coch were eventually purchased by George Griffith of Garn from Thomas Hughes of Liverpool, who had inherited them from his father's cousin, John Hughes of Garthgynnan, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, after 1834.

The file comprises deeds for the sale of Cwmpernant and Rhydgaled in Henllan, and Voel in Llanrhaeadr-yng-nghinmeirch by Catherine Sidebotham and William Wright Sidebotham of Chester, at the direction of Robert Salusbury of Llanwern, Monmouthshire, to Mary Wynne, reciting a mortgage of 1781.

The file comprises deeds of a messuage in Gwaun Dwysog in the township of Twysog, which was sold by John Joyce, Thomas Lewis, John Owen of Mold and John Owen of Oswestry to Edward Corser, Clementina Radcliffe and Grace Wynne of Holywell in 1791. In the same year it was sold on to Edward Jones of Tythyn Issa, Henllan, with an assignment in trust by Samuel Small of a 1000 year term (existing as a result of a previous mortgage). John Wynne Griffith of Garn purchased the property in 1815, adding to the lands which his grandfather, John Griffith (2), had purchased in Gwaun Dwysog more than sixty years previously.

The file comprises an abstract of title of trustees for the sale, 1798-1855, and a deed of sale by Thomas Longueville Longueville and Edward Williams, trustees of Frederick Richard West, to George Griffith of Garn, with a covenant for production of deeds, 1856.

The file comprises a deed of sale, 1867, by Baron Edward Walter Charles Grainger and his mortgagees to George Griffith, of Twysog, Lodge Farm, Old Mill, Holburn, Tyddyn Issa, Bwlch Sadwrn, land at Tryan, in Henllan and Llanefydd, and messuages in School Street, Henllan, with several drafts, and abstracts of title, 1795-1866, 1867.

The file comprises prenuptial and postnuptial settlements of Maurice Wynn of Havodgregog and Grace Hughes of Gwydir (aunt of Jane Griffith, née Hughes), 1732, 1734/5; disentailment of the Havodgregog estate and property in Pwllheli, 1756; the marriage settlement of Jane, daughter of Grace Wynn of Havodgregog and Zacheus Hughes of Trefan, 1759.

The file consists of two separate leases and two releases bound as a single document, comprising the marriage settlement of Robert Wynne the younger of Plasnewydd and Mary Roberts of Bryn y neuadd, 1751.

The group comprises original and copy wills, administration bonds, occasional inventories and other documents associated with probate belonging to the main families of Griffith of Garn, 1685-1835, Hughes of Gwydir, Weeg, Llwyn Gronw and Cae'r berllan, 1670-1823, Roberts of Bryn y neuadd, 1714-1774, Wynne of Garthmeilio, Cwm Mein and Plasnewydd, 1782, 1811, Wynne of Voelas, 1732, and two other families, Griffith (ancestors of Davies of Trewylan), 1666, and Chambres of Plas Chambres, 1704.

The file includes the will and administration of John Wynne Griffith of Garn, dated 2 Nov. 1833, proved 1835, with three codicils, 1833-1834, and several drafts and copies, 1828-1833, which contain bequests of plants and garden equipment and silver and gold heirlooms, together with wills of his son, Thomas Griffith, Lieut. in the East India Company, dated 27 July 1811, with a letter of attorney appointing administrators, 1814, his mother, Jane Griffith of Denbigh, dated 20 October 1811, proved 1812, bequeathing silver, furniture and monogrammed linen, and his son, Richard Augustus Griffith of Garn, dated 1 Sept. 1831.

The file comprises the following wills: Robert Hughes of Gwydir, 17 March 1739, proved 1742, including bequests of diamond rings, gold watches, gold seals and law books; his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, 14 April 1738; his brother, Rev. Hugh Hughes, vicar of Bangor, 9 August 1750; his brother, John Hughes of Weeg (father of Jane Griffith of Garn), 17 August 1752, proved 1760, with inventory dated 1752, receipts of legacies 1753, and account of probate expenses, 1759; his sister, Jane Hughes, 1 July 1756, proved 1767; and his sister, Mary Hughes, 19 Nov 1770, with codicils dated 1776 and 1782, proved 1782.

The file comprises copy wills of Robert Wynne of Plasnewydd (father of Jane Griffith of Garn), dated 24 Sept. 1767, proved 1782, and his grandson, W[atkin] Wynne on campaign in camp at [?]wera, dated 14 June 1811.

The file comprises the will of Cadwallader Wynne of Voelas, dated 7 April 1731, proved 1732.

The file comprises a copy will, dated 16 Nov. 1666, of George Griffith, D.D., Bishop of St Asaph, great-grandfather of Mary Davies of Trewylan, wife of John Griffith (2) of Garn.

The file comprises a sheriff's writ for apprehension of David Owen to answer David Morris, 1690, duties of inhabitants of Clocaenog Park to attend manorial courts, list of persons summoned for a special jury in the case of William Jones, 1783, with instructions on the purpose of manorial courts and duties of officers in the Court Leet and Court Baron, list of gentlemen who have promised to serve on a grand jury at Denbigh Assizes, 1885, and a general release from a debt to the Inland Revenue, 1928.

The file comprises a case and opinion on the title of John Griffith (2) of Garn to a house in Ruthin, c. 1718.

The file comprises a rent roll of the paternal estate of Robert Myddelton of Chirk Castle, who died in 1733, succeeded by his brother, John, and three separate cases involving John Myddelton, 1736-1744: demands by his brother's creditors for payment of debts, a dispute with his sister-in-law, Anne, concerning non-payment of rents and entitlement to lands in Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, and his own attempt to recover estate profits from the widow and son of his former steward. The cases may have been of interest to John Griffith (2) of Garn who was a trustee of the will of Sir William Myddelton and collected Chirk rents until 1750.