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Tredegar Estate Records, Sub-series
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Breconshire estate wages books

Labourers' work and wages books, containing details of work done, such as alterations, cutting timber, erecting bridges, fencing, gamekeeping, making and hanging gates, planting, and repairs (including roofs, skylights and windows). Each man's receipt (frequently his wife's receipt) is written across a stamp for his monthly wages. The value of the work done is summarized fortnightly under various headings, including Castle Hotel, Castle farm (Brecon), Cefnbrynich building, Coedowen farm, estate office, game, general repairs, Glangwt building, gratuity, Llwch farm, mansion house, Ruperra house, sick pay, shooting box, Sunnybank, Therrow farm, Therrow waterwheel, Wern farm, and woods and plantations.

Breconshire estate pension records

Pension books of Mrs Margaret Meredith of Talach-ddu, Feb. 1916-July 1924 (d. 8 July 1924), Mrs Margaret Watts of Llan-faes, Feb. 1916-Jan. 1932 (d. 9 Feb. 1932), Mrs Mary Watkins of Fenni-fach, Feb. 1916-Nov. 1935 and Dec. 1935-Oct. 1938 (buried 18 Oct. 1938), Thomas Bufton, Jan. 1920-Nov. 1933, and Mrs Margaret Lewis of Llys-wen, March 1921-Nov.1925 (d. 1 Nov. 1925), and three letters and a note relating to pensions, including those of David Walters (d. c.Jan. 1931), John Rogers, former under-agent at Ystradgynlais, and Gwen Morgan, widow of John Rogers's predecessor.

Breconshire estate: correspondence subject files

Tredegar Breconshire estate letters and other papers relating to specific subjects that created substantial quantities of correspondence. Some of the files (ABC 2/2/1-2, 5, 7-8, 10) are original bundles created by the staff of the Tredegar estate office, Brecon. The other files comprise letters that were found loose and would otherwise have become part of the annual files (ABC 2/1), but have been gathered together for convenience.

Breconshire estate letters received

Files of letters received by H. Edgar Thomas & Henry F. W. Harries of Brecon, solicitors, successive agents of the Breconshire estate. The letters relate to all aspects of the administration of the estate, including the sale of property in 1915.

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Breconshire estate letter files

Original files of letters received at the Tredegar estate office, Brecon, comprising files of letters from J. E. W. Rider of Lincolns Inn, Lord Tredegar's London solicitor, 1911-1915, and annual bundles of letters received by J. H. Rosser, along with drafts of his replies, 1927-1930. The letters relate to all aspects of the administration of the estate, and particularly to the sale of property in 1915 and 1930.

Letters unrelated to the Tredegar estate

Letters to H. Edgar Thomas and Henry F. W. Harries of Brecon, solicitors. The letters were removed from three binders intitled 'Office'. Many of the letters appear not to relate to the Tredegar estate but to other matters, presumably on behalf of other clients. The original binders have been discarded.

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