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Letters, accounts and other papers relating to the Captain Dunken's estate. Includes probate of the will of Captain Dunken, 'native of Lieben in Courland a citizen of the city of Hamburgh (will, 1832) and 'late of Macao in the East Indies deceased' (probate), a memorandum of the baptisms of John and Catherine Edwards of Arddynwynt's children, p. Mold, 1789-1805, an affadavit relating to the children, including Mary (afterwards Mrs Dunken), 1861, and most of the documents marked A-S referred to in the affadavit.

Dunken (d. 10 Aug. 1833) was commander of the ship 'Reform' of Hamburg. John Dugdale (d. 29 July 1855) of Dugdale & Bros, Manchester, was one of Dunken's executors.

Personal papers of William Marshall Dugdale (1881-1952), including birth and marriage certificates, twenty-first birthday speech, warrants as DSO, 1918, deputy lieutenant for co. Mont., 1945, and Order of the Bath, 1946, and order of funeral service, 1952. Also other marriage and funeral orders of service, 1918-1952, and invitations and programmes relating to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London, 1897, and George VI and Queen Elizabeth's visit to Caernarfon, 1937. Also summary farm and private accounts, 1919-20 and 1921-22, three Chirk Castle shoot cards, 1927-1934, and a Llangedwyn estate shoot card, 1935.

Files of notes and other papers relating to aspects of Llanfyllin history, including education, including the British, National, Board and Intermediate schools, the Llanfyllin & District Horticultural Society, Lake Vyrnwy, the railways, notes for a chronology, and Llanfyllin as a military centre. Most of the letters are dated 1913-1916. Also typescript 'history of the parish of Llanfyllin from 1862 to 1913, by J. Marshall Dugdale of Llwyn', and a disbound copy (pp. 1-128) of the article as printed in Mont. Coll, retitled '1861 to 1915'.

Newspaper cuttings and other papers, mostly 1935-1945, including relating to grass drying, including a report on Llwyn estate farms and hill land, by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth, with special reference to pasture improvement and grass drying, 1935, and tickets for a demonstration of grass drying equipment at Llwyn, 1948.

Paper cover endorsed 'J. E. M. Dugdale'.

Includes a pair of certificates for the examination of horses at the Infirmary for Horses, London.

Volume of mainly estate and business letters, some signed by Lucy Ryle, his private secretary. Paper label endorsed 'I. 1898 to May 1901'. Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

General letters to John Marshall Dugdale, mainly Jan.-Dec. 1886.

Letters, May-Nov. 1890, including a letter of apology from the Bishop of St Asaph for forgetting Dugdale's offer to speak at the conference [presumably the St Asaph diocesan conference, Oswestry], Sept. 1890.

Letters to John Marshall Dugdale from his father, Jan.-Oct. 1896 and March-Oct. 1897.

Also includes circular for a bazaar to remove the debt on the Penybontfawr Independent Church, Sept. 1897 (c.100 names); and membership card of the Llanfyllin Diamond Jubilee Rejoicings Ladies' Committee, 1897 (c.180 names).

Volume of rent rolls and receipts of rents, including for properties in p's Coychurch and Coety, and assumed to relate to part of the Dunraven estate. On the first page are memoranda of heriots, arrears and agreements, 1673-1674. The first rent roll is dated Sept. 1671, and the receipts of this Michaelmas rent are dated Jan. 1671[/2]-Aug. 1673. The same pattern of rent roll and receipts is maintained for May 1672, Sept. 1672 and May 1673. Subsequently the rent roll is omitted, with seperate half-yearly receipts only, from the [Michaelmas 1673] rent, received Dec. 1673-Oct. 1675, to the March 1678 rent, received Oct. 1678-April 1679. From the back of the volume are further memoranda, 1672-1673, and an account of payments "p'd my self" and others, 1671-1679[/80]. The volume is untitled and unsigned, and the accounts are unaudited. Very few placenames are mentioned. The only place names in the first rental are Watertown Mill, Morfa Farm and Coychurch. Other place names include a parcel of land called Cae Garrw in p's Coety and Coychurch, a common called keven heergoed, and ka morfa shark, Castle Moat, Berllan Vawr, Old castle, and heerwayn in Coety.

A box and bundle number in pencil on the front cover (Box 16, B['dl 1?] may be similar to those on other Dunraven documents.