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Genealogical papers relating to the families of Derwas and Lyster, comprising a pedigree of Lyster of Rowton, Shropshire, by the antiquary James Bowen, 1767, with additional dates pencilled in after 1823, showing the acquisition of Moynes Court, Monmouthshire, and the marriages linking the Lyster family with Derwas of Penrhos and Owen of Brogyntyn; notes, probably by John or Margaret Owen, on the Derwas family and the connnection with Penrhos Chapel; notes on the intermarried families of Lyster and Morhall, 1797; an eighteenth century pedigree of the Derwas family with a list of early Welsh family arms; and notes in Welsh explaining the ancestry of Elizabeth Derwas, particularly through the female line.

Title deeds of lands acquired through purchase, marriage, mortgage and lease by the families of Derwas of Penthryn Fechan, Penrhos and Llwyn y Mapsis, Penryn of Domgae and Llandrinio, Lyster and Owen of Penrhos, and Ormsby-Gore of Brogyntyn, situated for the most part in Haughton, Llandrinio and Llandysilio, 1508-1827. Other locations include the parishes of Castell Caereinion and Welshpool, 1585-1728, Guilsfield, 1573-1826, Llanfechain and Llansanffraid Deuddwr, 1592-1794, in Montgomeryshire, Llanymynech on the Shropshire border, 1672, and miscellaneous parishes, 1541-1828. The effects of the enclosure of common land are apparent in some deeds of the late sixteenth to late eighteenth centuries. Other documents illustrate the acquisition by single landowners, such as the Penryn family, of mediaeval field strips previously in multiple ownership. During the first half of the eighteenth century the Penrhos estate was consolidated and enlarged by Elizabeth Lyster and by her daughter, Elizabeth Lyster (married name Owen). William Ormsby-Gore increased the estate still further with the purchase of a farm in Guilsfield, 1826.