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

Title deeds relating to purchases by Mary Jane Ormsby of Skybor Issa and land at Middleton in the parishes of Selatyn and Oswestry, Salop, 1790-1813.

Title deeds relating mainly to the Drenewydd estate in the parishes of Oswestry and Whittington, Salop, purchased in 1830 for £35,000 by William Ormsby Gore from Annabella Williams of Penbedw and William Watkin Edward Wynne of Peniarth, 1826-1867. They include deeds for Old Port estate, 1679-1830.

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.

Title deeds relating to Pant Glas Farm (formerly Nant) and land at Pant Glas, 1771-1868, and to Pant Glas school, 1903, all in the parish of Selatyn, purchased by or owned by the Brogyntyn estate.

Title deeds relating to Pentrepant, clover fields and Ty Coch, all belonging to the Pentrepant estate in the parishes of Selatyn and Whittington, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate from George Henry Warrington and Ethel Mary Trollope, a daughter of the Carew family of Crowcombe Court, Somerset, 1741-1894.

Title deeds relating to a brick yard, Brick Fields, Brick Kilns and cottages in the parishes of Oswestry and Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1783-1909. These deeds show the origins and development of the brick yards, on former common land in the manor of Whittington and on land formerly belonging to Powis Castle, from the late eighteenth century

Title deeds relating to Pentreclawdd Farm and cottages in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1899

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 the Vron (Fron) and another house with a blackmith’s shop called Knotsford in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1640-1874.

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 relating to land near Summerhill in the parishes of Oswestry and Selatyn, Salop, purchased by George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, Baron Harlech, and his trustees from Frances Sarah Brancker, 1840-1911

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 properties in Willow Street, Oswestry, Salop, including houses and cottages purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1678-1854, and a site for the gas works, 1820, and the old tan yard, 1905, formerly belonging to Brogyntyn

Title deeds relating to Cyrnybwch or Gowry Bank, Selatyn and Oswestry, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1848-1891

Family settlements, other papers relating to the family trusts, and abstracts of title of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn and others related to them by marriage, 1730-1974. They include marriage settlements of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1730-1793, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and Sarah Tyrell, 1844, William Richard Ormsby Gore and Emily Charlotte Seymour, 1850, Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore firstly with Lloyd Kenyon, 1863, and secondly with Rev. Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen, 1880, Capt. Alfred Mordaunt Egerton and Mary Georgina Ormsby Gore, 1878, and Hugh Fortescue Viscount Ebrington and Emily Ormsby Gore, 1886. The marriage settlement of William Gore and Mary Jane Ormsby, 1815, is not present, although the content is recited in the later family settlements. The other papers comprise appointments of trustees, and various other family trust settlements, 1815-1944, including the resettlement of the Brogyntyn estates in 1881; letters relating to the financial entitlements of Fanny Mary Katherine Kenyon, 1880, and abstracts of title compiled 1911-1974, summarising the inheritance and settlements of the Brogyntyn and Glyn estates from 1878 to 1964.

Papers relating to unrelated individuals for whom the Ormsby Gore family acted as trustees or from whom the benefit of a trust was received, namely Charles Buckworth and Elizabeth his wife, 1790-1791, General John Despard, 1853-1854, John Edwards Donne, 1869, and Charles Arthur Ellis, 1906.

The will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, 1869, various accounts gathered by her executors, dated 1841-1870, and a claim for life insurance, 1870

Wills and executors’ accounts of various members of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn, of their Maurice ancestors, and of the Godolphin and Lyster families who were linked to them by marriage. The files contain the wills of Dame Ellin Eure, 1626, miscellaneous Owen, Ormsby Gore, Godolphin and Lyster family members, 1698-1826, William Owen, 1767 (Watermark 1804), Ellen Owen, 1802, Margaret Ormsby [1806], and William Ormsby Gore, 1860.