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Deeds and documents relating to the Penrhos and Cemmes (Cemais) estates in Montgomeryshire, formerly belonging to John Owen, which descended to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, 1647-1866, and later deeds, 1883-1899. The properties lay mainly in the parishes of Llandrinio, Llandysilio and Cemais.

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties belonging to the Ormsby Gore family in Ireland, 1665-1920. The main locations are the counties of Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Westmeath, and one file relates to Barrowmount, Kilkenny. There is a file of deeds for the estates settled on the marriage of William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1665-[1899]. The majority of the deeds, 1885-1920, record the sale of lands by William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech, to individuals and to various rural district councils for the provision of public utilities such as new waterworks at Lisduff, Sligo, 1885, cemeteries in Rue Poor Law Union, Tobercurry, 1902, and in Killasser, 1906, and sales of Willowbrook estate lands for the purposes of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1907-1910, and to the Congested Districts Board, 1911-1918, under the Irish Land Commission schemes.

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

Deeds relating to four messuages in Willow Street, Oswestry, bought from Walter Price and others, 1678-1840, 1844. The file includes successive feoffments of a single cottage or burgage and a pew in Oswestry church by Edward Kyffin of Edgerley to Roger Thornes of Kayhowell, 1678, by Edward Thornes of Shotatton and his son Thomas Thornes to Richard Griffiths of Oswestry, 1735-1736, and by William Griffiths to his sister Elizabeth Griffiths, 1739; a purchase deed from Edward Knowles of Denbigh to Nathaniel Price, of three messuages in Willow Street and two pews in the north aisle of Oswestry parish church, 1771; mortgages by Henry Price to William Batterbee of Sutton, West Felton, of four newly erected houses and two pews, 1813, and by Elizabeth Price, Richard Borroughs and other family members to Thomas Price, 1835; the wills (mainly copies) of Roger Thornes of Edgerley, 1679, Nathaniel Price of Oswestry, 1790, William Batterbee of Grimpo, West Felton, 1823, and Henry Price of Oswestry, 1826, proved 1835; a schedule of Henry Price’s deeds, 1678-1827; the declaration of David Price of Oswestry, 1840; extracts taken in 1840 from parish registers of Oswestry and Ellemere recording baptisms and burials of the Price and Burroughs families, 1752-1840; a conveyance by Nathaniel Price to Walter Price of his two fourth parts of the properties, 1840, and the conveyance by Thomas Price, John Clark and Sarah his wife, Edward Vaughan and Sarah his wife, and Walter Price and Ann his wife (nee Clark), devisees under the will of Henry Price, to William Ormsby Gore and his trustee of all four dwelling houses and gardens, 1840

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 other papers relating to fish ponds called Porkington Pools in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1686-1823.

Papers and abstracts relating to Porkington Pools in Selatyn and lands purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from William Lloyd of Aston, 1686-1822. The file includes a lease by Thomas Lloyd, lord of the manor of Whittington, and family to Sir Robert Owen of Porkington, of land upon the mountain called Llawnt yr Avon Goch, with liberty to enclose 2 acres about Ffynon Wen, to plant trees and to make fish ponds, 1686; a lease by Rev. John Robert Lloyd of Aston to Owen Ormsby and Margaret his wife, 1793; abstracts of title of William Lloyd, 1754-1814, compiled 1822; a coloured plan with explanation of the lands shown, 1822; and copy of a final concord between Thomas Kenyon, plt. and William Lloyd and Louisa his wife, deforcs, 1822

Deeds for the Vron (Fron) and and another messuage with a blacksmith’s shop, called Knotsford in the township of Porkington and parish of Selatyn, purchased from Rev. Richard Venables, 1696/7-1824. They include the post-nuptial settlement of John Davyes of Porkington and Elizabeth his wife (nee Jones), 1696/7; leases by John Davies, 1725, and Elizabeth Venables, 1765; the pre-nuptial settlement of Rev. Richard Venables of Wood Hill, Salop, and Sophia Lister of Tetley, Lincolnshire, 1808; a release from the representatives of the younger children of Rev. Joseph Venables and Elizabeth his wife of their shares in £2800 charged by their mother’s will on the Vron, to the family trustees, Lazarus Jones Venables, Joseph Venables Lovett, George Lister and John Henry Maw, 1823; a release by William Lloyd of Aston to Rev. Richard Venables then of Clyro, Radnorshire, and his trustees, of heriots and chief rents issuing out of the Fron, 1823; extracts (1823) from the parish registers of Oswestry, Selatyn, Ruabon, Chirk, Whittington and St George’s Liverpool, recording baptisms, marriages and burials of the families of Davies, Venables and Lovett, 1697-1822; the affidavit of Thomas Howell of Oswestry, adding that John Venables was ‘very infirm and paralytic’, 1823; reports issued by the High Court of Chancery, as to the purchase from Richard Venables and another from Edward Williams, 1823-1824; and the deeds of sale (lease and release) to the trustees of the marriage settlement of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, 1823, together with a covenant, abstracts of title and a coloured plan

Brogyntyn, 1698-1824, namely Sir Robert Owen of Porkington, 1696, with codicil, 1698, proved 1698; Jane Owen previously of Porkington, then of Wrexham, 1727, with codicil, 1732, proved 1733; William Ormsby of Willy Brooke [Ireland] 1737, proved 1739; Lewis Owen of Wexham, Buckinghamshire, B.D., 1735, with deposition, 1746, and administration, 1758; Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat, 1764; Francis Lord Godolphin, 1764, with codicils, 1764, 1765, proved 1766; William Owen of Porkington, 1762, proved 1767; Francis Owen of Conduit Street, St George’s [London], 1773, proved 1775; William Ormsby of Willowbrooke, Sligo, 1780; Francis Lord Godolphin, with codicil, 1784, proved 1785; Owen Ormsby of Porkington, 1804; Margaret Ormsby of Porkington and of Stanhope Street [London], Middlesex, 1805, proved 1806; Elizabeth Gore of Baker Street Marylebone, 1813, proved 1815, and part of a previous will, signed and dated 1810; and John Owen of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, 1817, proved 1824. The file also contains the will of Hugh Owen of Woodhouse, Salop, 1764, with an official extract of the will and successive administrations, 1768 and 1773; the will of Sarah Owen of Woodhouse, 1764; and the administration of Humphrey Jones of Machynlleth, 1809.

Title deeds and other documents relating properties belonging to the Brogyntyn estate in the county of Merioneth, 1706-1912. The most substantial files are for Tygwyn Gamlas, Carreg-y-ro and Ty Newydd in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1818-1911, and for Erw Wen and Lasynys in the parishes of Llandanwg and Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1872-1908. Others include Lasynys Fach, Garthmawr Hen and Garthmelan, 1706-1852, Glyn woollen factory, 1841-1869, building leases at Beddgelert, 1868-1890, Porkington Terrace, Barmouth, 1871-1877, and the site of a Baptist chapel at Harlech, 1896.

Title deeds and other documents concerning properties purchased or leased by the Brogyntyn estate in the county of Merioneth, 1706-1961. They include a lease and arbitration award for Ty Cerrig, Talsarnau, in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1920-1961; miscellaneous properties in Llandanwg, Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Barmouth, Beddgelert, Harlech and other locations in Merioneth, 1706-1912; and mining and quarrying leases, 1837-1947.

Deeds relating to lands at Selatyn purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Frederick West of Culham Court, Berkshire, and later of Ruthin Castle, Denbighshire, 1707-1827. They relate to two properties in the township of Porkington, namely Pentre David, formerly owned by Thomas Hanmer, and Hen Plassey (or Blassey), formerly belonging to Edward Kynaston of Hardwick. The documents for Pentre David include a deed to lead uses of recovery on the estate of Thomas Hanmer, 1707; the wills of Thomas Hanmer, 1749/50, proved 1752, Austin Leigh of St John, Westminster [nephew of Thomas Hanmer], 1774, and William Leigh of Oswestry, 1805; a conveyance by the descendant of William Leigh’s trustee and by Rev. George Wasey and Anne Sophia his wife, and the other daughters of John Frodsham and William Frodsham [legatees in the will of William Leigh] to Frederick West, 1822; and the affidavit of Alice Davies of Oswestry, former servant to William Leigh, 1827. The deeds for Hen Plassey include the will of Edward Kynaston, 1771, proved 1772; purchase deeds from his brother Roger Kynaston to William Smith of Shrewsbury, 1786, and from the latter to Thomas Whitehurst of Pen y Clawdd, Chirk, Denbighshire, 1796; the marriage settlement of Thomas Whitehurst the younger and Sarah Edwards of Vivod, Llangollen, 1798; a deed of exchange between Thomas Whitehurst and Mary Jane Ormsby, with a bond of indemnity, 1814; assignment of the bond and conveyance by Thomas Whitehurst and Edward Whitehurst to Frederick West, of the fields comprised in the exchange, 1822; and a deed by the same parties for the sale of Hen Blassey Farm and a double pew in Selatyn church, 1822. The deed of sale includes Hen Blassey, other lands in Lower Porkington, Ty Cefn yr Eglwys and fields (named), with plan incorporated, 1827. Other items comprise an abstract of title, 1771-1825; a release by William Lloyd of Aston of two heriots issuing out of Hen Plassey, 1827; and copies (dated 1822 and 1827) of burial records of Mrs Kynaston, wife of Roger Kynaston, 1766, Victoria Kynaston, 1781, Elizabeth Smith, 1788, all in Shrewsbury, Catherine Whitehurst, 1797, and Sarah Whitehurst, 1821, both in Chirk, Rev. Thomas Hanmer of Selatyn, 1749/50, and William Frodsham of Nether Knutsford, 1809.

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

Miscellaneous deeds and other papers relating to lands belonging to the Brogyntyn estate, situated in Salop, Wales, London and Cornwall 1729-1830. The file contains abstracts of the marriage settlements of William Owen and Mary Godolphin, 1730, and of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1776; abstracts of title of William Owen (3) to lands in Salop, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Merioneth, 1626-1728, compiled 1729, of Mary Jane Ormsby to a leasehold messuage in Welbeck Street, Marylebone, with the stables and coach house in Easley Mews, 1760-1806, compiled [c.1810], and of Elizabeth Owen to the estate at Trewylan, Montgomeryshire, 1659-1748, purchased from John Pryce in 1748; attested copies received from Mr Jackson in 1778, of marriage settlements and associated documents of Edward Owen and Meryell Greaves, daughter of Sir Richard Greaves, 1629, Robert Owen and Mary Edisbury, 1651, Edward Owen and Sarah Cotton, 1681, and Edward Owen of Woodhouse, 1730, and an agreement by William Owen of Woodhouse to convey to Thomas Baugh the messuage of Pentre David, Selatyn, 1777; and papers from the termination of the tenancies of William Symons and William Williams on a field called Trecanpraze, Parkan Praze or Park Chapell in the parish of Sithney in the manor of Peventon, Cornwall, implemented by Arundel Rogers, agent for the Brogyntyn trustees, 1828-1830.

Title deeds for Bank Farm, Guilsfield, 1729-1870, parcels of meadow in Broniarth purchased by Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat in 1740, and for a cottage in Broniarth purchased by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn in 1826, and a few later documents, 1830-1885.

Bundle labelled ‘Probates etc.’ containing mainly copy wills of the Godolphin, Owen and Lyster families, 1730-1799, namely Henry Godolphin, Provost of the College of Eton, Berkshire, 1730, with codicil, 1731; Rev. Lewis Owen of Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 1735 (recte 1745), proved 1746; Elizabeth Lyster of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, 1747, proved 1764; Elizabeth Owen [widow of Lewis Owen], 1752, with codicils, 1753, 1756; Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat, 1764; and Ellen Owen of Porkington, 1796; cases and opinions concerning devises in the wills of Francis Lord Godolphin and Margaret Godolphin to Ellen Owen and Francis Owen, 1793, and a bill to Ellen Owen for legal expenses, 1797-1799. The file also contains the administration of Rev. Richard Hughes of Dolgellau, 1826.

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.

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; and a small number of similar documents relating to trusts of non-family members, 1790-1906.

Deeds relating to property settled on the marriage of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1730-1793. They include a lease to vest possession of the Brogyntyn estates [part of the marriage settlement of William Owen and Mary Godolphin] 1730, a subsequent mortgage and appointment to Francis Godolphin, trustee, 1737, and a deed for making further provision for the younger children of William Owen, 1761; a receipt by Ellen Godolphin for an annuity, 1736; articles of agreement between Jonathan Lutenor and Thomas Lutenor of Henley Green, Staffordshire, and William Owen of Porkington for making bricks, 1737; an agreement between Margaret Lloyd of Kesail Gyfarch and William Owen of Porkington to settle disputes over a way from Tu Cerrig in the parish of Penmorfa, 1741; a declaration of trust from Francis Godolphin to Mary Owen to fulfil a bequest in the will of their mother, Mary Godolphin, 1762; transcript of a recovery on the Denbighshire estate of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1767; a legal opinion on Sir Thomas Jones’s right to a heriot for premises in the manor of Aston in the county of Salop, 1769; and the marriage settlements of Margaret Owen of Porkington and Owen Ormsby of Willybrook, Sligo, Ireland, both then residing in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square, which include the leasehold property of Margaret Owen at Welbeck Street, London, with a schedule of the contents, 1776; a general release by Thomas Morris and Jane his wife [former housekeeper to Robert Godolphin Owen], 1792; and a release by Ellen Owen to Thomas James Lord Bulkeley for the purpose of severing joint tenancy of the estates of Robert Godolphin Owen, deceased, which had descended to his sisters Ellen Owen and Margaret Ormsby, 1793.

Correspondents include some of Mary Owen's children, and Ann Owen of Ynysmaengwyn on family difficulties and events surrounding a shipwreck in Aberdovey, 1739-1756.