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Documents relating mainly to mortgages by William Richard Ormsby Gore and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of the estates in Leitrim Ireland, together with papers concerning trust moneys and sales of the Brogyntyn estate, 1870-1923.

Memorial to be registered at the Irish Registry for Deeds of the reconveyance of the Derrycarne estate, Ireland, to William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1870, mortgaged by William Ormsby Gore in 1855 and assigned to Mary Ann Harriet Kingscote and Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote in 1862; and a schedule of deeds, 1852-1870.

A miscellaneous file relating to mortgages, trust moneys and sales of the Brogyntyn estate, 1885-1923. The contents include a security (mortgage) by George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore to Edward Williams of Oswestry of all his property in the county of Leitrim, Ireland, a rent charge issuing from the same and a policy of assurance, 1885, and a reassignment to him of the policy of assurance, 1913; a similar mortgage dated 1891, a transfer by the executors of Edward Williams, lately Edward Williams Vaughan, to Martin Benson Lawford of Oswestry, 1902, and reassignment of the policy of assurance to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech, 1923; an abstract of the title of George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 1891; an indemnity to his father, William Richard Baron Harlech, from payment of £800 secured by bond to Edward Broughall, 1894; instructions to the Brogyntyn trustees to pay funds appointed to William George Arthur Ormsby Gore into Drummonds Bank, with receipts, 1913, and to pay compensation to the solicitors of Thomas Bryan relating to a land sale in Broniarth, 1921; and a list of Brogyntyn estate purchases at Oswestry sales and the sums payable on completion, 1921.

Reassignment by Martin Benson Lawford to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech of a policy of assurance previously assigned to Edward Williams [Vaughan] in 1891 for securing payment of a mortgage on the estate in Leitrim, with a related letter by Lord Harlech attached, 1923.

Title deeds and other associated documents concerning properties belonging to the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn in Salop (Shropshire), 1607-1939, Montgomeryshire, 1647-1902, Merioneth, 1706-1961, Caernarfonshire, 1813-1924, Denbighshire, 1844-1898, Flintshire, 1870-1897, London, 1795-1895, Ireland, 1665-1920, and miscellaneous locations, [1600x1899], 1729-1977. The deeds reflect the consolidation of the Brogyntyn home estates in and around Oswestry and Selatyn, the development of the brick-making industry in Shropshire, the leasing of mines and quarries under mountain farms in Merioneth and Caernarfonshire, and building developments in the popular resorts of Borth-y-gest, Cricieth and Portmadoc. Most of the purchases were made by the Brogyntyn trustees in accordance with the terms of family wills and settlements, particularly those of 1815, 1844 and 1881. Consequently many of the files contain official reports, orders, etc. issued by the High Court of Chancery in connection with the purchases; these are not described at file level unless deemed to be especially significant. Some deeds record sales of parts of the Ormsby Gore family estates for the purposes of water supply, cemeteries, chapels and schools, and for the schemes of the Irish Land Commission

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.

Ormsby Gore. Letters patent to Phillip Ormsby, 18 Nov. 1665; mortgage of lands in Co. Sligo by William Jones to Capt. William Ormsby, 19 Oct. 1693; and bond of even date by William Jones, copy of Jones Estate Act, 29 Oct. 1693; lease and release of lands in Co. Sligo by William Jones to William Ormsby, 23 Nov. 1697; counterpart lease for 999 years of lands at Closmillen, Cloontnaffe and Clooneskert by William Ormsby to Sir Edward Crofton, [29 Dec. 1694]; counterpart fine of land in Cos Roscommon, Mayo and Sligo by Ormsby and wife to Crofton and French, Hilary Term 1719; copy recovery suffered by William Ormsby of lands in Co. Mayo, Easter Term 1743; copy recovery suffered by William Ormsby of lands in Co. Roscommon, Easter Term 1743; copy recovery suffered by William Ormsby of lands in Co.Sligo, Easter Term 1743; copy fine of lands in Co. Roscommon by William Ormsby to French, Trinity Term 1743; copy fine of lands in Co. Mayo by William Ormsby to French, Trinity Term 1743; copy fine of lands in Co. Sligo by William Ormsby to French, Trinity Term 1743; fair copy settlement on the marriage of William Ormsby Gore and Miss Hannah Wynne, 23 June 1743; lease for lives of lands in Co. Sligo by William Ormsby to Thomas Evans, 13 Jan. 1746; lease for lives of lands in Co. Sligo by Francis Ormsby to Richard Irwin, 16 Jan. 1747; copy memorial - Beckett and others to French and others, 5 Aug. 1752; lease for lives of lands in Co. Sligo by Bernard Smith Ward to Thomas Parke, 3 Sept. 1764; assignment of security for £400 by Rev. Henry Coughlan to William Ormsby, 22 June 1765; copy recoveries of lands in Cos. Sligo, Roscommon and Mayo, all Trinity Term 1770; deed making tenant to the praecipe, 6 Aug. 1770; settlement between William Ormsby and Owen Ormsby, 23 Aug. 1770; deed of assignment of annuity in trust for M.Ormsby by William Ormsby and Hannah Ormsby, his wife, to Owen Ormsby, 6 July 1771; mortgage for securing £400 and interest by William Ormsby and Owen Ormsby to the Rev. Robert Bligh, 6 July 1771 with counterpart and copy dated14 Feb. 1794; conveyance by the Commissioners of the Turnpike Road to Owen Ormsby and John Lloyd of an old turnpike road in lieu of a new one, 29 June 1776; negative certificate of searches in register, 3 Jan. 1795; release of portions by Philip Ormsby and others to Owen Ormsby, 1 Jan. 1800; renewal of lease by Owen Ormsby to Hugh Mc Dermott, 27 April 1801; conveyance of two quarters of lands of Shruffe and Corkowna by Owen Ormsby to Mathew O'Conor, gent., 20 July 1804; reconveyance of mortgaged towns, lands and premises in Cos Sligo and Roscommon by Thomas Bligh to Owen Ormsby, 1 July 1841; deed of annuity by William Ormsby Gore, esq., and Mary Jane, his wife, to William Richard Ormsby Gore, esq. deed of annuity.

Conveyance of the town and lands of Aughery in the Barony of Mohill and Co. Leitrim by The Commissioners of Incumbered Estates in Ireland to Charles Thomas Warde, esq. Aug. 1852; copy Probate of the will of Charles Thomas Warde, 15 July 1865; copy marriage settlement of Henry T. Hodgson to Miss L. P. L. Warde, 23 Aug. 1865; copy marriage settlement of Rev. Edmund Hawley with Miss Ada Lloyd Warde, 3 Jan. 1866; copy administration to Henry Charles Lloyd Warde, 6 April 1871; copy statutory declaration of Marianna Warde, 3 Jan. 1872; Ward v. Thane office copy order on further consideration, 3 June 1872; copy agreement between. H. C. Lloyd Warde with Samuel Eakins, 24June 1869; conveyance in fee of the town and lands in the Barony of Mohill in Co. Leitrim, Ireland, sent to H. T. Dix & Son, by the devisees of the late C. T. Warde to the trustees of the will of the late Mrs M.J. Ormsby- Gore, [1 Nov. 1872]; copy memorial filed in Irish registry and three authorities to the trustees of the will of the late Mrs M. J. Ormsby- Gore to invest trust funds, [1 Nov. 1872]; six negative searches, 3 Dec. 1872; and abstracts of title and other papers [c. 1872].

Conveyance of lands at Deradda, Co. Leitrim, by the Landed Estates Court to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 26 July 1860; conveyance of part of the lands of Deradda in Co. Leitrim by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to William Richard Ormsby Gore, 30 March 1861; conveyance of part of the lands of Deradda, Co. Leitrim, in exchange for part of lands of Gortakoosh, by William Richard Ormsby Gore to J. R. Ormsby-Gore, 6 Nov. 1865; conveyance of several dwelling houses, pieces or parcels of land and hereditaments by the devisee in trust of 1st Baron Harlech, to William Richard, 2nd William Richard, Baron Harlech, 30 Dec. 1876; conveyance of several dwelling houses and land called Deradda, Barony of Carrigallan,Co. Leitrim, by William Richard, Baron Harlech, to G. R. C. Ormsby-Gore, 14 June 1895; and two letters, 12 -14 Feb. 1913, from H. T. Dix & Sons, Co. Dublin. [This list was compiled from a schedule loaned by Messrs Longueville & Co., but despite the list, this bundle in fact comprises only a small number of letters: there are no deeds at all in the bundle].

Lease of lands called Brookhill, part of the land of Barrowmount, Co. Kilkenny, William Gore, 4 March 1799; probate of the will of William Gore, 19 May 1815; release of a sum of money charged on lands at Barrowmount, Co. Kilkenny by Thomas M. Rachel Jacques to Mrs M. J. Ormsby-Gore, 23 April 1863.

Surrender by Caroline Low of Richmond Place, Dublin, and Edward Sutton Low to William Ormsby Gore of leases of one third part of the town and lands of Gulladuff called Denahoes Gulladuff in the Barony of Carrigallen, Leitrim, Ireland, 1788, and the other two thirds of Gulladuff, 1790, all previously leased to Nathaniel Low, with a release from rents and covenants, 1859.

Draft conveyances by William Richard Baron Harlech firstly to the Corporation of Sligo of land at Lisduff in the parish of Calry, a part of Willowbrook lands, for new waterworks, 1885; secondly to his own trustees, the Marquess of Winchester and Henry Charles Legge, lands at Moherrevan, Leitrim, to uses of the family trusts, 1888; and to his eldest son, George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore houses and land called Gortacouch, Leitrim, 1895

Copy draft conveyances by William Richard second Baron Harlech, by George Ralph Charles third Baron Harlech, and the trustees of the Brogyntyn estate, to several rural district councils and to private individuals in the counties of Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim and Westmeath, Ireland, 1902-1920. They include conveyances to Tobercurry Rural District Council of land in the townland of Rue Poor Law Union for a new cemetery, 1902; to Sligo Rural District Council land in the townlands of Clooskirt and Kinkillew, 1905; to Swinford Rural District Council a plot for the proposed enlargement of Killasser graveyard, 1906; to the Coole Rural District Council land in Togher, Finea, Williamstown and Lisnugent, to Mohill Rural District Council lands in Clooncorrick, Drumod More, Faulties, Callough, Drumod Beg and Furnace (Bleankillew), to Sligo Rural District Council land in Carrickcoola, Clooskirt and Bellawillinbeg, to Tubbercurry Rural District Council land in Lislea, Toberscardan, Castleloye, Magheranore, Carrownaworan, etc. all for the purposes of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1907-1910; and to the Congested Districts Board the Aclare fairs and markets , 1918. There are other conveyances to private individuals of the farm of Leitrim Hill, the Drumcoura Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks in the parish of Drumreilly, part of the town and lands of Willowbrook, various parts of Clooncorrick, Carrigallen, Drumlea Wood, a plantation in Carrownaworan, Tobertelly Wood, a house and garden in Dromod, and part of the mountain of Tullyvellia, land in Clooskirt adjoining the Coola crossroads, 1903-1920; and to the trustees of the will of Owen Wynne, Church Island in Lough Gill, 191[1]. The file also contains relevant letters to Longueville and Co. from H.T. Dix and Sons, Dublin, 1910-1919; and plans.

Copy of a notice published in the Dublin Gazette, of an order by the Irish Land Commission to vest the estate of George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech in the counties of Sligo and Mayo in the Congested Districts Board for Ireland, 1911, and memos of the allocation schedule, 1912.

Deeds relating to leasehold properties held by various members of the Ormsby Gore family in London, 1795-1895. The locations are Stanhope Street and Welbeck Street, Portland Place and St James Place, Grosvenor Crescent, and Halkin Street West in Belgrave Square. The leaseholds usually included a coach house and stables. Some files contain details of fixtures and fittings

Counterpart agreement for tenancy of No. 16 St James Place, London, between Mrs M. J. Ormsby Gore and J. Neal, 2 Aug. 1860; agreement for sale of a m. and premises situate in St James Place, Middlesex, between M. J. Ormsby-Gore and Charles S. Pears, 27 Sept. 1862; agreement for sale and purchase of the lease of No. 66 Portland Place and the fixtures and furniture between Mrs M. J. Ormsby Gore and William Jackson, MP, 17 July 1863.

Deeds labelled ‘As to houses in Stanhope and Welbeck Streets. Sold’. They comprise a lease (counterpart) by Owen Ormsby of Porkington to Phillip Henry of Bridge Street, Westminster, of No. 59 on the west side of Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in the parish of St Mary le Bone and the coach house and stables, with a schedule of fixtures and fittings, 1795; a lease by the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, to Sir John Gore and Thomas Kenyon [trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby] of a messuage late in the occupation of Owen Ormsby, on the north side of Stanhope Street in the parish of St George, Hanover Square, 1817, and an assignment of the same to Catherine Martha Mellists of Hamels Park, Hertfordshire, 1820.

Documents relating to 12, Grosvenor Crescent, coach house and stables (12, Grosvenor Crescent Mews), Pimlico, Middlesex, 1871-1895. The file includes an agreement by Robert John Waller, builder, with Major William Richard Ormsby Gore of Tetworth, for a lease with power of purchase, and specifications of painter’s works and fixtures for the house, 1871; a draft memorial of lease, 1872; a schedule of deeds, 1868-1895; a statement of moneys due on completion of purchase, 1895; demand notices and receipts for rent, taxes, rates and insurance, 1894-1895; and a letter from [the Marquess of] Winchester, relating to the sale and mortgage, 1895.

Deeds and documents labelled ‘Hon. Mrs Kenyon re 5 Halkin Street’, which include particulars and conditions of sale, a draft letting agreement by Fanny Mary Katherine Kenyon, 1879, a draft assignment of her leasehold properties in Middlesex to trustees in contemplation of her marriage to Rev. Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen of Tedsmore Hall, 1880; letters to Dean and Taylor from Fanny Bulkeley Owen, Longueville and Co., representatives of Belgrave Auction House, Tyrell Lewis and Co., and Burrows and Barnes, discussing the possibility of a prosecution or other legal solution to the nuisance caused by a furnace belonging to the neighbouring London and Provincial Dairy Company Limited, and the potential loss to Mrs Bulkeley Owen of her purchaser, J.B. St Croix Crosse, 1881; a sketch elevation of the furnace; a draft writ; and copy undertaking by the Dairy Company to abate the nuisance, 1881.

Deeds and other documents relating to properties in the parish of Llangollen, Denbighshire, owned by the Brogyntyn estate, 1844-1898. The locations include Dinbren and Siamber Wen, Erw Garn Ucha, Trefor, Canal Side, land sold to Thomas Gee in 1895, and Llangollen School, 1898.