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Waiver by the trustees of Lord Harlech’s settled estates of notice of George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech’s intention to sell to North Wales Power Company Limited a piece of land in the borough of Oswestry, on the east side of the road from Oswestry to Whittington, 1927

Papers relating to a petition to the High Court of Chancery in the matter of the Infants’ Settlement Act (1855) and in the matter of Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore, an infant aged eighteen years, to enable a settlement of her real and personal estate upon her marriage to Lloyd Kenyon, 1863. The file includes the consent of her father and next friend, the brief petition, a list of papers, a schedule of deeds, probate copies and abstracts, 1833-1863, solicitors’ telegrams, affidavits, the solicitor’s work diary for submission of the petition, 3 July – 11 August 1863, the summons, a draft memorial to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, a bill of costs, copy court order and minutes; and in the matter of Gore’s Settled Estates Act and the Trustees Act (1850 and 1852) the brief petition of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore for the appointment of new trustees, 1863.

Papers from a case in the High Court of Justice Chancery Division, between Sir Henry Cooper and George Allen, trustees of Rev. Hugh Ker Cockburne, plts, and the trustees of William Richard Lord Harlech, defts, concerning a contract with the latter’s agent, William Robinson Lawford, for the sale and purchase of Acra Galed, Tyn-y-Morfa, Crogan and Groeslas, Merioneth, previously part of the Mostyn estate, 1876. The file includes the statement, affidavits, minutes of order, solicitors’ correspondence, a schedule of deeds, 1818-1864, a copy opinion and the outer cover of the brief for counsel (contents missing)

Case for the opinion of counsel to settle the form of farm tenancy agreement to be used by Lord Harlech on the Brogyntyn settled estate in the counties of Salop, Montgomery, Denbigh, Caernarfon and Merioneth, and samples of the agreements, 1908.

Solicitor’s working notes from the office of Longueville and Co. [c. 1924] referring to land sales by Lord Harlech in Leitrim, Ireland, Borth-y-gest, Caernarfonshire, and the site of the ?Heroes Memorial Hall, and to Brogyntyn family settlements and trusts. Other families and individuals include St George, Willding, Ellis Jones, dec., Oswald Fox, Col. Campbell, Venables, J.H. ?Thin and Margarett Baugh, dec.

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.

Probate of the will of Dame Ellin Eure [nee Maurice] of Porkington, containing several charitable bequests and the devise of six small dwellings in Willow Street, Oswestry, to the bailiffs and burgesses of Oswestry for housing the poor, 1626.

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.

Will of William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, MP, made 1853, with codicils, 1854 and 1856, proved 1860.

Seventeen account books and loose accounts, 1841-1870 (mainly 1862-1869), accumulated by the executors and trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, following her death in 1869, and bills for legal charges from the office of Longueville solicitors, 1869-1870. The accounts are mainly with Oswestry tradesmen such as Jones and Rogers, tailors, William Smale, chemist and druggist, Morris and Jones, grocers, Edward Jones, tailor, J.E. Littlehales, ironmonger, Roberts and Oliver, drapers, William Jones, plasterer, for work at the almshouses and at Porkington, Edward and John Jones, cabinet makers and upholsterers, Dr William Fuller for medical attendance, and E & R. Hughes, drapers, whose account shows the funeral expenses of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore. Other items include a ‘general account’, miscellaneous payments, [?a postage book], servants’ wages, the house account per Mrs Blades for items bought from Lewis and Owen, the gardener’s account of James Edwards, the Sligo election account of William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1870, and bank account books of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore at the Oswestry Bank, Child’s Bank and London Joint Stock Bank.

Accounts of the executors of the late William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech (d. 1904), showing stocks and shares, the estates of Tetworth and Derrycarne, debts and funeral expenses, assets and deductions together with Inland Revenue assessment forms for estate duty, 1904-1908, a list of securities sent by the London Joint Stock Bank Limited, 1904, letters to Longueville and Co., 1904-1909; and receipts for personal legacies including a gold watch previously given to the deceased by Sir George [Francis] Seymour, 1904-1905.

Appointment of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau and David Pennant of Downing as new trustees of the Brogyntyn estates under the will of Ellen Owen, in conjunction with Thomas James Warren Lord Viscount Bulkeley, following the resignation of John Owen of Penrhos as trustee, 1804; and the appointment of a provisional trustee for the purpose of reconveying the Brogyntyn trust property, endorsed with the appointment of Thomas Netherton Parker as a new trustee, 1823.

Settlements and other documents relating to trusts on behalf of Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore, 1856-1910. The file includes a charge of £5000 on the Porkington settled estates and settlement by her father, John Ralph Ormsby Gore, for her benefit, 1856 (attested copy, much deleted and annotated); the settlements made prior to her marriages, firstly to Lloyd Kenyon of Gredington Hall, Flintshire, 1863, and secondly to Rev. Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen of Tedsmore Hall, Salop, together with an apppointment to him of the sum of £800 and a leasehold property in Onslow Square, Middlesex, 1880; appointments of new trustees by Fanny Mary Katherine Bulkeley Owen, 1882 (copy) and 1901 (draft); releases of trustees from the trusts declared in the wills of William Ormsby Gore and John Ralph Baron Harlech, and in the marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1901; an acknowledgement and undertaking by the trustees to produce documents to William Richard second Baron Harlech, 1901; and requests by Fanny Mary Katherine Bulkeley Owen for the investment of funds, 1890, 1910.

A list of financial securities transferred from Lord Harlech to Henry Arthur Ormsby Gore, 1895, with a covering letter from the London Joint Stock Bank Limited, 1897; and cases for the opinion of counsel on a proposed assignment of Lord Harlech’s life interest in part of the Irish estates as a further provision for his son, George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, in addition to the portion allocated in the family settlement (not in file), 1895.

Printed abstracts of title to the Brogyntyn estates, compiled 1911 and 1925, and to the Welsh property only, compiled 1930, recording the Ormsby Gore family settlements, trusts and wills, 1878-1928.

Petition to the High Court of Chancery for the replacement of William Ormsby Gore as trustee of the will of General John Despard of Swanhill, Salop, with related papers including an affidavit, acknowledgements, an undertaking by James W. Freshfields, copies and minutes of court orders, and letters to Longueville and Co. 1853-1854.

Release in respect of the trust estate of Thomas Borough by John Charles Burton Borough and others to Mrs M. J. Ormsby- Gore, 15 March 1861, and account book, [c. 1861?].

Draft Porkington (Brogyntyn) rental and account for the estates in Salop, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire for one half year ending Lady Day 1846.

Roll recording leasehold property [of the Brogyntyn estate] in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth from 1858 to 1880