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Accounts deriving from administration of the Irish estates in Westmeath, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, 1789-1859, showing income from rents; usual outgoings for poor rate, subscriptions and taxes; and disbursements for drainage, other estate improvements, seeds, agricultural equipment and legal expenses.

County administration papers from Leitrim in Ireland, comprising official administrative appointments of members of the Ormsby-Gore family, 1878 and 1904.

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.

Inventories and valuations of household contents at Glyn [Talsarnau], after the death of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech, 1876, and of heirlooms belonging to William Richard second Baron Harlech, deceased, 1906

Bills and receipts from the North Wales and Shropshire estates, mainly for foodstuffs, wines, beer, fabrics, haberdashery, clothing, shoes, repairs to household utensils, medicines and veterinary treatments purchased by Owen Wynn, 1662, Madam [Susanna] Godolphin, 1703-1705, Richard and Mary Clayton, 1708-1727, Arthur and Mary Owen of Brymbo, 1725-1739, 1750, and other members of the Owen and Ormsby-Gore families, 1714-1878.

Inventories of house contents and furniture, both at Brogyntyn and other family houses, 1687-1803; and the Porkington cellar books, 1837-1868, 1904-1938.

Title deeds of houses, burgages and other pieces of land in the town of Harlech and the immediate locality, particularly in Acrey Newydd, Acrey Hen, and Y Gors, many of which were leased or purchased from the borough Corporation, 1327-1649. Detailed boundary clauses in the majority of the deeds provide useful information about the early development and town layout of Harlech.

Title deeds of lands acquired through 'tir prid' conveyances, purchase, exchange and leasehold by the successive owners of the Glyn estate, lying in the parishes of Llanaber and [probably] Llanbedr, 1618-1697, Llandanwg, 1576-1674 and [18 cent., first quarter], Llandecwyn, Llanenddwyn and Llanfair[-juxta-Harlech], 1500-1664 and [c. 1695], Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1500-1637 and 1807; and miscellaneous parishes, 1499-1720.

General accounts of the Brogyntyn (Porkington) estate and the Ormsby Gore family, comprising estate cash books of Penrhos and Brogyntyn, 1833-1845, account books of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1866-1874, Longueville’s account for the conveyance of a reservoir site near Oswestry, 1869-1877, fixtures and fittings at Brogyntyn Hall, 1871-1875, and Longueville and Co.’s account with Lady Sarah Harlech, 1879-1890.

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.

Settlements of four sets of families related by marriage to the Owens of Brogyntyn, namely Clayton and Griffith of Lea Hall and Brymbo, 1704-1709, Godolphin, 1733, Hanmer of Pentre-pant, 1620-1656, and Lyster and Derwas of Penrhos, 1665-1703.

Marriage settlements, other family settlements and associated documents of Owen of Ystumcegid, 1516-1612, and Robert [Wynn] ap John, Moris ap Robert Wynn and family, 1544-1607, [1649], William and Robert Wynn and family, 1611-1657, and Owen Wynn, 1661-1683, all of Glyn.

Marriage settlements, other family settlements and related deeds and documents of the owners of Clenennau and Brogyntyn and their immediate relatives, namely John ap Maredudd, his son Moris, Eliza ap Moris and Moris ap Eliza, 1485-1574; William Maurice, 1556-1619; Ellen Maurice and John Owen (she later remarried to become Ellen Eure), 1599-1674; Sir John and Col. William Owen, 1626-1663; William Owen, 1675-1680; Sir Robert and Dame Margaret Owen, 1682-1717; William Owen 1727-1761; Robert Godolphin Owen, 1767; and members of the Ormsby-Gore family, 1743, 1806, 1839.

Papers deriving from trusts of the marriage settlement of Owen ap John Owen and Anne Lewis, 1584; wardship of William and Ellen Vaughan of Corsygedol, 1636-1653; the will of Thomas Hanmer of Pentre-david, 1666; the Taltreuddyn estate, [1698], 1725-1726; the will of William Mostyn of Bryngwyn, 1729-1735; the will of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1748; the estate of Roger Mostyn of Aberhirieth, 1749-1773; and a trust for Dr Hugh Wynne, 1755.

Title deeds and associated documents relating to properties of the Faenol estate in the parishes of Caerhun, Lanwnda and Llanbedrycennin, Caernarfonshire, 1596-1645, the Irish estates of the Ormsby-Gore family mainly in Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim and Westmeath, 1606-1799, and the township of Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, 1721-1737.

Accounts of the executors of William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech, 1904-1910, and receipts of family members for legacies received under his will, 1904-1922

Files of miscellaneous letters and papers mainly concerning the management of the Brogyntyn estates, 1830-1880. The letters are mostly to Longueville and Co. and they concern estate business, finance, legal matters, and insurance claims following a fire at Brogyntyn Hall in 1874. The estate papers include lease agreements, valuations, building accounts, notices served on tenants; there are also small quantities of legal papers and Ormsby Gore family documents [post-1863]-1871.

Licences or take notes granted by John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Baron Harlech and other papers relating mainly to the Ereiniog Prepared Peat Fuel Works or the Ereiniog Prepared Peat and Brick Works, 1874-1880, but also including other items relating to parish matters in Cricieth and quarrying at Llanfrothen, 1871-1883.

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.