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Draft lease by William Richard Baron Harlech to Pierce Roberts, of No. 1 Tygwyn Terrace [parish illegible], Merioneth [1876x1904]

Probate of the will of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech, made 1862, proved 1876, and a memorial to be registered by the Registrar of Deeds, Wills etc. in Ireland, 1877.

Licence or take note granted by John Ralph Ormsby Gore to William Skinner Searell of Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire, 1875; a lease by the Brogyntyn trustees and William Richard Baron Harlech to William Skinner Searell and John Francis of quarries, slates, slabs, minerals, etc. under lands forming part of the farm of Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1877; and letters from W.S. Searell and W. R. Lawford of Glyn, 1881.

Order issued by the High Court of Chancery to grant mining leases on the settled estates in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth belonging to John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1875. Found with the Caernarfonshire mining leases.

Original bundle of vouchers mainly from the [Glyn] Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates of the Ormsby Gore family, 1875-1876. Includes bills for repairs at Glyn Hall, the bridge at Beddgelert, Glanywern school, Glyn school and Efail Du.

Original bundle of vouchers from the Irish estates belonging to William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech, 1875-1884 (mainly 1878-1881), now divided into three for convenience of handling. Includes accounts of repairs to the Dromod estate and barracks, 1878-1879, general estate expenditure and temporary abatements to tenants, 1879-1881; vouchers for William Percy Jones’ account and for William Evans’ account, 1881-1882

Draft licence by John Ralph Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn to Bathhurst Henderson of Plas Gwynne, Gobowen, to search for coal, clay and ironstone under lands in the parishes of Whittington, Selatyn and Oswestry, Salop, 1874

Original bundle labelled ‘Glynne’ (deleted) and ‘Lord Harlech’s Vouchers, Irish Estates’, now divided into three for convenience of handling, and containing several packets of vouchers from the Brogyntyn estate, the Clenennau and Glyn estates, and the Irish estates, 1874-1884 (mainly 1877-1880). Includes bills for the attendance of the Fire Brigade at Brogyntyn, 1874; repairs to Laganomer Barracks and expenses for the Dromod estate (in vouchers for Mr Percy Jones’ account, November 1881); and a letter to William Percy Jones from John Smith, chairman of the Balinaglera Relief Committee about the potato famine, 1880 (in vouchers year ending December 1880)

Leases by John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Ormsby Gore to John Humphrey Jones, Robert Roberts, Owen Roberts, John Lewis and Thomas Evans of Hendre ddu Farm in the parish of Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, and of the slate and flag quarries and mines and minerals under the said farm, with map incorporated, 1874.

Papers labelled ‘Borth y gest ejectment’ from a case in the High Court of Justice (Exchequer Division) which includes a statement of claim by William Watkin Edward Wynne and other trustees of the Brogyntyn estate, plts, against William Williams Jones, deft, concerning the deft’s refusal to give up a property called Craigydon at Borth-y-gest and a piece of land which was appropriated to make a wharf, 1877-1879. The file contains a list of building leases granted between 1858 and 1874; letters to Longueville and Co. from Jones and Jones of Portmadoc, Lord Harlech and John Charles Burton Borough, 1877; tracings of plots in Mersey Street and Ralph Street; and particulars of building leases, 1878.

A schedule of lands and a draft licence relating to coal mining in the parishes of Whittington, Selatyn and Oswestry, Salop, (Watermark 1873)-1874

Schedule of lands belonging to Trenewydd (Drenewydd) Farm [Oswestry and Whittington] comprised in a take note to Sir Edmund Buckley (Watermark 1873)

Original bundle of vouchers from the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates of the Ormsby Gore family, 1872-1873. Includes wood accounts of Griffith Roberts and Thomas Griffith; and a bill of E.M. Roberts for making a map of Harlech Marsh.

Deeds relating to farms and lands in the parishes of Llandanwg and Llanfihangel-y-traethau in the county of Merioneth, 1872-1908. The majority of the deeds relate to Erw Wen purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton in June 1907. They include an agreement between Samuel Holland and William Thearsby Poole for laying water pipes on Erw Wen to the farms of Lasynys, 1872; an order from the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, confirming compromise in the case of Bankes-Price and Owen, 1899; a sale catalogue of the estates of Mary Elizabeth Bankes-Price, including Erw Wen, and the purchase deed by Alfred Egerton of Glyn, 1899; an abstract of title, 1861-1899; agreements by Col. Alfred Mordaunt Egerton with Robert Griffith and Robert Jones for letting Erw Wen and a field near Harlech, 1902; the conveyance by Col. Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, then of Chilton House, Thame, Oxfordshire, to the Brogyntyn trustees, 1907, with other associated documents including a copy of the tithe map and apportionment for Llandanwg in 1843, an ordnance survey map of Llandanwg (1:2500) 1889, letters and a valuation, 1907. The file also contains a conveyance by Caroline Jane Holland of Caerdeon to the Brogyntyn trustees, of Lasynys Fawr, Lasynys Fach, Garth Mawr Hen, the Castle Hotel Garden and crofts on Tan Twthill, 1908. Schedules and plans incorporated.

Draft licence to John Parry of the Eagles Hotel, Caernarfon, 1872, and a lease by John Ralph Ormsby Gore to The Cambria Wynne Slate Company (Limited) of quarries of slate, slabs and flagstones under Hafod Ucha Farm, 1873; maps included.

Lease by William Griffith of Portmadoc, builder, and John Ralph Ormsby Gore of Porkington to Owen Morris and other chapel trustees of a piece of land at Borth-y-gest, Caernarfonshire, with a Congregational (Independent) chapel, schoolhouse and other buildings erected thereon (boundaries described), with plan, 1871, and surrender endorsed, 1891.

Copies and drafts of agreements and conveyances by William Richard third Baron Harlech, George Ralph Charles fourth Baron Harlech and the Brogyntyn trustees, relating to houses and lands in Caernarfonshire, with letters to Longueville and Co., maps and plans, 1871-1909. The properties include pieces of land conveyed to the United School Board of Penmorfa to build schools at Garn and Prenteg, Penmorfa, and at Gyfyny in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, 1877; cottages at Morfa Bychan, Portmadoc, 1896; land at Prenteg conveyed to Dolbenmaen Parish Council for a public burial ground, 1902-1903; Llidiart Cwpwl, Penmorfa, 1908; sites of a grocer’s shop and the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel at Penmorfa, 1908; and Tynymynydd and Tyn-y-gorlan in Garn Dolbenmaen, Penmorfa, 1909. Correspondents include J.E Parry of Glyn, 1871, J. Watkin of Clenennau, 1873, and Robert Thomas of Plasdu, 1874-1875

Lease by John Ralph Ormsby Gore to Hugh Jones of Tyn y coed Dyffryn, Llanenddwyn, builder, of a piece of land forming part of Porkington Terrace in the parish of Llanaber, with the buildings erected thereon, 1871; and licence to the lessees and their tenants to form and use a promenade or recreation ground opposite Porkington Terrace, Barmouth, with a coloured plan incorporated, 1872 (not executed), and endorsements, 1872, 1877. There is also a separate, undated plan and elevation of a double house in the terrace.

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.

Bundle labelled ‘Gores’ Settled Estates & Trustee Acts’, containing a draft petition by John Ralph Ormsby Gore, under the Act for vesting part of the settled estates of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, and under the trustees acts of 1850 and 1852, for the appointment of William Kenyon Slaney of Hatton Grange, Salop, as a new trustee of the Brogyntyn settled estates in place of Rowland Jones Venables, 1871. Other documents comprise the brief of the petition, instructions, affidavits on the eligibility of William Kenyon Slaney, affidavits and exhibits concerning the former trustees David Pennant, Thomas Netherton Parker, William Watkin Edward Wynne and Rowland Jones Venables, the consent of William Kenyon Slaney, orders issued by the High Court of Chancery, and copies of the parish register of Selatyn recording the burials of Rowland Jones Venables, 1868, and Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1869.