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Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate vouchers, 1868-1869. Includes bills for repairs at Llanddyn Hall and Rose Cottage, 1868; and interior decorating at No. 3 Porkington Terrace, 1869.

Original parcel of vouchers labelled ‘Merionethshire and Carnarvonshire bills paid 1861’, containing separate packets for each of the two counties. Includes in Merioneth: bills for building repairs at Glyn Hall and farm, Friddfedw, Llechollwyn, Ty Cerrig, houses in Harlech, Glan y Mor, Singrig Mill and Hafod Ucha; and a subscription for the celebration at Barmouth of William Wynne coming of age. Includes in Caernarfonshire: building repairs at Braich y Saint, houses in Penmorfa, Ty Mawr in Treflys, Brynefail Isa, Maesyllech, Bwlchyfedwen, Clenennau, Tynlone, Fronolau, Blaen y Cae, Plas yn Pennant, Ystumcegid, etc.

Bundles of vouchers from the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire (i.e. Glyn and Clenennau) estates of the Ormsby Gore family, 1860-1874. Most are numbered but some are missing. They comprise bills and receipts, typically for slates and other building materials; ironmongery; freight of goods by boat and railway; repairs to Glyn Hall, Singrig Mill, Clenennau, Ystumcegid and other estate properties; wages for estate labour; rent dinners; gamekeeping; rent allowances; crown rents; taxes, poor rates; subscriptions to schools at Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Harlech, Dyffryn, Barmouth, Llanenddwyn, Penmorfa, Cricieth, Beddgelert, and the sewing school at Llanystumdwy; alms for the poor of Penmorfa; the Charity for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Clergymen within the Diocese of Bangor; the Royal National Lifeboat Institution; clothing clubs; Tremadoc Friendly Society; Cricieth Corporation dinner; and Harlech marsh drainage. Specific items of interest are described at file level.

Loose vouchers from the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates of the Ormsby Gore family, 1862-1863.

Original bundle of vouchers from the Merioneth estate of the Ormsby Gore family, 1864. Includes bills for building repairs at Singrig Mill and smithy, Harlech houses and Mr Hughes’s shop, Ty Cerrig, Cwmorthin and Rhosigor.

Original bundle of vouchers from the Caernarfonshire estate of the Ormsby Gore family, 1865-1866. Includes bills for building repairs at Mynyddednyfed, Cefn Collwyn, Braich y Dinas, Tyn y Maes, Cefn y Maen, Ystumcegid, Cefn Coch Uchaf, Plas Dolbenmaen, Tynewydd at Dolbenmaen, Clenennau Mill, Cricieth Mill and elsewhere; plants and trees (named) for Hendreddu plantation; subscription to a harmonium for Dolbenmaen church; rent for Traeth Mawr; and a bill of legal costs charged by John Humphrey Jones.

Loose vouchers from the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates of the Ormsby Gore family, 1867-1874. Includes bills for building a new stable at Glyn, 1867-1868; Merioneth and Caernarfonshire disbursements, 1872-1873, and the wood accounts, 1872.

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.

Original bundle of vouchers from the Cemmes (Cemais) estate, Montgomeryshire, belonging to the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, 1864. Most are numbered but some are missing. Includes payments for estate work in the tree nurseries; ironmongery; building materials and repairs at Cemmes Bychan, Caeathgen, Gribin, etc.; accommodation at the Penrhos Arms; a subscription to Darowen school; rail freight of goods; and toll charges at Lledfor, Cemmes and Maengwyn gates.

Inventory and valuation of the contents of Glyn [Cywarch, Talsarnau], with a final estimate dated 23 Aug. 1876, property of the representatives of the late John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech (d. 15 June 1876) Front cover stamped 'Glyn inventory & valuation, 1876'.

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

Schedule of heirlooms of William Richard [second] Baron Harlech, deceased, giving descriptions and valuations of the silver, electro-plate, oil paintings, furniture, jewellery, other valuables, and of heirlooms formerly at 37 Chesham Place, compiled 1906.

‘Old deeds’ recording several purchases by the Peate family in Pentreclawdd in the parish of Selatyn. The first of these is the purchase of Pentreclawdd Farm by Robert Peate of Bangor Is-coed, from Richard Arthur Tudor of Liverpool, 1865-1873. Earlier deeds for Pentreclawdd include a lease by John Swynarton, merchant tailor of London, to Thomas Hanmer of Porkington, 1606/7; a mortgage by Richard Hanmer to John Thomas of Pentreclawdd, 1647; a deed of sale by John Hanmer and Dorothy his wife, to Anne Thomas and trustees, 1653; a mortgage by John Thomas to Jane Griffiths of West Felton, 1746; probate of the will of John Thomas of Pentreclawdd, 1753; an assignment by the Jeffreys family, beneficiaries of John Thomas, of a legacy in trust for Robert Tudor, 1765; an assignment of mortgage by Robert Tudor and the executors of Jane Griffiths to Sarah Williams, 1766; receipts for legacies under the will of John Thomas received by the Richards family, 1775-1805; a mortgage by Robert Tudor to Margaret Jones, 1817; mortgage by John Jones of Brook Street, Oswestry, executor of Robert Tudor, to John Jones of Foxhall, Oswestry, trustee of Margaret Jones, 1831; copy will of John Jones of Oswestry, gatekeeper, 1824, died 1839; abstracts of title of his son Thomas Jones of Oswestry, 1864-1865; and conveyances by Thomas Jones, 1865, and Richard Arthur Tudor of Liverpool, 1873, and the mortagees, to Robert Peate (Bundle 1); and mortgages by Robert Peate to Edward Rogers and William Payne, and further charges, 1879-1887 (Bundle 2).
The other properties, all in Pentreclawdd, Hengoed and Cross Lanes, comprise two cottages purchased by Robert Peate from the representative of Richard Owen of Glansevern, 1868, and from George Henry Warrington Carew, 1868 (Bundles 3-4); two houses and gardens owned by Robert Edwards of Langollen and Sarah his wife, sold to Thomas Owen of St Martins, 1792, then owned by William Price and Margaret his wife, mortgaged by them, 1811-1817, sold by assignees of the mortgages to John Jones of Oswestry, 1821, and conveyed to Robert Peate, 1862-1863, with an abstract of title of John Jones the elder and younger (Bundle 5); a messuage, malt kiln and lands, owned by Robert Jones of Pentreclawdd, (will dated 1793, proved 1799), mortgaged by his son Robert Jones, 1820-1832 (died intestate 1833), mortgaged by Robert Rees Jones of Great Coram Street, Middlesex, 1844, followed by the sale to Robert Peate, 1849, and mortgages by the Peate family to Philip Jennings of Brighton, 1878-1885 (Bundle 7); and five cottages, comprising one cottage divided into two and three others erected on a piece of land originally conveyed by Robert Jones to his son Cornelius, 1812, mortgaged by Cornelius Jones, 1832, transferred to John Edwards of Oswestry, 1873, conveyed successively to George Daniel Gauge, 1873, William Jackson of Oswestry, solicitor, 1894, thence to Robert Tudor Peate of Marple Bridge, Lancashire, and Samuel Peate of Bangor Is-coed, 1894 (Bundle 9).
There are also mortgages by Elizabeth Peate and her family, of several properties (including Cabbage Hall, Cross Lanes), 1882, 1886-1894 (Bundles 6 and 8)
Several of the bundles include abstracts of title and plans are included with some of the conveyances.

Title deeds relating to Pentreclawdd Farm and cottages in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1899

Conveyance of Pentreclawdd Farm, nine cottages, another cottage, two more houses and a piece of arable land near Hengoed in the parish of Selatyn by Mrs Elizabeth Peate of Bersham Hall, Wrexham, and her family and their mortgagee, John Humphreys, to the trustees of William Richard [Ormsby Gore] Baron Harlech, 1899; and associated documents including an abstract of the will of Robert Peate, 1879, proved 1882, an agreement by Robert Tudor Peate and Samuel Peate for letting to George Peate, 1891, abstracts of title, 1796-1894, 1886-1891, the agreement for sale and statutory declaration of Elizabeth Peate, 1898-1899, and case for the opinion of counsel, 1899; with plans annexed and relevant enclosures

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

Deeds relating to the estate of Edward Richardson, namely the Vron, Porkington, and other properties in the townships of Porkington, Frankton and Ebnal in the parishes of Selatyn and Whittington, comprising the post-nuptial settlement of Edward Richardson and Jane his wife, 1746, and an appointment charging the said estates with £300 for the portions of their younger children, 1772.

Deeds relating to the Vron in the township of Porkington and parish of Selatyn, 1785-1822. They include particulars of an exchange between Roger Kynaston of Hardwick and Rev. Joseph Venables of Oswestry, whereby the latter gained Little Erw yr Wyn, 1785; a conveyance by Edward Roberts of Oswestry, Elizabeth his wife and the mortgagee to Rev. Richard Venables and trustee, of a piece of land called Erw ?Gamdda, 1813, incorporating a schedule of deeds, 1764-1795; and an agreement between Rev. Richard Venables of Clyro, Radnorshire, and William Ormsby Gore of Porkington for the purchase of the Vron, and a house with a blacksmith’s shop, 1822

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

Lease by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Robert Roberts, of Oswestry, plumber and glazier, of a plot of ground in Willow Street adjoining the New Theatre, for the manufacture of gas, 1820.