Auguste Tricoche: A memorandum book
- NLW MS 531A
- Ffeil
- [19 cent.]
Rhan oCelynog manuscripts
Miscellaneous notes and extracts made by Auguste Tricoche, a French prisoner of war taken at Martinique, 1809, and stationed for some time at Newtown.
Auguste Tricoche: A memorandum book
Rhan oCelynog manuscripts
Miscellaneous notes and extracts made by Auguste Tricoche, a French prisoner of war taken at Martinique, 1809, and stationed for some time at Newtown.
Rhan oGarn Estate Records
The group comprises letters written by members of the Griffith family of Garn, mainly the family of John Wynne Griffith, and close relatives, 1724, 1783-1876, with many details of family life, social activities, travel abroad, the children's school and university days, the progression of John Wynne Griffith's sons in their careers and assistance to their father in managing the estate, and acquaintance with other well-known families in north-east Wales, such as Clough, Kirkwall, Shipley, Jones of Llysmeirchion and Wynne of Plasnewydd, and letters from other correspondents addressed to various members of the Griffith family, 1733-1943, on many different subjects, the most frequently recurrent being estate business, particularly disputes over enclosures and encroachments, rights on crown lands, purchase of property and questions of title, legal and financial complications of the Plasnewydd estate trust, Denbigh borough and parliamentary elections, contemporary national and local events during the Napoleonic Wars, and public duties of individuals.
The file consists of press cuttings, 1807-1813, relating mainly to the Napoleonic Wars.