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Appointment of Stephen Donne of New Square, Lincolns Inn, Middlesex, to replace his father (also named Stephen Donne) as trustee of the will of the late John Edwards Donne of No. 2 Powis Place, Great Ormond Street, deceased, 1869, part of whose personal estate was converted into money and invested in mortgage on the lands of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan in Merioneth in 1858

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.

Bundle of vouchers containing two packets relating mainly to the Cemmes (Cemais) and Penrhos etates in Montgomeryshire, belonging to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, both labelled ‘February 1st 1868 to Jan’y 31st 1869’. Includes bills for repairs and new buildings at the Penrhos Arms, Cemais, Tynrhos, Darowen, the Braich, Meifod, Penrhos Hall, the Pool Cottage and the park wall [Porkington]

Lease by William Ormsby Gore, Mary Jane his wife and John Ralph Ormsby Gore to William Williams of Pont Rhyd-ddu, Beddgelert, of a piece of land at Gardd y Pandy for the purpose of building a house and a wool-carding and spinning mill, with plan in margin, 1841; and an agreement by Richard Williams of Talsarnau to deliver up his claim to the lease and the machinery and effects of the factory to Meredith Jones of Llidiart-garw, 1869.

Drafts of two cases for opinion of counsel on the failure of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway to pay a rent charge to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore as compensation for land belonging to the Brogyntyn settled estates, acquired in addition to the Company’s original requirement [1865x1869]

Bundles labelled ‘Porkington estate vouchers’ 1864-1869. The descriptions on the labels do not always match the dates of the receipts. Most of the vouchers are numbered but some are missing from the sequence. They cover both the Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate and the Llanddyn estate at Llangollen. Typically they include bills and receipts for building materials, repairs to buildings, railway freight of stone and timber, ironmongery, coal, stationery, labourers’ wages, land drainage, garden work under James Edwards, bailiff’s bills of David McConnell, gamekeeping equipment, tithe rent charges, general district rates, church rates, poor rates, land tax, income tax and chief rents in Selatyn, Oswestry, Whittington, Llanforda, Middleton and Llangollen, subscriptions to schools at Trefor [Llangollen], Llandysilio and Guilsfield, subscriptions to Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society, annuities, allowances and sick pay, and the rent of a pew in Oswestry parish church. There are occasional letters from tradesmen presenting bills to the Brogyntyn agent. Specific points of interest are described at file level.

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.

Memorial to be registered at the Irish Registry for Deeds of the reconveyance of the Derrycarne estate, Ireland, to William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1870, mortgaged by William Ormsby Gore in 1855 and assigned to Mary Ann Harriet Kingscote and Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote in 1862; and a schedule of deeds, 1852-1870.

The will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, 1869, various accounts gathered by her executors, dated 1841-1870, and a claim for life insurance, 1870

Claim submitted to the Equitable Insurance Office after the death of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1870.

Memorial of a grant of an annuity of £20 per annum issuing out of a m. and lands called Oerly Hall, Oswestry, 14 Nov. 1840; Grant by Mrs Jane Ormsby-Gore to J. R.Ormsby-Gore of a rent charge of £10 issuing out of lands called Glyn, co. Mer., of a like rent charge of £10 out of lands called Carnbwll, Llandisilio, co. Mont., and of a like rent charge out of lands in co. Caern, 25 Aug. 1860; grant by Mrs M. J.Ormsby- Gore to W. R. Ormsby-Gore of a rent charge of £10 out of land called Glyn, co. Mer., and lands called Carnbwll, co. Mont., and a capital m. called Cleneney, co. Caern, 5 Dec. 1863; and grant by J. R. Ormsby-Gore to W. R. Ormsby-Gore.of a rent charge of £10out of hereditaments in cos. Mer., Mont., Caern., Denb. and Shropshire, 1 Jan. 1870

Abstracts of the title of the trustees of William Ormbsy Gore to land in the township of Trefor Ucha in the parish of Llangollen, Denbighshire, including Cefnyfedw Farm, 1796-1844 , 1796-1870, 1802-1823, 1856-1861 (mostly incomplete)

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.

Lease by John Ralph Ormsby Gore of Porkington to the Harlech Silver Lead Copper Zinc and Sulphur Mining Company (Limited) of slate and minerals under Lletty Fwyalch and Llechwedd Du, and parts of the farms called Llidiart Garw, Tyddyn Sion Wyn and Glyn in the parishes of Llandanwg and Llanfihangel-y-traethau, with map annexed, and counterpart lease, 1871. Also in the file are an agreement between John Edward Parry and William Hope Jones and others, in connection with trials for minerals at Llechwedd Du and Llwyndrew, under a take note from Mr Ormsby Gore, 1867; accounts of minerals sold, royalties and a receipt, 1866-1872, and letters mainly from William Hope Jones of Hooton Grange, Cheshire, R. Edwards of Ruthin, John Robert Banner of Liverpool, J. Berry of Walbrook, London, Edward Lloyd of Harlech Mines and J.E. Parry of Glyn Hall, about the arrangement and terms of the lease, failure of the mining venture and sale of the equipment to pay the workmen, 1869-1872.

Licence granted by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Thomas Hill of Portmadoc, Thomas Hill of Oswestry and John Hill of Copenhall, Cheshire, 1845, and a lease to Miss Ellen Hilditch Johnson of Aldermary Church Yard, London, of quarries of blue flag stones and other stones of like nature under fields (named) being part of the farm of Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, with map incorporated, 1850. Other items in the file include bonds for securing payments by members of the Johnson family to Thomas Hill of Tremadoc upon assignment of the lease, 1849-1850; an affidavit of Thomas Hill for proof of debt in the matter of Daniel Turton Johnson, Henry Hilditch Johnson and George Hilditch Johnson in the London Court of Bankruptcy, 1851; rough accounts and a statement of rent for Fron Oleu, 1855-1864; letters mainly to and by Longueville about the case of Gore and Johnson, with a legal opinion thereon, 1861, and about arrears of rent on Fron Oleu slate quarry, 1872; authorisation to assign, and a copy assignment of the lease and sale of the plant and machinery to Francis Bulkeley Johnson, 1862.

Licences granted by William Ormsby Gore, Mary Jane his wife and John Ralph Ormsby Gore for the mining of slate and stone, sulphur, copper, lead, tin, iron, gold, silver, manganese, calamine and other minerals, mainly in Caernarfonshire, 1849-1872. The locations include Oer Dwr Ucha in the parish of Beddgelert, Plas yn Pennant, Braich y Ddinas and Bwlch y Fedwen in Penmorfa, Tyddyn Madyn and Ymwlch Bach in Llanystumdwy and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Hendre Ddu, Sgyborgerrig and Tyddyn Mawr in the parish of Dolbenmaen, Mynyddednyfed and Braich y Sant in the parish of Cricieth, all in Caernarfonshire, and Bwlch y Plwm and Pant y Maesydd in Lanfrothen, Merioneth. The lessees include John Hall Holdsworth and W. Attenborough of London, 1849, Henry Hodgson, 1851, Samuel Holland of Plas yn Penrhyn, 1852, 1855, William Williams of Beddgelert and Robert Williams of Llanllyfni, 1852, Hugh Evans of Cricieth, 1856, Morris Roberts of Mynyddednyfed, Cricieth, 1856, Hugh Jones of Alltyfedw and John Morris of Garn Dolbenmaen, 1860, 1862, John Brewer of Bryn Helen, 1861, Robert Jones, Thomas Williams, Henry Owen and John Jackson, 1861, Thomas Swift of Salford, Manchester, 1864, Owen Humphrey Davies of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1864, 1866, Joseph Kellow and Joseph Day (assigneee), 1872. The file also contains letters of Robert Barker, 1851, and Longueville and Co., 1871; and a statement of royalties payable under Mrs Ormsby Gore’s mining leases, 1866.

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.

Licences (mainly duplicates) by William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Ormsby Gore, respectively to Robert Gill and John Harris, 1855, to Henry John Standly, Astley Paston Cooper and William Prosser, 1861, and to Henry McKellar, 1862, to make railways or tramways through farms and lands (named) in the parishes of Penmorfa, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Llanystumdwy and Criccieth for the transport of minerals and slate from Cambivor or Cefn Bifor, Tyddyn Mawr, Ynys y Maen, Hendre ddu and Hafod y Llan to Portmadoc and Cricieth, with schedules and maps incorporated. The file also contains an assignment by the Bangor and Portmadoc Slate and Slate Slab Company Limited (then in liquidation) to The New Prince of Wales Slate Company Limited of the leasehold premises in Penmorfa previously demised for making the tramway, and a related deed of covenant by John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1873.

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

Lease by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Porkington, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Ormsby Gore to Henry John Standly, Astley Paston Cooper and William Prosser of slate and flag quarries and mines and minerals under the farm of Hendre ddu in the parish of Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, and a deed of covenant (attested copy) for confirmation and renewal of lease, 1860. The file also contains letters to Longueville and Co. mainly from George Rooper and John Spain of Lincolns Inn Fields and Morris Griffith Williams about the liquidation of the Hendre ddu Slate and Slab Quarry Company Limited, claims by the Ormsby Gores for rent and royalties, and suggestions for making the quarry a profitable enterprise, 1869-1873; statements of rents and bills, 1867-1872; a notice of trial in a cause in the Court of Queens Bench, Gore vs the Hendre ddu Company and Morris Griffith Williams, for the next assizes at Caernarfon, and countermand, 1872; a printed poster advertising the auction of plant, machinery, slates, etc. at the quarry, 1872; and a map.