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Brogyntyn Estate and Family Records
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Brogyntyn Estate and Family Records

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  • 1296-1977

Records of the Brogyntyn estate, home of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, 1296-1951. They include estate papers and deeds, legal papers, financial papers, family papers and county administration papers of the Ormsby-Gore family, their ancestors, the Maurices and the Owens of Clenennau, the Wynns of Glyn and others, such as Anwyl of Park, Clayton of Lea Hall, Godolphin of Abertanat, Lyster of Penrhos, Mostyn of Nant, and Vaughan of Corsygedol. The three main estates represented in the collection are Brogyntyn, Clenennau and Glyn, the latter constituting a major addition to the existing North Wales holdings of Sir Robert Owen upon his marriage to Margaret Wynn in 1683. The documentation also covers other, subsiduary estates acquired by marriage or inheritance, namely Llanddyn, Sylfaen, Ystumcegid, Nant, Cemais, Penrhos, Abertanat and properties in the west of Ireland. The record types include title deeds for lands in Caernarfonshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, elsewhere in England and Wales, and in the Irish counties of Westmeath, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon, 1296-1838; rentals, accounts and other papers associated with estate administration, [1380s]-1951; manorial records, 1429-1804; household management papers, 1662-[c. 1949]; legal and arbitration papers, 1410-1834; financial papers such as mortgages and accounts, 1492-1876; family settlements, probate records and trusts, 1485-[c. 1862]; private letters, 1582-1950; papers relating to family interests, [14th cent.]-1951; personal papers of family members, 1672-1945; royal appointments and honours, 1795-1948; central government papers, 1581-1887; county administration papers, 1518-1904; and administration records of the church, schools and charities, 1598-[1876x1904]. Other component parts of the archive are the Clenennau Letters and Papers, which combine personal correspondence with the civil and military administration of Caernarfonshire from the late sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries. Additional records, comprising Lord Harlech's Game Books (3 volumes), 1882-1933, a journal kept by W. R. Ormsby Gore of the 13th Light Dragoons, May-September 1854, two manuscript catalogues of plays, 1815, and a manuscript catalogue of the library at Porkington, 1809, were acquired in March 2017.
The Brogyntyn (Longueville) group comprises deeds and documents relating to the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1977, deposited by Longueville Gittins solicitors who provided professional legal services to the estate.

Brogyntyn Estate (England and Wales)

Clenennau Letters and Papers,

Letters exchanged between members of the Maurice and Owen families of Clenennau and Brogyntyn, and other correspondence from friends or associates in Wales and England, together with a number of important official documents deriving from county administration in Caernarfonshire during the Tudor and Stuart periods, 1485, 1573-1698. Many of the early letters and papers, 1580-1622, relate to the joint deputy lieutenancy in Caernarfonshire of Sir William Maurice and Sir John Wynn, showing their preoccupation with the raising and organisation of militia troops for the defence of Caernarfonshire and for despatch to Ireland. Other topics include Sir William Maurice's position as deputy vice-admiral of North Wales and the protracted civil lawsuits in which he was engaged. The collection also constitutes an important historical source for the conduct of the Civil War in North Wales. Items from that period primarily concern Sir John Owen and his brother, Col. William Owen, Royalist commanders at Conwy and Harlech respectively, and their subsequent treatment under the Commonwealth and Restoration, 1643-1666. Many of the letters from 1678 to 1698 reveal the life of Sir Robert Owen, his debts, estate business, cultural interests and attachment to the Jacobite cause, together with contemporary political news. Apart from individuals already mentioned, prominent correspondents include the Privy Council of Elizabeth I, mostly through Henry Herbert, President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, 1587-1600; Sir Henry Johnes of Abermarlais, 1605-1616; Ralph, Lord Eure, 1607-1617; members of the Brynker family, 1603-1681; the Wynn family of Glyn and Sylfaen, 1625-1697; the Anwyl family of Park, 1636-1693; Charles I, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, 1642-1647; Lord Byron, 1644-1648; John Williams, Archbishop of York, 1645-1646; George Twisleton, 1649-1660; the Godolphin family of Abertanat, 1658-1698; John Gadbury, 1679-1688; and Edward Lhuyd, 1696-1697.

Maurice, William, Sir, 1542-1622

Miscellaneous correspondence : Wynn family and others

Letters of various individuals connected to the families of Maurice, Owen, Ormsby-Gore and Godolphin through marriage, friendship or business and a small number of items where neither the author nor the recipient can be identified, 1582-1933.
They comprise letters to, from or about the Wynn family of Glyn, 1596-1690 (whose correspondents include Hugh Pennant, [c. 1663]), Anne Jones of Clenennau, 1679-1695, Rowlands of Nant, [1680s], Glynne of Eleirnion, [1680s]-1703, Humphrey Humphreys, 1700, Waller [of Castletown], 1706-1710, James Brynker, 1724, John Egerton, 1756, Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, 1680, the Seymour family, 1831-1868, Frank Weston, 1914, and others, 1582-1933. Topics include threats of invasions by the Spanish 1596, and the French, 1743; genealogies of Glynne of Glynllifon, [1605] and Gore, 1912; collection of the ship mise in Merionethshire, 1618; Sir Robert Owen 's dispute with Col. William Price of Rhiwlas over land in Gest, 1679-[c. 1694]; estate business of Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, 1729; claims on the estates of Richard Clayton, 1735, and of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1793; church administration in Llanyblodwel and elsewhere, [1730s?], 1756, 1868, 1914; parliamentary elections in Montgomeryshire, 1774 and Leitrim, 1874; the compulsory purchase of Oswestry Corporation property for improving access to London Bridge, 1831; complaints about the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, 1854; the Crimean War, 1855; First World War action against the Turks, 1918; and other items of national and international news. - - - The Stuart correspondence (mainly copies) includes James I to Sir George Calvert on the priveleges of the House of Commons, 1621; the Covenanters to the Earl of Essex, 1639; Sir William Temple to the Countess of Essex on the death of her daughter, [pre-1699]; and others, on the Oath of Allegiance, [1606], the rebellion and conquest of Ireland, 1649-1652, and the character of Sir George Jeffreys, 1680.

Pennant, Hugh, d. 1669.

Deeds and related documents

Title deeds and other associated documents concerning properties belonging to the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn in Salop (Shropshire), 1607-1939, Montgomeryshire, 1647-1902, Merioneth, 1706-1961, Caernarfonshire, 1813-1924, Denbighshire, 1844-1898, Flintshire, 1870-1897, London, 1795-1895, Ireland, 1665-1920, and miscellaneous locations, [1600x1899], 1729-1977. The deeds reflect the consolidation of the Brogyntyn home estates in and around Oswestry and Selatyn, the development of the brick-making industry in Shropshire, the leasing of mines and quarries under mountain farms in Merioneth and Caernarfonshire, and building developments in the popular resorts of Borth-y-gest, Cricieth and Portmadoc. Most of the purchases were made by the Brogyntyn trustees in accordance with the terms of family wills and settlements, particularly those of 1815, 1844 and 1881. Consequently many of the files contain official reports, orders, etc. issued by the High Court of Chancery in connection with the purchases; these are not described at file level unless deemed to be especially significant. Some deeds record sales of parts of the Ormsby Gore family estates for the purposes of water supply, cemeteries, chapels and schools, and for the schemes of the Irish Land Commission

Misc. deeds and documents

Miscellaneous deeds and documents relating to freehold and leasehold properties of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn at various locations in Wales and England, mainly Salop (Shropshire), Caernarfonshire, Merioneth, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Berkshire, Essex, London and Cornwall, [1600x1899], 1729-1937, and one file concerning the pension of Gwilym Maeran P. Jones of Oswestry, 1968-1977. The various properties include the Trewylan estate, Montgomeryshire, 1748, a leasehold in Welbeck Street, Marylebone, 1760-1806, Brentwood, Essex, 1777, Pentre David, Selatyn, 1777, 1821, Fron, Cernybwch and the Hills, Porkington and Selatyn, 1808-1819, Little Forsters, Egham, Surrey, 1802, Canister House, Datchet, 1805, lands in Stoke Poges and Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 1810-1823, fields in Sithney in the manor of Peventon, Cornwall, 1828-1830, Drenewydd estate, Oswestry and Whittington, 1829, premises in Oswestry and Selatyn leased for brick-making purposes, 1832-1847, and Tetworth House, Sunninghill, Berkshire, 1863. Families mentioned include Owen and Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, Owen of Woodhouse, Lloyd of Aston and Jackson of Pentre David. There are also sundry legal cases, 1767-1819, a description of the manor of Broniarth, 1773 (ref. 64/2), useful abstracts of title, abstracts of family settlements and of wills of the Owen and Ormsby Gore family and others, 1729-182, and a schedule of deeds compiled by Longueville and Co., [1896x1904].

Brogyntyn (Longueville) Papers

Papers relating to the Brogyntyn estate, extracted from the Longueville and Co. solicitors’ collection. There are three main groups comprising probate records, settlements and trusts, 1626-1974; rentals, accounts, vouchers, inventories and valuations, 1795-1934; and deeds and related documents, [1600x1899], 1607-1977. There are also six single series, of sale catalogues and papers relating to estate sales, 1827-1919; papers relating to land improvement, 1839-1955; papers relating to railway and electricity development schemes, 1866-1927; miscellaneous letters and estate papers, 1830-1880, legal papers, 1863-[c. 1924] and mortgages, 1870-1923

Longueville Gittins, Solicitors.

Salop deeds and documents

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties mainly in the parishes of Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington in the county of Salop (Shropshire), either purchased by the Brogyntyn estate or already owned and later sold or leased by them, 1607-1939. The properties include lands which formerly belonged to the Earls of Powis, the Lloyd family of Aston and the Owen family of Woodhouse, former common lands in the manor of Whittington and the Drenewydd estate purchased from the Wynne family of Peniarth in 1830. There are substantial quantities of deeds for the farm of Pentreclawdd, 1607-1899, the Vron, Selatyn, 1697-1874, Pentre David, 1707-1827, Pentrepant, 1741-1894, lands around the Brick Kilns in Oswestry, 1783-1909, and miscellaneous other properties, 1740-1939.

Pentreclawdd Farm and cottages, Selatyn (‘Old deeds’)

‘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.

Wills and executors’ accounts

Wills and executors’ accounts of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families (misc.), 1626-1860, of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1841-1870, John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1876-1877, and William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1904-1922.

Will of Dame Ellin Eure

Probate of the will of Dame Ellin Eure [nee Maurice] of Porkington, containing several charitable bequests and the devise of six small dwellings in Willow Street, Oswestry, to the bailiffs and burgesses of Oswestry for housing the poor, 1626.

Probate records, settlements, trusts, etc.

Papers relating to the inheritance and settlement of the Brogyntyn estates belonging to the Owen and Ormsby Gore family, comprising probate records, 1626-1922, and family and non-family settlements, trusts and abstracts of title, 1730-1974. There is a large amount of information, in the main content of the deeds and in the recitals, about the individuals concerned, the other families with whom they married, their trustees, the operation of the trusts, investments in land purchases and the purchase of stocks and shares, in accordance with the terms of the trusts. A further series describes a small number of non-family trusts, 1790-1906.

Wills and executors’ accounts of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families (misc.)

Wills and executors’ accounts of various members of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn, of their Maurice ancestors, and of the Godolphin and Lyster families who were linked to them by marriage. The files contain the wills of Dame Ellin Eure, 1626, miscellaneous Owen, Ormsby Gore, Godolphin and Lyster family members, 1698-1826, William Owen, 1767 (Watermark 1804), Ellen Owen, 1802, Margaret Ormsby [1806], and William Ormsby Gore, 1860.

Letters to Col. William and Mary Owen,

Letters to Col. William Owen and his wife Mary, 1634-1670. Correspondents of note include Richard Anwyl discussing, among the more common topics, the post of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, other royal appointments and the union of Scotland 1669; George [Griffith], bishop of St Asaph, on appointing a suitable vicar and schoolmaster at Oswestry, 1664; Owen Griffith on hostility to the Dutch, seizure of commodities and a frigate accident in London, 1667; and Robert [Morgan], bishop of Bangor, on a preferment to the living of Llanegan in Llyn, 1669. Other correspondents include Thomas Mackworth, 1663, John Mordaunt, 1655, and Penelope Owen, 1634, and further, general topics are: events in parliament; estate business in Shropshire, Penychen and Hitchin, 1655-1669; sequestration of the estate of Sir John Owen, 1659; the taking of stone from the demolished town walls of Oswestry, 1668; and obtaining a college place for William Owen the younger.

Anwyl, Richard, d. 1685.

The Vron, Porkington, Selatyn

Title deeds relating to the Vron (Fron) and another house with a blackmith’s shop called Knotsford in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1640-1874.

Montgomeryshire deeds and documents

Title deeds and other documents relating to property owned by the Brogyntyn estate in Montgomeryshire, 1647-1902. One series concerns properties of the Penrhos and Cemmes (Cemais) estates, formerly belonging to John Owen, which descended to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1647-1899; another series comprises records of the manors of Broniarth and Deuddwr, 1773-1894. Other deeds concern properties in the township of Broniarth in the parish of Guilsfield, 1740-1885, and at Sarnau in the parish of Meifod, 1828-1902.

Deeds relating to property belonging to John Owen

Conveyance of tmt's in Rhysnant and Domgay, co. Mont., 22 March 1647; from Thomas Jones to Mrs Penelope Owen; deed to lead the issues of a recovery by Mrs Lyster and daugters to John Peers, 18 March 1739; deed of settlement on Miss Lyster's marriage with Rev. Lewis Owen and copy of same, 24 & 25 July 1740; [Derwas to Lewis Owen] , [Conveyance of Penbryn bechan, Llandrinio], [23 Aug. 1740]; John Price and others to Mrs Elizth Owen, Release and Copy of same, 26 March 1748 ; Probate of the Will and 2 codicils of Mrs Elizth Owen, 9 Feb. 1758; William Powell to Mr Geo. Lyster release of a m. and lands in Penbryn Vechan, co. Mont., 14 Dec. 1758 ; John Owen to Messrs Hughes & Williams, release to make Tenants to the Praecipe for suffering a Recovery, 18 & 19 June 1767; William Wynne and Devereux Mytton, Demandants, Price Hughes and John Williams, Tenants. John Owen, Vouchee, recovery, 7 Aug. 1767 ; Mr Edwd Edwards to John Owen, release of a tmt in Penbryn Cithan, co. Mont. A copy of same, 29 Sept. 1774; John Owen to Robert Griffiths lease and release making a tenant to the Praecipe for the Recovery of part of his estate, co. Mont., and copy of same, 10 & 11 Feb. 1794; Richard Morhall, Demandant, Robert Griffiths, Tenant, John Owen, Vouchee recovery and copy of same, Spring Session 1794.

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