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Title deeds relating to purchases by Mary Jane Ormsby of Skybor Issa and land at Middleton in the parishes of Selatyn and Oswestry, Salop, 1790-1813.

Title deeds relating to a farm house and lands in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from David Jameson of Oswestry, 1808-1820

Title deeds and other papers relating to fish ponds called Porkington Pools in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1686-1823.

Title deeds, which appear to relate to two separate parts of a property called Pentre David in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, 1707-1827. One part, together with Hen Plassey, was purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Frederick West in 1827, and the other, Pentre David Farm, had been purchased from Thomas Jackson in 1822

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.

Title deeds relating mainly to the Drenewydd estate in the parishes of Oswestry and Whittington, Salop, purchased in 1830 for £35,000 by William Ormsby Gore from Annabella Williams of Penbedw and William Watkin Edward Wynne of Peniarth, 1826-1867. They include deeds for Old Port estate, 1679-1830.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Probate of the will of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech, 1876, and executors’ accounts, 1876-1877.

Files of miscellaneous letters and papers mainly concerning the management of the Brogyntyn estates, 1830-1880. The letters are mostly to Longueville and Co. and they concern estate business, finance, legal matters, and insurance claims following a fire at Brogyntyn Hall in 1874. The estate papers include lease agreements, valuations, building accounts, notices served on tenants; there are also small quantities of legal papers and Ormsby Gore family documents [post-1863]-1871.

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.

Title deeds for Bank Farm, Guilsfield, 1729-1870, parcels of meadow in Broniarth purchased by Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat in 1740, and for a cottage in Broniarth purchased by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn in 1826, and a few later documents, 1830-1885.

Miscellaneous vouchers from the Welsh and Irish estates of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech (Watermark 1828)-1887, found at NLW after the cataloguing of the main groups was complete (!) Some bundles relate separately to the Glyn estate in Merioneth and Caernarfonshire, Cemais and Penrhos in Montgomeryshire, or the Irish estates in Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Westmeath; other bundles contain a combination of these and the Brogyntyn estate in Shropshire and Denbighshire. The presence of original labels and wrappers suggests that these groupings, though irregular, are genuine. Some bundles contain several smaller packets inside, in which the individual items were once numbered; many of the numbers are missing or out of sequence. Some packets are conveniently labelled by the agent’s name or by category. Typically the contents comprise large numbers of bills and receipts for estate labour and wages, agents’ remittances, building materials, ironmongery, farriery, provisions, stationery, freight of goods by railway, repairs to estate properties and school buildings, marsh drainage, forestry plantations, surveys and valuations, legal expenses, poor rates, highway rates, land tax, property tax, income tax, the grand jury cess (Ireland), quit rents, crown rents, chief rents, tithe rents, insurance, and subscriptions to schools, churches, clothing clubs, other charities and freemasons, together with some accounts and covering letters by the collectors and agents. There are particularly large numbers of poor rate receipts from the unions of Tobercurry, Sligo, Mohill, Bawnboy, Carrick-on-Shannon, Granard, Strokestown and Swinford, Ireland. One file in this series (72/3) contains the papers of John Edward Parry, agent of the Glyn estate, 1856-1876

General accounts of the Brogyntyn (Porkington) estate and the Ormsby Gore family, comprising estate cash books of Penrhos and Brogyntyn, 1833-1845, account books of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1866-1874, Longueville’s account for the conveyance of a reservoir site near Oswestry, 1869-1877, fixtures and fittings at Brogyntyn Hall, 1871-1875, and Longueville and Co.’s account with Lady Sarah Harlech, 1879-1890.

Leases and licences granted by members of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, of minerals and slate quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890. The locations include Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1845-1872, 1875-1881, Hendre Ddu, Dolbenmaen, 1860-1874, Mynyddednyfed and Braich-y-Sant, Cricieth, 1861, Plas yn Pennant, Penmorfa, 1862-1866, Ty Cerrig, Penmorfa, 1864-1880, and elsewhere in Beddgelert, Cricieth, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, 1849-1890. One file contains licences to make railways or tramways for the transport of slate from the quarries, 1855-1873