Papers relating to Jonathan Davies's period as a prominent member of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church in Caernarfonshire. Of particular interest are the groups of papers relating to the campaign against Sunday opening, 1889-1890 and letters and papers relating to the Welsh Ministers' Fund appeal in support of the Welsh undenominational church at Cape Town, South Africa.
Indexed.
Register of officials, shareholders and share dealings,
Reconstruction of Tanygarth tramway,
Letters, invoices, etc., relating to the re-laying of the Tanygarth Branch Line. Companies involved with the construction include Wilsons Pease & Co., Middlesbrough, Evan Jones & Co., Cardiff, Ebbw Vale Steel, Coal & Iron Co. Ltd., J. O. Hughes, Portmadoc, and Burt, Boulton & Haywood, Ltd, Newport.
Records and papers relating to the Ffestiniog and Blaenau Railway, 1867-1905, and Porthmadog, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway, 1898-1921.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., relating to the promotion of, and proposed extensions of, the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway; the Portmadoc, Beddgelert, and South Snowdon Railway; and the Portmadoc, Beddgelert, Dinas, and Caernarfon Narrow Gauge Railways.
Letters, valuations, plans and agreements, relating to land in p. Ffestiniog, required for the Ffestiniog and Blaenau railway from the Diphwys Casson Slate Company.
Rules of the North Wales Quarry Association, [c.1931]; correspondence relating to wages agreements, 1933-1934; and a letter, 1930 in Welsh from the Transport and General Workers' Union regarding work conditions.
Miscellaneous prose items relating to local subjects, and probably entered in local eisteddfod competitions.
Circulars, business cards, price lists and other promotional items.
Papers relating to his activities as a slate merchant with his brother Richard Davies, as company liquidator of several local quarry companies; his own business interests, 1859-1933; the construction and renovation of rail networks in the Ffestiniog and Porthmadog area, 1867-1920; Porthmadog harbour improvements, 1913-1920; and miscellaneous business interests, 1883-1904.
Analysis of production costs, 1920-1940, weekly results of working, 1933-1940, monthly stock analysis, 1930-1940, statistics and prices, 1928-1941, and engine loads, 1931-1940.
Probate will of Pierce Davies,
Copy will and probate of Pierce Davies, 51 High Street, Porthmadog, husband of Jane Davies, and father of Jonathan and Richard Davies.
Probate records of Pierce Davies, 1883, Jane Davies, 1898, Catherine Griffith and Edward Griffith, 1920-1924.
Probate records of Catherine Griffith and Edward Griffith,
Administration of Catherine Griffith, 1920, and probate, 1924, of Edward Griffith, quarry loader, Penrhyndeudraeth. (Ithel and Jonathan Davies acting as executors).
Probate of will of Jane Davies,
Will and probate of Jane Davies, widow of Pierce Davies, and mother of Jonathan Davies. Includes copy of her death certificate.
Printed items relating to the slate industry.
Price lists and specifications,
Papers comprising quarry reports, 1863-1945, price lists for purchase of slate in the UK, Europe and North America, but mainly North Wales, 1872-1905, and price lists of Davies Brothers, 1904-1917.
Copies of business letters, including index.