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Deeds and documents received from Farrer & Co. of Lincolns Inn Fields, London, solicitors, per the British Records Association (parcel 2749) in October 1999 (NLW acc. no. C1999/12). These papers are supplemental to the Ormathwaite Papers, and mainly relate to the marriage settlement, mortgages, bankruptcy, receivership and executorship of Arthur Henry John Walsh (1859-1937), third baron Ormathwaite. The papers were accumulated by partners of Farrer & Co. who acted for Marquis Camden, Ormathwaite’s brother-in-law and main creditor, as well as acting as Ormathwaite’s estate receiver after his bankruptcy, and acting for his executors after his death. Included are papers relating to estates in Radnorshire, the Warfield Park estate (Bracknell, Berkshire), the Ormathwaite Hall estate (Keswick, Cumberland) and various freehold and leasehold properties in London and Middlesex, as well as a very few papers relating to the unsaleable remnants of an Irish estate (Counties Cork and Kerry). For a history of the estate, see the introduction to the schedule to the NLW, Ormathwaite Papers, pp. i-xi.

Miscellaneous Papers comprising a letter from Sir Robert Clayton of Marsden, Surrey, to 'a friend' announcing his forthcoming marriage, 1775 (L 4/1); a table of expenses and earnings of six families by the week and by the year in Bedfordshire in 1795 with similar tables at various intervals from the mid 14c. to the late 18c. (L 4/2) and a letter from D. Lyon, Putney, to ?, relating to a 'statuary' to be placed in the church of St Mary Le Bone, 1828 (L 4/3).

Deeds relating to a Madame D'Haumont whose connection, if any, with the Walsh family has not been established. The deeds comprise: pre-nuptial settlement of Teresa Tichbourne of Cuxhaven in the territories of the Hanse Towns in the North of Germany, and Jean Philippe Marie Marguerite, Chevalier de Galabert de la Peyre D'Haumont at present residing at Hampstead, Middlesex, 1801 (L 3/1); release of all actions to one of the trustees of the said settlement, 1802 (L 3/2); administration with will annexed of Mary Tichbourne of Hampstead, Middlesex, widow, 1806 (L 3/3) and administration with will and codicil (translated from French) of Therese Tichbourne, widow of the Chevalier Phillippe D'Houmont, dec., at Toulouse, 1850 (L 3/4). Original bundle marked 'Papers belonging to Madame D'Haumont'.

Notebooks containing extracts from various French authors of the 17th and 18th centuries, including La Bruyere, Marivaux and Rousseau, together with English translations of some of the extracts.

Misc. Papers relating to the Beaufort family and estate comprising two bound offprints of entries in A Complete English Peerage [1766] relating to Henry Somerset, 5th duke of Beaufort (L 1/1-2); a genealogical table of the Somersets [late 1760s] (L 1/3); a corrected catalogue of pictures at Badminton with notes and correspondence about the history of the Somersets, 1905-17 (L 1/4) and abstract of title of the trustees of the Llwynbarried estate in p's Nantmel, Llanyre and Llanfihangel Helygen, co. Rad., 1899-1910, 1917 together with a map, 1902 [Henry, 9th duke of Beaufort was mortgagee of the estate] (L 1/5-6) ]For the connection between the Somersets and the Walshes see B 1/11-12].

Release of Lady Strachey and John Benn Walsh from the trusts of the marriage of Walter Henry Bracebridge, 1822 (K 3/1); copy will and codicils of Col. John Wildman of 23 Hanover Square, Middlesex, 1871-7 (K 3/2) wherein the Hon. Arthur Walsh is appointed one of the executors and a declaration of trust of a sum of £2,537 new 3% bank annuities for the benefit of The Welsh Metropolitan Church, one of whose acting committee members was Arthur Walsh, 1879 (K 3/3).

Copy Will And Codicils of Sir Henry Strachy of Rooksnest, Surrey, bart, 1805-9, in which he appointed Sir John Benn Walsh as one of his trustees (K 2/1); account book of Sir Henry Strachey with Messrs Gosling & Sharp, 1809 (K 2/2); account book of John Benn Walsh as executor of Henry Strachy, 1810-13 (K 2/3); and draft case for, and opinion of, counsel [1811] concerning the claim of Lt Col. Henry Mason, natural son of Henry Strachy, to £2,000 under the codicil of Henry Strachy together with related correspondence, 1811-13 (K 2/4-15).

Release by the Hon. Robert Clive to John Walsh, Henry Strachey and Christopher D'Oyly of all sums of money expended by them as guardians of the former, together with an account of such sums expended by them, 1774-88, 1791. Original bundle labelled 'Marriage Settlements, Probates, Family and Miscellaneous Deeds No. 3 Tin Deed Box'.

Illuminated Resolution of the court of quarter sessions of co. Rad. upon the death of the 1st lord Ormathwaite, 1881 (J 1/1); illuminated addresses to Arthur Henry John Walsh M.P. and Lady Clementine Frances Anne Pratt on their marriage in 1890 from the tenants of Arthur Henry John Walsh's father, the co. Brec. tenants of the marquis of Camden, Clementine Frances Anne Pratt's father, and from the Radnorshire Conservative Association, (J 1/2-4) and an album of photographs and press cuttings relating to their engagement and wedding (J 1/5).

Appointment of John Walsh as deputy lieutenant of Berkshire, 1779 (I 1/1); grant to John Benn and Margaret his wife to assume the name Walsh, 1793 (I 1/2); creation of John Benn Walsh as bart, 1804, together with fees paid for the same, 1804-5 (I 1/3); appointments of Sir John Walsh as keeper of the rolls and lord lieutenant of co. Rad., 1842 (I 1/4-5); grants of a peerage and grant of coat-of-arms to Lord Ormathwaite, 1868 (I 1/6-7); appointment of Arthur John Walsh as in I 1/4-5, 1875 (I 1/8-9); appointments of Arthur Henry John Walsh as in I 1/4-5, 1918 (I 1/10-11) and his appointment G.C.V.O., 1920 (I 1/12).

Illuminated Pedigree Roll of the Walshe family of Sheldesley, Worcestershire compiled in 1635 together with 18C. additions (H 1/1) a pedigree roll containing extracts from H 1/1, [early 18C.] (H 1/2) dates of birth of Lady Jane Grey (née Walsh) and other members of the Grey family, [c. 1815] (H 1/3).

Estate and family records of the family of Walsh (also Benn, Benn-Walsh), later barons Ormathwaite, of Radnorshire, including rentals and surveys, 1865-1939; deeds relating to premises purchased in Radnorshire, 1558-1912, and deeds relating to mortgages and sales of parts of the same estate, 1875-1947; estate papers, 1844-1943; family papers, [late 1690s]-1920, including diaries of Sir John Benn Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (1798-1881), politician, 1811-1877, diaries of his mother, Lady Margaret Walsh, 1788-1828, and diaries of Arthur John Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, 1848-1917. -- The BRA deposit relates mainly to the marriage settlement, mortgages, bankruptcy, receivership and executorship of Arthur Henry John Walsh (1859-1937), 3rd Baron Ormathwaite, 1841-1951.

A further three boxes of papers relating to the family was received, together with a portrait of Jane Walsh and a collection of photographs. This deposit remains uncatalogued.

Correspondence. The family correspondence has been divided into two groups: bound and unbound letters. With the exception of G 1 below all the bound family letters (G 2-51) were arranged and stitched together by Sir John Walsh in 1828 and 1837 and afterwards placed in uniform box files: these were labelled 'Family Letters & Papers' together with the appropriate number. The correspondence (roughly 2,500 letters) begins after Sir John Walsh's departure to Eton in 1811 and ends with his mother's death in 1836. The first extant box file is numbered 'Vol. VII'; presumably the first six box files contained (at least) the correspondence between Sir John Walsh's parents between 1786 and 1811 since very few such letters have survived in this archive or in the archive now housed at the India Office Library. The unbound family correspondence comprises a small number of letters missed by Sir John Benn Walsh (many in fact were tucked away in his mother's diaries) and a small remnant of what was once a large body of post-1836 family letters (see Introduction).

Correspondence between John Walsh and his mother (ff. 1-10, 13-16, 39-48) and one letter to his father (ff. 11-12), including references to Talleyrand, 1814 (ff. 5v, 8v); events in France, 1814-15 (ff. 7-8, 10r-v, 17-19), Napoleon, 1814 (ff. 7, 10-11), Louis XVIII, 1814 (f. 7), and the actor [Edmund] Kean, 1814 (f. 9); correspondence between John Benn Walsh and his wife, 10 Feb. 1814 - 11 Sept. 1815 (ff. 17-32, 49-60) including references to Lord Aberdeen, 1814 (f. 17), victory celebrations, 1814 (ff. 21-4), Murat, Louis XVIII, Napoleon, Wellington and peace negotiations, 1815 (all in ff. 49v-52); a letter from R. Strachey from India, 1814 (ff. 33-6); a letter from the Rev. David Davies, 1814 (f. 37r-v) about his ill-health, and a letter to John Walsh from his friend George Dallas, 1815 (ff. 61-2).