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- 1810-1863. (Creation)
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Letters to Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore, 1810-1863, from solicitors, private researchers and family members, with some drafts or copies of her replies. Correspondents include William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 1840-1863, and Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1827-1832, discussing genealogy and titles of the families of Maurice, Gorges, Ormsby-Gore and Godolphin, mainly for interest but also to prove rights to crown lands in Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire; subscriptions towards new church buildings at Harlech and Llannor 1855-1857; estate business and social conditions in Ireland; Tontine and Ellesmere Canal shares and other financial matters. One letter of individual interest is from Owen Arthur Ormsby-Gore describing life in Amherstburgh, 1841. The file also includes a single personal letter to Mary Jane 's mother- in- law, Frances Morres Gore, 1826.
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pedigrees of Gorges, Gore and Godolphin enclosed
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Preferred citation: PEC6/7.