Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- [14th century-20th century] / (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Fonds
Maint a chyfrwng
6.120 cubic metres (213 boxes, 13 volumes, 1 parcel) (*clearly wrong; hundreds of volumes)
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes gweinyddol
Messrs Longueville & Co. of Oswestry, solicitors, was established in 1720. The firm acted on behalf of a number of notable families and large estates in north Wales and Shropshire, including the Chirk Castle estate, the Hengwrt, Rug and Nannau estate, and the Wynnstay estate. In 1988 Longueville merged with local solicitors John C Gittins & Co. and Minshalls to form LG Solicitors.
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
Deposited in several groups: the first two groups by Longueville & Co., per Mr J. Iorwerth Williams, c.1942 and c.1948
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Papers relating to families and estates in north Wales, including the West family, the Chirk Castle estate, the Hengwrt, Rug and Nannau estate, the Wynnstay estate, the Penbedw estate, the estate of Richard Willding of Llanrhaeadr Hall, Denbighshire, and the Whitehall-Davies family of Broughton Hall, Flintshire, and Llannerch, Denbighshire. Records and correspondence, including relating to abstracts of title, chapels, churches, conveyances, inclosures, industrial activity, law suits, mining, parliamentary elections, probate, railways, schools and tithe commutation. Office records, including cash journals, bill books and letter books, [19th century]-[20th century].
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Action: Papers relating to some estates have been withdrawn by the depositors. Sixteen boxes of records relating to the Cornwallis-West Hampshire estates, have been transferred to the Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, Sept. 2000 (their 99A00, Newlands Estate, Milford-on-Sea). Otherwise, all records have been retained..
Croniadau
Accruals are not expected.
System o drefniant
Arranged within each deposited group by broad category, including major clients, minor clients, probate, law suits, parliamentary elections, miscellaneous conveyances, tithe commutation, correspondence, inclosures, industrial, and railways.
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the ‘Modern papers - data protection' form.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright regulations apply.
Iaith y deunydd
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
Most of the Longueville Collection (a huge archive) remains uncatalogued. NLW, A preliminary schedule of deeds & documents deposited by Messrs Longueville & Co..., 1960, is a catalogue of part of the 1958 deposit. NLW, Longueville Gittins probates & administrations, 1993, is a list of the probate records from two tin chests in the 1988 deposit. HMC, Report on deeds & papers of the Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay, baronets, and Ormsby Gore family, barons Harlech..., 1998, is a box list to the papers of those two estates in the c.1954, c.1981 and 1988 deposits. Hard copies of these three catalogues are available at NLW and HMC. NLW, Longueville Gittins probates & administrations, 1993, is also available online. Card indexes to 'Miscellaneous probate records including death certificates' and 'Minor clients' are available at NLW.
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title supplied from collector of the fonds.
Dynodwr(dynodwyr) eraill
Virtua system control number
Project identifier
Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad pwnc
- Administration of estates -- Wales, North
- Deeds -- Wales -- Caernarvonshire.
- Deeds -- Wales -- Denbighshire.
- Deeds -- Wales -- Flintshire
- Deeds -- Wales -- Merioneth.
- Lawyers -- England -- Oswestry -- Archives.
- Deeds -- Wales -- Montgomeryshire.
- Oswestry (England)
- Denbighshire (Wales).
- Flintshire (Wales)
- Merioneth (Wales)
- Montgomeryshire (Wales)
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
Pwyntiau mynediad Genre
Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad
Dynodwr disgrifiad
Dynodwr sefydliad
Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH
Statws
Lefel manylder disgrifiad
Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
March 2003
Iaith(ieithoedd)
- Saesneg
Sgript(iau)
Ffynonellau
Nodyn yr archifydd
Compiled by Annette Strauch for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Preliminary Schedule of Longueville Deeds & Documents.