Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [14th century-20th century] / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
6.120 cubic metres (213 boxes, 13 volumes, 1 parcel) (*clearly wrong; hundreds of volumes)
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
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.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Deposited in several groups: the first two groups by Longueville & Co., per Mr J. Iorwerth Williams, c.1942 and c.1948
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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].
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: Papers relating to some estates have been withdrawn by the depositors.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..
Accruals
Accruals are not expected.
System of arrangement
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.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the ‘Modern papers - data protection' form.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright regulations apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
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.
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Title supplied from collector of the fonds.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Project identifier
Access points
Subject access points
- 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)
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Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
March 2003
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
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.