File NLW MS 12642F. - Material relating to Montgomeryshire,

Miscellaneous transcripts, abstracts, and extracts relating to Montgomeryshire, including transcripts or abstracts of entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1661-1761, of marriages, 1813-1837, and of baptisms, 1813-1897, from the registers of the parish of Llanmerewig; abstracts of deeds, 1576-1809, relating to property in Montgomeryshire [extracted from The National Library of Wales Calendar of Deeds and Documents, Vol. 1, The Coleman Deeds (Aberystwyth, 1921)], with additional genealogical notes relating to the parties or witnesses; a transcript of an indenture of mortgage, 20 July 1743, relating to property in the township of Llanryney, parish of Llangerick (also mentioned in this document are property in Ludlow, co. Salop, and a forge or iron mill called Strangworth forge or mill in the parishes of Pembridge and Staunton upon Arrow, co. Hereford); a copy of a letter from Herbert M[illingchamp] Vaughan, to Mr. [John Bancroft] Willans, 1921 (tracing the writer's descent from Richard Herbert of Dolforgan, parish of Kerry, late seventeenth century, enclosing a copy of a document relating to Dorothy, viscountess Lisburne (see next item)); a transcript of a document headed 'Household Accounts of a Welsh Peeress in the XVIIIth century', being an account of the personal and household expenditure in 1744, of Dorothy [dowager] viscountess Lisburne, widow of John Vaughan, 2nd viscount Lisburne, and daughter of Captain Richard Hill of Hemblas [sic], Llanwnog, Montgomeryshire; copious extracts from the English Encyclopaedia (1859); and shorter extracts from Spons Dictionary of Engineering [ed. Oliver Byrne (London, 1869-1874)], fournal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Walter [Hume] Long (viscount Long): Memories . . . [(London, 1923)], and the report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 1834. Included also in the volume are extracts from George Gilbert Ramsay: The Annals of Tacitus ... [An English translation ... (1904)], and Burke's Extinct Peerage (1831).