Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1404-1979 / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
1.563 cubic metres (41 boxes, 1 frame)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Price family of Penllergaer, Glamorgan, the original owners of the estate, descended from John Prees and his wife Elizabeth. Their son, Griffith Price married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Llewelyn, of Ynis-y-gerwn, also in Glamorgan. Their great-great grandson Griffith Price died without issue and devised the estate to his cousin, John Llewelyn (d. 1817) of Ynis-y-Gerwn.
The Llewelyn family settled at Ynis-y-gerwn following John Llewelyn William Llewelyn's purchase of the estate. On his death in 1630 the estate passed to his brother and heir, Thomas Llewelyn. His great-great grandson, John Llewelyn (d. 1817) inherited Penllergaer on the death of his cousin. John Llewelyn's daughter, Mary, married Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855) of Burroughs Lodge and Sketty Park, Glamorgan, who had been appointed by his father to manage the Cambrian Pottery in Swansea at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Lewis and Mary's son John Dillwyn-Llewelyn (1810-1882) assumed the additional surname of Llewelyn. He was succeeded by his son Sir John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn, 1st Bart who was in turn succeeded by Sir Charles Leyshon Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, 2nd Bart (b. 1870) of Penllergaer, Ynis-y-gerwn and Llysdinam, He married Katherine Minna (b. 1870), daughter and heiress of Richard Lister Venables (1809-94) of Llysdinam, Montgomeryshire. Sir Charles assumed the additional surname of Venables in 1893.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Three deposits by Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, Newbridge-on-Wye, in 1928, March 1940 and 1943, together with a further deposit by the Lady Delia M. Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn in June 1990.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Deeds and documents 1404-1979, relating to the Penllergaer estate in Breconshire and Glamorgan, including deeds and papers relating to coal mining in Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire, mainly nineteenth century; and letters and papers of the following: John Llewelyn of Penllergaer, 1790-1816, John Dillwyn Llewelyn, 1824-1840, William Dillwyn and Lewis Weston Dillwyn.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: All records deposited at NLW have been retained..
Accruals
Accruals are not expected.
System of arrangement
Arranged into four groups by date of deposit: Group A, Brecknockshire [deeds and papers] (the 1928 deposit); Group B, Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire [deeds and papers] (the 1928 deposit); Group C, (the 1990 deposit) and Group D (the 1943 deposit). -- Group A was arranged at NLW in date order, retaining the original number of the document. Group B was received at NLW in parcels, each numbered according to the number of the compartment in which that particular group were kept in the muniment room at Penllergaer. At the request of the depositor this order and numbering arrangement have been retained. Group C was accompanied by a typescript list which was used as the basis of the arrangement; the original descriptions have been retained, and the documents numbered in the order in which they appeared in the original typescript list. To a large extent the original file order of the documents have been retained in Group D.
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 laws apply.
Language of material
- English
- Latin
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Hard copies of the catalogues are available at NLW; the 1939 deposit remains uncatalogued.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title supplied from contents of fonds.
Alternative identifier(s)
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GEAC system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Penlle'rgaer Estate (Wales) -- Archives. (Subject)
- Llewelyn, John, d. 1817 -- Archives. (Subject)
- Llewelyn, John Dillwyn, 1810-1882 -- Archives. (Subject)
- Dillwyn, L. W. (Lewis Weston), 1778-1855 -- Archives. (Subject)
- Dillwyn, William, 1743?-1824 -- Archives. (Subject)
- Llewelyn, John, d. 1817 (Subject)
- Llewelyn, John Dillwyn, 1810-1882 (Subject)
- Dillwyn, William, 1743?-1824 (Subject)
- Dillwyn, L. W. (Lewis Weston), 1778-1855 (Subject)
- Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn family, of Penlle'rgaer and Llysdinam -- Archives. (Subject)
- Llewelyn family, of Ynysgerwyn -- Archives. (Subject)
- Dillwyn family, of Penlle'rgaer -- Archives. (Subject)
- Dillwyn Llewelyn family, of Penlle'rgaer (Subject)
- Price family, of Penlle'rgaer (Subject)
- Llewelyn family, of Ynysgerwyn (Subject)
- Dillwyn family, of Penlle'rgaer (Subject)
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Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2001.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Clark, George T., Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae, (London, 1886), Burke's Landed Gentry, (London, 2 vols, 1846), vol. I; Debrett's Peerage, (London, 1951), Kelly's Handbook (London, 101 ed., 1977), Dictionary of Welsh Biography to 1940, (London, 1959)
Archivist's note
Compiled by Mair James.