Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1508-1828. (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
15 bundles, 1 folder, 1 envelope. Many documents in this series affected by damp.
Context area
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Administrative history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Title deeds of lands acquired through purchase, marriage, mortgage and lease by the families of Derwas of Penthryn Fechan, Penrhos and Llwyn y Mapsis, Penryn of Domgae and Llandrinio, Lyster and Owen of Penrhos, and Ormsby-Gore of Brogyntyn, situated for the most part in Haughton, Llandrinio and Llandysilio, 1508-1827. Other locations include the parishes of Castell Caereinion and Welshpool, 1585-1728, Guilsfield, 1573-1826, Llanfechain and Llansanffraid Deuddwr, 1592-1794, in Montgomeryshire, Llanymynech on the Shropshire border, 1672, and miscellaneous parishes, 1541-1828. The effects of the enclosure of common land are apparent in some deeds of the late sixteenth to late eighteenth centuries. Other documents illustrate the acquisition by single landowners, such as the Penryn family, of mediaeval field strips previously in multiple ownership. During the first half of the eighteenth century the Penrhos estate was consolidated and enlarged by Elizabeth Lyster and by her daughter, Elizabeth Lyster (married name Owen). William Ormsby-Gore increased the estate still further with the purchase of a farm in Guilsfield, 1826.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by parish and chronologically within each file. Several parishes have been divided into more than one file to accommodate the large number of documents present.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly English, some Latin.
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Notes area
Note
Title of series supplied from content.
Note
Preferred citation: ETK3.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Owen family, of Penrhos (Montgomeryshire) (Subject)
- Derwas family. (Subject)
- Penryn family, of Llandrinio. (Subject)
- Lyster family, of Penrhos and Moyne's Court. (Subject)