Fonds GB 0210 PLAMOR - Plas Llangoedmor deeds and documents

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0210 PLAMOR

Title

Plas Llangoedmor deeds and documents

Date(s)

  • 1631, 1705-1898 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

0.086 cubic metres (2 boxes, 1 roll)

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

In 1801 the Rev. Benjamin Millingchamp (d. 1829), a native of Cardigan, bought Plas Llangoedmor from David Lloyd, whose family had owned the place since at least 1550. Benjamin Millingchamp was the son of Joseph Millingchamp, a Customs officer at Cardigan, and Anne Gambold. He was succeeded by Sarah, his daughter and heiress, and wife of Colonel Herbert Vaughan of Brynog, a descendant of the Vaughan family, baronets of Trawsgoed. They had three sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Herbert, died of wounds in the Crimea in 1855, and another son, Edward Percival, died of cholera in Bombay in 1864. Llangoedmor was inherited by the third son, John Vaughan (1830-1881), who had five sons. He was succeeed by his eldest son, Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948) who sold much of the contents of Plas Llangoedmor in 1924 and settled in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, having sold Plas Llanhoedmor mansion to David Berrington Griffiths Davies of Castle Green, Cardigan.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Received from Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan of Plas Llangoedmor in 1923.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Deeds and legal papers relating to the Crosswood estate, Cardiganshire, 1631, 1705-1820, and to the Plas Llangoedmor estate, 1808-1898, mainly in Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

All records deposited at NLW have been retained.

Accruals

Accruals are not expected

System of arrangement

Arranged chronologically into two sections: deeds and documents and legal papers.

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Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at NLW and HMC.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

Further papers relating to Plas Llangoedmor, 1670-1922, are National Library of Wales, Morgan Richardson 1437-1605. Persian MSS collected by Benjamin Millingchamp of Plas Llangoedmor, and his English translations of some of them are NLW MSS 4391-4412. The main Crosswood estate archive is held at the National Library of Wales.

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Note

Title based on contents of part of the fonds.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004250380

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000250380

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Rules and/or conventions used

Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

January 2002

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

The following sources were used in the compilation of this record: H. M. Vaughan, 'The Millingchamps of Cardigan', West Wales Historical Records, 5 (1915), 105-112; Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959); NLW, Schedule of Plas Llangoedmor Deeds and Documents, and Schedule of Morgan Richardson (Cardigan) Deeds and Documents; Francis Jones, Historic Cardiganshire Homes and Their Families (Newport, 2000).

Archivist's note

Compiled by Stephen Benham.

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