Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1816-1860, 1915 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
7 volumes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Owen Owens (1792-1862), Independent minister and schoolmaster, was born in Dolgellau. He served as schoolmaster for a period of time in Dolgellau and later in Dinas Mawddwy, where he also began to preach. In 1821 he was ordained minister of Salem chapel, Cilcain and Rhes-y-cae chapel near Nannerch, Flintshire, where he also kept a school. He laboured long and hard to extricate Welsh chapels from debt and was recognised as an exemplary rural minister of his time. Owens contributed numerous articles to the Independent periodical Y Dysgedydd and published Holwyddoreg yr Ymneillduwyr Protestanaidd ... (Y Bala, 1851).
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
NLW MSS 6085-6089: Mr H. Owen Davies; Manchester; Donation; July and October 1914.
NLW MSS 11085-11086B: Mr H. Owen Davies; Manchester; Donation; June 1936.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Manuscripts of Owen Owens comprising for the most part notes of sermons preached by himself and others, 1816-1860, including those delivered at Rhes-y-cae chapel near Nannerch, Flintshire, and Salem, Cilcain. The collection also includes diaries, 1822-1835, of Owens; correspondence, 1828-1858, addressed to Owens; an almanac, 1833, with entries by Owens, largely comprising of preaching engagements; and miscellaneous papers.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 6085-6089, 11085-11086.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Previously known as Rhes-y-cae 1-5, 7-8.
Note
Title based on contents.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
GEAC system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Owens, O. (Owen), 1792-1862 -- Archives (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
January 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 (Llundain, 1953); Cronfa Capeli WWW site.
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.