File 35/1 - The Vron, Porkington, Selatyn

Deeds for the Vron (Fron) and and another messuage with a blacksmith’s shop, called Knotsford in the township of Porkington and parish of Selatyn, purchased from Rev. Richard Venables, 1696/7-1824. They include the post-nuptial settlement of John Davyes of Porkington and Elizabeth his wife (nee Jones), 1696/7; leases by John Davies, 1725, and Elizabeth Venables, 1765; the pre-nuptial settlement of Rev. Richard Venables of Wood Hill, Salop, and Sophia Lister of Tetley, Lincolnshire, 1808; a release from the representatives of the younger children of Rev. Joseph Venables and Elizabeth his wife of their shares in £2800 charged by their mother’s will on the Vron, to the family trustees, Lazarus Jones Venables, Joseph Venables Lovett, George Lister and John Henry Maw, 1823; a release by William Lloyd of Aston to Rev. Richard Venables then of Clyro, Radnorshire, and his trustees, of heriots and chief rents issuing out of the Fron, 1823; extracts (1823) from the parish registers of Oswestry, Selatyn, Ruabon, Chirk, Whittington and St George’s Liverpool, recording baptisms, marriages and burials of the families of Davies, Venables and Lovett, 1697-1822; the affidavit of Thomas Howell of Oswestry, adding that John Venables was ‘very infirm and paralytic’, 1823; reports issued by the High Court of Chancery, as to the purchase from Richard Venables and another from Edward Williams, 1823-1824; and the deeds of sale (lease and release) to the trustees of the marriage settlement of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, 1823, together with a covenant, abstracts of title and a coloured plan