Eriviat Estate Records,

Estate records, 1429-1834, and legal papers,1733-1779, of the Eriviat estate in the parishes of Henllan, Denbigh, St. Asaph, etc., and the Rhydonen estate in Llantysilio, Denbighshire, together with some deeds and legal papers of the Clough family of Plas Clough and the Salesbury family of Bryn y Barcut, both Denbighshire.

Eriviat was associated with what was to become the Ffoulkes family at least as early as the time of Ednyfed ap Goronwy Llwyd (fl. 1457). The earliest mention of a member of the family in the archive appears to be a 1518 grant by Goronwy ap Ieuan ap Einion (d. 1525), a free tenant of the township of Eriviat. Einion Llwyd was the son of Ednyfed ap Goronwy Lloyd. Ffoulke ap Thomas ap Goronwy (fl. 1539-1573), son of Thomas ap Goronwy (fl. 1524-1545) and great-great-great grandson of Ednyfed, was to provide the family name as the traditional Welsh patronymics fossilized into an English surname.
After Ffoulke, the estate passed from father to son for several more generations until the death in 1728 of Robert Ffoulkes. He was succeeded by his youngest brother Peter. His four eldest sons all died without issue so that the estate descended on his fifth son, John Ffoulkes (1699-1758), who acquired the Rhydonen estate in Llantysilio, Denbighshire, through his marriage with Catherine, daughter and heir of Henry Roberts of Rhydonen, in 1729.
The estate then descended from father to son for several generations: to John Ffoulkes (1736-1814) who married Margaret Clough of Plas Clough; to John Powell Ffoulkes (1770-1826) who married Catherine Mary Jocelyn, daughter of Robert Jocelyn by Elizabeth, daughter of John Salesbury of Bryn y Barcut, Denbighshire; and to John Jocelyn Ffoulkes (b. 1813- 1858). He had eight daughters and the estate appears to have passed to his second daughter Edith Caroline, who married P.H. Humberston of Glan y Wern, Denbighshire.

Arranged chronologically.

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Deposited by the trustees of the estate in 1952, per Messrs Peckover, Burrill & Owen of Denbigh.

Eriviat was associated with what was to become the Ffoulkes family at least as early as the time of Ednyfed ap Goronwy Llwyd (fl. 1457). The earliest mention of a member of the family in the archive appears to be a 1518 grant by Goronwy ap Ieuan ap Einion (d. 1525), a free tenant of the township of Eriviat. Einion Llwyd was the son of Ednyfed ap Goronwy Lloyd. Ffoulke ap Thomas ap Goronwy (fl. 1539-1573), son of Thomas ap Goronwy (fl. 1524-1545) and great-great-great grandson of Ednyfed, was to provide the family name as the traditional Welsh patronymics fossilized into an English surname.
After Ffoulke, the estate passed from father to son for several more generations until the death in 1728 of Robert Ffoulkes. He was succeeded by his youngest brother Peter. His four eldest sons all died without issue so that the estate descended on his fifth son, John Ffoulkes (1699-1758), who acquired the Rhydonen estate in Llantysilio, Denbighshire, through his marriage with Catherine, daughter and heir of Henry Roberts of Rhydonen, in 1729.
The estate then descended from father to son for several generations: to John Ffoulkes (1736-1814) who married Margaret Clough of Plas Clough; to John Powell Ffoulkes (1770-1826) who married Catherine Mary Jocelyn, daughter of Robert Jocelyn by Elizabeth, daughter of John Salesbury of Bryn y Barcut, Denbighshire; and to John Jocelyn Ffoulkes (b. 1813- 1858). He had eight daughters and the estate appears to have passed to his second daughter Edith Caroline, who married P.H. Humberston of Glan y Wern, Denbighshire.

Title supplied from contents of fonds.

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at NLW and HMC (now part of The National Archives).

June 2001.

Compiled by Stephen Benham.

The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Burke's Landed Gentry (London, 2 vols, 1846), vol. I; Nicholas, Thomas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales (London, 2 vols, 1872),vol. II; Griffith, John Edwards, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (Wrexham, 1998 reprint);

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