Trecefel family diaries,

Diaries of Joseph Jenkins, 1839-1870, and his daughter Anne Jenkins, 1886-1947, together with miscellaneous notebooks and papers of members of the Trecefel family, 1859-1947.

Joseph Jenkins moved to Trecefel, Tregaron, a 180 acre farm, in 1848, as a tenant farmer with his wife and first child. The Reverend Latimer Jones, Vicar of St Peter's Church, Carmarthen, was his landlord. Over the years Joseph Jenkins invested a substantial amount of money in improving Trecefel and was 'regarded as the most successful farm in the county' in the first decade. For biographical details concerning Joseph and Anne Jenkins see relevant level descriptions.

Arranged at NLW into three groups: Joseph Jenkins diaries, Anne Jenkins diaries and miscellaneous notebooks and papers.

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J/1-J/3, J/5-J/6, J/9-J/11, A/1-A/60 and M/1-3, M/6-M/7; Mr W. R. Davies and the Trustee of Anne Jenkins, deceased, per the Trecefel family; Donation; 1949/1950
J/7-8 and M/4-M/5; Mr Joseph Jenkin Jones; London; Donation; June 1961
J/4; Mrs Ann James; Llwyn-y-groes, Tregaron; Donation; January 1985; A1985/12.

Joseph Jenkins moved to Trecefel, Tregaron, a 180 acre farm, in 1848, as a tenant farmer with his wife and first child. The Reverend Latimer Jones, Vicar of St Peter's Church, Carmarthen, was his landlord. Over the years Joseph Jenkins invested a substantial amount of money in improving Trecefel and was 'regarded as the most successful farm in the county' in the first decade. For biographical details concerning Joseph and Anne Jenkins see relevant level descriptions.

Title based on contents of fonds.

Description completed May 2008.

Description compiled by Ann Francis Evans. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Bethan Phillips, Rhwng dau fyd : y swagman o Geredigion (Aberystwyth, 1998); Pity the swagman : the Australian odyssey of a Victorian diarist (Aberystwyth, 2002); Australian Dictionary of Biography online; Dan Jenkins and "Ap Ceredigion" (editors), Cerddi Cerngoch (Lampeter, 1904); and documents within the collection;

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For related material held elsewhere see relevant level descriptions.

Bethan Phillips, Rhwng dau fyd : y swagman o Geredigion (Aberystwyth, 1998) and Pity the swagman : the Australian odyssey of a Victorian diarist (Aberystwyth, 2002).

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