Joiner's account book,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23490A.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004654091
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1798-1883 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Welsh English Welsh, English.
  • Physical Description
    • 175 ff. (ff. 108 verso-45 mostly blank; several leaves torn out) ; 155 x 100 mm. Full leather, with blind tooling and brass clasp.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Memorandum book belonging, 1798-1838, to Jonathan Morgan, Pant-y-bryn, parish of Llandybïe, co. Carmarthen, farmer and joiner, containing farming, joinery and other accounts including payments to workmen, accounts of money loaned on 'Bidding Days', and accounts relating to the building of Bethel Congregational church ('Yr Hen Fethel'), Cwmaman, co. Carmarthen; furniture designs and specifications; recipes for colouring wood; and miscellaneous memoranda. Further entries, to 1883, by his son William Morgan and grandson Jonathan Morgan, both of Bodist Uchaf, Glanaman, co. Carmarthen, include rent, bidding and other accounts; and family memoranda.

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Acquisition Information

Dr W. J. Brinley Morgan; Woking; Donation; 1996

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23490A.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Archivist's Note

May 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

Custodial History

'Jonathan Morgan his Book bought at Evan Evans preacher and Book binder. Cost one shilling and sixpence, 1798' inside back cover.

Related Material

For further accounts relating to Bethel Congregational church see NLW MSS 21887A-21888B. For further account books of William Morgan and his son Jonathan Morgan, see NLW MS 23491A.

Additional Information

Published

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