Gilfach pedigree books

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

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 23967i-iiE.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- [1830s]-1896
Name of Creator
- Lewis, David Jones, 1773-1848.
Language of Material
- English English.
Physical Description
- NLW MS 23967iE: 378 ff. (original pagination 1-747 with errors) ; 370 x 240 mm.
  NLW MS 23967iiE: 750 ff. (original pagination 748-1437 with errors, continued 1438-51, and continued further 1452-98; pp. 1451-93 blank) ; 370 x 240 mm.
  NLW MS 23967iE: Original reversed calf stationery binding, with blind tooling; 'PEDIGREES' (gold on spine), 'Vol I' and 'A' (ink on spine).
  NLW MS 23967iiE: Original reversed calf stationery binding, with blind tooling; 'PEDIGREES' (gold on spine), 'Vol: 2' and 'A' (ink on spine).
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A two-volume collection of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families, compiled during the 1830s (23967iE watermark 1828; 23967iiE watermark 1831), with some later additions, by David Jones Lewis, Gilfach, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire.
A duplicate set of these volumes, also written by David Jones Lewis, are the 8 volumes of Gilfach MSS in the College of Arms, London (see Francis Jones, A Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts in the College of Arms (London, 1988), pp. 69-71), which are dated by colophon to 1830. This duplication is mentioned in a note, dated 8 July 1895, in 23967iE, p. 1, by Lewis's grandson, David Jones Lewis of Llwyncelyn, Llanwrda, who has also overwritten parts of the earlier text, as well as adding pedigrees relating to the Lewis family, [1895] (pp. 1438-50), and a copy of 'an account of the Lewis family in the handwriting of my late grandfather', 1896 (pp. 1494-6). There are minor additions relating to the Lewis family, to at least 1978, in several different hands (pp. 1438-41, 1448-50). A copy of an unpublished account, [1990s], of the Lewis family of Gilfach and Llwyncelyn, including references to the Pedigree Books, is now NLW ex 2511. An index to these two volumes is now NLW MS 23968i-iiE.

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Acquisition Information

Mr Michael David Lewis Moore, great-grandson of the younger David Jones Lewis; Wellingborough; Donation (with NLW MS 23968i-iiE and NLW ex 2511); September 2007; 006104656.