Plas Llangoedmor Deeds and Documents

Deeds and legal papers relating to the Crosswood estate, Cardiganshire, 1631, 1705-1820, and to the Plas Llangoedmor estate, 1808-1898, mainly in Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire.

In 1801 the Rev. Benjamin Millingchamp (d. 1829), a native of Cardigan, bought Plas Llangoedmor from David Lloyd, whose family had owned the place since at least 1550. Benjamin Millingchamp was the son of Joseph Millingchamp, a Customs officer at Cardigan, and Anne Gambold. He was succeeded by Sarah, his daughter and heiress, and wife of Colonel Herbert Vaughan of Brynog, a descendant of the Vaughan family, baronets of Trawsgoed. They had three sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Herbert, died of wounds in the Crimea in 1855, and another son, Edward Percival, died of cholera in Bombay in 1864. Llangoedmor was inherited by the third son, John Vaughan (1830-1881), who had five sons. He was succeeed by his eldest son, Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948)who sold much of the contents of Plas Llangoedmor in 1924 settled in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, having sold Plas Llanhoedmor mansion to David Berrington Griffiths Davies of Castle Green, Cardigan.

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Received from Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan of Plas Llangoedmor in 1923.

In 1801 the Rev. Benjamin Millingchamp (d. 1829), a native of Cardigan, bought Plas Llangoedmor from David Lloyd, whose family had owned the place since at least 1550. Benjamin Millingchamp was the son of Joseph Millingchamp, a Customs officer at Cardigan, and Anne Gambold. He was succeeded by Sarah, his daughter and heiress, and wife of Colonel Herbert Vaughan of Brynog, a descendant of the Vaughan family, baronets of Trawsgoed. They had three sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Herbert, died of wounds in the Crimea in 1855, and another son, Edward Percival, died of cholera in Bombay in 1864. Llangoedmor was inherited by the third son, John Vaughan (1830-1881), who had five sons. He was succeeed by his eldest son, Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948)who sold much of the contents of Plas Llangoedmor in 1924 settled in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, having sold Plas Llanhoedmor mansion to David Berrington Griffiths Davies of Castle Green, Cardigan.

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January 2002

Compiled by Stephen Benham.

The following sources were used in the compilation of this record: Vaughan, H. M., The Millingchamps of Cardigan, West Wales Historical Review, 5 (1915); Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959); NLW, Schedule of Plas Llangoedmor Deeds and Documents, and Schedule of Morgan Richardson (Cardigan) Deeds and Documents; Jones, Francis, Historic Cardiganshire Homes and their families (Newport, 2000).

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Further papers relating to Plas Llangoedmor, 1670-1922, are National Library of Wales, Morgan Richardson 1437-1605. Persian MSS collected by Benjamin Millingchamp of Plas Llangoedmor, and his English translations of some of them are NLW MSS 4391-4412. The main Crosswood estate archive is held at the National Library of Wales.

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