• Reference
    • GB 220 Z/DT
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1602]-1927
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Welsh
  • Physical Description
    • 0.05 cubic metres (4 boxes)

Scope and Content

Deeds, 1697-1883, mainly for lands in Merionethshire; estate papers, 1712-1927, including accounts; printed books, [1602]-1805; and family papers, 1775-1916, including wills.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Ty'n-y-braich estate lies about one mile from Dinas Mawddwy and included Maesglasau and Bryncyrch in the parish of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire. Evan John William and his wife, Gwen Robert, had a son, Robert Evan (d. 1775), who owing to financial difficulties was forced to mortgage the estates in 1731 and in 1741. He was succeeded by his son, Robert Evan the younger (d. 1812). Maesglasau and other properties which had been mortgaged in 1765 were conveyed in 1839 for £1,440 and reconveyed again to Sir Edmund Buckley of Plas Dinas Mawddwy in 1883. Sir Edmund Buckley (b. 1834) also purchased the estate and lordship of Dinas Mawddwy in 1856 from the Mytton family, in whose possession it had been since the time of King John.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically but the list of printed books appears separately at the end.

Access Information

No restrictions

Note

Compiled by Mair James for the HMC/NLW Family and Estates project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Williams-Jones, Keith, 'Notes on collections received in the County Record Office', Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, vol. III, part II (1958).

Other Finding Aids

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Meirionnydd Archives and the National Register of Archives.

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright regulations apply.

Appraisal Information

All records deposited at the Meirionnydd Archives have been retained

Accruals

No accruals expected

Related Material

Further papers relating to the Buckley family and its estate in Dinas Mawddwy are Meirionnydd Archives, Z/DCG, Z/DCG2.