The Richards and Edwards families of Cardiff and Llandaff : Genealogical notes

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 16921E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004486919
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1823x1860]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 35 ff. ; 186 x 255 mm. and less.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Family trees and genealogical notes and extracts relating to the Richards family of Cardiff and the Edwards family of Llandaff House (ff. 1-14 verso); historical notes relating to Wales and the Marches (ff. 15-26 verso); a licence, dated 1 December 1823 and signed by George IV and Sir Charles George Young, granting Thomas William Richards the right to adopt the surname of Edwards and to bear the arms of that family (f. 27); notes relating to the murder of William Powell of Glanareth, Carmarthenshire in 1770 (ff. 28-30); letters to Thomas William Edwards from Francis E. Stacey, 1848, ?vicar of Cardiff, and from Thomas [?John] Powell, rector of Llanhamlach, 1857, both relating to genealogical matters (ff. 31-34); and an extract from the pedigree of George Rice Rice-Trevor, 4th baron Dynevor (f. 35).

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Acquisition Information

Lady Hilary Jenkinson & Capt. Andrew Knox Richards; Fareham; Donation; 1948-9

Note

Title based on contents.

Watermarks, 1832, 1836, 1838, 184[?].

Preferred citation: NLW MS 16921E.

Archivist's Note

March 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans;

Related Material

See also NLW Mansel Franklen Collection No. 6544, which includes pedigrees copied from a manuscript of Thomas William Edwards of Llandaff House containing pedigrees of Glamorgan families. For accounts of the death of and subsequent murder trial surrounding William Powell of Glanareth, see NLW Castell Gorfod MSS No. 34, NLW MS 1214D, NLW MS 7287D, NLW MS 12649C, and NLW MS 23206D.

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