Trant and Richards, solicitors, collection of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire estates papers and deeds

Papers comprising Carmarthenshire voters' lists, 1832; Carmarthenshire land tax arrears and assessments, 1929-1935; deeds relating to Glanmorlais, 1796-1870; Jesus College, Oxford, deeds and papers relating to Carmarthen, 1731-1850; deeds relating to the Simpson estate, 1544-1874; deeds and papers relating to Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire estates and families, including the Yelverton and Morgan families of Whitland Abbey, the Edwinsford estate, Saunders of Court Henry, Penn of Camrose House, Richards of Tenby, Roch of Cosheston and the Trevacoon Estate, [17th century]-[20th century]; miscellaneous Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire deeds and draft deeds, [17th century]-[19th century]; Carmarthen Borough deeds, [18th century]-[19th century]; draft wills, [19th century]-[20th century]; abstracts of title, [19th century]-[20th century]; Carmarthen quarter sessions records, [20th century]; fisheries records, mainly 1870-1900; Acts of Parliament, [1859]-[1861]; sale catalogues and posters, [19th century]-[20th century]; bundles of correspondence, [19th century]; newspapers, [19th century]; ledgers and account books, [19th century]; papers relating to legal proceedings, [19th century]; Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire High Sheriffs' papers, [1857]; and rent tithe charges, [19th century].

Trant and Richards (formerly Morgan Griffiths, Prosser and Trant) is a firm of solicitors based in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. They accumulated material, especially title deeds, connected with their clients, who included many families and estates in Carmarthenshire and also Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire. Among their most notable clients were the Yelverton and Morgan families of Whitland Abbey, Llanboidy, the Edwinsford estate, Llansawel, the Glanmorlais estate, Llandyfaelog, and the Saunders family of Court Henry, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, the Penn family of Camrose House, Camrose, the Richards family of Tenby, the Roch family of Cosheston, the Simpson estate, Roch, and the Trevacoon Estate, Llanrhian, Pembrokeshire, and Jesus College, Oxford.

Arranged into the following: voters' lists and land tax records (1959 deposit); Yelverton; Abercothi; Ystrad; Llanfihangel Abercowin, re. Rev. D. Cadfwlch Davies; Brynamlwg; Glyn Abbey Estate; Penn of Camrose House; Nantgwrbys; Edwinsford; Simpson Estate; Richards of Tenby; Clyncoch; Bwlchbychan; Evan David, Laugharne; Roch of Cosheston; New House, St Clears; Trevacoon Estate, Pembs; Pembrokeshire miscellaneous deeds; "Trant Deeds"; Carmarthen Borough; Treforrisfawr; Broadway Estate; Bryngranod and Coedllaune Estates, Cardiganshire; Rev. T. R. Laugharne; Glanmorlais; White Mill, Johnstown; Rudbaxton Estate, Pembrokeshire; Johnstown, Carmarthen; Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire: "Trant Deeds"; Taylor, Carmarthen; Carmarthenshire miscellaneous deeds; Rees v. Llewellyn, Carmarthen; wills; sale catalogues; miscellaneous modern deeds; Trant Deeds; correspondence; sale catalogues; newspapers; ledgers and account books; T(A) deeds; abstracts of title; sale posters; Marton Estate, Salop; Carmarthen quarter sessions; estate rentals; Cawdor estate sale plans; fisheries; bank books; legal proceedings; High Sheriffs papers, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire; Acts of Parliament; deeds and draft deeds; tithe rent charges; St Clears petty sessions; High Court actions; Saunders, Court Henry; Thomas Taylor, Carmarthen; Phillips of Blaentrafle; Evans, Plasbach; Lewis family and the Hafod estate, Llanwrda; William Morgan, Narberth; E. M. Davies, A. O. Davies, Rev. David Jones and Carmarthen United Breweries; Richards, Tenby; W. E. Philips, Ferryside; sale catalogues; Mrs K. P. Powell; Samuel Tardrew; lettered bundles; Trant/Glanmorlais papers; Trant/Jesus College papers; and Simpson deeds.

Ar Agor / Open

Dim cyfyngiadau / No Restrictions

Adnau preifat / Private deposit

Mae copiau clawr caled o`r catalogau ar gael yn Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin ac yn y Gofrestr Cenedlaethol Archifau. Polisi Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin yw catalogio yn iaith y ddogfen / Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Carmarthenshire Archives and the National Register of Archives. It is the policy of Carmarthenshire Archives to catalogue in the language of the document.

Cyflwr da / Good condition

Compiled by Rhys Jones for Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin / Carmarthenshire Archives using the following source: Carmarthenshire Archives Service, Trant Collection; Jones, Francis, Historic Carmarthenshire Homes and their Families (Newport, Pembrokeshire, 1997); Jones, Francis, Historic Houses of Pembrokeshire and their Families (Newport, Pembrokeshire, 1996).

Mae'r holl gofnodiadau sy'n cydymffurfio â pholisi casglu Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin wedi eu cadw / All records which meet the collection policy of the Carmarthenshire Archives have been retained

Deposited by E. G. Trant of Morgan, Griffiths, Prosser & Trant, Solicitors, Carmarthen, 1959-1976.

Disgwylir croniadau / Accruals are expected

Further papers are National Library of Wales, Edwinsford. Further papers relating to the firm and their clients are in the National Library of Wales (uncatalogued, see NLW Annual Report 1970-1, p. 58).