Documents relating to Trewyn (Cwmyoy)

Deeds, 1595-1913, of the Trewyn estate, Monmouthshire, 1605-1896; estate papers, 1726-1898, including leases and tenancies, 1759-1845, maps, 1726, 1880-1882, legal miscellanea, 1753-1807, land tax papers, 1779-1815, poor rates, 1779-1838, sale of estates, 1886-1898, estate improvements and repairs, 1762-1817; papers relating to railways in Monmouthshire, 1814-1871; papers relating to highways in Monmouthshire, 1792-1870; and papers relating to Penbiddle school, Abergavenny, 1758-1783; Rosher family papers, 1794-1884, and manorial records referring to the correspondence on custom of the manor etc., of Tre-wyn, 1514, 1758-1849.

Tre-wyn, Monmouthshire, was originally owned by the Wynston family. In 1606, Thomas Wynston of Tre-wyn sold the manor and estate to John ap William Parry of Wern-y-cwm in Llanvetherine. In July 1609, he conveyed the manor of Tre-wyn (also known as Wynston) to John Delahay of Allt-yr-ynys for the sum of £950. The last member of the Delahay family, Thomas Delahay, died in 1738 without issue. He left the estate to Mary Clerk, wife of Josias Clerk, of Herefordshire, mercer, with remainder to their second son, Josias, and in default to their eldest son, John, on the condition that the inheritor took the name of Delahay. In 1745 the estates were purchased by William Kynaston, who sold off parts of it. In 1748 the manor of Tre-wyn was sold off after the death of Kynaston to James Shaw. On James's death in 1767 the estate was left to his great-nephew, William Shaw. William Shaw died in 1772 and Jeremiah Rosher, who married the widow of William Shaw, purchased the estate. In 1895, Jeremiah Lilburn Rosher sold the manor and estate to Philip Bartholomew Barneby.

Arranged into the following: deeds; manorial records; estate papers; family papers.

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Compiled by Mair James for the HMC/NLW Family and Estates project. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Bradney, Joseph, Sir, A History of Monmouthshire (London, 1991, facsimile), vol. 1, part 2a.

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