Maenol Deeds and Documents,

Personal and estate records of the associated families of Evans, Hayward, and Phillips of Maenol, near Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and especially of Thomas Hayward, a Llanidloes solicitor, including title deeds and abstracts of title, [mid-18]-[early 20 cent.], relating to properties in Montgomeryshire, and St Davids, Pembrokeshire (being the original estate of the Phillips family), and Radnorshire, including deeds relating to railway development in Llanidloes and Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, 1865-1916; original, copy and draft probate records, 1732-1928, of members of the families of Evans of Llanidloes, Phillips of Llanidloes and St Dogmaels, and Lucas of Llangurig; accounts, correspondence and other documents of Thomas Edmund Marsh of Llanidloes, solicitor, 1831-1837, in connection with his investigations of the title to properties in Llangurig and Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, purchased by Thomas Evans of Maenol; and legal and business letters to Thomas Hayward of Llanidloes, mainly 1877-1879.

Members of the Evans family of Maenol include Thomas Evans (d. pre-1853) of Maenol, Anne Evans (d. c.1843), spinster, Eleanor otherwise Ellen Evans (d. c.1868) spinster, and Marianne Evans (d. pre-1873) of Llanidloes, neice and contingent heir of Thomas Evans, and wife of William Hunt (d. pre-1867) of Llanidloes.
The estate appears to have come into the hands of Mrs Elizabeth Hayward (alive 1827-1888) of Maenol, Llanidloes, widow, and Thomas Hayward (alive 1828-1873) of Llanidloes, solicitor. The estate was later held by Margaret Eleanor Phillips (alive 1871-1928) of Aberystwyth, formerly M. E. Hayward, spinster, grand niece of Thomas Hayward, and wife of the Rev. Canon Evan Owen Phillips (d. pre-1897). The Phillips family owned an estate in the parishes of St Dogmaels and St Davids, Pembrokeshire. Evan Owen and Margaret Eleanor Phillips had a daughter Ellen Margaret Phillips (alive 1900) of Aberystwyth.

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Deposited by Messrs McLaren, Jeens & Seacome of Cheltenham, 19 March 1956, per the Gloucestershire Record Office.

Members of the Evans family of Maenol include Thomas Evans (d. pre-1853) of Maenol, Anne Evans (d. c.1843), spinster, Eleanor otherwise Ellen Evans (d. c.1868) spinster, and Marianne Evans (d. pre-1873) of Llanidloes, neice and contingent heir of Thomas Evans, and wife of William Hunt (d. pre-1867) of Llanidloes.
The estate appears to have come into the hands of Mrs Elizabeth Hayward (alive 1827-1888) of Maenol, Llanidloes, widow, and Thomas Hayward (alive 1828-1873) of Llanidloes, solicitor. The estate was later held by Margaret Eleanor Phillips (alive 1871-1928) of Aberystwyth, formerly M. E. Hayward, spinster, grand niece of Thomas Hayward, and wife of the Rev. Canon Evan Owen Phillips (d. pre-1897). The Phillips family owned an estate in the parishes of St Dogmaels and St Davids, Pembrokeshire. Evan Owen and Margaret Eleanor Phillips had a daughter Ellen Margaret Phillips (alive 1900) of Aberystwyth.

Title supplied from contents of fonds.

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January 2002.

Compiled by Stephen Benham.

The following source was used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Schedule of Maenol Deeds and Documents;

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