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A copy of Richard F. Hughes's family history work relating to the children of John & Ellen Hughes (both born in 1842) of Llanfechell, co. Anglesey, including Annie Hughes (1873-1950) who emigrated to Patagonia, and Ishmael Hughes who emigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1888.

History of the Churches of Christ in Great Britain and Ireland (incomplete) by Mary N. Tinniswood. English. Boards. Donated by Mary N. Tinniswood, Rhostyllen, June 1972.

An imperfect, quarto volume inscribed on the outer cover 'Pedigree and historical account of ye Family of the Wynnes of Gwydir'. The contents consist of a late eighteenth century text of the well-known 'History of the Gwydir Family' by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, and, as addenda, brief pedigrees of the Wynn family of Gwydir and its collateral branches, memoranda relating to some of the persons named in the pedigrees, and an incomplete copy of the summons from Henry Tudor to John ap Meredith [of Ystymcegid] to join him on his march from Milford [Haven] to oppose Richard III (already transcribed in full in the text of the 'History'). A few of the folios containing the addenda appear to be in a hand different from that of the 'History' itself, and there is some duplication of pedigrees. Inset is a loose sheet of paper containing ?a transcript of an inscription [in Gwydir Chapel in the parish church of Llanrwst] recording the erection of the said chapel by Sir Richard Wynne [son of the author of the 'History'] in 1633, and tracing the descent of Sir Richard and his brothers and sisters from Owen Gwynedd (see also Wynnstay MS 121).

History of the Haverfordwest (Dungleddy) Yeomanry Light Cavalry .... by Col. F. C. Meyrick and Eng. Lieut. Benson F. M. Freeman (photostat and original correspondence). (Formerly G. V. Roberts MS.). Between boards.

A manuscript volume chronicling the history of the Heaton family, of Plas Heaton, Trefnant, Denbigh, by Reginald Charles de Heaton, 1914.

A typescript copy of the `History of the James Family and Sundry Information' by Richard Arnold James and John Henry Watts,written to commemorate the 75th reunion of the descendants of William Duncan James and Amy Celestine Thornton, 21 May 1995.

A history of the Kemeys family of Cefn Mabli, Cardiff, collated by Millicent Kemeys McLean (1917-2012) of Australia whose great-grandmother Mary Kemeys emigrated to Australia in the 1830s. It includes family photographs and photographs of Cefn Mabli, marriage certificates, her reminiscences and poems by her.

An essay entitled 'History of the Knights of the County of Carnarvon from 1542 to 1870' written by an unknown author, n. d., under the pseudonym "Rossell of Isgorfai".

A photocopy of a letter, 1925, from L. G. Williams & Prichard, Solicitors, Cardiff, to the Secretary of the Public Record Office, London, enclosing a brief summary of the history of the manor of Trecastle, Glamorgan.

History of the Rebecca Riots i.e. Rebecca and her daughters by H. Tobit Evans and Gwladys Tobit Evans. See also NLW MSS 20940C, 20942-20943E. English. Between boards. Purchased from Mrs G. Hale, Penbryn, Llandysul, October 1968.

A History of the South Wales Area Baptist Joint Board 1915-1973 by Miss R. I. John (typescript). English.

An essay on the history of Wales by an unidentified author, 'Historicus', 1896, together with a related letter, [c. 1970], from Prys T. J. Morgan to Ralph A. Griffiths.

A typescript history of Windsor Road Calvinistic Methodist Church, Caerphillly, written in 1946 by D. T. Salathiel to commemorate the Church's Golden Jubilee.

Manuscripts and papers from the collection of Hobley Griffith, much of which are of literary or historical interest, and include poetry, transcripts and miscellanea by W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including transcripts and translations of sermons of his uncle, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), together with correspondence of 'Gwilym Cowlyd' and 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'; eisteddfod adjudications by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), Ellis Roberts ('Elis Wyn o Wyrfai') and others; volumes of (mainly Welsh) transcripted poetry, including a seventeenth century volume which once belonged to and is annotated by Lewis Morris (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn'); seven manuscript volumes written by William Hobley in the preparation of his Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon (1910-1924), together with correspondence of William Hobley; volumes of eighteenth and nineteenth century sermons, two of which contain notes by William Hobley; an eighteenth century tract relating to the disestablishment of the Welsh Dissenters from the Church of England; an elegy by John Roderick (Siôn Rhydderch) on the death of Ellis Wynne of Lasynys; autobiographical notes by Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'); annotated nineteenth century Acts of Parliament relating to British railways; a commonplace book of Llanberis interest; etc.

A printed questionnaire, containing lists of various editions in Welsh of the Bible and of portions of it, the Book of Common Prayer, the prose Psalms, Psalters, etc., circulated by John Ballinger (1860-1933) in 1903 on behalf of the Cardiff Public Library, with annotations by David Richard Thomas (1833-1916), archdeacon of St Asaph.