File 37/2 - Drenewydd estate

Deeds relating mainly to the Drenewydd estate in the parishes of Oswestry and Whittington, purchased for £35,000 by William Ormsby Gore from Annabella Williams of Penbedw, Denbighshire, and William Watkin Edward Wynne of Peniarth, Merioneth, in 1830. They include agreements between Annabella Williams and William Watkin Edward Wynne for the sale of the estate and for the application of funds arising from the sale, 1829-1830; an abstract of the vendors’ title to Gwerny Gwyddan in the parish of Whittington, 1830; the conveyance by Edward Lloyd Williams, Annabella Williams and William Watkin Edward Wynne to William Ormsby Gore and his trustee, of Drenewydd Farm, Big House, Pump House, Gwern y Gwyddan, Babbins Wood, Middleton Hall Farm and other lands, and three pews in the parish church of Oswestry, 1830; a mortgage by William Ormsby Gore of Old Port Farm and the Drenewydd estate, and a statement as to appropriation of the mortgage money, 1830; a declaration of trust by Annabella Williams and William Watkin Edward Wynne to William Ormsby Gore of moneys arising from the sale, 1830; a case and opinion, 1831; and the reconveyance by Stapleton Viscount Combermere and the mortgagees to the trustees of the marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore and Sarah his wife, 1862. The file also contains a conveyance by George Henry Robert Charles Vane Tempest Earl Vane and other mortgagees of Thomas Savin, railway contractor, to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of lands in Oswestry, 1867, together with an abstract of title to the same. Maps incorporated