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Garn Estate Records
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Maps (Flintshire)

The series comprises sketch maps of Garn estate land at Rhuddlan, being an enclosure of marsh purchased in 1803 and a parcel received in an exchange with the Dean of St Asaph, 1806.

Maurice of Llanasa

The file comprises copies, made in 1838, of parish register entries and tombstone inscriptions, 1681-1682, of Dr David Maurice, his wife, Ales, son, William, and daughter, Grace, who married Edward Griffith of Plasnewydd in 1683/4.

Memorandum books and diaries

The group comprises personal diaries, 1793-1839, small pocket notebooks and almanacks, 1701-1853, of the Hughes family of Gwydir, Llwyn Gronw and Cae'r berllan, and of the Griffith family of Garn, containing memoranda and personal notes of social and work engagements, accounts, family life, health problems, snippets of local and national news, poetry, recipes, household and estate management, weather conditions, journeys, hunting, shooting and fishing, useful addresses, sketches. The memorandum books are more sporadic and miscellaneous in nature than the diaries, where the format is comparatively regular. Many of the volumes contain loose enclosures of various types.

Merllyn, Henllan Mill and house, and Pentre Du, Llanefydd and Henllan

The file comprises deeds for the sale of Merllyn, Henllan Mill and house, and Pentre Du by John Heaton and John Richard Heaton, his eldest son, to George Griffith in 1837. Pentre Du had been included in the marriage settlement of Robert Wynne, 1751, and was sold by his son to John and Sarah Heaton with the rest of the Plasnewydd estate in 1808. J.H. acquired Merllyn and the Mill, mortgaged by Robert Watkin Wynne in 1790, by an exchange of lands in 1831. Another property at Pentre Du had been purchased by John Griffith (3) of Garn in 1782.

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