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Letters from Welsh emigrants in America

  • NLW MS 17441i-iiE.
  • File
  • 1846-1955

Two groups of letters from Welsh emigrants to America, 1846-1847, 1870-1878, together with letters relating to emigration from Wales, 1948-1955.

Llanfairorllwyn vestry book,

  • NLW MS 11730C.
  • File
  • [1822]-1892.

A copy of a survey, 1822, and vestry minutes and accounts of the overseers of the poor, 1823-1892, of the parish of Llanfairorllwyn, co. Cardigan.

Letter of John Elias,

  • NLW MS 11721C.
  • File
  • 1822 /

A holograph letter from [the Reverend] John Elias ('o Fô'), Llanfechell, to Mr. F. Carmichael, Llysdulas, near Amlwch, 1822 (explaining the effects of revivals upon the behaviour of the congregations at Welsh Nonconformist religious meetings).

Elias, John, 1774-1841

Newtown Wesleyan circuit,

  • NLW MS 11613C.
  • File
  • 1830-1867.

A steward's account book of Newtown (Montgomeryshire) Wesleyan Circuit for the period 1830-1867. The accounts are almost entirely in the form of statements of receipts and disbursements in respect of successive quarterly meetings. Insets in the volume include a receipt, [18]48, from Thos. Kempster, Welsh Pool, to the Newtown Circuit for the payment of £31.3s. in settlement of a claim; statements of prospective income and present income, 1866; and a holograph letter from Jno. Davies, Newtown, circuit steward, to the Reverend Chas. Prest, Islington, London, and a reply, 1866 (the division of the circuit and the possibility of a grant towards the support of ministers at Newtown and Welshpool).

Letters,

  • NLW MS 11548E.
  • File
  • 1834-1836.

Four holograph letters to the Reverend Dr. [William] Buckland, Christ Church, Oxford, from J[oshua] Trimmer, Caerna[r]von, etc., 1834-1836 (a 'good budget' of 'diluvial news' from Caernarvonshire, the 'alluvia' of Dublin Bay, etc.) (together with one draft reply), and from J[ohn] E[ddowes] Bowman [the elder], from Varteg near Ponty Pool, Monmouthshire, and from Gresford, near Wrexham, 1836 (papers read at the British Association meetings at Bristol, the excavation of the Cefn bone cave); and one holograph letter from Geo. Cumming, Dolhyfryd, near Denbigh, to the Reverend Edward Stanley (of Adderley) [sic] at the British Association, Bristol, 1836 (observations on the limestone caves at Cefn).

Gogerddan fishing book,

  • NLW ex 2530.
  • File
  • 1944-1960.

Printed volume including data recording the names of fishermen and the number of fish caught in north Ceredigion lakes (Llyn Conach, New Pool, Llynpenrhaidr and Llyn Dwfn) owned by the Gogerddan estate, 1944-1960.

Autograph album,

  • NLW MS 23252A
  • File
  • 1924-1972 /

An autograph album of Ellen ('Nellie') Harris Jones (née Williams, d. 1994), Caernarfon and Llanrwst, containing entries, mostly in Welsh, 1924-45 and 1972, by E. Morgan Humphreys, R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos'), R. J. Rowlands ('Meuryn'), Eliseus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'), T. H. Parry-Williams and others.

Harris Jones, Ellen, d. 1994

Llangathen highway rate book,

  • NLW MS 23142D
  • File
  • 1887-1890.

Highway rate receipt and payment book, 1887-90, for the parish of Llangathen, co. Carmarthen.

Pregethau,

  • NLW MSS 11336-11339B
  • File
  • [19 cent., second-third ¼] /

Notes of sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Jones (1807-75), Calvinistic Methodist minister of Blaenannerch, Cardiganshire. MS. 11336 contains a certificate of declarations and subscriptions to oaths made by John Jones (described as of Bryn Hyfrid, parish of Tremain), 16 July, 1863.

Jones, John, 1807-1875

Farming account book,

  • NLW MS 11071A
  • File
  • 1844-1845 /

A pocket book of Robert Daniel of Llandderfel, father of D. R. Daniel, containing farming accounts, 1844-5, largely connected with the purchase and sale of stock and the sale of wool.

Daniel, Robert, Llandderfel

Sale books,

  • NLW MSS 10807-10808A, 10809B.
  • File
  • 1853-1865 /

Two account books of John Davies, auctioneer, of Talley, Carmarthenshire, 1853-1858, and an account book of Thomas Griffiths, Penrhiwgeingen, Talley, and John Davies, 1862-1865, containing accounts with individual purchasers at specified local sales, e.g. of timber at Pwllfa and Cwmgelynyn, parish of Caeo, and at Maes-pwll, parish of Pencarreg.

John Davies and Thomas Griffiths.

Survey,

  • NLW MS 10708C
  • File
  • [1900x1936] /

A survey of the manors of Penmarke, Funmon, Barrey, and Lancadle, Glamorgan, made by Evan Mouse in 1622, being a typescript copy (280 pp.) of the Welsh section of a manorial survey acquired in 1936 by the Bedfordshire County Record Office.

Mouse, Evans

John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'),

  • NLW MS 10576C.
  • File
  • 1826 /

Stanzas, written in 1826, by John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'):- 'A sentiment' (with music), 'The Scare-crow', and' Musicians and actors'.

Parry, John, 1776-1851

First aid and home nursing,

  • NLW MS 10442D.
  • File
  • [c. 1913] /

An essay, written about 1913, by Dr. Hugh Jones, Liverpool, entitled 'A Scheme for the Diffusion of Knowledge of First Aid, Home Nursing, and Domestic Hygiene in Wales'.

Jones, Hugh, Dr, Liverpool

Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn new churchyard : : record of tombstone inscriptions,

  • NLW ex 2537.
  • File
  • 2006 /

A survey undertaken by Randall Evans Enoch and members of the Treftadaeth Llandre Heritage Trust, 2006. = Arolwg a wnaed gan Randall Evans Enoch ac aelodau o Treftadaeth Llandre Heritage yn 2006 o arysgrifau ym mynwent newydd Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn.

Enoch, Randall Evans.

Music,

  • NLW MS 9458F.
  • File
  • [1900x1934] /

Two musical compositions: 'Stafell Cynddylan' (holograph) and 'Who is Sylvia?' by D. Vaughan Thomas.

Vaughan Thomas, David, 1873-1934

Caniad Llywelyn ab Ivan ab y Gov

  • NLW MS 9391D.
  • File
  • 1935

An extract translated into staff notation by Arnold Dolmetsch from British Museum Additional MS 14905, 29 January 1935.

Dolmetsch, Arnold, 1858-1940

Llangyfelach militia,

  • NLW MS 9130E.
  • File
  • 1760-1770, [?1817].

A list of persons balloted, and substitutes, sworn and enrolled to serve as private militia men for the hundred of Llangyfelach, Glamorgan, 1760-1770; with a copy of a letter by L. Griffiths, 4 September 1817, on the deplorable situation of the Glamorgan farmers.

The parish of Llandwrog,

  • NLW MS 13053B.
  • File
  • [20 cent., first ½].

Miscellaneous data (typewritten) relating to the parish of Llandwrog, co. Caernarvon, including extracts from a lay subsidy roll, 1663, a hearth tax return, 1664, an assessment for church mise, 1743, and a land tax assessment, 1788; incomplete lists of the rectors, 1652-1936, curates, 1633-1896, and churchwardens, 1739-1812; lists of freeholders, jurors, and electors, mid-sixteenth century - 1794; etc. The whole has been bound in the form of a small booklet.

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