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Mr Langford's Book of Genealogies

A miscellaneous collection of pedigrees made by Thomas Langford between 1611 and 1625, partly out of the collections of other Welsh genealogists. There are several tables of the Langford family, with the remainder of the volume containing pedigrees from all parts of Wales and from border counties, particularly Cheshire and Shropshire.
There are also some copies of documents mainly relating to Montgomeryshire, including a list of sheriffs, a rental of the manor of Llanerchydol, 1559 (f. 168), etc. In addition to pedigrees, there are some notes of the arms of English families (ff. 156-162), and of the creations of noblemen from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth (ff. 144 verso-155 verso). The Hokleton pedigree (ff. 45 verso-46), was written by Richard Broughton of Oulbry.

Langford, Thomas, active 1611-1625

Wynn family notes

Notes in the hand of Chancellor Wynne, comprising notes on Anglesey and on Welsh genealogies (pp. 1-8); a genealogical table of the pedigree of Edward Wynn of Bodewryd (pp. 9-15); abstracts of deeds relating to Bodewryd and Tyndryvol, and copies of papers relating to lawsuits (pp. 17-90); some memoirs relating to Chwaen wen and Bodowir (pp. 91-98); and biographical notes of some members of the Bodewryd family (pp. 99, 107-110).
Also included is a copy, in the hand of Hugh Hughes, of a cywydd, 'Marwnad Dd. ap Rhees ap Lle'n ap Gr. Tad Hugh Gwynn Bodewryd a Phirse Llwyd Gwredog' by Sion B[rwynog] (pp. 15-16).

Hughes, Hugh, 1706-1774

Golden Grove Book: transcripts

Twenty-one folio volumes, in uniform binding of half green morocco, containing transcripts by E. Noyes from a copy of the Golden Grove Book of Pedigrees, [c. 1765], now amongst the Cawdor Vaughan Muniments at Carmarthenshire Archives Service. See Edward Owen, 'The Golden Grove Book of Pedigrees', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 6th ser., 3 (1903), 154-169, and Francis Jones, 'An Approach to Welsh Genealogy', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1948), 303-466 (pp. 412-414, 456-466). A7/XIX-XXI are noted on their front covers as 'Bodleian MSS'.

Noyes, Ethell

Cwrtmawr manuscripts

  • GB 0210 CWRTMSS
  • Fonds
  • 1543-1923 (accumulated [1871]-[1926])

Manuscript collections containing original and transcribed poetry and prose, 1543-[20th century]; religious works, 1611-1914; biographies, chronicles, archaeological and historical notes, works on travel, folklore, recipes, grammars, vocabularies and philological notes, 1673-1900; rent-rolls, parish registers, tithe account books, bidding books, minute books and registers of various societies, 1608-1863; pedigrees and genealogical notes, [17th century]-1871, commonplace books, [18th century]-1904, volumes of press-cuttings; manuscripts in the hand of J. H. Davies, including transcripts of and indexes to Welsh poetry, bibliographical notes, literary and legal extracts, pedigrees, biographical data and notes on place-names, 1891-1923; autograph letters from prominent Welsh literary figures, 1674-1921; autograph manuscripts of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, Dafydd Ellis of Criccieth, Eben Fardd (including diaries, 1836-1859), Peter Williams, D. Silvan Evans, Thomas Richards and Myrddin Fardd.

Davies, J. H. (John Humphreys), 1871-1926

Antiquarian interests: letters

This series comprises letters written to F. E. Llewellyn Jones answering his various enquiries, mostly into aspects of Welsh pedigrees, genealogy and history. There are also a few letters reflecting his interest in botany, conservation, linguistics, philology, the origin of Welsh words and place names, and aspects of the Catholic faith. Correspondents include public record offices, libraries, museums, universities, etc., and many individuals the most notable being Dr Michael Powell Siddons and Dr E. D. Jones, who were personally acquainted with F. E. Llewellyn Jones.

Howard de Walden Genealogical Papers,

  • GB 0210 HOWDEN
  • Fonds
  • 1870-1921 /

Genealogical material compiled for Lord Howard de Walden during the early years of his tenancy of Chirk Castle, comprising transcripts of manuscripts containing Welsh genealogies compiled under the supervision of Arthur Owen Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'); letters, 1906-1921, mainly addressed to Arthur Owen Vaughan, relating to antiquarian and genealogical matters, academic research, etc.; genealogical notes, pedigrees, transcripts of wills, etc.; and an account book, 1870-1872, of the Chirk Castle Estate.

Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, b. 1880

Notes

Miscellaneous notes and papers of Iolo Morganwg, [18 cent., last ¼]-[1830s], on a variety of subjects, including (mainly Welsh) history (E8/1), religion (E8/2), Welsh and English literature, including Dr Johnson (E8/3), Bardism (E8/4) and biography and genealogy (E8/5); together with further bundles of miscellaneous notes and papers, retained in original order (E8/6-9), with subjects including politics, printing and Poems Lyric and Pastoral, 1784-[c. 1809] (E8/6), patriarchal religion, priestcraft and Lewis Morris (E8/7), poetry and monumental inscriptions (E8/8) and salmau (E8/9); and a case containing notes on Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum and at Jesus College, Oxford (E8/10).

Notes

Miscellaneous notes broadly relating to Welsh and Glamorgan history, Welsh literature and related subjects. They comprise: bundles of loose papers (T3/1-2) and notebooks (T3/3-14) containing notes and memoranda on a variety of historical subjects, including Bonedd y Saint; notebooks and loose notes on Welsh poetry and poets (T3/15-18); miscellaneous notes on sayings, idioms, etc. (T3/19); a few recipes for ink and toothache (T3/20); miscellaneous fragments, together with three maps drawn on tissue paper (T3/21); a bundle of annotated wrappers used by Taliesin to sort some of his and his father's papers (T3/22 – see also T13/7); six booklets, 1838-1839, containing extracts from manuscripts relating to Wales at the British Museum and Bodleian Library (T3/23); a bundle of foolscap sheets containing mostly genealogical texts relating to Welsh saints and legendary figures (T3/24); and a transcript of a lecture on Oriental languages 'Delivered by Professor [Duncan] Forbes at K[ing's] C[ollege] London', November 1837 (T3/25).

Extinct baronetcies,

A volume of extracts by Alcwyn C. Evans, largely relating to Welsh families, from Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies. Inset is a transcript, with notes, in another hand, of arms on a chimney-piece in the old part of Werrington House, Devon.

Alcwyn C. Evans.

Pedigrees,

A volume of pedigrees of Welsh families extracted from The Book of Baglan. Inset is a photograph of a page of the original manuscript.

Alcwyn C. Evans.

Pant-teg church registers,

A composite volume containing a transcript, with copious annotations, by William Thomas, Congregational minister, Bwlchnewydd, near Carmarthen, of the register of Pant-teg Congregational Church, Abergwili, 1690-1813. The transcript was completed on 3 October 1860. The volume also includes a letter from Wm. Thomas, Bwlchnewydd, to the Reverend T[homas] Rees, Ind[ependent] minister, Beaufort [aft. of Swansea, author of History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales, etc.], 1860 (enclosing the transcript with comments, references to James Owen's books on baptism and to the Cilgwyn church register); transcripts, made 21-24 November 1871, of a lease of the chapel, 1751, and of articles of agreement, 1728, relating to the estate of Thomas Bowen of the parish of Newchurch, a trustee of the church; and extracts, 1764-1782, taken in 1875 from the parish register of Llanegwad (burials of Christmas Samuel, minister of Pant-teg, 1764, and David Richards, curate of Llanegwad, 1782). At the end, in the hand of Alcwyn C. Evans, are a brief list of contents of, and an index to, the Golden Grove Books of Pedigrees.

William Thomas and Alcwyn C. Evans.

Barddoniaeth a rhyddiaith,

  • Brogyntyn MS II.55 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [late 16 cent.]-[18 cent., first ½].
  • Part of Brogyntyn manuscripts

A composite manuscript of loose papers and fragments of manuscript volumes. It contains poetry and prose, mostly in Welsh, much of the poetry being addressed to the Owen family of Brogyntyn and Clenennau and other related families. Apart from a late-sixteenth century awdl by Wiliam Llŷn (ff. 57-58), the other items all belong between the first half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Fragments apparently once part of books, some of which perhaps were never bound, are: a narrow folio of cywyddau and englynion by Mathew Owen, in the hand of Nathanael Jones (ff. 20-26), written not before 1656 (see ff. 24 verso-25), with autograph englynion added by Harri Howel (f. 20 verso) and by Nathanael Jones (f. 20 verso, 23); a folio manuscript containing cywyddau to Lewis Anwyl of Parc and his family, dated 1627-1636 (ff. 38-55), written by two good hands of the first half of the seventeenth century, one responsible for ff. 38-50 verso, the other ff. 51-55; a quarto manuscript with transcripts of poetry of the Gogynfeirdd (ff. 113-122; paginated 1-20), by a seventeenth-century hand similar to that of Morris Evans (cf. ff. 93-94, 123-141); pedigrees of Welsh royal lines, the Maurices of Clenennau, etc., in English (ff. 123-141; original foliation 1-12 survives), in the hand of Morris Evans (ff. 123-127 verso, 129-134 verso) and a second hand (ff. 128 recto-verso, 135-141); a narrow folio of canu brud attributed to Myrddin, Taliesin, etc. (ff. 178-186), written by Nathanael Jones, not before 1651 (ff. 182 verso, 183 verso 'aetatis suae a 21o Feb: 1650 27'); a folio manuscript of canu brud, mainly cywyddau, by Dafydd Llwyd and others (ff. 189-207), in a poor hand of the mid seventeenth century, probably that of Thomas Edwards to judge by pentrials on f. 196 verso, who refers to Tregeiriog (f. 199 verso) and 'Llanfylling fairings' (f. 207 verso); an octavo manuscript containing poems by Robin Clidro, etc., in a seventeenth or eighteenth century hand (ff. 210-219); and a folio manuscript of autograph cywyddau and englynion by Huw Morys, some addressed to William Owen and Sir Robert Owen (ff. 222-226 verso). Poetry written on loose papers includes autograph poems by Huw Morys (ff. 12-18), John Owens (ff. 59-71; f. 69 recto-verso may be his italic hand), Harri Howel (ff. 75-76 verso, 90 recto-verso), Owen Gruffydd (ff. 84-89, 230-231), William Phylip (ff. 97-98 verso), John Morgan, later vicar of Conwy (f. 101 recto-verso, the poem incomplete and anonymous, dated 1688, the hand his), Siôn Rhydderch, 1732 (ff. 104-105, 227-228), and Edward Lloyd, Brewis (f. 221 recto-verso). There are probable autograph poems by Edward Rowlant (ff. 72-74 verso, 79-80) and John Richard (f. 81), and possible autograph poems by 'J. Ll.' (f. 26 verso), Mathew Owen (ff. 77-78, 232 recto-verso), Siôn Roberts (ff. 91-92), Huw Cadwaladr (ff. 106-108) and 'R.C.' (f. 163). Other poetry is in the hands of Morris Evans (ff. 93-94) and 'Theo: Ro:' (ff. 152-154 verso). Also included is a letter, 1652, from the antiquary Meredith Lloyd to Thomas Vaughan, the alchemist and poet (ff. 1-3 verso), followed by a copy of Hanes Taliesin (ff. 5-10 verso). The 'Cywydd Marwnad i Mr William Owen o Borkynton' by Huw Morys, beginning 'Mae gwaedd oer lem Gweddw [yw'r wlad]', discussed in E. D. Jones, 'The Brogyntyn Welsh Manuscripts', National Library of Wales Journal, 7 (1951-2), 165-198 (pp. 186-189, 196-197), has not been found.

Arms and pedigrees,

A Welsh armorial, with indexes of family names and of ordinaries, extracted by C. F. Egerton Allen from Percy Enderbie, Cambria Trivmphans (London, 1661), together with Welsh pedigrees and arms from manuscript and printed sources, e.g., a manuscript among the papers of Dean Allen (i.e., James Allen, dean of St. Davids), a manuscript in the Pentypark Collection, a letter from Theophilus Jones, Brecon, to John Lloyd, dale and Mabws, 1809, etc.

Llyfr Cedwyn

A transcript made in 1828 by John Jenkins of 'The Manafon Manuscript of [Welsh] Pedigrees ... belonging to ... Walter Davies ...'.

Jenkins, John, 1770-1829

Miscellanies

Transcripts by Walter Davies of Lewis Morris's 'Bonedd y Saint', of pedigrees of some of the saints and some Welsh chieftain families, of a long letter from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to Angharad Llwyd dealing with hereditary insignia, and of pedigrees from 'Llyfr Cae Cyriog' (now MS. 7008).

Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765

Llyfr Silin

Pedigrees of Welsh families, with additions in the hands of John Davies, Rhiwlas, Llansilin, and Walter Davies; memoranda relating to members of the family of Foulkes, Penygraig, Llansilin; englynion and other poems by Elin Foulkes, Richard Foulkes, Huw Morus, Elis Cadwaladr, Sion Morus, Mathew Owen, Morys Dafydd, Sion Cadwaladr Owen, Richard Parry (Athraw ysgol yn Roe Newbrough yn Sir Fon), Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Ellis Roberts (Elis y Cowper), Hari Howel, and Robert Humphreys (Robin Rhagad); and Pymtheg Llwyth Gwynedd.

Cornish place-names

Memoranda relating to the topography of Cornwall; genealogical and historical references of Welsh interest; English and Welsh phrases; etc.

Llyfr Achau Sion Griffith Cae Cyriog

A volume of pedigree collections, mainly of North Wales families, compiled by John Griffith of Cae Cyriog in the parish of Ruabon. The compiler, who starts with his own lineage, describes his work as 'llyfr hanesion Achau ac Arfau amryw wyr boneddigion ac uchelwyr o Gymru; wedy ei gasglu, a'i ysgrifennu gan Sion Gruffydd, mis mai, Ano dni 1697'. -- At the beginning of the manuscript and elsewhere are additions, some of them dated as late as 1815. Besides the pedigrees there are the names of some 'Justices of the Peace within the Parrish of Ruabon for the County of Denbigh since the begining of Queen Elizabeths Reigne', a list of some 'Viccars of Ruabon since the Reformation', 'Coppi Cymraeg o siarter Lladin, Swydd y wayn yn amser Iarll Arundel', copies of inscriptions on tombs at Dolwyddelan, 'a true Copy of all the Matches, & Coats of Armes that are on the walls within the Inner Chamber over the Gate house at the Lower house of Gwyder', etc. -- A 'Bannod i'r llyfr hwn' begins on page 167.

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