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Garn Estate Records Administration of estates -- Wales -- Denbighshire
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Estate administration papers (Denbighshire)

The group consists of administration papers for the Denbighshire estates, comprising leases, 1756-1906, papers concerning enclosures and commons, 1802-1848, timber and mineral exploitation, 1748-1814, sporting rights, 1912, estate accounts, 1759-1911, and maps and plans, 1776-1866.

Letters by Edward Humphrey Griffith

The file comprises letters by Edward Humphrey Griffith, 1806-1842, to his father, mother, brother, George, and wife, Maria, on his school work, requests for clothing, death of Conway Shipley, 1808, work as an apprentice in the import and wholesale business and bankruptcy of the company, Patterson and Malonek, Liverpool, 1810-1811, friendship with Philip Jones of Llysmeirchion, a riot at the theatre, 1810, news of the French defeat by Wellington, 1815, management of Denbighshire estate, particularly arrears of rents and difficulty of selling livestock, with accounts to his father, 1820-1822, an accident while travelling by boat, news of the Chambres and Heaton families, enclosures, 1822, lameness of his brother, William, 1824, and the death of George's wife [1842].

Letters to John Griffith and family

The series comprises letters by non-family correspondents to John Griffith (2) of Garn, 1733-1758, John Griffith (3), 1758-1791, Jane Griffith, 1761-1805, and Ann Maria Griffith, 1785. Recurrent subjects are management of the Denbighshire estate, problems surrounding the purchase of Gwaun Dwysog in Henllan, and the education of the young John Wynne Griffith.