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- [1825x1901]. (Creation)
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A group of accounts relating to the estate of John Wilkinson, ironmaster, including bills of costs of Messrs. Fitchett and Wagstaff to the surviving executor and devisee in trust to James Kyrke, esq., trustee for the sale of the estates, etc., 1825-1831, touching the sale and title of the Brymbo and other estates in Wales, the sale and title of estates in Staffordshire, the same of the Rotherhithe property, the sale of the Tividale estate, the appointment of a new receiver in the room of Thomas Turner, esq., deceased, loans of £40,000 and £13,200, general business, business in specified lawsuits, etc.; and bills of costs of Samuel Edge, 1830-1831, to Messrs. Wilkinson, Legh, and Murray, touching a mortgage to secure £40,000 and the conveyance of the Little Vownog estate. Also included in the group is a proof ('20 Feb. 1901. Stanford. Long Acre') of a photocopy of a letter, 12 July, 1712, from Abr[ah]am Darby from Madely Court to Wi[llia]m Rawlinson (Ralleson), near 'Kandell', Westmorland, relating to the writer's projects for the manufacture of iron, the enclosed Swedish method, the recipient's dispute with Hall over the increase in the price of wood, etc.
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English.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 251.
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Publication note
A discussion of some of the estates mentioned, including the conflicts which arose regarding them after Wilkinson's death, may be found in Davis, Ron: John Wilkinson - Ironmaster Extraordinary (Dulston, 1987).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10823E.
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- Messrs Fitchett & Wagstaff, solicitors (Subject)
- Wilkinson, John, 1728-1808 -- Estate (Subject)
- Turner, Thomas, legal receiver (Subject)
- Kyrke, James, Ffrith Lodge, Wrexham (Subject)
- Edge, Samuel, fl. 1830 (Subject)
- Darby, Abraham, 1678-1717 (Subject)
- Rawlinson, William, Kendal (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2008.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);