Ffeil BA1/4 - ‘Main, etc.’

Title deeds relating to the Parry family of Main and Penyvoile, Montgomeryshire, 1697-1753. The deeds concern mainly messuages and lands situated in the township of Peniarth in the parish of Meifod, namely Tyddyn Pen y Voel, Tyddyn y Goetre-las, Maes y Kestill, Tire Nonio, Erw Forchog, Gweirglodd Dduddge and Gwerglodd Tir Nonio, and part of Cae tan y Lloyne (detailed boundary clauses) near Pentrego, also in the parish of Meifod. They include include a deed of partition between Alice Parry of Main, Mary Ellis of Garneddwen, Llanwddyn, and Margaret, wife of Methusalem Jones of Pant, all daughters and co-heiresses of William Lloyd of Pen y Voile, 1696/7; deeds of exchange between Methusalem Jones of Hunderdell (Underdale), Salop, and Robert Parry of Penyvoile, 1698, and between Alice Parry and her son Robert Parry, and Margaret Phillips of Shrewsbury and her son Robert Phillips, 1706/7; a settlement between Alice Parry and her son Robert, 1717; an appointment by Alice Parry to her grandson John Williams of £40, 1721; and a conveyance by Methusalem Jones to Robert Parry and his son Andrew Parry, to uses specified, 1723. The file also contains deeds of sale by John Bishop of Newtown to Robert Parry, of a messuage and a bakehouse converted into a dwelling in the township of Peniarth, 1741; a mortgage of the same to Elizabeth Thomas of Llannerchrochwel1, Guilsfield, 1741; and the copy probate of the will of Elizabeth Thomas, made 1743, proved 1750.