Fonds GB 0210 SLEBECH - Slebech Estate Records,

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0210 SLEBECH

Title

Slebech Estate Records,

Date(s)

  • 1292-1926. (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

1.1 cubic metres (40 boxes, 1 roll, 1 large document)

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Slebech was a preceptory or commandery (grange) of the order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England. In 1546, following the suppression of the monasteries, Slebech was granted to Roger Barlow and Thomas Barlow, along with the sites and lands of the late priory of Pyll and the late monastery of Haverfordwest. The family failed in the late eighteenth century when Anne Barlow, the heiress, married John Symmons of Llanstinan in 1773, but had no issue. The estate was sold to William Knox of Soho Square, London, who sold the estate in 1792 to Nathaniel Phillips of Gloucester Place, London. Mary Dorothea Phillips, the eventual co-heiress of the estate, married the Baron de Rutzen in 1822. The estate remained in the de Rutzen family until John, baron de Rutzen, was killed in the Second World War, in 1944.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited by Baron de Slebech, February 1939. A few additional papers were deposited in February 1998 (C1998/3) by Thomas Lloyd of Freestone Hall, Cresselly, Cilgeti, Pembrokeshire.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Records of the Slebech estate, Pembrokeshire, mainly title deeds, [late 13 cent.]-1926, including deeds relating to the Knights Hospitallers of the Commandery of Slebech, mainly 14th cent., ministers accounts, 1357-1605, of the Pembrokeshire estates of the Mortimers, earls of March; manorial records, 1292-1819; letter books, letters, accounts, etc., relating to Nathaniel Phillips's Jamaican sugar plantations, 1759-c.1822; and family papers of the Barlow and de Rutzen families of Slebech and the Phillips family of Lampeter Verfry and Slebech, 1542-[c.1919].

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Action: All records deposited at NLW have been retained..

Accruals

Accruals are not expected.

System of arrangement

Arranged into four sections: manorial records; deeds and documents; and 1996 and 1999 additional deposits.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Further details relating to manorial records within the archive can be accessed online from The National Archives Manorial Documents Register.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

A number of drawings, photographs, postcards, prints, printers' plates, and watercolours are also held at NLW. NLW MS 6104 contains further papers relating to the Barlow family.

Related descriptions

Publication note

Charles, B. G., 'The Records of Slebech', National Library of Wales Journal, vol. V (1947-1948), pp. 179-98.

Notes area

Note

Title supplied from contents of fonds

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004250355

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000250355

Access points

Place access points

Description control area

Description identifier

Institution identifier

Rules and/or conventions used

This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

April 2001.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

The following sources were used in the compilation of this record: Jones, Francis, Historic Houses of Pembrokeshire and their families (Newport, 1996); Burke's Extinct Baronetcies (London, 2nd ed., 1844).

Archivist's note

Compiled by Stephen Benham.

Accession area