Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1839-1947 / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
0.200 cubic metres (7 boxes)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Joseph Jenkins moved to Trecefel, Tregaron, a 180 acre farm, in 1848, as a tenant farmer with his wife and first child. The Reverend Latimer Jones, Vicar of St Peter's Church, Carmarthen, was his landlord. Over the years Joseph Jenkins invested a substantial amount of money in improving Trecefel and was 'regarded as the most successful farm in the county' in the first decade. For biographical details concerning Joseph and Anne Jenkins see relevant level descriptions.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
J/1-J/3, J/5-J/6, J/9-J/11, A/1-A/60 and M/1-3, M/6-M/7; Mr W. R. Davies and the Trustee of Anne Jenkins, deceased, per the Trecefel family; Donation; 1949/1950
J/7-8 and M/4-M/5; Mr Joseph Jenkin Jones; London; Donation; June 1961
J/4; Mrs Ann James; Llwyn-y-groes, Tregaron; Donation; January 1985; A1985/12.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Diaries of Joseph Jenkins, 1839-1870, and his daughter Anne Jenkins, 1886-1947, together with miscellaneous notebooks and papers of members of the Trecefel family, 1859-1947.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: All of the papers donated to NLW have been retained..
Accruals
Accruals are not expected.
System of arrangement
Arranged at NLW into three groups: Joseph Jenkins diaries, Anne Jenkins diaries and miscellaneous notebooks and papers.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Bethan Phillips, Rhwng dau fyd : y swagman o Geredigion (Aberystwyth, 1998) and Pity the swagman : the Australian odyssey of a Victorian diarist (Aberystwyth, 2002).
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents of fonds.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Jenkins family, of Trecefel -- Diaries. (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Description completed May 2008.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Ann Francis Evans. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Bethan Phillips, Rhwng dau fyd : y swagman o Geredigion (Aberystwyth, 1998); Pity the swagman : the Australian odyssey of a Victorian diarist (Aberystwyth, 2002); Australian Dictionary of Biography online; Dan Jenkins and "Ap Ceredigion" (editors), Cerddi Cerngoch (Lampeter, 1904); and documents within the collection;