Transcripts of marriages, 1780-1808, and of burials, 1813-1844, from the parish registers of Llanbrynmair, taken from copies made by R[ichard] Williams ['Celynog'], F.R.H[ist.]S. [of Newtown]; extracts from the register of Old Chapel Congregational Church, Llanbrynmair, being an account of children baptised during the ministry of the Reverend Rich[ar]d Tibbott, 1762-1796; lists and abstracts of Montgomeryshire wills (partly from the papers of D. C. Ll[oyd-] Owen [of Birmingham]); transcripts of marriages from the parish register of Llanbrynmair, 1809-1812; transcripts from the parish register of Machynlleth, 1782-1812; and notes on the ancestors of Mr. J[ohn] H[umphreys] Davies [Principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth] ('From his writings. D.C.D.', i.e., David Charles Davies, Director of The Field Natural History Museum, Chicago).

Transcripts of miscellaneous entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials from the parish registers of Llandinam, Darowen (including bishops' transcripts), Aberhavesb (with additional notes, including 'some details about Aberhavesb people according to information gleaned from various places', etc.), Mallwyd, Llanwrin, Churchstoke, Cemmes, Llanbrynmair, and Trefeglwys, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century; abstracts of, and extracts from, terriers, 1702-1791, and other parochial records of Darowen; extracts from memorial inscriptions in the churchyards of Aberhavesb, 1725-1902, Cemmes, 1719-1876, and Montgomery, 1765-1884; lists of ratepayers in the several townships in the parish of Trefeglwys, 1831; a list of persons named in Cyfeiliog and Mowddwy wills, 1668-1831, among the St. Asaph ecclesiastical probate records; etc. Some of the transcripts were made in May, 1918.

Extracts from memorial inscriptions in the churchyards of Penstrowed, 1796- 1902, Bettws [Cedewain], 1839-1898, Berriw, 1837-1888, and Carno, 1769-1912, and of Gleiniant Calvinistic Methodist Church, Trefeglwys, 1832-1914; extracts of baptisms, marriages, and burials from the parish registers of Newtown, 1661-1800, Talyllyn, 1691-1814, Pennal, 1721-1834, Towyn, 1671- 1831, Aberhafesb, 1734/5-1810 (family of Green), etc.; abstracts of deeds and documents, 1638-1808, in the Coleman (National Library of Wales), Argoed (Trefeglwys), Scafell (Ysgafell, Llanllwchaearn) and other collections; extracts of Calvinistic Methodist interest, 1794-1814, from the manuscripts of Edwd. Gwalchmay [of Llanwyddelan] and H[umphrey] Gwalchmai [of Llanidloes] (in the Bala College Group of C. M. Archives); a list of churchwardens of the parish of Trefeglwys, 1769-1804; abstracts of a few wills, 1745-1768, proved in the Consistory Court of the diocese of St. Asaph; and miscellaneous transcripts, abstracts, and extracts from manuscript and printed sources. The volume was compiled in 1924.

Forty-seven volumes of 'notae' or abstracts and extracts, principally of Monmouthshire interest, compiled from original records in both public and private possession. With the exception of letters and some insets they are all in the autograph of Bradney. Among the many private collections of title-deeds and documents from which the majority of these notes have been taken, in addition to those of Bradney himself, are those in the possession or custody of Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle; Garnet Edwin Bevan, Grosmont; S. C. Bosanquet, Dingestow Court; Alfred Bowen, Usk; Burleigh Cecil, Oaklands Park, Weybridge (Surrey); Mrs Morgan Clifford, Llantilio Crossenny; William Cooke, Hereford; the Reverend Henry Charles Davies, St Hilary, Cowbridge (Glamorgan); J. H. Davies, Cwrtmawr (Cardiganshire); Arthur Davies-Berrington, Pantygoitre, Llanfair Kilgeddin; the Reverend Edward Napleton Dew, Welsh Newton and Llanrothall (Herefordshire); Mrs Earnshaw, Court St Lawrence, Llangoven; Miss Charlotte Mary Evans, Nantyderi, Goytrey; Richard Feetham, Penrhos; G. C. Francis, solicitor, Chepstow; Frederick Gardner, solicitor, Newport; Illtyd Gardner, solicitor, Abergavenny; Mrs Gazzard, The Goitre, Grosmont; Isaac George, Llanfihangel-iuxta-Usk; Walter Gustard, Newport; G. E. Halliday, Cardiff; surveyor to the archdeaconry of Llandaff; Dom. J. Cuthbert Hedley, Roman Catholic bishop of Newport; Reginald Herbert, Clytha; John Harvey Hooper, Tutnall, near Worcester; Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Bart, Llantilio Crossenny; Mrs Newton Jackson, Blackbrook, Skenfrith; Gwilym Cristor James, Merthyr (Glamorgan); the Reverend Lemuel James, Ystradmynach (Glamorgan); Alfred Jones, Osbaston; Edmund Jones, Fforest Legionis, Pont-neath-Vaughan (Glamorgan); William Lewis, Tyhir, Pontypridd (Glamorgan); Sir John Lloyd, Dinas (Brecknockshire); --- Nesbitt, solicitor, Abergavenny; Illtyd Nicholl, The Ham, Llantwit Major (Glamorgan); the Reverend Andrew Pope, Upper Bishop, Ross (Herefordshire); Simon B. Preece, Llangattock Lingoed; James Gilbert Price, Abergavenny; the Misses Prothero, Moynes Court, Mathern; John Allan Rolls, 1st baron Llangattock, The Hendre, Llangattock Vibon Avel; Glen Taylor, Neath (Glamorgan); John Tyler, Maesderwen, Pontypool; Mrs Vinter, Moor, Clifford (Herefordshire); D. T. Newton Wade, solicitor, Newport; J. Maitland Watkins, solicitor, Usk; Thomas Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; T. P. Holmes Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; Messrs Watts, Watts and Co., colliery proprietors, Cardiff (Glamorgan); William Welch, Monmouth; Mrs Florence White-Spunner, Llanvapley Court; William Henry Smith Whitney, Grosmont; Messrs Williams and Tweedy, solicitors, Monmouth; T. B. R. Wilson, registrar of the diocese of Monmouth; and others. Additional sources include the papers of Thomas Wakeman, The Graig, Llantilio Crossenny, largely in the custody of the Society of Antiquaries, and transcripts of public and other records by William Dean, Ealing, London; Francis Green, St Davids; John Hobson Matthews, Cardiff; and others. This volume contains deeds and documents relating to the estates of Mrs Rose Bradney, including Nantygroes and other properties in Bleddfa and Pilleth (Radnorshire) and Kingsland and Nether Kinsham (Herefordshire), 1558-1857; and materials relating to Mrs Bradney's genealogy, including extracts from the parish register of Llanybyther (Carmarthenshire), 1804-1824, lists and abstracts of wills of persons of the name of Jenkins of Radnorshire and Herefordshire proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1544-1655, manuscript and printed pedigrees, etc.

Fifty-three files of unbound material accumulated by Bradney during the preparation of A History of Monmouthshire and containing press and proof copies, transcripts and abstracts of, and extracts from, manuscripts, deeds and documents, holograph and autograph letters, pedigrees and genealogical notes, press cuttings, etc., generally arranged under parishes. Much of the material is in the autographs of friends and official copyists. This volume contains pedigrees and genealogical extracts, chiefly typescript, relating to the families of Harcourt of Partyseal and Vaughan of Porthaml (Brecknockshire), Muddlescombe (Carmarthenshire), Dunraven (Glamorgan), etc.; letters, 1933, extracts from deeds and lists of wills, 1578-1875, etc., of Radnorshire interest; and a list of Catholic priests at Usk, 1810-1914.