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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Rev. Owen Davies Collection, (GB 0210 OWEIES) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 06, 2017 Printed: May 06, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/rev-owen-davies-collection-2 archives.library .wales/index.php/rev-owen-davies-collection-2 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk Rev. Owen Davies Collection, Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography ........................................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 5 NLW MSS 19555-19558. vtls005483962 ISYSARCHB26, Sermon notes,, [c.1799]-1827. ...................... 5 NLW MSS 19577-19586. vtls005483986 ISYSARCHB26, Rev. John Prichard, Llangollen, papers,, 1821- [c.1872]. ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 NLW MSS 19599, 19602-19603 and 19606. vtls005484010 ISYSARCHB26, Miscellaneous items,, [c.1828-1897]. ............................................................................................................................................... 9 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 OWEIES Rev. Owen Davies Collection, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Rev. Owen Davies Collection, ID: GB 0210 OWEIES Virtua system control vtls003844261 number [alternative]: Project identifier ANW [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1623-1919 (predominantly 1796-1919) (accumulated [c. 1860]-1919) / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 0.05 cubic metres (55 volumes) Physical description: Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title supplied from contents of fonds. Some records acquired by [generalNote]: Owen Davies predate his birth. Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Owen Davies (1840-1929), Baptist minister, was born at Cae Plan, near Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, and Yokehouse, Pwllheli. After serving an apprenticeship as a draper, he turned to preaching, and entered the Baptist College at Llangollen, Denbighshire, in 1862. Between 1876 and 1905 he was the minister for Caernarfon. He was also the first secretary of the Welsh Baptist Union, becoming chairman in 1888, and lectured on homiletics (the composition and delivery of sermons) and pastoral theology at the North Wales Baptist College, Bangor, between 1895 and 1915. Davies wrote several books including the Welsh biographies of prominent Welsh Baptists, Dr John Prichard of Llangollen (in 1880), Christmas Evans (1898), Robert Jones (1806-1896), Llanllyfni (1903), and a history of the Welsh Baptists (1905). He gathered original material relating to the history of Welsh Baptism, including the papers of J. R. Jones, minister (1765-1822), John Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 OWEIES Rev. Owen Davies Collection, Prichard (1796-1875), Christmas Evans (1766-1838), and Richard Griffiths (fl. 1822-1877) of Tymawr, Rhoshirwaen, Aderdaron. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Papers collected by Rev. Owen Davies relating to Welsh Baptism, 1623-1905; correspondence and personal papers of J. R. Jones, 1796-1816; correspondence, sermon notes and papers of Christmas Evans, 1800-1830, and Dr John Prichard, 1819-1871; sermon notes and correspondence of Richard Griffiths, 1822-1867; miscellaneous deeds and papers, 1623-1893, miscellaneous letters, 1843-1863; registers of Llangollen and Glyndyfrdwy Baptist churches, [c.1823]-1827; and the personal papers of Rev. Owen Davies, 1859-1919. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Donated by G. T. Gregory, Oxford, 1966. Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged by subject, and numbered NLW MSS 19552-19606. Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form. Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright regulations apply. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales and the National Register of Archives. Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are not expected. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 OWEIES Rev. Owen Davies Collection, Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Davies, Owen, 1840-1929 -- Archives (pwnc) | (subject) • Evans, Christmas, 1766-1838 (pwnc) | (subject) • Griffiths, Richard, b. ca. 1799 (pwnc) | (subject) • Jones, John Richard, 1765-1822 (pwnc) | (subject) • Prichard, J., (John), 1796-1875 (pwnc) | (subject) • Baptists -- Wales -- History -- Research. (pwnc) | (subject) • Baptists -- Clergy -- Biography. (pwnc) | (subject) Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography The records were used by Owen Davies to provide source material for his biographies of Welsh Baptist ministers including, Cofiant y Parch. John Prichard, D.D., Llangollen (Caernarfon, 1880), and Gweithiau y Parch. Christmas Evans (Caernarfon, 1898). Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container NLW MS 19552B. File - Penybryn Baptist Church, 1815-1861. NLW MS vtls005483959 Llangollen, 19552B. ISYSARCHB26 NLW MS 19553A. File - Pentrepoeth Baptist Church, 1821-1825. NLW MS vtls005483960 Pwllheli, 19553A. ISYSARCHB26 NLW MS 19554E. File - Rev. J. R. Jones, Ramoth, sermons 1796-1816. NLW MS vtls005483961 and notes, 19554E. ISYSARCHB26 Cyfres | Series NLW MSS 19555-19558. vtls005483962 ISYSARCHB26: Sermon notes, Dyddiad | Date: [c.1799]-1827. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content: Two volumes of holograph sermon notes of Christmas Evans, one in Welsh, the other largely in English, together with loose papers and a smaller book containing holograph sermon notes in Welsh; a manuscript work entitled 'Yr ordiniad o fedydd yn cael ei Holrhain trwy'r ysgrythyrau mewn ffordd o Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 OWEIES Rev. Owen Davies Collection, Holiadau ac atebion ...', with a note by J. Jenkins, Hengoed, stating that it was composed by Christmas Evans (see Gweithiau Y Parch. Christmas Evans III 597-616); 'Traethawd ar Felchisedec - 1830' by and in the autograph of Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'), followed by observations on the same by Christmas Evans in a letter to R. Williams (see Y Greal, 1905, pp. 225, 259, 286, 313); four leaves from a collecting-book belonging to Christmas Evans; copies of two printed works by Christmas Evans, viz. Eglwys y Jerusalem Uchod yn bwrw allan blant y cnawd ac yn naccau aelodaeth eglwysig iddynt (Caerfyrddin: Ioan Evans, 1800) and Dadl dros drefn ysgrythyrol yr Ysbryd Glân yn ail-eni dynion (Caerfyrddin: J. Evans, 1809), probably used by Dr Owen Davies as press copies for Gweithiau y Parch. Christmas Evans; four letters, 1820-7, written by Christmas Evans, three to the Reverend John Roberts, Pen y Sarn near Amlwch and Llansiling [sic] near Oswestry, the other possibly to [John Michael, Berth, Llanfaethlu] (address mutilated); a copy in the autograph of Dr Owen Davies of a letter from Christmas Evans to John [R.] Jones, Ramoth; 'Tystiolaeth gweinidogion perthynol i Gymmanfa y gogledd mewn perthynas i'r ddadl ofidus a gymmerodd le yn benaf rhwng Evan Evans a C. Evans'; and part of a holograph sermon in Welsh by Christmas Evans on Luke 158 sent to Dr Owen Davies by the Reverend Thos Lewis, Newport, with a covering letter, 1895 (cf. W. Morgan, Cofiant, neu Hanes Bywyd, y diweddar Barch. Christmas
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  • The Origin and Welsh Connection of the 24Th Regiment of Foot

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    The Origin and Welsh Connection of the 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot Adrian Greaves _______________________________________________________________________________________ The 24th Regiment has served this Country continuously for over 300 years. In the process, 23 soldiers have been awarded the Victoria Cross; the highest number awarded to a line regiment. Since 1873, the Regiment has recruited mainly from Wales and continues to do so. It was on 8th March 1689, that King William and Queen Mary signed the Proclamation for the raising of ten ‘Regiments of Foot’ to fight in Ireland against the Jacobites. Sir Edward Dering of Pluckley, a Kentish baronet, was given the task of raising one of these regiments from Kent, an event recorded by the memorial stone in Pluckley church which commemorates the event. In 1703 the regiment began its collection of battle honours under the colonelcy of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, with deeds such as Rasmillies, Blenheim, Malplaquet and Oudenarde being recorded on the Regiment’s colou In 1751 the regiment became known as the 24th Regiment of Foot. In those days, there were few permanent training depots and most regiments recruited soldiers from their immediate locality. The events in Scotland (in the 1750’s) and Ireland (in the 1830’s) created the need for sufficient soldiers and the growth of the large cities sourced the majority of recruits for the British Army. Wales was only sparsely populated until the expansion of the coal, iron and steel industries in the late 19th century. After their return from the American War of Independence, the 24th Regiment of Foot, were based in Warwickshire.