Finding Aid - Noyadd Trefawr Estate Records, (GB 0210 NOYAWR)
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Noyadd Trefawr Estate Records, (GB 0210 NOYAWR) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 05, 2017 Printed: May 05, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/noyadd-trefawr-estate-records-2 archives.library .wales/index.php/noyadd-trefawr-estate-records-2 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 gofyn@llgc.org.uk www.llgc.org.uk Noyadd Trefawr Estate Records, 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 .......................................................................................................... 5 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 5 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 6 Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography ........................................................................................................................... 7 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 7 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 NOYAWR Noyadd Trefawr Estate Records, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Noyadd Trefawr Estate Records, ID: GB 0210 NOYAWR Virtua system control vtls004250310 number [alternative]: GEAC system control (WlAbNL)0000250310 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1395-1914, (predominantly 1530-1860) / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 0.458 cubic metres (16 boxes, 3 rolls) Physical description: Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: Latin Iaith | Language: French Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title supplied from contents of fonds. [generalNote]: Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Noyadd Trefawr is in the parish of Llandygwyd, Cardiganshire. The first known occupant of Noyadd Trefawr was Rhys Dafydd Llwyd, who married Alson ferch Rhys ap Rhydderch. Their daughter and co- heir, Dyddgu, married Thomas ap Harri ap Philip of Blaen Cuch, descendant of Rhys Chwith, esquire of the body to Edward I. David Thomas Parry (fl. 1589-1621),Rhys's son, was the first of the family to take a surname. He was sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1605, 1617 and 1621. His eldest son David Parry predeceased his father, and he was succeeded by another David Parry (c. 1641-1664), the eldest son of his brother, John Parry (d. 1651) of Dolyfonddu, Montgomeryshire. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 NOYAWR Noyadd Trefawr Estate Records, David Parry married Elizabeth, heiress of Thomas Parry of Plas Newydd in the parish of St Dogmaels. Her inheritance, and purchases, added to the estate, one of the largest in Cardiganshire, which now included Cilgerran, Fforest, the manor of St Dogmaels, lands in the parishes of Clydai, Ferwig and Llanfyrnach, and the tithes of Cennarth, Cilfowyr and Llangolman. David and Elizabeth were succeeded by their son David Parry (dsp. 1711), sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1685, who was succeeded by one of his four sisters, Anne, who had married her cousin Stephen Parry (c. 1675-1724, dsp.) of Rhydymendi, the grandson of John Parry of Dolyfonddu above. Stephen Parry was sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1720 and MP for the Cardigan Boroughs 1715-1724. Stephen and Anne were succeeded by David Parry (d. 1753), the son of Stephen's sister Susan, the wife of William Parry of Nevern. David Parry married Frances (d. c. 1792), the daughter and heir of Kedgwin Webley (d. 1773) of Chancery Lane, London. The only change in the Noyadd estate from this point is a gradual dispersion of the estate as out-lying parts were sold to meet financial demands. David and Frances were succeeded by their only child and heir, another Frances (dsp. 1815), who had married in 1768 with Marmaduke Gwynne (d. 1784) of Garth, Breconshire. Frances Gwynne bequeathed the estate to her cousin, Rear-Admiral William Henry Webley (d. 1837), who added Parry to his surname. The admiral was responsible for the substantial Georgian rebuilding of the existing Elizabethan mansion, and it was this which was largely responsible for driving the estate into debt, mainly to Thomas Davies of Bridge House, Cardigan. The admiral sold land and property, but by 1828 the estate had a rental of £2,000 and debts of £18,000. In 1837, William Henry Webley-Parry (1803-1853) inherited his father's estates and his debts. By 1839 the estate had shrunk to less than 1,000 acres all in the parish of Llandygwydd. William Henry Webley-Parry was succeeded by his son David Kedgwin William Webley-Parry (1833-1870), who married in 1861 with Nina Catherine (d. 1917), the daughter of Count Demetrios de Palatine of Corfu. He was succeeded by his only surviving child, Nina Catherine Angharad (1858-1954), who married in 1891 with Edward John Pryse (1862-1918), son and eventual heir of Sir Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, and who added Webley-Parry to his surname. Sir Edward John Webley-Parry-Pryse and Nina his wife died without issue. The Lewes family of Gellidywyll has no link with family of Noyadd Fawr apart from that the fact that the estate and family records of both families became inextricably bound together. James Lewes (d. c. 1599) of Abernantbychan in the parish of Penbryn, Cardiganshire, was the son of Lewes David ap Meredydd (fl. 1542-1564) of Penbryn. By his first marriage James had one son, also called James Lewes, the founder of the Lewes family of Gellidywyll in the parish of Cenarth, Carmarthenshire. Abernantbychan and most of his father's lands passed to the eldest son of the second marriage, Sir John Lewes (fl. 1601-1652). The Lewes family retained possession of the Gellidywyll estate until the family failed when Thomas Lewes and his brother John Lewes (1743-1795) died of West Indian fever within days of each other. Gellidywyll was inherited by a distant cousin, William Owen Brigstocke (1761-1831) of Blaen-pant in the parish of Llandygwydd, Cardiganshire, and was eventually sold by his grandson, William Owen Brigstocke, to Lord Cawdor. Hanes Gwarchodol | Custodial history The Gellidywyll estate records appear to have become united with the Noyadd Trefawr estate records quite fortuitously. After the extinction of the Lewes family of Gellidywyll in 1795, the estate was inherited by a distant cousin, William Owen Brigstocke of Blaenpant. His eldest son, also called William Owen Brigstocke (1781-1861, dsp.), married as his second wife, Maria (d. 1898), the third daughter of Admiral William Henry Webley-Parry (d. 1837) of Noyadd Trefawr. After her husband's death, Maria continued to live at Blaenpant until her own death. In the meantime, Gellidywyll was sold to Lord Cawdor, but apparently without the Lewes family papers. William Henry Webley-Parry, son of the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 NOYAWR Noyadd Trefawr Estate Records, admiral and brother of Maria, died in 1853, causing an upheaval at Noyadd Trefawr, including the sale of the contents of the house. In 1856 the young heir of Noyadd Trefawr entrusted the management of the estate to Ellen Webley-Parry, his unmarried aunt, the sister of Maria. In 1858 the house and demense of Noyadd Trefawr were let out on a seven year lease, and in 1861 Ellen dated a letter from Blaenpant. Having left the family home, Ellen had probably gone to live with her sister Maria, and taken the Noyadd muniments with her, where they became mixed with the Gellidywyll muniments. The Williams family of Abercothi and Dol-gwm deeds appear to have joined the Gellidywyll deeds by accident in the lifetime of Mary (d. post-1755), daughter and coheir of Rees Evans of Talybont. Her first husband was James Lewes (d. c. 1695) of Gellidywyll, and her second husband was John Williams (d. 1703), son of James Williams of Dol-gwm. She had children by both marriages, and was still living at Gellidywyll in 1755, over fifty years after the death of her second husband. She probably kept the Williams papers relating to her interests and those of her children with her. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Estate and family records of Parry, later Webley-Parry, later Webley-Parry-Pryse, of Noyadd Trefawr, Cardiganshire, including Noyadd Trefawr and Gellidywyll deeds, 1396-1868, rentals of the Noyadd estate, 1778-1860, and Noyadd estate correspondence, 1808-1902, personal