Pennal Tower Estate Records, (GB 210 PENNALTOWER)
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Pennal Tower Estate Records, (GB 210 PENNALTOWER) 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/pennal-tower-estate-records archives.library .wales/index.php/pennal-tower-estate-records 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 Pennal Tower 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 .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 5 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 210 PENNALTOWER Pennal Tower Estate Records, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Pennal Tower Estate Records, ID: GB 210 PENNALTOWER Virtua system control vtls004250408 number [alternative]: GEAC system control (WlAbNL)0000250408 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1501-1922 / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 1.097 cubic metres (50 boxes, 3 volumes) Physical description: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: Latin Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note The original Pennal Tower estate, situated near the village of Pennal, Merioneth, on the north side of the Dyfi estuary and extending to the foothills of Cader Idris, was called Esgairweddan, though its earlier name was Plas yn Rofft, or Plas yn y Rofft. The Pryce or Price family who owned the estate claimed direct descent from Owain Gwynedd, prince of Gwynedd, through Iorwerth Drwyndwn, the eldest of his sons to survive him. The male line became extinct upon the death of Robert Price in 1702. His daughter Mary, who subsequently inherited the estate, eventually devised it to Humphrey Edwards of Talgarth, near Pennal, for life, with remainder to his eldest son Lewis Edwards and his heirs male. It was Humphrey Edwards who was responsible for building the present mansion at Talgarth. The surname Edwards had become settled with Lewis Edwards of Talgarth and Tonfane, who married Mary, daughter of John Davies of Machynlleth, sometime before 1708. It was through this marriage that property in Glyntrefnant and Esgeireedd in the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, and in the town of Machynlleth, passed into the family. It was through his son Humphrey's marriage to Mary, daughter of James Turner of Oldport, Oswestry, Shropshire, that the Oldport estate passed to the family. Humphreys son, another Lewis Edwards, died on 17 January 1797, aged 49 years. One of his married daughters, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 210 PENNALTOWER Pennal Tower Estate Records, Frances, inherited Talgarth and Tonfane. She married Charles Thomas Thruston, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a member of the Thruston family of Hoxne, Suffolk. She died in 1828, aged 38 years, leaving one son, Charles Frederick Thruston, of Talgarth Hall . It was Charles Thomas Thruston who built Pennal Tower mansion house in the 1850s and who created the small Pennal Tower estate out of the existing Talgarth estate probably to provide his second son, Clement Arthur Thruston, with an adequate estate. Captain Charles Thomas Thruston married secondly Eliza, daughter of Admiral Thomas Sotheby (1759-1831), who was the younger brother of the author, William Sotheby (1757-1833). She died in 1840, leaving a son Clement Arthur, who succeeded to Pennal Tower in 1858 on his father's death. Clement Arthur Thruston married Constance Sophia Margaret, daughter of Major-General Lechemere-Coore Russell of Ashford Hall, Shropshire. Their eldest son and heir, Edmund Heathcote Thruston, was born in 1863. However, Clement Arthur Thruston died a relatively young man in 1883, and in 1895 an agreement for the auction of the Pennal Tower estate was made between Edmund Thruston on the one hand and his mother, his brother Arthur Blyford, and his sisters Marion and Olwen on the other. The intention was to establish a trust fund as a security for a jointure for both parties, but the estate failed to sell and the house was let for a number of years to the Mcnair family. Major Arthur Blyford Thruston was killed two years later in an uprising at Fort Luburan in Uganda. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Pennal Tower estate records of the Price family of Esgairweddan, Pennal, Merioneth, and the Edwards and Thruston families of Talgarth Hall and Pennal Tower, Pennal, Merioneth, including title deeds, 1501-1918, of the Esgairweddan, Talgarth Hall and Pennal Tower estates, mainly in Merioneth and Montgomeryshire, rentals of the Esgairweddan estate, 1604-1727, and Talgarth Hall, 1760-1855; financial paers, [c. 1558]-1918; estate correspondence, 1787-1925; family correspondence, 1727-1917; and the papers of Captain Edward Scott (c. 1752-1842) of Bodtalog, near Tywyn. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Donated by Mrs Margaret Austen-Leigh, Titchfield per Messrs Williams Gittins & Tomley, Newtown, in March 1960. Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged chronologically into estate records; family and personal papers; and miscellaneous papers. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 210 PENNALTOWER Pennal Tower Estate Records, 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 laws apply. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids A hard copy of the catalogue is available at NLW. Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material A further collection of Thruston family papers, 1683-1927, is in the Meirionnydd Archives. Prints, oil paintings, water colours and pencil sketches, together with maps and plans, are in National Library of Wales, Map Collections and Special Collections. Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are not expected. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Pennal Tower Estate (Wales) -- Archives • Talgarth Hall Estate (Wales) • Pennal Tower Estate (Wales) • Scott, Edward, Captain, ca. 1752-1842 (pwnc) | (subject) • Thruston family, of Talgarth and Pennal Tower -- Archives. • Edwards family, of Talgarth and Tonfane • Price family, of Esgairweddan • Farm rents -- Wales -- Merioneth (ffurfiau dogfennol) | (documentary form) • Administration of estates -- Wales -- Merioneth (pwnc) | (subject) Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 210 PENNALTOWER Pennal Tower Estate Records, Sub-fonds vtls005457230 ISYSARCHB63: Estate records, Dyddiad | Date: 1536-1925. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content: Arranged into estate management records, [c.1558]-1925, manorial records, 1641-[early 20 cent.] (M), title deeds, 1501-1918 (D), legal papers, 1582-1885 (L), probate records, 1536-1832 (P), business records, 1863-1903 (B), records of employees, 1840-1912 (E), and game and fishery records, 1693-1922 (G). Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container Sub-sub-fonds vtls005457231 ISYSARCHB63: Estate management records, Dyddiad | Date: [c.1558]-1925. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content: Arranged into rentals, 1604-1914 (R), financial papers, [c.1558]-[early 20 cent.] (A), surveys, valuations and terriers, [c.1845]-1910 (S), selling and letting of property, [c.1874]-1922 (SL), tithes, 1691-1872 (T), and correspondence, 1787-1925 (EC). Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list Cyfres | Series R. vtls005457232 ISYSARCHB63: Rentals, Dyddiad | Date: 1604-1914. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content: Arranged into rentals of the Esgairweddan estate, 1604-1769 (R1-8),