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2 - Lord Ampthill Papers
3 - Anders Anderson, Swansea, Papers
4 - Ashburnham Tinplate Works Records
6 - Edward Bevan of Swansea Collection
7 - Biddiscombe Papers
10 - Records of the South Wales Transport Company
10a - Bradshaw Papers
11 - Professor M Broady Papers
12 - R H Brown Collection
14 - Donald Le Cronier, Antiquarian, Collection
16 - Collins, Woods and Vaughan Jones, Solicitors (Swansea), Records
17 - Joan Cook Collection
19 - Craig-y-Nos School, Swansea, Records
20 - Robert Thompson Crawshay, Cyfartha, Papers
21 - Cwm British School Records
22 - Cwmdonkin Shelter, Swansea, Records
23 - Evan Davies, Ironmonger (New Quay), Records
24 - Captain Hector Leighton Davies Collection
26 - Dillwyn Family Papers
28 - Dunraven Manorial Survey
29 - Lords Dynevor Records
30 - D T Eaton, Cwmavon, Papers
31 - F H Edwards & Co, Solicitors (Swansea), Records
32 - F W Edwards Collection
33 - Eisteddfod Collection
35 - Felinisha Chemical Company Limited Records
36 - F.E. Finlayson Trust Records
38 - Fricker Papers
40 - Michael Gibbs Collection
41 - Gilbertson Family Papers
42 - Lord Glantawe Records
43 - Glynmeirch Estate Records
44 - Gorsgoch Estate Records
45 - Grenfell Family Papers and Business Records
47 - Cyril Hughes, Solicitors, Records
48 - Eugene Ionesco, Author, Papers
50 - Paul Jenkins, Treboeth, Collection
51 - Calvert Jones Collection
52 - W Herber Jones Papers
53 - I G Jones Collection
55 - Kidwelly Tinplate Works Records
56 - Kilvrough Deeds
57 - Kirkham Collection
58 - Miss Margaret Kirkland Collection
59 - William Landeg Collection
60 - Mervyn Levy Papers
61 - Cecil Lewis Collection
62 - John Lewis, Swansea, Papers
63 - William Lewis, Skewen, Records
64 - Henry Leyshon, Swansea, Collection
65 - J R Littledale Papers
66 - Llandarcy Oil Refinery Records
67 - Llanelly Associated Tinplate Companies Limited Records
68 - Llanelly (Duport) Steel Works Records
69 - Lower Swansea Valley Project Records
72 - Mathias Manuscripts
74 - Metallurgical Society Records
75 - Methodist Circuit of Swansea and Gower Collection
76 - Millbrook Engineering Company Limited Records
77 - Miscellaneous Local Archives
78 - Morfa Tinplate Works Records
79 - John Morgan, Solicitor (Swansea), Records
80 - Morlais Tinplate Works Records
81 - Morris Family of Swansea, Industrialists, Papers
82 - Morriston Tinplate Company Limited Records
83 - Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Swansea, Records
84 - J Moy Evans Collection
85 - Mumbles Railway Records
86 - Oddfellows Records
87 - Old Castle Tinplate Company Records
88 - Mr Owen Owen Papers
91 - D Rhys Phillips Collection
92 - John Player and Sons Limited Records
93 - Pontardawe Chemical Works Records
94 - Professor D.B. Quinn Collection
95 - T. Bryn Richards Collection
96 - Ethel Ross Collection
97 - Mr W. J. Rosser Collection
99 - St David's Priory, Swansea, Records
100 - Sale Catalogues
101 - Singleton Abbey, Swansea, Records
102 - Swansea Labour News
105 - Teilo Tinplate Works Records
106 - Theatre Collection
107 - George Thomas, Solicitors (Swansea), Records
108 - Reverend Griffith Thomas Papers
109 - Illtyd Thomas Collection
110 - Messrs. Andrew, Thompson and Partners, Solicitors (Swansea), Records
111 - John Timothy Papers
112 - Tinplate Scrapbooks
114 - Treboeth Manuscripts
116 - William Graham Vivian and Family Collection
A - Title Deeds
1 - Woodlands Estate
1 - Deed of covenant to surrender coyphold premises within the manor and parish of Oystermouth Parties: 1. Adey Bellamy (of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, gent.); Joseph Gurney Bevan (of Stoke Newington, Middlesex, gent.); Wilson Birkbeck (of Fox Ordinary Court Nicholas Lane of London, iron founder); Richard Phillips of East Street, Red Lion Square, Middlesex, conveyancer 2. Mary Phillips of Tottenham, Middlesex, widow 3. George Warde of Bradfield House, near Reading, Berkshire, esq. Premises: The capital customary or coyphold messuage of Woodlands at Blackpill, with the lands and fields called Brints, Barnfield, Lower Brockhole, Middle Brockholes, Upper Brockholes, Caedrough, Penlan Wood, Erwent, Kae y Stubble, Le Mayolls. These were to be purchased for £1,800 by George Warde. Richard Phillips, deceased, had bought these lands from John Dunn and John Givellin and Mary Givellin, his wife, except for the capital messuage known as Woodlands, which was erected by the said Richard Phillips.
2 - Certified copy of the court roll of the manor of Oystermouth of the enrolment of the will of James Phillips, late of George Yard, Lombard Street, London, printer and stationer, deceased. Will dated 11 Jun 1798. The five parties of the first part of 1799 deed were devisees in trust under this will, and they were admitted to the lands. Rhys Davies of Swansea was their attorney, and of Mary Phillips, widow.
3 - Certified copy of the court roll of the surrender of these lands by the five abovenamed (LAC/116/A/1/1-2), and of the admittance of Rhys Davies, gent.
4 - Certified copy of the court roll of the surrender of Rhys Davies and of the admittance of George Warde.
5 - Certified copy of the court roll of the surrender of these copyhold lands by George Warde to the use of a settlement. Rhys Davies was to hold them for the use of i) Charles Warde of Bucknell, co. Oxon., Esq. ii) Rev. Spencer Madan of St. Phillip's, Birmingham.
6 - Plain copy of the court roll of the admittance of David Davies, customary heir and brother of the late Rhys Davies, by John Jenkins gent., his attorney, in trust for Charles Warde and Spencer Madan, trustees of the settlement of General George Warde. Rhys Davies had died in November, 1609. There is a copy of his will among the abstracts of title to the Woodlands estate, see LAC/116/B/1/1
7 - Lease for a year: Parties: 1. George Wards of Woodlands Castle, Esq., General. 2. Richard Janion Navill of Glanmor in Llanelli, co. Carmarthenshire, Esq. Premises: Land called Hoar Stone in Newton, and lands known as Brinne, Grange, Boar's Pit and Slade, in parish of Oystermouth.
8 - Release. Conveyance of freehold estates, and covenant to surrender copyhold estates in the parish and manor of Oystermouth by way of a mortgage. Parties: 1. George Wards of Woodlands Castle. 2. Richard Janion Nevill of Llanelli. In return for a loan of £2,000, Wards mortgaged the lands to Nevill, and agreed at the next court to surrender the Woodlands Estate.
9 - Certified copy of the court roll of the surrender of the Woodlands estate by General Wards, and the admittance of William Smith Harris on behalf of Richard Janion Nevill.
10 - Certified copy of the oourt roll of the surrender of copyhold premises called Whitestone, in manor of Oystermouth. by David Arthur Saunders Davies, Esq., and of the admission of Richard Janion Nevill, Esq., to the same and other estates called Woodlands Castle.
11 - Lease to vest possession. Parties: 1. Richard Janion Nevill of Glanmor, in Llanelli, Esq. 2. Benjamin Hall of Lanover, co. Monmouthshire, Esq.; David Arthur Saunders Davies of Pentre, co. Pembrokeshire, Esq. Premises: Land called Hoar Stone, Brinne, Grange, Boar's Pit and Slade in parish of Oystermouth
13 - Lease for a year: Parties: 1. George Warde of Beechmont, near Sevenoaks, Kent, Esq., elder son and heir at law of George Warde, late of Woodlands Castle, Glamorganshire., General in the army, now deceased [George Warde died 20 June 1850]; Charles Warde the younger of Squerries Lodge, Kent, Esq.; Rev. Spencer Madan of Ibstock, Leicestershire, D.D.; Benjamin Hall of Lanover, Monmouthshire., Esq.; David Arthur Saunders Davies of Pentre, Pembrokeshire, Esq.; Jenkin Davies Barrington, younger, of Lincolns Inn, Middlesex., Esq. 2. William Morgan Davies Barrington of Swansea, gent. Premises: Tenement called Lower Brinne, and the whole of the Woodlands Estate.
14 - Release. Conveyance of freehold land and covenant to surrender copy-hold for securing £5,494 and interest. Parties: 1. George Warde of Beechmont, Kent, Esq., son and heir of the late George Wards of Woodlands. 2. Charles Wards the younger of Squerries Lodge, Kent, Esq.; Rev. Spencer Madan of Ibstoek, Leicestershire., D.D. 3. Benjamin Hall of Lanover, Monmouthshire., Esq. David Arthur Saunders Davies of Pentre, Pembrokeshire., Esq. 4. Jenkin Davies Barrington, the younger, of Lincolns Inn, Middlesex, Esq.; Charlotte, his wife. 5. Jenkin Davies Barrington, the elder, of Swansea, Esq. 6. The said Jenkin Davies Barrington, the younger. 7. Benjamin Hall and David Davies. 8. William Morgan Davies Berrlngton of Swansea, gent. Recites numbers of earlier deeds.Plan of area showing the lands held by the Duke of Beaufort and by the Earl of Jersey, around the Woodlands estate.
15 - Assignment of terms of 1,000 and 1,000 years for better securing mortgages for £5,494 and the interest to Benjamin Hall and David Arthur Saunders Davies. Parties: 1. Richard Janion Nevill of Llanelli (in whom the first term of 1,000 years is vested). 2. James Hall of Swansea, civil engineer (in whom the second term of 1,000 years is vested). 3. George Warde of Beechmont, Kent, Esq. 4. Charles Warde of Squerries Lodge, Kent, and Rev. Spencer Madan of Ibstock, Leicestershire. 5. Benjamin Ball of Lanover, co. Monmouthshire, Esq.; David Arthur Saunders Davies of Pentre, Pemb. 6. Jenkin Davies Derrington the younger, of Lincolns Inn, Esq. 7. Jenkin Davies Derrington of Swansea. [Jenkin Davies Berrington, elder, died 12 May 1854] 8. David Edwards of Swansea, gent.
16 - Conveyance of certain lands, part of three several tenements known by the name of Grange, Brinne, and Boar's Pit, in the parish of Oystermouth. Plan. Parties: 1. Charles Warde of Squerries Lodge, Kent, Esq.; Rev. Spencer Madan of Ibstock, Leicestershire 2. Rev. William Vansittart of White Waltham, Berkshire, D. D., and Charlotte his wife. 3. George Warde of Beechmont, Kent, Esq. 4. Opie Staite of Dighton Street, Bristol, Esq. 5. Robert Alexander Price of Staple Inn, London, gent. Refers to a release of 1825 between General Warde and the Earl of Jersey by which General Warde held these lands. These lands are now in the possession of Opie Staite.
17 - Appointment of freehold premises at Blackpill. Parties: 1. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville ef Hanover Sq., Middlesex, Esq.; John Drummond of Belgrave Square, Esq. (Trustees for the sale and exchange ef the following hereditaments). 2. The most noble Henry Duke of Beaufort. 3. Jenkin Davies Berrington of Honfleur in France, Esq. Premises: Dwelling house and garden of Mary Evans - Lot 131. Small sketch of plot. The Duke of Beaufort gave consent for the Trustees to dispose of the property on payment of £115 16s 6d by Barrington.
2 - Brinney and The Woodman, Blackpill
3 - Tremore and Bayswater, Blackpill
4 - Penlan Farm
5 - Cwmbach, Oystermouth
6 - Higher Bramble Lane, Mumbles
7 - Woodlands Terrace, Blackpill
8 - Blackpill
9 - Clyne Farm
10 - Blackpill Bridge
11 - Blackpill
12 - Gellyhir Farm, Ilston
13 - Fairwood Lodge Farm
14 - Great Summerland and Hern Acre, Caswell
15 - Mayals and Caerslade
16 - Wennllaeth Farm and Blackhills, Bishopston and Sunnyside, High Pennard
17 - Mumbles Railway
18 - Blackpill Weir
19 - Llwynderw
20 - Premises of Vivian and Sons
21 - Mumbles Road
B - Abstract of Title
C - Estate Papers
D - Inventories of Vivan family residences with sale catalogues and papers
E - Financial papers
117 - Hugh Vivian Papers
119 - Waddle Engineering Company Records
120 - Vernon Watkins Papers
121 - Western Tinplate Works Records
122 - White Rock Works Records
124 - J D Williams Papers
125 - Ralph Wishart, Bookseller (Swansea), Collection
126 - Yorkshire Imperial Metals Records
128 - Challenor Collection
129 - Carruthers Collection
130 - Carruthers Collection (2nd deposit)
131 - Corfield Collection
132 - Cornerstone Collection
133 - F O Harries Collection
134 - F O Harries Collection (Second Deposit)
135 - Institute of Metals Records
136 - Islwyn Collection
137 - D T Jones Collection
138 - Literary and Philosophical Society Collection
139 - Ivor Phillips Collection
140 - Strick and Bellingham, Solicitors (Swansea) Collection
141 - Terrill Collection
142 - R O Roberts Collection
143 - Copies of Acts of Parliament relating to South Wales with relating papers
144 - St David's Priory, Swansea (2nd deposit), Records
145 - St David's Priory, Swansea (3rd deposit), Records
146 - St David's Priory, Swansea (4th deposit), Records
148 - Gwyn Alf Williams, Historian, Papers
157 - Benson Family Game Books
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