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[Dalby Family of Bradford] Methodist
Pocket Book containing Family Details
The Methodist Pocket Book for 1816, only a fraction of the original 142pp
remain, probably these were kept by a descendant of the original owner as they contain
details of Dalby births for the 1860s and 1870s. There's also a more recent
Radnorshire connection 'June 28th 1877 Lucy and I came to live with William at Woodville,
Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales.'. In the pocket are a number of family mementoes
including locks of hair 'Father's Hair', 'William's Hair', [another] ' Father's
Hair', 'Joseph Entwisle Dalby's Hair 1868', 'Dearest Father's Hair 1847'. Red
leather, G. (ref 7645) £30.00 post-free within UK Not for export
Sherburne/Powles/Jones/Badland Pedigree
This pedigree is on a parchment sheet, all that survives from a multi-page
property deed of 1854. Several properties in the counties of Radnorshire and
Herefordshire are mentioned, giving a clue to the whereabouts of the family.
Manuscript, approx 25"x19". (ref 21/56) £10.00 post-free
within UK
[ Clyro (Radnorshire) and Brilley
(Herefordshire)] Sale Particulars for the Cabalva
Estate
Printed particulars for the 1913 sale of this 958 acre estate
straddling the Radnorshire/Herefordshire county boundary. For the purposes
of the sale, the estate was broken up into 10 lots as follows:
1. Cabalva House (vacant) & 49 acres of meadow let to S Meredith and M
Crump.
2. 22 acres of pasture let to J W Jones.
3. Cabalva Cottage (M Crump).
4. Lower Bettws & Cwm-y-Rafor (S Meredith).
5. The 157 acre Chapel Farm (J W Jones).
6. Old Chapel House & Smith (C Nott).
7. The 102 acre Penrheol Farm (J W Jones).
8. The 233 acre Pentwyn & Pencesty Farms (W D Prosser)
9. The 172 acre Wern Farm (T B Prosser).
10. 10 acres of pasture land (G Davies).
A particularly important item of local history as it not only describes the
various lots in quite some detail but it contains 4 photos and a 36"x29"
multicoloured multifolding location plan in a flap inside the back cover.
Card covers, overall size 10"x14". Covers grubby and detached
from contents, and spine torn to the extent that the front and back covers are
almost separated; also the map has gained an extra crease due to careless return
to its pouch. We've recently sold a very nice copy at £40, and by
comparison this copy (ref 446/48) is priced at £20.00 post-free within UK
[Evancoyd near Presteigne document]
Valuation of Fron Farm
A nicely detailed 1895 list of the
various components making up the 203 acre Fron Farm, tenanted by William Davies.
The various fields are not named, being identified only by number - presumably
corresponding to tithe or OS map. Manuscript on paper. (ref 411/39)
£8.00 post-free
Not for export
[Evenjobb, Old Radnor, New Radnor,
Aberedw, Llanbedr Painscastle document] Transfer of £2000 Mortgage of Farms,
Cottages, Etc
This 1863 mortgage transfer
concerns 'Tuckford Farm otherwise the New Farm but then better known as New House Farm
(Evenjobb) tenanted by Hugh Morris...and also all that capital messuage or tenement farm
lands and hereditaments commonly called and known by the name of Evenjobb Farm
(Thomas
Beaumont, then George Evans)....[and there follows standard legal format mentions of]
Highgate Farm in the parishes of New Radnor and Llanfihangel Nantmellan (Thomas
Evans, then Peter Norman Edwards); Burchup or Burlingjobb Farm Old Radnor
(John Griffith, then William Edwards); Worsall Wood and Rise Farm, Old
Radnor (John Griffith); Railsgate Farm Old Radnor (Thomas Davies);
Rough Close Old Radnor (Josiah Jones, butcher, then James Beaumont);
Aberedw Court or Trebant (John & Meliora Powell); The Courts Mill or
Melindole Melyn, Trans Edon or Tyr Rotherch Beavan, Curn Dee or Dole
Richard, Aberedw (all 3 occupied by James Evans); and in Llanbedr
Painscastle Llanbachowey (William Jones); Llandwiron (John Powell0;
The Whitehouse ((Lewis Lloyd); Henviron (William Robert); Coed-y-Garth
and Kings Coed Wood and Bucklyn Pool (William Williams). This deed of
transfer refers back to the original mortgage taken out by members of the Mynors
family in 1855 so all the above details of occupiers/tenants relate to then.
Manuscript on 4 large parchment sheets (ref 411/20)
£15.00 post-free
Not for export
[Llanyre, Clyro, Newchurch & Llandilo Graban
document] Scheduling of Lands by the Inclosure Commissioners
Official copy of an 1882 Order affecting 2242 acres owned by John Williams
Vaughan Esq of what appears to be 12 farms or smallholdings. The schedule names the
farms and lists their acreages and who is the tenant farmer/occupier - an important local
history document especially in respect of the parish of Llanyre. Manuscript on
single parchment sheet, approx 20"x15" so suitable for framing, currently
multifolded. Bears the red Land Commission seal and a Land Office rubber stamp.
(ref 424/2) £18.00 post-free Not for export
A similar document covering the exact same properties though dated a couple of months later. Similar size but a degree of foxing and not quite as good as the other one. (ref 424/1) £16.00 post-free Not for export
Pryse's Handbook to the Radnorshire and
Breconshire Mineral Springs with various Descriptive Journeys and Excursions therefrom to
numerous places of interest in Central Wales
Undated but c1873, 12mo, 202pp surrounded by lots of local adverts, scattered
spotting here & there, some leaves browned, but the engraved plates (inc one of a very
undeveloped Builth Wells in 1869) are surprisingly clean, aeg. Quite a decent copy
in the original royal blue cloth boards, now very scarce. (ref 1174) £45.00
post-free within UK