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DB/96: New Quay Harbour Company

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Ref: DB/96/2

New Quay Harbour Company: The Formation and Operation of the Company


Reference: DB/96/2
Title: Series 2: New Quay Harbour Company: The Formation and Operation of the Company
Dates: 1833-1953
Level of description: Series
Extent: 72 Files/ Items
Scope and Content:
This part of the collection charts the story of the Company from that inception to its eventual take-over by the local authority, in the form of New Quay Urban District Council, in the early 1950s. It comprises the originating Deed of Partnership and Covenant of Agreement; material relating to shares held in, and dividends paid by, the Company; documents regarding Harbour Tolls and Dues, including the leasing of same; documents relating to planned improvements to the harbour; Cases and Opinions relating to various legal disputed within which the Company was involved; correspondence; Byelaws; and the Statutory Instruments which brought the Harbour Company to a close.

This Series also contains Deeds of Settlement relating to the New Quay Mutual Ship Insurance Society (DB/96/2/13-15). Although the activities of the Society are obviously aligned with the activities/operations of the New Quay Harbour Shipping Company, their exact inter-relationship is, at present, unknown (April 2015). Material relating to Aberystwyth (DB/96/2/4) and Bristol (DB/96/2/25) is also included. It is thought that these probably represent comparative material; used by the Company, either in its day-to-day operations, or at points of proposed change, such as, for instance the Act for Repairing, Enlarging and Preserving Aberystwyth Harbour which could potentially have been useful when New Quay was considering enlarging and/or improving its own Harbour.

The material is arranged chronologically, from earliest date to latest.


Ref: DB/96/2/1-6

New Quay Harbour Company, 1833-1849


Ref: DB/96/2/1
Title: Deed of Partnership: New Quay Pier and Harbour Company
Date(s): 1 May 1833
Extent: 1Item
Scope and Content: Counterpart Indenture between:
i Jenkin Davies, Innkeeper; Evan Timothy, Merchant; Solomon Williams, Shopkeeper; John Phillips, Mariner: all of Newquay
ii and several others persons whose seal is affixed
Relates to the formation of the company - to be called the New Quay Pier and Harbour Company - and the taking of shares, at £10 each, in the Company. A list of names (with the number of shares held, and names of witnesses) and seals are attached.

Ref: DB/96/2/2
Title: Covenant of Agreement of Subscribers
Date(s): 14 October 1834
Extent: 1Item
Scope and Content: The legal agreement of the Shareholders (Subscribers) to make application for an Act of Parliament, in order to construct and maintain a harbour at New Quay. A list of names and seals are attached.

Ref: DB/96/2/3
Title: Prospectus for the New Quay Pier & Harbour Company
Date(s): 1834
Extent: 1Item
Scope and Content: Prospectus, entitled ‘To Be Incorporated by Act of Parliament; The Company of Proprietors for the Formation of a Harbour at New Quay on the Coast of Cardiganshire, in the Middle of Cardigan Bay; To Be Called The New Quay Pier & Harbour Company’. Shares of £10 each are to be sold in order to raise £5000 in Capital. The prospectus includes ‘Mr Haslam’s Report’ regarding the rational for, and the probable expense of, constructing a harbour at New Quay.

Ref: DB/96/2/4
Title: Act relating to the Harbour at Aberystwyth
Date(s): 1834
Extent: 1Item
Scope and Content: Reprint of an ‘Act for Repairing, Enlarging, and Preserving the Harbour of Aberystwyth, in the County of Cardigan’, 20 George 3, Cap. XXVI. Reprinted in Aberystwyth, 1834. An alphabetical list of Trustees of the Harbour and the date of their appointment is printed on the last two pages.

Ref: DB/96/2/5
Title: Map and Chart of New Quay Bay
Date(s): n.d. [c.1836]
Extent: 1Item
Scope and Content: Map (paper mounted on thin card), showing the ‘New Proposed Pier at Pen Y Weg’, on the South Side of Cardigan Bay. Surveyed by Francis Giles of London in 1820, under the direction of John Rennie Esq. Depths of ordinary and equinox tides for 1820, and a comment re the same dated 16th May 1836, are also noted.

Ref: DB/96/2/6
Title: Share Certificates
Date(s): c.1837
Extent: 1File
Scope and Content: Bundles of Share Certificates: the majority dated 1837, others are undated. The Shares are held by:
1-4. Thomas Evans, Pontbrendu, Cardiganshire: Share No.76-79
5-14. John Hughes Esq., Allt Llwyd, Cardiganshire: Share No. 176-185
15. Evan Jenkins, Linnet, New Quay, Cardiganshire: Share No. 199
16-25. William Edward Powell Esq. M.P., Nanteos, Cardiganshire:
Share No. 459-468
26-30. John Beynon Esq., Adpar Hill, Cardiganshire: Share No. 618-622
31. Herbert Evans Esq., High Mead, Cardiganshire: Share No. 635
32. George David Friffiths Esq., Berllan, Pembrokeshire: Share No. 677
33-51. His Grace the Duke of New Castle, Hafod, Cardiganshire:
Share No. 523, 525-542
52. Solomon Williams, New Quay, Cardiganshire: Share No. 515
53-63. Captain Sydney Henry Jones Parry, Ty Llwyd, Cardiganshire:
Share No.36-38, 212-214, 454-458