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Accession 1706

Ref: FOH.A/01


TITLE: FOH.A/01
DATE: 1835-1844; 1993
SIZE: 29 items
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: file
NATURE AND CONTENT: The Duke of Newcastle and his period of ownership of the Hafod Estate. Contains mostly copies and transcripts of material concerning the Hafod Estate from the [Duke of] Newcastle Archives, Nottingham University Library. Transcripts are by Jennifer Macve of Friends of Hafod who conducted the research in 1993. Also Ms. Macve’s notes and comments. See also FOH.A/06/08-09.
NB. In case of photocopies of archival material, only the date of the original document is given.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/01
DATE: 1993
SIZE: 24 ff
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Notes and comments on documents contained in this file. By Jennifer Macve who researched the material in 1993.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/02
DATE: Not known
SIZE: 1 f.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Armorial bearings, presumably of the Duke of Newcastle.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/03
DATE: 20 and 21 August 1834
SIZE: 2 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from William Henderson to the Duke of Newcastle, enclosing a copy of receipt for purchase money [£62,038 16s 8d] received by the Bank of England from the Duke of Newcastle for the Hafod Estate.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/04
DATE: 4 December 1837
SIZE: 4 ff
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from S. Heath to the Duke, about repairs and improvements at the Hafod mansion. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/05
DATE: 4 December 1837
SIZE: 5 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Alexander Williamson to the Duke, about repairs and improvements on Hafod Estate, with a list of ‘expenditure in Woods, Fenceing [sic], Planting, Approaches, and Gardens at Hafod’ from 26 November 1836 to 18 November 1837, and a list of workmen and wages for the fortnight commencing 20 November 1837. Also typed transcript of the letter.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/06
DATE: 20 December 1837
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from S. Heath to the Duke, about repairs and improvements at the Hafod mansion and Estate. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/07
DATE: 4 January 1838
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from S. Heath to the Duke, about repairs and improvements at the Hafod mansion, Pendre, and elsewhere on the Estate. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/08
DATE: 17 January 1838
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from S. Heath to the Duke, listing repairs and improvements at the Hafod mansion and Estate. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/09
DATE: 1 February 1838
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from S. Heath to the Duke, listing repairs and improvements at the Hafod mansion and Estate. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/10
DATE: 10 December 1838
SIZE: 5 ff
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from John Lown to the Duke, about Mr. Kendall and his drunken antics. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/11
DATE: 31 December 1838
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Alexander Williamson to the Duke, about work on the larch plantations and fencing at the Hafod Estate. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/12
DATE: 24 January 1839
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Alexander Williamson to the Duke, about work on the larch plantations and fencing at the Hafod Estate, following a storm. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/13
DATE: 29 January 1839
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from John R. Haslam, late of Tyn Llwyn, to the Duke, written after the former’s departure from Tyn Llwyn to Voel, Anglesea. It appears that Mr. Haslam left Hafod after an incident involving Mr. Kendall and this letter contains his side of the story (see FOH.A/01/10, where Mr. Kendall’s ‘drunken freak’ is described). Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/14
DATE: 1 February 1839.
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT:
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: Photocopy: Letter from Samuel Heath to the Duke, about his role as Clerk at the Hafod Estate. He recommends appointing a foreman to assist with the work and expresses doubts as to the suitability of Mr. Chapman for the role as Clerk of Works, due to the latter’s being ‘the intimate associate and companion of Mr. Kendall’. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/15
DATE: 4 February 1839
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Samuel Heath to the Duke, giving a progress report on the renovations at the Hafod mansion and on obtaining materials for that purpose. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/16
DATE: 12 February 1839
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Samuel Heath to the Duke, about sending a statue to London and about the cost-cutting measures which have resulted in discharging or suspending of 16 workmen; he is of the opinion that they should be retained because once they have found alternative employment it will not be possible to get them back. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/17
DATE: 16 March 1839
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about his move to the Hafod, the difficulties resulting from the Duke asking for a larger security from him, and a misunderstanding about his sister joining him at Hafod. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/18
DATE: 6 April 1839
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about the situation he found upon arriving at Hafod, letting of the Estate farms, and thanking the Duke for letting his sister join him at Hafod. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/19
DATE: 12 August 1839
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about his taking over of management of buildings out of Samuel Heath’s hands, and about the situation with the works and workmen. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/20
DATE: 13 December 1839
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about work on the dining room, the tithe meeting in Rhayader, the disputed fields at Ffair Rhos and other matters. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/21
DATE: 9 January 1840
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about the work in the house and on the estate, the broken chimney shelf in the little room and the need to pay the workmen. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/22
DATE: 24 January 1840
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about works on the Estate and about the difficulty of letting Pwll Peiran at the rent set by the Duke. Keary states that it might be preferable to lower the rent and let the farm to an Englishman, who ‘would probably improve the farm’; a Welsh tenant ‘will do nothing and most likely undo many of the improvements which have been made’. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/23
DATE: 3 February 1840
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about the works on the Estate. Some tenants and workmen are named. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/24
DATE: 10 February 1840
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from Hall William Keary to the Duke, about new tenants for farms and the mill on the Estate, problems with paying the workmen and other matters. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/25
DATE: 17 March 1843
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from John Gardiner to the Duke, about the Crown’s rights to Botgoll mine. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/26
DATE: 7 July 1843
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Letter from William Henderson to the Duke about mineral rights. Also typed transcript of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/27
DATE: ?November 1837
SIZE: 2 ff
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: ‘Four week account of wages and salaries paid to workmen and artificers and employed on the Hafod Estate’ due 2 December 1837. Prepared by John Haslam.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/28
DATE: ?December 1844
SIZE: 4 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy: Abstract of Hafod Farm Accounts 23 November- 21 December 1844.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/29
DATE: 1835
SIZE: 12 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Hafod Estate â€" short abstract of the conveyance to the Duke of Newcastle.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/30
DATE: c. 1991
SIZE:11 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: John Borron’s notes on his visit to the Hallward Library, University of Nottingham, where the papers of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle are kept. See also FOH.A/01/31.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/31
DATE: 1991
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: John Borron’s notes on Mrs. Frances Emily Bridgeman-Simpson (referred to in the Duke of Newcastle’s papers), whose drawings of the Hafod are kept at her former home, Babworth Hall, Nottinghamshire. See also FOH.A/01/30.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/32
DATE: 1845
SIZE: 2 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy of extract concerning Duke of Newcastle (Pelham-Clinton), from Lodge’s Peerage of 1845. Includes illustration of the Newcastle Coat of Arms.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/33
DATE: 1846
SIZE: 2 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopies of 2 extracts from The Welshman newspaper, dated 1846, concerning the departure of the Duke of Newcastle from Hafod and Aberystwyth.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/34
DATE: c. 1991
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy of article entitled Two Views of Hafod by J. R. E. Borron concerning a watercolour and lithograph showing Hafod after the Duke’s phase of development, c. 1839.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/35
DATE: 1995
SIZE: 12 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy of article entitled Hafod in the time of the Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851) by E. D. Evans from Ceredigion XII (3): 1995.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/36
DATE: 1845
SIZE: 12 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy of document entitled Hafod estate â€" Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 6 March 1845; - for copies of all surveys and valuations of 7,438 acres 36 roods of land belonging to the crown, adjoining to the Duke of Newcastle’s Hafod estate, in Cardiganshire .....; includes transcriptions of extensive correspondence; valuations of land and properties and a copy of conveyance to the Duke of Newcastle by the commissioners for the crown, dated 6 October 1843 .

TITLE: FOH.A/01/37
DATE: 1832-1846
SIZE: 10 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of extracts from research paper entitled The Hafod Estate and the 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne 1832-1846 prepared by John Fletcher, c. 2000, comprises extracts from the diaries of the Duke of Newcastle.

TITLE: FOH.A/01/38
DATE: 1840-1841
SIZE: 40 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
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NATURE AND CONTENT: Photocopy of document concerning Hafod estate accounts entitled An Account of Receipts and Disbursements upon the Estate of His Grace The Duke of Newcastle K. G. by Hall W. Keary from Lady-day 1840 to Lady-day 1841. Comprises lists of the names of tenants, their properties and rents â€" also: Miscellaneous receipts; Parliamentary taxes and Parochial payments; Regular, fixed and voluntary payments; Incidental payments; Repairs of Buildings; Gates and Fences; Underdraining; Woods and Plantations; Roads, Pleasure Grounds and Gardens; Office Expenses; Game account; Hafod House; Farm; Cwmelan and Doly Clettwr Estate. Copied from manuscript in Nottingham University.