The Francis Jones Archive

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CARMARTHENSHIRE INFORMATION VI

Notes & Draft

Material collected by Major Francis Jones for his book 

Historic Homes of Carmarthenshire and Their Families


Carms. Information I INDEX A to K

Carms. Information II INDEX L to W

Carms. Information III INDEX Cawdor

Carms. Information IV INDEX General & Historical Notes

Carms. Information V INDEX Golden Grove

Carms. Information VI INDEX Notes & Draft

 

BOX Miscellaneous 1

File 1 – Arch. Cam. – general notes for lecture – extracted

File 1a – Agriculture – Wales generally

File 2 – Counties of Wales

Caernarvon – general notes

Coat of Arms

Flintshire

Gwent + article ‘The Land of Gwent’

Gwynydd – correspondence on Coat of Arms

File 3 – County Officers 

The Privy Council

The Lieutenancy in Wales

LL & Custodes Rotulorum (CR) in Wales

Cawdor – Transcripts of various documents

Lieutenancy of Cardiganshire

Lieutenancy of Carmarthenshire

Magistrates & Clerks of the Peace

File 4 – Grants of Arms – General

Aberystwyth

Cardiff

Carmarthen

Haverfordwest

Merthyr Tydfil

Mid-Glamorgan

Swansea

File 4a – Welsh Titles – General notes

Territorial titles

Surname titles

Welshmen with non-Welsh titles

Non-welsh people but with Welsh address in title

Lists of titles for Wales

File 5 – Historic Houses & families – General notes, Wales

File 5a – Houses (Wales) – Misc. Notes inc small pencil sketches

Views of historic houses – photocopies x 24 in Dyfed

File 6 – Homager – 1301 & 1343

File 7 – Jacobites – Notes

Extract from Red Dragon Vol 18 1885 (2 copies)

File 8 – Local History – Notes for lecture ‘Local History & its Sources’ 1971 extracted

File 9 – Medical – Notes + article extracted

File 10 – Military – Notes & list of Comm. Officers in Surrey Volunteers 1794-1845

File 11 – Newspapers – Notes extracted (nothing in file)

File 12 – Old Families of Wales

Lecture notes + article ‘Old families with special reference to 18th century’ extracted

File 13 – Parishes – Complete list of Wales as at February 1974

Carms. Parishes – 1913

Parish acreage’s 1896 for Wales

Pembs. Parishes – Acres

Landowners 1873 – Wales

Pembrokeshire

Cardiganshire

Carmarthenshire

Hundreds – 1896 for Wales

File 14 – People of Wales

Llwys Dwnn & The Parsons – notes + article extracted

Herbert – Notes

Prince of Wales

 – Cuttings

Notes on previous Princes of Wales

Photographs P of Wales x 3

Princess of Wales x 3

Duchess, unknown 

Pugh, Maj Gen – Pedigree of family

Brinley Richards – notes & letters

Harry Thomas (DJH) – armorial notes & correspondence

Roland Thorne – letters

File 15 – Princes, Kings, & Kingdoms of Wales

(a) Draft outline & notes + introduction extracted

(b) Early Kings – notes

(c) Kings & Princes – notes

(d) Ceiniog – notes

(e) Erging – notes + article ‘Erging & Ewias’ extracted

(f) Gwentllwg – notes & Pedigree

(g) Gwerthrynion – notes

(h) Meirionydd – notes + article 

(i) Os Maelian – note extracted

(j) Powys & Glyndwr

Wye & Severn

Arwystli & Cydewaun

(k) Rhos – notes + article ‘Rhos & Rhufoniog’ extracted

(l) Tegaingl – notes + essay (rough) 

        ‘Tegaingl – The Kingdom that never was’ extracted

Misc. – Edelygion(?) notes on Welsh tribes & Royal descents etc.

File 16 – Re-emergence – notes on early British dynasties

Re-emergence of British Kings

Early dynastic groups

Early Celtic Kings

File 17 – Saints & Princes – notes + essay on Welsh Saints by Rev. Rice Rees 1836

File 18 – The Land of Dyfed

1.   Chapter headings

2.   The Lords of the Land

2a. Gentry (file found in L of Dyfed group)

3.   The Tudor Period

3a. Agriculture in Wales

4.   The Domestic Scene

5.   Twilight

6.   Homes

BOX Miscellaneous 2

File 1 – Legend & Tradition

(a) Family Lore – Chap. I + article extracted

(b) Family origin – Chap II + article extracted

(c) Battle & Combat – Chap III + article extracted

(d) Heraldic Legends – Chap IV misc. Notes + article extracted

(e) The Family Name – Chap 4??? Notes + article extracted

(f) Escapes & Expenditure – notes

File – Family Legends & Traditions – notes

Articles extracted: 

(a) The Family Tales

(b) The Family legend

(c) The Lore of the Landed Gentry

(d) The Family Legends – origins

(e) Untitled, begins ‘In the area of Lampeter, Llanarch & Newquay’

File – Family Legends & Traditions – notes

File – Legend & Tradition – notes

File – Society of Sea Serjeants – notes

Notes typed 1726-1764

Lists of SS’s

Portry, Popkin & Powell

Philipps

Badge of SS’s 

File 6 – St. John – notes

+ address for Dinner of Order of St. John, extracted

Slebech Commandery & The Knights of O of St. J

File 7 – Wells of Wales – comprehensive notes

File 8 – Wells – Lists etc

OS 1 inch by county

OS 6 inch by county

Prayers, rites etc. Index cards by Well name

File 9 – Wynnstay – notes + article ‘Wynnstay in 1683-1686’ not extracted

File 10 – Dogs – notes on graves etc.

Pilgrimages – notes

Nat. Sav. Comm. – posters & letters

Wynn of Bodewryd, Anglesey

Misc. Notes

File 11 – Misc. – Notes including report on early Earldom of Hereford, not extracted

                               Blanche Parry – article by Charles Angell Bradford

Files 12 to 19 – Misc notes

File 20 – D. Jenkins (Head-master, Bottwnog School, N. Wales) 

a monograph by The Bishop of St. David’s x 2 note-books

File 21 – Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales 1541-1895

File 22 – John Speed's map of Carmarthenshire – 1610  

(not numbered on map)                  

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