Reference code(s): GB 0208 D/DM/292
Held at: Flintshire Record Office
Title: Pentre Hobyn MSS
Short title: Pentre Hobyn manuscripts
Dates of creation: 1611-1950 (predominantly 18th century)
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 79 items
Name of creator(s): Pentre Hobyn estate
Administrative and biographical history: Edward ap Dafydd of Pentre Hobyn married Mallt, daughter of Robert Lloyd Hen. The estate descended in the male line for six generations. The seventh generation, Edward Lloyd, married Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Lloyd of Trevor Hall, Vale Crucis Abbey, and Glanyrafon, Montgomeryshire. Their only surviving heir was Margaret Lloyd, who inherited the estates on the death of her brothers. She married Rice Thomas of Coed Helen, who lived at Brynyneuadd, Caernarfonshire, in 1782. Margaret and Rice were succeeded by their daughter, Pennant who married Col. William Iremonge of Wherwell Priory, Hampshire. Their heir was Pennant Athelwoed Iremonger Lloyd, who assumed the surname of Lloyd in 1872 under the will of his grandmother, Margaret. Pennant was succeeded by his son, Commander Pennant Athelwoed Iremonger Lloyd.
Scope and content: Estate title deeds, 1611-1911, and miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1861-1950.
Language/script: English
System of arrangement: Arranged into the following: deeds, family papers, legal papers, estate records, and miscellaneous items.
Conditions governing access: Data Protection Act restrictions will apply to any items less than 100 years old that contain sensitive personal information as defined by the Act.
Conditions governing reproduction: Usual copyright regulations apply.
Finding aids: Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Flintshire Record Office and the National Register of Archives.
Detailed catalogue
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records deposited at Flintshire Record Office have been retained.
Accruals: Accruals are not expected
Immediate source of acquisition: Deposited by Mrs M.I.E. Clarke in July 1971 and October 1976.
Related units of description: Further papers are Flintshire Record Office, D/KK.
Note: Title supplied from contents of fonds
Archivist's note: Compiled by Mair James for the HMC/NLW Family and Estates project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Griffith, John Edwards, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (Wrexham, 1998 reprint); Burke's Landed Gentry (London, 1952).
Rules or conventions: This description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2 and LCSH
Date(s) of description: October 2001
Estate administration | Wales | Gwynedd
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