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Deeds relating to the Bryngwyn Estate and Sandbach family
Reference code(s): GB 0223 M/D/BRA/2818
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Title: Deeds relating to the Bryngwyn Estate and Sandbach family
Short title: Deeds relating to the Bryngwyn Estate and Sandbach family
Dates of creation: 1729-1955
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s): Withers Solicitors, London
CONTEXT
Administrative and biographical history: In 1830, Samuel Sandbach (1769-1851), of Liverpool, Lancashire, bought the Hafodunos estate, Llangernyw, Denbighshire, from the Rev. Thomas Hugh Clough, the son of the heiress of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos. Samuel Sandbach was sheriff of Denbighshire 1839, and sometime mayor of Liverpool. Samuel was succeeded by his son, Henry Robertson Sandbach (d. 1895). In 1855, he married Elizabeth Charlotte Williams (1827-189[]), daughter of Martin Williams, of Old Hope, in the parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica, and of Bryngwyn, in the parish of Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire, the son of Martin Williams (c.1723-86) of the parish of St James, Jamaica. Henry Robertson Sandbach was succeeded by his son, Samuel Sandbach (1856-1928), who was succeeded in turn by his brother Major-General Arthur Edmund Sandbach CB, DSO (1859-1928), of Bryngwyn. In 1902, Major-General Sandbach married Ina (b. 1867), daughter of George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant (1836-1907), 2nd Baron Penrhyn, and left issue.
CONTENT
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ACCESS AND USE
Language/script: English
System of arrangement: Not yet catalogued
Conditions governing access: No restrictions
Conditions governing reproduction: Usual copyright regulations apply
Finding aids: Not yet catalogued
Detailed catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records retained
Accruals: Are not expected
Archival history: In the custody of Withers Solicitors, London
Immediate source of acquisition: Deposited by the British Records Association
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related units of description: M/D/SAND - Bryngwyn collection [NB this collection is closed; permission to view must be sought from depositor]
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anna Page, Assistant Archivist at Powys County Archive Office.
Rules or conventions: This description follows guidelines provided by UWA Department of Information Studies, based on ISAD(G) 2nd edition, 2000
Date(s) of description: July 2008
