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Janet, dau. of John Williams of Llandough, co. Glamorgan, by Mary his wife, dau. of David Morgan; born 30 October 1864; marr. at Llandough 27 January 1885.

Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp (eds) · vol. 16 (series begun 1893; entry dated after 1887) · New

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Page image checked 31 Oct 2026: the quoted wording matches the printed page (p. 152, right-hand entry under Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe MA, Exeter College Oxford, Vicar of St Michael's, West Hill, Ottery St Mary). Our inference: the same John Williams and wife Mary (born Cogan) of Great House; not confirmed.

Trayes, Valentine, s. of Wm. Trayes, of St. Teath, Camelford, Cornwall; b. 1827; m. 1855, Amelia, dau. of John Williams, of Llandough; j.p. co. Glamorgan: Maindee Hall, Newport, Mon.

Kelly & Co. · 1899 · New

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The J.P. is Valentine Trayes, not Williams. A daughter of a John Williams of Llandough married into the handbook's landed class in 1855. Our inference: a generation before John Williams of Great House (c.1828), so possibly his father; which Llandough is not confirmed.

The Jurors say that Edward Veghan ... was seized in his demesne as of fee of and in one messuage and four acres of land, with the appurtenances, lying and being within the parish of llandoghe upon eley in the county aforesaid, of the yearly value of five shillings beyond reprise : and then held them of george herbert, knight, as of his manor of llandoghe, by fealty, suit of court and by the annual rent of 2s.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1898 · New

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A Vaughan freehold (fee) in Llandough parish held of the manor for a small rent, plus "llandoghes marshe" pasture and stock. Shows freeholders under the manor in the 16th century. Our inference: relevant to the Vaughan line before the Williams family; not linked to Great House in the text.

Richard Reading, of Landough. Hath seene corne sold by Edward Vaughan of Landogh to John Harding his shipp.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1898 · New

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A Vaughan of Llandough trading corn by sea in 1584. Our inference: same family as the 1573 inquisition; not confirmed.

In 1563 the Coroner's Inquest returns a verdict of wilful murder against Edward Vaughan of Llandough-by-Penarth, gentleman, William Vaughan of Roath, gentleman (accessory), and others, for the death of Philip Robin of Lavernock, yeoman.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1900 · New

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Places the Vaughans as gentlemen of Llandough-by-Penarth (the Ely-side parish, not Llandough near Cowbridge). The same book notes his landed property was forfeited after he escaped.

The subsequent history of Llandough is the same as that of Cogan. It was purchased in 1793 by the Earl of Bute, and the Marquess of Bute is the present lord.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1900 · Already On Site

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Bute as lord of the manor of Llandough from 1793. Lordship of a manor is not the same as owning each freehold in it; the site's title chain already carries this source.

1596. The manor of Landoche-juxta-Cardif had free tenants, demesnes and copyholds. (Abbreviate.)

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1900 · New

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Free tenants existed in the manor in 1596, before the 1793 Bute purchase. The site uses this source for 1535 and 1543-1793; this 1596 line was not found on the site.

VAUGHAN, of LLANDOUGH, and GLYN-NETH. 1. Jenkin Vachan aforesaid, son of Howel Vychan, of Talgarth ... 4. Edward Vychan, of Landoche

Sir Thomas Phillipps (ed.) · c. 1845 · New

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A printed pedigree of the Vaughans of Llandough; the same page also names a Vychan "of Lecwith". The scan text is badly garbled, so read the page image before relying on the order of generations. Which Llandough is not confirmed.

Thomas, A. and Holbrook, N. 1995. Excavations at Great House Farm, Llandough, Cirencester, Unpublished Report

David Petts · 2009 · New

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A 1994-95 excavation report on Great House Farm, Llandough (Cotswold Archaeological Trust). Also cited in Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain (2001): "Excavations at Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff, South Glamorgan". The report itself was not found on the site.

INDEX TO PLACES IN THE PARISH OF LLANDOUGH JUXTA CARDIFF. COUNTY OF GLAMORGAN. … Llandough Farm … Llandough House … Ty-mawr … [all on 6-inch sheet XLVII, 25-inch sheet 6]

Ordnance Survey (Great Britain) · 1877 · New

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Page image checked: the 1877 Ordnance Survey index names Ty-mawr as its own place in the parish, listed separately from Llandough Farm and Llandough House (the scan text reads it as "Xjr-mawr"). Fits the site rule that Llandough Farm is not Great House Farm. The parcel tables in this book give plan numbers, acres and land use only, no owners or occupiers. The Leckwith index in the same volume lists Brynwell, White Farm, Woodlands and others but no Great House or Ty-mawr.

Williams, Miles, s. Charles, of Llandough-juxta-Penark, co. Glamorgan, cler. Jesus Coll., matric. 3 Nov., 1737, aged 18, B.A. 1741; M.A. from Jesus Coll., Cambridge, 1779, rector of Shermanbury, and vicar of Oving, Essex, 1781.

Joseph Foster (ed.) · 1891 · New

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"cler." here means the father, Charles Williams of Llandough-juxta-Penarth, was a clergyman. A Williams household in this parish in the 1730s with a son at Oxford. Our inference: no link to the Great House Williams line is shown; not confirmed.

Landoche Juxta Cardif cam to this gent, by Inheritance from his greate graunde mother who was doughter and sole heire to Sr Mathew Cradocke k: Yt hath free tenaunts demeanes and coppy houlds, and it is distant westwards from Cardif theire m'ket towne one mile.

J. Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1903 · New

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Manor-level survey text in full; the register's existing Cardiff Records vol. 2 row carries only the editor's abbreviation of it. The manor had free tenants, demesnes and copyholds, so lordship of the manor is not ownership of every holding in it. 'Juxta Cardif' and 'westwards from Cardif one mile' place this manor on the Cardiff side, not at Llandough near Cowbridge. Next: find which free or copy holding, if any, became Cydfin / Ty Mawr.

Landoch came to Sir William Herbert from his great-grandmother, daughter and heiress to Sir Matthew Cradock, Knt., which, after the death of Richard Herbert, Esq., married Sir William Bawdrip, Knt. In this lordship was the chief dwelling-house of Sir Matthew Cradock, Knt. [see Llandough Castle].

Thomas Nicholas · 1872 · New

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Parish-identity trap. The editor's bracket sends the reader to Llandough Castle (the Cowbridge parish), but the same survey printed in Cardiff Records vol. 4 p. 135 names 'Landoche Juxta Cardif', one mile west of Cardiff. Our inference: the bracket is the editor's own and joins the wrong Llandough. Do not use Nicholas's cross-reference to place this manor.

Near Penarth, to the south-west of Cardiff, is Cogan, the ancient seat of the Herberts de Cogan, ancestors of the present Marquis of Bute, and still belonging to his lordship's estate, now occupied by J. Stewart Corbett, Esq.

Thomas Nicholas · 1872 · Already On Site

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Page locator for the register's existing row (page was not recorded). Concerns Cogan, not Llandough or the farm. Bute ownership of Cogan does not show who held Cydfin / Ty Mawr.

By his will, dated 1531, he left a farm called Corners Well, situated to the south of Cogan Pill House, near Cardiff, to William Herbert, the eldest son of his grandson

Thomas Nicholas · 1872 · Already On Site

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Page locator for the register's existing row. Names a farm (Corners Well) south of Cogan Pill House. Not identified with Cydfin / Ty Mawr; keep as a separate holding. Next: the 1531 will (PCC) itself.

William Herbert de Cogan, Esq. [Sheriff 1551, 1556; son of Sir George Herbert of Swansea; built Cogan House, near Cardiff

Thomas Nicholas · 1872 · Already On Site

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Correction to the register: this is the county MPs list (entry for 1555) with sheriff notes in brackets, not a sheriffs list. The same page, under 1542, has William Herbert of Cogan 'who built the house at Cogan Pill'. Context only; no farm or Williams link.

Nicholas Herbert, of Cogan Pill, near Cardiff, and of Swansea, Esq.; was Sheriff of Glamorganshire in 1578 and 1587

Lewys Dwnn; ed. Samuel Rush Meyrick · 1846 · Already On Site

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Page locator for the register's existing row. The line is in the 1846 editor's footnote, not in Dwnn's own visitation text. Herbert of Cogan Pill only; no Williams or Vaughan of Llandough.

surviving Bute leaseholds were sold to the Western Ground Rents Company ur 1938.)

John Davies · 2002 · New

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Bears on the register's 1939 DBDT123/7 tenancy between Western Ground Rents Limited and John Williams. Our inference: if Western Ground Rents had bought Bute's holdings in 1938, that tenancy most likely ran from the company to Williams, the opposite of the direction we are testing. Not confirmed: the catalogue does not state who let to whom. Next: read DBDT123/7 itself.

In 1969 the BP pension fund purchased Western Ground Rents, and in 1973 the Post Office pension fund

Peter Scott · 1996 · New

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Second snippet: 'another property company, Western Ground Rents, in 1938. Western Ground Rents was established to acquire'. A printed source for the company chain from the Bute holdings toward a BP pension-fund owner. The BP pension fund purchase is on the site already; this book as its source is not. Next: pp. 89 and 182.

of 110 acres of land at Leckwith made by Western Ground Rents Limited.

· 1941 · New

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Leckwith, not Llandough; what was made (an offer, a sale, a lay-out) is cut off in the snippet. Next: read the page to see whether the 110 acres touch Cydfin or the Ely side.

The woody dell and the pill are known as Cwm Cydfin, and the pill forms the boundary between the parishes of Llandough and Leckwith. The name Cydfin is probably a corruption of a Welsh personal name

Alan Thorne · 1997 · New

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A local place-name book with a Cwm Cydfin entry. It places Cydfin on the Llandough-Leckwith parish boundary. Whether it has a Ty Mawr / Great House entry is not seen. Next: borrow and read the Cydfin and Ty Mawr entries.

No Llandough-by-Penarth result. Hits were Leigh-on-Mendip, Herefordshire, Abergavenny, Penllyne near Cowbridge (Great House Farm), Ambleston, Dolanog, Swansea.

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A report about this OCR corpus only, not proof that no directory lists the farm. The Penllyne (Cowbridge) Great House Farm tenant is a parish trap. Next: Kelly's / Slater's Glamorgan directories read page by page under Llandough.

No complete copy found online: not on archive.org, HathiTrust (catalogue API, OCLC 222009124: no items) or Open Library full text. A digitised copy is listed in the FamilySearch digital library (item 97208), which needs a sign-in.

George Thomas Clark · 1886 · Already On Site

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Availability screen only; the book is still unread. Next: the FamilySearch copy (sign-in needed) or a library copy; search it for Llandough, Landoche, Cogan, Leckwith, Williams and Vaughan.

Same 4 items as on 31 Oct 10:04Z (Visitation vol. 16; Kelly's Handbook 1897, 1899 and a later edition). No newly indexed book.

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Control search per the method guide. Kelly's 1897 and the later edition repeat the 1899 line already in the register; not added as new works.

In memory of Edward Vaughan, of this parish, gent. ; ob. 2 June 1722, aet. 79 years. [...] Edmond Vaughan, of this parish, gent. ; ob. 2 May 1770, aet. 79. Also Grace, his wife; ob. 2 November 1776 [...]. Ricardus Vaughan, armiger, qui obiit apud Cardiff, 12 Augusti, 1835, aet. sui 56.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1901 · New

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Page image checked 31 Oct 2026; wording matches. Vaughans styled gent. of the parish to 1770, and a Richard Vaughan, armiger/esquire, d. 1835 (the Latin stone reads 12 August, the editor's footnote 2 August). Our inference: Llandough-by-Penarth, because the same churchyard holds Morgan Matthew "of the parish of Lecwydd" (footnote: Leckwith) and the next section is Penarth; not confirmed. Names no Williams; it shows a Vaughan line still in the parish into the 18th century, which bears on when and how any Vaughan-to-Williams succession could have happened. Not found in the main-branch site text (code search "Edmond Vaughan", "Ricardus Vaughan": 0).

The Corporation have given the Marquess of Bute notice of their intention to purchase Leckwith Common. His Lordship is Lord of the Manor of Leckwith, and very nearly the sole commoner there.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1905 · New

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Page image checked 31 Oct 2026; wording matches. In 1889 the Corporation treated Bute as lord of Leckwith manor and very nearly the only commoner on Leckwith Common. This is about the common, not Great House Farm, but it is relevant to the 1958 Leckwith Common inquiry already on the site, where Mrs Buckler asserted grazing rights. Our inference: a 1889 record that names Bute as almost the sole commoner cuts against any Williams/Buckler common right existing then; not confirmed (the minute is the Corporation's view, not a court finding). Not found on the site (code search "sole commoner": 0).

Robert Jones, knight [John Vaughan, of Leckwith.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1905 · New

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OCR and inside-search text, page image not opened. In the list of prevosts (reeves) of Roath and Leckwith, the entry for about 1546 adds "[John Vaughan, of Leckwith." beside Robert Jones, knight; the bracket is the editor's. Our inference: a Vaughan of Leckwith serving as manorial officer under the lord in the 1540s, a local office rather than a landholding; not confirmed. Not found on the site (code search "John Vaughan" Leckwith: 0).

Morrice Vaughan, of Leckwith, yeoman, aged 65 years : Saith that he hath for above these fourty yeares last past knowne the ffarme of Beganstone in the Hamlett of Canton in the p'ish of Landaffe

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1898 · New

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OCR text (printed "MoRRicE"), page image not opened. A Vaughan of Leckwith styled yeoman in 1699, farming tithes under a lease. Our inference: not every Vaughan near Llandough was gentry; a pedigree surname is a lead, not a status finding. Not found on the site (code search "Morrice Vaughan": 0).

Sir Matthew Cradock had lands here in A.D. 1531, and perhaps his heirs at the Dissolution bought the manor, which descended from them to the Herberts.

C. A. H. Green · 1906 · New

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OCR text, page image not opened. Green traces the manor of Llandough (East, i.e. by Penarth) from Tewkesbury Abbey (1106) and the Prior of Cardiff to the Cradock heirs and then the Herberts, and gives the Marquess of Bute as church patron in 1835. "Perhaps" is the author's own hedge. Manorial lordship and patronage are not ownership of each freehold. Names neither Vaughan nor Williams. Not found on the site (code search "Matthew Cradock": 0).

grants by small freeholders of messuages and lands in Llandough, the Abbot of Tewkesbury is named as lord

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales · 1976 · New

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Search snippet only; the book is loan-only. Medieval Llandough had small freeholders holding of Tewkesbury Abbey. Our inference: freehold tenure under a lord existed in the parish early, so a later Williams freehold is not ruled out by Bute's lordship; not confirmed. Not found on the site (code search "small freeholders": 0).

Anthony Mathew of Leckwith having no estate sufficient to qualify him to serve on Juries in this County, it is ordered that he be struck off the Freeholders' Book.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1901 · New

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Inside-search text, page image not opened. Lead, not a Williams finding: the county Freeholders' Book (jury list of freeholders) is a record type that would show whether any Williams of Llandough or Leckwith held a qualifying freehold. The vol. 6 index lists jurors "of Llandough, 1767" (William and John Mathew, vol. 3 p. 241). Next: read the 1767 jury list and any printed Freeholders' Book extracts for Williams.

Richard Powell, of Cardiff Evan Williams, of Leckwith John Lewis, of Leckwith Morgan Dowall

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Snippet only; what the list is (jurors, subscribers, freemen) and its date are not read. Lead: an Evan Williams of Leckwith. A surname in a list is a lead, not a status finding.

TY-MAWR (the great house ) The name of one of the more important dwelling-houses in nearly every parish of Wales. It is an alternative name of Llys-du (q.v.), Roath. Ty-mawr, near Rumney church, is a large farmhouse of the 16th century, with mullioned windows. It was the manor-house.

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Negative results, kept on purpose. (1) Quoted from the OCR text with three scan slips put right (dwelhng, nearl}', {q.v.); page image not opened. The 1905 Cardiff place-name schedule's Ty-mawr entry names Roath and Rumney only, and its Llandough entry names no house; no Cydfin entry. (2) Zero hits on archive.org full text for: "Williams, John, Great House", "Williams John, Great House", "John Williams, Great House", "Ty Mawr, Leckwith", "Tymawr, Penarth", "Great House, near Penarth", "Buckler, Llandough", "Llandough, farmer", "Llandough, gent", "Llandough, esq", "late of Llandough", "Williams, Llandough-juxta-Penarth", "Vaughan of Cogan", "Ty Mawr, Llandochau", "tenant of the Marquis of Bute", "Leckwith estate". (3) Traps: "Great House, Llandough" (2 hits) is Llandough near Cowbridge; "Ty Mawr Road ... named after Great House Farm" (Natural History of Cardiff) is north Cardiff by the A470; "Ty Mawr, Penarth" hits are a modern street (Cwrt Ty Mawr). (4) Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1834 ed.), Llandough-Penarth and Leckwith entries name no landowner or house, only Bute as patron (already in the register).

The Constables Return of Jurors. ... Dynaspowis Hundred ... Landough John Mathews Wm Williams Wm Mathew

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1901 · New

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Page image checked 31 Oct 2026. The print gives "Wm" with a raised "m" and sets the names in two columns: under Landough (Dinas Powis hundred, so Llandough by Penarth, not the Cowbridge parish) stand John Mathews, Wm Williams and Wm Mathew. The volume index lists "William, juror, of Landough, 1767" under Williams. A constables' return of jurors listed men qualified by property to serve (statute qualification not checked in this run). Limits: no house or farm is named; Williams carries no "Mr" here while Anthony and Thomas Mathews of Leckwith do. Our inference: a William Williams of Llandough held enough property in 1767 to be returned as a juror, which fits a freeholding or long-leasehold family; not linked to Great House or to John Williams (d. 1908), who later sat as a juror of the Bute court leet.

23. William Williams Weaver of Landough near Penarth.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1903 · New

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Page image checked 31 Oct 2026. Entry 23 in a numbered list of settlement certificates brought into Cardiff; the index dates it 1738. A settlement certificate was the poor-law paper a parish gave a person moving elsewhere, so this William Williams of Llandough by Penarth was a weaver of working standing, not gentry. Cuts against a gentry reading for every Williams of the parish. Not linked to Great House or to the juror of 1767 (same name, possibly a different man).

1767. The manors of Dinaspowis, Landough East and Cogan (with other manors), were in the hands of William Hurst of Gabalva and Calvert Richard Jones of Swansea. They had married two ladies who had become entitled to the estates of this branch of the Herbert family.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1900 · Already On Site

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Page locator for a line already on the site (data/title-chain.json 1767 entry). vol. 3 p. 240 page image checked 31 Oct 2026. Fills the gap between the Herberts and the 1793 Bute purchase: in 1767 the manorial lordship of Llandough (East) sat with Hurst and Jones through Herbert heiresses. Lordship of a manor is not ownership of every holding in it; the line does not mention Great House.

1275. (c.) Walter Thorgot granted to William de Regni a messuage in Landoch, lying on the south side of the church of Saint Doguin, near the cemetery, to hold of the Abbot of Tewkesbury. ... The de Reigny family purchased a large number of small holdings in Llandough and adjoining parishes about this time. Nearly 60 conveyances to them exist.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1900 · New

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Full text read, page image not opened. Shows that from the 13th century Llandough had many small freehold holdings that changed hands by private conveyance under the abbey as lord, the same tenure form as the 1596 "free tenants, demesnes and copyholds" line already in the register. Our inference: a freehold farm inside a Bute-owned manor is a recognised pattern here; this does not show who held Great House.

Inquest taken at the house of William Richards in the parish of Michaelston-upon-Eley in the county of Glamorgan, on view of the body of Mary William, late of the parish of Landough-juxta-Penarth in the said county, spinster, found that the deceased, as she was returning home from Cardiff Market and endeavouring to go along Leckwith Causeway, was surrounded by the tide and accidentally drowned.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1900 · New

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Full text read, page image not opened. A Mary William (patronymic form) of Llandough by Penarth, 1763. Presence of a William(s) name in the parish only; no house named, no status shown. Kept so the register shows the name is common in the parish and not by itself a link to the family.

The manor has almost continuously been in the hands of the Lords of Cardiff. The only exception known was during the period for which it was held as one fourth of a knight's fee by the family of Sandford.

John Stuart Corbett · 1925 · New

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Full text read, page image not opened. Corbett was solicitor to Lord Bute. Leckwith manor (not Llandough) stayed with the Lords of Cardiff, that is later the Bute family. Cuts against any reading that Leckwith manorial land passed to a Williams family. Limits: manorial lordship only; free tenants holding land inside the manor are not covered by it (see the next row).

It may be mentioned here that many manors contained small portions of land held in Welshery, owing no service except suit to the Court of the Manor. The farm known as Brynwell, in the Parish of Leckwith, is an instance, and there are several others in various places.

John Stuart Corbett · 1925 · New

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Full text read, page image not opened. A tenure form: farms inside a lord's manor held in Welshery, owing only suit of court, so held almost as freehold. Brynwell is a Leckwith farm, not Great House. Our inference: a Williams freehold inside the Bute manors would be of this kind; no Llandough instance is named here.

Llandough Marsh, held by Edward Vaughan, 1573

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1911 · New

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Lead, index only. An Edward Vaughan held Llandough Marsh in 1573. The text page was not found in this run ("Landough marsh" and "Llandoughe" phrase searches gave nothing in the body). Next: read vol. 1 and vol. 2 around 1573 for the holding and its tenure.

(no quotation: zero or out-of-scope results)

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All 14 phrases gave 0 hits. Traps met again: "Great House, Llandough" = the Cowbridge house (Photographic Survey of Glamorgan; Thomas, South Wales); "Williams, Great House" = Treoes and Pipton. Illustrated Guide to Cardiff (c.1890s), "Leckwith and Llandough": village description only, no landowner. Usk Past and Present text file still answers 504, so the Evan Williams of Leckwith list stays unread.

In 1793, Bute had bought up the estates of Calvert Richard Jones. These included the manors of Kibbor, Cogan and Leckwith, the advowsons (rights of patronage to a church benefice) of Llandough, Cogan and Leckwith, as well as several farms, including properties at Cogan, Roath and at Henstaff in

Alan Thorne · 1997 · New

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Our inference: the 1793 purchase from Jones, as this book lists it, gave Bute the manors of Cogan and Leckwith and the Llandough advowson (church patronage), with farms named at Cogan, Roath and Henstaff. No Great House, Ty Mawr or Williams is named in the lines read; the sentence runs on past the snippet. Kibbor and Henstaff do not appear on the site.

connections, too, with their kinsmen, the Butes, who owned the parishes of Cogan and Llandough.

Alan Thorne · 1997 · New

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A 1997 secondary book describes the Butes as owning the parishes of Cogan and Llandough. It gives no date or source for that in the snippet. This is the usual account, the opposite of the case being tested.

Abstract of Indentures of lease and release, respectively dated 10 & 11 Jan. 1793, being a mortgage for [£]20,500 from Calvert Richard Jones to Henry L[e]e and John Richards, of the manors of Newton Nottage, South Corneley, Dinas Powis and Highlight [...] A schedule to this deed gives particulars as to the acreages of the properties, the names of the tenants and also the rents payable.

National Library of Wales; Francis Green · 1921 · New

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Full text read, page image not opened. The parishes listed in this January 1793 mortgage include Dinas Powis, St Andrews and Merthyr Dyfan but not Llandough, Cogan or Leckwith. Our inference: that fits those manors leaving Jones for Bute the same year. The tenant schedule covers the mortgaged parishes only. Lead: the original deed (NLW Coleman D.D. 899) for a 1793 tenant list of the Jones estate.

George Howells, esq., recovered from Thomas Herbert, gent., the manors of Denis Powis, alias Dinas Powis, Tregarreeke, Kibber and Cardiffe Comely, alias South Cornely, Landough alias Llandough juxta Pennarth, Coggan and Newton alias Newton Nottage and 110 messuages, 2 water corn mills, 110 gardens, and 2140 acres of land in Cardiff, Crockertown and Swanzey and in the parishes of St. Andrews Pennarth, Landough juxta Penarth, Coggan, Merthir Dovan

National Library of Wales; Francis Green · 1921 · New

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Full text read, page image not opened; "110" is our reading of the OCR "no". A common recovery is a conveyancing step, not a sale. It shows the manor of Llandough juxta Penarth with the Herbert line in 1714, before the Hurst/Jones heiresses. No Williams or Vaughan is named.

Elizabeth, married Calvert Richard Jones who on 11th January, 1793, sold the share to Lord Bute. The sister, Lucy, married Mr Hurst who in 1791 also sold to Lord Bute the portion allocated to his wife, the whole of the Grey Friars thus becoming

William Rees · 1962 · New

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Screen: these sales of 1791 and 1793 are the Grey Friars site in Cardiff, not Llandough. Kept so the 11 Jan. 1793 date is not read as the Llandough purchase. It does show the heiresses selling to Bute in shares, 1791 and 1793.

Edward Vaghan, of Landoghe [by Penarth], aged 22 years.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1903 · New

Question: Vaughan succession · Row type: finding · What was opened: OCR / full text (stage 4)

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Full text read, page image not opened. The editor places this Landoghe by Penarth. A deponent who, with others, made statements that their parishes had been wrongly taxed by the Earl's commissioners. Vaughan presence at Llandough in 1557-58 (born about 1535).

Edward Henry, of Llandoch. 1723 September 22. To William William "one great loom and warp loom and one old loom & half other my implements excepting the little loom belonging a weaver." 20s. to Mary William, of Michaelstone-le-pitt.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1901 · New

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Full text read, page image not opened. The book does not say which Llandough; Michaelston-le-Pit is the next parish to Llandough by Penarth (our inference: this one). A William William receives weaving looms in 1723. With the 1738 "William Williams Weaver of Landough near Penarth" row, this points to a weaving household of that name, not gentry. Name match only: no link to Great House shown.

Landough plar]ish Edmond Lewis Esg!. Edward William Kath: Clayton Blanch John widd. Francis Richard Edmond Reddin David Morgan Mr. Vaughan

South Wales Record Society (ed.) · 1994 · New

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Lead. OCR printed as it stands. The index keeps this Llandough apart from Llandough near Cowbridge (our inference: by Penarth). A "Mr. Vaughan" and an "Edward William" are listed in 1670. A second "Landough" heading on the same page lists other names, so which list is which parish is not checked. Next step: the page image, for hearth counts (a proxy for house size).

Thomas Morgan of Landough Gentleman. | Amongst the subscribers to and compilers with the Test Oaths this year are David Morgan, and Thomas Morgan of Landough. | 1741. Thomas Morgan, Gent. Landough.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.); Lemuel J. Hopkin-James · 1903; 1901; 1922 · New

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Seed lead closed. The 1738 list is a burgess admission (St Donats, Llanharry, Monknash and Llantwit Major men in the same batch), not a jury list. The same man appears on the Cowbridge maces in 1741, and Cardiff Records vol. 4 p. 402 has "Richard Morgan of Landough Castle" (1833). Our inference: this Thomas Morgan is of Llandough near Cowbridge, so out of scope. No land beside him to trace.

Representatives, from whom descend Messrs. Calvert Richard Jones, of Swansea, and Edward Herbert Lee

John Montgomery Traherne · 1840 · New

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Snippet only. Links the Jones and Lee heirs of the 1790s back to the Cradock line, which Green 1906 gives as holding Llandough lands in 1531. Context for how the manor reached the 1793 sale; no Williams named.

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Zero or out-of-scope results. Cardiff Records vol. 3, searched whole, has no Landough juror return after 1767 (seed lead: later jury lists 1770-1830 are not in this volume; they would be in Glamorgan Archives Quarter Sessions, not in print here). The book behind the site's "Mansion of Llandough" line (1543/1793, p. 66, title not yet supplied) was not found in either index. The 1824 Bute estate plans named in Glamorgan Historian vol. 9 cover Llantrisant and Caerphilly in the lines seen. "Great House, Llandough" hits are again the Cowbridge house. Google Books API and HathiTrust full-text did not answer from this box.

Agreed & concluded upon by & Between Margery Williams of the p'ish of Penarth in the County of Glamorgan widd' of the first part William Williams Clerk Rector of Leckwith Llandough iuxta Penarth & Cogan in ye sd County of ye second parte And Edward Williams of Penarth aforesd in ye sd County of ye third parte as followeth

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1900 · New

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The agreement goes on: Margery Williams took 'one messuage & twenty and four acres' at the Court Baron of the manor of Penarth & Barton (8 Oct 1702) for three lives in succession (Margery, William, Edward) 'att the pleasure of the sd Lord', under the custom of the manor, i.e. a copyhold for lives held of the lord of Penarth manor, not a freehold. Our inference: an early-18th-century Williams family, one of them the parish rector of Llandough-Leckwith-Cogan, holding land at Penarth as tenants of the manor. No link to Great House / Tŷ Mawr is made in the text, and the holding is in Penarth, not Llandough. A surname match, so a lead only.

Williams, William, s. Owen, of Ecclouglan, co. Glamorgan, cler. Jesus Coll., matric. 30 Oct., 1705, aged 18; B.A. 1709, M.A. 1712; rector of Leckwith, co. Glamorgan, 1714. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.

Joseph Foster (ed.) · 1891-92 · New

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Transcribed from the OCR of the printed entry, with obvious OCR slips corrected ('Tbsus' = Jesus, 'x8' = 18, 'X714' = 1714); page image not opened. Spelling 'Ecclouglan' as printed in two scans (OCR in a third gives 'Ecdouglan'); our inference: probably Eglwysilan, not Llandough, but not confirmed. Identifies the William Williams, rector of Leckwith (with Llandough and Cogan) named in the 1716 agreement, as the son of a clergyman, Owen Williams. Clergy status is a standing marker for this one man; it does not show he was of the Great House family. Lead only.

Rickards, Rev. H. H. K.| Llandough, Cardiff - 90 1 13

Local Government Board (Parliamentary Papers) · 1875 · New

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Screen, not a finding of absence: in the Glamorgan list (owners of one acre or more), the only owners with a Llandough address are Rev. Stephen Nicholl (Llandough, near Cowbridge), E. W. Richards (Llandough Castle, Cowbridge) and Rev. H. H. K. Rickards (Llandough, Cardiff, about 90 acres; our inference: the rector, glebe). No owner named Williams or Buckler is listed with a Llandough, Leckwith or Cogan address; the Marquis of Bute is listed at Cardiff Castle. Limits: the list gives the owner's own address, not where the land lay, so a Williams owner living elsewhere would not show; the OCR of the columns is poor. As read, it does not support Williams as freeholders at Llandough in 1873.

the lords of Cardiff held the manor of Leckwith which included 1 5 o [150, as OCR'd] acres on

Moelwyn I. Williams · 1975 · New

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Snippet only; the rest of the sentence was not seen. Medieval context: Leckwith manor held directly by the lords of Cardiff (whose lordship later passed to the Bute family). Relevant to the tenure question for the manor, not for Great House as a holding.

The manor descended with those of Cogan and Leckwith, all which were purchased by the late Lord Bute.

Cambrian Archaeological Association (article attributed to G. T. Clark, not confirmed) · [1870s, volume year not on the scan] · New

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Said of the Grey Friars manor in Cardiff (Herbert family after the Dissolution). Fits the account that Bute bought the Cogan and Leckwith manors from the Herbert line (via Calvert Richard Jones, 1791-93). It is about the manors, not about Great House as a farm; it does not settle who held the farm's freehold.

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No book line found showing a Williams letting land to Bute, or Bute as anyone's tenant, in any of the Llandough, Leckwith, Cogan or Penarth forms. Every 'lease/let/rented ... Marquis of Bute' hit was outside the area. Out of scope and set aside: the Memorials of Oxford line about Jesus College buying 'that of Llandough, or Llandoch' (Llandough near Cowbridge, our inference); Glamorgan Historian vol. 10 on Anthony Mathews, juror for Leckwith 1767 (not Williams); Bro Morgannwg (1998, Welsh, loan-only) has a 'Llandochau Fach' entry, but the snippets carry no Tŷ Mawr or Williams line; Kelly 1895 'Morgan & Williams, Leckwith road' is a Cardiff firm. Blocked from this box: Google Books API (daily quota), HathiTrust, Welsh Newspapers, Welsh Journals (bot checks), BHO (403).

WILLIAMS, The Rev. MILES B.A. 1779, incorp. from Oxford; M.A. 1779. Adm. at JESUS, July 2, 1779. S. of the Rev. Charles, of Llandough, Penarth, Glam. Matric. from Jesus College, Oxford, Nov. 3, 1737, age 18; B.A. (Oxford) 1741. R. of Shermanbury, 1762-86, and V. of Oving, Sussex, 1781-6.

J. A. Venn (comp.) · 1954 · New

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Second, independent source for the Alumni Oxonienses row already in this register: it names the father as "the Rev. Charles" of Llandough, Penarth (the Penarth parish, not the Cowbridge one) and gives Miles a lifespan of about 1719-1817. Miles held livings in Sussex from 1762. Our inference: this clerical Williams household of Llandough in the 1730s had moved its next generation to Sussex; Alumni Oxonienses (1715-1886, "Williams, Charles (3)") lists a son Charles, "s. Miles, of Ashurst, Sussex, cler.", matric. 1763. Nothing here links this line to Great House or to the Williams of 1908; not confirmed. Charles himself was not found in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 under Charles (1)-(3), and he is not rector of Llandough in 1763 (Nathaniel Wells, R. 1756-1779, in The Diocese of Llandaff in 1763).

Llandogh V (St. Tocho,) with [Cogan] (St. Peter,) and Letwych, alias Leckwith, R. (St. James.) [...] Edward Herbert, Esq. 1714. William Powell, Esq. 1753, 1756. William Richards, Esq. 1783. Elizabeth Jones and William Hurst, 1784.

John Bacon (after John Ecton) · 1786 · New

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The names after the benefice are the patrons who presented to the living, with the years of presentation. The patronage of Llandough with Cogan and Leckwith runs Herbert (1714), Powell (1753, 1756), Richards (1783), then Elizabeth Jones and William Hurst (1784), the same Herbert-to-Jones/Hurst line that held the manor before 1793. No Williams or Vaughan appears as patron. Our inference: the advowson followed the manorial lords; this shows nothing about who held Great House as a freehold, and it does not show Williams standing at the level of patron. Recorded because it cuts against Williams as holders of the manor or living in the 18th century.

DC/E/13 PENARTH, 1550-1739 Manor of Penarth, and tithes, and the site of the manor of Barton, called Cannon Court, co. Glamorgan, and lands and appurtenances DC/E/13/1 Copy of lease, 1544 [recte 1550]. DC/E/13/2 Surrenders, 1710-1739.

Isabel M. Kirby (ed.) · 1970 · New

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Lead, not a finding. The Williams agreement already in this register (Cardiff Records vol. 2, pp. 507-508; the vol. 6 index dates it 1716 and names William Horton, gent., steward of the manor of Penarth and Barton) concerns a holding taken at the Court Baron of the manor of Penarth and Barton. This catalogue shows that manor belonged to the Dean and Chapter of Bristol and was let to a lessee ("farmer"), with surrenders of the lease for 1710-1739 in DC/E/13/2. Our inference: the court rolls for the Williams copyhold, if they survive, would sit with the Dean and Chapter of Bristol estate papers (Bristol Archives) or the lessee's papers, not in a Cardiff archive. Not checked against the documents themselves. Penarth manor is next to Llandough, not the same holding as Great House.

Williams, W. [...] Cardiff . . - 22 3 17 33 10 // Williams, William [...] Ely, near Cardiff - 9325| na 5

Local Government Board · 1875 · New

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Screen, not a finding. The OCR prints names and addresses as separate columns; the alignment above is our reconstruction from the last Williams block, where name and address counts match. Read that way: W. Williams, Cardiff, 22 a. 3 r. 17 p., gross rental 33 pounds 10s.; William Williams, Ely near Cardiff (extent and rental illegible). Earlier blocks also show Williams owners at "Cardiff", "Roath Court, Cardiff" and "Canton", but those columns cannot be aligned with confidence, and two "Williams, John" entries with Cardiff addresses have no legible acreage. No Williams owner has a Penarth address. Our inference: a William Williams of Ely may be the William, son of Christopher Williams of Ely House, gent., who died "at Glyntfig, Ely, 1886, aet. 67" (Cardiff Records vol. 3, p. 576, Llandaff Cathedral inscriptions); Ely is across the river from Leckwith, outside the parish. The Return gives the owner's address, not where the land lay, so it cannot show whether any of these owned land at Llandough or Leckwith; not confirmed.

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No book line found naming Charles Williams as incumbent of Llandough, Leckwith or Cogan; the 1763 visitation book lists Nathaniel Wells as rector 1756-1779 and records that the three livings were consolidated in 1698. No court-roll text for the Williams holding in the manor of Penarth and Barton was found in print beyond Cardiff Records. No line found showing a Williams as landlord of Bute, as "gent." or "yeoman" of Llandough or Leckwith, or as heir of a Vaughan of Llandough. Welsh-form phrases returned nothing. A zero here reflects these indexes only.

He married in 1872 Blanche, the elder daughter of the Reverend James Williams Evans, Vicar of Costessy, near Norwich, who was the son of the Reverend James Evans, formerly Rector of Llandough, Cogan, and other parishes near Cardiff, the incumbent of which was known locally as “The Angel of the Seven Churches.”

John Stuart Corbett (memoir by the editor) · 1925 · New

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Our inference: ties the incumbent of Llandough, Cogan and Leckwith (the glebe holder named in the tithe apportionment) by marriage to the family of the Bute estate solicitor; the same memoir (p. 11) records that Corbett became Solicitor to Lord Bute in 1890. Nothing here concerns Great House Farm or the Williams family directly.

Corbett, who came to Cardiff in 1841 as agent to his relative, the 2nd Marquess of Bute. He lived first in rooms at Rhyd-y-Penna Farm, near Llanishen, and on his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of James Evans, of the Gorther Co., Radnor, he removed to Maindee (a house near Cardiff, now included in the City boundaries), and later to Cogan Pill when the repairs and alterations to that old house had been completed.

John Stuart Corbett (memoir by the editor) · 1925 · New

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Our inference: the Bute agent (from 1841) took up residence at Cogan Pill, a neighbouring house, not Great House. The site already carries a 1924 drain agreement between the Marquess of Bute and J. P. S. Corbett; the Cogan Pill residence line itself was not found on the site.

In 1872 he married Blanche, the elder daughter of James Williams Evans, vicar of Costessey, near Norwich, the son of a former rector of Llandough, near Cardiff.

Henry John Randall · 1959 (online edition) · New

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Read on the live page. The same article states the father came to Cardiff in 1841 as agent to the 2nd marquis of Bute and that Corbett was solicitor to the Bute estate 1890-1917. Our Llandough (near Cardiff). Lead only for the Williams question.

Evans, James, s. James, of Llandaff, co. Glamorgan, gent. Jesus Coll., matric. 20 Nov., 1800, aged 18; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807. B.D. 1815, fellow until 1818, vicar of Bonvilstone, co. Glamorgan 1811, rector of Penarth 1820, and of Leckwith with Llandough and Cogan 1826, until his death 16 Dec., 1862.

Joseph Foster · 1888 · New

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Dates the incumbency of the glebe holder named in the tithe apportionment: Leckwith with Llandough and Cogan from 1826 to 16 Dec. 1862.

Evans, James Williams, 1s. James, of Llandaff, co. Glamorgan, cler. Trinity Coll., matric. 21 June, 1838, aged 18; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847 (? P.C. Costessey, Norfolk, 1845).

Joseph Foster · 1888 · New

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Lead only. The rector's eldest son carried the middle name Williams; whether that marks a Williams family connection (for example through his mother) is not shown in this entry and not checked.

At Llandough Rectory, near Cardiff, aged 80, the Rev. James Evans, B.D.

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Death notice of the incumbent; agrees with the 16 Dec. 1862 date in Alumni Oxonienses. Search snippet; page number not read.

adjoining parish church of Llandough to which Cogan is united. James Evans. Rector.

General Register Office (ed. Ieuan Gwynedd Jones and David Williams) · 1976 · New

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1851 return naming James Evans as rector of Llandough with Cogan. Search snippet; page number not read.

Llandough rectory. Llandaf Bounty Plan, 39, 1840.

Paul Joyner · 1997 · New

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Lead only. Cites a Queen Anne's Bounty plan of a Llandough rectory, 1840 (National Library of Wales, Llandaff diocesan records); which Llandough is not stated in the snippet. If it is the Llandough near Cardiff, the plan may show the rectory and glebe beside Great House Farm.

Morris Vaughan, of Penarth. 1707 December 27. Chattel Lease called Rogers Moores, in the parish of Penarth, to John Vaughan and Wenllian his wife.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1901 · New

Question: Vaughan succession · Row type: finding · What was opened: OCR / full text (stage 4)

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A Vaughan of Penarth (neighbouring parish, not Llandough) passing a leasehold by will in 1707. Not linked here to the Vaughans of Llandough or to Great House.

Nant Cedwyn is the name of a brook which runs into the Ely in the parish of Leckwith, near Cardiff, and Cwm Cedwyn is the woody dell on the right bank of the Ely, between Leckwith and Llandough.

S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher · 1908 · Already On Site

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Place-name evidence for Cedwyn on the Ely between Leckwith and Llandough. Already cited on the site (e-book place-name page).

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No book line found showing a Williams as landlord of Bute, as gentry of Llandough or Leckwith, as heir of a Vaughan of Llandough, or a Buckler at Great House. Out of scope and set aside: a 1604 Exchequer plea by the Earl of Pembroke against a Morgan Williams over the title to the town of Cardiff (Cardiff Records vol. 1) and an 1880s letter on Bute rent for the Old Barracks site in Cardiff (vol. 5), both Cardiff town; a farm at Leckwith Bridge taken by the parents of Thomas Thomas c.1805 (Dictionary of Welsh Biography), a different holding. A zero here reflects these indexes only.

Evans, Rev. J., B.D., Llandough Rectory

Taliesin Williams (ed.) · 1848 · New

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The whole subscriber list was read. The only Llandough subscriber is the rector (Rev. James Evans, B.D., rector of Leckwith with Llandough and Cogan 1826-62). No Williams subscriber of Llandough, Leckwith or Cogan appears; the Williams entries are of Roath Court, Llandaff (the chancellor), Marcross, Aberpergwm and places outside the three parishes. Closes this lead with a negative.

WILLIAMS, Miles (1719-86): In 1758, then curate of Ashurst, he kept a school there [qv]. Son of Rev Charles, of Llandough, Penarth, Glamorgan: matriculated Jesus College, Oxford

John Caffyn · 1998 · New

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A third printed source (after Alumni Oxonienses and Alumni Cantabrigienses, already in this register) for a Rev. Charles Williams of Llandough by Penarth in the early 18th century; it adds the son's dates (1719-86) and a school at Ashurst, Sussex, in 1758. A clergy family of the surname in the parish: a lead only, not a status finding, and no link to Great House or to the later Williams family is shown in the text.

Hunt, 1849, p.17 (at Windsor Place). NLW St Davids, Bounty Plan 121, 1833. Llandough rectory. Llandaf Bounty Plan, 39, 1840. 2. Slater's, 1850, p.22.

Paul Joyner · 1997 · New

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Follow-up to the Bounty Plan 39 lead already in this register. The surrounding footnotes place the plan-maker at Windsor Place, Cardiff (Hunt's directory 1849, Slater's 1850). Which Llandough the 1840 rectory plan covers is still not stated in the text; a Cardiff maker fits the Llandough near Cardiff but is our inference only. The plan itself (NLW, Llandaff diocesan Bounty papers) not checked; the NLW catalogue refused automated access this run.

the Friars estate which extended over the whole of Cathays and the greater part of Cogan and Leckwith. Furthermore, he acquired much of the Great Heath following its parliamentary enclosure in

John Davies · 2002 · New

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A modern summary of the Bute acquisition: the Friars estate is described as extending over the greater part of Cogan and Leckwith. It names parishes, not holdings, and does not mention Llandough, Great House or any Williams; it cuts against a reading of Williams freehold only in so far as it presents Cogan and Leckwith as mainly Bute land. The sentence before the quoted words (who acquired it, and when) not read.

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No book line found showing a Williams paying a chief rent or owing suit of court in Llandough, Leckwith or Cogan, a Williams of Llandough as sheriff, J.P. or listed freeholder, a Vaughan co-heiress marrying a Williams, or a Buckler at Great House. The marriage of Rev. James Evans (vicar of Bonvilstone 1811, rector of Penarth 1820) was not found in print. South Glamorgan: a County History (Barry, 1975) is not online in full text; the Cadw register cites its chapter P. Moore, Penarth, pp. 116-38, as the likely place for Llandough and Cogan (lead, not read). The Glamorgan hearth tax 1670 index gives Llandough (Landough) at p. 91 (page image loan-only, carried over).

Town Clerk reported that he had received notices from the promoters of the Barry Docks and Railway Company, of their intention to apply for parliamentary powers to acquire certain property of the Corporation in the parishes of Cogan and Llandough-juxta-Cardiff.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1905 · New (Not Found On Site: Code Search On Main For "Barry Docks And Railway", "Llandough-Juxta-Cardiff" = 0; Section Branches Not Indexed)

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Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

OCR reads "Llandough- ju.xta-Cardiff"; corrected here. Our inference: the Cardiff Corporation held property in Llandough and Cogan in 1882, so Bute was not the only outside landowner in the parish. It does not name the Williams family or Great House.

A low level service reservoir at Cogan, and a high level service reservoir at Llandough, situate 170 feet above the level of Cogan Reservoir, with pumping engines at the latter place for forcing the water up to Llandough Reservoir, from whence it could flow by gravitation to and for the supply of Penarth.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1905 · New (Not Found On Site: Code Search On Main For "Llandough Reservoir", "Service Reservoir" = 0)

Question: tenure direction · Row type: lead · What was opened: OCR / full text (stage 4)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Works under the Cardiff Waterworks Company Act of 1860. The book does not say who sold the reservoir land at Llandough. If Great House land went to the reservoir, the seller would show who owned it in 1860; that needs the deposited plans or the conveyance, not a book. Gas Journal (1897/1904) puts the Leckwith reservoir about 400 yards from the Llandough one.

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Question: standing · Row type: negative_screen · What was opened: search (stage 1)

Citation: Printed source (full link in the CSV)

No book line found showing a Williams owning Great House or Ty Mawr, letting land to Bute, holding gentry standing, or inheriting from the Vaughans. "Great House, Llandough" and "Llandough Rectory" hits were all Llandough near Cowbridge (Walsh/Vaughan lords there), not Llandough-by-Penarth. Tymawr hits were street atlases and Tymawr Road. Moore, "Penarth", in South Glamorgan: a County History (1975) is not online; only cited (Cadw register). The Bounty Plan 39 (1840) lead is a rectory plan by a Cardiff architect: a dead end for these questions.

They go with the farms to a great extent, but there are a good many cottages held direct from Lord Bute, particularly in the villages of Leckwith- and Llandough ; there are a "good many cottages there.

Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire · 1894 · New (Not Found On Site: Github Code Search On Main For "Manors Of Llandough And Cogan" / "Held Direct From Lord Bute" = 0; Section Branches Not Indexed)

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: OCR / full text (stage 4)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

The witness is the Bute estate surveyor (Q. 5711: Glamorgan portion 22,000 acres). At Q. 5712 he lists "the Manors of Llandough and Cogan" among the estate's manors, and at Q. 5737 he names the village of Llandough and Leckwith as the only game-preserved part. Our inference: in 1894 the Bute estate presented itself as landlord of farms and cottages in Llandough and Leckwith. No farm is named; Great House / Tŷ Mawr does not appear. Which Llandough: Llandough-by-Penarth (paired with Cogan and Leckwith).

Mr. John seems to have wished to represent to the Commissioners that the land sold was held on chief or manorial rents. Of course that statement I do not suppose had any weight because it would be manifestly absurd tht Lord Bute could sell land held on chief rents or manorial rents. As a matter of fact the pieces of land sold were freehold, exactly the same as any other portion of Lord Bute's Estate.

Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire · 1894 · New (Not Found On Site: Github Code Search On Main For "Royal Commission On Land" = 0; Section Branches Not Indexed)

Question: tenure direction · Row type: lead · What was opened: OCR / full text (stage 4)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Our inference: in 1894 an earlier witness (Mr. John) put it to the Commission that land the Bute estate had sold was land held of Bute only by chief or manorial rent (that is, not Bute freehold); the Bute surveyor answers that the pieces were freehold. The answer does not name the parishes of the pieces sold ("detached pieces ... a long way from the centre of the estate"), so it is not a Llandough record. It shows the chief-rent versus freehold question being argued about Bute land in Glamorgan at that date. Mr. John's own evidence is a lead (not read yet).

In 1803 on the Earl of Bute’s estate at Llandough, alabaster, fullers earth and black marble

Arthur H. John and Glanmor Williams (eds.) · 1980 · New (Not Found On Site: Github Code Search On Main For "Alabaster" = 0; Section Branches Not Indexed)

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: search highlight (stage 1)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Fragment only (the sentence continues past the search highlight; page not checked). Our inference: the book treats Llandough as part of the Bute estate by 1803; the alabaster and marble point to the coast near Penarth, so likely Llandough-by-Penarth, not checked. No farm is named.

In 1818 the whole manor except Leckwith was purchased from the Earl of Llandaff by Sir Samuel Romilly, whose sons sold it in 1852

Stewart Williams (ed.) · 1974 · New (Not Found On Site: Github Code Search On Main For "Whole Manor Except Leckwith" / "Romilly" = 0; Section Branches Not Indexed)

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: search highlight (stage 1)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Joined from two overlapping search fragments of the same text. The manor is the manor of Llandaff (the same passage records a gamekeeper of the manor of Llandaff who was a juror for the parish of Leckwith, 1767). Our inference: a Leckwith part of the manor of Llandaff stayed with the Earl of Llandaff (Mathew) in 1818, so a lordship other than Bute reached into Leckwith. Keep distinct from Great House / Tŷ Mawr, which this does not name.

One of these rare instances is that of Leckwith, near Cardiff. Part of the land of the manor of St. George extends into

Stewart Williams (ed.) · 1962 · New (Not Found On Site: Github Code Search On Main For "Manor Of St. George Extends" = 0; Section Branches Not Indexed)

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: search highlight (stage 1)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Fragment; the sentence continues past the highlight ("extends into" [Leckwith], index p. 81). Our inference: manor and parish boundaries did not match in Leckwith; part of St George's manor lay in Leckwith parish. A reminder to keep holdings distinct unless a record joins them.

daeth y faenor, y pentre hardd ffiwdalaidd a'i lecyn helaeth o dir glas, y “Tŷ Mawr” — a'r eglwys a'r persondy megis dan ei adain

Islwyn Jones · 1998 · New (Not Found On Site: Github Code Search On Main For "Ffiwdalaidd" = 0; Section Branches Not Indexed)

Question: standing · Row type: finding · What was opened: search highlight (stage 1)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Our translation: "there came the manor, the fine feudal village with its broad patch of green, the 'Tŷ Mawr' (Great House) — and the church and the rectory as if under its wing." A general description of the Norman settlement pattern of the Vale, not a Llandough record. Our inference: in Vale usage "Tŷ Mawr" names the chief house of a manorial village beside church and rectory, which matches the site's placing of Tŷ Mawr beside St Dochdwy's; a naming pattern, not a status finding.

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Question: standing · Row type: negative_screen · What was opened: search (stage 1)

Citation: Printed source (full link in the CSV)

No book line found showing a Williams owning Great House or Tŷ Mawr, letting land to Bute, holding gentry standing, or inheriting from the Vaughans. No printed book of reference for the Barry Dock and Railway Act (1884) or the Cardiff waterworks (1860) is online in the indexes searched; the deposited plans would be in an archive. "Landoghe and Sayntemariechurche", "Great House, Penllyne" and Robert Williams, gent., steward (St Nicholas manor) are other places. Williams of Tymawr hits are Brecon and Caernarfonshire families. Google Books API refused (daily quota); HathiTrust not tried.

The Marquess of Bute is lord of the manor and principal landowner.

Kelly's Directories Ltd · 1920 · New

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: OCR full text (stage 4)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

OCR text read in full; page image for p. 711 not opened. Same paragraph: the living is a rectory with Leckwith and Cogan annexed, “in the gift of the Marquess of Bute”, and Penarth water comes from “two reservoirs in the parish of Llandough, and one in the parish of Leckwith, the property of the Cardiff Corporation” (p. 711). A directory records the lord and the main owner; it does not list smaller freeholders, so it does not rule out a Williams freehold. Not found on the site (code search "principal landowner": 0).

Williams Jenkyn Morgan, farmer … Williams John, farmer

Kelly's Directories Ltd · 1920 · New

Question: presence at GHF · Row type: finding · What was opened: page image viewed (stage 5)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Page image of p. 721 viewed: two Williams farmers are listed under LLANDOUGH (the Llandough-by-Penarth list inside the Penarth entry), with no farm names printed. Our inference: "Williams John, farmer" fits John Williams Jr (John Williams Sr d. 1908), and one of the two may be the Great House / Tŷ Mawr farmer; not confirmed, because the directory gives no farm name. Not found on the site (code search "Jenkyn": 0; "Williams John, farmer": 0).

Marked thus † farm 150 acres or over. … Williams J. M. Llandough, Cardiff … Williams John, Llandough, Cardiff

Kelly's Directories Ltd · 1920 · New

Question: standing · Row type: finding · What was opened: page image viewed (stage 5)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Page image viewed: neither Llandough Williams entry carries the † mark, so in 1920 neither farm was listed at 150 acres or over (the mark is the directory's own key). "Llandough, Cardiff" is the Penarth-side parish; the Cowbridge parish is printed "Llandough, Cowbridge" in the same list. Our inference: as a 1920 directory listing this points to working farmers rather than a landed family; it gives nothing on who owned the land. Not found on the site.

The grandfather of the deceased gentleman was Mr. William Mathew, fifth in descent from Sir David, who inherited certain family estates at Cogan, and was lord of the manor of Leckwith.

F. D. Eagan (publisher) · 1872 · New

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: OCR full text (stage 4)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Full OCR text of the notice read. A Mathew of the Llandaff line held the lordship of Leckwith and estates at Cogan (our inference: 18th century, from the generation count; the notice gives no date). Fits run 12's Glamorgan Historian line that the manor of Llandaff was sold in 1818 “except Leckwith”. Leckwith had its own lords besides Bute; no Williams link is stated. A newspaper, not a book. Not found on the site (code search "manor of Leckwith": 0; "William Mathew": 0).

It was held by the Earl of Pembroke in the seventeenth century.

C. A. H. Green · 1906 · New

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: OCR full text (stage 4)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

OCR text read. "It" is the manor of Leckwith (p. 53: in 1179 held by Griffith ap Ivor; 1262 a quarter fee held by Fulco de Santford; 1316-17 held by the Earl). So Leckwith manor was a Herbert (Pembroke) holding in the 1600s, before any Bute title. Context for the chain of lordship only; no Williams named. Not found on the site (code search "held by the Earl of Pembroke": 0).

The manor of Llandough, together with the priory of Cardiff and the manor of West Llantwit, formed one of the principal Glamorgan properties of Tewkesbury Abbey. … confiscated by the Crown and afterwards sold to Edward Ferrers, Lord Clynton. The remains of the grange were discovered and partially excavated by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust in 1979

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales · 1982 · New

Question: tenure direction · Row type: lead · What was opened: search snippet (stage 3)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Search fragments only, joined in order; the page was not seen. The Clynton sale is already on the site (data/title-chain.json); new here are the printed source and the grange site found and dug in 1979. Where the grange stood in the parish is not in the fragments (not checked). Year: the text cites a 1979 dig, so this scan is the 1982 volume; the earlier register row dates the same scan 1976 (not checked).

ceased to live at Cogan Pill which became a farmhouse. It was purchased by Lord Bute in 1790 and was restored ca. 1850 to serve as a house for the agent of the Bute estate.

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales · 1982 · New

Question: tenure direction · Row type: finding · What was opened: search snippet (stage 3)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Search fragments only. Cogan Pill (not Great House Farm) came to Bute by purchase in 1790, three years before the 1793 Bute purchase of Cogan, Leckwith and Llandough given on the site; the two dates may be one transaction or two (not checked). Shows Bute buying freeholds in the area in the 1790s. Not found on the site (code search "purchased by Lord Bute in 1790": 0).

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Question: presence at GHF · Row type: negative_screen · What was opened: search run (stage 2)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Nothing in scope. Kelly 1920: Buckler entries are in Cardiff, Barry and Llandaff only, none at Llandough; its Great House and Ty-mawr entries are other parishes (Llancarfan and others). Tymawr Farm hits are Powys and Brecon. "Great House" Penarth hits are Laleston and Bonvilston. Usk Past and Present lists "Evan Williams, of Leckwith" in a list whose heading was not read (archive.org timed out; lead kept).

Ty Mawr Road leading to the A 470 was named after Great House Farm, which worked land from here right down to the Taff.

Mary E. Gillham · 2002 · New

Question: presence at GHF · Row type: finding · What was opened: full-text snippet (stage 3)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Our inference: this is a different Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr, at Whitchurch by Forest Farm on the Taff (north Cardiff), not Tŷ Mawr at Llandough-by-Penarth. It is a conflation risk: any record of a "Great House Farm" or "Ty Mawr" near Cardiff needs its parish checked before it is used. The same book names Cwm Cydfin (Nant Cydfin, the Llandough-Leckwith boundary brook) separately. Not found on the site (code search "Ty Mawr Road", "Forest Farm", "Gillham": 0).

Part of the North Road, from the Ffillog Brook to Tongwynlais, was assigned to the surveyorship of Anthony Mathews of Ty Mawr, gentleman.

John Hobson Matthews (ed.) · 1901 · New

Question: presence at GHF · Row type: lead · What was opened: OCR full text (stage 4)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

OCR prints "Tongvvynlais" (read as Tongwynlais). Identity unresolved: an Anthony Mathew(s) is elsewhere recorded "of Leckwith, gent." (Cardiff Records index vol. 6; gamekeeper of Llandaff 1763; trustee 1805), but the road he oversaw runs north of Cardiff toward Tongwynlais, so our inference is that this Ty Mawr is the Whitchurch house (see the Gillham row), not Tŷ Mawr at Llandough. Not a Williams record. Lead only: a Mathew family link to a Tŷ Mawr would need a deed or rate book to place it. Not found on the site as a Ty Mawr reference.

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Question: presence at GHF · Row type: negative_screen · What was opened: search run (stage 2)

Citation: Internet Archive scan (full link in the CSV)

Nothing in scope. "Williams, Llandough" hits are Llandough Hospital staff (20th c.) and R. H. Williams of Llandough, Cowbridge (other Llandough). "Cydwin" and "Cedfin" hits are unrelated languages; "Cydfin" hits are the Cwm Cydfin brook (already in the register). Lewis's "Llandough, a parish" entry is the Cowbridge parish. Blocked: Google Books API (daily quota), HathiTrust (bot check), BHO (403); archive.org downloads and page images answered 502/503 for part of the run, so the heading of the Usk Past and Present list naming "Evan Williams, of Leckwith" (p. 424) is still unread.

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