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Correction — 15 October 2026: a plan image identified by the family as associated with the 1877 Daniel Thomas & Son agreement is already in the Media Library and is now displayed here. The image’s presence does not establish that the full instrument or its operative wording has been located; the exact legal character of the transaction remains open.
Correction — 20 October 2026: the plan’s date and origin are unknown. It was disclosed in 2026 with a family statement. It is not shown to come from the 1877 agreement, which is not yet in hand [SOURCE PENDING]; our case, prospective, links the two. It is the only known source for the three-way split of Parcel A, much as Parcel B is known from the 1939 tenancy plan.
INFERENCE / PROVISIONAL RECONSTRUCTION — NOT A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1877 INSTRUMENT
The plan image is a spatial clue for testing the extent of the Williams house parcel and its relationship to later field tenancies. The working alternatives remain a sale of the house parcel or a quarry/mineral arrangement with the freehold effect unresolved. The plan alone cannot decide that legal character; compare the 6 November 1877 counterpart lease, Bute X.6(12) accounts and the 1938 Bute–WGR conveyance.
Evidence preview
Preview embedded — partial evidence only. A plan image identified by the family as associated with the 1877 Daniel Thomas & Son agreement is displayed above (WordPress Media Library item 89). The full instrument text is still recorded as not located; the image is not a substitute for the operative deed or lease terms. Status checked 15 October 2026.
1. The evidence
The full 1877 instrument text is not currently attached to this Wiki. A plan image identified by the family as related to the agreement is displayed in the evidence preview above; it is partial evidence, not the deed or lease itself.
Catalogue UID: GHF-E115 · Custodian/source copy: bucklerfamily.estate. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
Description
3. What is not known
2. What is known
Catalogue: GHF-E115 · Type: Estate transaction document (conveyance or lease; character open) · Date of document: 1877 · Holder: not located; candidates are the Bute estate papers (National Library of Wales), Glamorgan Archives and Cardiff Library · Evidence status: PARTIAL related plan image available; full instrument text not located 🕒
FAMILY EVIDENCE. Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement describes a Bute transaction separating the farmhouse and about 10 acres from about 9 acres Bute kept, with a Daniel Thomas quarrying arrangement. [SOURCE PENDING] A Cardiff Library copy of the deed and its index card were lost in 1984.
- Whether it was a freehold conveyance or a quarry lease.
- Its operative terms, plan and any reverter on the end of quarrying.
- Whether any copy survives outside the family papers said to have been removed c.1950–52 (E123).
Transcription
Open transcription
No verbatim transcription is included in this entry as at 10-10-2026. Where the source contains legible text, transcribe it faithfully and mark illegible or uncertain words rather than silently reconstructing them.
Interpretation and wider context
UNRESOLVED. Companion records that would decide the character of the transaction: E116 and E117. 🕒
ReOrg · The 1877 Agreement · Evidence Library
Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.
High-level Cedwyn Estate theory cross-reference: This is a starting point for the Cedwyn Estate title hypothesis, but the 1877 item is catalogued as an agreement whose effect may have been a sale or a quarry lease. It becomes more evidence of an estate split only if the original terms, plan, reservations and later completion/vesting documents establish what land and interest passed. Do not treat the title of the catalogue entry as a conclusion. Read the Cedwyn Estate Working Theory.
Instrument identity and provenance boundary
This entry concerns the family-reported Bute–Thomas arrangement relating to the Great House Farm house/quarrying parcel. It must be kept distinct from the photographed 6 November 1877 Clyde Street, Roath building lease and the checked 2 May 1877 Pembroke Terrace, Cardiff lease. Neither Cardiff instrument is a substitute for the unlocated Bute–Thomas instrument or its plan.
The current evidential status remains limited: the family identifies this arrangement from recollection and related records; the original instrument and the complete associated plan have not been independently authenticated here. Keep “sale,” “quarry lease,” conditional transfer/reverter wording and parcel extent as questions until the operative document or reliable contemporary record resolves them. See EV-0008, EV-0213 and the Kissed Frogs register.
Page version & change log
Current version: 1.0.1
| Version | Date (UTC) | Editor (human or agent name) | Change | Source / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.1 | 2026-10-20T21:21Z | Cedwyn editors | Plan of the Williams parcel (media 89): date and origin now shown as unknown; disclosed 2026. The link to the 1877 Daniel Thomas & Son agreement is marked as our case, prospective (agreement not yet in hand). Nothing removed. | Family statement disclosed 2026; 1877 agreement SOURCE PENDING |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-18T15:31Z | Cedwyn editors | Footer standardised; earlier log rows carried into this table; no content change | Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026 |
| 2026-10-18 (rollout date; exact time not separately recorded) | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed this page-local append-only change log and agent instructions. Existing page content was not intentionally rewritten. | User-directed site-wide changelog standard. Saved via WordPress API; public rendering of this page not yet independently checked. |
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