Major accessions to repositories in 2000 relating to Welsh History

Local

Anglesey County Record Office

• Town End, Beaumaris: deeds 1786-1889 (WM/1928)
• Ysceifiog township: deed 1596 (WM/1914)

Carmarthenshire Archive Service

• Dyfed-Powys Police: records 19th-20th cent
• Llanelli Harbour Trust: records 19th-20th cent
• Carmarthen bridge: blueprints c1938-39

Ceredigion Archives

• Sue Passmore, author of 'Farmers & Figureheads' (history of New Quay, Ceredigion) and other works (addnl): papers rel to history of New Quay and area (Passmore Papers)

Flintshire Record Office

• Peel family of Bryn-y-pys (addnl): family and estate papers 1835-1950
• DG Evans of Wrexham: notes, articles and papers rel to Hope and Caergwrle (1411)

Glamorgan Record Office

• Rous family of Courtyrala: family and estate papers c1620-1930
• Cardiff Bay Development Corporation: records 1987-2000

Powys County Archives Office

• Ashton family of Llawr-y-glyn: family papers (M/X/114)
• Williams family of Trewylan: estate papers (M/D/TRW)
• Bettws Pen-pont Parish Council: minutes 1894-1932 (B/PC/19)

West Glamorgan Archive Service

• Cadoxton-juxta-Neath manor: copy of 1602 survey
• Oystermouth parish and manor: deeds 1671-1939
• Talbot family of Margam and Penrice Castle (addnl): corresp and accounts of Emily Talbot 19th-20th cent
• William Paddison, land agent, Neath: papers incl rel to Eaglesbush and Gnoll estates 1792-1889

National

Museum of Welsh Life

• WTJ Davies of Porthcawl: typescript of his 'An Ogmore Vale Pioneer...', the story of John Williams (1848-1922), businessman and public figure 1999 (3803)
• Iorwerth Rees: typescript of his 'A glossary of medieval and post-medieval terms relating to south Wales' 1988 (3807)
• Rhys Griffith Roberts (1906-91), carpenter and undertaker, Y Ffor nr Pwllheli: photocopy of reminiscences (3802)
• Atlas Geirfaol Brycheiniog (A Linguistic Atlas of Breconshire) (1996): copy with completed questionnaires used in its compilation 1983-85 (3798/1-45)

National Library of Wales

• Celtic League: records 1963-91 (Celtic League Records)

University

Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives

• John Glyn Davies (1870-1953), Associate Professor in Welsh: misc papers (D.804)

University of Wales Bangor, Department of Manuscripts and Archives

• Robert Alun Evans: research papers for doctorate on Sam Jones, BBC and the development of broadcasting in North Wales (A-2002-2)
• Coleg Normal, Bangor: records (A-2000-15)