| Description | Cawdor estate, manorial records of the Manor of Burton, 1840-1920; Manor of Walton East, 1793-1920; Manor Court court rolls, 1793-1920; suit rolls, 1797-1874, jurymen, 1802-1860; writs, 1794-1884; register of admission of Freemen, 1766-1812; burgesses list, 1780-1832; post-1832 electoral papers, 1833-1895, Wiston Estate miscellaneous, 1794-1915; Cawdor Estate general conveyances, [c.1848]-1920; and Manor of Burton, chief rents, 1926-1936.
Arranged into the following: Manorial records; burgesses list; electoral papers; miscellaneous; Cawdor Estate; and Manor of Burton.
On the death of Sir Gilbert Lort, of Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, in 1698, the estate passed to his sister and heiress, Elizabeth, who was married to Sir Alexander Campbell, of Cawdor Castle, Scotland. Through this marriage, the Campbells attained substantial estates in Wales. She died in 1714, and her great-grandson, John Campbell of Stackpool Court, was created Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, in 1796. His son, John Frederick (1790-1860), was elevated to an earldom in 1827 as Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin. The second Earl was his eldest son, John Frederick Vaughan Campbell (1817-1860). He was the MP for Pembrokeshire, 1841-1859, and was married to Sarah Mary Cavendish (d. 1881). Their eldest son, Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell (1847-1911), was the 3rd. Earl of Cawdor, from 1898-1911, and Viscount Emlyn, 1847-1898. He was the Conservative MP for Carmarthenshire, 1874-1885. The Cawdor estate in Pembrokeshire included the lordship of several manors; it alos owned the Wiston estate.
Finding aids: Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Pembrokeshire Record Office and the National Register of Archives.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records deposited at the Pembrokeshire Record Office have been retained.
Accruals: Accruals are not expected.
RTP/CAW/1 - Manorial Records
RTP/CAW/1 - 4 Manor of Burton
RTP/CAW/5 - 20 Manor of Walton East
RTP/CAW/21 - Manor and Borough of Wiston (The principal business of the court was the appointment of mayor and other officers, the presentment of new tenants, and the admission of burgesses)
RTP/CAW/21 - 35 The Manor Court
RTP/CAW/36 - 49 Burgesses Wiston (No form of qualification was necessary nor was there any limitation on the numbers of burgesses The principal privilege was that of voting with the burgesses of Tenby and Pembroke for an M.P. (until this power was removed by the Reform Act of 1832), and so the creation of burgesses became a political weapon in the hands of the Lord of the Manor who was the Earl of Cawdor.)
RTP/CAW/50 - 53 Post 1832 Electoral Papers
RTP/CAW/54 - 67 Miscellaneous
RTP/CAW/68 - 73 Cawdor Estates General |