| Description | The records listed here cover a period from the late eighteenth century to middle of this century. A certain amount of information about the earlier history of the family can be found in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography and a copy of an early family tree is recorded in Peniarth Ms. 156 is available in West Wales Historical Records Vol. II. For the sake of convenience, files of R. T. P. Williams and previous firms relating to the Mathias family have been listed with this collection. It should be noted that Henry Mathias, one of the younger sons of Charles Mathias, was a member of the firm of Evans, Powell and Mathias, a predecessor of the firm of R. T. P. Williams.
The records are arranged as follows:-
Title deeds and related papers
Camrose nos. 1-6
Haroldston St. Issells no. 7
Hasguard nos. 8-33
Lamphey nos. 34 - 91
Letterston, Jordanston etc. nos. 92 - 102
Llanstinan, Fishguard nos. 103 - 107
Pembroke no. 108
St. Nicholas, Llanwnda nos. 109 - 118
Wills, settlements etc. nos. 119 - 131
Leases, tenancy agreements etc nos. 132 - 154
Estate papers Manor of Lamphey nos. 144 - 167
Lamphey estate nos. 168 - 187
Llangwarren estate nos. 188 - 197
General estate papers nos. 198 - 211
Maps and plans nos. 212 - 217
Personal papers George Mathias nos. 218 - 228
Rev. William Mathias nos. 229 - 257
Office files nos. 258 - 376
Grace Mathias' trust nos. 381-418
Grace Mathias was one of the daughters of David Mathias of Fishguard. She inherited various estates in and near Fishguard from her aunt, also called Grace Mathias (d.1788). She conveyed all the estates to Charles Mathias, her brother, and Thomas Mathias on trust to sell and to hold the proceeds in trust for any children which she might have and for the children of her sister Elizabeth Bevan. Grace Mathias died on 18th May 1834.
Charles Mathias' Gloucestershire estate nos. 419 - 429
Charles Mathias lived at Paradise House, Gloucs., for some years in the 1820s. In 1830 he purchased Guirshill Farm at Lydney which included a wharf and timber yard at Purton on the River Severn. Many of the papers in this section relate to his efforts to develop a railway line to Purton to facilitate the exploitation of the mineral wealth of the Forest of Dean, (see also D/RTP/MAT/232)
Charles Mathias' miscellaneous nos. 430 - 431 |