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D-RTM - Records of the Milford office of R. T. P. Williams and Sons, solicitors

1 - Clients' files of Eaton Evans and Williams, Barlow Street, Milford Haven

2 - Wills,related files and papers

3 - Clients' accounts, debt collecting activities, files re accidents and injuries, and general clients papers

4 - Small groups of papers re particular people or families

5 - Deeds of Milford Property

6 - Deeds of property in other parishes (arranged, in alphabetical order of parish)

7 - Lettered bundles (These are draft deeds tied in bundles with an identifying letter corresponding to the surname of one of the parties)

8 - Miscellaneous leases and related papers

9 - Personal agreements

10 - Shipping, including Notorial

11 - Sale particulars and related papers

12 - Maps and Plans

13 - Acts of Parliament and Associated Papers

D-GRE - Papers of the Greenish family

HPO - Papers of the Harcourt Powell Family

JAV - Papers of James Vaughan of Milford Haven

MDC - Milford Docks Company Records and Correspondence

1 - Bundle of 25 letters from Carr,Bannister, Davidson and Morriss to Messrs. Mathias Evans and Evans concerning agreements between the Docks Company and the National Provident Institution over the foreshore at Hubberstone Pill, Victoria Bridge and other lands in Milford as part of the Docks Company's new act of Parliament 1874 - 1877, about port charges made by the Phosphate Sewage Company 1877; also about the agreement over lands and keelage dues 1880 and winding up of the Docks Company 1881

2 - Bundle of 13 letters between Walter Wood of the Docks Company and Mathias Evans and Evans for the National Provident Institution about the work on the docks, a dinner for the working men and tenants within the limit of deviation of the works, a visit by Sir Charles Whetham to view the works at Milford, the value of lands required from the institution by the Docks Company, a meeting to appoint directors of the Docks Company and about Victoria Bridge

3 - Letter from Daniel Jeff to J. E. Evans, Esq. at the Estate Office, Milford about terms of a lease of Sands and Blackets premises

4 - Letter from Sir Charles Whetham to J. E, Evans about land required by the Docks Company

5 - Two letters from Lewis Wilson to J. E. Evans about property required by the Docks Company and its value

6 - Letter from John Harvey to J. E. Evans for the Milford Haven Estate, asking which tenants of property required by Docks Company had been, given notices to quit

7 - Copy letter to Messrs. Luard and Sherley of Cardiff from J. Eaton Evans asking if they could recommend an engineer and surveyor whom the Milford Haven Estate could consult with regard to property required by the Docks Company, with reply from Luard and Sherley giving two names

8 - Five letters from G. Fleming Simon and Henry Ranee of the National Provident Institution to Mathias Evans and Evans about the property required by the Docks Company

9 - Letter from engineer, J. Taler to J. Eaton Evans with tracing showing deviation of railway line required in order to put in a station below the Lord Nelson Hotel

10 - Letter from Charles Hood, Secretary of the Docks Company to J. Eaton Evans about the election of directors of the Docks Company

11 - Twenty two letters from Marriott and Jordan to Mathias Evans and Evans for Milford Haven Estate about the property required by the Docks Company and some copy letters from Mathias Evans and Evans about collection of rents for this property

12 - Fourteen letters between Frederick Appleby, the contractor for the Milford Docks Company, and Mathias Evans and Evans about the works and about disagreements and disputes. Also about land slips in Milford

13 - Eight letters from Charles Hood to J. Eaton Evans about the capital of the Docks Company and inconvenience caused by partial closing of Hubberston Pill

14 - Letter to Mathiasp Evans and Eyans from the Clerk to the Improvement Commissioners for Milford about taking steps to re-open the Pill in an attempt to help the industry and trade of the town, hit by delay on the .Docks project

15 - Letter from Mathias Evans and Evans to Henry Ranee of the Docks about the damage to trade and industry caused by the delay in the Docks Works

16 - Three letters to Mathias Evans and Evans from J. Ll, Davies, Ship and Boat Builder concerning the damage caused to trade and business in Milford by the cessation of work on the Docks

16a - Eight letters .from Sir Charles Whetham to J. Eaton Evans about the enterprise at Milford, obtaining a post for Perkins as a butler at the Mansion House, London, inviting the Eaton Evans's to the Lord Mayor's Banquet and other miscellaneous matters

17 - Twenty letters between Captain Hood and J. Eaton Evans about a landslip at Milford and about a lease of National Provident Institution property

18 - Nine letters between J. Taler and J. Eaton Evans about further property required by the Docks Company and about the drainage from the Lord Nelson Hotel causing the landslip there

19 - Five letters between Captain C. Hood and J. Eaton Evans about the financial affairs of the Docks Company

20 - Two letters from Henry Ranee about property required by the Milford Docks Company

21 - Twelve letters between Charles Hood and J. Eaton Evans re rent due from the Docks Company to the Milford Haven Estate for use of the Patent Slip

22 - Letter from Thomas Lewis re sending all the papers relating to lands taken by Milford Docks Company from 1874

23 - Six letters about the difficulties of the company during the year

24 - Small notebook containing list of shares promised to be taken in the Milford Docks Company

25 - Prospectuses for the issue of share capital

26 - Reports of the Directors of the Docks Company with balance sheets from 1882

27 - Milford Docks Company - Proceedings of meetings of shareholders

28 - Poster re sale of 900 £10 shares of the Milford Docks Company, to be offered by auction

29 - Circular to the debenture stock and shareholders of the Milford Docks Company from Charles C. Hood, about exchanging holdings in the Dock Company for holdings in a proposed new United Company in order to raise more capital

30 - Bundle containing letter from Joseph Nelson to the shareholders reporting on a meeting and asking for support for the appointment of an independent committee of shareholders

31 - Report by three shareholders, G. W. Jones, William Manger and Chas. C. Jeffery, as to whether Mr. Lake had been paid the money which his agreements with the Company entitled him to

32 - Circular letter from Joseph Morton to the shareholders asking for support in his attempt to prevent the compulsory liquidation of the Company

33 - Advertisement, and proxy papers for an ordinary meeting and a special general meeting of the proprietors of the Docks Company together with a circular from Mr. Joseph Nelson explaining the position of the Docks Company and the actions necessary to retrieve the situation

34 - Letter from Samuel Sheppard and Arthur Cooper, Receivers of the Docks Company, to the debenture stock and shareholders asking for a further subscription

35 - Notices of two meetings with proxy papers for the election of directors and auditors and other business connected with the financial difficulties of the Docks Company

36 - Agreement for letting and hire of land for Oyster Beds at Milford

37 - Agreement for letting and hire of land in Hubberston Pill for Oyster Beds

38 - Copy agreement for the sale and purchase of land and foreshore rights in the parishes of Steynton and Hubberston

39 - Draft agreement between the National Provident Institution and the Milford Docks Company to refer to the arbitrator, the Honourable Acton Smee Ayrton, the conveyance to the Docks Company of property named in the schedule. With plan

40 - Surrender of lease for eighty years dated 29 Jun 1886 of a piece of land with the existing buildings thereon with a frontage to Point Street, Hakin in the parish of Hubberston. Other boundaries given

41 - Draft assignment of premises at Milford Docks

42 - Milford Lands Ltd. in account with Eaton Evans and Williams. Bundle of accounts, monthly and quarterly

43 - Plan and schedule of lands to be acquired from the National Provident Institution

44 - Two plans and schedules of property in the parish of Steynton

45 - Plan of property in Hakin belonging to the National Provident Institution and to be taken by the Docks Company and handed to James Eaton Evans while in London

46 - Tracing showing extra portion of land required to be taken by the Docks Company. (By the site of the old custom house)

47 - Plan of works on the docks recommended by A. M. Rendel, Esq. - Another copy is in D/RTM/MDC/25

48 - Milford Haven Railway and Estate Company Ltd., sketch map showing the railway and extent of property in the towns of Milford and Hakin acquired by the company and showing connection of the Milford Docks and Milford Haven Railway with the main lines of the principal railways

49 - Plans of Milford Docks

50 - Tracing showing the limit of deviation of the docks on the Hakin side of Hubberston Pill. (Schedule lost)

51 - File of plans of Milford Haven and the docks; copy order in Council defining the limits of the Dockyard port of Pembroke and setting out regulations for anchoring, berthing and mooring there, signals needed, regulations for preventing collisions etc. 1891; Milford Docks Company directions to Masters of fishing vessels, with plan of docks 1929; table showing times at which officially night begins and ends; Milford Docks Company Byelaws and regulations 1895 and misc. items re trawling gear

52 - Copy report and valuation of lands required to be acquired by the Docks Company from the Milford Haven Estate

53 - Draft particulars of property taken by the Milford Docks Company under their bonds dated 8 Aug & 26 Sep 1874

54 - Copy minute of the Milford Estate about an agreement with the Docks Company to protect the interests of the National Provident Institution

55 - Schedule of property required to be acquired by the Milford Docks Company from the National Provident Institution

56 - Rules for the management of the sick fund of the Milford Docks Company

57 - Assessment of value of Bake House and cottage belonging to Cornelius Wood at Hakin Point

58 - Copy notice from J. and E. Eaton Evans as agents for the Milford Haven Estate to the Milford Docks Company and to Frederick Appleby not to trespass on Milford Haven Estate land

59 - Copy of a report by Mr. John Dixon to the Board of the National Provident Institution upon a land slip at Milford caused by the excavations of the Docks Company

60 - Draft particulars and estimated value of property situate between the dry dock and the ferry slip, required by the Milford Docks Company

61 - Copy notice of petition by Mr. U. M. Read to wind up the Milford Docks Company

62 - Catalogue of sale of plant, machinery etc. of the contractor to the Milford Haven Docks

63 - Notice forbidding trespassing on the premises of the Docks Company by order of the receivers

64 - Memo made at meeting with Mr. Newman re claim in respect of foreshore in front of Waterford Packet

65 - Particulars of people holding leases of property on Milford Docks from the Milford Haven Estate

66 - Particulars of poor rate assessed on property of the Milford Decks Company in Hubberston parish

67 - Copy of resolution entered in the Commissioners minute book regarding the triangular piece of land near the weighbridge

68 - Milford Docks Company copy statement as to premises in the possession of the company

69 - Schedule of property.

70 - Small notebook containing statement of Samuel Evans about loading gravel on the foreshore

70a - Copy order for receivers to Be at liberty to take possession of the Milford Docks, made in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in the case of Sheppard v, Milford Docks

70b - Large coloured picture of Milford Docks and the Haven, incorporating a considerable amount of artistic licence

71 - Plan and sections of intended wet dock and floating basin at the town of Milford by James Thomson, engineer

72 - Two typescript copies of The Milford Haven Dock and Railway Act 1870, Chap, xlix

73 - Act for authorising the construction of docks and other works upon or near Hubberston Pill at Milford

74 - Milford Docks Co. : Parliamentary plans and sections, session

75 - Milford Docks Co. : Parliamentary plans and sections, session

76 - Copy of a, bill to extend the time for the purchase of certain lands and for the construction of the works authorised by the Milford Docks Acts

77 - Milford Docks Co., Parliamentary plan (incomplete)

78 - Act to extend the time for the purchase of certain lands and for the construction of works authorised by the Milford Docks Acts 1874 & 1875

79 - Bill for conferring powers on the Milford Docks Company for raising additional capital and to extend the time for completion of their undertaking and for other purposes

80 - An act for conferring powers on the Milford Docks Company for raising additional capital and to extend the time for completion of their undertaking. and for other purpose

81 - Bill to enable the Milford Docks Company to create an additional amount of debenture stock in place of other capital, to facilitate the transfer to them of the undertaking of the Milford Haven Dock and Railway Company and for other purposes

82 - Annotated copy of the above Bill together with copy of clauses and amendments proposed to be inserted on petition for additional provision By the promoters

83 - An act to enable the Milford Docks Company to create an additional amount of debenture stock in place of other capital to effect a settlement of the affairs of the Company

84 - Notice of intention to apply to Parliament for a Bill to repeal the act of 1883, to cancel and render null and void all contracts and proceedings under the said act, to cancel the several classes of deBenture stock issued under the said act, to cancel all deBenture preference stocks and shares issued in excess of the company's Parliamentary powers and for other purposes

85 - Bill for empowering the Milford Docks Company to construct railways, to create further amounts of debenture stock and for other purposes

86 - Printed copy petition By merchants, shipowners, shopkeepers, mechanics and inhabitants generally of the towns of Milford and Hakin to the House of Commons to impose on the Docks Company Obigations to complete the works or take such action as would allow the resumption of former industries and traffic

87 - List of owners, lessees and occupiers of properties in respect of which Parliamentary notices:- for renewal of compulsory powers of purchase have to served

88 - Milford Docks Book of reference to the deposited plans

89 - An act for empowering the Milford Docks Company to construct railways and for other purposes

90 - Parliamentary plans arid sections of Milford Docks Company proposals at Milford Docks,

91 - An Act to confer further powers upon the Milford Docks Company

92 - File of papers relating to Milford Docks Bill

93 - Milford Docks Co. : Parliamentary plans and sections, by James C. Ward, engineer

94 - An act to amend the powers of the Milford Docks Company of levying rates, to revive the powers for the construction of a pier and for other purposes

95 - Plan of Docks, Milford Haven

96 - An Act to confer powers on the Milford Docks Company, and for other purposes

97 - Milford Docks Boot of Reference to property in the parishes of Steynton and Hubberston

98 - Western Mail 17 Feb & 14 Mar 1883 & South Wales Daily News, 14 Mar 1883 containing articles re the law suit between the Docks Company and Mr. Lake in the matter of Mr. Lake's bankruptcy

99 - Two copies of a report on Milford Docks, reprinted from "Engineering"

100 - Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraphs

101 - Various Newspapers

102 - Various newspapers

103 - Milford Docks Company Booklet giving particulars of Milford Haven and Milford Docks together with Parliamentary rates and charges

MHE - Milford Haven Estate

PIC - Records relating to the Philipps family of Picton Castle

ROB - Roberts Family

ROW - Papers of the Reverend John Bowen Rowlands of Hubberston

STA - Records of the Starbuck family

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