Daniel Thomas and Alfred Thomas

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Daniel Thomas and Alfred Thomas (Daniel… … read more

Daniel Thomas and Alfred Thomas (Daniel Thomas & Son) were limestone quarry owners at Great House Farm. Mary Williams’s statement names Daniel Thomas as the buyer of the house parcel from the Bute Estate in 1877, for quarrying, and as landlord of Mary’s grandfather under a tenancy by which the freehold was to pass to the grandfather when quarrying ceased. It names Alfred Thomas as the person paid the last rent in 1928.

Parcel A The Thomas land is the root of the… … read more

Parcel AThe Thomas land is the root of the family’s claim to Parcel A.

Events

1876 — limeworks on part of the farm (Llandough Limeworks)
1877 — Daniel Thomas buys the farmhouse, buildings and about 10 acres from Bute and lets them to Mary’s grandfather (details)
1924 — HM Land Registry holds a record of 15 May 1924 (a Bute–Corbett agreement about a drain). Whether it is connected to the Parcel A freehold is one of the questions the family is pressing HM Land Registry to answer (details · Legal Review, section 2)
1928 — quarry machinery removed; John Williams pays Alfred Thomas a final rent of about £4 (details)
1950 – 1952 — the family’s copy of the Thomas agreement taken from the farmhouse (details)
1984 — a copy of the Bute–Thomas deed and its index card reported missing from Cardiff Library, the year BP served its writ (details)

Evidence: Mary Williams’s statement, c. 1974… … read more

Evidence: Mary Williams’s statement, c. 1974 (extract) (cat. GHF-E015-01, -03, -04) · Bute–Thomas conveyance, 1877 (missing; cat. GHF-E015-02) · record of the 1984 Cardiff Library search (missing; to be traced; cat. GHF-E015-05)

See also: The two parcels · Sources and… … read more