GHF-E115 — 1877 Bute–Thomas agreement (sale or quarry lease of the house parcel)
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Correction — 15 October 2026: a plan image identified by the family as associated with the 1877 Daniel Thomas & Son agreement is already in the Media Library and is now displayed here. The image’s presence does not establish that the full instrument or its operative wording has been located; the exact legal character of the transaction remains open.
INFERENCE / PROVISIONAL RECONSTRUCTION — NOT A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1877 INSTRUMENT
The plan image is a spatial clue for testing the extent of the Williams house parcel and its relationship to later field tenancies. The working alternatives remain a sale of the house parcel or a quarry/mineral arrangement with the freehold effect unresolved. The plan alone cannot decide that legal character; compare the 6 November 1877 counterpart lease, Bute X.6(12) accounts and the 1938 Bute–WGR conveyance.
Evidence preview
Preview embedded — partial evidence only. A plan image identified by the family as associated with the 1877 Daniel Thomas & Son agreement is displayed above (WordPress Media Library item 89). The full instrument text is still recorded as not located; the image is not a substitute for the operative deed or lease terms. Status checked 15 October 2026.
1. The evidence
The full 1877 instrument text is not currently attached to this Wiki. A plan image identified by the family as related to the agreement is displayed in the evidence preview above; it is partial evidence, not the deed or lease itself.
Catalogue UID: GHF-E115 · Custodian/source copy: bucklerfamily.estate. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
Description
3. What is not known
2. What is known
Catalogue: GHF-E115 · Type: Estate transaction document (conveyance or lease; character open) · Date of document: 1877 · Holder: not located; candidates are the Bute estate papers (National Library of Wales), Glamorgan Archives and Cardiff Library · Evidence status: PARTIAL related plan image available; full instrument text not located 🕒
FAMILY EVIDENCE. Mary Williams’s statement describes a Bute transaction separating the farmhouse and about 10 acres from about 9 acres Bute kept, with a Daniel Thomas quarrying arrangement. The family says a Cardiff Library copy of the deed and its index card were lost in 1984.
- Whether it was a freehold conveyance or a quarry lease.
- Its operative terms, plan and any reverter on the end of quarrying.
- Whether any copy survives outside the family papers said to have been removed c.1950–52 (E123).
Transcription
Open transcription
No verbatim transcription is included in this entry as at 10-10-2026. Where the source contains legible text, transcribe it faithfully and mark illegible or uncertain words rather than silently reconstructing them.
Interpretation and wider context
UNRESOLVED. Companion records that would decide the character of the transaction: E116 and E117. 🕒
ReOrg · The 1877 Agreement · Evidence Library
Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.