GHF-E120 — 1928 last house-parcel rent receipt and end of quarrying (Thomas records)
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Evidence status: PARTIAL — related diary image linked; original 1928 receipt not identified. The photographed item is described as coming from William Buckler’s 1983 diary and refers to Daniel Thomas receipts. The page’s own description correctly distinguishes that later reference from the actual receipt. This is not a claim that the original receipt never existed, or that every custodian has confirmed it is not held.
INFERENCE / PROVISIONAL RECONSTRUCTION — NOT A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE RECEIPT
If a 1928 rent receipt is located, its probative value will depend on the actual date, payee, amount, description of the land or tenancy, and whether it records house-plot rent, quarry rent or another payment. The current material supports treating the receipt as a priority document to test the reported end of quarrying and house-parcel rent; it does not justify inventing the receipt’s exact wording, amount or legal effect.
Evidence preview
Partial preview embedded — source object still unlocated. The 1983 diary image shown above is a later reference to Daniel Thomas receipts, not the 1928 rent receipt itself. The receipt remains a target for documentary retrieval, but this page should not be read as proof that no copy survives with any custodian. Checked 15 October 2026.
1. The evidence
Evidence object area: no copy is on the Wiki.
Catalogue UID: GHF-E120 · 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-E120 · Type: Rent receipt and quarry records · Date of document: 1928 · Holder: not located (family papers said to have been removed c.1950–52; Thomas family and quarry records; Bute estate) · Evidence status: PLACEHOLDER missing 🕒
FAMILY EVIDENCE. Mary Williams recalls 1928 as the year the quarry machinery left and the last rent was paid to Alfred Thomas (statement). William Buckler’s 1983 diary refers to Daniel Thomas receipts (diary note), which is a reference to receipts, not the receipts. See also Llandough Limeworks.
- Whether the 1928 receipt survives. It is thought to have been among the papers removed (E123).
- The exact date quarrying ceased, from independent quarry or limeworks records.
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
FAMILY EVIDENCE / LEGAL INFERENCE. The date matters because no rent paid on the house parcel after 1928 is the factual basis for the alternative adverse-possession case maturing by 1940.
Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.