Mary Williams

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Chronology

• 1877 — Bute sells the house parcel to Daniel Thomas; her grandfather takes tenancies from both (1877 agreement)
• 1908 — her grandfather dies; her father takes over the farm (John Williams)
• 1916 — Bute yearly tenancy to her father; the 1989 Commission decision records the family’s occupation from 1916 (1916 tenancy)
• 1928 — last rent to Alfred Thomas; on the family’s established case, the 1877 arrangement then took effect and the full Parcel-A house/quarrying estate passed to the Williams family (1928)
• 1936 — marries Frederick Buckler, who comes to live at the farmhouse (marriage)
• 1938–39 — WGR acquires Bute’s interest; fields-only tenancy to her father (1939 tenancy)
• 1944 — Frederick becomes farm manager for her father (1944)
• 1949 — the agricultural tenancy/re-grant concerned Parcel B; on the family’s case, this was the first later failed attempt to make Mary’s separate Parcel-A occupation appear permissive (1949 tenancy)
• 1950–52 — the family papers, including the farm agreement, are taken from the blanket box (papers taken)
• 1955 — order against Frederick alone; on 4 July, while WGR enforced Parcel-B possession, the family’s established account is that the Parcel-A north forest and south-east green were also seized. Mary retained the occupied farmhouse/buildings/garden group after fierce resistance; this did not mean the whole Parcel A remained with her (1955 order)
• 1959 — refuses a WGR tenancy of the farmhouse and garden and asserts ownership through her grandfather (1959 refusal)
• 1962 — Cardiff County Court order against Frederick and Mary, 11 December (1962 order)
• 1965 — 2 March: refuses a weekly tenancy of the farmhouse and garden at £2 offered to “Mrs Williams”; not signed, no rent paid, and the estate treated her occupation as adverse from then (WGR agents’ letter recited in the 1987 judgment, catalogue GHF-E009-18) (1965 offer)
• c.1965–67 — rumoured sale by Frederick’s eldest son (rumoured sale)
• 1967 — widowed; continues “in occupation of the farmhouse and land surrounding it” (Frederick’s death)
• 1969 — WGR conveys to BP Pension Trust; the conveyance is missing, though the 1987 judgment treats the sale as including the farmhouse and garden (conveyances)
• 1974 — 3 July: pleads ownership and the Limitation Act 1939; adjourned part-heard, never relisted (1974 action)
• 1974 — 19 September – 31 October: leave to enforce the 1962 order, then the warrant withdrawn (warrant)
• 1974 — 31 October: BP licence letters to “Mrs Buckler (Mrs Williams)”; never accepted (licence letters)
• 1975 — BP Pension Trust conveys to BP Properties Ltd (conveyances)
• 1982–83 — BP applies for first registration (WA231076, WA240304) while she is in occupation (first registration)
• 1983 — dies at the farmhouse, 26 March (below)
• 1983–92 — her son William inherits and defends the case (William · BP v Buckler)