Pre-registration title deeds relating to Pyle Corner, Bishopston. Includes lands known as Newstead (The Croft); Hareslade and Copyhold land between William James and David Davies.

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Edward Harris & Sons, solicitors, RecordsD/D EH

Pre-Registration Title Deeds of Properties On Victoria Avenue (Previously Bay Street), Mumbles, SwanseaDD EH/1/hub

Pre-Registration Title Deeds of Premises At Meysydd Terrace, Landore, SwanseaDD EH/2/hub

Deeds Relating To Premises In LlansamletDD EH/3/hub

Premises At Bell Street, AberdareDD EH/4/hub

Estate of Robert Kerr of Swansea (Died 1940)DD EH/5/hub

MagistratesDD EH/6/hub

Memoranda And Articles of AssociationDD EH/7/hub

Court Judgements Relating To The Bynea Steel Works Ltd.DD EH/8/hub

Petty Sessions: Lliw Valley DivisionDD EH/9/hub

Pre-Registration Title Deeds And Documents of Properties In Swansea And AberavonDD EH/10/hub

Appointment of Trustees of Walter Road Congregational Chapel, SwanseaDD EH/11/hub

Sales Particulars For Properties In Llanrhidian And PenclawddDD EH/12/hub

Conveyance of The Miers EstateDD EH/13/hub

Papers Relating To J. G. Rees of Richmond Villas, Ffynone Road, Swansea, C.1898-C.1980DD EH/14/hub

Architects' plans of houses, c.1970s-1994DD EH/15/hub

Records relating to Joan Ellis, Werganros Farm. Joan Ellis was the daughter of Evan Hinds and Dossie Lee. Evan Hinds was a solicitor with offices in Salubrious Chambers, Swansea. Joan married Jack Ellis after the Second World War and bought Werganros Farm in 1955, where she and Jack became pig breeders. The following are Joans diaries of her time as a pig breeder.DD EH/16/hub

Records relating to Colonel Frank Stanley Morgan. Colonel Frank Morgan played a role in the Scouting Movement in Swansea. He died in 1992.DD EH/17/hub

Records relating to John Glyn Rees of 4 Richmond VillasDD EH/18/hub

Records relating to Shades public house, Salubrious Passage, SwanseaDD EH/19/hub

Records relating to 6 Heathfield, SwanseaDD EH/19a/hub

Records relating to Church Park (Park Avenue), MumblesDD EH/20/hub

Records relating to Fairwood CommonDD EH/21/hub

Records relating to Swansea Local PlanDD EH/22/hub

Published statements relating to countryside planningDD EH/23/hub

Records relating to Pen-y-waun Farm, LlangyfelachDD EH/24/hub

Records relating to the parish of LoughorDD EH/25/hub

Records relating to Rose Cottage and Rose Terrace, YnysforganDD EH/26/hub

Records relating to the Davies family of 190 Kensington Crescent, Swansea and 40 Kings Road, MumblesDD EH/27/hub

Records relating to the Royal Buildings, Fisher StreetDD EH/28/hub

Records relating to Penybryn House, 1 Cwm Level Road, BrynhyfrydDD EH/29/hub

Records relating to Miss Eleanor Lucas Hughes and family. Miss Eleanor Lucas Hughes was born on 17 February 1875 the daughter of John Hughes of Port Eynon and his first wife Ellen Beynon (died in 1877 aged 36). Ellen Beynon was the daughter of George Beynon, farmer. John Hughes married his second wife Jane Ann Griffiths in 1888. John was the son of George Hughes (died 1 March 1882) and Elinor Lucas of Port Eynon. John Hughes died 26 November 1909 aged 64 at The Laurels, Port Eynon, intestate. His estate went between his widow and his daughter, until Jane Anns death in 1943, when Eleanor inherited the whole estate. Eleanor Lucas Hughes lived at 60 Newton Road. She had properties scattered around Oystermouth, Newton, Langland, Port Eynon, Bishopston and Wernffrwd. A number were sold off after the death of her step-mother, but she remained owner of others selling them off over the years and the last were sold by public auction following her death in 1971.DD EH/30/hub

Bundle of family certificates including the following: birth certificate of Eleanor Lucas Hughes, 1875; marriage certificate of John Hughes and Ellen Beynon, 1874; death certificate of Eleanor Hughes (wife of George Hughes), 1895; death certificate of Ellen Hughes (wife of John Hughes), 1877; death certificate of John Hughes, 1909; death certificate of Jane Ann Hughes (widow of John Hughes), 1943.D/D EH 95/1

Probate of the Will of John Hugh of Llanrhidian with bequests to his children John (Wernffrwd farm), Mary (wife of Matthew David), David, William and grandson John David, dated 1 January 1800, proved 12 July 1800.D/D EH 95/2

Probate of the Will of John Gammon of the Ship & Castle Inn, Newton with bequests to his wife Sarah, his daughter Mary (wife of James Lewis (Little Summerland, Big Oak and Little Oak), his daughter Margaret (Whitestone and the Ship & Castle), dated 19 Dec. 1885, proved 30 July 1886.D/D EH 95/3a-b

Probate of the Will of Margaret Phillips (wife of John Phillips of the Ship & Castle Inn, Newton) with bequests to her husband John Phillips, dated 3 March 1888, proved 7 October 1901.D/D EH 95/4

Copy Will of Miss Sara Anne Harris of Bournemouth with bequests to Eleanor Lucas Hughes her cousin.D/D EH 95/5

An account of the personal estate of Richard Lucas of Port Eynon who died 18 June 1841 by Elinor Lucas his daughter.D/D EH 95/6

Bundle of papers relating to the death of George Hughes, including the following: Copy Will of George Hughes of Port Eynon with bequests to his wife Ellenor and children Richard Lucas, George and John, dated 4 Dec. 1876, proved 15 June 1882D/D EH 95/7

Bundle of papers relating to John Hughes who died intestate on 26 Nov. 1909, and the administration of his personal estate and effects.D/D EH 95/8

Bundle of papers relating to an account of the personal estate of George Beynon late of Burry Green who died 3 March 1824.D/D EH 95/9

Bundle of papers relating to an account of the personal estate of Richard Lucas Hughes who died 31 August 1902.D/D EH 95/10

Typescript copy of the Lucas Family Pedigree.D/D EH 95/11

Three copies of the Will of Miss Eleanor Lucas Hughes of 60 Newton Road, Mumbles.D/D EH 95/12

Bundle of papers relating to Miss Eleanor Lucas Hughes including probate and the sale of her estate after her death.D/D EH 95/13

Pre-registration title deeds relating to a field called Misgrove on the road leading from Langland to Mumbles.D/D EH 95/14

Pre-registration title deeds relating to premises in the parishes of Llanrhidian and Knelston. Includes a Conveyance Hugh Smith to John Hugh.D/D EH 95/15

Pre-registration titles deeds relating to lands in the parish of Llangennith (Manor of Priorstown). Including land know as Burrys Head Fields.D/D EH 95/16

Pre-registration title deeds relating to Wernffrwd. Includes lands known as The Firs; Rose Cottage; and The Shop, Danywain.D/D EH 95/17

Pre-registration title deeds relating to Pyle Corner, Bishopston. Includes lands known as Newstead (The Croft); Hareslade and Copyhold land between William James and David Davies.D/D EH 95/18

Pre-registration title deeds relating to various properties on Newton Road, Mumbles, including numbers, 60, 182, 184, 186, 188 and 194.D/D EH 95/19

Pre-registration title deeds relating to land known as Whorestone (Whitestone), Newton. Includes Abstract of Title, 1799-1859; Conveyance, Rev. Thomas Bowen and others to John William Glynn, dated 30 Nov. 1861; Stitute Covenant for production of Title Deeds, William Graham Vivian with John William Glynn, dated 2 April 1863; Conveyance, John William Glynn to John Gammon, dated 7 May 1870; License to demise Copyhold land, Margaret Phillips to Charles Saunders, dated 14 Oct. 1893 (Manor of Oystermouth).D/D EH 95/20

Pre-registration title deeds relating to land at Newton. Includes the following: Bargain and Sale of copyhold land in Newton (Manor of Oystermouth, (i) Sarah Beynon of Rhossili, widow and Ann Hughes of Newton, widow, (ii) George Hughes of Newton, farmer (iii) Anne Hughes and David Hughes, famer (iv) William Howell of Falmouth, mariner of copyhold land in Newton, Oystermouth, dated 16 July 1840; Surrender and Admittance, Sarah Beynon to William Howell of a copyhold house in Newton, dated 17 July 1840; Surrender and Admittance, Margaret Bidder to John Gammon of a copyhold house in Newton, dated 16 Jan. 1857; Deed of Covenant to Surrender, Joanna Howell and William Henry Howell to John Gammon of a copyhold house in Newton, dated 11 July 1870; Surrender and Admittance, Joanna Howell and William Henry Howell to John Gammon of a copyhold house in Newton, dated 14 July 1870; Admission of John Gammon as Devisee under the Will of Isaac Gammon, deceased of copyhold land called The Higher White Stone, Lower White Stone, meadow called Underhill (Walters Well) and Copeland Field, dated 13 Jan. 1871; Admission of George Hughes to a share in copyhold lands at Newton, dated 12 June 1875; Conveyance, David Evans to John Gammon of a plot of ground at Newton, dated 14 Oct. 1882; Entries of the proof of the Will of John Gammon, deceased at the Manor of Oystermouth, dated 17 Feb. 1887; Entries of the Admission of Margaret Phillips as Devisee under the Will of John Gammon, dated 17 Feb. 1887.D/D EH 95/21

Bundle of miscellaneous papers relating to the Hughes family of Port Eynon.D/D EH 95/22

Pre-registration title deeds of properties in Swansea and the surrounding area 1860-1989. Each bundle typically includes a mixture of leases, assignments, mortgages, conveyances, wills, land search certificates and schedules of documents, as received back from the Land Registry on the first registration of title. Where possible, mention is made of the date of the building lease, including where it is not in the bundle but is referred to in other documents, because it gives an approximate date for the building of the house.DD EH/31/hub