Gwent Archives

Admiralty report on the proposed Severn Bridge at Aust (Old Passage), 1846

papers relating to the mortgage of Llangybi Castle, Goetre & Usk Castle estates to the Admiralty, 1899-1914

correspondence of the Henry White & Co. Ltd with the Admiralty & forms of tender regarding supply of steel castings, 1902-8

papers relating to Monmouthshire court of sewers, 1692-1946 (see D.1365 & 2282)

misc. corres., 1818-21, including references to Porton Sea Walls

receipt for tunnage duty upon ships by virtue of Act of 1694, paid by William Millman, 10 November 1694

prisage & butlerage for imported wine, Chepstow, 1753-1872

memorial of the Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses to the Commissioners of Customs to pass Newport for import & export of tobacco & cigars, 1892

Crimea papers includes Mss summary of arrangements relative to the emigration of pensioners & their families, including to New Zealand, Fort Garry in Hudson Bay, Falkland Islands, Australia, c.1851

conviction of Thomas Howell, master of the Active of Liverpool for keeping an unlawful quantity of gunpowder  within the port of Newport, 1839

correspondence between the Naval Assistant to the Chief of Naval Staff & T. O'Mahoney concerning an invention, 1917

school reports of the Prothero family, 1881-8, including naval cadetship

microfilm of orders in Council for impressing seamen for navy service, 1739-82

proceedings of a General Quarter Sessions & Lieutenancy papers relating to the raising of men for the Navy, pursuant to the Acts of 35 G.III, 1795

ts notes by Sir H. Nicholas regarding despatches & letters of Lord Nelson, n.d.

deeds of the Newport Dock Company, 1829-51

Newport Harbour Commissioners papers comprising agenda & reports, including accounts, trade statistics, dredger committee minute book, finance committee minute book, works committee minute book, minutes of proceedings of the commissioners, enr

Newport Harbour Commissioners business papers, 1838-1974, including accounts, agendas & reports, including tables of coastwise tonnages using the port, shipments, harbour dues, imports, foreign tonnages, lists of ships, customs & excise st

Newport Pilotage Authority minute books, 1861-1949; ledgers & accounts, 1862-1962; pilotage bill, orders, rules, byelaws, 1911-50; returns of pilotage, 1905-30; register of pilot cutters & list of licensed pilots, 1896-1958; pilotage rates

papers of Port of Newport Ships' record books, 1910-81

Newport Port Health Authority comprising Port Sanitary Committee Minutes, 1884-5; annual reports, 1896-1937; Port Health Authority Annual Reports, 1937-65; regulations made by the Authority, 1899

Chepstow deeds relating to dry dock, wharves, etc., 1771, 1789-1826

statements of receipts & expenses, & trade & business in the port for three years ending January 1834, & for three years ending January 1838

contracts for construction of Town Dock, 1835, 1840

report of committee on claim of the Duke of Beaufort regarding Corporation Wharf, 1840

Newport Dock Co. accounts for years ending June 1854-6

Alexandra Dock Co. memorandum & articles of association, 1873

grant of easement, Alexandra Dock Co., 1888

correspondence regarding the Wye Valley Railway Amendment Act & the building of a wharf & three jetties, Chepstow, 1879

plan, invitation & programme regarding the opening of new entrance lock, Alexandra Dock, 1894, 1914

papers relating to the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce including 16, The Alexandra Docks, Newport, 1914; 20, report on Severn Barrage Scheme, 1933 including file of correspondence regarding interference of the scheme with the port of Cardiff

ledger of the Port Sanitary Authority, Chepstow, 1927-40

photograph of entrance lock, old Town Dock, 1971

draft memorandum & articles of association of the Chepstow Landing Stages Co., Ltd, n.d.

draft certificate for return of duty on paper destroyed by shipwreck, 1840

letters concerning repairs to Newport Bridge after damage caused by the Severn, steam packet, 1844

discharge book of John Lydcott of the SS Rougemont, 1869-90

logbooks of the Caerleon, Forest Belle, Sir George Eliot, Lady Tredegar, 1873-1903

ms notes by T.T. Birkbeck regarding HMS Foudroyant, c.1979

account for building the Pontypool Galley, 1710

papers of Messrs. Fairfield-Mabey Ltd, structural engineers, Chepstow, including nominal ledger & accounts outward book of the National Shipyards, 1925-35, 1935-55, general & private journals of the Chepstow Shipbuilding Works, 1925-33, 19

deeds, Chancery papers, correspondence, accounts of foot passengers, etc. crossing the New Passage Ferry, rough plan of the New Passage Ferry, 1506-1836

papers relating to legal matters, post 1810, post 1829

printed minutes of a meeting setting up the Old Passage Ferry Association, 1825

papers relating to the Great Western Railway Company Ltd & amalgamated railway companies, 1847-1951, including papers relating to shares in the Alexandra (Newport & South Wales) Docks & Railway Company Ltd

papers of Sarah Maria Alsop of Abergavenney relating to shares in the `Great Ship Company Ltd', 1859

draft petition of Mrs Ann Pritchard of Tintern Abbey for a new register for the Thomas, sloop, captured by a French privateer, n.d.

Chepstow registers of ships, 1786-1881 & registers of transactions, 1855-1919

agreements & accounts of voyages, crew lists & some official logs, relating to ships registered in Newport & Chepstow, 1869, 1879, 1889, 1899, 1909

statement of iron loaded aboard the Gwyn Trowe giving amounts of bar iron, rods, plates, hoops, etc, & their worth or weight loaded at Caerleon, 29 March 1698

papers relating to the business activities of Joseph Latch of Newport, coal merchant & shipowner, 1814-37

briefs, letters, etc., regarding claims by the Mayor of Newport to dues in dispute with masters of trading vessels, 1832

articles of co-partnership between four Chepstow men to employ one or more sloops or vessels as a weekly market boat in carriage of goods & passengers between Chepstow & Bristol, 20 January 1841, with reference to the Chepstow &am

draft declaration of trust of the Sampson of Chepstow, brig, n.d.

Newport docks: wages ledger of permanent staff, 1872-1915.