| Name: | Powys County Archives Office |
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| Notes: | None |
| Postal address: | County Hall None None Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 5LG |
| Telephone: | 01597 826088 |
| Web address: | http://www.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=647&L=0 |
Documents: 21
| B/D/BM/A040/2/page 035-1 | pardon of Robert Letton's sentence to death for horse stealing & commutation of sentence to transportation to America for seven years, 26 June 1783 |
1783 -1783 | emigration prisoners criminals |
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| R/QS/S.1801 | account of expenses incurred in conveying four prisoners from Presteigne to the hulks at Deptford & Woolwich, 1815 |
1815 -1815 | emigrations |
| R/QS/S.4216 | order for removal of Thomas Smith & John Williams from Presteigne gaol to the hulks at Woolwich to await transportation; receipt on receiving the two into custody on the Justitia Hulk, November - December, 1820 |
1820 -1820 | prisoners emigration |
| B/D/ACA/2/230 | letter referring to lobster merchants, 1782 |
1782 -1782 | correspondence fishing trade |
| M/D/HPA/1/1 | papers of the Dovey Fishery Association, 1789, 1844-1933 |
1789 -1933 | fishing |
| M/D/BOM/5/11 | letter from Ellen Gould at Cork to Mrs Gould, Mile End, London with reference to sea bathing, 9 October 1793 |
1793 -1793 | correspondence leisure swimming |
| B/D/ACA/2/339 | letter from William Probyn, Pershore, to Revd Richard Davies, Brecon, including reference to news of son in Penang on voyage to China, 3 February 1820 |
1820 -1820 | correspondence Malaysia Asia travel |
| M/X/38/18-20 | letters of William Jones to Thomas Drew including references to embarking for Barbadoes, return voyage to England & storm off Newfoundland, 1835-6 |
1835 -1836 | correspondence Caribbean Colonies travel weather |
| BD/RW/60-1 | notebooks by Howell Price Williams on trip to Australia, & to France, Italy & Sicily, late nineteenth century |
1850 -1899 | travel Europe |
| M/X/24/66 | description by an unknown woman of travels in Canada & USA, 1915, including account of return voyage & dangers of submarines, reference to the Arabic |
1915 -1915 | Americas |
| B/D/BM/A107/5/d | documents regarding the Stanley family including orders to Mr William Vaughan from the Navy Office regarding the Baltimore Sloop, 25 June 1743, commission to Lieut. Vaughan of the York to be master of the Whitehaven, 13 July 1745; letter to Commissioner Vanbrugh at Plymouth to allow Captain Vaughan of the Soleby Italian prisoners, 25 February 1746; letter from the Navy Office to Commissioner Vanbrugh at Plymouth regarding manning of Captain Vaughan's vessel, 12 September 1746 |
1743 -1746 | ships correspondence |
| R/X/11/229 | correspondence, notes & draft article on Rear Admiral Peter Puget (1765-1822), with photographs of Red/Brick House, Presteigne & Grosvenor Place, Bath, n.d. |
1765 -1822 | navy illustrations |
| BD/RW/30 | transcript of letter from Capt. H. Bourchier, HM Sloop Hawke, to Admiral Sir Roger Curtis regarding action off St Marcon & commending Lieut. David Price, 19 August 1811 |
1811 -1811 | correspondence navy ships operations battles |
| R/D/LEW/5/1-4 | three letters from RNLI, Poole, Dorset, to Major General R.S. Lewis & inventory of papers of R.W. Lloyd, March - April, 1977 |
1977 -1977 | correspondence lifeboats |
| B/D/BM/A29/3/2/20 | letter referring to voting of ships' carpenters at Cardiff Docks, 1754 |
1754 -1754 | correspondence construction shipbuilding |
| MDX/40/105 | abstract of Thomas Price's will & case relative to Jamaician estate in St Anns, which records slaves, 10 November 1745 |
1745 -1745 | ownership Caribbean Colonies slavery |
| M/D/BOM/5/18 | letter to Thomas Withy, Upton Iron Works near Shrewsbury from unknown person in Africa, 26 June 1828, with references to local commerce & political situation, African Company, customs |
1828 -1828 | correspondence trade |
| BD/RW/49 | letters from Walter R. Williams in Dominica to his brother John including references to slave uprising, 27 January & 10 June 1844 |
1844 -1844 | correspondence Caribbean Colonies slavery |
| R/DX/55 | Norman Lewis Millward, seaman: correspondence while service aboard HMS Alaunia during World War Two | 1940 -1945 | mariners letters navy ships battles |
| R/DX/57 | Henry James Bray, Royal Navy Commander: scrapbook 1901-1972. |
1901 -1972 | officer diary |
| M/SOC/25 | Welshpool and District Ladies Lifeboat Guild: minute books 1979-2004. |
1979 -2004 | lifeboat minutes |