Original Handwritten Ledger of Edwar Abadam .

Original handwritten ledger.7.75" x 5.0" x 1.0". Full leather binding with central brass clasp (in working order). Straight grained morocco with blind-stamped decoration. Boards soiled and rubbed. Smooth spine with "Ledger". Marbled page edges and matching endpapers. Over 150 leaves with rough ink written accounts. Numerous entries throughout including: Thornton Grange, Woodward (Yorkshire); Costs associated with Ascot Cup (Grandstand, beer, cab, dinner, opera etc.); Sussex Place; Chester Races (Fare to Chester, cab, luggage, grandstand, porter); Sail to Belfast (Car & driver, whisky; servants on yacht, fare to St Asaph). A window into the life of the "Landed Gentry" during the 19th Century . G+ ** "Edwards Hamlin Adams (1777-1842), a lawyer, born in Kingston, Jamaica, whose family had made their fortunes in the West Indies (from banking and slavery). The estate past to his eldest son, Edward Adams (1809-75), who changed his name to Abadam. The estate remained in the family well into the 20th century before being sold to Colonel William Jones from Ammanford. It was during his ownership that a disastrous fire reduced the mansion to ruins on All Hallows Eve of 1931. During the 1930s Carmarthenshire County Council purchased the Middleton Hall estate and subsequently divided it into a series of smallholdings. The ornamental lakes were drained and the road crossing through the park turned into a public highway. The shell of the mansion was finally taken down in the 1950s. Later in the 1980s Dyfed County Council restored several features of Paxtons former pleasure park, planting over 1,000 trees, renovating crumbling bridges and restoring waterfalls and other water features. During the 1990s work began on establishing the National Botanic Garden of Wales on the site of the former Middleton Hall estate, with the gardens eventually opening in May 2000. "

Product Info

Publisher: Carmarthanshire: Edward Abadam, 1862-1865 . 0

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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