Subject: Location and content request — Glamorgan land tax assessments DBJ/O/90-94 (1691–1707) — Llandough-juxta-Penarth — not a viewing request
From: Sion Buckler
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:02 UTC
Institution: Glamorgan Archives
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Glamorgan Archives,

This is a location and content request only, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am not asking to book a searchroom visit. It is separate from refs 2026/3793, 2026/4097, 2026/4097b and 2026/4274.

PLEASE NOTE: DUPLICATE PLACE AND FARM NAMES IN GLAMORGAN
Glamorgan has two parishes called Llandough, and each had a farm called Great House.
IN SCOPE: Llandough-juxta-Penarth (Llandough near Penarth and Cardiff), hundred of Dinas Powys. Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr stood beside St Dochdwy's church, approx. ST 168 733.
OUT OF SCOPE: Llandough-juxta-Cowbridge (Llandough near Cowbridge), and the Great Houses at nearby Llandow and Aberthin.
Please do not send or rely on records for the Cowbridge-area places. If an entry says only "Llandough" or "Great House" and the parish cannot be told, please say so rather than assume.

Part 1 — Glamorgan land tax, DBJ/O/90-94, assessments and receipts, 1691–1707 (NRA 5219).
Please tell me:
1. Which items in DBJ/O/90-94 cover the parish of Llandough-juxta-Penarth or the Dinas Powys hundred, and for which years.
2. Whether any catalogue, index or transcript you hold names the proprietors and occupiers listed for Llandough-juxta-Penarth in those years. If so, please supply those names and sums.
3. The cost of a staff search or copy limited to those entries only.

Part 2 — A lease of Great House said to date from 1667.
The family's account (not yet supported by a document) is that the Williams family took Great House, Llandough-juxta-Penarth, in 1667 on a lease for 999 years. Great House is described in published sources as a freehold of the Vaughan family from the 16th to the late 18th century, after which it came to the Bute estate. Please tell me whether you hold:
4. Any lease, counterpart lease, assignment or enrolment, c.1660–1675, of Great House or any messuage in Llandough-juxta-Penarth, to any person named Williams, or for a term of 999 years (or any other long term).
5. Any later deed, abstract of title, schedule or rental (including in the Bute, DBDT or Western Ground Rents material) that recites or refers to a lease of Great House for 999 years or for a long term.
6. The conveyance by which the Bute estate (or the Windsor family) acquired Great House from the Vaughan family or its heirs, or any copy, abstract or reference to it.
7. Any Vaughan of Llandough family papers.

The aim is to establish who owned and occupied Great House from 1667 onward and on what tenure, and to test the family's 1667 date.

If you consider any of this reasonably accessible by other means under section 21, please say exactly where and how.

Public working evidence catalogue: https://greathousefarmwiki.wordpress.com
Title and chronology index: https://dartboard.bucklerfamily.estate and https://bpvsbuckler.bucklerfamily.estate
Long-term archive: https://wayback.bucklerfamily.estate

Thank you,

Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant)
Royal Signals Cyber/Electronic Warfare Professional and Life Member