Fonds GB 0210 PLAMOR - Plas Llangoedmor deeds and documents

In 1801 the Rev. Benjamin Millingchamp (d. 1829), a native of Cardigan, bought Plas Llangoedmor from David Lloyd, whose family had owned the place since at least 1550. Benjamin Millingchamp was the son of Joseph Millingchamp, a Customs officer at Cardigan, and Anne Gambold. He was succeeded by Sarah, his daughter and heiress, and wife of Colonel Herbert Vaughan of Brynog, a descendant of the Vaughan family, baronets of Trawsgoed. They had three sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Herbert, died of wounds in the Crimea in 1855, and another son, Edward Percival, died of cholera in Bombay in 1864. Llangoedmor was inherited by the third son, John Vaughan (1830-1881), who had five sons. He was succeeed by his eldest son, Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948) who sold much of the contents of Plas Llangoedmor in 1924 and settled in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, having sold Plas Llanhoedmor mansion to David Berrington Griffiths Davies of Castle Green, Cardigan.