Record

EV ID	EV-0285
Title	Western Mail search-result snippets, 1925–1939: “damages in respect of losses by dogs worrying sheep was claimed by Mr. John Williams, Great House Farm, Llandough” (26 Mar 1925, p.4); “PONY, 12.2, ride or drive; best offer.— Great House Farm, Llandough, near Penarth” (8 and 9 Jun 1937, p.3); “LOST from Great House Farm, Twelve-bore Gun; number known.—Williams, Llandough” (6 Feb 1939, p.2)
Date of document	26 March 1925; 8–9 June 1937; 6 February 1939
Type	newspaper search snippets (set)
Evidence label	SNIPPET ONLY (British Newspaper Archive free search results; pages not read)
Repository / reference	British Newspaper Archive, free search results: Western Mail 26 Mar 1925 p.4; 8 Jun 1937 p.3; 9 Jun 1937 p.3; 6 Feb 1939 p.2 (search “great house farm” llandough, 1920–1939)
Status	SOURCE PENDING (snippets read 21 Oct 2026; full pages not read)
Provenance	Free BNA search, decade sweep, 21 Oct 2026. Snippet text is the archive’s OCR.
Related evidence	EV-0230 (Western Mail, 5 Aug 1936: “Llandough Bride”, Mary Doreen (Nancy) Williams of Great House Farm) · EV-0283 (John Williams on the 1910 Court Leet jury)

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Quotation (verbatim): “CARDIFF CITY FOOTBALL PLAYER AS DEFENDANT … damages in respect of losses by dogs worrying sheep was claimed by Mr. John Williams, Great House Farm, Llandough” (26 Mar 1925). “PONY, 12.2, ride or drive; best offer.— Great House Farm, Llandough, near Penarth” (8 Jun 1937). “LOST from Great House Farm, Twelve-bore Gun; number known.—Williams, Llandough” (6 Feb 1939). OCR slips corrected.

Fits with: John Williams is named at Great House Farm in 1925, keeping sheep; the farm is still advertised from “near Penarth” in 1937 and under the name Williams in February 1939, after the 1938 WGR conveyance. Together with the 1936 wedding report, the farm is a working Williams household through the 1920s and 1930s.

Cuts against: Snippets only: the full reports are unread. The 1925 item is a county-court claim against a footballer whose dogs worried the sheep; it shows occupancy and stock, not tenure.

Notes: “Near Penarth” fixes the 1937 item to Llandough-juxta-Penarth. A separate Great House Farm at Llandough near Cowbridge (Cadwgan family, 1950s–2000s) appears in the same searches and is excluded.

Catalogued by Sion’s Tab agent, 21 Oct 2026, in the decade-by-decade gap sweep (free online sources only).

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