FCG · Our case
Counter-Evidence & Disconfirmation
Purpose
Prevent confirmation bias and make the case stronger by recording the best evidence against each family proposition.
For each proposition
- Proposition
- Strongest supporting evidence
- Strongest contrary evidence
- Unresolved conflict
- What further record would decide it
- Current confidence
- Effect on referral, remedy and court readiness
A proposition is not treated as established merely because no contrary record has yet been found.
Recorded counter-findings (16 October 2026)
1. 1939 agreement (DBDT123/7)
The photo on the wiki shows its typed terms: a monthly let at 8s, kept “as meadow or pasture”, signed by John Williams with WGR as landlord [EV-0023]. TNA’s DBDT catalogue files it among small Llandough plot lets, not farm tenancies. It therefore reads as a separate grazing let, not a revised farm tenancy. This undercuts the wiki’s previous “closed” finding and the 1928 last-rent limitation point that treated it as the farm tenancy. Page 1 (parcels and acreage) is not online [EV-0023]. If the family holds it, the reading could change.
2. 1987 third argument
In 1987 William’s own side argued that the farmhouse came under its own May 1975 conveyance [PENDING: EV-0052]. That was his “third argument”. The family’s lawyers therefore knew of the separate conveyance at the time of the 1987 litigation. This weakens any later argument that the 1983 registration could not have been discovered.
DSA/12/5400 warning
Do not use Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/5400 (“transfer of tenancy from J. Williams”). That record relates to Jenkyn Morgan Williams of a different farm [PENDING: EV-0017].
Overall status (16 Oct 2026 research cycles)
No new fraud, concealment or government-involvement evidence that would stand up in court yet. Strongest remaining lead is still the 1983 farmhouse registration certificate (rated 3/5) [PENDING: EV-0063].
For the broader working hypothesis, see Cedwyn Estate Working Theory. This page records the specific counter-evidence and should not be read as proving that wider hypothesis.
Change history is maintained on the Master Change Log; no separate page-local version footer is maintained.
New evidence, 20 October 2026
New evidence catalogued on the Legal Wiki on 20 October 2026 that bears on this page. Each linked page gives the source, what it fits and what cuts against it.
- EV-0256 — George Kemp’s diary, 6–15 May 1897 (Bodleian MS. Marconi 89, extracts quoted by G. R. M. Garratt): Lavernock pole “107 ft”, Flat Holm “110 ft”, apparatus left “at Penarth”; no mention of Great House Farm (SECONDARY QUOTATION (diary itself not seen))
- EV-0259 — Western Mail, 18 March and 28 October 1955: Cardiff held a 176-acre Leckwith Woods “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942” and leased 106 acres to the Forestry Commission for 999 years; measured against today’s boundaries, Leckwith Woods lies wholly outside Llandough (SNIPPETS + MEASUREMENT (computed))
- EV-0263 — Commons Registration Act 1965 s.5 and SI 1968/989: registrations were publicised by public notice only; Glamorgan County Council’s London Gazette notices of 22 October 1968 and 24 October 1969; second objection period for VG41 ran 1 May 1970 – 31 July 1972 (LEGISLATION AND GAZETTE (read))
- EV-0265 — Registration background: compulsory registration of title began in the Vale of Glamorgan on 1 December 1975 (SI 1975/160); the solicitor’s certificate on first registration (LRR 1925 r.29; 1989 text); the HMLR “about to be registered” Gazette notices ran only to about May 1975 (LEGISLATION AND GUIDANCE (read))
- EV-0268 — Cadw 13428, Lower Farmhouse, Rhoose: an early-19th-century Vale farmhouse listed on 12 October 1988 (“Interior not available at resurvey”), a comparator for the 1988 Llandough resurvey (OFFICIAL RECORD (read in full online))
- EV-0270 — Press set, 1988–1995: BP Pension Fund sold about 1,300 acres of Welsh land to Intercontinental Land & Development (Cardiff) Ltd for £29,375,400 (Oct 1988); the Land Authority for Wales bought plots at Llandough (Nov 1988), later passing Leckwith/Llandough woods to South Glamorgan County Council (1994–95) (SNIPPETS ONLY (articles not opened) + Hansard (read))
Our case, prospective. Not a finding of any court.