Abadam family of Middleton Hall

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History:	Edward Hamlin Adams (1777-1842), a West India merchant and banker, who came from a planting family settled in Barbados since the 17th century, purchased the Middleton Hall estate from the executors of Sir William Paxton, kt. in 1824. He was a testy and litigious man, described by his granddaughter, the novelist Vernon Lee, as ‘extremely doctrinaire and moral, an ardent Voltairian, who spent much of his time disputing with the local parsons and refusing to pay tithes’. His son Edward (1809-75) changed his name to Abadam but dissipated the family fortune. At his death, the estate passed to his daughter Lucy and her husband and then to her sister Adah, widow of J. W. Hughes. Their son, William John Hamlin Hughes, sold the estate in 1919 to Col. W. N. Jones, JP, of Dyffryn, Ammanford. The house was accidentally burnt in 1931 and the ruins demolished in 1954, although some outbuildings survive as part of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, which now occupies the site.
Places:	Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire
Sources of authority:	http://landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/abadam-of-middleton-hall.html
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F88543 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F8924 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	family and estate papers	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1970-71, p58