Dinas Mawddwyn Estate

In 1856, Edmund Buckley of Manchester (1780-1867), purchased the Manor and estate of Dinas Mawddwy in Merionethshire at auction for £35,000.  Buckley never married, but had fathered five children by Sarah Peck. The eldest, Edmund Peck, born in 1832, initially became the agent for the Welsh estate before being gifted it by his father. In 1860 Edmund Peck married Sarah, the eldest daughter of William Rees of Tonn, Llandovery. On the 4th of April. 1862, license was granted by the Queen to Edmund Peck Esq, of Dinas Mawddwy, and his issue, to take the name of Buckley instead of Peck, and to bear the arms of Buckley. On the death of his father in 1867 he inherited his businesses interests and properties in Manchester, a house at Ardwick and an estate called Grotton Head at Saddleworth. Sir Edmund Buckley died in 1910, aged 75 years, and was buried at Rhosigwaliau Church, near Bala.