Catalogue description PAPERS OF THE KAY SHUTTLEWORTH FAMILY OF GAWTHORPE

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Title: PAPERS OF THE KAY SHUTTLEWORTH FAMILY OF GAWTHORPE
Description:

This archive is mainly an estate collection: only a small part relates to family matters. The estates held by the Kay Shuttleworth family lay largely in East Lancashire, in Padiham and Habergham Eaves, where the family home, Gawthorpe Hall, was built in the sixteenth century. Lands were held elsewhere in the county, notably in the Fylde, and then in the nineteenth century the family purchased land at Leck and Barbon, Westmorland. A large number of deeds survive relating to these estates and they are listed in the first sixteen sections of the catalogue. Many of the early deeds have been transcribed and were published by the Chetham Society in Lancashire Deeds, vol. 1, Shuttleworth Deeds Part 1, edited by Col. J. Parker (vol. 91, 1934).

 

Of particular note among the rest of the estate papers (sections 17-29) are of course the sixteenth century accounts (DDKS 18/1-9) which again have been published by the Chetham Society (volumes XXXV, XLI, XLIII, XLVI, 1858), in The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths...at Smithills and Gawthorpe edited by J. Harland.

 

The majority of the estate papers relate to the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. During this time the lands were held by Sir James Kay Shuttleworth (died 1877) and his son, Sir Ughtred James, later Lord Shuttleworth (d. 1939). Both these men took a close interest in the running of the estates, the management of which was entrusted to their agents, Alfred Ford and on his death, Frederick Crossley. The series of coal records (DDKS 27), correspondence (DDKS 26) and of agents bundles (DDKS 25) most clearly illustrate the estates' concerns, the agents bundles being of particular interest. Both Alfred Ford and Frederick Crossley kept their papers in subject bundles, and so these groups of documents include many different types of records, including letters, plans and deeds.

 

With regard to the family papers, mention must be made of the Civil War correspondence concerning Richard Shuttleworth, the Parliamentarian (DDKS 30/5-32). This been published by the Chetham Society (vol. XLIX-L, 1859) in The Lancashire Lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts. An earlier Richard, Sir Richard (died 1599) was Lord Chief Justice of Chester, and a series of final concords levied before him in the Court of Great Sessions survives (DDKS 30/33-132).

 

Of the later members of the family mentioned in the archive, Robert Shuttleworth died in 1818, leaving his daughter Janet as heiress to the estates. Until she came of age in 1838, the estate was administered by a trusteeship (see DDKS 17). In 1842 she married the educational reformer, James Phillip Kay, and the family name became Kay Shuttleworth. James Kay Shuttleworth was created a baronet in 1849. On his death in 1877, the baronetcy passed to his son, Ughtred James, who in 1902 was created a baron. He died in 1939, being succeeded by his grandson Richard Ughtred Paul (1913-40) as the second baron, who was in turn succeeded by his brother Ronald Orlando Laurence (1917-42). For further details of the family see Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1949, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, vol. VI, London 1910, and F. Smith The Life and Work of Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, London 1923.
Date: 13th - 20th centuries
Arrangement:

Contents

 

Title Deeds see also DDKS 17, 25

 

Lancashire

 

DDKS 1. Barton and adjacent townships

 

DDKS 2. Bilsborrow

 

DDKS 3. Chipping

 

DDKS 4. Clitheroe and Standen, Henthorn and Mitton

 

DDKS 5. Darwen and Eccleshill

 

Habergham Eaves see DDKS 13-14

 

DDKS 6. Higham with West Close Booth

 

Ightenhill Park see DDKS 13

 

DDKS 7. Inskip with Sowerby, Myerscough, Euxton and Furness

 

DDKS 8. Lancaster

 

DDKS 9. Padiham

 

DDKS 10. Padiham, Clitheroe, Sabden, Simonstone and Whalley

 

DDKS 11. Simonstone

 

DDKS 12. Whittingham

 

DDKS 13. Wapentake of Blackburn and Manor of Ightenhill

 

DDKS 14. Miscellaneous

 

Westmorland

 

DDKS 15. Barbon

 

Middleton see DDKS 25/27

 

Yorkshire

 

DDKS 16. Dent

 

Henthorn and Mitton see DDKS 4

 

Estate Papers

 

DDKS 17. Trusteeship

 

DDKS 18. Accounts

 

DDKS 19. Rentals

 

DDKS 20. Leases

 

DDKS 21. Tenancy agreements

 

DDKS 22. Building agreements and leases

 

DDKS 23. Building plans

 

DDKS 24. Agents notebooks

 

DDKS 25. Agents bundles

 

DDKS 26. Correspondence see also DDKS 25

 

DDKS 27. Coalmining papers

 

DDKS 28. Maps and plans see also DDKS 27/7, DDKS 36

 

DDKS 29. Miscellaneous

 

Family papers

 

DDKS 30. Official papers

 

DDKS 31. Honours and appointments

 

DDKS 32. Lands belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster

 

DDKS 33. Miscellaneous

 

Miscellaneous papers

 

DDKS 34. Habergham Eaves

 

DDKS 35. Ightenhill

 

DDKS 36. Plans

 

DDKS 37. Letters to Lady Janet Kay-Shuttleworth from Charlotte Brontë & Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell

 

Additional estate records

 

DDKS 38. Architectural drawings by Charles Barry and others

 

DDKS 39. Papers relating to Gawthorpe Hall

 

DDKS 40. Estate and other records
Related material:

Further records of the Kay Shuttleworth family can be found in DDX 2123
Held by: Lancashire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Kay Shuttleowrth family of Gawthorpe, barons of Shuttleworth
Physical description: 4 Sub-fonds
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Lord Shuttleworth

 

3 April 1970
Custodial history:

acc 2613

 

Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to Lancashire County Council for deposit at the Lancashire Record Office, 1999

 

Additional deposit 13 May 1970 (acc 2628) comprising:

 

DDKS 3/1, 9/50-52, 13/4, 13/28-29, 16/1-14, 17/2/3, 17/2/11, 19/1-6, 20/1-2, 20/4-5, 20/8, 20/9/2-3, 20/9/8, 20/9/18-21, 20/9/23-26, 20/9/35, 25/2/3-4, 25/2/10, 26/1/44

 

Additional deposit 13 Jan 1971 (acc 6993) comprising:

 

DDKS 27/6/273

 

Additional deposit 2 Mar 1977 (acc 3887) comprising:

 

DDKS 8/1-12, 14/10-11, 15/1, 17/1/1, 17/2/1-2, 17/2/4-8, 17/3/1-4, 17/4/1-27, 17/6, 18/10-31, 19/7-23, 20/9/4-7, 20/9/9-17, 20/9/27-34, 20/9/36-45, 21/1-13, 22/1/-585, 23/1/1-25, 23/2/1-90, 24/1-39, 25/1/16-56, 25/2/1-2, 25/2/5-9, 25/2/11, 25/2/13-81, 25/3/1-56, 25/4/1-20, 25/5/1-8, 25/7/1-9, 25/8/1-11, 25/9/1-36, 25/10/1-10, 25/11/1-3, 25/12/1-39, 25/13/1-9, 25/14/1-29, 25/15/1-5, 25/16/1-11, 25/17/1-20, 25/18/1-17, 25/19/1-21, 25/20/1-10, 25/21/1-126, 25/22/1-6, 25/23/1-6, 25/24/1-9, 25/25/1-12, 25/26/1-4, 25/27/1-16, 26/1/1-27, 26/3-9, 26/10/1-43, 26/10/45-51, 27/1/2-3, 27/1/5, 27/2-5, 27/6/1-307 exc.273, 27/7-8, 28/1/1-8, 28/2/1-94, 28/3/1-19, 28/4/1-3, 28/5/1, 28/5/3-10, 28/6/1, 28/7/1-6, 28/8/1-2, 28/9/1-4, 28/10/1-30, 28/11/1-11, 28/12/1, 28/13/1-3, 28/14/1-9, 28/15/1-22, 28/16/1-5, 29/4-32, 31/1-11, 33/4-6, 34/1-2, 35/1, 36/1-10

 

Additional deposit 8 Nov 1999 (acc 8666) comprising:

 

DDKS 37/1-10
Subjects:
  • Padiham, Lancashire
  • Habergham Eaves, Lancashire
  • Fylde, Lancashire
  • Leck, Cumbria
  • Barbon, Cumbria
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