Catalogue description Records of Wright & Freeman, Solicitors including GREY MSS additional
This record is held by Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for
Reference: | DE1982 |
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Title: | Records of Wright & Freeman, Solicitors including GREY MSS additional |
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1. GREY MANUSCRIPTS additional TITLE DEEDS Leicestershire: Anstey, Botcheston, Bradgate, Breedon, Charnwood Forest, Cropston, Glenfield, Groby, Higham on the Hill, Leicester, Newtown Linford, Ratby, Stanton under Bardon, Swithland, Whetstone, and misc. 1-167 Out County: Lincolnshire, Devonshire, Somerset and Shropshire. 168-172 MANORIAL 173-176 ESTATE PAPERS Leicestershire: Inclosure 177-180 General 181-225 Out County: Staffordshire and Suffolk 226-236 LEGAL 237-238 MISCELLANEA 239-243 MAPS 244 EDUCATION 245 2. LEICESTER TRAMWAYS CO. RECORDS 246-253 3. WHITWICK COLLIERY CO. LTD. & SWANNINGTON PUMPING CO. RECORDS 254-303 4. RECORDS OF SIR THOMAS WRIGHT AND SON, AND HERBERT SIMPSON, SOLICITORS. 304-312 5. MISCELLANEOUS Title deeds: Arnesby, Aylestone, Blaby, Bruntingthorpe, Gilmorton, Kirby Muxloe, Knighton, Leicester, Leicester Forest, Melton Mowbray, Wigston Magna, and Asfordby, Billesdon, Blaston & misc. 313-441 Other 442-453 The collection is made up of three main deposits and two smaller ones. This deposit is perhaps best described as a collection of 'estate papers' as they contain very little personal material of the Grey or associated families and consists mainly of title deeds and estate records. |
Date: | 1590-1953 |
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For other papers concerning the Grey family see DE311, DE453, DE5840 and DE6031. |
Held by: | Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 453 Files |
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Deposited by: Mr. C.J. Dean, Stone and Simpson, solicitors 11 April 1979 |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
The Greys have been prominent in Leicestershire since the 15th Century, when the manor of Groby came to them through marriage with the Ferrers family. Their seat was at Bradgate Park until 1854, when the new Bradgate House was built near Markfield. Extensive estates were held in Leicestershire, though the Breedon estate was sold in 1873 and the remainder, in the Charnwood area, after the Great War. |
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