Catalogue description Rev WGD Fletcher, genealogist and antiquarian

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Reference: MS 3549
Title: Rev WGD Fletcher, genealogist and antiquarian
Description:

Deeds of Berkeley, Cromhall, Culkerton, North Nibley, Stinchcombe and Wotton-under-Edge and other places in the hundred of Berkeley all Glos, many connected with the Berkeley and Smyth families, and probably mostly brought together by John Smyth of Nibley in the early 17th century, c1200-1704; memoranda of the patronage of the chantry and school of Wotton-under-Edge by the Berkeley family, 1552; manor court rolls of Ham Glos, 1587-88 and Wotton-under-Edge, 1581; probate copy wills of Joan Sherwyn of Bishton Staffs, 1583, John Drewe of North Nibley, 1597, Maude Purnell of North Nibley, 1626, Walter Keeling of Brinsford Staffs, 1655, John Webb of Stroud Glos, 1705; extracts from Charter, Patent and Close Rolls relating to Leicestershire, 1200 - 1480; copies of 16th century herald's visitations of Midland counties from the library of Ralph Anstis, Garter King of Arms; copy visitations of Rutland, 1618 and Leicestershire, 1619; terriers of the parsonage of Elmley Lovett Worcs, 1635 and the vicarage of Wednesbury Staffs, 1730; pedigrees and grants of arms of Lancashire families, c1660; bishop's transcripts of parish registers for Anstey in Thurcaston Leics, 1687-1711, Newton Linford Leics 1701-10, Ratby Leics, 1695-1710 and Swithland Leics, 1687-1708; antiquarian collections of Samuel Carte relating to Leicestershire, 1720-53 5 vols; Fletcher family notebook, c1800; plans of land at Chirk Denbighs, c1800 and Coton Salop, 1832-33; memorandum concerning watermills in Birmingham, Dudley, Staffordshire and elsewhere, c1810; grant of knighthood to Lt. Col. Richard Fletcher, 1812; papers relating to the manor of Thelwall Ches and the Pickering family, c1824; pedigree of the family of Whatton, 1825; heraldic collections of William Radcliffe, Rouge-Croix Herald, 1826; abstracts of grants of arms, 1838-45; papers relating to the Montague Peerage case, 1825-52; pedigree of Hill family of Hawkestone Salop, c1850; volume of Leicestershire pedigrees, c1850; transcripts of deeds and legal papers relating to Wygston Hospital Leics, 1857; notes by Joseph Foster and Fletcher on the Blood Royal in the Bohun and Clare families, 1879; C. Bridger's pedigrees showing royal descents, 1880; pedigree of the Fletcher family, 1882; history of Loughborough Leics, 1883; copies of subsidy rolls for Purslow and Clun hundreds Salop, 1604-63; notes by Miss E. Hodgetts about old houses in Dudley, Sedgley, Himley and Kingswinford etc., 1895; Lodge Road West Bromwich Literary & Dramatic Society minutes, 1913-17; genealogical collections of W.A. Leighton concerning the Allport family of Cannock, 1796-1930; topographical collections of W.G.D. Fletcher concerning Leicestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and other countries, 19th-20th cents 20 vols; Fletcher's correspondence about antiquarian subjects, 1861-1931, including correspondence with Thomas Russell Potter, 1871-73; Fletcher's lecture notes, c1885
Date: 1200 - 1939
Held by: Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: Original accession no. 4771L
Language: English
Physical description: 573 files
Access conditions:

Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

REV. W.G.D. FLETCHER

 

BEQUEST
Subjects:
  • Fletcher, WGD, fl 1936 of Shrewsbury
  • Gloucestershire
  • Leicestershire
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