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Catalogue description Pipe - Wolferstan estate and family papers
This record is held by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
| Reference: | D948 |
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| Title: | Pipe - Wolferstan estate and family papers |
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D948/1 Wolferstan and Pipe Wolferstan family D948/1/1 Title D948/1/2 Settlements D948/1/3 Estate management - chiefly leases D948/1/4 Documents affecting title D948/2 Littleton family D948/2/1 Title D948/2/2 Settlements D948/2/3 Leases D948/2/4 Miscellaneous D948/3 Medieval deeds D948/3/1-72 Lichfield and Tamworth area D948/3/73-79 Haselour D948/3/80-99 Elsewhere in Staffordshire D948/3/100-106 Yorkshire D948/3/107-115 Other counties D948/4 Later deeds and papers apparently unconnected with the Pipe-Wolferstan family D948/4/1 Stanley family - Drayton Bassett area D948/4/2 Inge family of Thorpe Constantine D948/4/2/1 Knighton (Leics.) D948/4/2/2 Thorpe Constantine manor and property in Leics. D948/4/2/3 King's Newton (Warwicks.) D948/4/2/4 Phillips family of Birmingham and King's Newton D948/4/3 Middlesex - deeds and leases D948/4/4 Miscellaneous deeds and papers D948/4/5 Swinfen family documents D948/4/6 Letters D948/5 19th century elections |
| Date: | 13th century-1889 |
| Held by: | Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 19 series |
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Deposited by Captain F.C. Pipe-Wolferstan, Statfold Hall, Near Tamworth. |
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The Wolferstans, originally of Wolverstone Hall, Suffolk, seem to have become established in Staffordshire in the mid-16th century, when a younger son married Katherine Stanley, heiress to Statfold Manor. Over the next three centuries they added considerably to their property in the Tamworth area and in the neighbouring parts of Derbyshire, Warwickshire and Leicester. During the eighteenth century there was a particularly large accession of property to the family when Joyce Wolferstan married Edward Littleton, who inherited the estates of his uncle, Devereux Kittleton. This accounts for the presence in the collection of a number of Littleton family papers. The name "Pipe-Wolferstan" was adopted in 1776 by Samuel Pipe, who inherited the Wolferstan estates from his grandfather, Stanford Wolferstan (d.1772). Samuel Pipe-Wolferstan (d.1820) was a distinguished antiquary who gave considerable assistance to the Reverend Stebbing Shaw for the latter's History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, 1798, (see preface, page X) and was also a friend of William Hamper, the Birmingham antiquary. His diaries, 1776-1820, are held at Staffordshire Record Office, ref. D1527. The presence in these collections of a number of medieval deeds and other documents apparently unconnected with the Pipe-Wolferstans is presumably to be explained by his activities as a collector. |
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