Catalogue description THE FREDERICK FAMILY OF BURWOOD PARK, WALTON ON THAMES: DEEDS AND PAPERS, 1558-1913

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Reference: 183
Title: THE FREDERICK FAMILY OF BURWOOD PARK, WALTON ON THAMES: DEEDS AND PAPERS, 1558-1913
Description:

The records include deeds relating to the Frederick family's properties, including Burwood Park, Walton on Thames, as well as properties in London and other counties, namely Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Cornwall, Lincolnshire, Hampshire and Buckinghamshire. These can be found in 183/1/- to 183/26/-. Later sections of the list (183/27/- to 183/47/-) contain settlements, wills and executorship papers of individual members of the Frederick family and related families. They also include personal, household and estate accounts and inventories relating to: Dame Mary Frederick, d. 1767 (-/32/-); Sir John Frederick, 4th bart, d. 1783 (-/33/-); Sir John Frederick, 5th bart, d. 1825 (-/34/-), including an account of Frederick with Haig and Chippendale for furniture and furnishings for his town house in Savile Row and Burwood Park, 1790-1796, receipted by Thomas Chippendale, 10 Dec 1796 (183/34/10c); and Sir Richard Frederick, 6th bart, d. 1873 (-/36/-).

 

There is also a group of papers relating to parliamentary affairs, including accounts relating to Sir John Frederick's unsuccessful bid to be elected for Chippenham, Wilts, in 1741 (-/35/1-13), and to his son's successful bid to be returned for Surrey in 1794 and 1796 (-/35/39); also papers relating to the 5th baronet's service on Commons committees considering disputed elections, including for Bedfordshire, 1785, Southwark, 1796, and Weymouth, 1807 (-/35/34-38, 40-46).

Date: 1558-1873
Arrangement:

The list is in two sections. The first section (183/1/- to 183/24/-) is a list of the first four accessions and was completed in 1966. It consists mainly of deeds relating to properties referred to above. The second section (183/25/- to 183/47/-) is a list of the final two deposits and has generally been arranged by the person or family to whom they chiefly relate.

 

183/20/- and /21/- have been revised and renumbered and indications of these revisions have been given in the list. § beside a number indicates that a document has been renumbered. The old number will be found at the end of the entry, thus [183/20/8].

 

Ref: 183/ FREDERICK FAMILY (1)

 

Mainly Deeds relating to WALTON ON THAMES also CHERTSEY, WEYBRIDGE, WISLEY; LONDON LINCOLNSHIRE, SUFFOLK, SUSSEX, etc.

 

SUMMARY

 

183/1/1-105 BURWOOD HOUSE and ESTATE with lands in HERSHAM, WALTON LEIGH, and on WALTON HEATH

 

183/2/1-33 GARSEY CROFT etc.

 

183/3/1-34 BURY GASSONS etc.

 

183/4/1-62 SOUTHWOOD and SILKSMORE, WALTON on THAMES, also CHERTSEY, SUFFOLK & SUSSEX

 

183/5/1-22 Land formerly WOOLFE'S and HODD'S

 

183/6/1-11 Land bought from Lady SHANNON

 

183/7/1-28 Land bought from MICHELL and FYDELL; WALTON on THAMES, CHERTSEY & WISLEY

 

183/8/1-13 Land bought form Joshua ROWLEY, in HERSHAM, manor of MOULSEY

 

183/9/1-9 Land bought from James CUMBERLIDGE

 

183/10/1-3 Land bought from Edw. PEPPIN

 

183/11/1-6 Property in Manor of SANDON bought from James BOOCOCK

 

183/12/1-16 Land in Manor of MOULSEY MATHAM bought from James COOPER

 

183/13/1-30 PAINS HILL ESTATE

 

183/14/1-4 Land in WALTON exchanged with the JOHNSONS. 1778

 

183/15/1-5 Inclosure of land on WALTON and HERSHAM Commons

 

183/16/1-3 BURWOOD Estate Tithes in WALTON and WEST MOLESEY

 

183/17/1-14 Manors of WALTON on THAMES and SANDON

 

183/18/1-47 LONDON properties

 

183/19/1-12 Land in Brothertoft, LINCS.

 

183/20/1-40 Marriage Settlements

 

183/21/1-66 Wills and executory papers. FREDERICK family

 

183/22/1-96 Miscellaneous Trusts

 

183/23/1-8 Properties: SURREY, GLOS., HEREFORDS., LONDON, CORNWALL, BUCKS., HANTS.,

 

183/24/1-8 Miscellaneous financial

 

183/ FREDERICK FAMILY (2)

 

SUMMARY

 

Introduction

 

183/25/1-4 City of London property

 

183/26/1-6 Other property: Grosvenor St., Mx. and Walton on Thames

 

183/27/1-4 Sir John Frederick, Lord Mayor of London

 

183/28/1-13 Thomas Frederick (1650-1720)

 

183/29/1-10 Thomas Frederick's daughters

 

183/30/1-4 Sir Thomas Frederick, kt (1680-1731)

 

183/31/1-4 Sir Thomas Frederick's daughters

 

183/32/1-102 Lady Frederick

 

183/33/1-23 Sir John Frederick, 4th bart (1708-1783)

 

183/34/1-30 Sir John Frederick, 5th bart (1750-1825)

 

183/35/1-46 Parliamentary papers: 4th and 5th barts

 

183/36/1-82 Sir Richard Frederick, 6th bart (1780-1873)

 

183/37/ -40/ Sir Charles Frederick, K.B. and family

 

183/37/1-29 Sir Charles Frederick

 

183/38/1-7 Legacy from Jeaffreson Miles

 

183/38/8-14 Thomas Lenox Frederick

 

183/38/15-18 Lucy Molineux

 

183/39/1-57 Prescott

 

183/40/1-45 Edward Boscawen Frederick

 

183/41/ Related families

 

183/41/1-3 Sir Thomas Frederick, 3rd bart (1728-1770)

 

183/41/4-8 Poyntz

 

183/41/9-11 Garth

 

183/41/12-20 Mrs. Terry

 

183/42/ Hudson, with Vansittart, Tracy and Boehm

 

183/42/1 Vansittart

 

183/42/2-22 Hudson

 

183/42/23-47 Tracy and Boehm

 

183/43/-47/ E.B. Frederick: trusteeship and executorship papers

 

183/43/ Gen. Arthur Whetham

 

183/44/Sir Nelson Rycroft

 

183/45/George Poynz Ricketts

 

183/46/ Palmer and Mackinnon

 

183/47/ E.P. Medows

 

183/48/1-4 Miscellaneous

Related material:

For diaries of Sir John Frederick (4th baronet), 1737-1738, and letters from Henry Vansittart (1732-1769), director of the East India Company, 1752-1769, see 4647/-.

Held by: Surrey History Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Frederick family of Burwood Park, Walton on Thames, Surrey

Physical description: 48 series
Access conditions:

There are no access restrictions.

Immediate source of acquisition:

A descendant of the Frederick family presented the first records in May 1954. The solicitors of the family, Farrer & Co, made three deposits of Frederick papers in October and November 1961 and July 1964. In February 1970, the same descendant made a further presentation of Frederick papers. The final deposit (ref: 183/34/10c) was made in June 1972 by the son of E H Fellowes, author of The Frederick Family (1930).

Publication note:

The Rev E H Fellowes, The Frederick Family (1930).

Subjects:
  • Walton on Thames, Surrey
Administrative / biographical background:

Christopher Frederick, founder of the family, came to England from Hainault during the reign of Elizabeth I, and enjoyed the queen's patronage. He became a member of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons in 1595 and was appointed Sergeant-Surgeon to James I. The family settled in the City of London, in the parish of St Olave, Old Jewry, where they acquired considerable property.

 

The earliest member of the family for whom records survive in this accession is Christopher's fourth son, John (1601-1685), who was Lord Mayor of London, 1661-1662. He was knighted in 1660. His son, Thomas (1650-1720), followed the family tradition of marrying an heiress, Leonara Maresco, in 1676. They had five children: two sons, John and Thomas (1680-1731), and three daughters, the youngest of whom, Jane, became Duchess of Atholl by her second marriage. Thomas's marriage was stormy and, after a series of lawsuits over the Maresco property, he and his wife separated in 1715 (see 183/28/6).

 

The elder son, John, was created a baronet in 1723. His two sons succeeded him in turn, John in 1755, and Thomas in 1757. When the latter died in 1770 without leaving a son, the title passed to his cousin John Frederick of Burwood, who became 4th baronet.

 

Thomas Frederick, the younger son of Thomas (1650-1720), served in the East India Company and became governor of Fort St David and Fort St George, Madras, where he married in 1705, and where most of his children were born. He was a director of the South Sea Company and was knighted in 1721. The City of London properties were left to him by his father, who also left large legacies to his sons. Thomas used his legacy to acquire the Burwood estate at Walton on Thames. His three eldest sons, Thomas, John (later 4th baronet) and Charles, and three daughters, Mary, Henrietta and Hannah, appear in these records. Mary married Alexander Hume, MP, and Hannah his brother Abraham, who was created a baronet in 1769. Henrietta married Luke Spence of South Malling, Sussex (see 183/22/1-17). The younger Thomas Frederick (1707-1740) was MP for Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, until his death, when his brother John took over the seat. He relinquished it to his younger brother, Charles, in 1746, and became MP for West Looe in Cornwall.

 

Charles Frederick was MP for Shoreham, 1746-1754, and then for Queenborough, Kent, until 1784. He entered the Office of Ordnance and was Comptroller in 1749 at the time of the celebrations of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, being responsible for the ill-fated firework display. In 1761 he was created a Knight of the Bath. In 1746 he married the Hon Lucy Boscawen, a daughter of Viscount Falmouth. They had three sons, Charles, Thomas Lenox and Edward Boscawen Frederick, and two daughters, Augusta, who married Thomas Prescott, and Lucy who married Crispe Molineux.

 

The baronetcy passed to the descendants of Sir Charles on the death of the sixth baronet, Sir Richard, in 1873.

 

Related families:

 

POYNTZ: Lady Frederick (Mary Moncrieff), widow of Sir Thomas, married William Poyntz in 1736. After his death in 1748 she became involved in a Chancery action over his estate (see 183/32/14-25). The Ricketts family, for whom her grandson, Edward Boscawen Frederick, acted as a trustee, were related to Poyntz.

 

HUDSON (with VANSITTART, TRACY and BOEHM): Sir John Frederick of Burwood married Susanna, third and youngest daughter of Sir Roger Hudson of Sunbury, Middx, a director of the South Sea Company, knighted at the same time as John's father, Sir Thomas Frederick. Lady Hudson was born Emma Susanna Vansittart and their son (d. 1768) was Vansittart

 

Hudson. The other daughters were Anna Maria, wife of Robert Tracy, and Martha, wife of Edward Boehm.

 

GARTH: Sir John Frederick, 5th baronet, married Mary Garth, third and youngest daughter of Richard Garth of Morden [see K80/-, Garth estate papers].

 

TERRY: Charlotte Fellowes, a niece of Sir Richard Frederick, married Col T H C Terry. It is from these descendants that the family papers were received.

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