Catalogue description Penney Collection

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Details of ADD MSS/47,099-47352
Reference: ADD MSS/47,099-47352
Title: Penney Collection
Description:

Papers of the Penney family of Poole, Dorset, and Southwick, Hurstpierpoint and Brighton, shipowners
Date: 1580 - 1987
Arrangement:

47,099-47,177 R.H. Penney & Sons, 1819 - 1987

 

47,099 - 47,100 Lidbetter & Lucas and Edward Lucas, 1824 - 1857

 

47,101 - 47,122 Southwick Wharf & Office deeds, 1819 - 1903

 

47,123 - 47,177 Robert Horne Penney (later R.H. Penney & Sons), 1852-1987

 

47,178-47,223 Lucas Family, 1824 - 1908

 

47,178 - 47,185 Household & personal papers, 1824 - 1856

 

47,186 - 47,193 Deeds & will probates, 1844 - 1905

 

47,194 - 47,203 John Edward Lucas' loan from Edward Lucas 1863 - 1877

 

47,204 - 47,206 Edward Lucas' executors, 1873 - 1894

 

47,207 - 47,220 Glaisyer marriage settlement trustees, 1869 - 1905

 

47,221 - 47,223 Misc. (John Edward Lucas), c.1895 - 1908

 

47,224-47,267 Penney family of Poole, 1751 - 1917

 

47,224 - 47,243 Deeds, 1788 - 1850

 

47,244 - 47,248 Property, 1840 - 1889

 

47,249 - 47,256 Will probates, 1853 - 1917

 

47,257 - 47,261 Shipping, 1756 - 1830

 

47,262 - 47,265 Quaker, 1751 - 1888

 

47,266 - 47,267 Personal, 1848 - 1849

 

47,268-47,314 Penney family of Southwick, 1891 - 1975

 

47,268 - 47,272 Robert Alfred and Sidney Rickman Penney, 1891 - 1958.

 

47,273 - 47,308 Arthur George Wallis Penney, 1910 - 1951

 

47,309 - 47,314 Genealogical and miscellaneous papers, (1852-1975)

 

47,315-47,328 Shoreham Harbour Trustees, 1929 - 1984

 

47,329-47,332A Related families, 1881 - 1886

 

47,333-47,352 Miscellaneous Deeds, etc., 1580 - 1889

 

47,333 - 47,347 Sussex, 1588 - 1817

 

47,348 - 47,352 Other counties, 1580 - 1889
Related material:

Other collections relating to the family are to be found in Add. MS. 16,635 (Logbook of the Arundel, 1774-1775) and Add. MSS. 32,943 - 32,946 (papers of Robert Horne Penney of Southwick, shipowner, 1858-1859). Papers relating to the Penney relatives, the Horne family who were fellow Quakers and shipowners, are to be found in Add. MSS. 39,984 - 39,995.
Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Penney family of Southwick, Sussex

Penney family of Poole, Dorset
Physical description: 22 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

[Acc. 8399]

 

Presented by Mrs. Anthea Constance Porter, daughter of A. G. W. Penney, in August 1990.
Custodial history:

Accumulated by Arthur George Wallis Penney of Southwick (1900 - 1990), son of Sidney Rickman Penney and grandson of Robert Horne Penney.
Subjects:
  • Lucas family of Southwick, Sussex
  • Poole, Dorset
  • Southwick, Sussex
Administrative / biographical background:

The family were merchants and shipowners in Poole until 1852, when Robert Horne Penney (1822 - 1902) took over the shipping business of his cousin, and subsequently father-in-law, Edward Lucas (1803 - 1874), in Southwick. Robert Horne Penney's brother George Penney remained in Poole.

 

The family were almost all Quakers, both in Poole and in Sussex - where they attended the Lewes and Chichester Monthly Meeting. Several members held office.

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