Catalogue description BRAMLEY GRANGE MUNIMENTS

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Details of BGM
Reference: BGM
Title: BRAMLEY GRANGE MUNIMENTS
Description:

BGM 1 - 190

 

These consist of deeds, papers, pedigrees, a few letters, surveys and maps of the Spencer family of Attercliffe and Bramley Grange (parish of Braithwell) with a few deeds and papers of the related family of Milner of Burton Grange and Attercliffe. Among the latter is a diary kept by William Elmsall, an attorney of Thornhill, with daily entries from 1708 to 1740. His daughter married William Milner of Burton Grange.
Date: 17th-19th centuries
Related material:

Note: some partly related Bramley Deeds have been deposited at Rotherham Archives - see N.R.A. 3-98c.
Held by: Sheffield City Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Spencer family of Attercliffe and Bramley Grange, Braithwell, West Riding of Yorkshire
Physical description: 4 Series
Immediate source of acquisition:

BGM/1-185 Deposited November 1969 (BRA 1636)

 

Accession nos. 64981-64997

 

BGM/186-190 Additional deposit October 1971 (per BRA)

 

Accession no. 65046
Subjects:
  • Milner family of Burton Grange and Attercliffe, West Riding of Yorkshire
  • Bramley Grange, Braithwell, West Riding of Yorkshire
Unpublished finding aids:

Dates in this catalogue are given in New Style.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Spencer family no longer lived at Bramley Grange after the death of Lieutenant General Spencer in 1829, and after the death of his son, Reverend William Pakenham Spencer, rector of Starston in Norfolk, in 1845, the Bramley Grange estates descended to Mrs. Ollivant, a sister of Reverend W. P. Spencer, and her children.
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