Catalogue description Wharncliffe Muniments

This record is held by Sheffield City Archives

Details of Wh M
Reference: Wh M
Title: Wharncliffe Muniments
Description:

Section 1 Estate and personal letters and papers including vouchers Wh M/1-694

 

Wh M/V

 

Section 2 Deeds Wh M/D/1-687

 

Sections 3 Maps and plans Wh M/Maps/1-69

 

Section 4 Printed material: books and pamphlets Wh M/P/1-13

Date: c.1250-1920
Held by: Sheffield City Archives, not available at The National Archives
Copies held at:

Microfilm copies: Microfilm or photocopies are available of the 1st Earl of Wharncliffe's correspondence: Wh M/418 - microfilms A 276-281

Language: English
Creator:

Mackenzie, Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-, family, Earls of Wharncliffe, of Wortley Hall, Yorkshire

Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie family, Earls of Wharncliffe, of Wortley Hall, Yorkshire

Physical description: 155 boxes, 79 volumes, 6 rolls, 69 maps; 5 sub fonds
Physical condition: Some of the 19th century letters and papers are in a very fragile condition
Access conditions:

Access: An application form must be completed before access to the records is allowed. This includes an undertaking relating to their use in publications, etc. Some of the 19th century letters and papers are in a very fragile condition and are not available for issue.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited 1951-1954, with some later additions

Publication note:

Related printed sources:

 

'The Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart 1778-1834' selected by R Brimley Johnson (1926)

 

(i.e. Lady Louisa Stuart, grand-daughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1757-1851)

Subjects:
  • Wortley, Tankersley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Unpublished finding aids:

The Belmont (Perthshire) estate records were listed in an HMC report in 1874. (Fourth Report, xxiii, 518 [3]). They were sold at Sotheby's in 1920.

 

The Dundee (Angus) estate records were listed in an HMC Report in 1876. (Fifth report, xx, 621, 622 [4]). They were sold at Sotheby's in 1920.

 

The Wortley estate records were listed in an HMC report in 1872. (Third Report, xvi, 224-226 [2]).

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