Catalogue description Grey Papers (additional)

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Details of DE.453
Reference: DE.453
Title: Grey Papers (additional)
Description:

The collection is made up of three main deposits of which this particular one consists of administrative and financial records of the estates from the nineteenth century onwards, which leases of sporting and other rights and papers concerning the Groby Granite Company, 1866-1926.
Date: 1773 - 1943
Related material:

For other papers concerning the Grey family see DE311, DE1982, DE5840 and DE6031.
Held by: Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Grey family, Earls of Stamford and Warrington
Physical description: 322 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited on permanent loan by Messrs. Warner, Sheppard and Wade, Halford Street, Leicester, 14th December 1961.
Subjects:
  • Groby, Leicestershire
Administrative / biographical background:

The Greys have been prominent in Leicestershire since the 15th Century, when the manor of Groby came to them through marriage with the Ferrers family.
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