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Yorke family, Earls of Hardwicke

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Date: 1200-1903
Places:
  • Arrington, Cambridgeshire
  • Aspenden, Hertfordshire
  • Great Bardfield, Essex
  • Haddenham, Cambridgeshire
  • Hardwicke, Gloucestershire
  • Haresfield, Gloucestershire
  • Reigate, Surrey
  • Ridge, Hertfordshire
  • Shingay, Cambridgeshire
  • Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire
  • Topsham, Devon
  • Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire
  • Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/F86242 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F4698 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
13th cent-19th cent: Cambs (Wimpole, etc), Gloucs (Hardwicke, etc), Herts (Tyttenhanger in Ridge, etc) and Surrey (Reigate) deeds and estate papers and Yorke family and political papers 13th-19th cent but mainly from 17th cent, with misc estate papers for Devon (Topsham), Essex (Great Bardfield) and Wilts, etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
2
1400-19th cent: Cambs (Wimpole, etc) deeds, manorial records and estate papers
Cambridgeshire Archives
NRA 3503 Cambs Misc
3
1824-1832: misc Cambs (Wimpole, etc) estate papers
Cambridgeshire Archives
NRA 3503 Cambs Misc
4
1638, 1851: Wimpole (Cambs) manorial survey 1638 and tithe apportionment and map 1851
Cambridgeshire Archives
See Annual Report 1977 p19
5
1881: Wimpole (Cambs) household inventory
The National Archives
6
1667-1669, 18th cent-19th cent: Cambs (Shingay) estate accounts 1667-69, Gloucs (Hardwicke, etc) estate accounts 1743-60 and Yorke family corresp and papers 18th-19th cent
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 16952 Johnson
7
15th cent-19th cent: Cambs (Wimpole, etc), Gloucs (Hardwicke, etc) and Herts (Tyttenhanger in Ridge, etc) deeds, legal, trust, manorial and estate papers 15th-19th cent and deeds and papers rel to Reigate (Surrey) borough interest 17th-19th cent, etc
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 19506 Alexander
8
1726-1750: Gloucs (Hardwicke, etc) rentals and accounts
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 5503 Hopton
9
15th cent-19th cent: Herts (Tyttenhanger in Ridge, etc) manorial records and estate, household and Yorke family papers, with misc deeds and papers for other counties
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 19506 Alexander
10
15th cent-19th cent: Herts (Tyttenhanger in Ridge, etc) manorial records
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 18351 Clarke
11
16th cent-19th cent: Herts (Tyttenhanger in Ridge, etc) deeds and manorial records
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 3507 Herts RO misc
12
18th cent-19th cent: misc Yorke family papers, some rel to the Wimpole (Cambs) house and estate
Cambridgeshire Archives
See Annual Report 1992 p23
13
17th cent-19th cent: Yorke family corresp and papers 17th-19th cent, with Herts (Tyttenhanger in Ridge, etc) estate accounts 1770-75
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
NRA 13276 Alexander
14
1796-1799: Yorke family agent's letters to the 3rd Earl
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 8117 Oxford Agric

See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989 p116
15
16th cent-18th cent: Yorke family papers, mainly of the 1st and 2nd Earls and Charles Yorke (1722-70)
New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division
NRA 20038
16
c17th cent-19th cent: misc Yorke family wills and papers, incl misc corresp of the 2nd Earl
Bedfordshire Archives
NRA 6283 Wrest Park

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [28a]
17
1736-1741: literary MSS of the 2nd Earl
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
18
1743-1753: parliamentary journal and misc papers of the 2nd Earl
British Library, Manuscript Collections
19
1790-1797: executorship accounts of the 2nd Earl
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
NRA 5836 Vyner

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [112b]
20
1834-1873: 4th Earl of Hardwicke's estate journal and memorandum book
Cambridgeshire Archives
See Annual Return 1999
21
1801-1834: corresp of CP Yorke (1764-1834)
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 10091 Yorke
22
1810-1812: Admiralty corresp and papers of CP Yorke
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
23
1902-1903: 6th Earl of Hardwicke's corresp as Under Secretary of War
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
NRA 18641 Nat Army Mus misc