Catalogue description Records relating to the Bassett family of Leighton Buzzard

The records mainly relate to the personal affairs of various members of the family for whom the family firm appear to have acted as bankers or trustees.

Included are records relating to the wife of Frederick Bassett (formerly Elizabeth L Retallack and heiress to a share in a Cornish mine), the estate of Maria Reynolds (a sister of John Dollin Bassett), of the Taylor family (Eliza Tylor being a daughter of John Dollin Bassett) and of 2 granddaughters of John D Bassett, - Katherine Crisp and Mary Glass, and another granddaughter, Hannah Mary Carson.

Index

X 636/14 - 17 Leases of Leighton Buzzard property 1853 - 1906

X 636/18 - 20 Records relating to Frederick Bassett, (1848 - 1912) 1882 - 1908

X 636/21 - 63 Records relating to the Bull family and the Treamble mine, Cornwall 1874 - 1888

X 636/64 - 88 Treamble Mine and the Retallack family 1893 - 1907

X 636/89 - 136 Reynolds family 1834 - 1910

X 636/137 - 190 Tylor family (and Binns) 1881 - 1904

X 636/191 - 197 Miscellaneous Binns correspondence 1885 - 1887

X 636/198 - 212 Kitty Crisp 1895 - 1898

X 636/213 - 219 Louisa Bassett 1903 - 1911

X 636/220 - 233 Glass family 1895 - 1898

X 636/234 - 265 Carson family 1901 - 1905

X 636/266 - 268 Ashfield and Starbuck (deeds and receipt) 1855 - 1884

X 636/269 Hudson and Green (receipts etc) 1890

X 636/270 Woodman 1880

X 636/271 Extract from Leighton Buzzard Inclosure award re private carriage road no. 5 c. 1848

X 636/272 - 275 Miscellaneous letters (Harris, Smith, Retallack) 1898 - 1907

The records were stored in 3 tin trunks marked no 12 (F and E Bassett, '798', received by the Bank on 19 February 1906), no.34 (Theo and Fred Bassett, received by the Bank, 2 June 1902) and no. 55 ('F Bassett, No. 1504' received by the Bank on 12 September 1910).

In listing the number of the trunk in which the records were stored has been noted alongside each block of records concerned.

See also Z 694/1 - 36 for deeds etc regarding the banking activities of the family, 1842 - 1853

Bassett family of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

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Further loan from Barclays Bank Ltd., 2 Market Square, Leighton Buzzard, on 27 January 1988

• Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

For details of the family see the booklet 'The Bassetts, Leighton Buzzard's First Family' by Maureen Brown and June Masters' [CRO ref. 180]

The Bassetts were a Quaker family who ran a banking business in Leighton Buzzard, later amalgamated with Barclays Bank.

It was Frederick Bassett, and occasionally his son Francis, who were expected to sort out the affairs of the firm of Henry Tylor and Sons, manufacturers, when they got into financial difficulties, which were not helped when their solicitor George Binns [another member of the family?] suddenly disappeared with a woman named Simpson from Nottingham. Then there were the marital problems of Kitty Crisp (she had married against family advice a man who beat her and had had a child by one of their servants), the financial problems of her sister Mary Glass and the difficulties of their cousin Hannah Mary Carson in understanding income tax.

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