Catalogue description ARCHIBALD FAMILY OF RUSLAND

This record is held by Lancashire Archives

Details of DDAR
Reference: DDAR
Title: ARCHIBALD FAMILY OF RUSLAND
Description:

This collection consists of:

 

DDAR 1 - 280 Furness Fells and Kirkby Ireleth.

 

DDAR 281 - 317 Walney Island and Low Furness

 

DDAR 318 - 321 Nova Scotia

 

DDAR 322 - 341 Miscellaneous
Date: 1545-1927
Held by: Lancashire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Archibald family of Rusland
Physical description: 342 Files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Judge Myles Archibald of Rusland, 9 Oct. 1956 and 25 Feb. 1957.
Subjects:
  • Rusland, Lancashire
  • Colton, Lancashire
  • Low Furness, Lancashire
Administrative / biographical background:

The Rusland estate was founded in the 16th century by a cadet branch of the Rawlinsons of Graythwaite whose descendant sold it in 1762 to Thomas Walker whose grand-daughter carried it in 1832 to her husband Charles Dickson Archibald, of a Nova Scotia family.
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