Catalogue description NEVILLE FAMILY OF SLOLEY

This record is held by Norfolk Record Office

Details of NEV
Reference: NEV
Title: NEVILLE FAMILY OF SLOLEY
Description:

NEV 1 Title Deeds

 

NEV 2 Settlements and Related Papers

 

NEV 3 Estate Papers - estate accounts

 

Wages books

 

Household accounts

 

Valuations and surveys

 

Stock registers

 

Minute books

 

Buildings and repair

 

Correspondence

 

Maps and plans

 

Miscellaneous

 

NEV 4 Legal Papers

 

NEV 5 Manorial and Parish

 

NEV 6 Church - Sloley

 

Worstead

 

NEV 7 Family and Personal

 

NEV 8 J. E. H. Neville's Genealogical Files

 

NEV 9 Henderson Papers

 

NEV 10 Henderson Correspondence

 

NEV 11 Neville Correspondence

Date: 1485-1982
Held by: Norfolk Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Copies held at:

The control of copyright is vested in Mr. John D'Arcy of The Old Vicarage, Edington, Wilts.

Language: English
Creator:

Neville family of Sloley, Norfolk

Physical description: 778 files
Access conditions:

Access to the journals and diaries from 1945, estate papers and Neville correspondence and other personally sensitive papers is restricted to the depositors and their successors until the year 2012.

Immediate source of acquisition:

MS 21855

 

Records received by the Norfolk Record Office on 6 June 1962, 13 May 1963 and the 12 December 1966 and on 21 March 1962 and 2 December 1963. Also on 22 and 25 July 1977 and on 10 August, 3 September and 7 October 1982.

Custodial history:

Files relating to the Norfolk Churches' Trust and volumes of the Norfolk Bird and Mammal Report, and the Norfolk Naturalists Trust Report, 1979, have been given to the Local Studies Library.

Administrative / biographical background:

Lt. Col. Sir James Edmund Henderson Neville

 

Born on the 5th July 1897, the son of Reginald James Neville M.P. and his wife Ida, nee Henderson, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Served in France and Russia during the First World War with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and wrote of his experiences in 'The War Letters of a Light Infantryman', published in 1931. He also wrote a history of his regiment in later life.

 

Between 1931-1946 he was re-employed in the 12th London Regiment, and was put in command of the L1 Training Centre, 1941-1944. Meanwhile in 1932 he married Marie Louise Pierson and had two daughters, Rosalind Angela Mary and Jane Shirley.

 

In 1936 he became a Master of the Bowyers' Company and in 1947 was elected to the Court of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy of Sloley in 1950.

 

He was a man of wide and varied interests being a member of Smallburgh Rural District Council, a Governor of Gresham's School, Holt, a member of the Norfolk Rural Industries Committee and one of the founders of the Norfolk Churches' Trust. He engaged in much genealogical research and had a special interest in his mother's family, the Hendersons. He wrote profusely, keeping a journal for most of his life, and also writing short articles under his pen-name, Gaid Sakit.

 

In 1981 he married his second wife, Mrs. Betty Cowell. He died in June 1982.

 

Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson (1821-1896)

 

Born on the 19th April 1821, the son of Admiral George Henderson and his wife, Frances nee Walcott. He was educated at Bruton in Somerset and the Woolwich Academy receiving his first commission in the Royal Engineers in 1838. Between 1839 and 1845 he was engaged in the survey of the railway line from Halifax to Quebec in Canada and again between 1846 and 1848 when he was also part of the commission investigating the boundary between Canada and New Brunswick. Whilst in Halifax he married Mary Murphy, by whom he had a son, Douglas.

 

After a year at Gravesend Lieutenant Henderson was appointed as Comptroller General of Convicts in Western Australia, travelling out with the first ship. His first wife died in 1855 and whilst on leave in England he married Maria Hindle, 1857. In 1862 he became a Lieutenant Colonel and the following year they left Australia.

 

Back home he was appointed Chairman of the directors of prisons and Inspector General of Military Prisons. In 1868 he became a Companion of the Order of the Bath on the recommendation of the Home Secretary Lord Aberdare, and a Knight Commander in 1878.

 

In 1869 he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police until he resigned in 1886 after much criticism over the Police's handling of the Trafalgar Square riots.

 

He died soon after his wife on the 10th December 1896, leaving six daughters by his second marriage, his son, Douglas, having died in 1875.

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