Catalogue description Thornhill Collection

This record is held by Huntingdonshire Archives

Details of 148
Reference: 148
Title: Thornhill Collection
Description:

1 WILLS

 

2 DEEDS -

 

Diddington

 

Boughton & Southoe

 

Hemingford & Buckden

 

Offord

 

Bedfordshire

 

Cambridgeshire

 

Lincolnshire

 

London

 

Suffolk, Northamptonshire etc.

 

Yorkshire.

 

3. MANORIAL

 

4 ESTATE ADMINISTRATION -

 

Accounts & Receipts

 

Surveys

 

Valuation

 

Rentals

 

Terriers

 

Estate Particulars

 

Inclosure

 

Maps

 

5. FAMILY PAPERS -

 

Legal Cases

 

Family Papers

 

Letters

 

Genealogical

 

Poems etc.

 

Memoranda

 

Miscellaneous

 

THORNHILL ESTATE MAPS.

Date: c.1150 - 1985
Held by: Huntingdonshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Thornhill family, of Cambridgeshire

Physical description: 25 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

The family's papers were deposited with the Record Office in 1956 (accession 148).

 

The collection was listed in 1970-71 with THN or THORN references. Some estate maps had by then been transferred to the Map collection (in 1967-68) and given supplementary accession numbers, so these were omitted from the catalogue.

 

The collection is rich in deeds and estate papers from the 18th and 19th centuries.

 

. For more details please consult the Thornhill catalogue in the searchroom.

Subjects:
  • Diddington, Cambridgeshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The Thornhill family came from Fixby in Yorkshire, and moved to Diddington about 1730. Besides having estates in Huntingdonshire, Offord Darcy, Southoe, Duloe and others, they held property in Cambridgeshire at Boxworth, Lincolnshire at Dowdyke Hall, and London in Bread Street, Holloway and Angel Islington. Members of the family were rectors of Offord Darcy and Boxworth, and High Sheriffs of the county. Noel Thornhill died without issue in 1956

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