Catalogue description Hicks Beach family of Coln St Aldwyn and Great Witcombe (Gloucestershire), Netheravon, Fittleton and Keevil (Wiltshire), and Oakley (Hampshire)

Records of the Hicks Beach family and predecessor families, including records of their estates at Williamstrip in Coln St Aldwyn, Netheravon, Fittleton and Keevil (Wiltshire) and Oakley (Hampshire), personal records of various members of the families, records relating to public office including the papers of Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, first Earl St Aldwyn, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and records relating to the family's involvement in local life in the villages surrounding their estates:

Manorial:

Manor of Kippins and Rastalls, Church Oakley (Hampshire): court book, 1627-1733

Manor of Fittleton (Wiltshire): court rolls, 1578-1687, and related papers 1640-1764

Manor of Keevil (Wiltshire): court books, 1644-1697; rent rolls, 1734-1766

Manor of Netherhaven with Hagglestone [Netheravon with Haxton] (Wiltshire): extracts from court rolls, 1698-1733; copy of survey of the manor, (1591)-1738

Manor of Netherhaven Lambert or Lambards [Netheravon] (Wiltshire): papers concerning court baron, including copy presentment of homage, 1740

Manor of Netherhaven Cormailes [Netheravon] (Wiltshire): suit roll, 1766-1772; extract from court books concerning conveyance, (1821)-1837

Title deeds:

Gloucestershire: Coln St Aldwyn, 1543-1938; Quenington, 1748-1907; Hatherop, (1765)-1893; Beverstone, 1868-1893; Leonard Stanley, 1548; Randwick, Stonehouse and Stroud, 1682; Snowshill, 1760

Wiltshire: Netheravon (including the hamlet of Chisenbury), 1554-1898; Fittleton (including the hamlet of Haxton), 1589-1900; Figheldean, 1557-1892; Keevil, 1641-1850; Steeple Ashton, 1648; Idmiston, 1703-1831; Mere, 1691-1700; Salisbury, 1624-1723; Amesbury, 1692-1740; Lacock, 1727; North Bradley, 1666

Hampshire: Alton, 1746; Ashe, (1909)-1923; Bentworth, 1613; Bramley, 1558-1639; Long Sutton, 1602-1727; Neatham, 1727; Oakley, 1590-1916; Otterbourne, 1602-1740; Pamber, 1642-1695; Portsea, 1664; Sevington in Tichbourne, 1687; Sherborne, 1695; Stratfield Saye, 1609-1631, Sutton, 1727; Sutton Warblington, 1727; Tadley, 1570-1695; Winchester, 1602-1740

London: 81 Eaton Place and 81 Lyall Mews West, (1842)-1917

Somerset: Orchardleigh, Frome, Selwood, Wilmington, Whatcombe, Priston, Marston Bagott and Aldfield, 1670

Estate:

Gloucestershire:

Williamstrip estate: leases of properties in Coln St Aldwyn, 1785-1937, Hatherop, 1839, Lechlade, 1857-1865, Maiseyhampton, 1852, Quenington, 1790-1939; papers concerning letting and tenancies of estate properties, 1650-1939; estate accounts, 1781-1970, including rent accounts, 1818-1962, wage and labour accounts, 1856-1950, timber accounts, 1858-1897, solicitors' bills, (1797)-1904, and bills and vouchers, 1791-1936, including accounts for building work at the Bell Inn, Gloucester, 1791-1794; papers concerning estate management, 1805-1961, including management of the estate by trustees, 1916-1937; papers concerning acquisition and sale of estates and properties, 1811-1914, including sale particulars, c.1824-1884; farming records, 1841-1991, including farm accounts, 1841-1960; game and sporting records, 1834-1921; surveys and terriers, (1649)-[1960s]; maps and plans, 1754-1974; records of houses and other properties, 1799-1963; rating, taxation and tithe papers, 1798-1935; Coln St Aldwyn inclosure act, 1769

Beverstone estate: rent accounts, 1662-1839; papers concerning letting and sale of the estate, [18th century]-1866; surveys and historical information, [18th century-19th century]

Wiltshire:

Netheravon estate (Wiltshire): leases of properties in Netheravon, 1624-1890, Fittleton, including the hamlet of Haxton, 1647-1885, Figheldean, 1802-1881; papers concerning letting and tenancies of estate properties, [18th century]-1893; estate accounts, 1707-1897, including rent accounts, 1772-1901, wage and labour accounts, 1753-1891, and bills and vouchers, 1707-1829; papers concerning estate management, 1708-1897; papers concerning acquisition and sale of estates and properties, 1791-1916, including sale particulars, 1772-1886, and papers concerning the sale of the estate to the War Office, 1894-1916; farming records, 1850-1896, including farm accounts, 1880-1896; game and sporting records, 1880; surveys and terriers, 1626-1863; maps and plans, 1738-[late 19th century]; records of houses and other properties, 1746-1948; rating, taxation and tithe papers, (1718)-1920; records relating to inclosure, 1788-1855; papers relating to the Duke of Beaufort's estates in Netheravon, 1734-1774

Fittleton Manor estate (Wiltshire) [post-1900; records prior to this are included with the Netheravon estate]: papers concerning leasing of the estate, 1900-1910; estate accounts, 1903-1961, including rent accounts, 1904-1964, and bills and vouchers, 1903-1964; farming and market gardening records, 1916-1963; papers concerning Fittleton Manor House and cottages, 1902-1960; papers concerning purchase and management of the estate, 1898-1962

Keevil estate (Wiltshire): leases of properties in Keevil, 1600-1838, and Steeple Ashton, 1640-1767; rent accounts, 1814-1899; papers concerning estate management, 1662-c.1911; surveys and terriers, 1795-1855; maps and plans, [early 18th century]; records of houses and other properties, 1864-1896

Smaller Wiltshire estates: leases of properties in Brixton Deverill, 1656-1751, Figheldean, 1866-1879, Idmiston, 1635-1796, Mere, 1691, Salisbury, 1654-1733, Warminster, 1545, Heddington, 1702, Westbury, 1680-1689, Winterbourne Monkton, 1706; estate accounts, 1649-1865, including rent accounts for properties in Salisbury, 1709-1753, Idmiston, Gomeldon and Alton, 1837-1863; surveys and extents, [early 17th century]-1864; maps and plans, [late 18th century]-1839; correspondence and papers, 1766-1856

Hampshire:

Leases of properties at Baughurst, 1567, Bramley, 1601-1604, Oakley, 1618-1790, Overton, 1684, Stratfield Saye, 1604-1607, Sydmonton, 1706-1708, Wonston, 1650, Woodcott and East Woodhay, 1670; estate accounts, 1680-1948, including rent accounts, 1832-1878, wage and labour accounts, 1885-1899, and bills and vouchers, 1680-1682, 1836; papers concerning estate management, 1760-1939; papers concerning acquisition and sale of estates and properties, 1813-1933; farming records, 1712-1947, including farm accounts, 1712-[late 19th century]; game and sporting records, 1797-c.1900; surveys and terriers, 1737-1847; maps and plans, c.1730-[late 19th century]; records of houses and other properties, (1771)-1958; rating, taxation and tithe papers, 1798-1933; inclosure papers, 1773

Essex:

Leases and related papers of properties at Chigwell, 1785-1786, and Loughton, 1786; estate and rent accounts, 1791-1793; estate papers, 1792-[early 20th century]

Somerset:

Leases of property in Woolston Gyon, 1658, Chewton, 1701-1701, Widcombe, 1760; estate papers, 1739-1789; inclosure papers, East Mark, 1794

London:

Schedule of deeds relating to the former Hospital of the Savoy, (1512-1712); lease of house in Jermyn Street, 1748; cellar books of Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach for his London house, 1878-1883; papers concerning 81 Eaton Place, 1906

Berkshire:

Bond relating to conveyance of manor of West Woodhay, 1714

Devon:

Report and plan concerning proposed new road from Morte Bay to Mortehoe railway station, 1881

Hertfordshire:

Copy articles of agreement to lease great tithes of Boreham, [mid-18th century]

Northamptonshire:

Quitclaim of property in [Great Harrowden], 1615

Oxfordshire:

Discharge of overplus in purchase money relating to annuity on manors of Howbery and Crowmarsh Gifford, 1718

Warwickshire:

Leases of Chappell Ascott Farm, 1715

Ireland:

Sale notice for property at Shangarry (County Galway), 1882

Family:

Hicks family of Gloucestershire, London and Essex: records including correspondence and testamentary papers, (1538)-1906

Beach family of Wiltshire: records including correspondence, accounts and testamentary papers, 1439-1908

Hicks Beach family of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: records of family members including:

Michael Hicks Beach and Henrietta Maria Hicks Beach [nee Beach], his wife: records including correspondence, 1771-1839, accounts, 1782-1833, memoranda books, 1779-1836, journals and diaries, 1789-[1820s], and testamentary papers, 1830-1838

Jane Martha Hicks Beach [later St John]: records including correspondence, 1815-1866, sketch books, 1812-[mid 19th century], and photographs, [mid 19th century]

Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach and Lady Harriet Vittoria Hicks Beach [nee Stratton], his wife: records including correspondence, 1834-[1859], accounts, 1832-1855, family settlements, 1832-1919, and testamentary papers, 1845-1900

Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, first Earl St Aldwyn: records including correspondence, 1846-1916, accounts and financial papers, 1854-1937, travel journals and other records of trips abroad, 1859-1913, records relating to membership of clubs and societies, including freemasonry records, 1854-1916, papers relating to royal and society events including various coronations and royal weddings and funerals, 1896-1913, papers relating to elevation to the peerage, 1905-[1915], family settlements, 1863-1939, trusteeship records, 1886-1923, testamentary papers, 1879-1933, papers relating to memorials, 1916-1924, and papers relating to biographies including that written by his daughter Lady Victoria Hicks Beach, 1920-1960

Lady Lucy Catherine Hicks Beach [nee Fortescue], first Countess St Aldwyn: records including correspondence, 1874-1939, and marriage settlement and related papers, 1874-1941

Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington, and Marjorie Hicks Beach [nee Brocklehurst], Viscountess Quenington, his wife: records including correspondence, 1890-1916, accounts, 1892-1916, records of trip around the world, 1902-1904, papers relating to military service, 1898-1922, records relating to membership of clubs and societies, 1899-1908, hunting records, 1895-1913, trusteeship records, 1901-1908, and testamentary papers, 1909-1939

Lady Susan Evelyn Hicks Beach and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hicks Beach: records including correspondence, (1893)-1961, travel journals, 1903-[1911], photograph albums, [1890s], and testamentary papers, 1952-1966

Beach family of Hampshire: records of family members including:

William [Hicks] Beach and Jane Henrietta Hicks Beach [nee Browne], his wife: records including correspondence, (1802)-1853, memoranda books, 1813-1830, accounts, 1825-1864, and testamentary papers, 1844-1856

William Wither Bramston Beach and Caroline Chichester Beach [nee Clevland], his wife: records including correspondence, [1830s]-1917, accounts, 1846-1929, records relating to membership of clubs and societies, including freemasonry records, 1841-1901, trusteeship records, 1891-1895, records relating to the history of the Clevland and Chichester families, 1823-1892, and testamentary papers, (1857)-1935

Ellice Michael Hicks Beach: records including correspondence, 1879-1947, accounts, [1890s]-1948, records relating to membership of clubs and societies, including freemasonry records, 1894-1935, papers relating to career in the Diplomatic Service, 1896-[1940s], trusteeship records, 1915-1943, and testamentary papers, 1901-1949

Wither, Bramston, Wavell and Searle families of Hampshire: records including correspondence, (1435)-1832

Browne and Pettat families of Gloucestershire: records including family settlements and testamentary papers, 1763-1894

Chute family of Hampshire: correspondence, c.1772-1821

Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam Park (Glamorgan): testamentary papers, 1813-1824

Family history papers including pedigrees, genealogical notes and research material, [18th century-20th century]

Legal:

Papers concerning various legal cases, c.1475-1935

Business, commercial and professional:

James Harding of Mere (Wiltshire), cloth merchant: letter books, 1750-1760; accounts, 1744-1767

Moulton Messiter of Wincanton (Somerset), lawyer: accounts, 1766-1786

William [Hicks] Beach: papers concerning various business matters, 1831-1853

Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, first Earl St Aldwyn: papers concerning directorship of the East Gloucestershire Railway Company, 1863-1891; papers concerning banking career, 1886-1930; papers concerning Cheltenham Original Brewery, 1905-1915

William Wither Bramston Beach: papers concerning various business matters, 1858-1901

Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington: papers concerning Tewkesbury Manufacturing Company, 1911-1913

Coln St Aldwyn Laundry: accounts, 1913-1951

Public office:

Charles Wither, Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods on the Southside Trent: accounts, 1712-1732; papers concerning various woods and forests, (1628)-1731

Michael Hicks Beach, MP for Cirencester: papers concerning elections, 1801-c.1882

Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach, MP for East Gloucestershire: papers concerning elections, 1846-1854

Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, MP for East Gloucestershire and Bristol West: papers concerning parliamentary business, 1865-1921; papers as Chief Secretary for Ireland, (1773)-1893; papers as Colonial Secretary and relating to colonial matters, 1877-1902, including papers concerning the situation in South Africa, 1875-1905; papers as President of the Board of Trade, 1880-1899; papers as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1885-1905; papers as Privy Counsellor, 1874-1910; papers concerning Board of Conciliation for the Coal Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales, 1903-1915; papers concerning the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline and ecclesiastical matters, 1892-1915; papers concerning the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company (Singapore) arbitration, 1905-1906; papers concerning Royal Commissions on land transfer and registration of title, 1908-1911; papers concerning reform of the House of Lords, 1908-1915; papers concerning Board of Trade inquiry on Port of London (Port Rates on Goods) Provisional Order, 1910; papers concerning arbitration of dispute between taxi-cab owners and drivers in London, 1912; papers concerning financial arrangements at outbreak of World War I, 1914-1915; papers as MP for East Gloucestershire and Bristol West, 1863-(1915); papers relating to various committees of Diocese of Gloucester, 1881-1914; papers relating to work of Gloucestershire County Council, 1882-1916; papers concerning High Stewardship of Gloucester, 1899

William Wither Bramston Beach, MP for North Hampshire and Andover: papers as MP, 1856-1901; papers as Privy Counsellor, 1898-1900; papers as Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire, 1891

Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington, MP for Tewkesbury: papers as MP, 1900-1915

Ellice Hicks Beach: papers as district councillor for Basingstoke Rural District (Hampshire) and Justice of the Peace for Hampshire, 1924-1942

Lady Susan Hicks Beach: papers as district councillor for Northleach Rural District Council, and member of Cirencester Assessment Committee, 1935-1946; papers as district councillor for Pewsey Rural District Council, 1963

Shrievalty: papers concerning shrievalty of Hampshire, 1686, Wiltshire, [1692]-1778, and Berkshire, 1704; list of nominees for offices of sheriffs of the counties of England and Wales, 1901

Mayor of Winchester (Hampshire): case concerning election of mayor, [18th century]

Local involvement:

Gloucestershire: records including papers concerning parishes of Coln St Aldwyn, Quenington and Poulton, 1855-1957; papers concerning Coln St Aldwyn charities, 1816-1918; papers concerning Coln St Aldwyn school, 1903-1930; papers of Coln St Aldwyn, Eastleach, Hatherop, Quenington and Southrop Nursing Association, 1914-1948; papers and accounts concerning Coln St Aldwyn Co-operative Farming Society and Coln Independent Co-Operative Society, 1894-1927; papers concerning local history, 1899-1914; papers concerning milita and yeomanry, 1803-1862; financial statements of Northleach Poor Law Union, 1868-1870; poll books for Gloucestershire elections, 1776-1873

Wiltshire: records including papers concerning parishes of Fittleton, Netheravon, Keevil and Steeple Ashton, including parish rate book for Steeple Ashton, 1757-1758, and poor rate for Keevil, 1842; papers concerning charities at Fittleton, Keevil and Netheravon, [late 18th century]-1878; papers concerning schools at Fittleton, Keevil and Netheravon, (1722)-1898

Hampshire: records including papers concerning parishes of Ashe, Deane, Bramley, Monk Sherborne, Pamber and North Waltham, 1571-1935; records of charities at Deane and Church Oakley, (1826)-1924; papers concerning schools at Tadley and Oakley, 1846-1941; minutes of Hampshire Chamber of Agriculture, 1868-1891; records of the Oakley Habitation of the Primrose League, 1885-1895; papers relating to militia and yeomanry, 1856-1859; political ballads, poll books and other records relating to local politics, 1789-1849

Essex: poll book, 1734

Oxfordshire: poll books for the University of Oxford, 1865-1878

Arrangement of the collection

Parts of this collection have been sorted and arranged by various people over the last century or so. Although many of the bundles compiled by these people have been retained, no attempt has been made to keep the various arrangements imposed on the material, and the whole collection has been arranged according to Gloucestershire Archives' standard estate and family classification scheme, with some modifications.

The collection consists of two main parts: material which came from Williamstrip House, which was deposited at Gloucestershire Archives in 1969 and 2008, and material which came from the Hampshire branch of the family, who lived at Oakley and Deane, which was deposited by the second Earl St Aldwyn at Gloucestershire Archives in 1975.

The part of the archive which came from Williamstrip House was first sorted by Lady Lucy Hicks Beach, first Countess St Aldwyn, in the early years of the twentieth century, probably after the deaths of her husband and son in 1916. Many of the bundles she compiled have been retained here, and include her handwritten labels explaining the contents. However, many of the bundles proved to be easier to interpret and classify when split, and these have been indicated wherever possible

Much of the material was also compiled and sorted by the two family historians: Mrs Emily Susan Hicks Beach, author of 'A Cotswold Family: Hicks and Hicks Beach', who retained an interest in the family's history from the research for her book, which was published in 1909, up until her death in 1958; and Lady Victoria Hicks Beach, daughter of the first Earl and Countess St Aldwyn, who wrote a biography of her father in the 1920s and again compiled a great deal of material in the course of her research. Again, many of the bundles they compiled have been retained, and include their handwritten labels [it should be noted that Lady Lucy's and Mrs Hicks Beach's hands are very similar].

Most of the Williamstrip part of the archive was then sorted and listed by the National Register of Archives in the 1950s; again, many of the bundles created by them have been retained here, but those which have been split are indicated. The reference numbers allocated by the NRA have been used in many publications and works of research, and they are indicated as former reference numbers, taking the form of a letter and number code. The arrangement imposed by the NRA has mostly not been retained, as in most cases it over-complicated the collection and made it harder to find items which were related to each other; the NRA also did not have sufficient time to gain a full understanding of the history of the family and their estates, and so much of its arrangement and description is not fully accurate. The NRA's list of these items has therefore been used as a basis for this catalogue, and its descriptions have been enhanced and corrected as part of the cataloguing process.

Some of the material held at Williamstrip was not seen by the NRA, although it complemented the rest of the collection, and this material is therefore listed here for the first time. Some of this material was sorted in the late 20th century by the second Earl St Aldwyn's secretary, including much of the material relating to Lady Susan and Lady Victoria Hicks Beach, and to the second Earl himself. An additional box of records mostly relating to the Wither family came to the second Earl St Aldwyn from a member of the Hampshire branch of the family after the NRA's visit; these items complement the material described below, and seem to have come from the same source, but they were apparently not passed to the second Earl until some time after the papers mentioned below were deposited at Gloucestershire Archives in 1975. They were therefore kept at Williamstrip and deposited in 2008 with the rest of the collection

The other significant part of the collection was deposited at Gloucestershire Archives in 1975 and again came to the second Earl from the Hampshire branch of the family. This mostly comprises papers relating to Ellice Hicks Beach, his parents William Wither Bramston Beach and Caroline Beach, and their ancestors on the Beach and Wither side of the family. Ellice Hicks Beach collected much of this material together from family members, and organised the creation of typescript copies of many family letters dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. However, he did not attempt to impose an arrangement on most of the material.

This catalogue represents the unification of all these parts of the collection, and for the first time it is being treated as a whole.

The collection has been arranged as follows:

D2455/M -- MANORIAL

-- D2455/M1 -- Hampshire

-- D2455/M2 -- Wiltshire

-- D2455/M2/1 -- Fittleton

-- D2455/M2/2 -- Keevil

-- D2455/M2/3 -- Netheravon

-- D2455/M2/4 -- Tidworth Zouch

D2455/T -- TITLE DEEDS

-- D2455/T1 -- Gloucestershire

-- D2455/T1/1 -- Coln St Aldwyn

-- D2455/T1/2 -- Quenington

-- D2455/T1/3 -- Beverstone

-- D2455/T1/4 -- Leonard Stanley and elsewhere

-- D2455/T1/5 -- Randwick, Stonehouse and Stroud

-- D2455/T1/6 -- Snowshill

-- D2455/T1/7 -- Abstracts of title to entire estate in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire

-- D2455/T2 -- Wiltshire

-- D2455/T2/1 -- Netheravon (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/2 -- Chisenbury in Netheravon (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/3 -- Fittleton (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/4 -- Haxton [Hackleston, Hagglestone, Haxon] in Fittleton (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/5 -- Figheldean (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/6 -- Keevil (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/7 -- Steeple Ashton (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/8 -- Idmiston (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/9 -- Mere (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/10 -- Salisbury (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/11 -- Amesbury (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/12 -- Lacock (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/13 -- North Bradley (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/T2/14 -- Other papers relating to title deeds

-- D2455/T3 -- Hampshire

-- D2455/T4 -- London

-- D2455/T5 -- Somerset

D2455/E -- ESTATE

-- D2455/E1 -- Williamstrip Estate

-- D2455/E1/1 -- Leases and tenancy agreements

-- D2455/E1/1/1 -- Coln St Aldwyn

-- D2455/E1/1/2 -- Hatherop

-- D2455/E1/1/3 -- Lechlade

-- D2455/E1/1/4 -- Maiseyhampton

-- D2455/E1/1/5 -- Quenington

-- D2455/E1/1/6 -- Letting and tenancies of estate properties

-- D2455/E1/2 -- Estate accounts

-- D2455/E1/2/1 -- General accounts

-- D2455/E1/2/2 -- Rent accounts

-- D2455/E1/2/3 -- Wage and labour accounts

-- D2455/E1/2/4 -- Timber accounts

-- D2455/E1/2/5 -- Solicitors' bills

-- D2455/E1/2/6 -- Bills and vouchers

-- D2455/E1/3 -- Estate management

-- D2455/E1/4 -- Acquisition and sale of estates and properties

-- D2455/E1/5 -- Farming records

-- D2455/E1/5/1 -- Farming accounts

-- D2455/E1/5/2 -- Farm management

-- D2455/E1/5/3 -- Farm buildings

-- D2455/E1/6 -- Game and sporting records

-- D2455/E1/6/1 -- Game books and lists

-- D2455/E1/6/2 -- Other game and sporting papers

-- D2455/E1/7 -- Surveys and terriers

-- D2455/E1/8 -- Maps and plans of the estate

-- D2455/E1/9 -- Houses and other properties

-- D2455/E1/9/1 -- Williamstrip Park

-- D2455/E1/9/2 -- Coln Manor and Mill House

-- D2455/E1/9/3 -- New Inn, Coln St Aldwyn

-- D2455/E1/9/4 -- Cottages

-- D2455/E1/9/5 -- Other properties

-- D2455/E1/10 -- Rating, taxation and tithes

-- D2455/E1/11 -- Inclosure

-- D2455/E2 -- Beverstone estate

-- D2455/E2/1 -- Rent accounts

-- D2455/E2/2 -- Letting and sale of the estate

-- D2455/E2/3 -- Surveys and historical information

-- D2455/E3 -- Netheravon Estate (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E3/1 -- Leases and tenancy agreements

-- D2455/E3/1/1 -- Netheravon (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E3/1/2 -- Fittleton (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E3/1/3 -- Figheldean (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E3/1/4 -- Letting and tenancies of estate properties

-- D2455/E3/2 -- Estate accounts

-- D2455/E3/2/1 -- General accounts

-- D2455/E3/2/2 -- Rent accounts

-- D2455/E3/2/3 -- Wage and labour accounts

-- D2455/E3/2/4 -- Bills and vouchers

-- D2455/E3/3 -- Estate management

-- D2455/E3/4 -- Acquisition and sale of estates and properties

-- D2455/E3/5 -- Farming records

-- D2455/E3/6 -- Game and sporting records

-- D2455/E3/7 -- Surveys and terriers

-- D2455/E3/8 -- Maps and plans of the Netheravon estate (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E3/9 -- Houses and other properties

-- D2455/E3/9/1 -- Netheravon and Fittleton Houses (both Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E3/9/2 -- Cottages and farmhouses

-- D2455/E3/10 -- Rating, taxation and tithes

-- D2455/E3/11 -- Inclosure

-- D2455/E3/12 -- Duke of Beaufort's estates in Netheravon (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E4 -- Fittleton Manor Estate (Wiltshire), 1900-1960s

-- D2455/E4/1 -- Leases and tenancy agreements

-- D2455/E4/2 -- Estate accounts

-- D2455/E4/2/1 -- General accounts

-- D2455/E4/2/2 -- Rent accounts

-- D2455/E4/2/3 -- Bills and vouchers

-- D2455/E4/3 -- Farming and market gardening records, Fittleton Manor Estate (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E4/4 -- Fittleton Manor House (Wiltshire) and cottages

-- D2455/E4/5 -- Purchase and management of the estate

-- D2455/E5 -- Keevil Estate (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E5/1 -- Leases and tenancy agreements

-- D2455/E5/1/1 -- Keevil (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E5/1/2 -- Steeple Ashton (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E5/2 -- Estate accounts

-- D2455/E5/2/1 -- Rent accounts

-- D2455/E5/3 -- Estate management

-- D2455/E5/4 -- Surveys and terriers

-- D2455/E5/5 -- Maps and plans of the Keevil estate (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E5/6 -- Houses and other properties

-- D2455/E5/6/1 -- Keevil Manor House (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E5/6/2 -- Cottages and farmhouses

-- D2455/E6 -- Small Wiltshire estates

-- D2455/E6/1 -- Leases and tenancy agreements

-- D2455/E6/1/1 -- Brixton Deverill (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/1/2 -- Figheldean (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/1/3 -- Idmiston (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/1/4 -- Salisbury (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/1/5 -- Warminster (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/1/6 -- Heddington (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/1/7 -- Westbury (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/1/8 -- Winterbourne Monkton (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/E6/2 -- Estate accounts

-- D2455/E6/3 -- Surveys and extents

-- D2455/E6/4 -- Maps and plans

-- D2455/E6/5 -- Correspondence and papers

-- D2455/E7 -- Hampshire estates

-- D2455/E7/1 -- Leases

-- D2455/E7/2 -- Estate accounts

-- D2455/E7/2/1 -- General accounts

-- D2455/E7/2/2 -- Rent accounts

-- D2455/E7/2/3 -- Wage and labour accounts

-- D2455/E7/2/4 -- Bills and vouchers

-- D2455/E7/3 -- Estate management

-- D2455/E7/4 -- Acquisition and sale of estates and properties

-- D2455/E7/5 -- Farming records

-- D2455/E7/6 -- Game and sporting records

-- D2455/E7/7 -- Surveys and terriers

-- D2455/E7/8 -- Maps and plans

-- D2455/E7/9 -- Houses and other properties

-- D2455/E7/9/1 -- Oakley Hall (Hampshire)

-- D2455/E7/9/2 -- Oakley Manor (Hampshire)

-- D2455/E7/9/3 -- Deane House (Hampshire)

-- D2455/E7/9/4 -- Farms and cottages

-- D2455/E7/9/5 -- Other properties

-- D2455/E7/10 -- Sale particulars

-- D2455/E7/11 -- Rating, taxation and tithes

-- D2455/E7/12 -- Inclosure

-- D2455/E8 -- Essex

-- D2455/E9 -- Somerset

-- D2455/E10 -- London

-- D2455/E11 -- Berkshire

-- D2455/E12 -- Devon

-- D2455/E13 -- Hertfordshire

-- D2455/E14 -- Northamptonshire

-- D2455/E15 -- Oxfordshire

-- D2455/E16 -- Warwickshire

-- D2455/E17 -- Ireland

D2455/F -- FAMILY

-- D2455/F1 -- Hicks family

-- D2455/F1/1 -- Hicks family of Tortworth and Cromhall

-- D2455/F1/2 -- Robert Hicks and Juliana his wife (nee Arthur, later Penne)

-- D2455/F1/3 -- Sir Michael Hicks (1543-1612) and his brothers Clement Hicks and Sir Baptist Hicks [first Viscount Campden] (1551-1629)

-- D2455/F1/4 -- Sir William Hicks, first baronet

-- D2455/F1/5 -- Sir William Hicks, second baronet, and Marthagnes his wife (nee Coningsby)

-- D2455/F1/6 -- Michael Hicks of Beverstone and Chigwell (Essex) (?-1764)

-- D2455/F1/7 -- Sir Howe Hicks of Great Witcombe, 6th baronet (1722-1801), and Martha his wife [nee Browne] (1715-1801)

-- D2455/F1/8 -- Sir William Hicks, seventh baronet (1754-1834) and Ann Rachael [nee Chute], his wife

-- D2455/F2 -- Beach family of Fittleton, Keevil and Netheravon (Wiltshire)

-- D2455/F2/1 -- Early members of the Beach family

-- D2455/F2/2 -- William Beach (1655-1741), and Ann his wife [nee Wither] (1662-1742)

-- D2455/F2/3 -- Thomas Beach, 1684-1753, and Jane his wife [nee Harding], d 1735

-- D2455/F2/4 -- Dorothy Beach (1690-1772), Joan Beach (1700-1765) and Sophia Beach (1705-1787)

-- D2455/F2/5 -- William Beach of Netheravon (1719-1790) and Ann [nee Wither] his wife (1718-1788)

-- D2455/F2/6 -- Jane Beach (1725-1768) and Thomas Talbot (d. pre-1768), her husband

-- D2455/5/2/7 -- William Wither Beach (1747-1829)

-- D2455/F3 -- Hicks Beach family

-- D2455/F3/1 -- Michael Hicks, later Hicks Beach (1760-1830), and Henrietta Maria his wife [nee Beach] (1760-1837)

-- D2455/F3/2 -- Michael Beach Hicks Beach (1780-1815) and Caroline Jane [nee Mount] his wife (?-1860)

-- D2455/F3/3 -- Jane St John [nee Hicks Beach]

-- D2455/F3/4 -- Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach, eighth Baronet (1809-1854) and Lady Harriet Vittoria [nee Stratton] his wife (1813-1900)

-- D2455/F3/5 -- William Hicks Hicks Beach (1810-1844)

-- D2455/F3/6 -- Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, ninth baronet and, later, Viscount St Aldwyn and first Earl St Aldwyn (1837-1916)

-- D2455/F3/7 -- Lady Lucy Hicks Beach, later Viscountess St Aldwyn and first Countess St Aldwyn (1851-1940)

-- D2455/F3/8 -- William Frederick Hicks Beach (1841-1923) and Emily Susan Hicks Beach his second wife (1866-1958)

-- D2455/F3/9 -- Lady Eleanor Lucy Keane [nee Hicks Beach]

-- D2455/F3/10 -- Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington (1877-1916) and Marjorie his wife [nee Brocklehurst]

-- D2455/F3/11 -- Lady Susan Evelyn Hicks Beach (1878-1965) and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hicks Beach (1879-1963)

-- D2455/F3/12 -- Lady Delia Mary Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn [nee Hicks Beach] (1910-2006)

-- D2455/F4 -- Beach family of Oakley and Deane (Hampshire)

-- D2455/F4/1 -- William [Hicks] Beach (1783-1856) and Jane Henrietta [nee Browne] his wife (1804-1831)

-- D2455/F4/2 -- William Wither Bramston Beach, 1826-1901

-- D2455/F4/3 -- Caroline Beach, nee Clevland, 1835-1918

-- D2455/F4/4 -- Archibald William Hicks Beach (1859-1924)

-- D2455/F4/5 -- Ellice Michael Hicks Beach (1875-1947)

-- D2455/F5 -- Wither, Bramston, Wavell and Searle families

-- D2455/F5/1 -- Andrew Wither (1665-1752)

-- D2455/F5/2 -- Henry Wither [brother of Andrew Wither and Charles Wither the elder] (1667-1694)

-- D2455/F5/3 -- Charles Wither the younger (1684-1731) and Frances [nee Wavell] his wife (?-1752)

-- D2455/F5/4 -- Dorothy Wither (1710-1752)

-- D2455/F5/5 -- Henrietta Maria Bramston [nee Wither, then Worsley] (1713-1790)

-- D2455/F5/6 -- Wither Bramston (1753-1832) and Mary [nee Chute] his wife

-- D2455/F5/7 -- Brigadier Hunt Wither (1662-1718)

-- D2455/F5/8 -- Henry Wither [son of Hunt Wither] (1705-1730) and Henrietta [nee Wavell] his wife (1699-1783)

-- D2455/F5/9 -- Other members of the Wither family

-- D2455/F5/10 -- Wavell and Searle families

-- D2455/F6 -- Other related families and individuals

-- D2455/F6/1 -- Browne and Pettat families

-- D2455/F6/2 -- Chute family

-- D2455/F6/3 -- Thomas Mansel Talbot (1747-1813) and the Margam estate

-- D2455/F6/4 -- John Humphrey Nicholson

-- D2455/F7 -- Family history

-- D2455/F7/1 -- Pedigrees

-- D2455/F7/2 -- Genealogical notes and research material

-- D2455/F8 -- Other family material

-- D2455/F8/1 -- Recipes

-- D2455/F8/2 -- Verses and other writings

-- D2455/F8/3 -- Mementoes and collections

-- D2455/F8/4 -- Newscuttings and printed material

-- D2455/F8/5 -- Notebooks and memoranda

-- D2455/F8/6 -- Correspondence

-- D2455/F8/7 -- Accounts and financial records

-- D2455/F8/8 -- Testamentary and related papers

-- D2455/F8/9 -- Other papers

D2455/L -- LEGAL

D2455/B -- BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL

-- D2455/B1 -- James Harding of Mere (Wiltshire), cloth merchant

-- D2455/B2 -- Moulton Messiter of Wincanton (Somerset)

-- D2455/B3 -- William [Hicks] Beach

-- D2455/B4 -- Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, ninth baronet and, later, Viscount St Aldwyn and first Earl St Aldwyn

-- D2455/B5 -- William Wither Bramston Beach

-- D2455/B6 -- Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington

-- D2455/B7 -- Coln St Aldwyn Laundry

D2455/X -- PUBLIC OFFICE

-- D2455/X1 -- Charles Wither, Surveyor General of his Majesty's Woods on the Southside Trent

-- D2455/X2 -- Michael Hicks Beach

-- D2455/X3 -- Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach, eighth baronet

-- D2455/X4 -- Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, ninth baronet and, later, Viscount St Aldwyn and first Earl St Aldwyn

-- D2455/X4/1 -- Parliamentary business - general [not connected with offices]

-- D2455/X4/2 -- Irish Office

-- D2455/X4/3 -- Colonial Office

-- D2455/X4/4 -- Board of Trade

-- D2455/X4/5 -- Chancellor of the Exchequer

-- D2455/X4/6 -- Privy Council

-- D2455/X4/7 -- Commissions, Committees and Boards

-- D2455/X4/7/1 -- Coal trade in South Wales

-- D2455/X4/7/2 -- Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline and other ecclesiastical matters

-- D2455/X4/7/3 -- Tanjong Pagar Dock Company Arbitration

-- D2455/X4/7/4 -- Land transfer and registration of title

-- D2455/X4/7/5 -- Reform of the House of Lords

-- D2455/X4/7/6 -- Board of Trade inquiry on the Port of London (Port Rates on Goods) Provisional Order

-- D2455/X4/7/7 -- Taxi-cab Dispute

-- D2455/X4/7/8 -- Financial arrangements, World War I

-- D2455/X4/8 -- MP for East Gloucestershire and for Bristol West

-- D2455/X4/9 -- Diocese of Gloucester

-- D2455/X4/10 -- Gloucestershire County Council

-- D2455/X4/11 -- City of Gloucester

-- D2455/X5 -- William Wither Bramston Beach

-- D2455/X5/1 -- MP for North Hampshire (1857-1885) and for Andover (1885-1901)

-- D2455/X5/2 -- Privy Council

-- D2455/X5/3 -- Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire

-- D2455/X6 -- Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington

-- D2455/X7 -- Ellice Hicks Beach

-- D2455/X8 -- Lady Susan Hicks Beach

-- D2455/X10 -- Shrievalty

-- D2455/X11 -- Mayor of Winchester

D2455/R -- LOCAL INVOLVEMENT

-- D2455/R1 -- Gloucestershire

-- D2455/R1/1 -- Parish

-- D2455/R1/2 -- Charities

-- D2455/R1/3 -- Schools

-- D2455/R1/4 -- Parish council

-- D2455/R1/5 -- Societies

-- D2455/R1/5/1 -- District Nursing Association

-- D2455/R1/5/2 -- Coln Co-Operative Societies

-- D2455/R1/6 -- Village life and history

-- D2455/R1/7 -- Militia and yeomanry

-- D2455/R1/8 -- Poor Law Union

-- D2455/R1/9 -- Local politics

-- D2455/R2 -- Wiltshire

-- D2455/R2/1 -- Parish

-- D2455/R2/2 -- Charities

-- D2455/R2/3 -- Schools

-- D2455/R2/4 -- Societies

-- D2455/R2/5 -- Nonconformists

-- D2455/R2/6 -- Local politics

-- D2455/R2/7 -- Taxation

-- D2455/R3 -- Hampshire

-- D2455/R3/1 -- Parish

-- D2455/R3/2 -- Charities

-- D2455/R3/3 -- Schools

-- D2455/R3/4 -- Societies

-- D2455/R3/4/1 -- Hampshire Chamber of Agriculture

-- D2455/R3/4/2 -- Primrose League

-- D2455/R3/4/3 -- Other local societies

-- D2455/R3/5 -- Militia and yeomanry

-- D2455/R3/6 -- Local politics

-- D2455/R4 -- Essex

-- D2455/R4/1 -- Local politics

-- D2455/R5 -- Oxfordshire

-- D2455/R5/1 -- Local politics

[See also D1866 for records of the Hicks Beach family's Witcombe Park estate at Great Witcombe, and D2440 for papers relating to their estates in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Hampshire which came originally from the family solicitors, Mullings Ellett of Cirencester]

[For further records of the Hampshire branch of the family, see 312M87 held at Hampshire Record Office]

The Hicks Beach family was founded in 1790 when Michael Hicks took the additional surname of Beach under a condition of the will of his father-in-law William Beach of Netheravon (Wiltshire). The Hicks family has been traced to Tortworth and Cromhall in the early 16th century, and had owned property in London, Essex, and the Great Witcombe estate; the Beach family has been traced to Warminster (Wiltshire) in the 16th century and owned estates at Keevil, Fittleton and Netheravon (all Wiltshire), and was also connected to the Wither family of Hall Place [later Oakley Hall] (Hampshire). At around the same time, Michael and his wife Henrietta Maria [nee Beach] bought the Williamstrip estate at Coln St Aldwyn. Their great-grandson, Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, ninth holder of the Hicks family baronetcy, was an prominent politician in the second half of the 19th century, holding offices including Chief Secretary for Ireland, Colonial Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer; he was made Viscount St Aldwyn in 1906 and first Earl St Aldwyn in 1916.

More detailed histories of the various estates and biographies of family members will be found at the beginning of the relevant sections of the catalogue

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