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Catalogue description Stephens of Ashfield, Budock
This record is held by Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)
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| Title: | Stephens of Ashfield, Budock |
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TITLE DEEDS AND LEASES BUDOCK: Ashfield, 1834-1896 Basset Arms, 1841-1848 PENRYN: St. Thomas Street, 1814-1911 RECORDS OF ROPEWALK, ASHFIELD, BUDOCK Account books, apprenticeship indentures, correspondence, catalogues, etc., 1821-1953 FAMILY PAPERS STEPHENS: early papers, 1651-1874 Stephens of Bridport, 1788-1950 Nancarrow-Richards papers, 1763-1836 Stephens-Richards marriage, 1786-1860 Stephens-Jones marriage, 1860-1900 Stephens-Sturge marriage, 1873-1932 Jn. Sturge Stephens' papers (early life, education, war service, Quaker activities, University career, family history etc.), 1892-1972. MORGAN, JONES: Morgan family of Ross, 1758-1953 Jones family of Hereford, 1814-1952 Dziewicki papers, c. 1850-1952 TREGELLES, STURGE: Tregelles family, 1676-1953 Sturge family, 1780-1953 PHOTOGRAPHS AND PICTURES FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS: Stephens, c.1860-1950 Jones, c. 1860-1947 Dziewicki, c. 1870-1920 Sturge, c. 1859-1914 Tregelles, c. 1860-1896 Miscellaneous, c. 1860-1945 "Local" personalities, c. 1890-1920 POSTCARDS AND VIEWS: Local view, c. 1900-1950 Out-county, c. 1910-1950 Foreign, c. 1890-1950 PRINTS AND SKETCHES: some local views, 1840-1910 GREETINGS CARDS: Christmas cards, c. 1890-1950 QUAKER RECORDS, GENERAL 1688-1960 MISCELLANEOUS Newspapers, 1838-1970 Printed books, 1927-1946 Miscellaneous, c. 1746-1966 |
| Date: | 1651-1970 |
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Pictures and photographs have been arranged according to family, where possible; although many photographs are unidentified, they are useful for the history of costume. Many of the picture postcards, although views of other counties and other countries, form an essential part of the collection, not only illustrating the places visited by members of the family, but also often bearing messages which supplement other correspondence. Besides the Quaker records of the families, there are a number of documents relating to the Society of Friends which are not apparently connected with the Stephens family. These have been listed under "Quaker Records, General"; some are Cornish but some are more general in character. A brief family tree has been compiled and is kept inside the cover of this catalogue, but a detailed pedigree is available (DD.ST.694) showing the complicated interrelationships of the families of Stephens, Sturge, Tregelles, Morgan and Jones. |
| Held by: | Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office), not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 1345 Files |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Stephens family papers deposited by Mrs. H. M. Stephens Accessions 1693, 1721 |
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The Stephens family of Ashfield is descended from William Stephens of Feock, a noted Quaker, who in 1747 married Elizabeth Giddy. The documents in this collection illustrate the history of the various branches of the family, many of whom intermarried. The collection contains a number of deeds and leases of Ashfield in Budock, which was leased by John Stephens in 1834 from Lydia, Elizabeth and Rachel Tregelles, who held it by lease from the Bassets of Tehidy. A ropewalk was constructed, where a florishing business was carried on; account books survive from the early years of the nineteenth century, and there are a number of apprenticeship indentures, letters and other papers. Most of the remaining documents are family papers, and have been divided into the separate families of Morgan, Jones, Sturge and Stephens, all of whom were related, and whose children intermarried. The Morgan-Jones branch of the family lived in Hereford, were bankers, booksellers and staunch Quakers; in 1860 Elizabeth Morgan Jones married John Stephens of Ashfield. The presence of Sturge papers is explained by the marriage in 1890 of Isabel Sturge and her cousin John Gilbert Stephens. Almost half of the whole collection consists of the papers of their son John Sturge Stephens (1892-1954); they include papers relating to his work with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in the First World War; reports and papers relating to his activities on behalf of the Society of Friends between the wars in Poland, Germany, France and Austria; his appointment to the staff of Birmingham University; his family, and his many and varied interests including bird-watching and family history. |
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