Catalogue description Notes on, and pedigrees of, the Keynes family and their estates in Gloucestershire,...

Notes on, and pedigrees of, the Keynes family and their estates in Gloucestershire, Dorset, Northamptonshire, Sussex, Wiltshire and elsewhere in southern England (11th century - 20th century)

Include 'A' level thesis by Simon Keynes (grandson of Sir Geoffrey Keynes and later fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge) entitled 'the dissemination of a Norman family', n.d. (photocopy); extracts from Domesday, inquisitions post mortem, close rolls, etc., concerning the descents of the manors and churches of Somerford Keynes and Shorncote (11th-16th cent.); extracts from Baker's history of Northamptonshire concerning Dodford manor, n.d. [19th cent.?] (photocopy); St. Giles church and parish, Horsted Keynes (Sussex) by F. S. Eardley, 1939; History of Lasborough manor by Major C. A. Fisher, c.1962 (held by Ralph de Kaynes, 13th and 14th cents.); St. Mary's church, Tarrant Crawford (Dorset), 1968, and notes on All Saints, Tarrant Keynston (Dorset), n.d.; Gathering up the threads: a study in family biography by Florence A. Keynes, 1950; correspondence with former county architect of Northants. about Spratton church, 1978