Digby family, Earls Digby

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Date:	1100-1920
Places:	Clevedon, Somerset Coleshill, Warwickshire Malvern Wells, Worcestershire Ravenstone, Leicestershire Sherborne Castle, Dorset Snibston, Leicestershire
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F82626 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F9859 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	14th cent-19th cent: Dorset (Sherborne Castle, etc) deeds, family and estate papers 16th-19th cent, with misc deeds and papers for Warwicks (Coleshill, etc) 14th-19th cent and Co Offaly (Geashill) 18th-19th cent	Sherborne Castle Estates	HMC	NRA 37828 Wingfield Digby
2	14th cent-19th cent: Dorset (Sherborne, etc) and Co Offaly (Geashill) deeds and papers 14th-19th cent, with Warwicks rental 1767 and misc papers 17th-19th cent	Dorset History Centre	D-SHC	NRA 1279
3	18th cent-19th cent: Dorset legal and trust papers, mainly of the 1st and 2nd Earls Digby	Dorset History Centre	D 148	NRA 24113
4	1719-1732: Sherborne Castle (Dorset) household accounts	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR 1908/346	NRA 14000 Landor
5	12th cent-19th cent: Warwicks (Coleshill, etc) deeds, legal, estate and misc papers 12th-19th cent, with misc papers rel to Leics (Ravenstone, etc) property 18th cent, etc	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3888	NRA 1280 Wingfield Digby
6	16th cent-1700: misc Clevedon (Somerset) deeds and papers (estate of John Digby, 3rd Earl of Bristol)	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD/EN/1-4, 80-96, 102-4	NRA 28069 Elton
7	14th cent-19th cent: misc Digby family papers mainly 17th-19th cent, incl Dorset (Sherborne Castle) leases 1706-80 and rentals of Warwicks and Leics property 1746, etc	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3887 (Acc 7313L)	NRA 6208
8	1719-1776: Digby family corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 51340-41
9	1140-1889: estate papers and accounts	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3444