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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