Wood family, Earls of Halifax

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Date:	1600-2000
Places:	Garrowby, Yorkshire Hickleton, Yorkshire Monk Bretton, Yorkshire
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F82717 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F5164 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	17th cent-20th cent: Yorks (Garrowby, Hickleton, Temple Newsam etc) deeds and estate papers, household records, extensive family, personal and political papers, records rel to local affairs and ecclesiastical matters	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Halifax (Hickleton Papers)	NRA 8128 Wood
2	17th cent-20th cent: further Yorks estate papers	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York		See Accessions to Repositories 1988
3	19th cent-20th cent: additional family papers	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	HALIFAX	See Annual Return 2006
4	18th cent-20th cent: misc Yorks (Hickleton, etc) deeds and papers	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 4871 Wood
5	1700-1891: misc Yorks (Monk Bretton, etc) deeds and papers and Wood family papers	Barnsley Archive and Local Studies	A/1958/Z/1	NRA 43156 Wood
6	c1900-1943: Yorks (Garrowby, Hickleton, etc) estate and colliery papers	Barnsley Archive and Local Studies		NRA 5983 Greaves
7	20th cent: Yorks estate papers	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	Acc 1244	NRA 14390 Hollis & Webb
8	19th cent-20th cent: Wood family corresp, mainly of the 2nd Viscountess (1838-1919)	Hampshire Archives	115M88/C51-52	NRA 43074 Phillimore
9	20th cent: corresp	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	AccNo:44/2002	See Annual Return 2002
10	1852-1881: Indian papers of the 1st Viscount Halifax	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	HALIFAX F78	NRA 6421
11	1859: further Indian papers of the 1st Viscount Halifax	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur D 557	See Annual Report 1957-58
12	1832-1879: Admiralty papers of the 1st Viscount Halifax	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 49531-93
13	1921-1927: papers of the 2nd Viscount Halifax rel to the Malines Conversations	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 222-24
14	1896: memorandum of the 2nd Viscount Halifax rel to negotiations with Pope Leo XIII	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 1973
15	1926-1931: Indian papers of the 1st Earl of Halifax	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	HALIFAX/C 152	NRA 27436
16	1938-1940: official papers of the 1st Earl of Halifax	The National Archives	FO 800/309-28
17	c1811 - 1984: family and estate papers rel to family celebrations; papers rel estates at Garrowby, Hickleton, and Heslington, including corresp, minute books, accounts ledgers, rentals, maps and plans, deeds, auction catalogues, photographs,	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	HALIFAX	See Annual Return 2010
18	1857-1948: Lord Halifax's copy letter books containing letters to the Abbe Portal, memoirs, papers and corresp to Archbishop of Canterbury, the Abbe Portal, Cardinal Mercier, Charles Gore, Walter Howard Frere and Dr B J Kidd rel to ecclesiastical matters, corresp, papers and photographs rel to Peter Wood, Charles Lindley Wood and Richard Frederick Wood, Lord Holderness	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	HALIFAX	See Annual Return 2014, ACC 10/2014, ACC 40/2014