Egerton family, Earls of Ellesmere
This page summarises records created by this Family
The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.
Date: | 1100-2000 |
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History: | Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), natural son of Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley (Cheshire), was Lord Chancellor 1603-17, and was created Baron Ellesmere in 1603 and Viscount Brackley in 1616. He built up considerable estates in Cheshire and adjoining counties, including the Ellesmere estate in Shropshire (purchased from the feoffees of the 6th Earl of Derby) and properties in Denbighshire and Flintshire. In 1598 he inherited Tatton (Cheshire) and Worsley (Lancashire) from his brother-in-law, Richard Brereton. (Tatton later passed to a younger son of the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater). In 1604 he was granted Ashridge (Hertfordshire), which became the nucleus of a large estate in Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. John Egerton (d. 1649) succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Brackley and in the same year was created Earl of Bridgewater. He married c.1601 Frances, daughter and co-heir of 5th Earl of Derby (d. 1594) and purchased the Brackley estate in Northamptonshire (like Ellesmere a property that had passed to the Earls of Derby from the family of Lovel). He also acquired property in Lincolnshire that had passed to the Earls of Derby through the marriage of the 4th Earl to a granddaughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. (These estates were alienated in the 18th century). The 4th Earl was created Duke of Bridgewater in 1720. On the death of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater in 1803 his Ashridge and Ellesmere estates passed to a cousin who succeeded as 7th Earl of Bridgewater (see Cust, Earls Brownlow), but the Brackley and Worsley estates, together with the canal property and Bridgewater House in London passed to his nephew Lord Gower, later 1st Duke of Sutherland, with remainder to his second son, Francis Leveson-Gower (later Egerton), who was created Earl of Ellesmere in 1846. The Bridgewater Canal was sold in 1887, and the Worsley estate, to the Bridgewater Estates Company, in 1923. The Stetchworth (Cambridgeshire) estate, near Newmarket, was acquired by the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, and the Mertoun (Berwickshire) estate by the 4th Earl (as Viscount Brackley) in 1912. The 5th Earl succeeded a cousin as 6th Duke of Sutherland in 1963. Estates in 1883: 10,080 acres in Lancashire; 2,839 acres in Northamptonshire; 303 acres in Cheshire; about 100 acres in Staffordshire; worth a total of £71,290 a year. |
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Sources of authority: | Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996, p. 54. |
Name authority reference: | GB/NNAF/F86900 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F10706 ) |
Number | Description | Held by | Reference | Further information |
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12th cent-19th cent: Cheshire (Tatton, etc), Lancs (Worsley, etc), Lincs (Frampton, etc), London (Bridgewater House, etc), Northants (Brackley, Wollaston, etc), Salop (Ellesmere, etc), Warwicks (Astley, etc), Denbighshire (Bromfield and Yale, etc) and Flintshire deeds, manorial records, estate papers and Egerton family papers, with misc deeds and papers for other counties and families
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Huntington Library
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EL
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NRA 24601 Egerton (Bridgwater)
See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33a] |
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1651-1662: misc Cheshire (Tatton, etc) and Salop (Ellesmere, etc) estate corresp
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Shropshire Archives
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SRO 3607
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NRA 21443 Whitfield
See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33b] |
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16th cent-20th cent: Stetchworth and Wood Ditton (Cambs) manorial records
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Cambridgeshire Archives
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See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33d]
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13th cent-20th cent: Lancs (Worsley, etc) and Northants (Brackley, etc) deeds, manorial records, family and estate papers 13th-20th cent, with deeds and papers for Cambs (Wood Ditton, etc), Hants (Southampton) and London (Bridgewater House, etc) 18th-20th cent and Mertoun (Berwickshire) estate papers c1912-17
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Northamptonshire Archives Service
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E(B)
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NRA 4357
See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33c] |
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18th cent-20th cent: Lancs (Worsley, etc) deeds, leases and estate accounts and papers
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Salford City Archives
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See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33e]
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1770-1771: Bridgewater Canal (Lancs and Cheshire) accounts
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Salford City Archives
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See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33f]
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mid 18th cent-mid 19th cent: Lancs (Liverpool, etc) estate, Bridgewater Canal and misc Egerton family, legal and household papers
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Salford University Archives and Special Collections
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NRA 28500
See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33g] |
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8 |
c1895-1969: Lancs (Worsley, etc) estate corresp
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Salford University Archives and Special Collections
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See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33h]
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1839-1846: Worsley (Lancs) house building accounts
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Royal Institute of British Architects
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BIE/1
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NRA 34275 British Arch L
See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [33i] |
10 |
18th cent-19th cent: Lancs (Worsley, etc) estate papers
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Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
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AH
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NRA 9422
See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [27c] |
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c1764-1935: Lancs colliery records
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Lancashire Archives
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NC
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NRA 12638 NCB: Lancs
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12 |
1804-1834: Bridgewater House (London) vouchers 1833-34 and inventory of the plate of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater 1804
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Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
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D 593
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NRA 10699 Leveson-Gower
See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [101a] |
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1796-1799: Bridgewater House (London) building papers
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Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
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AH
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NRA 9422
See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [27c] |
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1779-1797: Brackley (Northants) estate accounts
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Northamptonshire Archives Service
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C(A)Box
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NRA 21333
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1629-1650: Wollaston (Northants) estreats of fines
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Northamptonshire Archives Service
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See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [27k]
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