Ward family, Earls of Dudley: Dudley Castle

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Date:	1400-1958
Places:	Dudley Castle, Staffordshire
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F89069 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F416 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	15th cent-1958: title deeds, estate papers incl colliery papers	Dudley Archives and Local History Service		NRA 235 Ward See Accessions to Repositories 1963-81 passim
2	1775-1812: title deeds and colliery accounts	The National Archives	C107/74
3	1734-66: estate papers and household papers	Collection held privately: enquiries to Staffordshire County Record Office		NRA 6393 Shaw-Hellier
4	1779-1920: estate rentals	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: William Salt Library		See Bulletin of the IHR vol XIX, 1932-43
5	1782-1820: accounts, corresp and papers of 8th Earl Ferrers as manager of Viscount Dudley's collieries	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for	26 D 53, DE 2638	NRA 874 Shirley See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [93a]
6	1802: accounts of 8th Earl Ferrers as manager of Viscount Dudley's collieries	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D 591, 3794	NRA 7148 Shirley See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [93h]
7	1879-1932: records incl corresp, draft wills	Dudley Archives and Local History Service	Z101