Catalogue description CROMWELL [FORMERLY COPLEY] OF SPROTBROUGH

DD/CROM/1 SETTLEMENTS

DD/CROM/2 DEEDS AND LEGAL PAPERS

DD/CROM/3 MANORIAL

DD/CROM/4/1-90 MINERAL RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES 1923-1948

DD/CROM/5/1-6 PROPERTY AT MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, USA 1926-1940

DD/CROM/6/1-33 ESTATE ADMINISTRATION 1653-19 cent

DD/CROM/7/1-3 TITLES OF HONOUR 1601-1919

DD/CROM/8/1-11 BARONY OF CROMWELL PEERAGE CLAIM 1906-1923

DD/CROM/9/1-14 GENEALOGY AND HISTORY 16 cent-1966

DD/CROM/10 PERSONAL PAPERS

DD/CROM/11/1-109 PUBLIC AFFAIRS: NATIONAL 1594-1756

DD/CROM/12/1-12 PUBLIC AFFAIRS: LOCAL 1655-1702

DD/CROM/13/1-11 SALE OF THE ESTATE 1925

Cromwell family of Sprotbrough, Yorkshire

Copley family, baronets, of Sprotbrough, Yorkshire

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• Sprotbrough, West Riding of Yorkshire

These records are in the process of being fully catalogued. Those parts of the archives that have been fully catalogued to date are listed here.

Note: only sections DD/CROM/1, DD/CROM/2, DD/CROM/3 and DD/CROM/10 have been fully catalogued.

The Copley family inherited the estates of the Fitzwilliam family of Sprotbrough. The Copley family was severely fined for its 'delinquency' in support of the Crown in civil wars of the 1640s (a process well-documented in the archive) and gained a baronetcy on the restoration of king Charles II. There are also the papers of Sir Godfrey Copley in the investigation of the 'Yorkshire Plot' of the mid-1660s. There are very few records relating to estate administration. The family, like a number of other landed families in the district, benefitted from income from royalty payments from colliery companies in the early decades of the twentieth century. Mrs Bewicke-Copley successfully laid claim to the dormant barony of Cromwell in 1923 and the archives includes the papers generated by the peerage proceedings. The estate was sold at auction in 1925, the Hall demolished and the park developed as a housing estate.

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