Catalogue description Records of Wright & Freeman, Solicitors including GREY MSS additional

This record is held by Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

Details of DE1982
Reference: DE1982
Title: Records of Wright & Freeman, Solicitors including GREY MSS additional
Description:

1. GREY MANUSCRIPTS additional

 

TITLE DEEDS

 

Leicestershire: Anstey, Botcheston, Bradgate, Breedon, Charnwood Forest, Cropston, Glenfield, Groby, Higham on the Hill, Leicester, Newtown Linford, Ratby, Stanton under Bardon, Swithland, Whetstone, and misc. 1-167

 

Out County: Lincolnshire, Devonshire, Somerset and Shropshire. 168-172

 

MANORIAL 173-176

 

ESTATE PAPERS

 

Leicestershire: Inclosure 177-180

 

General 181-225

 

Out County: Staffordshire and Suffolk 226-236

 

LEGAL 237-238

 

MISCELLANEA 239-243

 

MAPS 244

 

EDUCATION 245

 

2. LEICESTER TRAMWAYS CO. RECORDS 246-253

 

3. WHITWICK COLLIERY CO. LTD. & SWANNINGTON PUMPING CO. RECORDS 254-303

 

4. RECORDS OF SIR THOMAS WRIGHT AND SON, AND HERBERT SIMPSON, SOLICITORS. 304-312

 

5. MISCELLANEOUS

 

Title deeds: Arnesby, Aylestone, Blaby, Bruntingthorpe, Gilmorton, Kirby Muxloe, Knighton, Leicester, Leicester Forest, Melton Mowbray, Wigston Magna, and Asfordby, Billesdon, Blaston & misc. 313-441

 

Other 442-453

 

The collection is made up of three main deposits and two smaller ones. This deposit is perhaps best described as a collection of 'estate papers' as they contain very little personal material of the Grey or associated families and consists mainly of title deeds and estate records.
Date: 1590-1953
Related material:

For other papers concerning the Grey family see DE311, DE453, DE5840 and DE6031.
Held by: Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Leicester Tramways Company

Whitwick Colliery Company

Swannington Pumping Company

Grey family, Earls of Stamford and Warrington
Physical description: 453 Files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by: Mr. C.J. Dean, Stone and Simpson, solicitors

 

11 April 1979
Subjects:
  • Groby, Leicestershire
  • Whitwick, Leicestershire
  • Swannington, Leicestershire
Administrative / biographical background:

The Greys have been prominent in Leicestershire since the 15th Century, when the manor of Groby came to them through marriage with the Ferrers family. Their seat was at Bradgate Park until 1854, when the new Bradgate House was built near Markfield. Extensive estates were held in Leicestershire, though the Breedon estate was sold in 1873 and the remainder, in the Charnwood area, after the Great War.
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