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Catalogue description Drake family of Amersham
This record is held by Buckinghamshire Archives
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| Title: | Drake family of Amersham |
| Description: |
This collection includes title deeds and estate papers, mainly relating to the Drake family's Bucks estate at Shardeloes, Amersham, though including some out-county material, eg Lincolnshire. It also includes papers relating to the building of the family seat at Shardeloes in the 18th century and a drawing and contract for a monument by the sculptor Peter Scheemakers. Because of the Drake family's influence over the market town and parliamentary borough of Amersham, the papers include material on the history of the town, eg. the almshouses and work house, parliamentary elections, the market house. Family correspondence includes a series of 21 letters from William Drake and 9 from his tutor to his father describing the course of his Grand Tour in 1768-1769. These letters are not described individually in the catalogue, however. |
| Date: | 1621 - 1938 |
| Arrangement: |
Bundle 1 PROPERTY TENURE AND PERSONAL ESTATE Estate Deeds Legal Papers 2 ESTATE ADMINISTRATION Appointments Management Accounts Estate Papers Surveys, Valuations, and Inventories. Auction Sale Particulars 3 Estate Correspondence 4 Maps and Plans 5 HOUSEHOLD ADMINISTRATION Building of Shardeloes Maintenance Drake Family Residences Accounts Servants Fire Insurance Papers Miscellanea 6 ADMINISTRATION PAPERS Administration of will of John Lambton Administration of Garrard family wills. 7 ALLIED FAMILY PAPERS Tyrwhitt Family Papers Everard Family papers Wickham Family Papers 8 CORRESPONDENCE The Grand Tour and others Family Correspondence Church Patronage 9 Financial Papers 10 Personal Papers 11 Official and Parliamentary Papers 12 DRAKE FAMILY AND AMERSHAM Almshouses and Workhouse Amersham Poor Amersham and Parliament Church Fairs and Market House Mills Roads Schools Tax Assessments Miscellanea 13 Printed Matter 14 Miscellanea |
| Related material: |
For Drake family settlement 1778 (lease only), See BRO D/X 1286/9 |
| Held by: | Buckinghamshire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 34 series. |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
A.R. 41/56(L) 3.XI.1956. The greater part of this collection of estate deeds and papers relating to the Drake family of Shardeloes, Amersham was deposited in the County Record Office in November 1956. Further deposits were made as below:- 7.1.1957 A.R. 2/57(L) 25.IV.1957 A.R. 20/57(L) 2.IX.1957. A.R.40/57(L) 12.VIII.1958 A.R.30/58(G) 22.XI.1958 A.R.42/58(L) |
| Publication note: |
The pedigree has been taken from the Shardeloes Papers by G. Eland, F.S.A. (O.U.P.1947). These papers were used extensively by Mr. Eland in the compilation of his book. |
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