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Catalogue description RYDER OF REMPSTONE ARCHIVE
This record is held by Dorset History Centre
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| Title: | RYDER OF REMPSTONE ARCHIVE |
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Records of the Rempstone and Wareham Estates and of the Calcraft family and descendants The greater part of this deposit consists of deeds and papers relating to the Dorset estates of the Calcraft family, mainly in Wareham and Purbeck. Most of these were acquired by John Calcraft (1726-1772), who bought the Rempstone estate in 1757. The manor of Wareham and Drax family property there were purchased in 1768 and John Calcraft and his successors afterwards acquired much of the rest of the borough, apparently with the main object of improving their electoral interest. Several surveys of Wareham in this collection seem to have been compiled for electoral purposes, and the deeds and papers contain some other material illustrating the management of a "pocket borough". For this reason poll books and other documents specifically concerning elections have been included under the heading ESTATE. The documents also include records of Calcraft property in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Kent, Lincolnshire, London, Somerset and Wiltshire, with a few items relating to other counties and some family and miscellaneous papers. There are some interesting items arising out of the careers of John Calcraft in the Pay Office and War Office and as an Army agent in the eighteenth century and of Sir Henry George Calcraft at the Board of Trade in the nineteenth. MANORIAL Dorset: Wareham Worth Matravers DEEDS General estate Dorset and Somerset Dorset: General Affpuddle Arne and Church Knowle Caundle, Stourton Charlton Marshall Corfe Castle: Town Ailwood Arfleet Brenscombe Bushey Fitzworth Kingswood Lynch, East and West Milford Phillips Heath Rempstone Threshers Heath Woolgarston Wytch Various Corfe Castle and Langton Matravers Corfe Castle, Langton Matravers, Wareham and Worth Matravers Corfe Castle and Studland Corfe Castle, Studland, Swanage and Wareham Corfe Castle, Studland, Swanage and Worth Matravers Corfe Castle and Swanage Crichel, Long Crichel, Moor Hilton and Wareham Langton Matravers Poole Stoke, East Studland Tarrant Gunville Wareham: Drax title deeds Pitt title deeds Bishop title deeds Calcraft title deeds Leases, assignments and counterparts Electoral deeds Wareham and Worth Matravers Worth Matravers Buckinghamshire and Kent Essex: Thurrock, Little Hampshire: Kingsclere and Popham Kent: General Broomfield, Hollingbourne, Langley, Leeds and Sutton Valence Cray, Foots Darenth Darenth, Dartford and Stone Northfleet Stockbury Stone Strood Swanscombe Leicestershire: Grimstone and Saxelby Lincolnshire: General Ancaster, Rauceby, Sudbrooke, Willoughby and Wilsford Bicker, Donington, Gosberton and Quadring Claythorpe Ledenham, Long and Londonthorpe Lincolnshire and West Indies (Jamaica) London (Middlesex) Suffolk: Lidgate Wiltshire: Brinkworth Brinkworth, Foxley and Winterbourne Bassett Foxley Mildenhall Minety Ireland: Mayo and Sligo ESTATE General Dorset and Somerset Dorset: General Corfe Castle Corfe Castle and Wareham Corfe Castle and Worth Matravers Langton Matravers Wareham: Surveys and rentals Elections Various Wareham and Worth Matravers Buckinghamshire: Quainton Kent: General Broomfield and Leeds Northfleet Lincolnshire: General London (Middlesex): Shoreditch Wiltshire: General MAPS Dorset: Church Knowle, Corfe Castle and Worth Matravers Corfe Castle Corfe Castle, Langton Matravers, Studland and Swanage Corfe Castle, Langton Matravers and Worth Matravers Studland and Swanage Wareham Worth Matravers Kent: Broomfield, Leeds and East Sutton FAMILY Calcraft and related families: John Calcraft (1726-1772) Catherine Calcraft (1764-1828) John Calcraft (1765-1831) Sir Granby Thomas Calcraft (1766-1820) Jane Hales Elizabeth Mary Calcraft (1791-1859) John Hales Calcraft (1796-1800) Sophia and Caroline Calcraft (married 1825) Captain John Hales Montagu Calcraft (1831-1868) Sir Henry George Calcraft (1836-1896) Captain Guy Montagu Marston (1871-1928) Other families: Ayliffe Clark Stevens LEGAL OFFICIAL Public service: John Calcraft (1726-1772) Sir Granby Thomas Calcraft (1776-1820) Sir Henry George Calcraft (1836-1896) Dorset Lieutenancy Dorset Quarter Sessions Wareham and Purbeck Union Wareham Borough MISCELLANEOUS Manuscript Printed |
| Date: | 1544 - 1951 |
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A pedigree available at Dorset R.O, shows the successive owners of the estates. For more details of the family see Hutchins, "History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset", 3rd edition, vol I (1861), p 534 and Burke, "Landed Gentry". See also "The Calcrafts of Rempstone", by R D Ryder (item D/RWR/Z7 in this catalogue). Some records of the Leeds Castle estate Kent are included here for the full catalogue of the Leeds Castle Manuscripts, see the catalogue shelved in the first floor library] |
| Held by: | Dorset History Centre, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 798 files |
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Deposited by D C D Ryder Esq., in 1960, 1961, 1973, 1975 and 1976. |
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