Catalogue description VENABLES OF AGDEN COLLECTION

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of DVA
Reference: DVA
Title: VENABLES OF AGDEN COLLECTION
Description:

This collection comprises title deeds, leases and estate papers relating to the Agden estate. This estate centred on property held in Agden, Millington, Mere, Statham, High Leigh, Horton, Hartford, Knutsford and Lymm (Cheshire) and Whiston, Prescot, Halsnead and Witton (Lancashire). The covering dates are 1390-1863.

 

The moiety of Agden came to the Venables as the result of a settlement of her lands of Ellen, widow of Thomas Warburton of Agden on William Venables and Ellen, his wife in 1401 (see DVA 1/1). The estate remained in the Venables family (augmented by later marriages - see introduction to title deeds section) until it terminated in the direct line in George Venables of Agden, whose sole daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married Philip Touchet Chetwode of Oakley bart, in 1732.

 

Some Chetwode material appears in this collection, but the main series of Chetwode records, including deeds and estate maps, and related Agden papers, was deposited at the Chester City Record Office (ref CR 70) by the Chester Archaeological Society, who had received it from Sir Philip Chetwode in 1921. It is not known how or when these two collections became separate.
Date: 1390-1863
Arrangement:

DEEDS

 

LEASES AND RELATED PAPERS

 

ESTATE PAPERS

 

Rentals and Accounts

 

Surveys

 

Miscellaneous financial papers

 

Papers relating to tithe

 

Correspondence

 

Plans

 

Miscellaneous
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Agden Estate, Cheshire
Physical description: 3 Sub-fonds
Custodial history:

Acc 1024 A
Subjects:
  • Venables family of Agden, Cheshire
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