Catalogue description Fillingham of Syerston
This record is held by Nottinghamshire Archives
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Title: | Fillingham of Syerston |
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This is largely a collection of title deeds with some estate administration and financial papers together with surveys and maps, including a coloured "plotte" of Thorpe in 1619 (DD/FM/65/1). A series of papers relates to a drawn out and costly Chancery suit over the manor of Thorpe, purchased by George Fillingham in 1808 from the Neales of Tollerton and shortly afterward sold to Sir Robert Howe Bromley (DD/FM/59/1-10). The enclosure of Syerston is covered in some detail with copies of the act, award, map, and commissioners' minute book (DD/FM/78/2-4). There is also a detailed survey and map of the parish in its open state (DD/FM/60/4,DD/FM/64/1-2), as well as William Fillingham's own estimate of the improved value of his land after enclosure, and statements of the costs of the enclosure proceedings (DD/FM/60/2). The remainder of the documents are wills and executorship papers of the Fillinghams and related families, and estate papers of George Fillingham's clients. A few archives of the Earls of Rutland's Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire estates which obviously strayed into Fillingham hands from Belvoir during the course of their estate agency to the Manners family include a series of 16th and 17th century leases of the Greasley Castle estate, coal mining agreements between the Manners and an Ilkeston, (Derbyshire) yeoman, in 1616, and Major Charles White of Greasley, a local Parliamentarian commander, in 1641 and 1647 (DD/FM/80/1-13). The archives of William Fillingham are unfortunately scanty, but those of his son, George, are especially voluminous. The latter's meticulously kept and extraordinarily detailed account books are a model of their kind. They were begun within a week of his father's death in 1795, when he was 21, and were continued in his own hand, until he was in his 70s. His mother, each of his sisters, and later his children, all had their own separate accounts, which were "allowed" by the head of the family at the end of each year, and signed by both parties. As every minute item of income and expenditure of himself and his family is recorded (even down to pence lost and found), the ledgers afford an extremely detailed insight into the professional, economic and social life of the Fillinghams in the early 19th century, and particularly of the running of the estate and home farm. One volume, for example, records the exact activities of each of his agricultural labourers each day between 1839 and 1844, with details of their wages. Content Summary: Title Deeds and related papers: Fillingham Estate: Nottinghamshire Syerston DD/FM/1/1-33 Manor and estate; Sutton - Ffytche - Fillingham; also Kelham, Averham, Rolleston, N. Clifton, Harby, Park Leys, Staythorpe, Knapthorpe, Caunton, Elston, Flintham (Fillingham purchase, 1792) 1775-1837 DD/FM/2/1-9 Williamson Close, Little Williamson Close, Ash Close; Edwards - Elston - Wood 1789-1820 DD/FM/2/10-13 Moor Close; Challand - Wood 1814 DD/FM/2/14-20 Whole estate; Wood - Fillingham 1822 DD/FM/3/1-4 Moiety of messuage and closes: Two sevenths; (Brown) - Faulkes - Fillingham. 1826 Lamb DD/FM/3/5-7 One seventh; (Brown)- Faulkes - Fillingham (See also DD/FM/8/1-14 below) 1828 DD/FM/4/1-5 Various closes; Wakefield - Fillingham 1829-1854 (Fillingham purchase, 1829) DD/FM/5/1-13 Cottage and land; Williamson - Shaw - Stansall - Whyman 1700-1803 DD/FM/6/1-12 Close; Whyman Faulkes - Fillingham 1808-1848 Hancock (See also DD/FM/13/1-6 below) DD/FM/7/1-3 Estate; ? -Fillingham 1856 DD/FM/8/1-4 Moiety of messuage and closes: Four - sevenths; (Brown) - Faulkes - Hancock 1837 DD/FM/8/5-14 Whole moiety; Hancock - Hancock - Fillingham 1844-1857 (See also DD/FM/3/1-7 above) DD/FM/9/1 Messuage; Fillingham - Hall 1857 DD/FM/10/1 Moor Close; Fillingham - Pickering and others 1857 DD/FM/11/1-7 Cottage, later 3 cottages; Skinner - Singleton - Fillingham. 1814-1860 DD/FM/12/1-10 Cottage, later 6 cottages; and pew in church; Bell - Hancock - Lang - Pickering - Fillingham 1829-1873 DD/FM/13/1-6 Cottage, later in two; Whyman - Brown - Fillingham. 1812-1874 (For earlier deeds see DD/FM/5/1-13 above) DD/FM/14/1-61 Capital messuage, land and cottages; Hamond - Hitchbone - Elston - Cowley Markham - Fillingham 1704-1878 DD/FM/15/1-18 Cottage and land, later Field Close; Hitchbone - Skinner - Challand - Saunderson - Rose - Fillingham 1768-1883 DD/FM/16/1-10 Pingle, later cottage(s); Challand - Taylor - Caparn - Fillingham 1788-1883 East Stoke and Elston DD/FM/17/1-8 Various closes (Stoke Prebendal leases); Stinton - Fillingham; also Syerston, Coddington, Newark, Farndon, Balderton, Thorpe; Rauceby Lincs. 1783-1857 Newark DD/FM/18/1 Messuage and shops, Mill Gate and Potterdyke; Fillingham - Newcastle 1792 Nottingham DD/FM/19/1-13 Land in the Meadows; Kingston - Brand - Fillingham - Taylor; also Aslockton, Granby, Orston, Screveton, Willoughby-on-the Wolds, Bleasby, Goverton, Gibsmere, Notown, Car Colston, Thoroton, Broxtowe; Mapperley (Db) 1726-c1851 Sometime Hough estate: Leicestershire Bottesford, Easthorpe, Normanton, and Beckingthorpe DD/FM/20/1-5 Normanton : oxgang; Wright - Hough 1647-1690 (Hough purchase. 1647) DD/FM/21/1-10 Bottesford, Easthorpe, and Normanton : ½ oxgang and 3½a.; Calcroft - Coe - Hough 1669-1696 Gibson DD/FM/22/1-2 Normanton: messuage, Hough Closes, and oxgang; Bugg - (Hough). (Hough purchase c.1706?) 1696-1706 DD/FM/23/1-8 Beckingthorpe : farm and four oxgangs; Parkins - Orston - Trigge (- Hough) (Hough purchase c177-) 1625- 171- DD/FM/24/1 Bottesford, etc.; whole estate; Hough. c1710-1720 DD/FM/25/1 Easthorpe : land; Hough c1770 DD/FM/26/1 Easthorpe : close; Rutland - Hough (exchange). 1772 DD/FM/27/1-16 Easthorpe : cottage; Bothemly - Somerby - Briggs - Vincent - Hough 1684-1778 DD/FM/28/1-8 Easthorpe : 4 leys, later land; Vincent - Liddall - Various - Cooke - Hough. 1686-1780 DD/FM/29/1-6 Easthorpe: messuage, land, etc. Vincent - Hough 1729-1781 DD/FM/30/1-9 Easthorpe : 2 oxgangs; Boswell - Dodsley 1708-1742 DD/FM/30/10 Easthorpe : lands.; Toddington - Hutchin 1708 Dodsley DD/FM/30/11-24 Easthorpe : cottage and lands, later lands only; Rowse - Hutchin- Bennett - Dodsley Dodsley 1698-1742 DD/FM/30/25-34 Easthorpe : whole estate; Dodsley - Porter - Hough 1742-1786 DD/FM/31/1-16 Easthorpe: whole Hough estate; Fillingham - Various 1840-1857 DD/FM/32/1 Easthorpe : messuage and 5 oxgangs; Vincent: Chancery suit (probably relates to one of properties above) 1587 Lincolnshire Great and Little Hale DD/FM/33/1-3 Messuage and lands; Hough 1799 DD/FM/34/1 Three Leys Close; Fillingham - Fillingham 1840 DD/FM/35/1-16 Whole estate; Fillingham - Various. 1856-1857 Nottinghamshire Balderton DD/FM/36/1 Messuage; Hough 1799 Bottesford School estate: Leicestershire Bottesford, Easthorpe, and Normanton DD/FM/37/1-16 Two oxgangs, etc.; Knowles - Clarke - Browne - Trustees of Bottesford School 1624-1772 Balderton Poor estate : Nottinghamshire Balderton DD/FM/38/1-2 House, etc.; Gibson - Trustees of Balderton Poor 1727-1763 Miscellaneous: Nottinghamshire Balderton DD/FM/39/1 Messuage, etc; Smith - Shipman 1777 Elston DD/FM/40/1 Various closes; Cowley mortgage 1802 Settlements, Wills, Executorship and Trust Papers Fillingham family DD/FM/41/1-4 Fillingham, Ann; Syerston 1851-1855 DD/FM/41/5-7 Fillingham, Charles Augustus; India 1877-1879 DD/FM/41/8-9 Fillingham, Elizabeth; Syerston 1819-1820 DD/FM/41/10-13 Fillingham, Elizabeth Sarah; Syerston 1871-1886 DD/FM/41/14-16 Fillingham, George; London 1806-1808 DD/FM/41/17-19 Fillingham, George; Syerston : Hough marriage settlement 1804 : will., etc. 1841-1850 DD/FM/41/20-26 Fillingham, George; Syerston : Tudway marriage settlement 1835 : exor. 1856-1859 DD/FM/41/27 Fillingham, Letitia; Wells Som. 1848 DD/FM/41/28 Fillingham, Letitia; Syerston: Ames marriage settlement 1865 DD/FM/41/29 Fillingham, Richard; Balderton 1782 DD/FM/41/30-31 Fillingham, Sarah; Syerston 1825-1830 DD/FM/41/32-33 Fillingham, Sophia Ann; Syerston 1871-1873 DD/FM/41/34-38 Fillingham, Thomas; Mansfield 1785-1819 DD/FM/41/39-57 Fillingham, William; Syerston 1795-1815 Hough familv DD/FM/42/1-3 Hough, Eleanor; Newark 1818-1821 DD/FM/42/4 Hough, Eleanor; Bath Som. 1848-1855 DD/FM/42/5-7 Hough, Thomas; Easthorpe Leics. 1799-1819 DD/FM/42/8 Hough, William; Normanton Leics.: marriage settlement 1691 William Fillingham as executor DD/FM/43/1-11 Rimington trust 1747-1792 DD/FM/44/1 Birkett (Elizabeth ?) 1781 DD/FM/45/1 Neale, Ann. 1793 George Fillingham as executor DD/FM/46/1-5 Bottesford Hospital trust 1814-1842 DD/FM/47/1-10 Birkett family trust: general 1796-1837 DD/FM/47/11-17 Birkett family trust: John Birkett 1802-1811 DD/FM/48/1-6 Gauntley, William 1793-1843 DD/FM/49/1-13 King family trust 1794-1849 DD/FM/50/1-2 Minta, William 1766-1799 DD/FM/51/1-2 Neale, Charles 1829-1843 DD/FM/52/1-4 Spragging, Thomas 1815-1837 DD/FM/53/1-9 Woodward and Cooper family trusts 1800-1841 Thomas Hough as executor DD/FM/54/1-7 Bugg, Francis and Ann 1775-1791 Miscellaneous DD/FM/55/1 Eagle, Mary 1750 DD/FM/55/2-3 Handley, William Farnworth c1870 DD/FM/55/4 Jackson, Richard 1784 DD/FM/55/5 Oxenden, Sir Henry 1802-1817 DD/FM/55/6-9 Taylor, William 1790-1822 DD/FM/55/10-11 Tomlinson, John 1828-1829 Accounts and Financial Papers Fillingham family DD/FM/56/1 Fillingham, Ann and Elizabeth 1811 DD/FM/56/2-14 Fillingham, Elizabeth Sarah, Sophia Ann, and George Henry 1821-1898 DD/FM/56/15-61 Fillingham, George 1793-1857 Hough Family DD/FM/57/1-4 Hough, Eleanor 1804-1852 DD/FM/57/5-9 Hough, Thomas 1789-1813 Miscellaneous DD/FM/58/1 Handley, Benjamin 1799 DD/FM/58/2 Ryley, Hannah c1801 DD/FM/58/3 Graves, John Samuel, and Allen, John Roy 1855 Legal Papers DD/FM/59/1-10 In Chancery: George Fillingham v. Sir Robert Howe Bromley, bart.; Thorpe manor, also Ints Corn. (1771-) 1806-1824 Estate Papers Fillingham and Hough estates Surveys, valuations, and rentals: Nottinghamshire DD/FM/60/1-10 Syerston; also Elston; and Bottesford Leics. 1724-1835 DD/FM/61/1-2 Newark and Balderton; also Claypole Lincs. 1795 Leicestershire DD/FM/62/1-2 Bottesford and Easthorpe c1700, 1856 Lincolnshire DD/FM/63/1-4 Great and Little Hale 1785-1857 Maps and Plans Nottinghamshire DD/FM/64/1-8 Syerston 1792-1819 DD/FM/65/1-2 Thorpe 1619, 1712 Lincolnshire DD/FM/66/1-2 Great Hale 1767, 1800 Miscellaneous Estate papers Nottinghamshire DD/FM/67/1-16 Syerston, East Stoke, Elston, Newark, and Balderton c1792-1851 Leicestershire DD/FM/68/1 Bottesford 1847 Lincolnshire DD/FM/69/1-10 Great Hale: general 1788-1848 DD/FM/69/11-17 : tithes 1818-1857 Somerset DD/FM/70/1-4 Bath 1846-1878 DD/FM/71/1-4 Miscellaneous c1815-1823 DD/FM/72-75 George Fillingham as estate agent Hilyard/Thoroton family DD/FM/72/1-8 Document not deposited Mason, William Nottinghamshire DD/FM/73/1-24 Besthorpe, Darlton, Dunham, Morton, North Leverton, South Scarle, South Wheatley, Upton 1796-1839 Mason, William and Nightingale, Sir Charles, Cambridgeshire DD/FM/74/1-11 Kneesworth; also Bassingbourn, Melbourn and Meldreth c1825-1840 Miscellaneous or uncertain Nottinghamshire DD/FM/75/1 Clayworth and Gringley-on-the-Hill 1805 DD/FM/75/2 Flintham 1801 Derbyshire DD/FM/75/3 Aston (on-Trent ?) 1798 Lincolnshire DD/FM/75/4-6 Roxholm 1822-1823 Miscellaneous Family and Other Papers DD/FM/76/1-15 Apprenticeship, commissions, etc. 1707-1892 Miscellaneous Public Papers Drainage DD/FM/77/1 Rivers Devon, Smite, and Car Dyke 1842 Enclosure DD/FM/78/1-4 Syerston 1792-1795 DD/FM/78/5 East Stoke and Elston 1795 Parish Administration DD/FM/79/1 Syerston volunteers 1798 DD/FM/79/2-6 Syerston highways 1802-1819 DD/FM/79/7-9 Syerston tax collection 1803-1805 DD/FM/79/10 Syerston poor relief 1813 Deeds of Title and Related Papers of the Dukes of Rutland Nottinghamshire DD/FM/80/1-13 Greasley Castle estate 1596-1687 Derbyshire DD/FM/81/1-16 Ilkeston and Little Hallam; also Bagworth, Thornton, Knaptoft, Lubbesthorpe, Leics.; Bisbrooke (Ruo) 1598-1650 DD/FM/82/1 West Hallam, Breaston, Mapperley, Stanley, Draycott, and Heanor (Db), Chilwell, Thrumpton, Bramcote, Attenborough, Eastwood Notts. 1601 Miscellaneous DD/FM/83/1 Belvoir Leics., and Haddon Derbs., estates 1658 DD/FM/84/1-4 Additional items 1739-1846 |
Date: | 1587 - 1898 |
Held by: | Nottinghamshire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 30 boxes |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
These documents relate to the purchase and maintenance of Syerston Manor and estate by the Fillingham family. The bulk of the documents are title deeds of properties in the Syerston, (Nottinghamshire) and Bottesford, (Leicestershire) areas. The Fillinghams were a yeoman family settled in the Newark area in the early 18th century and the founder of the fortunes of the Syerston branch was William Fillingham (1734-95) of Flawborough. A land surveyor of considerable repute, he became steward to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir, and also agent to various other local families. He acted as an enclosure commissioner for 23 parishes in Nottinghamshire between 1774 and 1795, in addition to at least 5 others in the Grantham area of Lincolnshire and others in North East Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The remuneration from these, combined with investments in a number of canal companies and urban property in Newark, proved sufficient for him to purchase Syerston manor and estate from the Ffytche family in 1792. He immediately began erecting a small mansion there, and initiated the enclosure of Syerston's open fields, begun in 1792 and completed in 1795. On his untimely death in 1795 his newly acquired inheritance passed to his only surviving son, George Fillingham, (1774-1850), who took over his father's duties, (including the agency to the Duke of Rutland) at the age of 21. Increasing his inheritance by marrying his cousin the joint heiress of Thomas Hough, a wealthy yeoman farmer and landowner from Easthorpe near Bottesford (Leicestershire), he completed the building of Syerston Hall, consolidated his estate in the parish, and firmly established his family amongst the local gentry. Upon his death in 1850 the estate devolved upon the only son, George, (1809-1856), Harrow-educated, who enjoyed only a short tenure before being succeeded by his son George Henry Fillingham (1841-95). The records were deposited at Nottinghamshire Archives in 1969. |
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