Catalogue description Daly (Southwick and Norman Court Estates)

This record is held by Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of 5M50
Reference: 5M50
Title: Daly (Southwick and Norman Court Estates)
Description:

The documents in this collection comprise those family and estate deeds and papers of the owners of the Southwick and Norman Court Estates which were preserved until recent years at Norman Court, West Tytherley. The documents divide naturally into two archive groups.

 

The first group consists of deeds and papers concerning the Southwick Estate and the other properties acquired by, or in the possession of, the White and Norton families from the 16th century down to the death of Richard Norton in 1732. John White with his purchase of the site and demesne lands of Southwick Priory acquired not merely deeds and other evidences of title relating to his own lands but in addition all or most of the surviving muniments of the Priory relating to the whole of its extensive possessions. This present collection, however, contains only a part of these Priory muniments which had come with White's hands and are those which were kept, perhaps fortuitously, with the Southwick Estate records. Because of their interest as records of a medieval religious house and also because they relate partly to lands beyond the limits of the Southwick Estate they have been catalogued in a separate section and are listed as numbers 1-332. The remaining documents in this first group are the Southwick Estate and the White and Norton family papers and these are numbered 333-1958.

 

The second group consists of deeds and papers concerning the Norman Court Estate and the other properties forming the inheritance of the Whithed family and descending together with the Southwick Estate, on the death of Richard Whithed in 1733 to Francis Thistlethwayte of Winterslow. Unlike the Southwick Estate which in extent has changed little since the 17th century and the descent of which has been by family inheritance, the Norman Court Estate, in its widest sense, has not survived and since the early years of the 19th century Norman Court itself has passed by purchase through several ownerships. The Norman Court Estate documents therefore contain few material evidences of title and can be considered rather as historic records of the Estate and its early owners. The documents in this group are number 2001-2776, the numbers 1958-2000 being omitted for cataloguing reasons.

Date: 12th century -1890
Arrangement:

The documents described in this list may be summarised as follows:-

 

1-1957 Southwick documents consisting of Southwick Priory records (1-332) and Southwick Estate and family records of the White and Norton families down to 1732 (333-1957).

 

2001-2776 Norman Court and other estate and family records of the Whithed and Thistlethwayte families, or of their successors in title, down to the early 19th century.

Related material:

The Southwick records which remained at Southwick were deposited, together with a quantity of Southwick Estate records accumulating in the 18th and 19th centuries, by Mrs. Borthwick Norton in 1953 and 1954 and are the subject of a separate catalogue. Other Southwick Priory documents, a part of those which originally came into White's hands in the 16th century and including the Priory Cartulary, royal charters and other documents listed by W. T. Alchin 1841 in his MS. catalogue Suthwyk Records are among the Borthwick Norton MSS. Further Southwick Estate records consisting of manorial court books of various manors dating from the 17th century were deposited by Messrs. Gunner & Carpenter, agents to the Estate, also in 1954 (see 5M54).

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

White family of Southwick, Hampshire

Norton family of Hampshire

Thistlethwayte family of Southwick Park, Hampshire

Physical description: 17 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Mrs Daly of Moreton-in-Marsh in 1950

Custodial history:

Because the Southwick Estate documents have been preserved with the Norman Court documents and because there are few documents later in date than the death of Richard Norton in 1732 among them, it has been supposed quite reasonably that they were removed from Southwick to Norman Court at about that time, possibly for convenience of examination, and were never subsequently returned.

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