| Description | c13,400 records of the Vernon family of Hanbury Hall, Hanbury, and Shrawley Wood House, Shrawley, and their estates, including:
Deeds, abstracts of title, valuations, surveys, accounts, plans, probate and other records relating to property in:
Hanbury, including Temple Broughton, 13th-19th cent; Feckenham, including Feckenham Forest, 16th-19th cent; Inkberrow, 16th-19th cent; Stock and Bradley, 16th-19th cent; Oddingley, 19th cent; Hartlebury, 16th-17th cent; Kington, 17th-19th cent; Dormston, 16th-19th cent; Wychbold, Rashwood, Huntingdrop, Astwood and elsewhere in Dodderhill, 13th-19th cent; Tardebigge [in Tutnall and Cobley], 16th-19th cent; Claines, 17th-19th cent; Droitwich, including records relating to salt production, 16th-19th cent; Shrawley, 14th-19th cent; Hampton Lovett, 17th cent; Astley, 17th-18th cent; Grafton Flyford, 16th-18th cent; Hadzor, 13th-18th cent; Bentley Pauncefoot, 14th-19th cent; Upton Warren, 16th-19th cent; Bromsgrove, 16th-19th cent; Evesham, 17th-19th cent; Northfield and Kings Norton [now in Birmingham], 16th-19th cent; Welland, 17th-19th cent; Castlemorton, 17th-19th cent; Upton upon Severn, 17th-19th cent; Ripple, 17th-19th cent; Earls Croome, 17th-19th cent; Worcester City, 17th-19th cent; Elmbridge, 16th-18th cent; Powick, 17th-18th cent; Belbroughton, 17th cent; Stoke Prior, 17th-18th cent; Suckley, 17th cent; Great Witley, 17th-18th cent; Martley, 17th-18th cent; Hillhampton, 17th-18th cent; Bredon, 17th-18th cent; Salwarpe, 17th-18th cent; Leigh, 17th-18th cent; Crowle, 17th-18th cent; Abberley, 17th-18th cent; Childswickham, 18th cent; Upper and Lower Wick and Broadheath, 17th-19th cent; Alvechurch, 17th-18th cent; Areley Kings [in Stourport on Severn], 17th-18th cent; Eldersfield, 17th-18th cent; and in Berkshire, 17th-18th cent; Lincolnshire, 17th-18th cent; Bedfordshire, 17th cent; London, 17th-18th cent; Denbighshire, 17th-18th cent; Cambridgeshire, 17th-18th cent; Suffolk, 17th-18th cent; Warwickshire, 16th-18th cent; Buckinghamshire, 17th-18th cent; Herefordshire, 17th-18th cent; and Gloucestershire, 18th cent.
Plans include book of maps of all the estates of Bowater Vernon by John Dougharty junior of Worcester, 1731-1732; with associated terrier, 1731-1733 (parcels 154 and 155). Available for consultation in copy form in Worcestershire Record Office searchroom
Manorial records:
Hanbury: court rolls, [1433]-[1672]; compotus rolls, [1371]-[1502], [1426-1427] and [1468-1469]; surveys, 16th and 18th cent; rent rolls, [17th]-[18th cent]; and other records, 16th-19th cent.
Shrawley: court rolls, [1405]-1661, [1424]-1650, 1627-1771 and [1624]; accounts and other records, 15th-17th cent; survey, 1544-1545; rent rolls, 16th-17th cent.
Elmley Lovett: court roll, [1498-1499].
Records of estate administration, 17th-19th cent
Household and estate accounts and receipts, 18th-19th cent, including Hanbury Hall, Hanbury, and Shrawley Wood House, Shrawley.
Letters, diaries and other family and official papers, including probate records, 16th-20th cent.
Poll book for the County of Worcester. Candidates: Pakington, Vernon, Pytts, [c1713] (parcel 68); other political papers, mostly 19th cent.
Compotus roll of Edward Vernon relating to land held by Charles I in Worcestershire, [1641-1642] (parcel 2)
Demand for horses and arms for service of the Commonwealth, 1651 (parcel 40)
Assessments for subsidies for the King, receipts, orders relating to Civil War period, 17th cent (parcel 40).
The archives in this deposit are only briefly described in this Worcestershire Record Office online catalogue. Full details are available on the Discovery website. See link below. |