Pipe - Wolferstan estate and family papers

D948/1 Wolferstan and Pipe Wolferstan family

D948/1/1 Title

D948/1/2 Settlements

D948/1/3 Estate management - chiefly leases

D948/1/4 Documents affecting title

D948/2 Littleton family

D948/2/1 Title

D948/2/2 Settlements

D948/2/3 Leases

D948/2/4 Miscellaneous

D948/3 Medieval deeds

D948/3/1-72 Lichfield and Tamworth area

D948/3/73-79 Haselour

D948/3/80-99 Elsewhere in Staffordshire

D948/3/100-106 Yorkshire

D948/3/107-115 Other counties

D948/4 Later deeds and papers apparently unconnected with the Pipe-Wolferstan family

D948/4/1 Stanley family - Drayton Bassett area

D948/4/2 Inge family of Thorpe Constantine

D948/4/2/1 Knighton (Leics.)

D948/4/2/2 Thorpe Constantine manor and property in Leics.

D948/4/2/3 King's Newton (Warwicks.)

D948/4/2/4 Phillips family of Birmingham and King's Newton

D948/4/3 Middlesex - deeds and leases

D948/4/4 Miscellaneous deeds and papers

D948/4/5 Swinfen family documents

D948/4/6 Letters

D948/5 19th century elections

• <famname>Pipe-Wolferstan family of Statfold, Staffordshire</famname>
• <famname>Wolferstan, Pipe -, family of Statfold, Staffordshire</famname>
• <famname>Littleton family of Munslow, Shropshire</famname>

Deposited by Captain F.C.

Pipe-Wolferstan, Statfold Hall, Near Tamworth.

The Wolferstans, originally of Wolverstone Hall, Suffolk, seem to have become established in Staffordshire in the mid-16th century, when a younger son married Katherine Stanley, heiress to Statfold Manor. Over the next three centuries they added considerably to their property in the Tamworth area and in the neighbouring parts of Derbyshire, Warwickshire and Leicester.

During the eighteenth century there was a particularly large accession of property to the family when Joyce Wolferstan married Edward Littleton, who inherited the estates of his uncle, Devereux Kittleton. This accounts for the presence in the collection of a number of Littleton family papers.

The name "Pipe-Wolferstan" was adopted in 1776 by Samuel Pipe, who inherited the Wolferstan estates from his grandfather, Stanford Wolferstan (d.1772). Samuel Pipe-Wolferstan (d.1820) was a distinguished antiquary who gave considerable assistance to the Reverend Stebbing Shaw for the latter's History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, 1798, (see preface, page X) and was also a friend of William Hamper, the Birmingham antiquary. His diaries, 1776-1820, are held at Staffordshire Record Office, ref. D1527. The presence in these collections of a number of medieval deeds and other documents apparently unconnected with the Pipe-Wolferstans is presumably to be explained by his activities as a collector.