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RYE (CULWORTH) COLLECTION

Catalogue reference: Rye

What’s it about?

This record is about the RYE (CULWORTH) COLLECTION dating from 1770-1869.

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Reference

Rye

Title

RYE (CULWORTH) COLLECTION

Date

1770-1869

Description

Very interesting late 18th and 19thC archive of correspondence and naval papers mainly relating to Admiral Peter Rye's career. Also Lt. Edward Rye's ship's journals to India, 1771-1774 and log to West Indies, 1778. Ship's journals of Peter Rye in the Atlantic, to Australia and at Gothenburg (Sweden) 1790-1814. Correspondence and papers on organising North Sea conveys 1813. Family letters and letters to his wife. Jane Rye's travel journal 1820, France, Switzerland and Italy. Poetry and sketches including view of Dartmouth (Devon) c.1800 and Waterloo. Papers on sale of Culworth estate 1851-1852. Papers on Hugh Lord's finances 1811-1830.

Related material

<p>(Culworth estate accounts 1774-1783 are in the Aplin solicitors' collection.)</p>

Held by
Northamptonshire Record Office
Language

English

Creator(s)
<famname>Rye family of Culworth, Northamptonshire</famname>
Physical description

962 docs

Immediate source of acquisition

Accessions 1931/136

1975/178

Custodial history

The collection was deposited by the Elwes family whose own archive is described under Elwes of Great Billing.

Administrative / biographical background

Peter Rye (d.1851), a younger son of Dr. William Beauchamp Rye, pursued his career and fortune in the navy and eventually rose to be an Admiral. An older brother inherited the family estate at Culworth but died without children so Admiral Rye eventually succeeded to it. He married Eleanor Lord and two of their daughters married into the Elwes family.

Record URL
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RYE (CULWORTH) COLLECTION