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STANLEY FAMILY OF DALEGARTH, ESKDALE

Catalogue reference: DSTAN

What’s it about?

This record is about the STANLEY FAMILY OF DALEGARTH, ESKDALE dating from 1210-1926.

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Full description and record details

Reference

DSTAN

Title

STANLEY FAMILY OF DALEGARTH, ESKDALE

Date

1210-1926

Description

Title deeds, manorial records and family papers relating to Manor of Austhwaite, Beckermet, Manor of Birkby, Manor of Birker, Bootle, Calder, Calderbridge, Egremont, Manor of Gosforth, Kendal, Morland, Manor of Ponsonby, and Ravenglass, Cumberland and Poulton, Lancashire

Arrangement

DSTAN/1. MEDIEVAL DEEDS

Austhwaite, Birkby, Ponsonby & Gosforth.

Devoke Fishery

Poulton (Lancs.) & Kendal

Egremont Burgages

Embleton

Hyton & Old Hyton, Bootle

Bootle Rectory

Abstract book of deeds

DSTAN/2. FAMILY PAPERS, SETTLEMENTS, MORTGAGES, ETC.

Settlements, wills, mortgages

Family papers

DSTAN/3. MANORIAL RECORDS & LATER DEEDS.

Manors of Austhwaite & Birker, Birkby, & Ponsonby with Gosforth (general)

Manor of Austhwaite & Birker

Manor of Birkby

Deeds of the Howes

Deeds of Linbeck

Deeds of Linbeck Mill

Deeds of Scalegarth

Manor of Ponsonby with Gosforth

Deeds of Benns Place

Deeds of Calder Hall & Pow Place

Fellside

Deeds of Kirkland

Deeds of Kitchen Land

Deeds of Laverick How

Deeds of Moorehouse

Deeds of Ponsonby Hall

Deeds of Ponsonby Mill

Deed of Skargatfold

Deeds of Swainside Place

Deeds of Townend, Calder

Deeds of Woodclose

Miscellaneous deeds

Deeds of other properties

Deeds of properties in Gosforth

Deeds of Old Hyton

Deeds of Sella Park & Colt Park, Calder.

Deeds of properties in Calder & Calderbridge.

Deeds of properties in St Bridgets

Deeds of properties in Morland, London & Summergrove estate.

Deeds of Calder Fishery

Deeds etc. of Ravenglass Fair & Market

Tithe papers

DSTAN/4. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

Related material

<p>See Cumberland Families and Heraldry by Hudleston and Boumphrey (1978), page 321.</p>

Held by
Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven
Language

English

Creator(s)
<famname>Stanley family of Dalegarth, Eskdale</famname>
Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

Deposited by NA Stanley, DSO, OBE on 15 Nov 1967

Administrative / biographical background

Lt-Col Nicholas Austhwaite Stanley bought Dalegarth in 1947; it had been sold by his uncle, Edward Stanley (1859-1894) to Lord Muncaster in 1888. Ponsonby Hall had also been a residence of the family; Ponsonby Old Hall was built by John Stanley (c1662-1730). The Hall was sold by Lt-Col Nicholas Austhwaite Stanley in 1951 to the Home Office.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/2a5c992d-60d4-4611-8015-eec4f375174b/

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