Cavendish of Holker

These documents relate to the Preston, Lowther and Cavendish families, to whom the Holker and Furness estates successively passed by marriage.

DDCA 1 Accounts and Rentals.

DDCA 2 Aldingham.

DDCA 3 Allithwaite.

DDCA 4 Angerton.

Ashton-under-Lyne - see 13/2.

DDCA 5 Broughton-in-Cartmel.

DDCA 6 Cartmel Miscellaneous and Rentals.

DDCA 7 Cartmel Manor.

DDCA 8 Cartmel Rectory.

DDCA 9 Commissions.

DDCA 10 Dalton-in-Furness (The Manor).

DDCA 11 Dalton-in-Furness Rectory.

DDCA 12 Dalton-in-Furness Rentals, Accounts etc.

DDCA 13 Holker; also re Cartmel Manor & Churchtown.

DDCA 14 Kirkby Ireleth.

DDCA 15 Lancaster Elections.

DDCA 16 Law Papers.

DDCA 17 Miscellaneous.

DDCA 18 Urswick.

DDCA 19 Wills.

DDCA 20 Pedigrees and Heraldry.

DDCA 21 Plans.

DDCA 22 Correspondence.

DDCA 23 Cartmel, Dalton & Kirkby Ireleth.

DDCA 24 Brindle.

DDCA 25 Other counties.

Deposited by R.E. Cavendish, Esq., 24 Oct. 1946, 27 Oct. 1953, 1 Oct. 1958, 20 May 1960 and 15 May 1964.

The estate of Holker was acquired by Christopher Preston after the suppression of Cartmel priory. The eventual heiress, Catherine, married Sir William Lowther of Marske, bart., and their son married Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of the second duke of Devonshire. In the meantime, a distant relative, Sir Thomas Preston, about 1680 gave the Furness abbey estate to the Jesuits; for which action it was forfeited and thus came to the Prestons of Holker. When the second Sir William Lowther died in 1756 he left the Holker and Furness estates to his cousins, Lords George and Frederick Cavendish. Unfortunately no trace has been found of any mediaeval documents.