KENDALL OF PELYN, LANLIVERY

Accession 62 comprised four archive boxes containing documents listed (in the temporary schedule, compiled in November 1999) as KL/Box/1, 2, 3, 4

Accession 4266 was at Pelyn mostly stored in an original sequence of black tin trunks numbered 1-9 and marked "The" (box 1) "Trustees" (box 2) "of" (box 3) "Nicholas" (box 4) "Kendall" (box 5) "Esqre" (box 6), with 7, 8 and 9 unlabelled.

The contents of each trunk were briefly listed:

Trunk No. 1: bundles labelled 1-7, 8a, 9, 10, 12, 13, and schedule of deeds belonging to Nicholas Kendall, 1870

Trunk No. 2: bundles labelled 11, 14, 14a, 15, 16, 20-22, 24, 25, and leases of land at Strickstenton, 1784-1813

Trunk No. 3: bundles labelled 23, 27, 28, 30 and Kendall pedigree; also rentals, Polhormon, Killigarth and scattered lands 1784-1869

Trunk No. 4: bundles labelled 31-41, and abstract of title, Killigarth, 1870

marriage dissolution papers 1843-45

bundle labelled "deeds relating to leasehold ... in Lanlivery 1876"

Rock Mill leases 1825-77

deeds and settlements, 19th cent.

Trunk No. 5 bundles labelled I to VII, also bundle of schedules or property, rentals etc. c. 1850s

Trunk No. 6: miscellaneous items:

draft conveyance, Lanlivery, Lostwithiel, Tywardreath, 1925;

bundle of blank lease forms, conditions of sale and plans, 1921;

estate duty papers, 1878, 1916;

Mary Kendall's will, 1710;

sale of Lanlivery advowson, 1941;

letters relating to death of Lennox Kendall, 1916;

official papers, N.K as police magistrate, Gibraltar, 1872;

correspondence c. 1852-65;

papers relating to trusts, probate and taxes, 19th cent;

19th cent. personal correspondence (several bundles);

probate and estate papers, 18th cent;

modern correspondence

Trunk "No. 7": 1921 sale catalogue, plans, schedule; bundle labelled 'Polhormon 1920-21";

draft 1920s leases;

estate correspondence, c. 1890s;

settlement and trust deeds, 1860s, 1870s

Trunk "No. 8": draft marriage settlement, 1925;

Lanlivery church insurance, 1960s;

Valuation of contents of Pelyn, 1954;

draft leases, insurance etc., 1940s, 1950s

Trunk "No. 9" estate accounts, 1649-1696;

Polhormon, Killigarth etc. rental, 1789/90;

Annotated sale catalogues, 1925;

Mining papers, various, including photograph of Royal Cornish Mining Commission 1864;

Assorted modern family papers

A wooden box containing:

c. 20 packets of letters and papers, 19th cent;

rental, 1626;

signed testimonial, 1869;

receiver's account, manor of Killigarth, 1752-53;

Borlase accounts, 1832-35;

Gibraltar papers, 1870s;

miscellaneous letters and papers

Separate box containing:

36 original bundles of correspondence, 1860s, mainly political;

statement about Bodmin turnpike, 1866, and other miscellaneous papers

Items retrieved: from rooms at Pelyn including numerous photographs, slides and drawings; receivers' accounts, Killigarth, 1750s;

commission in Coldstream Guards, 1922;

leases, letters and plans (very miscellaneous)

Sheriff's papers, 1960-61

Volumes were in general stored on shelves in the study at Pelyn, some being located in other rooms

This list identifies items or bundles within each box, and forms the basis for subsequent rearrangement and more detailed cataloguing.

Documents may be made available provided that they are in a reasonably good physical condition

[See NRA "First Stage" report 4179, 4 Feb. 1954]

First deposit made 14 February 1953; whole archive bequeathed to Cornwall Record Office 1992, remainder transferred 24 March, 1992 Accessions 62 and 4266