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MENWINNION COLLECTION

Catalogue reference: MEN

What’s it about?

This record is about the MENWINNION COLLECTION dating from 1459 -c1900.

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Reference

MEN

Title

MENWINNION COLLECTION

Date

1459 -c1900

Description

Additional Basset Archives including farm accounts, family and estate papers.

Arrangement

Charles Henderson placed the following items in the unused section of a large folio volume entitled 'Day Book, Menwinnion Farm 1846.' [Menwinnion farm in Illogan was part of the Basset of Tehidy estate]. The farm accounts for the period 1846-1850 occupy pages 1-266 of this volume].

Items 1-31 were pasted into the volume by Henderson.. With the exception of the pasted items the documents have been removed from the volume and re-arranged.

Held by
Royal Institution of Cornwall
Language

English

Creator(s)
<famname>Basset family of Tehidy, Cornwall</famname>
Physical description

183 files

Immediate source of acquisition

DONOR: ACCESSION: Charles Gordon Henderson, Penmount, Truro [BEQUEST] 1933

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/585a27e4-20db-4322-bb3a-c903812e86e9/

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MENWINNION COLLECTION