TURNOR

Title deeds and documents subsidiary to title relating to the Turnor family's estate at Wragby and Panton in Lincolnshire. Also settlements of the Ferne family estates in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, by which Bonsall School was endowed, with deeds, letters and papers relating to the school.

Note on box numbers and arrangement

The documents were contained in six uniform tin deed boxes numbered 4, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 14, and in two smaller tin boxes numbered 4 and 18. These box numbers have been retained, but the small boxes 4 and 18 have been numbered Box X4 and X18 respectively. A few obvious strays have been replaced. The documents to which the box number 1A has been assigned were received from Major Turnor by way of the Bedfordshire County Record Office together with two other deeds which have been added to Box X18.

A brief list of Major Turnor's documents, made by Miss Kathleen Major at Stoke Rochford in 1944 shows that the present arrangement in boxes is recent. This is also shown by some old labels on the boxes and by pencil notes of box numbers on some of the deeds. In 1944 the documents were contained in six boxes numbered 1, 4, 5, 10, 11 and 14. The contents of Box 10 seem to have been the same as at present, but the rest have been altered more or less.

SUMMARY

BOX 1A.

1. STOKE ROCHFORD and EASTON

1. Title deeds 1623 - 71.

BOX 4

1. LISSINGTON.

1 - 4 Title deeds and documents subsidiary to title, 1661 - 1850.

2. KINGTHORPE IN APLEY.

1 - 2. Title deeds, 1692 - 1778.

3. HORSINGTON.

1 - 2. Title deeds, 1711 - 1822.

4. WISPINGTON

1. Title deeds, 1726 - 1821.

2. Copy of tithe award of 1839.

3. Letters concerning valuation, 1883 - 1884.

BOX X4

1. PANTON.

1 - 3. Title deeds, 1581 - 1677, 1721 and 1861.

2. EAST HARDWICK, PANTON, and EAST BARKWITH

1. Title deeds, 1639 - 1774.

BOX 8

1. EAST TORRINGTON

1 - 7. Title deeds, 1586 - 1858.

8. Papers concerning tithe, 1847 - 1851.

2. EAST BARKWITH.

1 - 8. Title deeds, 1639 - 1900.

3. EAST BARKWITH, EAST TORRINGTON and PANTON.

1 - 2. Title deeds, 1721 - 1775.

4. WEST TORRINGTON.

1 - 2. Title deeds, 1755 and 1859.

5. BARLINGS.

1. Title deed, 1823.

2. Declaration of tithe merger and letters and papers, 1849 - 1858.

6. PANTON, KIRMOND-LE-MIRE, and WISPINGTON.

1. Copies of tithe awards, 1839.

BOX 10

1. BINBROOK.

1 - 14. Title deeds, 1703 - 1910.

15. Copies of enclosure awards of 1740 and 1806.

16. Minutes of enclosure commissioners, 1804 - 1806.

17. Copies of enclosure acts of 1738 and 1803-4, and of award of 1740; and letters and papers concerning enclosure and union of parishes, 1843-1853.

BOX 11

1. WRAGBY.

1 - 17. Title deeds, 1633-1921.

10. Includes faculty, Wragby Church 1756.

18. Copy of tithe award and letters and papers, 1847-1849.

2. WRAGBY and PANTON.

1 - 5. Title deeds, 1700-1862.

3. WRAGBY and EAST BARKWITH.

1. Title deed, 1855.

4. WRAGBY, CAWTHORPE and COVENHAM.

1. Title deeds, 1696-c.1782.

5. EAST BARKWITH

1. Title deeds 1767.

2. Sale particulars and papers, 1841-1876.

6. CONINGSBY, TUMBY WOODSIDE and REVESBY.

1. Title deed, 1697.

7. Papers re. sales of part of the Turnor settled estates, 1917-1918.

BOX 12

1. POOLHAM in the parish of Edlington.

1-2. Title deeds and legal papers, 1604-1669.

3. Letters and papers re. tithe apportionment, 1849-1850.

2. HALSTEAD and STIXWOULD.

1-7. Title deeds and documents subsidiary to title, 1632-1850.

3. WRAGBY.

1. Title deeds, 1706-1797.

4. BOSTON and elsewhere.

1. Title deeds, 1710-1712.

5. CONINGSBY and BLANKNEY,

1-3. Title deeds, 1655-1743.

6. SOUTHREY and elsewhere.

1-3. Title deeds, 1504-1810.

7. Miscellaneous places.

1. Title deeds, 1618-1859.

BOX 14

1. MAREHAM ON THE HILL.

1-7. Title deeds, late 13thc.-1802.

8. Draft settlement and letter, 1769-1770.

9. Letters and papers re. proposed enclosure, 1800-1802.

2. STRUBBY in Langton-by-Wragby and LANGTON.

1-5. Title deeds, legal papers, and documents subsidiary to title, 1569-1830.

6. Letters and papers, 1804, 1849-1872.

3. KIRMOND and LUDFORD.

1. Letters and papers concerning exchange, 1872-1873

4. LISSINGTON.

1-2. Title deeds and documents subsidiary to title, 1638-1797.

BOX X18.

Ferne family estates in Derbyshire and Staffs., and Bonsall school.

1. Settlements, Ferne and Turnor families, including endowment of school, 1687-1763.

2. Bonsall school.

1-4A. Title deeds, 1636-1811.

4B-9. Letters and papers, including accounts, 1747-1812.

• <famname>Turnor family of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire</famname>
• <famname>Turnor family of Panton, Lincolnshire</famname>

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Deposited by Major Herbert Turnor in 1960.