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EARL OF STRAFFORD: MANORS OF TWICKENHAM, ISLEWORTH SYON AND ISLEWORTH RECTORY

Catalogue reference: ACC/1393

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This record is about the EARL OF STRAFFORD: MANORS OF TWICKENHAM, ISLEWORTH SYON AND ISLEWORTH RECTORY dating from 1700 - 1952.

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Reference: ACC/1393
Title: EARL OF STRAFFORD: MANORS OF TWICKENHAM, ISLEWORTH SYON AND ISLEWORTH RECTORY
Date: 1700 - 1952
Description: Estate records
Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London
Language: English
Creator(s): <persname>Wentworth, Thomas, 1672-1739, Baron Raby and 3rd Earl of Strafford, diplomat</persname>
Physical description: 34 records
Administrative / biographical background: Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739) became Baron Raby on the death of his cousin, the second Earl of Strafford, 1695, and was created 3rd. Earl of Strafford in 1711. He married in the same year Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Johnson of Bradenham, Bucks. He is known to have held property in Twickenham in 1699 and in 1701 purchased a riverside estate there. (See ACC/1379/036ff for property transactions in manor of Isleworth Syon and ACC/0782/003 for similar transactions in manor of Twickenham.) Thomas, Earl of Strafford, died in 1739 and was succeeded by his son William, who died without issue 1791. The property in Twickenham passed to Thomas's daughter, Lady Anne Connolly. (For details of the Wentworth family and Twickenham, and a print of the house, see "Twickenham Society in Queen Anne's reign" by D.H. Simpson, Twickenham Local History Society paper No. 35).
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/6352c204-31b8-4a46-a582-e73316167078/