Longsdon of Little Longstone Family and Estate Papers

GB 026 D3580

Longsdon of Little Longstone Family and Estate Papers

14th-20th Century

Summary of contents

Title deeds D3580/T

Estate papers, general D3580/E

Estate papers, and accounts, by family member D3580/EF

Plans D3580/P

Office and public service D3580/O

Personal papers D3580/FP

Family papers, general D3580/FZ

Papers of associated families D3580/ZF

Longsdon family history D3580/ZP

Legal papers D3580/ZL

Miscellaneous D3580/ZZ

Correspondence D3580/C

Index to correspondence D3580/CA

Additional miscellaneous estate, family and personal papers, 20th century D3580/X

Index of Contents

D3580/T Title deeds

D3580/T1-18 Medieval deeds

D3580/T19 Estate of Robert Longsdon

D3580/T20-22 Estate of Anthony Longsdon 1, 1571-1604

D3580/T23-24 Estate of Stephen Longsdon, before Mar, 1608-1613

D3580/T25-43 Estate of Anthony Longsdon II, 1626-1653

D3580/T44-52 Estate of William Longsdon, 1653-1658

D3580/T53-58 Estate of Thomas Longsdon I

D3580/T59-73 Estate of Thomas Longsdon II, 1684-1750

D3580/T74-79 Estate of Thomas Longsdon III, 1750-1780

D3580/T80-116 Estate of James Longsdon I, 1775-1822

D3580/T117-122 Longstone tithe estate, 1786-1829

D3580/T123-166 Estate of James Longsdon II, 1822-1829

D3580/T167-235 Estate of William Longsdon

D3580/T236-276 Estate of Henry John Longsdon and trust under will of William Longsdon, 1847-1900

D3580/E Estate, general

D3580/E1-27 Enclosure, Ashford, Little Longsdon

D3580/E28-77 Land Tax, Little Longstone

D3580/E78-114 Tithes, Little Longstone Estate papers

D3580/E115-286 Before William Longsdon, 1829

D3590/E287-366 William Longsdon

D3580/E367-1429 William Longsdon's trust

Family estate files inc Life tenancies in Longstone estate

D3580/E1430 - 1607 Revd Henry John Longsdon

D3580/E1680 - 1641 Henry Crofts Longsdon

D3580/E1642 - 1738 Ernest Morewood Longsdon

D3580/E1739-1971 Anthony EC Longsdon

D3580/EF Estate papers and accounts, by family member

D3580/EF1-3 Anthony Longsdon of Longstone

D3580/EF4-5 Thomas Longsdon of London

D3580/EF6-16 Thomas Longsdon I, senior of Longstone & Armley

D3580/EF17-29 Thomas Longsdon II

D3580/EF30-33 William Longsdon of Eyam

D3580/EF34-76 Thomas Longsdon of Goatcliffe

D3580/EF77-503 James Longsdon senior and family

D3580/EF504-549 James Longsdon, senior, Cotton enterprise

D3580/EF551-563 Elizabeth Longsdon

D3580/EF564-569 William Longsdon

D3580/EF570 Emma Jane Longsdon

D3580/EF571-575 Charles James Longsdon

D3580/EF576-668 William Longsdon's trust

D3580/EF669-687 Mrs FD Longsdon & family

D3580/EF688-847 Mrs EM Longsdon's trust

D3580/EF848-876 Mrs EC Longsdon

D3580/EF877-878 AEC Longsdon

See also D3580/X/1

D3580/P Plans

D3580/P1-18 Field plans

D3580/P19-24 Drainage plans

D3580/P25-31 Plans of Great Longstone Hall

D3580/P32-38 Plans of the Grotto Cottage, also The Hollow

D3580/P39-54 Plans of farms, cottages and other buildings

D3580/P55-57 Plans from EM Longsdon's architectural practice

D3580/P58-59 Little Longstone plans

D3580/O Office and Public Service

D3580/O1-16 General: tithe, militia

D3580/O17-23 Association for the Prosecution of Felons, Ashford, Longstone

Little Longstone township:

D3580/O24-30 Accounts and rates

D3580/O31-33 Apprenticeship

D3580/O34-36 Bastardy

D3580/O37-41 Settlement

D3580/O42-44 Highways

D3580/O45-212 Longstone church including note on registers

D3580/O213-214 Ashford charities

D3580/O215-284 Longstone charities

D3580/FP Personal papers

D3580/FP1 Stephen Longsdon

[James Longsdon]

William Longsdon and Emma J Longsdon:

D3580/FP2-5 Journals

D3580/FP6-12 Political correspondence

D3580/FP13-35 Tax notes and speeches

D3580/FP36-40 Other interests

D3580/FP41-80 Henry John Longsdon

D3580/FP81-83 Mrs F D Longsdon née Lace

D3580/FP84-130 EM Longsdon

D3580/FP131-141 Mrs EC Longsdon nee Crosse

D3580/FP142-147 Miss B Longsdon

D3580/FP148-158 AEC Longsdon

See also D3580/X/1

D3580/FZ Family papers: general

D3580/FZ1-5 Right to bear arms

D3580/FZ6-62 Papers regarding family baptisms, marriages, burials, etc

D3580/FZ64-77 Invitations and associated Papers

D3580/ZF Papers regarding families associated with the Longsdon family

D3580/ZF1-8 Wynt or Wyant of Middleton by Youlgreave

D3580/ZF9-21 Bunting of Ashover etc

D3580/ZF22-47 Finney of Longstone

D3580/ZF48-50 Gardom of Bakewell

D3580/ZF51-85 Smithers of Ashford

D3580/ZF86-98 Lace of Doncaster

D3580/ZF99-123 Broomhead family

D3580/ZF124-172 Morewood family

D3580/ZF173-183 Chappe Cross family

D3580/ZF184-366 Goodwin and Swetnam Family of Bakewell

D3580/ZP Longsdon family history papers

D3580/ZP1-22 Longsdon pedigree

D3580/ZP23-29 17th cent translations and copies of early deeds

D3580/ZP30-749 EM Longsdon's working papers of family history

D3580/ZL Legal miscellanea

D3580/ZL1-3 Legal practice of Thomas Longsdon of Armley, Yorkshire

D3580/ZL4-15 Legal instruments

D3580/ZZ Miscellaneous papers

D3580/ZZ1-3 Estate accounts, place unidentified

D3580/ZZ4-20 Verse

D3580/ZZ21-23 Recipes, medical and horticultural

D3580/ZZ24 Advertisement regarding appointment of taxing agent

D3580/ZZ25-32 Genealogical notes on Twigge family of Holme near Bakewell, etc

D3580/ZZ33-47 Historical notes on Longstone and district

D3580/ZZ48-57 Concert programmes, chiefly 19th century

D3580/ZZ58-59 Post Office Jubilee postcard

D3580/ZZ60-64 Church order of service, 19th-20th century

D3580/ZZ65-67 miscellaneous notes, chiefly 19th century

D3580/ZZ68-86 Photographs of Longsdon family members and friends

D3580/ZZ87-113 Views of Longstone buildings, etc

D3580/ZZ114-120 Miscellaneous photographs

D3580/ZZ121-129 Scenic views, prints, sketches, postcards, etc

D3580/ZZ131-134 Newspapers

D3580/ZZ135-137 Printed calendars

D3580/ZZ138-141 Printed maps

D3580/ZZ142-150 Printed books & journals

D3580/C1-1200 Correspondence

D3580/CA/1 Index to correspondence

D3580/X Additional papers, early-mid 20th cent

D3580/X/1/1-36 Diaries of AEC Longston. 1948-1983

D3580/X/2/1-2 Miscellaneous Estate, family and personal accounts, 1970-1975

D3580/X/3/1 EM Longsdon's architect's drawing of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne

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These papers were deposited in Derbyshire Record Office in February 1992.

The Longsdon family were established in Little Longstone from the 13th century, but their fortunes improved in the early 17th century when Stephen Longsdon and his son Anthony exchanged lands with the Countess of Shrewsbury, 'Bess of Hardwick'. By this they gained access to commons and woods and free grazing on Longsdon Moor for 200 sheep. The family benefited from the wool trade so that by the early 19th century James Longsdon (1745-1821) had 450 acres of rented land and 150 freehold acres. From the 1780s his farming activities including buying cattle for fattening from fairs in Derbyshire and later Lancaster.

In the 1770s and 1780s James Longsdon became involved in the cotton industry in partnership with the Morewood family of Alfreton and the High Peak. Together they opened a trading agency in St Petersburg in Russia. When Richard Arkwright's patent claims were dismissed, they decided to expand their interests in cotton manufacturing. In 1785 the partners built a carding mill and warehouse, plus a bleaching croft, in Great Longstone, but two years later the partnership was dissolved. The business then devolved on three brothers James Longsdon II (1786-1827), John Longsdon (1788-1819), and William Longsdon (1790 - 1878). Trading difficulties led to James's withdrawal from the cotton manufacturing industry in 1812, but his two brothers developed a textile merchants' business in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1819. One of the strengths of this collection is the extensive series of family and business correspondence for the late 18th and 19th centuries (D3580/C1-1200). For further information, see 'James Longsdon, farmer and fustian manufacturer' by SD Chapman, Textile History.

In the early 20th century EM Longsdon developed a successful architect's practice in Derbyshire. Commissions undertaken by him included new buildings for Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Green Road, Ashbourne.