Fonds
VENABLES OF AGDEN COLLECTION
Catalogue reference: DVA
What’s it about?
This record is about the VENABLES OF AGDEN COLLECTION dating from 1390-1863.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DVA
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Title (The name of the record)
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VENABLES OF AGDEN COLLECTION
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Date (When the record was created)
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1390-1863
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Description (What the record is about)
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This collection comprises title deeds, leases and estate papers relating to the Agden estate. This estate centred on property held in Agden, Millington, Mere, Statham, High Leigh, Horton, Hartford, Knutsford and Lymm (Cheshire) and Whiston, Prescot, Halsnead and Witton (Lancashire). The covering dates are 1390-1863.
The moiety of Agden came to the Venables as the result of a settlement of her lands of Ellen, widow of Thomas Warburton of Agden on William Venables and Ellen, his wife in 1401 (see DVA 1/1). The estate remained in the Venables family (augmented by later marriages - see introduction to title deeds section) until it terminated in the direct line in George Venables of Agden, whose sole daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married Philip Touchet Chetwode of Oakley bart, in 1732.
Some Chetwode material appears in this collection, but the main series of Chetwode records, including deeds and estate maps, and related Agden papers, was deposited at the Chester City Record Office (ref CR 70) by the Chester Archaeological Society, who had received it from Sir Philip Chetwode in 1921. It is not known how or when these two collections became separate.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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DEEDS
LEASES AND RELATED PAPERS
ESTATE PAPERS
Rentals and Accounts
Surveys
Miscellaneous financial papers
Papers relating to tithe
Correspondence
Plans
Miscellaneous
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Agden Estate, Cheshire</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 Sub-fonds
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Acc 1024 A
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/8091ca6e-0a45-4db8-bb48-5589475923cf/
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VENABLES OF AGDEN COLLECTION