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Colston Family DEEDS

Catalogue reference: D7399

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This record is about the Colston Family DEEDS dating from 1733 - 1910.

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Reference
D7399
Title
Colston Family DEEDS
Date
1733 - 1910
Description

Deeds, leases, conveyances and sale particulars

Held by
Gloucestershire Archives
Language
English
Creator(s)
<famname>Colston family, Barons Roundway</famname>
Physical description
13 files
Immediate source of acquisition

Documents given by Awdry, Bailey & Douglas, solicitors, Devizes per Wiltshire Record Office, County Hall, Trowbridge

Administrative / biographical background

The Colston family of Oxfordshire and Roundway Park, Wilts. include Sophia Colston, great-niece and co-heir of Edward Colston, philanthropist and merchant of Bristol, (1636-1721) to whom much of the property listed here belonged, including his house in Small Street, Bristol in which his father William Colston entertained Charles I in September 1643. (see Dictionary of National Biography, pp.406-7)

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/823c4423-006e-4b11-a492-4ca68245a58a/

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Colston Family DEEDS