Sneyd-Kynnersley of Loxley

The Sneyd-Kynnersley papers relate to the estates of the Kynnersley (from 1815 Sneyd-Kynnersley) and Clake (principally of Chilcote) families.

• <famname>Kynnersley family of Staffordshire</famname>
• <famname>Sneyd-Kynnersley family of Loxley, Staffordshire</famname>
• <famname>Kynnersley, Sneyd-, family of Loxley, Staffordshire</famname>
• <famname>Clarke family of Loxley, Staffordshire</famname>

The two families had been connected from at least the 17th century. Under the 1774 will of G. B. Clarke, by then of Sutton Scarsdale, near Chesterfield, after several contingent uses, Clement Kynnersley of Loxley, for his lifetime, became receiver of the rents and profits of the Clarke estates (Eaton Dovedale, Chilcote, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, Brampton, Codnor, Caundon (Warwicks), Berry Hill (Stoke-on-Trent), Ulcomb (Kent)). The last Clarke male heir (G.R.P. Clarke) died in 1802 and from then until his own death in 1815, Clement Kynnersley enjoyed both the Clarke and Kynnersley estates. After his death the Clarke estate passed to the Marquis of Ormonde in the right of his wife Anna Maria, sister of G.R.P. Clarke.

During his custodianship of the Clarke estates, Kynnersley was accused of illegal felling of timber on the Sutton Scarsdale estate and this caused litigation that lasted from Kynnersley's lifetime through to the Kiernan v. Kynnersley case (in Chancery) which was not completed until 1834.

Clement Kynnersley was succeeded by his nephew [son of his sister Sarah Sneyd], Thomas Sneyd, who took the name Kynnersley.