Elmhirst Papers

The records listed here were all deposited at various times by Mr. A. O. Elmhirst and comprise the Elmhirst family papers, the Pye family papers which came into his possession through a family connection and the Clarke papers which were acquired through the purchase of a solicitor's business.

There are a few papers and documents of Richard Elmhirst and some papers of William Elmhirst of Genn House, the apothecary, but the bulk of the papers are those of William Elmhirst of Ouslethwaite and his successors. There are title deeds to Ouslethwaite and Round Green, but very few deeds relating to Houndhill. There are title deeds to the property in Thorne and Hatfield and estate papers relating to the Lincolnshire estates. There are also deeds and papers relating to the coal mines in and near Worsbrough.

The Pye and Clarke records form separate sections, as do the A. O. Elmhirst records received in 1975. The other Elmhirst muniments are, however, very much broken up in the catalogue, which is dominated by the categories of the original N.R.A. listing. Thus no clear pattern emerges of the survival of records of the different generations of the family. For instance of the sons of William Elmhirst (d.1821) and Ann Rachel Elmhirst, Robert and William, who farmed Round Green in turn, there are practically no records of Robert's except some scattered items which probably came into his executors' hands, and practically nothing of his brother William's before he came to Round Green in 1835, when he was already 36 years of age. Apart from a few diaries (mainly of the ladies of the family) there is very little between 1821 and 1835.

Elmhirst family

Deeds West Riding (Elmhirst family)

Deeds West Riding Ackworth

Deeds West Riding Birstall. Gomersall

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Manor of Worsbrough

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Genn house, etc

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Houndhill

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Lewden and Snape Syke

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Ouslethwaite

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Round Green and Dayhouse

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Worsbrough Church

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Worsbrough School

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Worsbrough Tithes

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Worsbrough township

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Elmhirst leases

Deeds West Riding Darfield. Miscellaneous and photostats

Deeds West Riding Ecclesfield. Combs and Bithom House

Deeds West Riding Ecclesfield. Onesacre

Deeds West Riding Ecclesfield. Miscellaneous

Deeds West Riding Hatfield. Thorne, etc.

Deeds West Riding Silkstone. Barnsley

Deeds West Riding Silkstone. Dodworth

Deeds West Riding Silkstone. Dodworth tithes

Deeds West Riding Silkstone. Thurgoland

Deeds West Riding (Not Elmhirst family)

Deeds West Riding Barnsley, Gawber Hall and Hawkesworth

Deeds West Riding farm in Stainborough

Deeds West Riding Various places

Settlements and Wills

West Riding (Elmhirst family)

(Not Elmhirst family)

Personal (Elmhirst family)

Deeds East Riding. Skirpenpeck

Deeds North Riding. Norton Conyers

Deeds Lincolnshire.

Deeds Lincolnshire. Barton, Barrow and Goxhill

Deeds Lincolnshire. Friskney

Deeds Lincolnshire. Fulletby

Deeds Lincolnshire. Harby

Deeds Lincolnshire. Stixwould

Deeds Lincolnshire. West Halton

Deeds Lincolnshire. Worlaby

Deeds Lincolnshire. Wroot

Settlement and Wills

Lincolnshire. (Elmhirst family)

Public local records

Worsbrough township and church

Turnpike and other roads

Estate records

Rentals

Maps and surveys

Miscellaneous papers

Farming records

Enclosures

Tithes

Canals

Coalmines

Railways

Sale Catalogues

Miscellaneous legal papers

Accounts

Executors' accounts

Correspondence

Personal

Pedigrees

Diaries

Papers relating to sport

Miscellaneous

Printed matter

Additional Papers

Pye family

1st deposit

Records relating to public office

Personal and family records, wills

Deeds. Clifton Campville (Staffs.)

Deeds Miscellaneous

Manorial records. Clifton and Haunton, Staffs

Estate records. Mynde, Kilpeck, Dewchurch, Herefordshire

Clifton and Haunton, Staffs

Pedigrees and various

2nd deposit

Records relating to public office

Executorship for Philip Earl of Pembroke

Estate papers

Deeds. Clifton Campville and Haunton

Hoone and Chilcote (Derbys.)

Stoke Hammond (Bucks)

London and Westminster

Plans. Clifton Campville and Haunton

Wills, settlements and personal papers

Clarke papers

Manorial records. Aberford, Barwick, Bramham, Clifford, Garforth, Sherburn

Public local records. South Milford and Lumby

Barnsley

Deeds. Barnsley

Dodworth

Denby and Cawthorne

Sherburn

Rothwell

South Kirkby

Stainborough

Additional Papers

Certain items are on Restricted Access

Mr. A. O. Elmhirst's family muniments at Houndhill were one of the first collections in private custody to be listed by the South Yorkshire Committee of the National Register of Archives in 1953-4. A report was made on the N.R.A. 3rd Stage report forms, in accordance with the N.R.A. instructions, which rather tended to produce a list of estate records under specific subject categories. At this date the records remained at Houndhill.

In 1959 Mr. Elmhirst deposited in the Archives family papers of the Pyes of Clifton Campville which had come into the Elmhirst family by a 19th century marriage. This was followed by a second deposit the following year.

In 1960 Mr. Elmhirst deposited in the Archives most of the papers which had been the subject of the N.R.A. report, that is the Elmhirst family papers from Houndhill.

In Dec 1961 Mr. Elmhirst deposited deeds etc. from his solicitor's business office at Sherburn-in-Elmet. Most of these concerned the Clarke family and their business as solicitors. A few further items were added to these at a later date (1966).

In Dec 1966 and in 1967 further deposits of Elmhirst family papers from Houndhill were received. Subsequent small additions were received in Apr 1968, 1969, 1973 and Apr 1975. In Dec 1972 papers concerning opencast mining on the estate were deposited. None of these formed part of the original N.R.A. listing.

In May 1975 Mr. Elmhirst deposited a considerable collection of his own records relating to Houndhill farm and also private correspondence.

Richard Elmhirst of Houndhill died in 1673 leaving a young son who died shortly after and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married John Copley of Nether Hall to whose family Houndhill then passed. It remained out of the possession of the Elmhirst family until it was re-acquired by purchase by Mr. A. O. Elmhirst in the 1930s. The other family estates passed to William, a younger brother of Richard Elmhirst, who built Genn House and died in 1715 leaving his estates to his nephew, William, the eldest son of Thomas Elmhirst of Boston, Lincs. William Elmhirst died in 1746 and was succeeded by his son, William Elmhirst of Genn House, an apothecary surgeon with a large practice, who bought Ouslethwaite in 1769, and died in 1773. He was succeeded by William Elmhirst of Ouslethwaite who married his second cousin, Ann Rachel, daughter of Thomas Elmhirst of Stixwould and heiress to her father's estates in Lincolnshire. William Elmhirst of Ouslethwaite inherited estates in Fishlake, Hatfield and Thorne on the death of his distant cousin, Mordecai Cutts, a descendant of Elizabeth Elmhirst, younger sister of Richard Elmhirst of Houndhill. When William Elmhirst of Ouslethwaite died in 1821 he was succeeded by his son, Robert, who lived at Round Green and died unmarried in 1835 being succeeded by his younger brother, William Elmhirst of Round Green. He died in 1864 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Reverend William Elmhirst, who died in 1899 and was succeeded by his son, Reverend W. H. Elmhirst, who lived until 1948.