Barker Family of Darley, Rowsley and East Lodge, Bakewell

D7674/UL

Barker Family of Darley, Rowsley and East Lodge, Bakewell

1476

This collection consists primarily of the papers and title deeds of the Barker family, but also includes material relating to the Watkinson, Scholler and other North Derbyshire families with whom they intermarried. So important were these intermarriages that the families in question have been used as the basis for arrangement in this list. The papers of these families contain most of the earlier records in the collection as the Barkers did not possess extensive estates themselves until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At the period at which the first notices of them appear they were in obscure circumstances and their first trade was that of carpenter. The family fortunes were only really founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Barker who became Steward to the Duke of Rutland, but the family connections probably go back further than this.

Although mainly concerned with the estates, the varied interest and professions of members of the Barker family are also represented. Several were interested in lead mining, William Barker was a merchant in Smyrna and Charles Barker a captain in the Royal Navy. Two members of the family were in the medical profession but nothing survives of their professional records save the certificates of Thomas Barker (b.1808).

A pedigree of the Barker family of Darley, Rowsley and East Lodge, Derbyshire, is available.

BARKER FAMILY

MUNIMENTS OF TITLE

DERBYSHIRE

1. Parish of Bakewell: Bakewell

2. Parish of Bakewell: Ashford

3. Parish of Barlow

4. Parish of Tideswell

5. Parish of Youlgreave

6. Various places

OTHER COUNTIES

1. Cheshire: Disley

2. Leicestershire: Buckminster

3. Middlesex: London

4. Norfolk: Setchey

5. Nottinghamshire: Hickling

6. Nottinghamshire: Newark

SETTLEMENTS

WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

ESTATE PAPERS

DERBYSHIRE

1. Parish of Alfreton: Cotes Park

2. Parish of Bakewell: Ashford

3. Parish of Bakewell: Bakewell

4. Parish of Brampton

5. Various places

OTHER COUNTIES

1. Norfolk: Setchey and North Runcton

2. Yorkshire: Shiregreen and Ecclesfield

CORRESPONDENCE

1. Estate and legal correspondence

2. Personal letters

PERSONAL PAPERS

1. Apprenticeship indenture

2. Appointment

3. Agreement relating to Buxton bath

4. Bonds

5. Inventories

6. Certificates of T. A. Barker

7. Miscellaneous

8. Genealogical material

CHARLESWORTH FAMILY

MUNIMENTS OF TITLE

DERBYSHIRE

1. Parish of Alfreton: Cotes Park

2. Parish of Hope: Castleton

YORKSHIRE

1. Parish of Halifax: Ovenden

SETTLEMENTS

WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

ESTATE PAPERS

1. Parish of Hope

PERSONAL PAPERS OF THE CHARLESWORTH FAMILY

LITTLE AND MARRIS FAMILIES

MUNIMENTS OF TITLE

1. Lincolnshire: Raventhorpe

2. Lincolnshire: Sutterton and Wigtoft

SETTLEMENTS

WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

ESTATE PAPERS

SCHOLLER AND TWIGG FAMILIES

MUNIMENTS OF TITLE

DERBYSHIRE

1. Parish of Bakewell: Bakewell

YORKSHIRE

1. Parish of Ecclesfield: Nether House and Storrs

2. Parish of Ecclesfield: Shiregreen and Wincobank

3. Parish of Silkstone: Dodworth

WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

MISCELLANEOUS ESTATE AND PERSONAL PAPERS

THORPE FAMILY

MUNIMENTS OF TITLE

DERBYSHIRE

1. Monyash and Flagg

2. Various places

LANCASHIRE

1. Astley

WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

WATKINSON FAMILY

MUNIMENTS OF TITLE

1. Parish of Bolsover

2. Parish of Brampton

3. Parish of Chesterfield: Chesterfield

4. Parish of Chesterfield: Holme Hall and Newbold

SETTLEMENTS

WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

ESTATE PAPERS

1. Parish of Bolsover

2. Parish of Brampton: Brampton

3. Parish of Brampton: Wadshelf

OTHER FAMILIES

ASHBY FAMILY

A. SETTLEMENTS

B. WILLS

CALVERT FAMILY

A. DEED

B. WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

C. PARTNERSHIP

D. APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE

GARDOM FAMILY

A. MUNIMENTS OF TITLE

1. Parish of Bakewell

B. SETTLEMENTS

C. WILL

D. PARTNERSHIP

E. BOND

VARIOUS FAMILIES

A. SETTLEMENTS

B. WILLS AND EXECUTORSHIP PAPERS

C. APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE

PAPERS RELATING TO MINING

LEAD MINING

1. Accounts

2. Lead mining cases

3. Deeds: Derbyshire mines

4. Deeds Welsh mines

5. Deeds: Sheffield White Lead Works

6. Lead merchants partnerships

7. Lead mining plans

8. Printed pamphlet

COAL AND IRONSTONE

CLAY

MISCELLANEOUS GROUPS OF RECORDS

PAPERS OF THE DUKE OF RUTLAND'S STEWARDS

1. Copies of land tax duplicates

2. Bonds

3. Correspondence

4. Miscellaneous papers

CIVIL PARISH RECORDS

1. Assessments

2. Militia

3. Charities

BAKEWELL CHURCH (PEWS)

MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATERIAL

Appendix

Manuscripts retained by the owner

Bar D 1-870

English

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Deposited August 1957, by Major Barker of East Lodge, Bakewell. Accession nos. 60014-60160, 60165-60182