Harpur of Littleover, Heathcote of Littleover and associated families: Estate, family...

The Harpur papers are of special interest for the family correspondence and wills, 1663-1754 (D6104/5) and for the surveys of their lands in Twyford and Stenson, 1696-1711 (D6104/6). The Heathcote papers also include references to inherited Yorkshire and Lancashire estates, some sold in 1806, and to another estate in Osbaston, Leicestershire, sold in 1829. Family correspondence, chiefly financial, dates mostly from the time of Samuel Heathcote IV (1759-1784), Bache Heathcote II (1793-1885), and Cockshutt Heathcote (1793-1885). It is limited in quantity, but there are genealogical papers and pedigrees relating to the Heathcotes and related families, together with a few diaries and journals chiefly mid 19th century.

Contents

D6104/1-3 Harpur family property

D6104/4-8 Harpur family of Littleover deeds

D6104/9 Littleover Parish papers

D6104/10 Littleover Rental

D6104/11 Heathcote family letters temp Samuel Heathcote IV (1724-1784)

D6104/12 Papers regarding litigation between Samuel Heathcote IV and Anthony Stephenson regarding enclosure

D6104/13-19 Bache Heathcote II (1759-1826)

D6104/20 Bache Heathcote & Cockshutt Heathcote

D6104/21-22 Personal papers of Cockshutt Heathcote (1793-1885)

D6104/23 Cockshutt family papers, chiefly temp Josias Cockshutt

D6104/24 Cockshutt copy deeds - Not to be produced

D6104/25 Number not used

D6104/26 Cockshutt estate papers

D6104/27 Papers regarding will of Mary Cockshutt of Pontefract, Yorkshire, widow

D6104/28 Heathcote family letters chiefly temp Cockshutt Heathcote

D6104/29 Heathcote family letters

D6104/30 Letters from Bache Harpur Heathcote to Cockshutt Heathcote

D6104/31 Heathcote family genealogical notes

D6104/32 Heathcote correspondence

D6104/33 Heathcote papers

D6104/34 Cockshutt, Twistleton and associated families

D6104/35 Cockshutt estate papers

D6104/36 Vouchers to account, chiefly Cockshutt Heathcote

D6104/37 Cockshutt personal papers

D6104/38 Yorkshire estates papers

D6104/39 Estate papers regarding properties in Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, and Hampshire

D6104/40-41 Letters from Dr John Latham to Rev Samuel Denne

D6104/42 Kent property

D6104/43 Gamekeeper's deputation & Littleover Charity

D6104/44-45 Notebooks

D6104/46-47 Hawkins family

D6104/48-52 Sale particulars

D6104/53-57 Diaries and Journals

D6104/58-62 Miscellanea

• <famname>Heathcote family of Littleover, Derbyshire</famname>
• <famname>Harpur family of Littleover, Derbyshire</famname>

These papers were donated to Derbyshire Record Office by a private individual in October 2003.

The Littleover estate of the Findern family passed with the marriage of their heiress, Joan Findern, to Chief Justice Harpur, who built Littleover Old Hall. The younger son of this marriage, Sir Richard (d.1635), inherited Littleover. In 1754 this line of Harpurs died out and the property passed to Samuel Heathcote IV (1724-1784) of Derby. It remained Heathcote property until the late 19th century. In 1890 Littleover Old Hall and estate were sold to Edward McInnes who built a new house on the site. This is now Derbyshire Fire and Ambulance Service Headquarters.

The Pastures, Littleover, was built in the late 18th century by Josias Cockshutt II. He was the son of Josias Cockshutt (1690-1762) of Kegworth, Leics., and Mary Twistleton and himself took the surname Twistleton by royal licence in 1801. Josias Cockshutt II extended The Pastures as least twice in the early 19th century. His only child, Mary, married Bache Heathcote II and in 1826 Cockshutt Heathcote (1793-1885) inherited The Pastures. He altered the house and landscaped the grounds, but by 1832 was in financial difficulties. He then sold the property in 1840-1841 to Sir Seymour Blane. In 1878, The Pastures was sold again to Sir Abraham Woodiwiss and eventually became a hospital.