Deeds of the estate of the Robarts family of Tile House, Lillingstone Dayrell, in...

These documents represent the contents of a single large metal deed box inscribed "Tilehouse Estate" which was retrieved by the depositor from a firm of London solicitors. They comprise deeds and other evidences of title of properties purchased by successive members of the Robarts family, London bankers, in Lillingstone Dayrell, Akeley and Stowe from Baring, Grenville, Dayrell and others between 1801 and 1922. Included are numerous family settlements, wills, mortgages, etc, of two branches of the old-established family of Dayrell of Lillingstone, whose entire estates were absorbed, as well as particulars of the estate of Richard Dayrell, 1765, and a map showing Marmaduke Dayrell's estate in 1773

The Robarts were at first absentee proprietors, but were evidently resident in Lillingstone Dayrell by 1863, when a county directory lists Abraham John Robarts, JP, at Lillingstone House

Many of the documents were found loose and disarranged while some others were roughly tied together in no apparent order; several original bundles of earlier deeds had come undone and have been wholly or partly reconstituted

D210/1-6 Deeds of estate in Lillingstone Dayrell formerly held by a junior branch of the Dayrell family [Tile House estate] purchased by Abraham Robarts from Baring in 1801

D210/1-5 Deeds 1611-1733 of various small properties added to the estate by Dayrell between 1681 and 1733

D210/6 Deeds of the whole estate, 1682-1801

D210/7-15 Deeds of various properties in Lillingstone, Akeley and Stowe purchased from Grenville and others between 1842 and 1847

D210/7 Lands (222a) purchased from Roper's trustees, 1725-1844

D210/8-11 Broadnetts Wood, Stockholt Farm and other properties purchased from Grenville, 1805-1856

D210/12 Lands (44a) in Stowe

D210/13-15 Akeley Woods and other lands purchased from New College, Oxford, 1866-1868, 1876

D210/16-24 Deeds of estate in Lillingstone Dayrell and Akeley purchased by Abraham John Robarts, from Dayrell in 1887

D210/16-23 Deeds 1687-1882 of various Dayrell purchases, exchanges etc between 1806 and 1882

D210/24 Deeds of the whole estate, 1659-1887

D210/25-29 Deeds of various properties purchased by A J Robarts from Grenville and others between 1889 and 1922 including

D210/26,28 Park lands etc in Stowe, 1897, 1922

D210/27 Estate (741a) in Biddlesden, Stowe and Lillingstone purchased from Loder, 1914

D210/30-31 Miscellaneous papers, 1878, 1936

<span class="wrapper"><p>A pedigree of Dayrell is given in G Lipscomb, History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, Vol III, pp 32-33</p> <p>The descent of the manor of Lillingstone Dayrell in the Dayrell family is traced in Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, Vol IV, p 187ff</p> <p>For other Dayrell papers see Bucks Record Office D 22</p></span>

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