Papers of the Yerbury Family

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Top. Wilts. b. 2-3, c. 2, e. 5
  • Dates of Creation
    • 17th-19th century
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 4 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of the Yerbury family, consisting of:

  • Legal and estate papers and correspondence, 1765-1880
  • Poor rate book for Braford on avon, ca. 1805
  • Accounts of the dissenting meeting house at Grove, Bradford on Avon, 1783-8, 1811-24

Administrative / Biographical History

The Yerbury family were of Belcombe Brook, Bradford on Avon.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Library in 1916.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 55233-6.