Papers of Eshton Hall estate, 1784-1891

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 417
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1784-1891
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 59 vols and additional items in 2 boxes Most of the volumes are bound in parchment or leather

Scope and Content

Day books, rentals, ledgers and other estate documents; also, West Riding Quarter Sessions account books, 1810-1817.

Administrative / Biographical History

Eshton Hall estate, near Skipton, belonged to the Wilson and Richardson-Currer families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several generations of the families included sons with the name Mathew who all became influential public figures in their days. The estate documents give a detailed picture of the financial history of a family estate during the nineteenth century and cast light on numerous points of economic and social history

Arrangement

The loose papers formerly contained in many of the volumes have been taken out, placed in separate envelopes, numbered according to their original volumes, and boxed.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased, November 1976

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

Contents described in Handlist 38

Bibliography

A pedigree of the family is included in Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire, Vol.1 (1874), which may be supplemented from Burke's Peerage and baronetage, 1975

Corporate Names

Eshton Hall