Slaney Family Manuscripts

Scrap book of genealogical information dating from the Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century; printed items consisting mainly of extracts from journals, books and newspaper cuttings, 1647-1845; letters, other manuscripts and printed items relating to the cholera outbreak of 1832; printed items including several pamphlets relating to the parliamentary elections at Shrewsbury, 1721-1840; some pamphlets and manuscript items relating to Shropshire, 1722-1860.

Administrative/Biographical History

Robert Slaney of Hatton Grange, Shropshire married Anne Moreton (d 1672) and had 2 sons, Moreton (d c 1717), who married Elizabeth Aglionby, and Robert. The line then descended through Robert Aglionby Slaney (1693-1757), to Plowden Slaney (1724-1788) and then to Robert Slaney (b 1764), Plowden's younger son. Through the marriage of Robert's eldest son, Robert Aglionby Slaney (1792-1862) MP for Shrewsbury and social reformer, the Walford estate descended to the Slaney family. Robert Aglionby Slaney and his wife, Elizabeth (only child of William Hawkins Muccleston and sole heir to her uncle, Joseph Muccleston (d 1847) of Walford and Prescott, Shropshire) had three daughters and the line descended through the youngest, Frances Catharine who married Captain William Kenyon who assumed the additional surname of Slaney after that of Kenyon, becoming the Kenyon- Slaney family of Hatton Grange. Reference:

Reference: Pedigree showing the descent of Robert Aglionby Slaney from King Edward III, drawn by Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald and continued by William W. E. Wynne, MP, husband of Mary, the second daughter of Robert Aglionby and his wife Elizabeth nee Muccleston, c 1863 (from the collection, Vol 7, p 126).

The collection is arranged in the order described above.

Access Conditions

Open. Access to all registered researchers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased in 1956.

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Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the University Archivist, Special Collections. Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.

Further deposits are not expected.

University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department also hold the Eyton Letters (GB 150 EYT) which include letters to R.A. Slaney.