Coke family of Brookhill, Pinxton The estate records include - Title deeds 13th-20th cent; rentals and estate accounts for Brookhill, Pinxton (including a valuation 1852-1883) and South Normanton, Holbrook and Derby; Dore (now in Yorkshire); Kirkby, Nottinghamshire, chiefly 18th-19th cent, Wernith & Romeley co Cheshire, 18th cent; Brookhill estate surveys, early 19th cent; valuations 19th-20th cent, draft terrier, 1921. - Household accounts for Brookhill 1771-1786 include references to planting and landscaping by D’Ewes Coke. - Manorial records comprise: minutes of Totley manor, 1834-1845 (D1881/111), draft minutes of Duffield Fee, 1815-1818 (D1881/Box B); survey of the manor of Wernith, Cheshire, 1751 (D1881/137) - Tithe accounts survive for South Normanton, 1771-1810 (D1881/111, D1881/Box D). The nineteenth century personal and family papers are noteworthy. Personal papers include - Daniel Parker Coke (1745-1825): legal casebooks, 1784-1813, (D1881/Boxes A & C) household accounts, 1825 (D1881/Box F); correspondence chiefly on estate matters, 1794-1813 (D1881/106-07), correspondence 1800-12 (D1881/Box L 1), early 19th cent (D1881/Box L 3), receipts (D1881/Box B) - Revd D’Ewes Coke (1747-1811): general estate accounts, Pinxton & S Normanton 1768-83 (D1881/Box D). - D’Ewes Coke (1774-1856): diaries (1817, 1817-20 1833: D1881/Box K;1839: D1881/Box B), travel , 1798 (D1881/Box L 4), legal notes 1797-1800 (D1881/Box D) and correspondence 1808-c1840 including legal and political activities (D1881/111), contacts with the Outrams, Arkwrights and Strutts (D1881/Box L 1, 2), correspondence with Lord Denman, 1820-54 (D1881/Box L1) and family matters (D1881/Box L 3), sketchbooks (D1881/Box A, Box B, Box D), estate and household cash books 1775-84, 1797-99 (D1881/ Box B), Box D; family chronicle (D1881/Box B), scrpbook (D1881/Box D); farm and household accounts, including landcaping, 1771-1786 (D1881/Box D); memo of ale and beer used 1804-08 (D1881/Box K). The correspondence also includes his personal attitude to members of his family. - Sir William Coke (1776-1818) Chief Justice of Ceylon, c1809-1821: personal correspondence 1809-c1821 (D1881/109,114,116), Ceylon correspondence (D1881/Box L 2), additional Ceylon papers 1810-11 (D1881/Box J) - Edward Thomas Coke: list of equipment for India, 1825 (D1881/Box L 3) - John Coke of Debdale (d1841): correspondence 1819-32 (D1881/Box L1) - Francis Lillyman Coke (1804-1873): correspondence while travelling in Russia, Scandinavia and the Baltic 1830-31 (D1881/Box L 3) - William Sacheverell Coke (1805-1896): correspondence while on army service from barracks and convict ships, 1830-1831 (D1881/Box L 4); Australian diary including descriptions of places, flora, fauna and inhabitants (D1881/Box L 4); Log of HMS 'Wanstead’s voyage from Van Diemen’s Land [now Tasmania] to England, 1828 (D1881/Box L 4; South Africa journal, 1831-1834, log of voyage on HMS Eliza, farm accounts and sketches (D1881/Box L 4), other correspondence (D1881/105/1-16, D1881/101-04, D1881/BoxJ), misc correspondence, 1890s (D1881/Box L1) - Col. William Langton Coke (1843-1913): correspondence 1904-1909 including letters while serving in the Sudan and Egypt, 1905-1907 (D1881/Box L 1), letter books 1901-09 (D1881/Box G), misc correspondence 1920s (D1881/Box J) - Langton Sacheverell Coke (1878-1914): memorial scroll, Irish Guards, c1918 (D1881/ - Coke family scrapbooks and miscellanea, 20th cent (D1881/Box J), album of family letters 1780-1892 (D1881/Box K) - ET Coke’s list of equipment for India 1825 Miscellaneous papers - Share of Sir George Curzon of Croxall in Canton Carrack and other Spanish [treasure] ships, 1610 (D1881/62/19) - Tradesmen’s accounts with HMS Berwick Gun Room Mess, 1903-04 (D1881/109) - ‘Friends of Goodwill’: log of voyage to South Africa 1835 (D1881/Box L 4) - Revd Thos Calton, vicar of Duffield: letter book attributed to him 1717-25 (D1881/…) - Unnamed writer [?D’Ewes Coke}: travel diaries, North Wales to London, 1796-98, London to Nottingham,1798 (D1881/ Box L 4) - College lands in Derby, abstract of title 1633-1740 (D1881/12/18) - Coalmining rights in Pinxton, 1711-12 (D1881/5/2,4,13) 1777 (D1881/6/1), 1854 (D1881/7/1), Swaddale, Tapton, to Geo Stephenson, 1854 (D1881/53/12), Brookhill estate (D1881/113); Pinxton coal, 1847,1903, 1904 1927(D1881/Box I); colliery corresp, Pinxton c1869-1912 (D1881/Box I); schedule of deeds re S Normanton minerals, 20th cent (D1881/Box L), mineral rent accounts 1900-1911 (D1881/Box L) - Brookhill Cricket Club accounts, 20th cent (D1881/Box H) The legal case books of Daniel Parker Coke (1784-1831) contain much that may interest the social as well as legal historian. The following examples may all be found in D1881/Box A: Case Book III, 1787-1790: Contains many cases re. settlement of paupers On the penalties of excommunication, pages 327-328 On a case of assault [can a man hit a woman in retaliation if she hits him first?], pages 264-266 Case Book VII 1797-1800: Contains several cases re. settlement of paupers and rights to an apprentice. On a case of seduction [father suing the purported father of his daughter's illegitimate child for loss of his daughter's service as she acted as a servant], pages 41-44 Case Book X 1807-1813: On the power of Magistrate over servants [can a servant be sent to the house of correction for neglecting his duties?], pages 221-223 On a dispute between husband and wife [wife locked out of house by intoxicated husband] pages 239-241 Cases relating to not returning a hired stocking frame and altering a stocking frame, pages 250-254 On a promise of marriage [a young man wishing to bring an action for breach of promise on a woman], pages 259-261 On the remedy against the Master of a Stage Coach [payment of doctor's bills for a woman who received a broken leg and injuries when the stage coach overturned due to the driver's negligence], pages 262-264 On the families of militia men [describing what allowance is due to the wives and children in various scenarios], pages 357-360 [16th-20th cent]