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  <dc:title>Rodes family of Barlborough</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Family and estate papers

Primarily title deeds including marriage settlements and wills relating to property in Barlborough, Whitwell, Clowne, Elmton and Killamarsh, 13-19th centuries.
The estate records include rentals 1868-1916, tenancy agreements 19th century, estate accounts 1722-1729 and 1829-1839, correspondence 1857-1918, Brookhill Hall wages book 1825-1826, labourers wages books 1864-1915 and diaries/account books of agent 1856-1867. There are also repair bills for the Dower House at Barlborough 1767, joiner’s account book for work done for CH Rodes 1806-1814 and plans and correspondence about proposed alterations to Barlborough Hall 1854-1910.
Plans of the Hall and estate 18th-20th centuries include an estate map dated 1723. There are household accounts for 1847.

The collection includes
- deeds and correspondence relating Barlborough advowson 14th-17th centuries, Barlborough tithes 16th-17th centuries and Barlborough enclosure including plans 1798-1805
- deeds and papers relating to Elmton advowson 1603-1650 and Elmton enclosure award 1850

Manorial court rolls survive for Barlborough 1701 and Elmton 1651-1743. 

Barlborough civil parish records include overseers of the poor valuation 1800 and survey 1805, expenses 1757-1802 and a census of inhabitants with information aboutoccupations and places of settlement 1790. 

There are also financial records relating to the endowed school c1743, a list of Barlborough volunteers 1803 and Clothing Clubaccounts 1867-1894.

Outcounty records include substantial series of title deeds to property in Gateford, Sturton le Steeple and Worksop, Nottinghamshire, 12th-18th centuries, including a plan of Gateford estate 1825.  There are some title deeds for property in Yorkshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire 16th-19th centuries, as well as copy court rolls for themanor of Hatfield, Yorkshire 1614-1725 and manor court rolls 1663-1665 and estate accounts 1673-1691 for Digby, Lincolnshire.

Coalmining was an important source of income in the late nineteenth century.  The records include correspondence and plans 1860s-1890s which reflect the estate’s relationship with Appleby &amp; Co which worked Cottam Colliery in Barlborough.

There are very few personal records reflecting non-estate matters.  These include sheriff’s accounts for Derbyshire 1594 and for Nottinghamshire 1600, 1617 and 1671, medical qualifications of Cornelius and Gilbert Heathcote 1718-1719 and papers relating to the clerical career of Revd CH Reaston 1815-1816.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[13th-20th cent]</dc:date>
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