Family Abney Hastings; family DS/UK/M/3616 Abney Hastings Abney Hastings family Willesley Hall The Abney family owned estates in Willesley and adjacent areas from the fifteenth century until 1791 when Thomas Abney died. His heiress was his daughter,Parnell, who in 1788 had married Major General Charles Hastings (d.1823). Subsequently, the estates passed to Sir Charles Abney Hastings who died unmarried in 1858. His successors were his kinswoman Lady Edith Maud Hastings and her husband Charles Frederick Clifford who took the name Abney Hastings. Willesley was transferred from Derbyshire to Leicestershire under boundary reorganisations in 1897. Willesley Hall was demolished in 1953. Yes International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (Sep 2020) DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 30/07/2021 69063286-35be-47b2-8879-f697bc254907