| Description | Collection of documents, mainly letters written in 1917, to and from Sydney Douglas-Crompton and his [second] wife, Margaret.
The bulk of the collection relates to Sydney Douglas-Crompton's pursuit of Crompton genealogy and to his intention to publish a book. In a letter to someone who declined to send him information he asserts that by 1917 he had given twenty-five years of his life working at the library of the British Museum daily from nine in the morning to seven at night; at the Record Office; at the Bodleian Library, Oxford and at various places in England He had paid an army of record copiers to copy wills; commissioned photographs of tombstones and memorial inscriptions and purchased hundreds of deeds.
Carbon copies of letters from Sydney Douglas-Crompton to private individuals and to clergymen seeking information about aspects of Crompton family history; and their responses: invoices and instructions about the printing and binding of some Crompton family history material
Material earlier than 1917:
letter and sketch plan: 1822: to Sir William Botham from Will Carter about a building extension
what appears to be a printed copy of a memorial inscription to Thomas Crompton and wife Margaret, Stoneby Park, Staffordshire, who died in 1673
Five generation Crompton pedigree, includes one dated event (1583) with on reverse an excerpt about Crompton family from an unidentified book
Two memorial cards: Roger Crompton, died 1859
Personal correspondence with Marquis de Ruvigny, editor, "Roll of Honour", with War Office and others about reports of the death in service of Sydney H L Douglas-Crompton, (1896-1917), son of Sydney Douglas-Crompton: also newspaper or magazine cutting: portrait of [Sidney H] L Douglas Crompton, recording his death in action June, 1917
Personal correspondence: of Margaret, (nee Bayley), wife of Sydney Douglas-Crompton: 1917: with a niece, "Nellie" (her unhappiness at living in Queen's Park, Australia while her husband is on active war service in France); with "Mum", including enquiry and reply about Bayley family history: also memorial card; Winifred Margaret Bayley, died 1892
Photographs: two monochrome studio portraits, one of woman and an infant and one of an infant: pencilled caption suggests date - 1917 - and identification of the woman as Margaret and the infant as Joanne |