| Entry Type | Family |
| Surname | Palmer-Morewood |
| Place | Alfreton |
| Epithet | family |
| Biography | After the death of the last male heir to the Morewood family's Alfreton Hall estate, George Morewood, in 1792, the estate passed to his widow Ellen. The following year, she married the Revd Henry Case, who changed his name to Morewood. On the death, without issue, of Henry Case Morewood in 1825, the estate became the property of the Palmers of Ladbroke, Warwickshire, who took the name Palmer-Morewood. Anthony Morewood bought the manor and estate of Alfreton in 1629. It remained with the Palmer-Morewood family and its descendants until the early 1960s. John Morewood, owner of the Alfreton estate, married his second wife Barbara Palmer and had a son Rowland in 1682. The Morewood family had links to coal mining. Rowland Morewood (1682-1753) was educated at Cambridge University in 1700. He was High Sheriff of Derby in 1706-07, and married Mary Wigley of Mansfield in 1717, and had three sons. He built Alfreton Hall in 1724-25 on the site of a Hall Farm manor house. Rowland died in 1753.
George Morewood (1719-1792) was Rowland's surviving heir and inherited Alfreton Hall. In 1768 he married Ellen Goodwin of Ashbourne, and had one child who died shortly after birth. Both George and Ellen's portraits were painted by George Romney. In 1792 George died, leaving Ellen to inherit the Alfreton estate. Ellen remarried Reverend Henry Case, who took the name Morewood, and continued to live at Alfreton Hall for the next 30 years. Ellen died in 1824, and Henry died in 1825. The estate was left to Ellen's nephew William Palmer of Ladbroke Hall, who took the name Morewood. |
| Title/Occupation | Coal owners |
| Address | Alfreton Hall |
| Authorised Form of Name | Palmer-Morewood; family; Alfreton; Coal owners |
Show related Catalog records.