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D77 - Gresley family of Drakelow - [12th-20th cent]
1 - Title Deeds
2 - Manorial Records - [14th-19th cent]
3 - Estate Papers
4 - Family and Personal Papers
1 - Sir George Gresley 1st Baronet (1580-1651)
2 - Sir Thomas Gresley 2nd Baronet (1629-1699)
3 - George Gresley (d 1704)
4 - Lettice/Letitia Gresley (1665-1735)
5 - Thomas Gresley of Netherseale (1668-1743)
6 - Elizabeth Gresley neé Lee (c1681-1733)
7 - Lee Gresley (1705-1749)
8 - John Gresley of Wirksworth (1711-1783)
9 - Sir Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (1726-1787)
10 - Revd Dr Thomas Gresley (1734-1785)
11 - Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley 7th Baronet (1753-1808)
1 - Letter to Lady Gresley "My dear Tett" at Knypersley Hall
2 - Marriage licence of Nigel Bowyer Gresley and Wilmot Gresley - 22 Jan 1776
3 - Receipt for "plaister" - 19 Jun 1778
4 - Letter from Tho[mas] Hinckley re fishery and weir - 8 Oct 1781
5 - Bill and receipt for measuring and valuing undertaken at Drakelow - 1788-1795
6 - Letter from Jos[eph] Wilkes re Sir Nigel's proposals of which Lord Uxbridge's agent and Mr Peel have been informed - 29 Nov 1790
7 - Letter from Charles Robinson with enclosure of a Copy of the Case on your Free Warren - 1798
8 - Notice of Sir Nigel's intention to stand as a candidate in the next parliamentary election and soliciting support - 26 Apr 1799
9 - Letter to Sir Nigel's Land Steward from John Curzon re rents and a fence in Linton - 3 Jul 1800
10 - Account of Henry Cooper - 1801
11 - Letter from E. [Erasmus]Darwin re outstanding balance concerning a dispute between Sir Nigel and the Burton Boat Company - 28 Jan 1802
12 - Letter from E [Erasmus] Darwin as D77/4/11/12 - 19 Feb 1802
13 - Account of Joseph Leedham - 1801-1802
14 - Inventory of the Household Furniture of [?Robert] Bromley to Sir Nigel Gresley - 1795, 1806
15-16 - Notice for the case of the proprietors of the old or present Birmingham Canal - [undated -19th cent.]
17 - A short state of the case of the proprietors of the Coventry Canal - 1782
18 - Costs of Coventry Canal? - [undated - 1780s]
19 - Costs of Coventry Canal? - [undated - 1780s]
20 - Costs of Coventry Canal? - [undated - 1780s]
21 - Notice regarding the intended canal at Ashby de la Zouch, 5 Dec - 1792
22 - Ashby de la Zouch Canal? i) Costs of canal? ii) Case of the Earl of Dartmouth respecting the bill for making a new canal from the coal pits to Birmingham - [undated - 1790s]
23-24 - Case of the proprietors of the Birmingham Canal - [undated - late 18th cent.]
25 - Case on behalf of the bill for a canal from the Trent and Mersey Canal, commonly called the Grand Trunk, at Shardlow, to the towns of Derby and Nottingham - 1793
26 - Minutes and observations made on a view of the valley between Burton and Birmingham from Tamworth to Atherstone, tending to ascertain how far the river navigation towards those places may be practicable and eligible, by William Jessop, engineer, 1 Jan - 1783
27 - Plan of intended canal from Burton upon Trent to Fradley Heath to join the Coventry Canal - [undated - 18th cent.]
28 - A plan showing the canal projected from Ashby de la Zouch and its parallel direction with the Coventry Canal and a proposed shorter line or canal from Ashby Woulds to Polesworth - 20 Feb 1793
29 - Plan showing the lines of the intended Ashby de la Zouch Canal and its connection with the Coventry and Oxford Canals and also the intended Grand Junction and Hampton Gay Canals and their connection with the ports of London, Liverpool, Hull, Lynn and Bristol - [undated - 1790s]
30 - A plan of the intended navigable canal from the Coventry Canal near Griff in the County of Warwick, to the coal mines at Measham, Oakthorp, Donisthorp and Ashby-Woulds, in the counties of Leicester and Derby, surveyed in 1781 by Robert Whitworth, engineer - 1781
31 - A plan of the navigable canals of England, May 29 - 1779
32 - "A table summerising the laws respecting game, fish and dogs, as established by Acts of Parliament" - [19th cent.]
12 - Revd William Gresley (1760-1829)
13 - Sir Roger Gresley MP 8th Baronet (1799-1837)
14 - Revd Sir William Nigel Gresley 9th Baronet (1806-1847)
15 - Revd John Morewood Gresley (1816-1866)
16 - Laura Gresley neé Williams
17 - Frances Louisa Gresley, neé Spencer-Churchill
18 - Elizabeth Bott/Beardsley nee Gresley (d 1775) - 1741-1774
19 - Bott of Coventry
20 - Beardsley of Tamworth
21 - Number not used
22 - Lee of Ladyhole,Yeldersley
23 - Number not used
24 - Probate and Legacy Records
25 - Miscellaneous
5 - Official Papers
6 - Parish and Ecclesiastical Papers - [16th cent]-1914
7 - Legal/Case Papers
8 - Maps and Plans - [18th-19th cent]
9 - Photographs
UL - Gresley Family of Drakelow: unlisted records
Harpur Crewe family of Calke
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