CLARKE THORNHILL FAMILY OF FIXBY COLLECTION

Description

DD12/I - Calverley papers, 13th-18th century

Relate mainly to estates of the Calverley and Blackett families in Calverley, Eccleshill, Farsley, Otley and Pudsey. Includes deeds 13th-18th century, some of which are published in Yorkshire Record Series 65 (1923)

Also includes:

Letters patent granting various monastic lands 1545 Rentals and surveys, notably survey of Esholt by Robert Saxton 1612, 17th-18th century.

Plans, notably plan and elevation of intended mill near Calverley, 18th century

Papers connected with various legal actions 17th-18th century


DD12/II - Clarke Thornhill papers, 13th-20th century

Relate mainly to estates of the Thornhill family in Bramley, Brighouse, Calverley, Deanhead [parish of Huddersfield], Eccleshill, Elland, Fixby, Hipperholme, Huddersfield, Lindley, Quarmby and Rastrick.

Includes deeds 13th-19th century, some of which are published in Yorkshire Record Series 63 (1922), 65 (1923), 69 (1926), 76 (1930) and YRS Extra Series 6 (1949)

Also includes papers relating to Crown Glass Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [Northumberland] 1824-1825

Papers relating to various legal actions, notably to enclosures, 18th-19th century

Physical characteristics

Measurement details: YAHS Survey: Outsize measurement consists only of map in Stack 1: remainder of outsize items have not been measured. REB 03.10.2018

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Biography or history

In 1751 The Rev Thomas Clarke (1722-960, rector of Ickenham, Middlesex and descendant of the London mercantile family, purchased Swakeleys, in the parish of Ickenham. His son Thomas Truesdale Clareke (1774-1840) bought the Binham abbey (Norfolk) estate. William Capel Clarke (1832-98), Thomas Truesdale Clarke's grandson married in 1855 Clara Thornhill (d1865), heiress of the West Riding estates of the Thornhill family which had owned Fixby since the fifteenth century. Shortly before her marriage Clara Thornhill had bought the Rushton (Northamptonshire) estate, previously the property of W W Hope and before that (from the early 17th century to 1828) the Cockayne family. The Yorkshire estates were educed by sales in 1850s and after the Great War, Swakeleys, Binham and Rushton were all sold. On the death in 1934 of T B Clarke-Thornhill the remainder Yorkshire estates were inherited by a junior branch of the family, the Thornhill's of Diddington (Huntingdonshire) and Boxworth (Cambridge).

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