Additional Shirley Family Papers (Shirley, Earls Ferrers)

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Reference code(s): DE2638

Title: Additional Shirley Family Papers (Shirley, Earls Ferrers)

Date(s): 1105 - 1961

Level of description: Fond

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Administrative/Biographical history: The archives of the Shirley family fall into four main deposits, this collection being the fourth and last collection deposited.The most recent deposit of family papers contains title deeds and correspondence, much relating to earlier collections. The collection is notable for containing the earliest family docuements, title deeds of c110 - 1120, and also a presentation box of documents and regalia presented to Sewallis Edward, Earl Ferrers, on attaining his majority in 1808.

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Deposited January 1984

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Scope and content: The records include title deeds (c.1105 - 1634), manorial records (1715 - 1808), correspondence (170 - 1878), papers from various members of the Shirley Family (1711 - 1855), as well as records covering the Herford Town Mill. Records of note include nine series of records of correspondence to and from Henry Shirley of Hyde Hall, Jamaica. The letters, writtten between 1789 - 1799 contain reports on trroops being sent out to Jamaica in c1792 (46/1 - 17), Letter from Henry Shirley, Jamaica to the French Regent (47), as well as family news to Henry Shirley on the death of Mrs Shirley (48/1 - 6). There is also a record of the appointment of Henry Shirley in 1795 to be Lt Colonel of the 2nd Battalion of the St Mary and St Georges Regiment and Colonel in Chief of the Miitia for Jamaica (93)

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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