Capell (Flore) 1617-1905, 460 docs., refs. ZA 3064-3160, 3182-3311 & C(F)
The Capells were farmers at Flore. Richard Capell established an endowed school in Flore in 1833.
Deeds for property in Flore, Little Brington, Heyford and east London. Farm accounts 1724-1744, 18th century school exercise books, Flore rate books 1799-1817. Late 19th/early 20th century personal correspondence. Papers of James Evans Capell of Hackney 1895-1905. Ledger of Thomas Haynes, a London merchant 1714-1715
Flore and Northampton deeds and other papers for Richard Capell's school are catalogued under the reference C(F)
Capron (Southwick) 1533-1937, 693 docs. and 21 boxes, ref. C(S)
George Capron of Stoke Doyle, a solicitor, purchased Southwick Hall in 1840 from Walter Johnson Lynne. He had also inherited a Warwickshire estate from a cousin the Rev. John Shukburgh. The family remains at Southwick.
Gentry family with estates in Southwick, Stoke Doyle, Ringstead, Woodford by Thrapston, the Addingtons, Oundle and Irthlingborough, Bourton upon Dunsmore and Stretton upon Dunsmore (Warwickshire). Deeds and 19th century estate papers, papers on Nene fisheries 1831-1847, papers on drainage. Bill for rebuilding Stoke Doyle church 1722-1725 and papers for restoration 1842-1844. Shukburgh family papers 1665-1865. Halliley family papers and deeds for Eynesbury (Cambridgeshire). Palmer of Stoke Doyle family deeds.
There are few personal papers.
(See also Lynne of Southwick collection)
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Cartwright (Aynhoe) c.1290-1954, 8518 docs. and 85 boxes, ref. C(A)
Richard Cartwright (d.1637) a barrister, acquired the manor of Aynho in 1615-1616. His son John (d.1637) supported Parliament and Royalist troops burnt the mansion in 1645. It was rebuilt after the restoration. A succession of notable political and diplomatic personalities led the family in the 19th and early 20th century. William Ralph Cartwright (d.1847) was M.P. for Northamptonshire 1797-1846. His son Sir Thomas Cartwright (d.1850) was British minister in Belgium 1830, minister in Frankfurt 1830-1838 and ambassador to Sweden 1838-1850. He married the daughter of a German count. His son William Cornwallis Cartwright (d.1915) was M.P. for Oxfordshire 1868-1885. He was a supporter of Garibaldi and his campaign to unite Italy. His son Sir Fairfax Leighton Cartwright (d.1928) was secretary to the legations in Mexico 1899-1902 and Lisbon 1902-1905, councillor to the Madrid Embassy 1905-1906, minister to Munich and Stuttgart 1906-1908 and ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1908-1913. He married the daughter of an Italian senator. Richard Cartwright and his son were tragically killed in 1954 and the family were forced to sell Aynhoe. It is now divided up into flats.
Gentry family with estates at Aynho, Kings Sutton, Newbottle, Hinton in the Hedges, Syresham, Greatworth, Charwelton and Stuchbury, Bloxham, Claydon and Clattercote, Milcombe, Deddington and Souldern (Oxfordshire), and Barnes (Surrey) with estate accounts for Barn Elms 1655-1695 (box 116).
Papers for purchase of Aynho 1615-16, court rolls 1504-1756. Papers on disputed Aynho inclosure 1618-1621. Deeds for the Crewe estates in Steane, Bugbrooke, Grimsbury, Hinton in the Hedges, and Wakering (Essex) and Crewe family settlements. Steward's memo. books of leases 1659 – 1691 and contracts including for building works 1664 – 1692. Fine early 18th century estate and household accounts. Accounts of Robert Weston as agent to the Cartwrights and to the Duke of Bridgwater 1772-1800, correspondence to 1814. Plans and accounts for the rebuilding of Aynho church by Edward Wing 1720s. Plans of Aynhoe House by Sir John Soane 1800-1802.
Extensive 19th and early 20th century correspondence, photographs and official papers. Notebooks, political and election papers of William Ralph Cartwright. Correspondence of Sir Thomas Cartwright including letters from Lord Palmerston 1831-1840, his dispatch books, 1830-1849 and letter books. Correspondence, literary papers and diaries 1882-1912 of William Cornwallis Cartwright. Papers on his Free Trade mission to Berlin 1879. Letters from Frederick Lord Leighton. His travel journals 1844-1886, trips in Europe, Greece and Turkey 1847/8, Egypt 1849/50 and to India 1870s. Correspondence, diplomatic and literary papers of Sir Fairfax Leighton Cartwright. Correspondence of Thomas Barclay Cartwright 1865-1890 including from the German Imperial court at Potsdam and from America and Australia.
Correspondence and personal papers of the Cartwrights of Flore House 1819-1869 including Crimean letters. Lt. Gen. William Cartwright (d. 1873) was the second son of William Ralph Cartwright who served in the Peninsula war and at Waterloo. His elder son Fairfax William was M.P. for South Northants, his younger son Aubrey Agar was killed in the Crimea.
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Cartwright (Edgcote) 1817-1955, 468 docs., ref. CE
Richard Aubrey Cartwright, a younger son of William Ralph Cartwright, inherited Edgcote House in 1847. It had belonged to the Chauncey family since the 1540s. Cartwright's children were all interesting and notable, his son Sir William Chauncey was a diplomat. This collection mainly relates to his sisters, particularly Julia (d.1924), who married the Rev. William Henry Ady, their daughter Dr. Cecilia Ady, and another sister Beatrice Cartwright. Julia Cartwright was a respected historical biographer whose particular interests were Renaissance Italy and famous artists, the latter encompassing near contemporaries like Burne Jones and G.F. Watts. Her daughter Dr. Cecilia (d.1958) was a fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford and an historian, also on Renaissance Italy. Beatrice Cartwright (d.1947) was the first woman County Councillor and magistrate for Northamptonshire, and mayor of Brackley. The other sisters were Harriett Cartwright, a charity worker in the London Docks and a fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Emma, the wife of Edward Slater Harrison, who was a local councillor in Oxfordshire and Frances, the wife of the Rev. Norman Ramsay.
Collection of diaries, letters and personal papers. Diaries of Richard Aubrey Cartwright and his wife Mary 1839-1890. The diaries of their daughters Emma Cecilia 1865-1943, Beatrice Anna 1868-1919 and Julia 1868-1919. Diaries of Julia's daughter Dr Cecilia Ady 1894-1900. Correspondence and papers of Julia Cartwright and her husband the Rev. William Henry Ady 1817-1915. Correspondence, papers and photographs of Dr. Cecilia Ady 1883-1955
('A Bright Remembrance: The Diaries of Julia Cartwright' 1989 was edited by Angela Emanuel.)
Cartwright of Flore - see Cartwright of Aynhoe
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Cecil (Burghley) - Archives remain in the custody of the family at Burghley House
Chibnall of Thorpe Malsor - see Maunsell of Thorpe Malsor
Clarke (Welton) 1366-1896, 265 docs. & 24 boxes, ref. C(W)
The Clarkes had been settled at Welton for at least a century when Joseph Clarke, High Sheriff in 1758, built Welton Place. His great nephew John Plomer inherited the Clarke estates and added the surname to his own in 1774, succeeding Joseph's brother Richard Clarke of Nortoft. He raised the Daventry Volunteers. John Plomer Clarke his son (d.1826) was High Sheriff in 1814 and commanded the West Northants. Militia. Welton Place was pulled down in 1972.
Deeds for estates in Welton, Daventry, Long Buckby, Guilsborough, Launton (Oxfordshire), and Aylesbury. Daventry court rolls 1751-1821, shrievalty papers 1758, 1778, 1814. Family correspondence and 19th century estate papers. J.P. Clarke's private account book 1806 – 1811 (ML 385). Nortoft charters and papers on the West Northamptonshire Local Militia and the Daventry Volunteer Infantry 1797-1817.
The charters and militia papers are the only parts of the collection currently catalogued.
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Clarke-Thornhill (Rushton) 1857 – 1932, 4 boxes, ref. YZ 1573 – 1581 & ZA 2405 – 2413
The executors of William Williams Hope sold the Rushton Hall estate to the trustees of Miss Clara Thornhill in 1854. She married William Capel Clarke of Swakeleys, Middlesex, later Clarke-Thornhill, in 1855.
Estate vouchers and rentals 1857 – 1932, servants' wage book 1879 – 1891, vouchers for improvements to estate 1850's
Clerke of Watford – see Ormonde
Coales (Aldwinckle Lodge) 1740-1990, 150 docs., ref. C(AL)
A farming family and tenants of the Powys of Lilford estate.
Deeds and personal papers including material on William Coales an Olympic runner 1908. Also papers and photographs of branches of the family in Great Oakley and Wellingborough.
(Further Coales deeds are in the Aldwinckle collection.)
Cokayne (Rushton) 1407-1929, 3394 docs., ref. C
Artificial collection of records created by G.E. Cokayne concerning the Viscounts Cullen of Rushton and related families. The Cokayne library books and Irish victualling accounts were removed for sale in 2003. The rest of the collection was purchased for the Record Office in 2004.
Rushton Hall was purchased from the Treshams in 1614 by Sir William Cokayne (d.1626) a London merchant and financier who became Lord Mayor. His son Charles lived at Rushton and was made Viscount Cullen in 1642. The 2nd Lady Cullen was a Restoration beauty who almost bankrupted the family. The 5th Lord Cullen (d.1802) was a noted race horse owner. The last Viscount died in 1810 and the estates were split between ten co heiresses, the daughters of the Hon. William Cokayne who married Barbara Hill of Rothwell. Mrs Cokayne (d.1838) later took the additional name Medlycott on becoming heiress to Thomas Medlycott of Cottingham. One of the daughters Mrs Mary Anne Adams had a son George Edward who took the name Cokayne. Others married into the Pery, Maunsell, Assheton and Austen families. G.E. Cokayne, the originator of this collection, was Clarenceux King of Arms and editor of The Complete Peerage. His son Sir Brien Cokayne was Governor of the Bank of England 1918-1920, and was created Lord Cullen of Ashbourne in 1920. Rushton Hall had been sold to William Williams Hope in 1828.
Deeds for estates in Rushton, Southwark and Combe Nevill (Surrey), Broad St., London, Nethercote, Swepston, Elmesthorpe and Earl Shilton (Leicestershire), South Denchworth, Circott and Hyde (Berkshire) and Hanging Grimston (Yorkshire). Late 16th/early 17th century business papers of the Cokaynes of London including as victualler to the army in Ireland and on fisheries, cloth and soap. Factor's reports from Middleburg 1618 and 1619 and Antwerp 1625. Correspondence 1600 – 1684 including steward's letters 1620's. London household accounts 1646 and inventories of [1599] and 1689..
Deeds and papers for related families: Maunsell of Windsor, London and Thorpe Malsor 1612 – 1663, Hill of Rothwell 1632-1920 and Willoughby of Parham 1666-1688. Medlycott of Cottingham 1680-1759 including letter book of Charles Medlycott as H.M. Commissary of Stores in Lisbon 1709-1714. Barbara Cokayne Medlycott's journal of tours to Bristol 1819 and Kent and Yorkshire 1824. Adams of Chastleton (Oxfordshire) 1662-1849 including correspondence 1773-1851 and papers on Chastleton tithes 1664-1849. Cokayne of Ashbourne (Derbyshire) 1407-1673 also with properties in Clifton, Kniveton, Oscoate, Ballidon and Bradborne (all Derbyshire) and Cokayne of Pooley and Leek Wootton (Warwickshire) 1592-1671. Correspondence of Miss Ann Mapletoft and Mrs A.M. Mapletoft 1794-1860 including letters from William Bennett, Bishop of Cloyne
Papers of G.E. Cokayne including personal correspondence 1860-1882, diaries 1849-1911, journal of Garter missions in Europe 1858 – 1882, accounts at Exeter College, Oxford and as a herald, records of "Nobody's Club". Genealogical notes, pedigrees, proofs and papers for editorship of 'Peerage' etc.. Diaries of Brien Cokayne, Lord Cullen 1911-1929
This catalogue is available on the National Archives 'A2A' website
(Further Cokayne records are in the Maunsell of Thorpe Malsor collection.)
(Rushton estate accounts 1809-1817 are in the Bodleian Library.)
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Compton (Castle Ashby ) - Archives remain in the custody of the Marquess of Northampton at Castle Ashby. The NRO holds catalogues. Deeds and manor court records for Great Doddington are deposited with the reference GD. Lady Frances Compton's sketch book has the reference ZB 1455.
Crawley (Heyford) 1496-1909, 150 docs., ref. C(H)
The Rev. John Lloyd Crawley, the son of a Gloucestershire baronet, was rector of Heyford 1800-1850. His cousin Charles was rector of Stowe Nine Churches. J.L. Crawley's 4th son Henry was rector of Stowe 1849-1895 and his 5th son Thomas William succeeded him at Heyford 1851-1897.
Mainly Nether Heyford deeds and parish documents, including a tithe account book 1634-1666 and rules for the open fields 1732. Correspondence for the 1820s and account book 1800-1811.
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