Read (Kilsby ) 1754-1825, 125 docs., ref. Rd(K)
Thomas read (d.1773) was a master weaver and member of the Congregational church in Kilsby. His son Thomas (d.1825) moved to Sheffield in 1793 and set up an iron manufactuary.
Mainly letters to Thomas Read the younger 1793 – 1818, many from Leonard and Elizabeth Taylor of Kilsby, some late 18thC. music.
Robinson (Cranford ) 1628-1866, 223 docs., ref. R(C)
Sir John Robinson (d.1680), who was created a Baronet in 1660, was the son of the Archdeacon of Nottingham who made his fortune as a merchant in London. His father was a half brother of William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury. He helped secure London for Charles II and was M.P. for the City and later for Rye. In 1662 he was Lord Mayor and from 1660 Lieutenant of The Tower of London. He bought Grafton Underwood in 1652 and became a Ranger of Rockingham Forest with a lodge at Farming Woods. His son the 2nd Baronet (d.1693) left two daughters. The younger married Richard Fitzpatrick, later Lord Gowran, and inherited Grafton and Farming Woods. The title passed to a brother Sir James (d.1731) who acquired the manors at Cranford. The estate remains in the possession of the Robinsons.
The 1st part of the collection mainly concerns Sir John and his grand daughter Lady Gowran with estates at Grafton Underwood, Farming Woods, and Newnham Courtney (Oxfordshire). Including Sir John's will and inventory 1680. Early l8thC. accounts for Gowrans of Farming Woods, Lady Gowran's detailed personal accounts 1701-1716 and mid l8thC. correspondence and Irish estate papers.
The 2nd part of the collection includes family deeds of the Robinsons of Cranford, deeds for the Morgan estate at Kingsthorpe and deeds for property in London and Leicestershire. Little relates to Cranford itself.
Rokeby (Arthingworth ) 1699 - 1828 (uncatalogued), 6 boxes
Rebecca Langham, the heiress of the manor of Arthingworth married Benjamin Rokeby, a London merchant, in 1683. This collection largely relates to the Rev. Langham Rokeby (d.1826), who was rector from 1775 and inherited the estate in 1796.
Deeds and legal papers, early 19thC. rentals and vouchers.
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Rose (Daventry ) 1433-1875, 456 docs., ref. R(D)
John Rose, A Daventry saddler, began buying estates in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire in the 1740's and these were augmented by his son William (d.1784), a whipmaker. These estates were inherited by his nephew the Rev. William Lucas Holden, rector of Whilton (d.1814), who took the name Rose. The family later settled at Wolston Grange, Warwickshire.
Deeds for properties in Daventry, Braunston and Catesby and Wolston, Hillmorton and Stretton upon Dunsmore (Warwickshire)
Roughton (Kettering ) 1793-1969, 514 docs., ref. R(K)
Successive generations of the Roughton family of Kettering were in the medical profession, from the time of William Roughton (d.1795). Two of the younger sons of Dr. William Roughton II (d.1840) became wine merchants in Oporto. Dr. William Roughton III (d.1854) married Henrietta Maria Lachesnez-Heude, the daughter of Agnes Sturgeon and the granddaughter of Lady Harriett Wentworth and her footman, William Sturgeon, who she had eloped with in 1764. Dr James Roughton (d.1910), a younger son, was prominent in local government. His son Dr. John Paul Roughton was the last Kettering doctor and retired in 1933.
19th/early 20th C. correspondence, financial papers and photographs. Including letters from William Roughton in London during his medical training in 1799/1800. Letters about support of an illegitimate brother of W.J.Lockwood of Dews Hall (Essex) 1815 – 1826. Medical partnership deeds 1812 – 1821, practice cash book 1834 – 1841and account books 1856 – 1875. Letters from George Roughton in Bombay 1879 – 1881. Records of Kettering Women Warworkers 1916 – 1919. Genealogical papers and photocopies from Fitzwilliam archives on connection with the Sturgeons.
Rye (Culworth ) 1770-1869, 962 docs, ref. Rye
Peter Rye (d.1851), a younger son of the Dr. William Beauchamp Rye, pursued his career and fortune in the navy and eventually rose to be an admiral. An older brother inherited the family estate at Culworth but died without children so Admiral Rye eventually succeeded to it. He married Eleanor Lord and two of their daughters married into the Elwes family. The collection was deposited by the Elwes family whose own archive is described under Elwes of Great Billing.
Very interesting late 18th and 19th C. archive of correspondence and naval papers mainly relating to Admiral Peter Rye's career. Also Lt. Edward Rye's ship's journals, to India, 1771 – 1774 and log to West Indies, 1778. Ship's journals of Peter Rye in the Atlantic, to Australia and at Gothenburg (Sweden) 1790 – 1814. Correspondence and papers on organising North Sea convoys 1813. Family letters and letters to his wife. Jane Rye's travel journal 1820, France, Switzerland and Italy. Poetry and sketches including view of Dartmouth (Devon) c. 1820 and Waterloo. Papers on sale of Culworth estate 1851 – 1852. Papers on Hugh Lord's finances 1811 – 1830.
(Culworth estate accounts 1774 – 1783 are in the Aplin solicitors collection.)
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