Taylor (Abington ) Uncatalogued
Councillor David Paton Taylor came to Northampton as the head of the Glasgow leather merchants Malcolm Inglis and Co. in the town. The Taylors lost a son in the First World War and donated new premises for the Y.W.C.A. as a memorial Their surviving son David Norman Taylor (d. 1983) was a farmer who lived at Abington Lodge. He left the family estate to a charitable trust.
20thC. farming records including cropping books for Holcot Tithe farm [1942 ] - 1961. Records of Malcolm Inglis and Co. including notes and journal on business trip to India 1929. Northampton scouting records.
Taylor (Little Bowden ) 1329-1955, 126 docs., ref. TLB
The Taylors had been farming in Little Bowden since at least 1400 and their 15thC. charters survive in this collection. On the death of Samuel Taylor in 1862 the estate was sold. His elder son farmed at Rothwell.
Medieval charters and later deeds, mainly for Little Bowden (now in Leicestershire) Includes inventory of Mrs Ann Taylor 1653, farm and household account book 1658 - 1671, agreement for commons in Little Bowden 1718, private accounts of Mary Taylor 1756/1757.
Letters from Mrs Susan Taylor on tour in Germany and France 1871 - 1873.
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Temple (Stowe ) c.1275-1889, 45 boxes, ref. T(S)
The Temple (Stowe) collection was deposited in the NRO in the absence of a record office for Buckinghamshire at the time. It has very little connection with Northamptonshire. Stowe House and park in Buckinghamshire were one of the most fabulous seats in the country.
Richard Grenville inherited Stowe from his uncle Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham in 1749. He was made Earl Temple and his family as a Marquess and later Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos held the estate down to 1889. The 1st Marquess of Buckingham married the heiress of earl Nugent and the 1st Duke married the heiress to the Brydges family, Dukes of Chandos.
Principally deeds and estate papers of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos. For Temple family estate round Stowe and Tingewick (Buckinghamshire), including charters for Westbury, and at Burton Dasset (Warwickshire). For the Grenville family around Wootton Underwood and Ashendon (Buckinghamshire). For the Brydges family, Dukes of Chandos including rentals and estate accounts 1717 - 1734 for estates principally in Wilton and The Mynde, Much Dewchurch and Orcop (Herefordshire), Stanmore and Kingsbury (Middlesex), Ashton and Grafton and Tuffley (Gloucestershire), Lambister, New and Old Radnor and Boughrood (Radnorshire), Bishops Waltham and Wellow (Hampshire), Bridgewater (Somerset), Shaw and Speen (Berkshire), Steyning (Sussex), Westminster, Shropshire and Montgomery. Steward's memo book for estates in Devon and Somerset 1760 - 1773. London household account 1721 - 1722 and 18thC. Chandos House inventory. 1st Duke's account as Paymaster general 1717 - 1719 and letter book 1721 - 1722. Deeds for Keynsham (Somerset), and Avington, Wellow and Bishops Waltham (Hampshire). Leases for Earl Nugent's estates in Cornwall and Gosfield Hall (Essex). Deeds for Westcott (Buckinghamshire) and St. Laurence Poultney and St. Martin Orgar, London. Stowe library catalogue c.1810 and plate book 1838/9. Stowe housekeeping book 1863 - 1887 and kitchen ledger 1887 - 1889.
Inventories of Thomas Heritage of London 1540 and of the rev. Thomas Heritage, chaplain to Henry VIII, also 1540. Account roll of bailiff of Groby (Leicestershire) 1540. Senegal trade ledger 1771. Silver inventory for Taymouth Castle (Scotland) 1863
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Thornton (Brockhall ) 1283-1950, 3671 docs., 70 boxes, refs. Th & ThB
Brockhall was built by Edward Eyton but he sold the house to Thomas Thornton of Newnham in 1652. Thornton was a lawyer and Recorder of Daventry. Thomas Reeve Thornton (d. 1862) married Susannah Fremeaux, the heiress of her grandfather James Fremeaux of Kingsthorpe (d. 1799). Fremeaux was a Huguenot merchant who had been naturalized in 1752 and had acquired the Cooke estate at Kingsthorpe in 1762 through his own marriage. He built Kingsthorpe hall to designs by John Johnson in 1773. Kingsthorpe went to T.R. Thornton's 3rd son the rev. William Thornton. Brockhall was inherited by The Rev. Thornton's eldest son in 1884 and Kingsthorpe went again to a younger son Francis Hugh Thornton (see below). The Thorntons remained at Brockhall until 1969. On the death of col. Thomas Anson Thornton in 1978 the male line became extinct. Brockhall is now divided up into flats.
Gentry family with estates in Brockhall, Norton, Muscott, Dodford, Newnham, Badby, Daventry, Farthingstone, Flore, Weedon Bec, Brixworth, Brafield and Little Houghton, Cold Ashby, Ladbrooke (Warwickshire) and Budge Row (London). Charters for Brockhall, manor court rolls for Newnham and Badby from 1407, 16th and 17thC. customs. Papers on breaking up of Evesham Abbey estates at Dissolution and on Daventry Priory. 17thC. papers on management of common field system at Newnham. Flore inclosure account book 1778. late 17th/18thC. estate and household account books. 18thC. estate correspondence. Thomas Thornton's account book 1582 - 1600. Samuel Thornton's accounts as a London merchant 1680 - 1696. Good 17th/ 18th/19thC. family correspondence, on marriage of William Thornton, 1750's, on education of sons 1780's, illness of John Thornton, early 19thC. Notebooks as J.P.'s 1700 - 1718, 1789, travel journals 1820's, Norfolk, Wales and Ireland, Devon, 1846 inventory.
Papers on the executorships of Dr. [Paul] Ives and Thomas Adams of Whilton, mid 18thC. On Poultney family estate at Misterton (Leicestershire) 1590 - 1632. On Lee family estate at Cold Ashby 1619 - 1740. Diaries of William Lee 1723 - 1728 (on microfilm). Accounts for late Cordwell Hammond of Putney, draper, 1681 - 1691. On Thomas Boddington of Clapton (Middlesex) 18th/early19thC.
18thC. Brockhall parish records.
Fremeaux of Kingsthorpe archives including James Fremeaux's merchant's account book 1751 - 1774 in Smyrna, Leghorn and Amsterdam and Amsterdam letter book 1794 - 1798. Estate accounts 1790 - 1802 for Kingsthorpe, Hannington, Dalscote in Pattishall, Rothersthorpe, Earls Barton.
Cooke family deeds and papers, Kingsthorpe and Earls Barton. Bills for building and fitting out Kingsthorpe hall 1774 - 1775. 18thC. letters and papers of Mrs Susannah Fremeaux.
Note: Certain catalogued items have been withdrawn by the family.
This catalogue is available on the National Access to Archives website, see related links below.
(Further Thornton of Kingsthorpe items include the travel journals of the Rev. William Thornton to France and Scotland, 1828 and to Belgium and the Rhine 1860's with a family history and memoir 1866 and his journal 1853 - 1855, ref.X4937 and the diaries of Mary Susan Thornton 1866 - 1899, ref. YZ 2163 - 2180 and ZB 1722)
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Frank H. Thornton collection 1630 - 1877, 100 docs., ref. FHT
Francis or Frank Hugh Thornton (d. 1937) inherited Kingsthorpe Hall from his father in law the Rev. William Thornton (see above Thornton of Brockhall). The Thorntons had inherited the estate through marriage to the Fremeaux heiress at the beginning of the 19thC. On F.H.Thornton's death the mansion and park were acquired by Northampton Borough council. The house is presently empty.
Mainly deeds for Fremeaux estates in Hannington and Earls Barton from the Cooke and Wilmer families. 18thC. Kingsthorpe manor charity trust deeds. Agreement for inclosure hedging at Earls Barton 1771. Some other Fremeaux financial papers. 19thC. estate papers for Hardwick and estate notebook for Kingsthorpe, Duston, Charwelton and Newnham 1862 - 1877.
Thursby - see Harvey Thursby
Tibbits (Kelmarsh ) 1630-1905, 193 docs., ref. T(Kel)
Interesting 18th/19thC. farmers' papers. There are very few Northants. documents. The depositors are local.
Deeds and papers of the Taylor, Bach or Bates and Brook(e) families, and of Peter Marshall's charity, Coton in the elms and Walton upon Trent (Derbyshire) 1630 - 1774. Coton parish records. Account books, note books, correspondence and bills of the Smith family of Clifton Campville (Staffordshire) 1745 - 1770, with 18thC. printed miscellanea. Farm day books of the Tibbits family of Pooley Hall, Polesworth (Warwickshire) 1812 - 1905.
Towndrow (Geddington ) 1790-1978, 565 docs., ref. TG
Towndrow and Tween family papers, early 18thC. recipes, late 19th/20thC. correspondence, photographs and Christmas cards
Tresham of Rushton - An archive exists in the British Library
Tryon (Bulwick ) c.1275-1870, 895 docs., ref. TB
Gentry family with estates in Bulwick, Harringworth and Seaton (Rutland). Late 16thC. Latin correspondence, household accounts
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