| Description | Kirklington title deeds and documents relating to property inherited by the Wandesford family by the marriage (before 1370) of Elizabeth daughter of Sir Henry de Musters with John de Wandesford including Wandesford family title deeds 13th century-1590 relating to Treswell in Notts 1370, Kirklington 1386-1545, Howgrave and Norton Conyers 14th century-1469, Yarnwick (in Kirklington) 13th century-1544, Hudswell 1558.
Thimbleby title deeds relating to property acquired by marriage of John Wandesford with Isabel daughter of John Colville of Dale.
Wandesford family documents 1391-1608, including wills, mortgages, settlements and related documents; personal, official and estate documents including contract for building house 1484, papal dispensations to take orders 1490-1531, letters of confraternity of guild of St Christopher and St George 1500, Sheriff's accounts c.1579, letters about raising troops 1581, letters about arresting papists 1584, appointment as deputy steward of Richmondshire 1583, Kirklington farm crop accounts 1594; deeds relating to Allerthorpe 1583, Barton 1588, Danby 1595, Gilling 1563, Hartforth 1563, East Heslerton 1598, Howgrave 1583, Howgill House and Leake 1585, Holborn 1596-1602, Longmoors 1588-1597, East Lutton 1595, Richmond 1563-1572, Rodington 1602, Sinderby 1556, Pickhill 1556, Theakston 1556, Sleningford 1606, Sutton Howgrave 1605, Wallerthwaite and Markington 1579, Kaber 1604, Westwick and Roecliffe 1589, Wilton in Pickeringlyth 1596, York 1586.
Fulthorpe family title deeds and documents, acquired by marriages of Francis Wandesford with Ann Fulthorpe and of Christopher Wandesford with Cicily Fulthorpe, including deeds relating to Hipswell 13th century-1551, Richmond 1333-1595, Fulthorpe 1415-1596, Middleham deanery 1535, Barnard Castle 1377-1586, Boldron 13th-14th century, Kaber in Westmoreland 1566-1586, Startforth 1586, Wathcote (in Easby by Richmond) 1553-1558; personal, official documents including settlements.
Hansby family title deeds and documents 1423-1623, in which the Wandesfords had interests through the marriage of Sir George Wandesford and Catherine daughter and co-heir of Ralph Hansby, including settlements; personal papers including commission of surveyor of Queen's stables 1578 and request for loan to Crown 1597; deeds relating to Bartingdale (in Hunmanby) 1551-1598, Bishop Burton from 1423, Burton Pidsea 1605, Cherry Burton from 1578, Dugleby 1558, Fulford 1610, Kilham 1588-1616, Knapton 1558, Pocklington 1616, Ruston nigh Kilham 1580, Thirkleby 1558.
Wandesford family documents from 1608, including wills, settlements and mortgages; personal, official and estate documents including quittance for debts relating to papists c.1613, Office of steward of Ripon liberty 1617-1629, Office of steward/deputy bailiff of Richmond 1630, Office of under-sheriff 1690, regulations for alehousekeepers 1620; letters to or from Lord Digby 1626, Christopher Hunton 1623, Ralph Hutton 1631, Major Norton 1623-1640, Edward Osborne 1631, Sheriff about election 1663, Elizabeth Swettenham early 18th century, Reverend John Talbot 1758, John Wilson 1618; forced loans 1627; commissions to Deputy Lieutenants 1666-1715; raising troops 1673; mill agreements 1670-1673; letters of ordination and institution 1693-1758; Stirling Burgh certificate of freedom 1730; enclosure proposals 1758-1784; trustee documents including Danby family wardship 1626, Scroope of Danby/Plompton family deed 1632, Syddall Charity (will of Michael Syddall of Catterick) 1659, Thornton family settlement 1668, Yorke family settlement 1632; legal proceedings including Scotson v Atkinson relating to Melsonby 1626, Arrest warrant 1629, Osborne v Wandesford (after 1662), Leonard Robinson v Jas Mills 1663, Killing coneys on Hutton Moor 1667, theft of sheep 1678-1743; deeds relating to Adwick 1613, Bentley 1613, Boldron 1612-1614, Bowes 1614, Darfield 1613, Easby 1616, Haddlesey 1613, Hipswell 1609-1635, Howgrave 1622, Hudswell 1630-1715, Leeds 1695, Longmoors and Easby 1616, Kirkby 1613, Kirklington 1627, Melsonby 1626, Pickhill cum Roxby 1670, Sleningford 1611, Thimbleby 1609-1620, Upsland 1622, Nether Wath 1613, York 1613.
Ripon deeds 1648-1715; Hudswell documents 13th century-1753 including manor court records 1607-1674; Kirklington leases 1588-1778; Hipswell leases 1718; Lancashire (Elton in Bury, Pilkington) leases 1708-1711; Kent (Charlton and Woolwich) lease 1716.
Estate accounts, rentals, surveys, late 15th century-1823.
Kirklington overseers of the poor (including Pickhill deeds) 1717-1753.
Prior-Wandesforde miscellaneous papers 1577-1927. |
| Administrative history | The principal residence of the Wandesford family from the end of the 14th century to the early 17th century was Kirklington in the North Riding of Yorkshire. In 1633 however Christopher Wandesford (d. 1640) accompanied Lord Strafford to Ireland and worked there for the rest of his life. In 1637 he bought the Castlecomer estate in Kilkenny in Ireland which thenceforth became a principal seat of the family. The family archives were kept there by the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century.
Some family records (which had probably been kept in the English residences) have been received into the North Yorkshire County Record Office directly from the family: they include a few 18th century deeds but consist principally of 19th and early 20th century estate administration documents. The majority of the Prior-Wandesforde family documents from Castlecomer (which include the mediaeval material relating to Kirklington, Hudswell, Hipswell and elsewhere) have been kept in the National Library of Ireland since they were purchased from the family, but in 2000 the English material was transferred on indefinite loan to North Yorkshire County Record Office.
When HB M'Call wrote his Story of the Family of Wandesforde of Kirklington and Castlecomer (published London 1904) he used the family archives then in the Deed room at Castlecomer House and made a detailed calendar of 270 earlier documents dated between the thirteenth and early eighteenth centuries. They relate to estates acquired by the family by means of marriages to several heiresses and by purchases, but, since the whole collection is arranged in one fairly strict chronological sequence, the documents relating to each of these acquisitions are not grouped together. |