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(HucEssEN FAMILY) ‘
MANORIAL Documeurs: Walrner, 1618-85,
TITLE DEEDS: about 200, for Norton, Linsted, Chislet, Oare and
Walmer, 14.98-1791, including some for the Meredith family of Leeds
Priory and Denbighshire.
FAMILY PAPERS: wills, etc., of Hugessen, Banks and Meredith families,
1646-1828, including inventory ofSir Richard Meredith 0fLeeds, 1679.
OFFICIAL PAPERS: sherifI’s quielus, 164.1.
CONYNGHAM MSS. U438
The marriage of Major-General Henry Conyngham of Slane (co.
Meath) to the daughter of Sir john Wlilliams of Minster-in-Thanet
resulted in the development ofa vast Kentish estate in the hands of this
Irish family. The son of the match, who became Earl Conyngham of
Mount Charles, left his estate to.his nephew, Francis Pierpoint Burton,
who succeeded to the Barony of Mount Charles. The mansion,
Bifrons, formerly belonging to the Taylor family, became the chief
Kentish seat of the 1st Marquess Conyngham in 1830. In the twentieth
century the development of the Kent Coalfield greatly affected the
estate, and this is reflected in the papers listed below. A similar
accumulation of deeds and papers relating to the Irish estates of the
family has been deposited in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin.
l\/IANORIAL Docuuervrsz Minster-in-Thanet, 1739-1924., with survey,
1700, lists of fishers and owners of boats and greyhounds, with direc-
tions tor holding courts, :.175o, papers and plans regarding wreck
of the sea, foreshore rights, sale ofquit-rents, etc., 1826-1929; Goss Hall,
Hills Church Gate, and Liverocks in Ash-next-Sandwich, 1849-1923;
Kingston, 1855-1923; Patrixbourne , Cheney and Martin, 1639-
1928, Wickhambreaux, 1699-1923.
TITLE Deans: about 2,650 mainly for Ash-next-Sandwich, Barham,
Beakesbourne, Bishopsbourne, Chislet and Reculver, Kingston,
Littlebourne, Patrixbourne, Preston-next-Wingham, Minster, Monk-
ton, St. john, St. Lawrence and St. Peter, all in Thanet, and Wickham-
breaux, 1551-1929; and small numbers for Bridge, Upper Hardres,
Ickham, Nackington, Stourmouth and Wingharn; for Leicester and
Smeeton Westerby, 1711-1838, and London, 1732-184.0.
ESTATE PA1=1zRs: settlements and wills, 1700-1916; rentals and accounts,
1739-1929; papers relating to mortgages on estate, I867-1921; surveys
and valuations mainly for Minster, 1700-1899, and for Chipsteacl Place
ill Chevening (Polhill estate), 1827; improvements, 1862-1919, partly
under Limited Owners Residences Acts; agreements with Bridge
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' ESTATE AND FAMILY ARCHIVES
Union for site of workhouse, 1835, and with Thanet Rural District
Council regarding new bridge over Stour, 1898-9; estate correspon
dence, I782-1901, including many letters to Ellen, Dowager Lady
Conyngharn; papers, agreements, correspondence, etc., regarding
mineral rights and the Kent Coalfield, 1897-I929, including sections
for Bourne and Fleet borings, 1914; correspondence, etc., relating to
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 1836-1903, to the East Kent
Light Railway, 1910-29, and proposals for a new railway to Sandwich
haven, 0.1900; papers relating to the London estate of Solomon
Merrett, deed. (father of Ellen, Countess Conyngham), 1732-70.
LEGAL PAPERS! Carey vernu Williams regarding the manor of Minster,
1631-67; various disputes concerning manorial rights of Minster,
1775-1904,, concerning Goss Hall in Ash, 1736, 1845; concerning
South-Eastern Railway Co., 1846-98; and concerning the Mid Kent
and East Kent District Water Co. Bill, 1913; and Conyngharn versus
Conyngham regarding the will of the 5th Marquess, 1920.
OFFICIAL PAr>1ms: poor rate assessments for St. Lawrence, 1641,
Minster, 1754; papers regarding sale or" Wickhambreaux poor house,
1836; draft conveyance ofsite of Minster National school, 1854..
MAPS: Ash, 1752, Chislet, c.1830, Herne and Reculver, 1728, Ickham,
011850, Kingston, 1679, Littlebourne, 1840, Minster, 5.1800, Patrix-
bourne, 1730, St. Lawrence Thanet, 1724 and c.1840.
CORNWALLIS (MANN) MSS. (Linton Park Estate) U24.
The Mann family came originally from Suffolk and acquired Linton
Place in 1724 through Edward Louisa Mann who was possibly acting
for his father. The family fortunes were established by Edward’s
brother, Galfridus, friend of'Sir Robert Walpole, and further purchases
of estates in the Linton, Cranbrook and Egerton neighbourhoods were
made by the trustees of his will. Catherine Mann in I77I married
James Cornwallis, later the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and
4th Earl Cornwallis The trust estates devolved in 1814. upon the
bishop’s son, James, who assumed the surname Mann and subsequently
became the 5th Earl. The non-settled estate, which included Linton
Place, was broken up in I805~6 by Sir Horace Mann, but his son-in-
law, who had also taken the name James Mann, bought Linton Place
and sold it to his namesake in 1820, thus causing the two halves of
the estate to be re-united. The Earldom became extinct with the death
of the 5th Earl when the estates passed first to his daughter Julia,
Viscountess Holmesdale, and then, after her death .r._t2. in 1883, to
Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis (later 1st Baron Cornwallis of
Linton), grandson of Lady Jemima Isabella Mann.
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