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London Metropolitan Archives

CRAWLEY FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 E/CRY

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CRAWLEY FAMILY

Date(s): 1701-1883

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.6 linear metres (170 documents).

Name of creator(s): Crawley | family | of Bedfordshire

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Samuel Crawley and John Sambrook Crawley are mentioned in these documents as 'of Beds'. The Crawley family were notable landowners in Bedfordshire, owning several manors there since 1519. A John Crawley was married to Susannah Vanacker Sambrooke of St. George Hanover Square, daughter of Sir Samuel Vanacker Sambrooke, and several pieces of property seem to have passed into the Crawley family through this connection.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Crawley family relating to the management of their estates in Holborn and Marylebone.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

E/CRY-1: General papers;
E/CRY-2: Boswell Street, Holborn;
E/CRY-3: Dane Street, Holborn;
E/CRY-4: Eagle Street, Holborn;
E/CRY-5: High Holborn;
E/CRY-6: Kingsgate Street, Holborn;
E/CRY-7: Red Lion Passage, Holborn;
E/CRY-8: Red Lion Square, Holborn;
E/CRY-9: Red Lion Street, Holborn;
E/CRY-10: Newman Street, St Marylebone;
E/CRY-11: Welbeck Street, St Marylebone;
E/CRY-12: Wigmore Street, St Marylebone;
E/CRY-13: Fitzroy Street, St Pancras.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in August 1954.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Estate management | Land management | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Family archives | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names
Crawley | family | of Bedfordshire

Corporate names

Places
Holborn | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Marylebone | City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Camden