IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 E/TD
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: TYRWHITT-DRAKE FAMILY
Date(s): 1548-1846
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.6 linear metres (962 documents).
Name of creator(s): Drake | Tyrwhitt- | family | of Amersham x Tyrwhitt-Drake
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Manor of Amersham was conveyed to William Drake, owner of the Amersham mansion house Shardeloes, in 1637. Drake was made a baronet in 1641. The baronetcy expired on his death, childless, in 1669; while the estates passed to his nephew Sir William Drake. The name Tyrwhitt derives from Thomas Drake, a younger son who had adopted the name Tyrwhitt in 1776. On the 1796 death of his older brother without children, Thomas inherited the manor and resumed the name of Drake. On his death in 1810 the property passed to his son Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake. The family owned the manor until the Second World War.
Information from: 'The hundred of Burnham: Amersham', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1925), pp. 141-155 (available online).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Tyrwhitt-Drake family of Amersham including financial transactions; papers relating to property transactions including abstracts of title, correspondence, bonds, leases, tithes, repair estimates, tradesmen's bills and inventories; family papers including wills, bequests, annuities, funeral records, legal papers and opinions of counsel. Properties mentioned are in diverse locations across London, primarily Fetter Lane in Holborn, Deptford, Chelsea, and Grosvenor Square and South Audley Street in Westminster.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
E/TD/001 to E/TD/962.
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:
Documents numbered E/TD/1-15 are kept in a leather covered box lined with fragments of a printed theological treatise. E/TD/928 had Kent reference U488: T27; also B.R.A. 890. E/TD/929 had Kent reference U488: Q2; also B.R.A. 890. E/TD/930-937 had Kent reference U488: Q3; also B.R.A. 890. E/TD/938-942 had Kent reference U488: T28; also B.R.A. 890. E/TD/943-944 had Kent reference U488: T29; also B.R.A. 890. E/TD/945 had no Kent reference; B.R.A. 890. E/TD/946-962 had Kent reference U488: A.20/1-4.
Immediate source of acquisition:
This group of records came from Shardeloes via the Buckinghamshire Record Office in 1957.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.