The Crompton Family of Stone in the Sutherland Papers
The Marquis of Stafford became the Lord of the Manor of Stone in 1798
when an Inclosure Bill led to the Leveson-Gower family acquiring considerable land and property in Stone which had once belonged ...
Stone Parish Receipts and Disbursements, 1828-1829
Amongst printed material relating to Stone is an account of the receipts and disbursements of the Parish from 1828-1829. This document provides an insight into life in Stone during the early nineteenth ...
Paving the Town of Stone, 1778
This document shows a list of subscribers to donated money towards ‘paving the Town of Stone’ in 1778. Earl Gower donated twenty one pounds and appears at the top of the list as providing the highest ...
Normacot Grange Farm, 1851
The Sutherland Papers contains a number of papers relating to a dispute involving Normacot Grange Farm in the North of Stone Parish. The dispute concerned a man named Thomas Webster and the Duke of Sutherland’s ...
Normacot Grange Farm House and Buildings
This photograph shows part of Normacot Grange Farm House and the farm buildings. Taken in the late nineteenth century, the photograph shows a number of outbuildings where animals were kept, including ...
Letter from George Cookes, Stone to Isaac Brisbane, Trentham, 1719
George Cookes of Stone wrote to Isaac Brisbane of Trentham on 31st March 1719 concerning the number of cattle that had been purchased from Trentham.
Cookes refers to a visit to Stone and a letter ...
More from Jeremiah Smith's Lease
More from Jeremiah Smith's Lease
More from Jeremiah Smith's Lease
More from Jeremiah Smith's Lease
Hill Chorlton Farm Wind Engine
The Sutherland Papers Collection contains a huge variety of documents relating to technological developments on the Leveson-Gower family’s estates in Staffordshire. A number of intriguing papers amongst ...
Great Chatwell Farm
On 24th September 1907 J. H. Menzies received a letter from Dawson Bennett & Co, solicitors from Lincoln’s Inn, London.
The letter concerned Great Chatwell Farm on the estates of Colonel Cotes in ...
Colonel Cotes, Eccleshall Celebrity: The Colonel’s Letters to J. H. Menzies
The Sutherland Papers contain many bundles of correspondence relating to the Cotes estate in Eccleshall. A man named J. H. Menzies acted as agent for this estate, and there are a wide variety of letters, ...
The Pines at Codsall
The Sutherland Papers include a ‘Plan of Property at Codsall’ which was sold by the Duke of Sutherland at Auction in 1891.
Dated 24th June 1891, the plan shows the land in Codsall in lots, including ...
Estimate of Expenditure on Codsall, 1852
Extensive landowners in Staffordshire, the Leveson-Gower family employed estate agents to oversee the administration of their lands and properties. These agents kept many documents, including accounts ...
Elizabethan Codsall
Amongst the wealth of documents relating to lands in Staffordshire during the sixteenth century are two leases relating to Codsall, made in 1560 and 1596. The Leveson family became extensive landowners ...
Education in Codsall
A National School was established in Codsall in 1818. Supported by subscriptions and charitable donations, by 1833 the school was providing an education for forty five boys and sixty five girls, at a ...
Medieval Cheddleton
The document above dates back to 1328. A transcription and translation of the document features below:
"This is the agreement made between John, by the grace of God Abbot of Lilleshall and the religious ...