| AdminHistory | In 1681 Henry Gill, a younger son of Edward Gill of Carr House, Greasbrough, Rotherham, and Elizabeth Westby, purchased the Oakes. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, eventually his sole heiress, married in 1699 Richard Bagshawe, second son of Adam Bagshawe of Wormhill, Derbyshire, a younger brother of William Bagshawe of Ford Hall (the Apostle of the Peak). The Oakes was, after the death of Henry Gill, the chief seat of Richard Bagshawe and his descendants, though Wormhill Hall also eventually came to him.
Three sons of Richard Bagshawe and Elizabeth Gill - Richard, William and John - held the Oakes estates in succession. When the last of the three brothers died in 1791 the estate was left to a Bagshawe cousin in the male line, John Bagshawe of the Ford Hall family. At his death, unmarried, in 1801, it was inherited by a Hull doctor, William Chambers Darling, grandson of Ellen, one of the daughters of Richard Bagshawe and Elizabeth Gill. As Sir William Chambers Bagshawe, he became well-known as a local personality and carried out many alterations at the Oakes. He and his son William John Bagshawe both had large families and their descendants continued to reside at the Oakes until the 1980s. |
| Description | The family muniments of Mrs M. B. I. Bagshawe of The Oakes in Norton, Derbyshire. Records include those of the related families of Gill, Torr, Drake and others.
Manorial records for Barnoldswick and Hatfield
Parish and township papers for Norton (near Sheffield), Barnoldswick and elsewhere;
Turnpike and other records;
Estate and family records including rentals, maps and plans, lead mining papers, accounts, correspondence;
Deeds for the Bagshawe estates in Norton, Castleton, Wormhill and Chapel-en-le Frith in Derbyshire and Barnoldswick and Earby in the Craven district of Yorkshire, and Foulridge across the Lancashire border.
Wills and settlements of the Bagshawe, Drake and related families
Includes: plans & elevations including proposed alterations, plans of the gardens & other maps & plans; Rentals; family letters; Norton school and charity records.
The records listed in this first part comprise the second deposit received from the Oakes-in-Norton, near Sheffield. They were received into custody during 1964.
A previous deposit, received in 1960, had already been catalogued and a N.R.A. catalogue circulated. The earlier deposit consisted, however, of the later deeds, and that catalogue should now be called volume 2 (part 2).
Accession numbers:
OD/756-1311 64151-64171 January 1964
OD/1312-1581 64201-64215 June 1964
OD/1588-1594 1965
Scope and Content
As both sides of the family were descended from younger sons, records of either before the time of Henry Gill are not very numerous.
There are some early Wormhill deeds, including several relating to a forestership in the Peak. Deeds to the Oakes from the reign of Elizabeth are also here. Some documents relate to Henry Westby, the Parliamentary captain. There are also deeds of the Banester and Drake families of Barnoldswick; the Drake estate was inherited by William Bagshawe of the Oakes.
Arrangement
PUBLIC LOCAL RECORDS
Manorial Barnoldswick
Hatfield
Parish and Township
Brimington (Derbyshire)
Norton (Sheffield)
Coal Aston (Derbyshire)
Bradwell (Derbyshire)
Barnoldswick (West Riding)
Ecclesall Bierlow Union (West Riding)
Turnpike and other roads
ESTATE AND FAMILY RECORDS
Rentals
Surveys
Maps and plans (including lead mines)
Leadmining
Woods
Tithes
Account books (general estate and personal)
Records relating to public office
Correspondence
Personal items
Estate items omitted
Material not connected with Bagshawe and related families
Notes and secondary material
Printed matter
CATALOGUE OF DEEDS
Derbyshire. Appletree: Yeldersley
High Peak: Castleton, Hope and Bradwell
Chapel-en-le-Frith
Tideswell (Mary Wormhill)
Commons
Leadmining deeds
Scarsdale: Chesterfield
Norton
Brimington
Eckington
Unstone
Yorkshire.
East Riding Hemingborough
Yorkshire.
West Riding. Morley: Halifax
Staincliffe: Barnoldswick
Thornton-in-Craven
Strafforth & Tickhill: Bradford
Handsworth
Rotherham
Sheffield
Yorkshire Unidentified
Lancashire Miscellaneous
Wills and Settlements Drake family
Bagshawe family
Personal items
Miscellaneous
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