| Doc Ref No | D357, D802, 1344 pt., 3993, D4124, 5657, D6179, D6584, 7286, 7315 |
| Description | The Kings Bromley Manor Estate was originally purchased by 1689 by the Newton family from James Agard. The purchaser was Barbara Newton (d.1694), the widow of Col. Samuel Newton of Wingfield, Derbys., and Barbadoes, and she bought the estate on behalf of her son John Newton, from the trustees of Charles Agard (d.1670s), possibly in 1686 (an estate survey in her name is dated 1689, although a rental of 1687 shows Samuel Newton had some land in Kings Bromley).
The later Manor House was built by Samuel Newton (1706-1771). On the death of John Newton in 1794, the estate was inherited by his cousins John and Thomas Lane from Bentley Hall in Walsall. In about 1820 they divided the estate between them into east and west halves, the western part containing the Hall and Park being taken by John Lane.
The last resident at Kings Bromley was John Henry Hervey Vincent Lane (b.1867) who died in 1917, after which the property was sold. Miss Jane Lane, sister of Thomas Lane and the last of the family, died in 2013.
Note: accession 7286 has not been catalogued. It consists of eight bundles including:
(1) property at Elmhurst and Kings Bromley; (2) receipts, correspondence, literary papers 18th-19th cent; (3) insurance and legal papers, wills and marriage settlement; (4) papers of Lady Holte of Aston Hall (Birmingham); (5) receipts and bills, mainly in French, with papers of Captain Henry Bagot Lane; (6) various estate documents including map; (7) Lane claim on the Crown and claim to a peerage, 1842; other items including 1658 document re infant, and 19th century recipe book; (8) miscellaneous including two letters from Simon Fraser, Jacobite conspirator, water colour, poems and copy epistle (?Cowper).
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There is also additional material in D6584 relating to the Hervey family which is not fully catalogued. Please ask for further information.
[Note: the accession 1344 or D1344/2 mainly relates to the Kings Bromley estate, but as it was purchased at auction (apparently originating from the Phillips MSS), it is possible that some items are not connected. Items in D1344/2/2-3 have been separately catalogued as containing miscellaneous and/or unconnected documents.] |