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Families and Estates
Research Themes Supported
Hull History Centre holds the archival collections of a number of landed families and estates in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Such collections can aid research into many areas including:
- Land Ownership and Transfer
- Estate and Household Management
- Women’s Role in Estate and Household Management
- Marriage Settlements and Female Landownership
- Tenancies and Tenants
- Local Magistrates
- Civic Office Holding
- Studies of Individual Families
- Heraldry
- Country House Architecture and Decoration
- Diary Keeping and Letter Writing
- Manorial History
Typical Record Formats
Families and estates records commonly include title deeds, court rolls, marriage settlements, rentals, estate plans, leases and releases, surrenders, mortgages, diaries, household books, photographs, and correspondence.
Further collections
The following PDF contains a list of HHC collections that may be useful to researchers interested in landed families and estates.
- Source Guide Families & Estates List of collections created by families and estates at HHC
Additional supporting material
The following material may also be useful when researching this area:
- Trade Directories produced annually, these provide a brief administrative summary of the local authority at the beginning of volumes, and allow you to trace civic office holders.
- Ancestry and Find My Past, online databases which allow you to trace family connections.
