Fonds GB 0210 NEWSON - Newton Jackson Collection of Blackbrook Deeds,

Robert Newton Jackson of Blackbrook, Monmouthshire, accumulated a group of deeds relating to his property and the area. Blackbrook was a small manor held of the Castle of Skenfrith, with its Chapel of St Noe forming part of Dore Abbey. In the 16th century it was the home of Sir Richard Morgan. By the 17th century the manor was in the hands of Thomas Bodenham. At the beginning of the 18th century, it belonged to George Scudamore, who married Ann, daughter to Roger Bodenham of Rotherwas, the brother of Thomas of Blackbrook. It was later inherited by Sir John Briggs who assumed the Baronetcy on the death of his father Sir Hugh Briggs of Haughton, Shropshire. Later, Blackbrook belonged to the Hon. Col John Lindsay, the seventh son of James, the fifth Earl of Balcarres, who built the present house. In 1827, it was sold to John Crawfurd, who sold it to Peter Rothwell Jackson of Manchester, and later inherited by his son Robert Newton Jackson.