Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1310-1427, [19 cent.] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
55 items
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
John la Warre was the son of Roger la Warre who held estates in the south and south-west of England. After the death of his grandfather, Sir John Tregoz, he received several properties including the castle and manor of Ewyas Harold in Herefordshire.
In 1294 he married Joan, daughter of Sir Robert de Grelle, who owned extensive estates in Manchester and Guerdley, Lancashire, and in Swineshead, Sixhills and Bloxholm, Lincolnshire. The couple acquired lands by charter from Roger la Warre and from Joan's brother, Sir Thomas Grelle, including the manors and advowsons of Manchester and Swineshead, in 1310.
The Lincolnshire connections were reinforced through the marriage of their son, John, to Margaret de Holand. John la Warre died in 1347 and the manors of Wakerley and Swineshead were inherited by his grandson,Roger la Warre in 1353. John, Lord la Warre, son of Roger la Warre and his first wife Elizabeth, came into possession of his father's lands in 1370. The Lincolnshire holdings were further increased by his second marriage, prior to 1389, to Elizabeth de Neville of Grimsthorpe, who had estates in Gosberton as a result of her previous marriage to Simon Symeon. The heir to the lands of John la Warre in 1398 was his brother, Thomas, who pursued a career in the church, holding various livings, including the rectory of Swineshead three times, and the rectory of the free chapel of Barthorpe. Upon the death of Thomas in 1427 the successor to the title of Lord la Warre was Reginald West, preference being given to him over John Griffin who was apparently the next heir general of John and Thomas la Warre. It would appear that the estate was sold in 1579 to a John Lacy of London and then passed from Lacy to the Mosley family.
Further research (August 2018) would suggest that the Swineshead deeds were once part of the Moore Deeds. The links between the families of de Grelle, Griffin and de la More (Moore) have not yet been fully explored. The papers of the Moore family of Bankhall, Liverpool, were acquired by Robert Hart Logan, MP (d. 1838), presumably when he purchased the Kentwell estate (Suffolk) from the descendants of the Moore family, c. 1820. Hart Logan was uncle to the famous Canadian geologist, William Edmond Logan. William’s sister, Agnes, had married Alexander Stewart and it was their son, James, who purchased Alltyrodyn, Cardiganshire, c. 1880.
The majority of the Moore deeds are at Liverpool Record Office and other papers are at Liverpool University Special Collections and Archives.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchased from Captain Stewart of Alltyrodyn, Llandysul, Ceredigion, in 1927.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Deeds, 1310-1427, relating to lands in the area of Swineshead in Holland, Lincolnshire, owned by the (de) la Warre family together with some 19th century notes on the descent of the Gresley, Warenne, De la Warre, and West families.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: All records purchased by NLW have been retained.
Accruals
Accruals are not expected
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply
Language of material
- Latin
Script of material
Language and script notes
Latin
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
A hard copy of the catalogue is available at NLW.
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Notes area
Note
Title supplied from contents of fonds
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2002
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Compiled by Mair James.
Archivist's note
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Schedule of Swineshead Lincolnshire Deeds.:
The Complete Peerage ed. Vicary Gibbs, (London 1910)
Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937
The Lincoln Record Society Vol. 54 (1959) The Records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603, I ed. A Mary Kirkus
The Lincoln Record Society Vol. 63 (1968) The Records of the Commoissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603, II ed. A. E. B. Owen
Moore onf Bankhall , Ronald Stewart-Brown: https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/63-8-Stewart-Brown.pdf