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Coventry family, Earls of Coventry

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Date: 1000-2000
Places:
  • Apperley, Gloucestershire
  • Bampton, Oxfordshire
  • Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire
  • Croome Court, Worcestershire
  • Croome D'abitot, Worcestershire
  • Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
  • Edgware, Middlesex
  • Eldersfield, Worcestershire
  • Fitzhead, Somerset
  • Great Milton, Oxfordshire
  • Pirton, Worcestershire
  • Rotherhithe, Surrey
  • Snitterfield, Warwickshire
  • Stixwould, Lincolnshire
  • Streatham, Surrey
  • Tirley, Gloucestershire
  • Twigmoor, Lincolnshire
  • Upton Snodsbury, Worcestershire
  • Westminster, Middlesex
  • Wiveliscombe, Somerset
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/F87161 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F10192 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
13th cent-20th cent: Worcs (Croome Court in Croome D'Abitot, etc) and Gloucs (Deerhurst, etc) deeds, family and estate papers 13th-20th cent, with deeds and papers rel to properties in Lincs (Twigmore, etc), London (Westminster and Rotherhithe), Middlesex (Edgware), Oxon (Great Milton, etc) and Warwicks (Chilvers Coton, etc) 17th-19th cent and Streatham (London) 19th cent
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
NRA 3843 Coventry
2
1200-1775: Worcs (Croome Court in Croome D'Abitot, etc) deeds and papers 13th cent-1773 and official and legal papers of Lord Keeper Coventry (d1640). Original records transferred to Worcestershire Record Office - copies remain at Birmingham
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
NRA 40581 Coventry
3
17th cent-18th cent: Worcs (Croome Court, etc) and Gloucs (Mickleton, etc), Middlesex (Edgware) and Warwicks (Chilvers Coton, etc) estate papers and Coventry legal, household and family inventories, accounts and papers 17th-18th cent, incl Stixwould (Lincs) estate accounts 1684
Collection held privately: enquiries to Archives & Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall RO)
NRA 5960 Carew Pole

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [86a]
4
1000-1963: Records
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 6282 Somerset

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [96a]
5
13th cent: Stixwould (Lincs) cartulary
British Library, Manuscript Collections
6
1649-1807: Somerset (Wiveliscombe and Fitzhead) estate papers. Original records transferred to Worcestershire Record Office - copies remain in Somerset
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 41702
7
1561-1814: Warwicks (Chilvers Coton, Snitterfield, etc) legal and estate papers. Original records transferred to Worcestershire Record Office - copies remain in Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Record Office
See Annual Return 1995
8
18th cent-19th cent: Coventry family papers, mainly rel to Worcs lieutenancy and militia
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
NRA 1310 Coventry
9
13th cent-19th cent: Coventry of Burgate (Hants) family papers, incl misc deeds and papers rel to former estates of the Earls of Coventry
Hampshire Archives
NRA 2593 Coventry
10
additional records
Hampshire Archives
11
additional records
Hampshire Archives
12
late 17th cent-18th cent: Coventry legal, political and family papers, mainly of the 2nd Earl (d1710) and Lady Coventry (d1763)
Badminton Muniments
NRA 6282 Somerset

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [96e]
13
16th cent-18th cent: Coventry family legal, official and other papers
Longleat House
NRA 16057 Thynne

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [104a]
14
17th cent: misc Coventry family papers, mainly of Henry Coventry (d1686)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [104m]
15
c1672-1680: official and personal papers of Henry Coventry (d1686)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [82o]
16
1667: Breda letter book of Henry Coventry
Alnwick Castle
NRA 836 Percy

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [82a]
17
1665-1667: papers of Sir William Coventry
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [97d]
18
1664-1678: naval and misc papers of Sir William Coventry
British Library, Manuscript Collections
19
1618-1624: papers of Lord Keeper Coventry (d1640)
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
20
1729-1827: Records
Gloucestershire Archives