Title:
RECORDS RELATING TO GARLAND FAMILY ESTATES IN NORTH-EAST ESSEX
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
RECORDS RELATING TO GARLAND FAMILY ESTATES IN NORTH-EAST ESSEX
Dates of Creation:
1751-1925
Extent:
5 items
Admin History:
For the genealogy of the Garland family of Michaelstow Hall, Ramsey, see H. Pirie-Gordon (ed.), Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry (15th ed., London 1937). Nathaniel Garland (1684-1756), a London mercer and former master of the Mercer's Company, bought the estate of Daniel Burr in Dovercourt, Ramsey and Wrabness for £19,600 in 1747. Garland had previously acquired an estate at Epsom in Surrey, where in fact he seems to have lived, and which the family retained until 1895. Philip Morant, in the History and Antiquities of the County of Essex (London 1763-1768), volume 1, names the relevant Essex manors as Dovercourt, Wrabness and - in Ramsey - Michaelstow, East New Hall and Ray or Le Rey, attributing their acquisition to Nathaniel's son Lewis Peak Garland. In fact the Essex estates were specifically left to Lewis - the 3rd son - in Nathaniel's will of 1753 (National Archives PROB 11/826). They continued in the male line until sold by Arthur Nathaniel Garland after the First World War. For a sale catalogue of 1920 see ERO SALE/A287. Michaelstow Hall itself was sold to a private buyer in 1923 before being acquired by Essex County Council in 1938 for use as a convalescent home. Requisitioned in 1940, from ?1947 it housed the relocated Chafford School; in 1986 the building was sold to become a nursing home (C/T 377, C/MPh 15/1).
Custodial History:
The estate archive - or at least a quantity of deeds and maps - seems to have been dispersed in the 1980s. The present records were bought by the depositor from a dealer in manuscripts. They are probably related to the records catalogued as D/DLy ..., deriving ultimately from a solicitor's practice. While the estate itself was centred on Michaelstow Hall in Ramsey, the depositor's own interest lay mainly in Wrabness, through a personal connection with the Richardsons, for many years tenants of the Garlands at Wrabness Hall.
Related Unit of Description:
For a fragmentary, and so far uncatalogued, group of deeds received with these items see Acc. A13015.