The younger son, Richard (b.1678), diversified the family trading interests further concentrating on the flourishing Baltic trade and the wealth of the family was built on this in the first half of the eighteenth century. However the Sledmere estate is still one of the largest landed estates in Yorkshire and its impact on the wolds is very visible. Or theres Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck, married to a millionaire and yet so tight-fisted she bought bacon on a sale-or-return basis, recycled left-over milk from the cats dish for her guests, and tried to entertain Catholics on Fridays because fish was cheaper than meat. A sixth section of 'projects' includes material for his literary projects (for example, notes and proofs of The caliph's last heritage and a letter from H G Wells complimenting him on a book) and other projects such as Edith's hospital in France and the war memorials built at Sledmere. The entire village of Sledmere was relocated. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree. 2 He gained the title of 8th Baronet Sykes, of Sledmere, co. Yorks [G.B., 1783] on 24 July 1978. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet (17721863), who had an interest in agricultural techniques and horse racing. Spy (Sir Leslie Ward)'s preliminary sketch of Sir Tatton Sykes for Vanity Fair, London, 1879. Read more about this topic: Sykes Baronets, Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd Baronet (17491801), Sir Mark Masterman-Sykes, 3rd Baronet (17711823), Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet (17721863). Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Sir Tatton Sykes's Monument Stephen Horncastle Designed by John Gibbs of Oxford to commemorate Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet of Sledmere, the foundation stone was laid and. Smith, Peter. The English Eccentrics. The current baronet of the Sledmere House, Yorkshire, is Sir Tatton Sykes 8th Baronet, who has three brothers. Meet Lord Rokeby, the original hipster with water on the brain. The Daily Telegraph. If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. He disliked the sight of women and children lingering out the front of houses and made the tenants bolt up their front doors and only use back entrances. Mark Sykes occupied himself for the early part of the war developing the Waggoner's Special Reserve with 1000 men trained as technical reservists. He passed away on 04 MAY 1913 in Sledmere House, Yorkshire, England. Husband of Virginia, Lady Sykes However, he was also efficient. This includes horse valuations and photographs. Physick, the Electuary, Asthmatic Elixir, Virgin Wax Sallet Oils, Camomile Tea, Saline Julep, the Spring Potage, Sassafras, Mr Boltons Ointment, Rhubarb Tea, Apozem and Basilicon. Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet (1826-1913) was another aristocrat with strong opinions on pretty much everything. The war material contains reports on such things as the pan-Arab party in Syria in 1915, the Armenian question, letters from General Clayton with information on cabinet affairs, Arab affairs, on T E Lawrence. Robinson, 2017. U DDSY has an extensive miscellaneous section. Letters and papers for 1783-1793 include letters to Christopher Sykes from his family and local gentry, from Henry Maister, the Hull merchant and from John Lockwood, solicitor. Letters and papers for 1794-1823 include letters of Christopher Sykes about Sledmere and local affairs and the correspondence of his brother, Tatton Sykes and Mark Masterman Sykes. Mark Tatton Richard Sykes (Born Tatton-Sykes), Sir, 7th Bt. A famous picture of him and his wife, painted by George Romney in the 1780s, depicts the couple surveying their parkland estates stretching away to the horizon; Christopher Sykes holds in his hands spectacles and an estate plan. Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (16 March 1879 - 16 February 1919) was an English traveller, Conservative Party politician, and diplomatic advisor, particularly with regard to the Middle East at the time of the First World War . The Big House is a complete cracker. I must eat my pudding, he told his rescuers, I must eat my pudding. He later conceived the notion he would die at 11.30 am. U DDSY comprises a very large deposit of estate papers, genealogical material for the Sykes and local families, and personal family papers including correspondence and diaries, largely for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Father of Private; Private; Private; Private; Private and 2 others; Private and Private less He was involved in the restoration of 17 churches at a cost of 10,000 each most of which came out of his private purse rather than estate accounts (Sykes, The visitors' book, pp.31-2; Hobson, 'Sledmere and the Sykes family'; English, The great landowners, p.226; Ward, East Yorkshire landed estates, p.15; English, 'On the eve of the great depression', p.40). Tatton Sykes was cornered into marriage in 1874 by the very determined mother of (Christina Anne) Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck who was thirty years his junior. He was at the time responsible for the maintenance of the monument and showed visitors up the internal staircase to the viewing room at the top. P.C. She bore him a child, Mark Sykes, in 1879 and three years later she and the child became Catholics. Son of Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet and Mary Anne Foulis Their eldest son 'grew up in an atmosphere devoid of love' and when he succeeded to the estates on his father's death in 1863 he immediately sold his father's race horses and demolished his mother's orangery (Foster, Pedigrees; information about the Sledmere stud is contained in Fairfax-Blakeborough, Sykes of Sledmere; Noakes, 'Memories of Sir Tatton Sykes'; Denton Robinson, 'A Yorkshire landmark'; Sykes, The visitors' book, pp.19-20, 28-32; Kay, Great men of Yorkshire, pp.108-115; Dictionary of National Biography; Ross, Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds, pp.155-7; English, The great landowners, pp. Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (16 March 1879 - 16 February 1919) was an English traveller, Conservative Party politician and diplomatic advisor, particularly with regard to the Middle East at the time of the First World War. For example, it was his opinion (and probably his alone) that the human body must be kept at a constant temperature. Two other members of the family may also be mentioned. Joseph and Richard Sykes ultimately split their business interests and Joseph Sykes bought estates around West Ella and Kirk Ella just outside Hull. Sledmere was built midway through the 18th century by the authors great-great-great-great-great-grandfather a prosperous Hull merchant named Richard Sykes on the site of an old Tudor grange on an unpromising bit of land in the Yorkshire wolds. Having surprisingly sold the famous Sykes racehorse stud, Tatton also restored and built 18 churches. His correspondence includes letters from the London merchant Henry de Ponthieu about the French in Canada 176163 and circa 100 letters from his London banker, Joseph Denison. When traveling by train, he would don a disguise and lean out of the window at each station to beckon people to sit in his compartment. Start a free family tree online and well do the searching for you. A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead. The collection is filled with his letters and reports from his time in this role and are especially rich in material about the pan-Arab movement, and Zionism to which he was an early convert. He banned the cultivation of flowers in Sledmere village. He married, secondly, in 1814, a member of the Egerton family. Sir Tatton Sykes (b.1772), 4th baronet, 'was not a great scholar'. in Cambridge and was a fellow of Peterhouse. There are a few letters addressed to or relating to his estranged wife, Jessica Sykes. Richard Sykes took this programme of expansion further. There is a large series of late 19th and 20th century accounts, especially for Sir Tatton and Lady Jessica Sykes, their estates, the estate of Sir Mark Sykes after his death and of his children's shares in the estate. Some were local legends (like the indefatigable horseman and sheep-drover, old Sir Tatton); some featured in national scandals (like the next Sir Tatton, who ended up in a terrible courtroom showdown with his gambling-addicted, alcoholic wife); a good few served in parliament. He was just a young boy when he was brought back to the family pile, Castle Leslie in Ireland. George Hanger, Who Did His Best to Keep the Georgian Era Weird. A fifth section in U DDSY2 has material on military affairs and this includes battalion orders 1907-1914, material relating to Sykes' Wagoners' Special Reserve, and miscellaneous lectures and reports about this (including a draft letter to Lloyd George) and material relating to Sykes' organization in 1913 and 1914 of the Royal Naval and Military tournaments. One of the most illuminating of his lists if only because it reminds you how incredibly horrible it must have been living in the 18th century is that of the ailments Sledmeres builder, kindly old Richard Sykes, suffered from. At his house in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, Lord Berners had a pet giraffe, doves dyed multiple colors, whippets with diamond collars, and a 140-foot tower bearing the legend: members of the public committing suicide from this tower do so at their own risk. No purchase necessary. Sir Tatton Christopher Mark Sykes, 8th Bt. Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (16 March 1879 - 16 February 1919) was an English traveller, Conservative Party politician and diplomatic adviser, particularly with regard to the Middle East at the time of the First World War.He is associated with the Sykes-Picot Agreement, drawn up while the war was in progress, regarding the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by . The Pakenham family pedigree can be found at DDST/2/1/1/8 and traces the lineage back to c.1100. His first book came out in 1900 and was a political travel journal, Through five Turkish provinces. There are a few personal letters, for example from Aubrey Herbert and the duke of Norfolk, but many are constituency letters and communications from important political figures with whom he was involved such as Winston Churchill and Chaim Weizmann. There are notes from the India Office, Mark Sykes' notes and reports and correspondence with people such as General Callwell, General Clayton, Austen Chamberlain, Lord Hardinge, William Ormesby-Gore, Harry Verney and Reginald Wingate. However, the story with official currency is that the family may originally have been from Saxony and were settled in Sykes Dyke near Carlisle in Cumberland during the middle ages. This ancient well once held a top-secret royal meeting chamber. Their eldest son, Mark Masterman Sykes (b.1771), married Henrietta Masterman in 1795. The deposit ends with a large series of subject files on the Sledmere Settled Estates, created by the solicitors Crust, Todd and Mills. The Sykes family settled in Sykes Dyke near Carlisle in Cumberland during the Middle Ages. Sir Tatton Sykes truly hated flowers. in The Georgian Society for East Yorkshire). The fifth son, William Sykes (b.1605), established himself in Knottingley and married Grace Jenkinson. The correspondence of Tatton Sykes, 4th baronet (1772-1863), includes letters from other family members, local gentry such as William Foulis, his letters to his estate agent and to John Lockwood about legal matters. Correspondence in U DDSY4 spans pre-1801-1979 and includes estate letter books (1919-1948); subject files (1925-1979), a few letters of Sir Tatton and Lady Sykes of the 1870s and copies of letters of Mark Sykes (1907-1911). He married Edith Gorst, and their honeymoon took them to Paris, Rome, Constantinople and Jerusalem. Father of Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet A further deposit of Mark Sykes' papers was deposited in April 1976 and is now catalogued as U DDSY2/11 and this includes more papers relating to the Sykes-Picot agreement, the Zionist movement and British policy in Islamic countries. His correspondence includes two letters from the archbishop of York and about 270 letters from a wide range of people including William Carr of York and Henry Maister of Hull. William and Grace Sykes' fourth son, Daniel (b.1632), was the first of this merchant family to begin trading in Hull. There are the wills of Stephen Oates (1743); William Ford (1766); Mark Sykes (1767, 1774); Thomas Hall (1769) and William Tatton (1775). Connect to 5,000+ Tatton-Sykes profiles on Geni, Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet, Edith Violet Sykes, 5th Baronet (born Gorst), Freya Elwes (born Sykes), Everilda Scrope (born Sykes), Christopher Hugh Sykes, Angela Christina Mcdonnell, Countess Of Antrim (born Sykes). There are telegrams from Arthur Balfour and many papers relating to his work with F G Picot for an Inter-Allied settlement in the Middle East (the Sykes-Picot agreement). There are a few letters to Mark Masterman Sykes, 3rd baronet (1771-1823). The remaining papers in U DDSY held for various places are: York (1501-1777) including a volume of religious material with reports of miracles and papers about the York Lunatic Assylum; Bedfordshire (late 18th century); Cheshire (1809); a map of Ireland (1797); a list of livings and patrons for Lincolnshire (early 17th century); Middlesex (1729-1824); Wiltshire (1782); 'various townships' (1743-1919). Sledmeres inhabitants inconveniently for the author, though he handles it ably passed the same three or four names back and forth. The authors childhood was spent in a house stuffed with bric--brac: I particularly loved the large partners desk in the middle of the Library, whose multitude of drawers revealed, when opened, all kinds of curiosities: old coins, medals, bills, pieces of chandelier, seals, bits of broken china, etchings, ancient letters and the charred foot of an early Sykes martyr. Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet (13 March 1826 4 May 1913). Richard Sykes and his second wife died within days of one another, in 1726. The original iron fence was removed in the 1940s during the war with the current one replacing it in the 1960s. Smith, Peter. He had a perfectly miserable childhood its highlight being when his father, in a rage, hanged his beloved pet terriers from a tree and left them dangling dead for him to find yet grew up to be energetic, humorous, honourable and kind. Christopher Sykes's son, Mark Masterman Sykes (17711823),[1] was a knowledgeable collector of books and fine arts, but these were sold when he died childless. StrangeCo. By the 1750s the Sykes family shared 60% of Hull's pig iron trade with Hull's other leading eighteenth-century merchant family, the Maisters. There have been three Sir Tattons, for example, and though the present one seemed to me nice and mostly sane, the previous two were both stinkers, and mad to boot. Whale Oil, The 14th Baron Berners (1883-1950) mixed eccentricity with undoubted talent. Sam Leith is literary editor of The Spectator. Like many old houses, the richness of Sledmere comes from the fact that little was thrown away. Many of his letters are illustrated with cartoons. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Despite his vast wealth and comfortable surroundings, Sir Tatton grew increasingly eccentric and unpleasant. London: Faber & Faber, 2005. The grounds were landscaped along the lines of plans by Capability Brown and 1000 acres of trees were planted. Sir Tatton also became increasingly paranoid as he aged. Of course, he would always wear his gentlemanly tweeds and trademark hat, even when on the dance floor. After the war, Sir John lived a largely uneventful, if very comfortable, life. The correspondence of Christopher Sykes, 2nd baronet (1749-1801) includes two letters from the archbishop of York, letters from Joseph Denison, banker, and Timothy Mortimer, solicitor, letters from Richard Henry Beaumont about local affairs, letters from his steward, George Britton, about estate affairs, letters from the local merchant, Robert Carlisle Broadley, and about 270 other letters from a wide range of people including William Carr of York and Henry Maister of Hull. Sykes died in May 1913, aged 87, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Mark. Tatton had many peculiar dislikes. The Heir Presumptive to the Baronetcy is Jeremy John Sykes (born 1946), younger brother of the 8th Baronet. The figure who busts out is the authors grandfather, Sir Mark Sykes already the subject of a biography of his own who distinguished himself internationally as an orientalist, MP, soldier and writer. Mark Sykes took B.A. Sir Mark Tatton Richard Tatton-Sykes - 7th Bt. The eccentric Duke who adored misanthropy, built 15 miles of tunnels. Goran Blazeski, The Vintage News, November 2016. U DDSY contains estate papers for the East Riding of Yorkshire in this order: manorial records for Balkholme (1608-1659); conveyance of Barmby on the Moor (1861); Beverley (1385-1784) including early title deeds and a letter and account book of Christopher Sykes as MP for Beverley 1784-9; Bishop Wilton (1379-1880) including court rolls for 1379-80 and the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an account roll of Robert Hall, steward of the prebend, for 1468-9, surrenders and admissions in the manor court 1605-89, sales and conveyances, correspondence of Timothy Mortimer and Richard Darley, pedigrees of the Darley and Rogerson families, an original bundle relating to the estates of Roger Gee, eighteenth century farm leases, the marriage settlements of Catherine Darley and John Wentworth (1703) and John Toke and Margaret Roundell (1762), and several seventeenth-century wills of the Smith, Darley, Sanderson, Hansby and Hildyard families; papers about Bridlington pier (1789); Brigham (1683-1864) including eighteenth-century wills of the Brigham and Wilberforce families, the sale in 1794 to Christopher Sykes and its transfer in 1797 to his second son, Tatton Sykes, and eighteenth-century farm leases; Burton Pidsea (1601-1843) including the wills of Christopher Wilson (1640) and William Ford (1828) and the transfer of title in 1738 from the Wilson family to Mark Kirkby; a plan of Cottam (1760); Croom (1607-1821) including the letters patents granting to the earl of Clanricard the rectory and tithes of Sledmere in 1607, seventeenth and eighteenth century papers of the Rousby family and the sale of Croom in 1812 to Mark Masterman Sykes; Dalton Holme (1879); Derwent (drainage and navigation) (1772-1800) including 75 letters of Christopher Sykes, 2nd baronet; Driffield (1790, 1860); Drypool (1773-1794); Duggleby (1669-1800); Eastrington (1659); tenancy agreements and the 1916 particulars of sale for Eddlethorpe (1858-1916); a plan of Etton (1819); Fimber (1566-1884) including leases from 1853 and 22 marriage settlements and wills largely of the eighteenth century from the Horsley, Ford, Hardy, Layton, Callis, Edmond, Holtby, Jefferson, Coole, Langley, Foulis and Willoughby families; Fitling (1696-1795) including papers of the Johnson, Thompson and Blaydes families; Fosham (1768-1812); Fridaythorpe (1805-1877) including some papers of the Harper family; Ganstead (1803); Garton on the Wolds (1598-1917) including the Garton enclosure act of 1774, the Edward Topham case in Chancery in the 1790s, leases from the 1780s and eighteenth-century wills and other family papers of the Towse, Barmby, Graham, Kirk, Staveley, Horsley, Cook, Lakeland, Arundell, Sever, Shepherd, Forge, Overend, Taylor, Boyes and Widdrington families; manor of Garton-on-the-Wolds (1703-1780) including rentals, court rolls and verdicts; East and West Heslerton and Sherburn (1535-1877) including manorial records, deeds, leases and rentals from 1780, papers relating to the estates of the Strickland family of Boynton, the marriage settlement of Francis Spink and Mary Langdale (1643) and the wills of Marmaduke Darby (1665), Marmaduke Dodsworth (1694), Thomas Spink (1741), Peter Dowsland (1725), John Davies (1730), Mary Brown (1748), David Cross (1843), Christopher Cross (1853) and John Owtram (1776); Hilderthorpe (1768, 1791); Hilston (1584-1796) including leases 1781-1796, the marriage settlements of James Hewitt and Jane Carlisle (1669) and Randolphus Hewitt and Catherine Nelson (1731) and the will of Randolphus Carlisle (1744); leases for Hollym (1765-1795); leases for Hotham (1772-1776); Howden (1625, 1773); Huggate (1767-1839) including the title documents of John Hustler and the wills of William Tuffnell Jolliff (1796), Charles Newman (1815), George Anderton (1817) and William Wastell (1836); Hull (1603-1839) including a schedule of deeds about the Sykes house in High Street, documents about the Hull Dock Company, the correspondence of William Wilberforce and James Shaw about the misappropriation of charity funds, the marriage settlement of William Fowler and Jane Viepont (1685), documents relating to the Blaydes, Hebden and Fowler families and the will of Robert Stephenson (1603); Hunsley (1588); Hutton Cranswick (1578-1813) including leases from 1780, the marriage settlements of Marmaduke Jenkinson and Phillip (sic) Hammond (1672) and Hesketh Hobman and Elizabeth Carlisle (1700) and the wills of Robert Popplewell (1614), George Coatsforth (1680), Elizabeth Hobman (1728) and Hesketh Hobman (1711); Kennythorpe (1677-1752); Kilham (1633-1813) including leases from 1792 and an abstract of the title of John Preston; manorial records of Kilpin (1581-1636); Kirby Grindalthorpe and Mowthorpe (1545-1880) including a pedigree of the Peirson family, leases from 1806, the marriage settlements of William Peirson and Susannah Thorndike (1637), William Peirson and Elizabeth Conyers (1680), Nathaniel Towry and Katherine Hassell (1703), Luke Lillingston and Catherine Towry (1710), Luke Lillingston and Williema Joanna Dottin (1769), Abraham Spooner and Elizabeth Mary Agnes Lillingston (1797), Mark Masterman Sykes and Mary Elizabeth Egerton (1814) and the wills of Nathaniel Towry (1703), Luke Lillingston (1771) and Robert Snowball (1805); Kirkburn (1566-1861) including the 1628 grant of wardship and marriage of Thomas Young to Jane Young by Charles I, the marriage settlement of Thomas and Barbara Martin (1757), the wills of Ann Young (1714), Charles Cartwright (1752), Ann Hall (1698), Isaac Thompson (1747), Abraham Thompson (1775) and leases from 1852; Langtoft (1791-1880); Linton (1856-1877); Lockington (1772, 1791); Lund (1596); report of St William's Catholic School in Market Weighton (1910); Menethorpe (1907); Middleton on the Wolds (1655-1812) including papers of the Manby family and leases from 1774; Molescroft (c.1300-1812) including the earliest document in the archive (a gift of circa 1300) a pedigree of the Ashmole family, lists of deeds and leases, the marriage settlements of Thomas Taylor and Elizabeth Hargrave (1700), William Taylor and Rebecca Smailes (1615), John Taylor and Bridget Tomlin (1637) and William Taylor and Anna Aythorp and the wills of John Taylor (1686) and Catherine Dawson (1784); a Myton lease (1780); North Cave leases (1772-1776); North Dalton (1722-1812); North Frodingham (1806, 1870); Owstwick (1305-1801) including medieval deeds, leases from 1779 and the wills of Stephen Christie (1551), William Burkwood (1636), Robert Witty (1684), Mary Witty (1691) and Francis Hardy (1736); Owthorne (16th century); Riccall (1790-1795); Rimswell (1725, 1786); Roos (1558-1786) including rentals and the will of Jane Hogg (n.d.); Rotsea leases (1854-1861); Sancton leases (1770-1797); Settringtton enclosure (1797-1810); Sherburn (1795); Skelton (17th century); Sledmere (1320-1926) including papers relating to the school, poor rate assessment, water supply, tithes, leases and rentals, a history of the descent of Sledmere, the correspondence of Christopher Sykes, 2nd baronet, with Joseph Sykes of West Ella and Kirk Ella (see DDKE) and other members of the local gentry including Timothy Mortimer, attorney, the marriage settlements of Robert and Ann Crompton (1666), Robert Crompton and Mary Fawsitt (1685), John Goodricke and Mary Smith (1710), John Taylor and Elene Morwen (1546) and John Wilkinson and Mary Hornsey (1730) and the wills of Robert Taylor (1587), John Taylor (1682), Lovell Lazenby (1728), Elizabeth Majeson (1677), John Meason (1709), Mark Mitchell (1722), John Towse (1698), John Hardy (1709), Lovell Lazenby (1712), Thomas Lazenby (1727), Joseph Roper ( (1705), Clare Hayes (1716), Henry Gillan (1724), James Hardy (1631), Thomas Watson (1698) and Frances Wilson (1734); tenancy agreements for South Frodingham (1774-1812); Thirkleby and Linton (1756-1861) including the 1834 purchase by Tatton Sykes from Lord Middleton, leases from 1854, the marriage settlements of Henry Willoughby and Dorothy Cartwright (1756) and Henry Willoughby and Jane Lawley (1793) and the will of Robert Lawley (1825); Thirtleby (1751); Thixendale (1528-1877) including an abstract of the Payler family title, papers relating to the Richardson and Elwicke families, a pedigree of the Leppington family, the correspondence of Timothy Mortimer, leases from 1790, the marriage settlements of John Donkin and Sarah Simpkin (1733), William Sharp and Jane Thompson (1704), Thomas Beilby and Jane Brown (1690), Christopher Marshall and Ellen Utley (1731), John Singleton and Ann Jackson (1769), William Powlett and Lady Lovesse Delaforce (1689) and Robert Brigham and Anne Williamson (1727) and the wills of William Vescy (1713), Edmund Dring (1708), Ann Blackbeard (1732), Ann Nicholson (1762) Robert Kirby (1785), William Sharp (1745), John Leppington (1770), William Marshall (1770), John Boyes (1771), Robert Brigham (1767), Ralph Wharram (1720), William Powlett (1756), Watkinson Payler (1705), Mary Payler (1752), John Ruston (1806) and William Marshall (1832); Tibthorp (1610-1861) including papers of the Harrison and Hudson familes, leases from 1774 and the will of William Beilby (1691); Wansford (1604-1803) including an abstract of the title of William St Quintin, an original bundle of papers relating to the collapse of John Boyes' carpet manufactury and the involvement of the Sykes family and John Lockwood, leases from 1787, the marriage settlements of William Metcalfe and Ann Crompton (1650) and William St Quintin and Charlotte Fane (1758) and the wills of Thomas Bainton (1732), William St Quintin (1723), George Ion (1812) and Jonathan Ion (1806); Waxholme (1722, 1796); Weaverthorpe and Helperthorpe (1607-1880) including manorial records 1686-1785, leases from 1774, the marriage settlements of Richard Kirkby and Judith Dring (1667) and Richard Kirkby and Ruth Helperthorpe (1670) and the wills of Thomas Heblethwaite (1668), Edmund Dring (1708), Richard Kirkby (1640), John Kirkby (1728), Richard Kirkby (1790), Elizabeth Newlove (1781), John Ness (1791), Ann Ness (1813), William Beilby (1716) and John Beilby (1764); West Lutton (1844); Wetwang (1688-1898) including the 1773 purchase from the Gee family, the 1788 petition of Ann Robson for charity, rentals and court records, leases from 1780, pedigrees of the Newlove and Wharram families, and the wills of Ann Wilson (1776), Thomas Green (1749), Mary Napton (1789), John Newlove (1786), George Stabler (1822), Francis Newlove (1808) and Betty Newlove (1850); Wheldrake (1781); Yedingham (1798) papers in the dispute between Christopher Sykes and Richard Langley.