The Dysart-Tollemache archive
Category
Archive Collections
Date
circa 1604 - circa 1953
Materials
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1140661
Summary
The Dysart-Tollemache archive. Estates of the Tollemache family of Ham House in Kingston Upon Thames, Ham, Petersham and elsewhere. NRA 17204 Tollemache, NRA 3518 Surrey RO misc Surrey History Centre ref: K58. The deposit includes court rolls and other manorial records of the manor of Kingston Canbury, 1604-1922 (K58/1/-); the manor of Ham, 1509-1933 (K58/2/-), the records of which include a group of medieval deeds, pre-1305-1582 (K58/2/3/1); the manors of Ham and Petersham combined, c.1490-1694 (K35/3/-); and the manor of Petersham, 1509-1933. The extensive series of deeds includes many relating to acquisitions in Ham and Petersham and the development of the Surrey estate in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. For the Tollemache's important 17th century mansion, Ham House (in Petersham) there survive inventories of the furniture and books, 1844 (K58/8/290-291), and a catalogue and valuation of the contents, 1911 (K58/8/296). These papers were collected with the permission of the late Sir Lyonel Tollemache from Ham House stables in September 1953, through the good offices of Mr R Lee of Ormeley Lodge, Ham. They were records which had been delivered up after transferral of the Tollemache family business from one firm of solicitors to another. A further group of papers relates to the preservation of Ham and Petersham Commons and of the view from Richmond Hill, and of the exploitation of the right to extract gravel, 1844-1939 (K58/12/-).