Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick

U DGN Papers of the Grimston Family 1625-1891 of Grimston Garth and Neswick

Historical background: Unlike many of the landed families of the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Grimston family, though holding parcels of land in the county for centuries, never properly consolidated their estates and they have not survived into the twentieth century as large landowners. This may be due partly to accident of location: originally holding the lordship of Grimston in Holderness, the family's manorial holding has slowly disappeared into the sea with not enough room to expand in other directions.

Sylvester Grimston is said to have attended William the Conqueror as his standard bearer, becoming his chamberlain once he was on the throne. He held Grimston, one of the ten lordships of Holderness, from Lord Roos. The earls of Verulam, of Gorhambury in Hertfordshire, are descended in the female line from Sylvester Grimston. In the male line, his descendant, John Grimston, married the daughter and heiress of John Goodmanham and was buried in Goodmanham in 1164. He was knighted by Henry II.

John Grimston's son, Martin Grimston, also married an heiress and their son, Roger Grimston, was lord of Grimston, Collam, Goodmanham, Tunstall and Holmeton and he was summoned in 1296 to provide military service against the Scots. In 1316 he was one of three knights in the East Riding empowered to raise forces against the Scots. He was also responsible for the theft of a valuable statue of the Virgin Mary from Fraisthorpe Chapel and the family was pursued by the church authorities for at least two decades from the time of its disappearance.

Roger Grimston had two sons: Gerard Grimston who sold much land, including some in Beverley, and had no issue, and Walter Grimston, who married the heiress to the lord of Flinton and the Grimston family added Flinton to their holdings by this means. The Grimstons continued to reside at the manor house in Grimston Garth, but reproduced very prolifically, perhaps creating problems in establishing themselves as very wealthy landowners. Thomas Grimston (d.1508) married Elizabeth Girlington and they had 17 children, the eldest of whom, another Thomas Grimston, married Dorothy Thwaites and had 16 children. Nevertheless, by marrying an heiress and inheriting the lordship of Little Smeaton, he increased his fortunes enough to buy more land in Boythorpe in 1566.

Thomas and Dorothy Grimston were the common ancestors of two major colateral branches of the family, one with their seat at Grimston Garth and the other in Fraisthorpe and Neswick. Confusingly, they also had two sons with the same name - Marmaduke. Their eldest son, Marmaduke, married and had three children. He became High Sheriff of Yorkshire, but died in 1604 and his own heirs died young. Thomas Grimston's second son, Thomas, died without issue and his third son, the other Marmaduke, inherited Grimston Garth, Flinton, Collam, Goodmanham, Tunstall, Smeaton, Kirby and lands in Roos and Garton. A younger son, John Grimston, married Grace Strickland and Fraisthorpe may have been part of her dowry. This branch of the family continued to live in Fraisthorpe until the early eighteenth century when the land returned to the Strickland family after one Robert Grimston (bapt.1673) was the last to live there.

His son, also Robert, married Esther Eures, who was the heiress of a Neswick surgeon and by this means Neswick came into the family. Robert and Esther Eure expanded their page 1 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick estates, buying land at Bainton in 1755 and building a house at Neswick. The male line ran out on this side of the family with Robert and Esther Grimston's grandchildren, when the eldest, John Grimston (d.1846), died without issue at the age of 70 years. His sisters, Lucy, Maria, Elizabeth and Esther, inherited money through their mother's will and became co-heiresses to the Neswick estates. Three of them were ultimately buried at Bainton. The eldest, Lucy (b.1772), married Sir Robert Wilmot (1765-1842) of Chaddesden in Derbyshire. Her first son inherited the Derbyshire title and estates, her second son died without issue, and her third son, John Wilmot (b.1807), inherited Neswick and took the name Grimston. His son, John Robert Grimston (b.1836) settled Neswick on his nephew and died without issue in 1873. The Hall was let in 1880 and it was demolished in 1954.

The Grimston Garth line of the family also had some trouble sustaining itself, despite continuing to be fecund in many generations. Marmaduke Grimston married Anne Dalton, but died quite young in 1623 leaving William (b.1619), a child of four years, to inherit. William married three times and had nine children by two of his wives. He died in 1664 and was succeeded by his second son, William (b.1640), who married twice and had at least nine children. He died in 1711 by which time his eldest son had predeceased him in 1681. During his lifetime Grimston Garth burned down and his second son, Thomas (b.1664), therefore, succeeded to scattered estates but no major family house.

The slightly depleted fortunes of the family were reversed with the next two generations. Thomas Grimston married Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Legard, 1st baronet of Ganton. No less than five of their six children sadly died in infancy but a son, Thomas (b.1702), survived to succeed. The family became quite wealthy with this generation and the wealth saw the Grimston family buying and selling land at a prodigious rate for the next century. Thomas Grimston inherited Kilnwick, Little Smeaton and lands in Hull and the parish of Sutton from Admiral Medley. He bought the manor and estate of Ringborough, some of the manor at Kelk, land at Flamborough and a farm at Lund and in 1722 he married Jane Close, the heiress of Charles Stutville, her brother. By this means the Grimston family inherited an estate at Argam, one at Hunmanby and another at Fordon.

Of their three children, two died young and their youngest son, John Grimston (b.1725), succeeded when his father died in 1751. John Grimston expanded the family property by buying the great tithes and some more land at Lund, near the Kilnwick estate, four houses in Beverley and some smaller parcels of land. In his lifetime he was forced to defend legally the Grimston title to Kilnwick from the claims of Admiral Medley's nephew, but this was a case he won and he passed on considerable property to the children he had by his wife, Jane Legard, whom he married in 1753.

John Grimston died in 1780 and was buried in Kilnwick. By the time he died he had rebuilt Kilnwick Hall to a design of John Carr. His two surviving sons also used their legacies to build residences. His youngest son, Henry Grimston (1758-1828) built High Hall at Etton and this then passed to the descendants of his sister, Jane, who had married into the Legard family. The hall stayed in the family this way until 1927. The eldest son, Thomas Grimston (b.1753), also married into the Legard family and he and his wife, Frances (1757-1827), had eight children, though four sons died young including one who died at Rosetta in Egypt during the Napoleonic wars. A year after his father died Thomas Grimston began rebuilding the family house at Grimston Garth to the Georgian Gothic design of John Carr of York and he then divided his time between Kilnwick and Grimston Garth. His rental books are at U DDCV/200/3.

page 2 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick Thomas and Frances Grimston died in 1821 and 1827 respectively. They were succeeded by their fifth son Charles (b.1791), who rose to the rank of colonel in the East Yorkshire Militia and became a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant of the East Riding. He was responsible for building the village at Kilnwick. He married Jane Trench in 1823 and they had fourteen children, nearly all of whom survived to adulthood. Charles Grimston died in 1859 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Marmaduke Jerard Grimston with whom the direct male line of the family died out as he had two daughters, Florence Maria Grimston and Rose Armatrude Grimston. They inherited a house each; one receiving Grimston Garth and the other taking possession of Kilnwick Hall where they continued to live into the early twentieth century. Some descendants of this extensive family still live in Holderness.

Custodial History: Deposited by Messrs. Crust, Todd & Mills, Solicitors, 1974. Donated via Donald Carrick, on the authority of Sandersons Solicitors (successor to Crust, Todd and Mills), June 1999.

Description: U DGN is catalogued in the following sections: papers relating to glebe lands in Lund (1794-1831); title deeds, rentals, inventories and manorial rights for Neswick and Bainton (1625-1893); a memorandum about farms and tithes at Rotsea (1812); papers relating to the merger of tithes in Southburn (1844); a valuation of a house in Minster Yard, York (1879); papers for various townships including seventeenth century Watton Priory deeds (1625-1856).

U DGN also contains some nineteenth century personal family accounts and solicitors letters of the same period about family property. Miscellaneous items include a 1665 pedigree of the Grimston family. Settlements include the marriage settlements of Thomas Grimston and Jane Close (1724); John Grimston and Jane Legard (1753); Robert Grimston and Elizabeth Garforth (1771); John Wilmot and Jane Bewes (1835); Marmaduke Jerard Grimston and Florence Victoria Saunderson (1856). Wills in the collection are those of Robert Grimston (1790); Elizabeth Grimston (1818); John Grimston (1821); Charles Grimston (1858); Esther Grimston (1859); Charlotte Grimston (1865); John Grimston (1874) and letters of administration for Henry Archer Grimston (1899).

Arrangement: DGN/1 Lund, circa 1794 - 1831 DGN/2 NeswickandBainton,1625-1893 DGN/3 Rotsea, circa 1812 DGN/4 Southburn, 1844 DGN/5 York, 1879 DGN/6 VariousTownships,1625-1856 DGN/7 Accounts, 1821 - 1890 DGN/8 Correspondence, 1810 - 1895 DGN/9 Miscellaneous, 1665 - 1860 DGN/10 Settlements,1724 -1872 DGN/11 Wills, 1790 - 1899 DGN/12 Various Documents, 1796 - 1891

Extent: boxes (0.5 linear metres) page 3 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick Related Material: Other papers of the Grimston family are held amongst the following collections: U DDCV and U DDCV2/ - Crust, Todd and Mills U DRA - Misc Documents for Hull & East Riding from the British Records Association U DDGE - the Gee (Hall/Watt) family of Bishop Burton U DDLG - the Lloyd-Greame family of Sewerby U DDMC - Sir Clive Milnes-Coates U DDPR – the Preston family of Moreby

Other repositories: Main archive of the Grimston family [DDGR], East Riding of Yorkshire Archives Service

Access Conditions: Access will be given to any accredited reader

Language: English; Latin

U DGN/1 Lund c.1794-1831 5 items

U DGN/1/1 Rough plan of glebe lands belonging to vicarage of Lund [1794] 1 plan

U DGN/1/2 Copy. Deposition of John Hall of Scorborough surveyor 23 Nov 1799 Lands to be sold to redeem Land Tax charged on vicarage of Lund 1 item

U DGN/1/3 Draft. Particulars of Sale, as U DGN/1/4 c.1827 1 bundle

U DGN/1/4 Particulars of Sale: 879ac.0r.17p. in all 10 Feb 1827 2 items

U DGN/1/5 Particulars of Sale: 782ac.3r.5p. in all 28 Jul 1831 1 bundle

page 4 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/2 Neswick and Bainton 1625-1893 38 items

U DGN/2/1 Copy. Letters Patent granting to Robert, Lord Carie and 24 Dec 1625 his son Sir Robert Carie. Manor of Southstock, Drayton and Westover, co. Somerset, with specified appurtenant estates. Manor of Kilnwicke with lands and rents. Lands in Granthorpe, Calthorpe and Little Grimsby, co. Lincs. Tithes in Holmpton. Manor and estate of Kirklevington, with Lazinbie Grange. Lands, cottage called Sheepcote and Hamlinge House in Meaux with fishing and fowling of Stone Carr. Manor of, and lands, woods and rents in, Tunsted, co. Norfolk. Dairy called Stapleoak in Forest of Bowland. Manor of, and lands and rents in, Shapewick, co. Dorset. Manor of Rodley, co. Glos., with rents, the Bury Court House, fishery of Halnes and Halnendales and fishing called Unlawater in R. Severn & Bayes Court 1 item

U DGN/2/2 Translation of U DGN/2/1 24 Dec 1625 1 bundle

U DGN/2/3 Release: for £200: Fitzherbert Tempest of Hull gent. and 12 Jan 1712 wife Hester (a daughter of Matthew Anlaby of Lebber- stone esq. dec'd), to Mary Anlaby, Hull spinster (another daughter) . A fifth part of manor and estate of Neswick (tenants named): Witn. Eliz. Hobman, Fran. Broxholme, Jo Yates jnr. 1 bundle

U DGN/2/4 List of deeds relating to manor of Neswick, from 1711-1769 E. Riding Deeds Registry 1 item

U DGN/2/5 Lease and Release: for £2,000: Anne Anlaby spinster, 27-28 Jan Fitzherbert Tempest and wife Hester, Mary Anlaby 1714 spinster; and Peter Shepherd of Hull and wife Susanna (women being daughters of Matthew Anlaby dec'd) to Thomas Eyres gent., all of Hull 4 fifth parts of manor and estate of Neswick (mentions manor house, Gill Garth, Low Bining Garths, Jackson Garth, Wiles Garth, East Bird Garth, Mattinson Garth and Sheepfold, Long Garth, Bottom Garths, Upper North Crofts, Burne Baulke, Beverley Garth, the Paddock, High Garth, Low Garth, John Smith Garth, Cottage Garth, West Bird Garth, Pinfold Garth, Burton Close, Willoughby Garth, Low North Crofts, Long Garth, Burton Close, Bullace Garth, Burnthouse Garth, 2 Burtons, Bowzer Garth, Upper Bening Garth, Brackon Close, Long and Short Burne Flowers) --: Witn. Jo. Grimston, Clare Shipton, John Farside. 2 items page 5 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/2/6 Quitclaim: for 10s.: Esther and Elizabeth Eyres of 28 Sep 1734 Neswick spinsters (daughters of Thomas and late Elizabeth Eyres) to their father T.E. gent. all of Neswick. Manor and estate of Neswick: Witn. Tho. Shipton, John Grove, Robert Grimston. 1 bundle

U DGN/2/7 Mortgage: for £1,000: Thomas Eyres of Neswick gent. to 30 Sep 1734 Dinah Mann of York widow. As U DGN/2/5 (with 66 oxgangs): Witn. Sarah Horsfield, Robert Grimston. 1 item

U DGN/2/8 Assignment of Mortgage as U DGN/2/7 10 Mar 1743 (i) Dinah Mann as U DGN/2/7 (ii) Robert Grimston of Bridlington gent. and wife Esther and Edward Nixon of Howden gent. and wife Elizabeth (daughters of Thomas Eyres dec'd, as DGN/2/6) to Rev. Richard Osbaldeston, Dean of York. Witn. Will. Ward, John Taylor jnr., Ra. Yoward, Ralph Nixon, Wm. Carleill. 1 bundle

U DGN/2/9 Copy of U DGN/2/8 c.1743 1 item

U DGN/2/10 Copy. Release: for £3,500 in all: Edward and Elizabeth 18 Aug 1746 Nixon to Robert Grimston, all as U DGN/2/8 Moiety of manor and estate of Neswick 1 item

U DGN/2/11 Final Concord: for £60: Thomas Grimston esq. plaintiff [6 Jun 1803] and Francis Riley and wife Hannah deforceants. 10ac. land, 10ac. meadow and 10ac. pasture in Kilnwick and Wilfholme 1 item

U DGN/2/12 Lease: for 7 years: at £500 rent: John Grimston of 27 Apr 1821 Neswick to Henry Thorold of Lincoln esqs. Mansion house and 59ac.24p.: Witn. Henry James Torre, Jno. Myers. 1 item

U DGN/2/13 Accounts 1824-1825 Building beast sheds in farm at Neswick 1 bundle

U DGN/2/14 Half-yearly rental of Neswick estate 1879 1 item

U DGN/2/15 Valuations of plate at Neswick Hall, by James E. Elwell, 1879 Beverley 7 items

page 6 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/2/16 Draft advertisement 10 Jan 1880 Neswick Hall with shooting over 2,400ac. to let 1 item

U DGN/2/17 Valuations of timber 1880 3 items

U DGN/2/18 Inventory of Neswick Hall late 19th cent. 1 item

U DGN/2/19 Inventory of Neswick Hall 30 Mar 1893 1 item

U DGN/2/20 Abstract of Title of John Grimston 1724-1811 East & West manors of Bainton and estates there 1 item

U DGN/2/21 Memorial of Release 26 Mar 1755 (i) Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, co. Durham, and wife Dame Elizabeth and Isabella Huddleston spinster (E.W. and I.H. being daughters of William H. of Millum Castle, co. Cumberland dec'd) (ii) Trustees of Will of W.H. to (iii) Robert Grimston of Neswick esq. Manor and estate of Bainton: Extracted from East Riding Deeds Registry. 1 bundle

U DGN/2/22 Copy. Lease and Release: for £10,500: Catherine 13-14 Apr Stanley of Liverpool spinster (only surviving daughter of 1781 Rev. Thomas S. dec'd, late rector of Winwick, by his dec'd wife Betty nee Shaw) to Robert Grimston of Neswick esq. Moiety of manors and estate of East and West Bainton with the Manor House 2 items

U DGN/2/23 Abstracts of mortgages 1793-1796 (a) Assignment of mortgage: for £3,600: George Wood of the Middle Temple esq. (with approbation of Elizabeth Grimston of York widow of Robert G. of Neswick) to Peter Johnson of York esq.: 2 newly erected farms in Bainton with 412ac. and 394ac.: Recites Mortgage of 19/20 Jan 1785. 9 Nov 1793 (b) Further Mortgage of premises for additional £2,400: John Grimston, Captain in 12th Light Dragoons, to Peter Johnson, 27 Jul 1796 1 bundle

U DGN/2/24 Lease: for 11 years: at £315 rent: John Grimston of 11 Nov 1814 Neswick esq. to William Haycroft of Bridlington yeoman Bainton New Inn with 163ac.2r.29p. 1 item page 7 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/2/25 Grant: for 10s.: Charlotte Grimston of Leamington widow 29 Dec 1859 to John Wilmot of Neswick esq. Manor Farm with 160ac. in Bainton: For their joint lives. 1 item

U DGN/2/26 Letter: William H. Todd, Hull, to Crust, Todd and Mills. 14 Oct 1887 Offer for land in Bainton of Capt. J.R. Grimston required for Driffield-Market Weighton Railway: Plan 1 item

U DGN/2/27 Plan of land in Bainton required for Driffield-Market c.1887 Weighton Railway (as U DGN/2/26) 1 item

U DGN/2/28 Draft: Conveyance: for £717.14.5d.: John R. Grimston, 18 2 Dec 1889 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, London to Scarborough, Bridlington and West Riding Junction Railways Co. 9ac.19p. in Bainton: Plan 1 item

U DGN/2/29 Plans, specifications, contract, certificates and bills 1891-1893 Farm buildings at Middle Farm, Beacon Farm and Bainton Heights 15 items

U DGN/2/30 Abstract of Title of John Grimston 1734-1810 Manor and lands at Neswick. Lands at Bainton 1 item

U DGN/2/31 Schedule of title deeds, as U DGN/2/30 1734-1810 1 item

U DGN/2/32 Schedules of title deeds 1734-1865 Estates of John Grimston and John Robert Grimston in Bainton and Neswick in mortgage to Sir Henry Sacheverell Wilmot and others 2 items

U DGN/2/33 Memorandum: Grimston estate in Neswick and Bainton Jul 1810 1 item

U DGN/2/34 Memorandum. 'Statement of acres in Mr. Grimston's early 19th Estate at Neswick and Bainton'. cent. 1 item

U DGN/2/35 Memorandum. 'Particulars of the property of J. Grimston Oct 1811 Esq. at Neswick and Bainton with the subsisting Incumbrances thereon' 1 item

page 8 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/2/36 Lease: for 14 years: at £1,250 rent: John Grimston of 19 Nov 1814 Neswick to Caleb Angas of West Brandon, co. Durham yeoman Beacon Farm (303ac.14p.), Low Farm (219ac.19p.) and grassland (Park, 74ac.1r.7p., and Westonbys, 13ac.) 1 item

U DGN/2/37 Deputation: John Grimston to Richard Bean of Neswick 27 Apr 1821 labourer. As gamekeeper of manors Neswick and Bainton 1 item

U DGN/2/38 Rent account: Neswick and Bainton 1879 1 item

U DGN/3 Rotsea c.1812 2 items

U DGN/3/1 Questions relating to farms and tithes in Rotsea, with c.1812 extracts from rental. 1 bundle

U DGN/3/2 Memorandum relative to U DGN/3/1 c.1812 1 item

U DGN/4 Southburn 1844 1 item

U DGN/4/1 Merger by John Grimston of tithes of his estate. 26 Mar 1844 1 bundle

U DGN/5 York 1879 1 item

U DGN/5/1 Valuation of house in Minster Yard 21 Jun 1879 1 item

U DGN/6 Various Townships 1625-1856 9 items

U DGN/6/1 Copy. Letters Patent granting to Edward Ditchfield salter, 9 Sep 1625 John Highlorde skinner, Humphrey Clarke dyer and Francis Mosse scrivener, citizens of London, nominees of the mayor and commonalty of London Site of Watton Priory with the church, capital messuage and demesne lands. Cawkill (Cawkeld) Grange. Swinkelts (Swinekeld) Grange. Barnebutts (Burn Butts) Grange. 6 tenements (including Scandingholme, Angram, Crow House and Bridge House), 3 cottages, and fishery and fowling and tenement called Bowland House in page 9 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/6/1 Walton. 2 tenements in Upton and Dring. Tenement in 9 Sep 1625 cont Sunderlandwick. House in Hull. Howald Grange. Sheepgarth in the fields of Howgate and Northalton. All formerly property of Watton Priory 1 item

U DGN/6/2 Translation of U DGN/6/1 9 Sep 1625 1 bundle

U DGN/6/3 Summary of Letters Patent granting to Anthony Rowse, 12 Sep 1631 Charles Harbord, William Scriven and Philip Eden Site of Watton Priory with manors of Watton, Hutton Cranswick, Huggate, Barnby upon Don and Hessle, all other property of the Priory in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Excepting New Grange in Hutton Cranswick and Skerne; Hessill Henge Grange; Pennfort Mill in Hutton Cranswick; 2 water mills in Watton; a water mill in Foston; Bell Mill in Skerne; manor of Santon; lands and tenements in York, Shalsgreaves (Falsgrave?), Scarborough, Newby, Givendale, Hutton Cranswick, Minethorp, Rotsea and Garton; Tranby Grange; lordship of Kilnewick; lands in Kilnewick, Granthorpe and Harlethorpe; land called the Flatt in Lockington; tenements in Holme, Hilderthorpe and Eaton; lands in Hilderthorpe; cottages in Hutton Cranswick; and rectories of Hull and North Dalton 1 item

U DGN/6/4 Abstract of Title of General Knollys and his eldest son Lt. 1678-1826 William Knollys. Manor and capital messuage of Coat Garth, par. Kilnwick, with lands and tithes there and at Cawkell, par. Watton: With Opinion of Lewis Duval (14 July 1826) 1 bundle

U DGN/6/5 Final Concord: for £800: Sir Thomas Legard and Sir [9 Feb 1724] Walter Hawksworth plaintiffs and Thomas Grimston senr. esq., and wife Dorothy, John Hill esq., Thomas Grimston jnr. gent and wife Jane deforceants Manors of Grimston Garth and Burtby alias Birkby with 17 messuages, 10 cottages, 1400ac. land, 100ac. meadow, 200ac. pasture in Grimston Garth, Garton in Holderness, Tunstall, Ringbrough and Birkby 1 item

U DGN/6/6 Final Concord: for £3,200: William Stables esq. plaintiff [25 Nov 1732] and John Grimston esq. deforceant Manors of Grimston Garth and Birtby alias Birkby with 20 messuages, 15 cottages, 2000ac. land, 200ac. meadow, 500ac. pasture in Grimston Garth, Garton in Holderness, Tunstall, Ringbrough, Birkby, Hunmanby, Argham and Fordon. Rectory of Argham 1 item page 10 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/6/7 Lease for a year: Robert Grimston of Neswick esq. son 23 Nov 1768 and heir of Robert G. of Neswick esq. by his wife Esther both dec'd (R.G. the father being nephew of John G. of Bridlington dec'd) to Robert Pardoe of Lincoln's Inn esq. Manor of Thwing and all estates of J.G. there and in Bessingby and Great Kelk. All estates of J.G. and R.G. dec'd in Bonwick, Dringhoe, Upton, Skipsea Brough, Beeford and Flamborough: To lead to a Release. 1 item

U DGN/6/8 Release: Thomas Grimston of Grimston Garth and 17 Dec 1782 Kilnwick, eldest son of John G. by his wife Jane (nee Legard) both dec'd, to William Pennington of the Middle Temple and John Graves of York gents. Manors and estates of J.G. in Grimston Garth, Garton, Tunstall Ringbrough and Birkby: To lead to a Common Recovery to use of T.G. 1 bundle

U DGN/6/9 Disentailing Assurance by Marmaduke Jerard Grimston 30 Jun 1856 (with the concurrence of his father Charles G. esq) Manors and estates in Garton with Grimston, Roos, Tunstall and Ringbrough, devised by the Will of Thomas Grimston 1 bundle

U DGN/7 Accounts 1821-1890 4 items

U DGN/7/1 Rent account: (Kilnwick?) 4 May 1826 1 item

U DGN/7/2 Vouchers 1821-1822 John Grimston in account with W. Topham 25 items

U DGN/7/3 Vouchers 1826 John Grimston in account with W. Topham 18 items

U DGN/7/4 Bank account book of exors. of John Grimston 1890 1 volume

U DGN/8 Correspondence 1810-1895 7 items

U DGN/8/1 Letter: Sam Hall, Beverley, to Messrs. Lockwood and 30 Aug 1810 Shepherd, Beverley Memorials of deeds relating to estate of Mr. Grimston at Bainton. 1 item page 11 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/8/2 Letter: John Grimston, Neswick, to John Lockwood, York 20 Oct 1811 John Lockwood's difficulties in procuring £8000 for him 1 item

U DGN/8/3 Letter: R. Wilson, Ayton to John Lockwood, London 8 Mar 1821 Sending a copy of his letter to W.J. Denison reporting on the state and valuation of the estate at Neswick and Bainton 1 item

U DGN/8/4 Letter: John Topham, Bainton, to Mr. Crust 9 Jun 1879 Particulars of Neswick Hall 1 item

U DGN/8/5 Letter: John Topham, Bainton, to Mr. Crust? 15 Dec 1879 List of late Mr. Grimston's servants 1 item

U DGN/8/6 Letters: John Topham, Bainton, to Mr. Crust 22 Jun 1880- Acreage and rents of Capt. Grimston's tenants. 8 Jul 1880 10 items

U DGN/8/7 Letters: Messrs. Norton, Rose and Norton, Westminster, Feb 1895- to Messrs. Crust, Todd and Mills, Beverley Oct 1895 Estate of late John Grimston 8 items

U DGN/9 Miscellaneous 1665-1860 4 items

U DGN/9/1 Copy. Grymston pedigree. From Visitation of Yorkshire 1665 1 item

U DGN/9/2 London Gazette. No. 22407. John Wilmot of Neswick to 27 Jul 1860 take surname and arms of Grimston. 1 item

U DGN/9/3 Account and receipts from Heralds' College in connexion Jul 1860- with obtaining licence for change as Oct 1860 U DGN/9/2 2 items

U DGN/9/4 Letter: Albert W. Woods, Lancaster Herald 28 Jul 1860 Sending U DGN/9/1 and asking for proof of John Wilmot's right to the arms 1 item

page 12 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/10 Settlements 1724-1872 11 items

U DGN/10/1 Marriage Settlements 1-2 Jan 1724 (i) Thomas Grimston of York esq. & wife Dorothy (ii) their only son Thomas G. of York esq. and wife Jane (a daughter of John Close of York dec'd) (iii) John Hill of Thornton esq. (surviving trustee of marriage settlement of T. & D.G.) (iv) Sir Thomas Legard of Ganton and Sir Walter Hawksworth of Hawksworth (West Riding) (v) Thomas Place esq. & Francis Taylor gent both of York (vi) Nicholas Hall senr. and jnr. of Furnivalls Inn Further to marriage of T. and J.G.: manors and estates of Grimston Garth, Garton, Tunstall, Ringbrough and Birkby 1 bundle

U DGN/10/2 Marriage Settlements 2 Mar 1753- (i) John Grimston of Grimston Garth esq. 3 Mar 1753 (ii) Sir Digby Legard of Ganton and Robert Grimston of Neswick esq. (iii) Jane Legard of Ganton spinster, daughter of Sir Thomas Legard of Ganton dec'd. Prior to marriage of J.G. and J.L.: as U DGN/10/1 1 bundle

U DGN/10/3 Counterpart of U DGN/10/2 c.1753 1 bundle

U DGN/10/4 Marriage Settlements 19 Sep 1771- (i) Robert Grimston of Neswick esq. 20 Sep 1771 (ii) Elizabeth Garforth of Askham, widow of the Rev. Edmund Garforth, and daughter Elizabeth G. jnr. spinster (iii) John Grimston of Kilnwick esq. and (iv) Henry Willoughby of Birdsall esq. Prior to marriage of R.G. & E.G. jnr. manor of Thwing with estate there and Octon. West Manor of Bainton with estate. Messuage in Peter Gate in York 1 bundle

U DGN/10/5 Copy. Marriage Settlements 16 Sep 1835 (i) Sir Robert Wilmot of Brighton (ii) John Wilmot esq. Capt. 10th Foot (a younger son of Sir R.W.) (iii) Thomas Bewes of Beaumont co. Devon esq. (iv) Jane Bewes spinster (a daughter of T.B.) (v) Henry Sacheverell Wilmot of Chaddesden esq., Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley esq., Deeble Boger of Plympton esq. and Rev. Thomas Archer Bewes of Lydeard St. Lawrence Prior to marriage of J.W. and J.B.: money 1 bundle page 13 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/10/6 Copy. Marriage Settlements 2 Jul 1856 (i) Col. Hardress Robert Saunderson of Clarges St., Piccadilly (ii) Marmaduke Jerard Grimston, Capt. E. Yorks. Militia, eldest son of Charles G. of Kilnwick (iii) Florence Victoria Saunderson spinster, daughter of H.R.S. (iv) John de Luttrell Saunderson, Capt. 2nd R.A. and (v) Hardress Luttrell Saunderson Maj. in Cavan Regt. Militia, both of Clarges St. and (vi) George Hibbert Marshall of Enholmes near Patrington and William George Stevenson of Grafton St., co. Mdx., esqs. Prior to marriage of M.J.G. and F.V.S.: manors of Garton with Grimston, Ringbrough and Tunstall, with capital messuage at Garston and estates (scheduled) in those places and in Roos and East Newton 1 bundle

U DGN/10/7 Re-Settlements by: 27 Nov 1863 (i) John Grimston esq. and (ii) his eldest son John Robert G., Capt. 29th Regt. to (iii) Henry Wilmot of Chaddesden Moor esq. Neswick estate 1 bundle

U DGN/10/8 Copy of U DGN/10/7 c.1863 1 bundle

U DGN/10/9 Deed of partial revocation and new appointment further to 14 Jul 1869 U DGN/10/7 Endorsed with a revocable appointment, 8 Nov 1871 1 item

U DGN/10/10 Draft endorsement as U DGN/10/9 8 Nov 1871 1 item

U DGN/10/11 Drafts of deeds of revocation relating to deeds as U c.1863-1871 DGN/10/7 - U DGN/10/9. With Opinion of Frederick Ramadge, Lincoln's Inn, 22 Feb 1872 1 bundle

UDGN/11 Wills 1790-1899 13 items

U DGN/11/1 Draft. Will of Robert Grimston of Neswick esq. 1790 1 item

U DGN/11/2 Copy. Will of Robert Grimston as U DGN/11/1 13 Feb 1790 1 item

page 14 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/11/3 Copy. Will of Robert Grimston as U DGN/11/1 13 Feb 1790 1 item

U DGN/11/4 Probate Copy. Will of Elizabeth Grimston (widow of 3 Apr 1818 Robert G. as U DGN/11/1) Probate 8 Oct 1818 1 item

U DGN/11/5 Copy of U DGN/11/4 c.1818 1 item

U DGN/11/6 Probate Copy. Will of John Grimston of Neswick esq. 21 Apr 1821 Probate 3 April 1846 1 item

U DGN/11/7 Copy of U DGN/11/6 c.1821 1 item

U DGN/11/8 Probate Copy. Will of Charles Grimston of Grimston in 13 Sep 1858 Holderness and Kilnwick esq. Probate 26 May 1859 1 item

U DGN/11/9 Probate Copy. Will of Esther Grimston of York esq. 6 Aug 1859 Probate 25 March 1863 1 item

U DGN/11/10 Probate Copy. Will of Charlotte Grimston of Neswick 21 Dec 1856 widow. Probate 27 Jun 1860 1 item

U DGN/11/11 Probate Copy. Will of John Grimston of Neswick esq. 7 Apr 1874 Probate 16 Jul 1879 1 item

U DGN/11/12 Copy of U DGN/11/11 c.1874 1 item

U DGN/11/13 Copy. Letters of Administration of estate of Henry Archer 7 Oct 1899 Grimston of 51 Talgarth Road, West Kensington gent. 1 item

U DGN/12 Various Documents 1796-1891 7 items

U DGN/12/1 Agreement 3 May 1796 (i) Sir Robert Wilmot and wife Dame Lucy and Ramsden Walter Fawkes esq. and wife Maria (the women being 2 of the 4 daughters of Robert Grimston dec'd) (ii) Elizabeth Grimston widow of R.G. (iii) John Grimston son and heir of R.G. Disposal of share of Anlaby Grimston (younger son of R.G. and who died under 21) under Will of R.G. 1 item page 15 of 16 Hull History Centre: Grimston Family of Grimston Garth and Neswick U DGN/12/2 Bond: in £2,400: John Grimston of Neswick esq. to 27 July 1814 Thomas Hornby of Gt. Driffield gent. For payment of £1,200 1 item

U DGN/12/3 Deed of Covenants: Legatees of Elizabeth Grimston and 22 Mar 1847 devisees of real estate of John Grimston Debt due to her estate from J.G. as her surviving exor. 1 bundle

U DGN/12/4 Conveyance and Disentailing Deed 16 Oct 1851 (i) Sir Henry Sacheverell Wilmot of Chaddesden (ii) Robert Edward Eardley Wilmot of the same, esq. (iii) Charlotte Grimston of Neswick widow (iv) William Curry of New St., Spring Gardens, co. Mdx. esq. (v) Rev. Richard Coke Wilmot of Neswick (vi) John Wilmot of Douglas, Isle of Man esq. and (vii) his sons John jnr. and Henry W. Estates devised by Will of John Grimston 1 bundle

U DGN/12/5 Appointment by Capt. John Robert Grimston of Walter 22 Jan 1889 Francis Wrangham as a new trustee of settled estates 1 item

U DGN/12/6 Appointment similar of Gerard Wigram 30 Apr 1890 1 item

U DGN/12/7 Release by Fanny, wife of W.F. Wrangham as U 5 Mar 1891 DGN/12/5, to Sir Henry Wilmot In respect of Will of John Grimston 1 item

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