U DDLG Papers of the Lloyd-Greame 12Th Cent. - 1950 Family of Sewerby
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Hull History Centre: Papers of the Lloyd-Greame Family of Sewerby U DDLG Papers of the Lloyd-Greame 12th cent. - 1950 Family of Sewerby Historical Background: The estate papers in this collection relate to the manor of Sewerby, Bridlington, which was in the hands of the de Sewerdby family from at least the twelfth century until descendants in a female line sold it in 1545. For two decades the estate passed through several hands before being bought by the Carliell family of Bootham, York. The Carliells moved to Sewerby and the four daughters of the first owner, John Carliell, intermarried with local gentry. His son, Tristram Carliell succeeded to the estates in 1579 and upon his death in 1618 he was succeeded by his son, Randolph or Randle Carliell. He died in 1659 and was succeeded by his son, Robert Carliell, who was married to Anne Vickerman, daughter and heiress of Henry Vickerman of Fraisthorpe. Robert Carliell died in in 1685 and his son Henry Carliell was the last male member of the family to live at Sewerby, dying in 1701 (Johnson, Sewerby Hall and Park, pp.4-9). Around 1714 Henry Carliell's heir sold the Sewerby estate to tenants, John and Mary Greame. The Greame family had originated in Scotland before moving south and establishing themselves in and around Bridlington. One line of the family were yeoman farmers in Sewerby, but John Greame's direct family were mariners and merchants in Bridlington. John Greame (b.1664) made two good marriages; first, to Grace Kitchingham, the daughter of a Leeds merchant of some wealth and, second to Mary Taylor of Towthorpe, a co-heiress. John and Mary Greame were responsible for building the central block of the present Sewerby House, a seven-bay, three-story, red-brick, box-like house with a central pediment and lavish internal fittings (Johnson, Sewerby Hall and Park, pp.10-14; Pevsner & Neave, York and the East Riding, p.678; U DDLG/48/38). John Greame died at the age of 83 in 1746. He and his wife had had fourteen children though several of them died in childhood including his two eldest sons. He was, therefore, succeeded to the Sewerby estates by his third son, John Greame (b.1709), who married late in life, in 1756, to Alicia Mary Spencer ('Almary') (b.circa 1724) of Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, near Barnsley. The marriage was childless and John and Almary Greame threw their energies into house maintenance and garden planting. Some of the earliest correspondence in the collection indicates that Almary had a monthly order on exotic plants. John Greame died in 1798. His wife continued to live at Sewerby after her husband's death and was joined there by the heir apparent to the estates, John Greame (b.1759), the son of John Greame senior's younger brother, Thomas Greame (1716-1784) of Heslington (Johnson, Sewerby Hall and Park, pp.14-18; U DDLG/48/38). John Greame junior had married an heiress, Sarah Yarburgh of Heslington, who was descended from a family who had held lands in Lincolnshire from the time of the Norman conquest and whose pedigree traced their ancestry to Edward III. Her aunt had been the wife of John Vanburgh. Sarah had died prematurely in 1785 leaving John Greame with two children, Yarburgh Greame (b.circa 1782) and Alicia Mary Greame (b.1783). In 1787 John Greame remarried, to Anne Elizabeth Broadley, daughter of Isaac Broadley of the merchant family of Hull and Brantingham. John Greame moved with his family into Sewerby House before his elderly aunt died and together they planned and built two-storey, bow-windowed extensions. The family followed the regency fashion of painting the exterior brickwork and the work was finished about 1808. After the elderly Alicia Mary Greame died in 1812 John and Anne Greame continued to live at Sewerby House until their own deaths, within a few days of one another in February 1841 (Johnson, Sewerby Hall and Park, pp.18-20; U DDLG/48/38- 9). page 1 of 332 Hull History Centre: Papers of the Lloyd-Greame Family of Sewerby The estate now passed to the eldest son of John Greame, Yarburgh Greame, who inherited Heslington and estates in Lincolnshire from his mother's family as well, and so added the surname Yarburgh, becoming Yarburgh Yarburgh. Yarburgh Yarburgh threw himself into estate and church building; he brought the bayed wings up to the three-storey level of the centre of the house, continued the planting programme in the garden and built Sewerby Church in a neo-Norman style with a Victorian spire between 1846-8. Yarburgh Yarburgh became High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1848 (see shrievalty papers) and he died in 1856; there is a monument to him in the church he built (Johnson, Sewerby Hall and Park, pp.21-3; U DDLG/48/38-9; Ingram, The church of St John, pp.7, 17). The estate now passed to Yarburgh Yarburgh's sister, Alicia Mary Greame, who had married George Lloyd (b.1787) of Stockton Hall, York. The Lloyds had originally come from Mattersey in Nottinghamshire in the seventeenth century. The descendants of Gamaliel Lloyd (d.1661) established themselves as merchants and manufacturers in and around Manchester and the third son of George Lloyd (d.1783), another George Lloyd, was a barrister who had married Elizabeth Naylor, daughter of a Wakefield merchant. Their eldest son was George Lloyd of Stockton Hall and he and Alicia Mary Greame married in 1810. They died in 1863 and 1867 respectively and Alicia Mary Lloyd split her inheritance between her sons. Her eldest son, George John Lloyd, assumed the name and arms of Yarburgh and succeeded to the Heslington estates and her younger son, Yarburgh Gamaliel Lloyd (b.1813), who was vicar of Dunston in Lincolnshire, succeeded to Sewerby House and estates of around 7000 acres in the East and North Riding and added the surname Greame, becoming Yarburgh Gamaliel Lloyd-Greame (Johnson, Sewerby Hall and Park, pp.23-4; U DDLG/48/39; Burke, Landed gentry; Ward, East Yorkshire landed estates, p.47). Yarburgh Gamaliel Lloyd-Greame married Editha Christiana le Hunte and they had five children. One daughter, named Editha, died the day she was born and a second daughter, also named Editha, died at the age of 13 years, leaving them with two daughters and one son. The son, Yarburgh George Lloyd-Greame (b.1840), became a colonel in the Yorkshire Artillery and succeeded to the estates at Sewerby on the death of his father in 1890. He married Dora Letitia O'Brien, second daughter of James Thomas O'Brien, bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, the noted evangelical theologian of the Church of Ireland. Some of Dora's siblings lived with them at Sewerby (see separate entry for family history and further details). Yarburgh George Lloyd-Greame died in 1928 and their son, Yarburgh Lloyd-Greame lived at Sewerby House until 1934 when he sold it to Bridlington Corporation and it is now open to the public. Their younger son, Philip Lloyd-Greame, took the name Cunliffe-Lister and became a Conservative MP. In 1944 he was created 1st Earl Swinton (Johnson, Sewerby Hall and Park, p.24; U DDLG/48/39; Burke, Landed gentry; Ward, East Yorkshire landed estates, p.48). Custodial history: U DDLG deposited by Mrs N Turner and the trustees of the Sewerby estate in the East Riding Record Office in 1965 and transferred to Hull University Archives in 1974; U DDLG2 deposited in 1974 Description: This is a collection rich in title deeds for Yorkshire including many medieval deeds (some of these were transcribed by C V Collier and appeared in print in the 'Yorkshire deeds' series published by the Yorkshire Archeological Society). There are a number of items of particular interest for church history including a 1684 justice's warrant to levy fines on 25 named people at a conventicle held in Bridlington; records relevant to the building and early years of Sewerby church 1845-1848 and parsonage 1864-1909; 18th century and 19th century page 2 of 332 Hull History Centre: Papers of the Lloyd-Greame Family of Sewerby Sewerby parish records; plans of the new church at Grindale in 1873 and the papers of the Reverend Dr J T O'Brien, bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin (see below for further detail). This is a collection that is also rich in maps and plans including an illuminated plan of Little Hatfield by John Carr (1717). There are also manorial records for Grindale 1670-1865 and items of interest for W L Allardyce from the Falkland Islands in 1906 (see correspondence for further details) and several items of Sir George T M O'Brien who was Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong 1892-5 and Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific 1897-1902 (see below for further details). In addition there are two 17th century farming and personal account books which include some medicinal recipes and servants' wages (see accounts). Estate papers are arranged alphabetically for the East Riding followed by papers for other locations. Details for East Riding estate papers begin with: Argam (1722-1860) including tenancy agreements, tithe awards, the marriage settlement of Jane Close and Thomas Grimston (1722), certificates of marriage, baptism and burial for the Bell and Jordan families, the wills of Francis Jordan (1789) and William Jordan (1822) and related estate papers of the Jordan family; Bempton (1675-1865) including the enclosure act of 1765, 19th century tenancy agreements, an abstract of title of the Maister family 1724-1813, the will of Henry Maister (1811), the marriage settlement of Arthur Maister and Anne Pease (1812) and some mortgages held by Henry Maister; Bessingby (1594-1768) including a 1594 assignment of Bessingby chapel from John Carliell (Carlell, Carlile and other spellings) to his son with all its tithes (all formerly the property of Bridlington Priory) and later papers related to this property; Birdsall (late 18th century-1892) including plans and tenancy agreements.