(40) The Adderley families and the Adderleys of Blake Hall

In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries there were a number of prominent families in the English Midlands of the surname Adderley, who ultimately all trace their descent from 
Thomas Adderley (d. 1538) who settled at Blake Hall in Moreland (Staffs) in the early 16th century.  He had five sons and three daughters, of whom the first, third and fourth sons founded lasting landed dynasties, as shown in the diagram below.

The relationships between the branches of the Adderley family

His eldest son, Thomas, inherited Blake Hall and his descendants remained there until the 18th century.  His third son, Ralph (d. 1595) bought Coton Hall at Coton-under-Needwood (Staffs) and himself had several sons; the eldest inherited Coton Hall and founded a line (later Broughton-Adderley) which continued as significant landowners in Staffordshire at Coton Hall, Tunstall Hall and elsewhere into the 20th century.  Ralph's fourth son, another Ralph, lived at Alrewas, but his son, Sir Charles Adderley (1610-82), bought Hams Hall in Warwickshire from the Ferrers family and founded what became the most prominent branch of the family; as Barons Norton they are still seated at Fillongley Hall in Warwickshire.  Finally, Thomas' fourth son, Humphrey Adderley (1512-98), bought Weddington Hall in Warwickshire, which passed to his descendants until the late 18th century.  The rest of this post will concern the senior line, the Adderleys of Blake Hall; subsequent posts will address the Adderleys of Hams Hall, the Adderleys of Weddington, and the Broughton-Adderleys of Coton Hall.

Thomas Adderley (d. 1598) bequeathed the Blackhaugh or Blakehall estate to his eldest son, another Thomas.  It passed in direct succession through the male line to Samuel Adderley (d. 1716), who married three times but failed to produce a surviving heir.  Following his death the property passed to his sisters, Jane Mountford and Magdalen Bamford, and in 1753 was divided by their descendants.  

Blakehall, Moreland, Staffordshire

The Ordnance Survey 25" map of 1890 showing the farm on the site of Blake Hall at that time.

Nothing is known of the house at Blakehall, which seems to have passed out of gentry use in the early 18th century, following the death of Samuel Adderley, and subsequently became a farmhouse.  It has been demolished.  There was extensive mining activity in the area in the 18th and 19th centuries and the site is now marked by the BlakeHall fishing lakes.

The Adderleys of Blake Hall

Thomas Adderley (d. 1538) of Blakehall.  Son of Henry Adderley; probably born c.1475.  He married Joan, daughter of John Thirkill of Smallwood (Staffs), and had issue:
(1) Thomas Adderley of Blakehall (d. c.1597) (q.v.);
(2) John Adderley, m. Elene, widow of Gilbert; died 1583/4 without issue;
(3) Ralph Adderley (d. 1598) of Coton Hall; m.1 10 April 1554, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Bagot of Blithfield and m.2, Felicia, daughter of Henry Milward of Doveridge and had issue by both marriages; died 20 April 1598; buried at Hanbury (Staffs);
(4) Humphrey Adderley (1511/12-98) of Weddington Hall; Master of the Wardrobe to four monarchs from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I; m.1 Anne North and m.2, 1581 Elizabeth (who m.2, Sir Richard Norton of Rotherfield), daughter of Richard Capel, and had issue by both marriages;
(5) George Adderley, who died unmarried and without issue;
(6) Joan Adderley, m. Robert Smith of Branston;
(7) Elizabeth Adderley, m. William Peverell;
(8) Alice Adderley, m. John Conyers of Yorkshire.
He purchased the Blackhaugh alias Blakehall estate in Moreland (Staffs) and settled there.
He died in 1538.

Thomas Adderley (d. c.1597) of Blakehall.  Eldest son of Thomas Adderley (d. 1538); born about 1500-05.  He married Joan, daughter of Robert Warner of Dilhorne (Staffs) and had issue:
(1) Henry Adderley  (fl. 1614-29) of Blakehall (q.v.);
(2) Richard Adderley;
(3) Jane Adderley (d. 1628/9), m.1 William Copwood and ?m.2 ?Robert Lawton of Woolstanton (Staffs);
(4) Elizabeth Adderley, m. ?Richard Hussey (fl. 1571).
He inherited the Blakehall estate from his father in 1538.
He died in about 1597.

Henry Adderley (fl. 1614-29) of Blakehall.  Elder son of Thomas Adderley (d. c.1597) and his wife Joan, daughter of Robert Warner of Dilhorne (Staffs); born about 1540.  He married Joan, daughter and heir of Ralph Tunstall of Tunstall (Staffs) and had issue:
(1) Ralph Adderley of Blakehall (d. 1663) (q.v.);
(2) Alice Adderley, m. Edward Thorneycroft of Thorneycroft (Cheshire);
(3) Margaret Adderley, m. Humphrey Berkyn or Batkyn of Tearshall (not identified);
(4) William Adderley;
(5) Thomas Adderley;
(6) John Adderley;
(7) Elizabeth Adderley.
He inherited the Blakehall estate from his father.
He died at an unknown date, after 1629.

Ralph Adderley (d. 1663) of Blakehall.  Eldest son of Henry Adderley (fl. 1614) and his wife Joan, daughter and heir of Ralph Tunstall of Tunstall (Staffs), born about 1569.  Educated as a private pupil not affiliated to a college at Oxford University (matriculated 1585).  He may have been the Ralph Adderley who was a member of the County Committee for Staffordshire in 1643.  He married Margaret or Mary, daughter of Edward Morton of Welbrighton or Ingleton and had issue:
(1) Henry Adderley (b. c.1612) (q.v.);
(2) Ralph Adderley, died unmarried;
(3) William Adderley of Bromshull (Staffs), m.1 Ellen Morley of Yorkshire and had issue and m.2 Sarah Hatfield of Derbyshire;
(4) Elizabeth Adderley, m. Samuel Lathropp of Bromshull (Staffs).
He inherited the Blakehall estate from his father after 1614.
He died in April 1663.

Henry Adderley (b. c.1612).  Eldest son of Ralph Adderley (d. 1663) and his wife Margaret or Mary, daughter of Edward Morton; born about 1612.  He married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Lathropp of Bromshull (Staffs) and had issue:
(1) Samuel Adderley (b. c.1641/2) (q.v.);
(2) William Adderley (b. c.1644) of Cheadle, m. Jane, daughter of Adam Colclough of Delph House (Staffs) and widow of Richard Aston, son of John Aston of Milwich (Staffs)
(3) Mary Adderley.
He died in the lifetime of his father, before 1663.

Samuel Adderley (b. c.1641/2) of Blakehall.  Eldest surviving son of Henry Adderley (b. c.1612) and his wife Mary, daughter of Nicholas Lathropp of Bromshull (Staffs), born about 1641/2.  He married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Colclough of Delph House (Staffs) and had issue:
(1) Samuel Adderley (d. 1716) (q.v.);
(2) Henry Adderley (b. c.1666);
(3) Ralph Adderley;
(4) Thomas Adderley;
(5) William Adderley;
(6) Benjamin Adderley;
(7) Jane Adderley, m. Mr. Mountford;
(8) Magdalen Adderley, m. Mr. Bamford.
He inherited the Blakehall estate from his grandfather in 1663.
His date of death is unknown, perhaps c.1680?

Samuel Adderley (d. 1716) of Blakehall.  Eldest son of Samuel Adderley (b. c.1641/2) and his wife Catherine Colclough; born c.1665.  He married first, 1689/90, Elizabeth, daughter of William Sneyd of The Birches, second, 22 July 1713, Anne (1689-1714), daughter of Edward Thornecroft of Thornecroft and third, 8 September 1715, Anne (b. 1682) (who m.2, Caesar Colclough of Delphouse (Staffs) and had issue), daughter of Arden Adderley of Hams Hall and had issue:
(2.1) Samuel Adderley (b. 1714), who died young.
He inherited the Blakehall estate from his father.  At his death the estate passed to his sisters, Jane Mountford and Magdalen Bamford.
He died 3 June 1716, without surviving issue.

Sources
H.S. Glazebrook, The heraldic visitations of Staffordshire, 1663-64, 1885; http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/aa/adderley1.php.

Where are their papers?
Adderley family of Blakehall: no significant archive is known to survive.

(39) Addenbrooke of The Lea and Wollaston Hall

The Rev. John Addenbrooke (1652-1724), whose nephew, Dr. John Addenbrooke (1681-1719) left a bequest to found the famous Cambridge hospital that bears his name, traced his ancestry from a family of ironmasters living at The Lye, Old Swinford and Kingswinford (Worcs) since the mid 16th century.  He was rector of Upper Sapey (Herefs), and purchased the estate of The Lea in that parish c.1700, and rebuilt the house there as a seven bay, two storey building in brick.  After his death it passed to his sons John (d. 1776) and  Edward (d. 1791), who bequeathed it to his kinsman, the ironmaster, John Addenbrooke Homfray (1759-1837) of Wollaston Hall, who took the surname Addenbrooke by royal licence in 1792.  In 1837 The Lea passed to Edward Addenbrooke Addenbrooke (1782-1855), and it descended to his eldest son, Rev. Edward Addenbrooke (1816-97), who was vicar of Smethwick (Staffs) and later of Prees (Shropshire).  His eldest son, Edward Homfray Addenbrooke (1845-1915) was a surgeon, and seems to have sold The Lea and the family's Black Country property.  

The Lea, Upper Sapey, Herefordshire

The Lea, Upper Sapey

A two storey seven bay early 18th century brick house, presumably built for Rev. John Addenbrooke (d. 1724), who bought the estate in c.1700.  The ground floor, which has segmented-headed windows, is more irregularly fenestrated, but was perhaps regular originally.  Inside, there is an original staircase with turned balusters.  A rear wing was added in the early 19th century.

Descent: sold c.1700 to Rev. John Addenbrooke (d. 1724); to son, John Addenbrooke (d. 1776); to brother, Edward Addenbrooke (d. 1791); to kinsman, John Addenbrooke Homfray (later Addenbrooke) (1759-1837) of Wollaston Hall; to kinsman, Edward Addenbrooke Addenbrooke (1782-1855) of Kingswinford House; to son, Rev. Edward Addenbrooke (1816-97); to son, Edward Homfray Addenbrooke (1845-1915), who appears to have sold the estate.

Wollaston Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire

Wollaston Hall in the late 19th century. Image: History of Wollaston Group

Wollaston Hall from an old postcard.  Image: History of Wollaston Group

A semi-timbered and gabled five bay two storey early 17th century house, remodelled and extended c.1850; what was done then is not entirely clear, but perhaps included the wider left-hand bay and the stone-built additions at the rear.  In 1832 the house had terraced gardens, stepping down to the meadows below and with an avenue of sycamores approaching the entrance.  The house was demolished in 1925-26, when many parts of the building were transported to America and sold for incorporation in new buildings.  A fireplace and some panelling has been traced to the Ford House at Gaukler Pointe, near Detroit, built in 1926-29 by Albert Kahn for Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford and chairman of the Ford Motor Company.

Descent: sold 1592 to George Liddeatt, merchant taylor of London; to ?son, John Liddeatt (d. 1639); to son, John Liddeatt (fl. 1672); sold 1672 to Thomas Foley ... sold 1809 to Thomas Hill... sold 1826 to John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781-1833)... sold 1848 to William Blow Collis (d. 1858); sold 1859 to Henry Onions Firmstone (d. 1899); sold 1899 to Caleb Roberts (d. 1918); sold 1925 to his daughter, Amelia Blanch Cooper Darby; demolished 1926.  The house was let continuously from 1672 to 1848, and the tenants included John Wheeler (d. 1708) and his son; Edward Kendall (1684-1746); Francis Homfray (1674-1737); to son, John Homfray (1731-60); to son, John Addenbrooke Addenbrooke (né Homfray) (1759-1837); to son, Edward Addenbrooke Addenbrooke (1782-1855). 

The Addenbrooke family of The Lea and Wollaston Hall

Addenbrooke, Roger (1612-71), of Kingswinford (Staffs).  Younger son of Henry Addenbrooke (c.1580-1617) of The Lye and his wife Gertrude Spratt, born 23 August 1612.  He married 8 October 1639 Anne Brettell (d. 1673) of Kingswinford, and had issue:
(1) Rev. Samuel Addenbrooke (1642-1710), baptised 27 August 1642; educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford (matriculated 1662; BA 1665); rector of West Bromwich (Staffs); m. 13 May 1676 Matilda Perry and had issue one son (Dr John Addenbrooke, founder of Addenbrooke's Hospital) and two daughters; will proved in PCC 28 November 1710;
(2) Elizabeth Addenbrooke (b. 1645), baptised 5 July 1645; m. William Hurst of Kinver (Staffs);
(3) Jeremiah Addenbrooke (1649-1701) (q.v.);
(4) Rev. John Addenbrooke (1652-1724) (q.v.).
He died 21 August 1671.  

Addenbrooke, Rev. John (1652-1724), of The Lea.  Youngest son of Roger Addenbrooke (1612-71) and his wife Anne Brettell, born 16 October 1652.  Educated at St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge (matriculated 1674; BA 1674/5; MA 1678).  Rector of Upper Sapey (Herefordshire), 1683-1724; vicar of Wolferlow (Herefs), 1705.  He married 27 January 1678 Elizabeth (d. 1744), daughter of John Nash of Droitwich, and had issue:
(1) Very Rev. John Addenbrooke (1691-1776) (q.v.);
(2) Edward Addenbrooke (d. 1791) of The Lea (q.v.);
(3) Margaret Addenbrooke (1705-84), died unmarried and without issue.
He purchased the estate of The Lea c. 1700 and built a new house there.  At his death it passed to his elder son, John, and then to his younger son, Edward.
He died 22 January 1724.

Addenbrooke, Very Rev. John (1691-1776), of The Lea.  Elder son of Rev. John Addenbrooke (1652-1724) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Nash of Droitwich, born 1691.  Educated at Christ Church and St Mary's Hall, Oxford (matriculated 1702; BA 1708) and St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge (MA 1710); rector of Sutton (Salop), 1724; rector of Upper Sapey (Herefs), 1725-30?; vicar of Rosthorne (Cheshire), 1730-32; rector of St Mary, Stafford, 1732-46; rector of Sudbury (Derbys), 1736-76; Dean of Lichfield, 1745-76.  He married 1735 Dorothy (1701-72), daughter of John Wedgwood but died without issue.
He inherited The Lea estate from his father in 1724, but probably did not live there after 1732 because of his clerical appointments.  At his death the estate was inherited by his younger brother.
He died 25 February 1776.

Addenbrooke, Edward (1701-91), of The Lea.  Second son of Rev. John Addenbrooke (1652-1724) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Nash of Droitwich, born 1701.
He inherited the estate of The Lea from his elder brother in 1776, but had probably always lived there.  At his death he bequeathed it to his first cousin twice removed, John Addenbrooke Homfray (see below).
He died unmarried and without issue in 1791; will proved in PCC 31 December 1791.

Addenbrooke, Jeremiah (1649-1701) of Kingswinford.  Younger son of Roger Addenbrooke (1612-71) and his wife Anne Brettell, born 7 July 1649.  He married first, c.1676, Sarah (d. 1690), widow of Richard Paston; second, 21 November 1693, Sarah (d. 1695), daughter of John Ropier of Kings Norton (Worcs); and third, c.1698 Mary, daughter of Henry Addenbrooke of Sedgley (who m.2, 2 February 1709/10, Sylvanus Robins), and had issue:
(1.1) Elizabeth Addenbrooke (b. 1678); baptised 21 November 1678;
(2.1) John Addenbrooke (b. c.1695); died without issue;
(3.1) Jeremiah Addenbrooke (1701-73) (q.v.).
He was buried at Kingswinford 31 January 1700/01 and his will was proved 23 April 1701.  His first and second wives were buried in the same place, 5 June 1690and 8 July 1695.

Addenbrooke, Jeremiah (1701-73).  Only son of Jeremiah Addenbrooke (1649-1701) and his third wife Mary, daughter of Henry Addenbrooke of Sedgley, born posthumously and baptised at Sedgley (Staffs), 23 February 1700/01.  He married 2 November 1726 at Pattingham (Staffs), Hannah (d. 1753), daughter of Thomas Hodgetts of Kingswinford and had issue:
(1) John Addenbrooke (b. & d. 1727), baptised 13 July 1727 and buried the following day;
(2) Mary Addenbrooke (later Homfray) (1728-1800) (q.v.);
(3) Elizabeth Addenbrooke (1730-1812), baptised 3 June 1730; m. 31 July 1771 at Kingswinford, Col. Charles Macmurdo, but died without issue, 24 March 1812.
He died at Kingswinford, 28 August 1773, and his will was proved at Lichfield, 11 November 1773.  His wife died 16 April 1753 and was buried at Kingswinford, 19 April 1753.

Addenbrooke (later Homfray), Mary (1728-1800), of Wollaston Hall.  Elder daughter of Jeremiah Addenbrooke (1701-73) and his wife Hannah, daughter of Thomas Hodgetts of Kingswinford, born at Much Wenlock (Salop), 14 August 1728.  She married 24 April 1758 at Kingswinford, John Homfray (1731-60) of Wollaston Hall, ironmaster, and had issue:
(1) John Addenbrooke Homfray (later Addenbrooke) (1759-1837) (q.v.).
She lived after her marriage at Wollaston Hall.
She died 19 December 1800.  Her husband died in 1760 and his will was proved in PCC, 26 April 1760.

Homfray (later Addenbrooke), John Addenbrooke (1759-1837), of Wollaston Hall and The Lea.  Only child of John Homfray (1731-60) and his wife Mary Addenbrooke (1728-1800), baptised at Old Swinford, 16 May 1759.  Ironmaster; High Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1798.  He changed his surname to Addenbrooke by royal licence in 1792, on succeeding to the estate of The Lea.  He married first, 7 August 1780 at Old Swinford, Elizabeth (1759-1808), daughter of Michael Grazebrook of Audnam, Kingswinford (Staffs); and second, 13 June 1832 Lydia (1789-1864), daughter of Wade Browne of Monkton Farleigh (Somerset) and widow of Joseph Lea of The Hill, Amblecote, and had issue:
(1.1) Edward Addenbrooke Addenbrooke (1782-1855) (q.v.);
(1.2) John Addenbrooke (1784-1859) of Rockingham Hall, Hagley (Worcs); born 12 and baptised 26 April 1784 at Old Swinford; died unmarried, 29 June 1859; will proved 13 August 1859;
(1.3) Henry Addenbrooke (1787-1857), of Field House, Clent (Worcs), born 1 and baptised 16 April 1787; m. 22 January 1828, Mary Louisa (1798-1859), daughter of John Pidcock of The Flatts (Staffs) and had issue two daughters; died 6 July 1857 at Cheltenham (Glos); will proved 21 August 1857.
He inherited the tenancy of Wollaston Hall from his father in 1760 and The Lea estate from his kinsman, Edward Addenbrooke in 1791.
He died 10 March 1837 and his will was proved in PCC, 5 January 1838.  His first wife died 7 June 1808 and his second 5 September 1864 at Malvern Link (Worcs); her will was proved 19 October 1864.

Addenbrooke, Edward Addenbrooke (1782-1855) of The Lea.  Eldest son of John Addenbrooke Homfray (later Addenbrooke) (1759-1837) and his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Michael Grazebrook of Audnam, Kingswinford (Staffs), born 7 and baptised 8 March 1782.  He married, 26 January 1815, Emma (1794-1875), daughter of John Pidcock of The Flatts and had issue:
(1) Rev. Edward Addenbrooke (1816-97) (q.v.);
(2) John Addenbrooke (1817-82), baptised 21 January 1817; m. 19 October 1847 at Christ Church, West Bromwich, Elizabeth (1826-1900), daughter of Rev. W. Gordon of West Bromwich and had issue eight sons and seven daughters;
(3) Emma Addenbrooke (b. & d. 1818), baptised 13 December 1818 and died 21 December 1818;
(4) Elizabeth Addenbrooke (1820-24), born 25 October 1820 and baptised 20 January 1822; died 21 August 1824;
(5) Henry Addenbrooke (1821-1902) of Sutton Coldfield (Warks), solicitor; born 27 December 1821; m. Priscilla, daughter of Samuel Stone Briscoe of Summer Hill, Kingswinford (Staffs) and had issue four sons and six daughters; died 25 July 1902; will proved 19 September 1902;
(6) Emma Addenbrooke (1824-91), born 15 February 1824 and baptised 29 July 1825 at Kingswinford; m. Vincent Holbeche (1806-67) of Sutton Coldfield and had issue five sons and two daughters;
(7) George Addenbrooke (1825-1906), baptised 29 October 1825; m. Matilda Louisa (1831-99), daughter of Richard Westwood of Greenhill, Wombourne (Staffs) and had issue two sons and two daughters; died 20 May 1906;
(8) Thomas Addenbrooke (1827-88) of The Poplars, Lymm (Cheshire), baptised 2 April 1827; m. 27 May 1856, Emma (1838-1918), daughter of Benjamin Richards of Stourbridge and had issue three sons and one daughter; died 20 December 1888; will proved 8 May 1905;
(9) Laura Addenbrooke (1829-1903), baptised 26 January 1829; m. 1858 Rev. George Gilbanks (1826-1913), vicar of Wollaston; died 14 December 1903; will proved 9 March 1904;
(10) Frances Addenbrooke (1835-1907), baptised 17 October 1835; m.1, 1861, Rev. James Raven, vicar of Swindon; m.2, 1879 Rev. Francis Aspinwall Goddard (1841-88), vicar of Caverswall (Staffs); died 31 December 1907;
(11) Henrietta Addenbrooke (1837-1928), baptised 23 March 1837; m. 1 January 1867 at Kingswinford, Rev. Oswald Mangin Holden (1844-1938), vicar of Gailey-cum-Heatherton (Staffs) and had issue two sons and three daughters; died 11 March 1928; will proved 2 June 1928.
He inherited the tenancy of Wollaston Hall (given up in or before 1848. when the property was sold) and The Lea estate in Herefordshire from his father in 1837.
He died 16 May 1855 at Kingswinford and his will was proved in PCC, 3 July 1855. His widow died at Kingswinford, 3 February 1875, aged 81.

Addenbrooke, Rev. Edward (1816-97) of The Lea.  Eldest son of Edward Addenbrooke Addenbrooke (1782-1855) and his wife Emma, daughter of John Pidcock of The Flatts, born 27 and baptised 31 January 1816.  Educated at Trinity College, Oxford (matriculated 1834; BA 1838); ordained deacon, 1839 and priest, 1848; curate of Spernall, 1839-40; curate in charge of Ipsley, 1840-42; curate of Kingswinford, 1842-43; curate of Smethwick, 1843-50; vicar of Smethwick (Staffs), 1850-83; vicar of Prees (Shropshire), 1883-97; Rural Dean of Handsworth, 1874-78.  He married first, 1 November 1844, Elizabeth (1826-54), daughter of Henry Homfray of Broadwaters House (Worcs), and second, 24 June 1856 at Romsey (Hants), Caroline Frances Bramston (1819-97), daughter of Rev. James Davies of Braishfield House (Hants) and had issue:
(1.1) Edward Homfray Addenbrooke (1845-1915) (q.v.);
(1.2) Elizabeth Ann Addenbrooke (1847-1922); born 22 December 1847; married 21 July 1868 at Smethwick, Rev. Henry Kingdon Simcox (1839-1905); died 15 July 1922; will proved 16 April 1930;
(1.3) Emma Pidcock Addenbrooke (1848-1916); baptised 4 March 1849; died unmarried 28 April 1916 at Malvern; will proved 16 June 1916;
(1.4) Henrietta Enzel Addenbrooke (1850-1918); baptised 24 August 1850; died unmarried 30 December 1918 at Fisherton House (Wilts); will proved 6 March 1919;
(1.5) Mary Smith Addenbrooke (1851-1919); baptised 28 September 1851; m. 1873 Rev. James Payton (1844-1925) but separated?; died without issue, 11 March 1919;
(1.6) Caroline Isobel Addenbrooke (1852-1929); baptised 12 September 1852; died unmarried, 30 September 1929; will proved 30 November 1929;
(2.1) Frances Howarth Addenbrooke (1857-1925); baptised 11 June 1857; died unmarried 19 January 1925 at Malvern; will proved 3 March 1925;
(2.2) Rev. James Jennings Addenbrooke (1859-1934), born August 1859; educated at Keble College, Oxford (BA 1882); ordained deacon, 1882 and priest, 1884; curate of St. Paul, Burton-on-Trent, 1882-89; vicar of Whixall (Shropshire), 1889-1934; m. 25 April 1905, Lizzie Evelyn Serridge (b. 1881/82) and had issue one son and one daughter; died 28 September 1934; will proved 19 December 1934;
(2.3) Dr. Herbert Henry Hodgetts Addenbrooke (1862-1924), born 27 May 1862; educated at King Edwards School, Queen's College, Birmingham and Glasgow University; general practitioner in Sparkhill, Birmingham; m.1, 1892, Catherine Alice Cutler (1858-1918) and m.2, 4 March 1919, Hilda Elsworth (1878-1972) and had issue one daughter; died 25 January 1924; buried in Birmingham City Cemetery; will proved 1 March 1924.
He inherited The Lea estate in Herefordshire from his father in 1855 but probably never lived there because of his clerical appointments.
He died 30 November 1897.  His first wife died 10 June 1854; his second wife died 12 June 1897 at Wem (Salop)

Addenbrooke, Edward Homfray (1845-1915) of The Lea.  Only son of Rev. Edward Addenbrooke (1816-97) and his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Homfray of Broadwaters House (Worcs), born 10 June 1845.  He married, 4 August 1870, Marianne (1850-1937), daughter of Rev. Henry Downing, vicar of Kingswinford, and had issue:
(1) Henry Edward Addenbrooke (1871-1940); born 28 July 1871; emigrated to Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1890 and became an American citizen, 1904; m. 11 June 1898 in Illinois, Gertrude Mabel Touche and had issue one son and two daughters; died 20 June 1940;
(2) Francis Andrew Addenbrooke (1872-1918); born 30 November 1872; m. 1918 Lily Annie Paine; died at Sussex County Asylum, 15 December 1918; will proved 26 February 1919;
(3) Bertram Addenbrooke (1874-1929), born 28 October 1874; m. c. 1909 in Ireland, Frances Edith, daughter of Joseph Mayne of Warrenpoint (Down) and had issue one daughter; died 22 January 1929; will proved 25 February 1929;
(4) Eleanor Charlotte Addenbrooke (1876-1963), mayor of Kidderminster; born 1 July 1876; died unmarried, 12 April 1963;
(5) Dorothy Marian Addenbrooke (1880-1904), born 26 September 1880; died unmarried 4 July 1904;
(6) Arthur Addenbrooke (1882-1916), born 30 May 1882; m. 1912 Emma J. Mountford; died without issue in London of wounds received at the Battle of the Somme, 5 October 1916; will proved 7 December 1916;
(7) Robert Geoffrey Addenbrooke (1889-1957), of Wychbury House, Droitwich; born 22 July 1889; m. 1919, Jennie Maud (1893-1977), daughter of Canon D.G. Phillips, rector of Newport (Pembs) and had issue one son and one daughter; died 27 March 1957; will proved 20 May 1957.
He inherited The Lea estate from his father in 1897, but sold it shortly afterwards.
He died 15 October 1915 at The Platts, Kidderminster (Worcs) and his will was proved 4 December 1915.  His widow died 27 April 1938 and her will was proved 21 July 1937.

Sources

Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952, p. C.J. Robinson, History of the mansions and manors of Herefordshire, 1872, rep. 2009, p. 276; VCH Worcestershire, iii, 1913, pp. 213-23; Burke's Landed Gentry, 1925, pp. 5-6; R. Lockett, A survey of historic parks and gardens in Worcestershire, 1997, p. 271; J. Harris, Moving Rooms, 2007, pp. 213, 249; A. Brooks & Sir N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: Herefordshire, 2nd edn., 2012, p. 632; http://bconnections.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/wollaston-hall-a-secret-hiding-place/, accessed 10 September 2012

Where are their papers?

Addenbrooke family of The Lea: no significant archive is known to survive.

(38) Adamson of Linden Hall (Northumberland)

The family are said to have been of Scots origin but trace their descent from William Adamson of Ehenside Farm, Beckermet (Cumberland), who acquired lands in Cumberland and Westmorland in the early 18th century.  His grandson, Anthony Adamson (c.1761-1836), was a solicitor and banker in Whitehaven (Cumberland) and lived at Millgrove House, Low Moresby, just outside the town, which he may have built.  His son, Lawrence Adamson (c.1793-1877) was a barrister and HM Seneschal of the Isle of Man, where he lived from before 1840 to 1866.  He seems to have sold Millgrove before 1840 and later moved to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he lived at 7 Windsor Crescent, Jesmond.  His daughter, Catherine, married a Newcastle ironmaster, John George Abbot, and inherited his fortune of almost £700,000 in 1867.  When she died in 1900 her wealth was divided among her siblings.  Her brother, Lawrence William Adamson LLD, a solicitor,  (1829-1911), rented and bought several large houses in the Newcastle area including Jesmond House (c.1868-71), Whitley House (1877-89).  and Eglingham Hall (1898), but his share of his sister's wealth enabled him to buy Linden Hall, Longhorsley (Northumberland) in 1903.  Linden Hall descended to his son Lt-Col. John George Adamson CMG (1855-1932), who had purchased Glenfarne Hall (Leitrim) as a residence before inheriting the English estate in 1911.  At his death, Linden Hall passed to his daughters Muriel (1884-1963) and Eve (b. 1890), but it was sold after Muriel’s death.  Glenfarne Hall was abandoned in 1919 and subsequently burned; the estate was sold in the 1920s except for the ruins of the house, which were demolished after 1943.

Millgrove House, Low Moresby, Cumberland

The seat of Anthony Adamson (d. 1836), a Whitehaven solicitor and banker, who was perhaps responsible for building the house and laying out the grounds, which include an area of ancient woodland in a stream valley now owned by the Woodland Trust and known as Hawkeswood.  The house seems to have been remodelled or rebuilt in 1894 for William Burnyeat.  It was run as a nursing home in the 1990s but may now be back in private ownership.

Descent: Anthony Adamson (d. 1836); to son, Lawrence Adamson (d. 1877), who sold before 1840 to Hartley family, who sold to William Burnyeat, ironmaster and shipowner (1849-1921); to widow, Sarah Frances Dalzell Burnyeat (1849-1935)...sold 1946 to Johnson Morris Affleck (1886-1971), who sold 1970...

Eglingham Hall, Northumberland

Eglingham Hall

The main block has a seven bay two storey south front of 1728, with a recessed three-bay centre.  The rusticated quoins, central arched doorway between rusticated pilasters, and window architraves with heavy triple keystones, betray the influence of Seaton Delaval.  Eglingham was built for Robert Ogle; his architect is unknown but the names of William Etty (executant at Seaton Delaval) and William Wakefield have been suggested.  The west wing incorporates part of an older (16th or 17th century) house, and the north-east wing, which contains the present entrance, is an addition of 1903 by Temple Wilson.  Inside, the dining room has a chimneypiece flanked by giant Ionic pilasters, and a bedroom above has a similar arrangement but with Doric pilasters.  The main staircase was remodelled to imperial form c.1780, when the Venetian stair window may have been inserted, but the wrought iron balusters are thought to date from 1903.  The stable block has a chamfered doorway dated 1704, blocked mullioned windows and three small round windows with cable-moulded surrounds.  The Tudor style gate lodge is dated 1826.

Descent: sold 1514 to Henry Ogle (fl. 1514); to nephew, Luke Ogle (1510-82); to son, Luke Ogle (d. 1596); to son, Robert Ogle; to son, Robert Ogle; … Henry Ogle (1600-69); to son, John Ogle (1621-86); to son, Henry Ogle (d. 1711); to son, Henry Ogle (d. 1713); to son, Robert Ogle (d. 1736); to son, John Ogle (d. 1739); to brother, Ralph Ogle (d. 1773); to son, Robert Ogle; to son, Maj. Robert Ogle (1781-1857); to son, Robert Ogle (1817-79), who apparently sold the estate before his death… leased? to Lawrence William Adamson (1829-1911), a Newcastle solicitor, c.1898-1903… Thomas Milvain (fl. 1903)… sold to Bewicke family, early 20th cent.; …Juliet Bewicke; to daughter, April, wife of Henry Potts (fl. 1995)… Peter Walmsley-Cotton (fl. 2012).

Linden Hall, Longhorsley, Northumberland

Linden Hall, Longhorsley.  Image: Xooo.co.uk

A very plain and beautifully ashlared five bay two storey house designed in 1812 by Sir Charles Monck of Belsay for Charles William Bigge.  The central bay is much wider than the rest and has an extremely heavy and severe four-column porch with unfluted Greek Doric columns.  Inside there is an oblong central hall in which the staircase rises along three walls, under an oval roof lantern.  The house is now an hotel, and the stable block and outbuildings were converted to domestic accommodation in the 1980s by Ainsworth Spark.

Descent:  Charles William Bigge (d. 1849)... sold 1861 to Henry Metcalf Ames; to son, Louis Eric Ames, who sold 1903 to Lawrence William Adamson (1829-1911); to son, Lt-Col. John George Adamson (1855-1932); to daughters Muriel Adamson (1884-1963) and Eve Adamson (b. 1890), who sold 1963 to John M. Liddell; who sold 1978 for conversion to hotel.

Glenfarne Hall, Leitrim

Glenfarne Hall

A very severe astylar two storey four bay Grecian house built for Nicholas Loftus Tottenham c.1820, with a later single-storey wing.  Col. Adamson abandoned the house in 1919 during the Troubles and it was first vandalised and later burned, but the walls were still standing in 1943.  They were later taken down and used as hard core for roads on the estate.  Today the estate is a public forestry park with amenity areas along the shores of Lough MacNean. The only remaining building is the gate lodge.

Descent:  Nicholas Loftus Tottenham (d. c.1825); to son, Charles Henry Tottenham (d. 1836); to Nicholas Loftus Tottenham (d. aged 36); to son, Arthur Tottenham (d. 1887), who sold 1881 in settlement of a debt to Sir Edward Harland (of Harland & Wolff) (d. 1895); sold after his death to Col. John George Adamson (1855-1932) who sold the estate in the 1920s but retained the ruins of the house; to daughter, Muriel Adamson (1884-1963), who demolished the ruins.

The Adamson family of Linden Hall

Adamson, Anthony (c.1761-1836) of Millgrove. Son of William Adamson (b. 1719), born about 1761.  Solicitor and banker of Whitehaven (Cumberland); apparently bankrupted c.1825.  Married 24 November 1787 Catherine (d. 1838), daughter of Lawrence Harrison, surgeon, and had issue:

(1) Anne Adamson (b. 1789); baptised 9 January 1789;
(2) Anthony Adamson (b. 1790); baptised 17 May 1790;
(3) Catherine Adamson (b. 1792); baptised 6 July 1792;
(4) Lawrence Adamson (1794-1877) (q.v.);
(5) Judith Adamson (b. 1797); baptised 7 September 1797.
He purchased an estate at Low Moresby (Cumberland) and was probably responsible for building Millgrove House.
He died 10 March 1836, aged 75.

Adamson, Lawrence (1794-1877) of Newcastle-on-Tyne.  Son of Anthony Adamson (d. 1836) and his wife Catherine, daughter of Lawrence Harrison, surgeon; baptised at Whitehaven, 30 March 1794.  HM Seneschal of Isle of Man, barrister at law.  He married 22 February 1821 Elizabeth (d. 1875), daughter of Capt. Roger Walmesley and sister and co-heir of Lt. James Walmesley RN, and had issue:
(1) Mary Adamson (1821-46), baptised 9 December 1821; died unmarried 21 February 1846;
(2) Catherine Adamson (1823-1900), born 20 May 1823; m. John George Abbot (c.1816-67), ironmaster of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Tone Hall (Northumberland); died 4 May 1900; will proved 28 May 1900 (estate £657,490);
(3) Elizabeth Buchanan Adamson (1824-1906), of South Villa, Regent's Park, London; baptised 26 August 1824; died unmarried 28 December 1906; will proved 22 January 1907 (estate £169,603);
(4) Anne Adamson (1825-1907), born 28 September 1825; died unmarried 3 March 1907; will proved 18 March 1907 (estate £193,718);
(5) Anthony Robert Adamson (b. & d. 1827), baptised 11 May 1827; died in infancy;
(6) Lawrence William Adamson (1829-1911) (q.v.).
He inherited Millgrove House from his father in 1836 but sold it before 1840 to the Hartley family.  He lived on Isle of Man until 1866 when he moved to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
He died 3 January 1877, aged about 84.  His will was proved 23 January 1877 (effects under £1000).

Adamson, Lawrence William (1829-1911), LLD, of Eglingham Hall, and later of Linden Hall.  Son of Lawrence Adamson (d. 1877) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Roger Walmesley, born in Dublin, 16 July 1829.  Solicitor.  JP for Durham and Northumberland; DL for Northumberland from 1901 and High Sheriff of that county, 1900.  He married first, 22 December 1853 at Jesmond, Anne Jane (d. 1869), daughter of Capt. John Thomas Edward Flint of Filleigh (Devon) and second, 23 February 1889 at Jesmond, Sarah Frances (d. 1935), daughter of William Swan of Walker-on-Tyne, and had issue:
(1.1) John George Adamson CMG (1855-1932) (q.v.);
(1.2) Lawrence Arthur Adamson MA (1860-1932), educated at Oriel College, Oxford; called to bar, 1885; emigrated to Australia for his health, 1895; Headmaster of Wellesley College, Melbourne (Australia), 1930-32; died 14 December 1932;
(1.3) Mary Constance Adamson (d. 1946), m. 1887 Hugh Lee Pattinson (d. 1924), son of Hugh Lee Pattinson of Scots House (Durham) and had issue; died 2 December 1946.
He lived at Jesmond House (Durham) (rented c.1868-71), Whitley House (owned 1869-94), Eglingham Hall (rented c. 1898), and Linden Hall (owned from 1903).
He died 7 November 1911, aged 82.  His will was proved 27 January 1912 (estate £186,043).

Adamson, Lt-Col. John George (1855-1932), CMG, of Glenfarne Hall.  Elder son of Lawrence William Adamson (1829-1911) and his first wife Anne Jane, daughter of Capt. John Thomas Edward Flint of Filleigh (Devon), born in Douglas (Isle of Man), 8 January 1855.  Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford.  served in Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Lt., 1876; Captain, 1882; Major, 1892; retired, 1898; Lt-Col., 1892); served during WW1 as Colonel in Chief of Territorial Forces records, 1914-20; appointed Commander of the Order of St Michael & St. George, 1918.  High Sheriff of Leitrim, 1908.  He married 9 August 1883 Caroline Sara (known as Lina) (1856-1929), daughter of Rev. James Timothy Bainbridge Landon MA, vicar of Ledsham (Yorks) and Hon. Canon of York, and had issue:
(1) Muriel Anne Pearl Adamson (1884-1963) of Linden Hall (q.v.);
(2) Catharine Evelyn (known as Eve) Adamson (b. 1890); born 8 December 1890.
He purchased Glenfarne Hall c.1895 and inherited Linden Hall from his father in 1911.  He abandoned Glenfarne in 1919 and it was subsequently burned.  
He died 16 August 1932, aged 77.  His will was proved at Newcastle, 13 December 1932 (estate £23,539).

Adamson, Muriel Anne Pearl (1884-1963), of Linden Hall.  Elder daughter of Lt-Col. John George Adamson (1855-1932) and his wife Lina, daughter of Rev. James Timothy Bainbridge Landon; born in India, 25 May 1884.
She inherited the Linden Hall and Glenfarne Hall estates from her father, and subsequently demolished the ruins of Glenfarne Hall.  The estates were sold after her death.
She died unmarried, 1 January 1963, aged 78.  Her will was proved at Newcastle, 11 March 1963 (estate £183,379).

Sources

Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952; Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1912; Pevsner, Richmond et al, The buildings of England: Northumberland, 2nd edn., 1992, pp. 265, 377; http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/glenfarne-hall.html, accessed 9 September 2012; http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=393, accessed 10 May 2013; http://www.twsitelines.info/siteline.nsf/8f71f680ce308c9a802573a80061c133/2e1f04709c3d04da802576af003e8213!OpenDocument, accessed 11 May 2013.

Where are their papers?

Adamson family of Linden Hall etc.: no significant archive is known to survive.

(37) Adamson of Careston Castle and Stracathro House

John Adamson (1813-93), the son of a Dundee whaling captain, became an entrepreneur and owner of the Erichtside linen works at Blairgowrie.  In 1871 he purchased the Careston Castle estate from the 5th Earl Fife.  His son, William Shaw Adamson (1851-1936) married Nora Jane, daughter of the Rt. Hon. James Alexander Campbell of Stracathro House, and through her his grandson, Lt-Col. William John Campbell Adamson (1914-91) inherited that estate in 1934, two years before succeeding to his patrilineal properties at Careston, Nathro and Navar.  He leased and later sold Stracathro House to the Government for wartime hospital purposes, and it remained in hospital use until 2003, since when it has been restored as a private house.  The family continues to live at Careston Castle.

Careston Castle (Angus)

Careston Castle, c.1890. Image: Living Memory Association

Sir Henry Lindsay, 13th Earl of Crawford, built ‘the new place of Carraldstone’, a tall L-plan house, by 1592, and his nephew, 2nd Lord Spynie altered the interior in the mid 1620s.  Further changes were made by Sir Alexander Carnegy in the 1630s and the house was recast c.1700 when the south front was made a symmetrical U by the addition of a south-east wing.  The house now appears as a four-storey block of five bays with short projecting gabled wings at either end, and dormers breaking through the eaves line into the roof.  The enormous coat of arms above the front door was added by John Stewart in 1714.  About 1790 a grandiose staircase hall was added at the rear and the 16th century corner-turrets were embellished with crenellations in the Gothick style.  Further additions at the back and a loggia across the front of the main block were made for John Adamson after 1880.  Inside, the room spaces have been reorganised and reshaped in successive remodellings, but the house preserves a remarkable series of chimneypieces – perhaps made for Lord Spynie and Alexander Carnegy – which are derived from engravings in du Cerceau’s Livre d’architecture of 1561.  The drawing room and dining room have high quality panelling of c.1700 with a broad cornice and the two finest chimneypieces, but there is another in the west room of the second floor of the main block and a fourth in a corridor on the second floor.

Plans and aerial photographs of the building can be found here.

Descent:  Sir Henry Lindsay, 13th Earl of Crawford (d. 1623), sold 1612 to Adam Rae, an Edinburgh merchant... sold 1623 to Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie (d. 1646), who sold c.1627; sold c.1630 to Sir Alexander Carnegy of Balnamoon... James Carnegy of Balnamoon (fl. c.1700); to son, Alexander Carnegy, who sold 1707 to John Stewart of Grandtully, who sold 1720 to Maj. George Skene of that Ilk...James Duff, 5th Earl Fife (1814-79), who sold 1871 to John Adamson (1813-93); to son, William Shaw Adamson (1851-1936); to grandson, Lt-Col. William John Campbell Adamson (1914-91); to widow, Mrs. Margaret Josephine Campbell Adamson (d. 1996); to son, James Shaw Campbell Adamson (b. 1948).

Stracathro House (Angus)

Stracathro House in an engraving of 1850. 

A Greek Revival mansion designed by Archibald Simpson in 1827 for Alexander Cruikshank, who had made a fortune in Jamaica.  It consists of an eleven bay two storey main block with a service wing behind and low single storey wings of c.1850 continuing extending beyond the house on either side.  

Stracathro House, 2012.  Image: cisco via Geograph.  Licenced for reuse under a Creative Commons licenc

The main block has slightly projecting two bay ends with balustraded parapets and in between a screen of giant Corinthian columns in front of the recessed centre; from this in turn projects a three-bay pedimented porte-cochere of giant Corinthian columns.  

Stracathro House in 2012: rear elevation.  Image: cisco via Geograph.  Licenced under a Creative Commons licence

Inside, the entrance leads through a plain vestibule to a double height inner hall with yellow scagliola decoration.  It is oblong but the east and west walls are divided off by Corinthian-columned screens. and the square space between them has a shallow dome on pendentives, the centre of which is glazed to admit some light to what would otherwise be a very dark space.  Three state rooms – drawing room, ante room and dining room – fill the whole length of the garden front, and all have coffered and painted ceilings with rosettes at the intersections of the beams and almost identical plasterwork to the coffers.  The drawing room opens at the west end to a conservatory added c.1850, with a cast iron hammerbeam roof.  The boudoir, off the south side of the drawing room, has a coffered quadripartite vault painted with birds and stylised foliage.  West of the inner hall is the library, with painted decoration on the ceiling and above the bookcases.  Between the library and boudoir is the main staircase, with painted decoration on the walls (panels of birds and flowers) and a wrought iron balustrade.  The first floor landing has a trabeated ceiling rising as a glass-walled rectangular lantern.  The main first-floor corridor has quadripartite vaulting.  The stables and walled garden are also of c.1830.  The house now stands on the edge of a hospital complex (of which it was part until c.2000) developed from 1939 onwards, and by the south drive, which leads through this, is a three-span cast iron footbridge, again of c.1830.  The house itself is now in private ownership and was restored in 2003.  The Adamson family retains the Stracathro estate.

Descent: Rt. Hon. James Alexander Campbell (1825-1908); to grandson, James Hugh Campbell (1889-1934); to first cousin once removed, Lt-Col. William John Campbell Adamson (1914-91), who leased and later sold to the Government 1938; sold 2003 and returned to private ownership.

The Adamson family of Careston Castle

Adamson, John (1813-93) of Careston Castle.  Son of Capt. William Adamson of Dundee, born 1813.  Owner of the Erichtside linen works at Blairgowrie.  DL and JP for Angus.  He married 9 April 1848 Susan Miller (d. 1851), daughter of Capt. William Shaw of Newhall and had issue:
(1) William Shaw Adamson (1851-1936) (q.v.).
In 1871 he purchased the Careston Castle estate. He made additions to the rear of the castle after 1880.
He died 28 February 1893 and was buried at Careston.

Adamson, William Shaw (1851-1936), of Careston Castle.  Only son of John Adamson (1813-93) and his wife Susan Miller, daughter of Capt. Shaw of Newhall; born 20 November 1851. Educated at Cheltenham College and Edinburgh University.  DL and JP for Angus; vice-convener of Angus County Council.  He matriculated a coat of arms at the office of Lord Lyon King of Arms, 1900.  He married 20 June 1883 Nora Jane (d. 1932), daughter of Rt. Hon. James Alexander Campbell of Stracathro and had issue:
(1) John Alexander Shaw Adamson (b. & d. 1885), died in infancy;
(2) Capt. William Campbell Adamson RFC (1886-1915) (q.v.);
(3) Annie Peto Adamson (1890-1963), born 24 April 1890; m. 1915 Brig-Gen. John Harold Whitworth Becke CMG DSO (d. 1949), son of James Henry Becke of Beckingham (Lincs) and had issue; died 4 November 1963.
He inherited Careston Castle from his father in 1893.
He died 12 March 1936 and was buried at Careston.

Adamson, Capt. William Campbell (1886-1915).  Only surviving son of William Shaw Adamson (1851-1936) and his wife Nora Jane, daughter of Rt. Hon. James Alexander Campbell of Stracathro, born 5 November 1886.  Educated at Fettes College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.  He married 28 May 1913 Margaret Stancombe, daughter of William John Mann JP of Highfield, Trowbridge (Wilts) and had issue:
(1) Lt-Col. William John Campbell Adamson (1914-91) (q.v.).
He was killed in action near Zandvoorde, 5 September 1915, in the lifetime of his father; buried at Harlebeke War Cemetery, Belgium.

Adamson, Lt-Col. William John Campbell TD (1914-91) of Careston Castle and Stracathro House.  Only son of Capt. William Campbell Adamson (1886-1915) and his wife Margaret Stancombe, daughter of William John Mann, born 13 March 1914.  Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford (MA 1945).  Commissioned in the army (Black Watch), 1935; served in WW2 with 51st Highland Division (wounded in Sicily); commanded 4th/5th Battalion, Black Watch, 1953-56.  Fellow of Chartered Land Agents Society.  JP (from 1949) and County Councillor (from 1951) for Angus.  Member of the Royal Company of Archers.  He married 10 June 1947 Margaret Josephine (1923-96), youngest daughter of James Helme of Halton (Lancs) and had issue:
(1) James Shaw Campbell Adamson (b. 1948), born 14 March 1948; educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond and Westminster Hotel School; now of Careston Castle and Stracathro, born 1948; m. 6 June 1986 Carol Louise Marion (1950-2002), daughter of Col. E.F.H. Key of Yorkshire and has issue two daughters;
(2) Flora Margaret Campbell Adamson (b. 1949), born 16 August 1949; m. 5 March 1977 Hugh Ramsey Rose (b. 1946), son of Lt-Col. David McNeil Campbell Rose (1912-2010);
(3) Ruth Anne Campbell Adamson (b. 1952), born 14 May 1952; m. 1980 Bryan E.G. Oates and had issue;
(4) Hugh Alexander Campbell Adamson (b. 1954); born 9 July 1954; m. 1985 Hon. Alison Mary Elliott, daughter of Robert William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, and has issue one son and two daughters;
(5) Mary Janet Campbell Adamson (b. 1957), born 21 September 1957; m. 1980 Archibald John Miller-Bakewell and had issue two sons and one daughter.
He inherited the Stracathro estate in 1934 from his first cousin, once removed and the Careston Castle estate from his grandfather in 1936; at his death they passed to his elder son.  Stracathro House and some land was leased and later sold to the Government as a hospital in 1938 but the estate was retained.
He died in November 1991.

Sources

Burke's Landed Gentry, 1925, p.5; N. Tranter, The fortified house in Scotland: vol. 4, 1986, pp. 102-03; J. Gifford, The buildings of Scotland: Dundee and Angus, 2012, pp. 409-14, 671-74

Where are their papers?

Adamson of Careston Castle & Stracathro: no significant archive is known to be in public custody.

About this blog, and forthcoming posts

About this blog

In this blog I am making my researches in the architectural and family history of British and Irish landed families available in the hope that others will find them interesting and useful; the growing usage of the site by readers from all round the world is most encouraging.  As will be apparent from the posts, my focus is on the connection between the landed families and their country houses. I want in particular to show how the history of the houses reflects the history of the families who owned them, and to enable those interested in particular houses to trace the kinship networks of their owners, which so often shaped the patronage choices which owners made.  The approach has been developed on the basis of my previous research on Gloucestershire country houses, where I was able to visit almost every surviving house and personally inspect all the surviving archival evidence.  However that one county study took me 20 years, and in scaling up to a national canvas I am inevitably largely dependent on the original research of others.

The research which supports this blog is therefore primarily derived from secondary sources and online catalogues of archives, although I am also drawing on a lifetime of country house and church visiting.  The secondary sources - and especially the Internet sources - for genealogy, and indeed for the architectural history of country houses, are notoriously full of inaccuracies and wish-fulfillment, and I hope that as an archivist I bring to bear on this material over 30 years of experience in evaluating and testing the evidence they provide, so as to offer in the blog as factual an account as I can.  While the information provided is as accurate as I can make it while maintaining a reasonable output, however, I am far from infallible in both my discovery of sources and my assessment of them, and I will be genuinely grateful for additional information and corrections supplied by readers.

I have been asked how I select families and houses for inclusion.  My rule of thumb is that a family should have owned and occupied at least one country house continuously for over half a century and more than one generation, and should have used it as a country house (not as a farm or furniture store!).  Most of the families included will be found in the pages of one or more editions of Burke's Landed Gentry or Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, though not all.  Impressively comprehensive though those works are, some families do seem to have slipped through their net, and of course some families died out before John Burke began publishing in the 1820s and 1830s, such as the Ackloms of Wiseton Hall.  I have been asked about which  families I have considered for inclusion, but rejected as not meeting these criteria; I have included a list of these in the post 'Indexes to the Landed Families blog'.

Saying that a family is selected for inclusion on the basis of owning a country house of course begs the question of what is a country house, which is interesting and tricky to define.  My best effort is that it is a residential building which at the time it was built was in a rural setting and exhibited the characteristics that suggested gentry or aristocratic status to contemporaries.  Those characteristics changed over time, with the varying social and economic significance of land ownership and changing architectural and landscaping fashions.  Houses that were built as country houses could - and did - decline in status; others that had been simple farms over centuries could be refashioned and redecorated and lived in in a different way, and become country houses almost overnight.  Those are the principles of selection, but this is a blog and I reserve the right to bend the rules to write about any family or house that interests me, and indeed to exclude the terminally dull!

I am well aware that a topic as large as the Landed Families of Britain and Ireland can really only be tackled collaboratively (I have a list of over 12,000 families for potential inclusion!), and so I hope that the regular publication of information here will encourage others who share my interests to send me images or information which can be included in future posts.  I have already received very generous offers of help from Charles Hind and Matthew Beckett.  To this end I will issue from time to time an indication of which families and houses the next few posts will cover. If you can help with any of these, please post a comment on this message.

The images used are wherever possible my own, rights cleared, or available under a Creative Commons licence or equivalent. In a few cases it has not been possible to establish a rights owner for images taken from the Web; if anyone can show their copyright has been infringed please contact me and I will either add an appropriate credit or take down the image.

Anatomy of the blog

Comments from readers suggest it may be helpful to explain a bit more about how posts on this blog are structured.  Each post is in three parts:

• Firstly, a general narrative account of the family from its first rise to gentry status down to its extinction, lapse from gentry status, or the present day, paying particular attention to its fluctuating status and wealth and the acquisition and dispersal of landed estates
• Secondly, accounts of each of the family's country houses, in the order they acquired them, and telling - as far as I can discover the information - the whole story of the house, including its development before the family under consideration acquired it, and after they sold it.  For each house, there is a narrative history and a list of the owners as far as I have been able to trace it.
• The final section gives summary biographical and genealogical information about the members of the family who actually owned the estate or parts of it, in the sequence of their ownership.  Where estates have passed from a man to his grandson or great-nephew I have normally included the intervening generations for comprehensibility.  For each individual treated, I aim to provide the following information, where known:
• Parentage, date and place of birth and/or baptism
• Education, including travels on the Grand Tour
• Career - employment, official appointments, offices held, honours
• Personality, where illuminated by memoirs or other evidence, and significant friendships
• Marriage(s) - date, place, name and parentage of spouse(s)
• Children - for each, their dates of birth, marriage and death, names and parentage of spouse(s), number and sex of children; occupation, rank and honours
• Property transactions during the lifetime of the owner
• Date and place of death and burial; date and place of probate of will, and value of estate

For families with a very complex story, this material may be split over two postings, labelled 'part 1' and 'part 2', as, for example, with the Actons of Aldenham, Barons Acton.  Each family has been assigned a number, included in the title of the post, which is used for indexing the content of the blog in a post entitled 'Index to Landed Families blog'.  To avoid any confusion, I should make it plain that the traditional (pre-1965) county names are used throughout.

Now that a number of posts have been published I would really welcome some feedback on whether readers find them interesting and helpful, or have any suggestions for improvements in the content or presentation.  I am also very keen to receive additional information and images as updates to previous posts, and will incorporate these to ensure that each post represents the most accurate account I can offer of the family and houses concerned. If you are able to help in this way, please post a comment on the relevant post in the first instance. You can also follow me on Twitter; I will post an update on Twitter as each new post is published.

Forthcoming posts

Over the next week or two I hope to publish posts on the following families and houses:

• Adamson of Careston and Stracathro (Angus) [now published]
• Adamson of Linden Hall (Northumberland) and Glenfarne Hall (Leitrim), formerly of Eglingham Hall (Northumberland) and Millgrove (Cumberland) [now published]
• Addenbrooke of The Lea (Herefordshire) and Wollaston Hall (Worcestershire) [now published]
• Adderley of Blake Hall, Cheadle (Staffordshire)
• Adderley of Hams Hall and Fillongley Hall (Warwickshire), Barons Norton
• Adderley of Weddington (Warwickshire)
• Adderley (later Broughton-Adderley) of Barlaston Hall and Coton Hall (Staffs) and Tunstall Hall (Salop)

All offers of information and images will be gratefully received and, of course, duly credited.

Nick Kingsley

Bank Holiday Monday, 7th May 2013