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Identification note: spine title Hungerford Family

Summary: Hungerford Family. Fat box file containing papers, photographs, cuttings, relating to the Hungerford family and Farleigh Hungerford, collected by Canon J.E. Jackson.; including folders containing: 1. Notes on Farleigh Hungerford with Index, 2. Engravings of FArley including architectural details, coats of arms, 3. several unbound copies of a History of the Village of Farleigh Hungerford prepared for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary 1839, 4. newspaper article from Bristol Times and Mirror, 26 Aug 1884, 'Notable Places in the West Country, Farleigh hungerford Castle and its Domestic Tragedies, 5. Engravings of Farleigh Castle and cottages, photo of tower, printed note on a 'Singluar Conflagration at the Castle,' 6. Copy of 'A Guide to Farleigh-Hungerford, Co Somerset, containing an account of The Castle, The Old Chapel and NMonuments, The Parish Church and Farleigh House' by the Rev J E Jackson, 1860, note on the Family History of Boterell, alias De Botereaus, alias De Botreaux, being an extract from Sir John McLean's work on Cornwall, part of Hungerford pedigree to explain the monuments of Farleigh Castle Chapel, 7. other notes and extracts, 8. proof copies of frontispieces for Canon Jackson' s 'The Hungerford Family: Collections for their Family History in four volumes' and J Comyns Carr's 'Art and Letters, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume I 1881-82,' 9. manuscript of index for Jackson's Hungerford Collection, together with family trees, 10. 'The Hungerford Map' (hand-drawn) showing Hungerford estates in Wiltshire and on its borders, 11. loose pages of correspondence between Canon Jackson and Rev F Brown 1871-1866 with obituary, 12. photographs of painting of Sir Walter Hungerford, 13. various pedigrees and family trees, 14. copy of article 'Rowley alias Wittenham' by Canon Jackson, from WANHM, Vol 23 and various notes, 15. correspondence between Canon Jackson and H H Ludlow-Rogers re 6th Earl of Rutland, 1888, 16. prints and photographs of Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, c 1473, 17. English Heritage Guide to Farleigh Hungerford Castle, 1998 reprint of 1983 publication, 18 vaious photographs of Fartleigh Hungerford and of paintings of same, and photographs of members of Hungerford and related families, some photographs of New Zealand.