• Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
• Document Reference Number: D543
• Level: Collection
• Extent: 3 Sub-Fonds
• Format: Family and Estate papers
• Description: The Farmer family title deeds and leases relate chiefly to property in Brocton in the 16th and 17th centuries. Edward Byrd married Ellen Farmer in 1667 and the papers include references to a William Farmer, possibly Ellen's father. The Byrd papers in this deposit also probably came into the possession of the Levett family as the result of the marriage in 1771 of Lucy Byrd and Richard Levett. In addition to title deeds 16th-18th century of Byrd property in Uttoxeter and Checkley, Co. Staffs., Betchton, Congleton and Smallwood, Co. Cheshire and Gravenhunger, Co. Salop, there are family settlements 1668-1753, surveys, estate accounts and correspondence relating to the Blakehall estate ps. Madeley, Co. Staffs. and Gravenhunger, Co. Salop, 1734-1771 and an eighteenth-century map of a road to be repaired on the Staffs./Salop boundary near Madeley. The Levett papers include title deeds of properties in Baswich and Leigh. Family settlements include the marriage settlements of Revd. Richard Levett and Louisa Bagot, 1804 and of Richard Edward Levett and Frances Kay, 1809, with the probate of Dr. William Levett, Principal of "St. Mary Magdalen Hall", Oxford, 1693/4. There is a good series of late 19th-early 20th century leases from the Levett estate in Baswich, including an agreement with conservation conditions with Sir Thomas Salt for land at Weeping Cross, 1904.
  An 18th-century survey of lands at Withington p. Leigh is complemented by late 19th century surveys of the Milford Hall estate, for which some plans also survive, together with three 19th-century plans of lands at Field p. Leigh.
  Most of the estate correspondence is late 19th or early 20th century in date and there are 20th-century inventories of furniture at Milford Hall and Camden Cottage, Milford.
  Milford estate rent accounts from 1896 to c.1919 with some general estate accounts, building accounts and home farm accounts of similar date. There is a small group of papers, late 18th - early 19th century, concerning annuities charged on lands on the island of Nevis in the West Indies. Personal papers are relatively few but include ordination papers etc. of Reverend Edward Levett, Rector of Ingestre, 1791-1825.
  Amongst the non-estate papers there is a census list of population at Baswich, 1810, with a note of the number of Catholic children not entered in the parish register and a 15th century bailiff's account roll for Erdington, Co. Warwicks.
• Legal Status: private
• Ref No: K071

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