• Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
• Document Reference Number: D948, D1527
• Date: c1300- 1889
• Level: Collection
• Extent: 19 Series
• Administrative History: The Wolferstans, originally of Wolverstone Hall, Suffolk, seem to have become established in Staffordshire in the mid-16th century, when a younger son married Katherine Stanley, heiress to Statfold Manor. Over the next three centuries they added considerably to their property in the Tamworth area and in the neighbouring parts of Derbyshire, Warwickshire and Leicester. During the eighteenth century there was a particularly large accession of property to the family when Joyce Wolferstan married Edward Littleton, who inherited the estates of his uncle, Devereux Littleton of Tamworth. This accounts for the presence in the collection of a number of Littleton family papers. The name "Pipe-Wolferstan" was adopted in 1776 by Samuel Pipe, who inherited the Wolferstan estates from his grandfather, Stanford Wolferstan (d.1772). Samuel Pipe-Wolferstan (d.1820) was a distinguished antiquary who gave considerable assistance to the Reverend Stebbing Shaw for the latter's History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, 1798, (see preface, page X) and was also a friend of William Hamper, the Birmingham antiquary. His diaries, 1776-1820, are deposited at Staffordshire Record Office under reference D1527, with transcripts available upon request. The presence in these collections of a number of medieval deeds and other documents apparently unconnected with the Pipe-Wolferstans is presumably to be explained by his activities as a collector.
• Format: Family and Estate papers
• Description: D948/1 Wolferstan and Pipe Wolferstan family
  D948/1/1 Title
  D948/1/2 Settlements
  D948/1/3 Estate management - chiefly leases
  D948/1/4 Documents affecting title
  D948/2 Littleton family
  D948/2/1 Title
  D948/2/2 Settlements
  D948/2/3 Leases
  D948/2/4 Miscellaneous
  D948/3 Medieval deeds
  D948/3/1-72 Lichfield and Tamworth area
  D948/3/73-79 Haselour
  D948/3/80-99 Elsewhere in Staffordshire
  D948/3/100-106 Yorkshire
  D948/3/107-115 Other counties
  D948/4 Later deeds and papers apparently unconnected with the Pipe-Wolferstan family
  D948/4/1 Stanley family - Drayton Bassett area
  D948/4/2 Inge family of Thorpe Constantine
  D948/4/2/1 Knighton (Leics.)
  D948/4/2/2 Thorpe Constantine manor and property in Leics.
  D948/4/2/3 King's Newton (Warwicks.)
  D948/4/2/4 Phillips family of Birmingham and King's Newton
  D948/4/3 Middlesex - deeds and leases
  D948/4/4 Miscellaneous deeds and papers
  D948/4/5 Swinfen family documents
  D948/4/6 Letters
  D948/5 19th century elections
  
  See also D1527/1-45: Pipe-Wolferstan Diaries, Dec 1775-1820 (paper catalogue in reading room)
• Related Places: Statfold
• Legal Status: private
• Accession Number: SRO 7533
• Ref No: K126

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