| Description | Includes:
1. Typescript pedigree statement of the descent of the Baronies of Dudley and Ward [Oct 1912]
2. Coloured copy hand-drawn pedigree of the descent of the Baronies of Dudley and Ward from Humble, Lord Ward to 1823
3. Newspaper cutting 'Colonel Lea Smith's Claim to Dormant Peerage'
4. Hand-drawn pedigree showing the connection of the Wards and Wolryches (with references to monuments) [see 9.]
5. Notes and rough pedigrees with copy letter from W. F. Taylor regarding descent
6. Draft typescript pedigree statement of the descent of the Baronies of Dudley and Ward [Oct 1912] [as 1.]
7. Draft and copy letter to Sir Gilbert Claughton Bart. from W. F. Taylor regarding the Baronies of Dudley and Ward. Typescript with annotations [basis for 1.] [13 Oct 1912]
8. Memorandum regarding copying enclosed extract from letter [see 7.]
9. Letter to Lord Dudley from Major H. S. Woolrych, Spring Vale, Isle of Wight regarding their familial connection and monuments to the Wollryches (needing repair) in Quatt Church, Bridgenorth [2 Feb 1913]
3-9. in separate envelope endorsed: 'Barony of Dudley'; 'See Special Packet No.539 (Mines Office)'; 'sent to Ld Dudley Sep 14/1911 by G. H. Claughton'; 'These papers were handed to H. E. J. By W. F. Taylor just before he resigned'. |