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Records of the Byron Family of Coulsdon Court English
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Byron Family: Family and Non-Family Settlements-Marriage, Wills and Trusts

This Series covers a range of marriage settlements, wills, probate and trusts for the Coulsdon Byrons, extended family and others with whom the Byrons were closely associated, the earliest substantial document being the will of Richard (1741-1798), brother of the Thomas Byron (1738-1821) who acquired the Manor of Coulsdon. There is a variety of documents of key family members, including the marriage settlement and will for Edmund Byron (1843-1921), and estate valuations for Thomas and Cecil Byron following their deaths in Canada.

A strength of this collection lies in the settlements following Edmund’s death, including the Trusts that were set up for children Lucy Hall and Mary Eva Hilton and grandchild, Arthur Byron.

The Series includes documentation on the Evans Williams Trust and the associated legal proceedings (1899-1905) after one of the trustees, the solicitor Mr Harrison, defrauded the Trust. Edmund Byron, also a trustee, held partial liability for the losses entailed.

Byron Family: Outdoor Sports

This Series provides insight into the sporting activities of a landed gentry family during the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. It features a game book of shoots, fox hunting journal and a fishing book providing details of one of Edmund Byron’s fishing visits to Norway. There is also some information on cricket in Coulsdon.

There is extensive documentation on the Old Surrey Fox Hounds, focusing on Edmund’s period as Master for 25 years up to his retirement from the role in 1902. But, with newspaper cuttings and other miscellaneous material, a picture of the hunt is provided covering much of the nineteenth century.

Additional information on the Byron’s sporting activities may be acquired from AR1057/1 – Personal Correspondence and AR1057/6/112 – Journal kept by Charlotte Emily and Edmund Byron, 1865-1875.

Byron Family: Journals and Memoirs

This Series has three items. The most significant is the detailed daily Journal or diary kept primarily by Charlotte Emily Byron, with some contributions from Edmund, covering the years 1867-1875. It covers the early years of their marriage and provides a record of the lives of a landed gentry family. There is information on domestic and family life, a vivid picture of their social and philanthropic activities within their village of Coulsdon, their hunting and other sporting activities, their wider social world and their extensive travels around Great Britain and Europe, including the early years of their annual summer fishing visits to Norway.

The information in Charlotte Emily’s Journal is greatly supplemented by AR1057/1 – Personal Correspondence, which often fills out the ‘backstory’ to the entries in the Journal.

This Series also includes a memoir of the old village of Coulsdon, when it was still a remote and rural community, written by Edmund’s son, Eric Byron, in 1926 at the age of 87.

There is also an extremely detailed travel journal kept by an unknown author. How it relates to the Byron family is unclear.

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