| Description | Major accumulation of deeds, estate and family papers, with some manorial records, of the Done and Crewe families of Utkinton, and their successors, the Ardeme family of Harden in Bredbury, relating to estates in the Alvaney, Utkinton, Tarporley and Bredbury areas c. 1290-c. 1960. Includes deeds and papers regarding the hereditary forestership and administration of Delamere Forest 14th-19th centuries and antiquarian papers of John Crewe, including pedigrees, heraldic and genealogical notes, books of fees, volumes of coloured armorials, manuscript of Cheshire section of Domesday Book, etc 17th and 18th centuries |