MS 920

Reference code

MS 920

Title

Hannen family archive

Level

Sub-fonds

Date

1741-2015

Extent & medium

70 files, 73 volumes, 15 items, 2 portfolios and 7 boxes

Content description

Family archive of the descendants of James Hannen (1755-1829) and Lucy Ann Walker (1761-1841), which includes the papers of some members of six generations of the family, notably the three brothers, James Hannen (1821-1894), Benjamin Hannen (1830-1906) and Nicholas Hannen (1842-1900) and a number of their descendants.

The papers were collected and assembled by various members of the family to preserve their memory. The archive (which includes legal papers, letters, diaries, school and military papers, scrapbooks, photographs, theatre programmes, poetry, deeds, and a collection of letters and signatures of prominent political, legal and literary personalities), illustrates the family's history, their professional careers and leisure interests and provide interesting insights into upper middle-class British society from the 1850s to the 1950s.

Provenance

The archive was assembled by members of the Hannen family

Arrangement

The papers of the family members were assembled over generations from a number of sources. Over time, the papers have become disordered and it has been necessary to impose an artificial order to make sense of the archive. The papers have been arranged in family group order, with a series representing each member of the family, whose papers survive:

01: Elizabeth (Hannen) Winsland (1791-1875)
02: Mary Elizabeth (Winsland) Hannen (1821-1872)
03: Mary Eliza Brophy (18??-1914)
04: James Hannen, Lord Hannen of Burdock (1821-1894)
05: James Chitty Hannen (1851-1903)
06: Lucy Harriette Josephine (Schaeffer) Hannen (1856-1935)
07: James (Jim) Archibald Winsland Hannen (1878-1950)
08: Dorothy Margaret Hannen (1881-1965)
09: Lucy Mary (May) Hannen (1852-1934)
10: Margaret Ellen Hannen (1855-1919)
11: Benjamin (Charles) Hannen (1857-1882)
12: Henry (Harry) Arthur Hannen (1861-1933)
13: Mary Mabel (Hannen) Hirst (1898-1958)
14: Benjamin Hannen (1830-1906)
15: Lancelot (Lance) Gordon Hannen (1867-1942)
16: Lancelot (Gordon) Hannen (1897-1964)
17: Beryl Olga (Hannen) Wells (1904-1986)
18: Lancelot (Guy) Michael Hannen (1924-2015)
19: Sir Nicholas (Tick) John Hannen (1842-1900)
20: Jessie Susan Hannen (1870-1946)

There are 4 further series of Hannen family related papers:

21: Papers relating to the history of the Hannen family
22. Hannen family photographs
23. A collection of 18th, 19th and 20th century autograph letters, signatures and antiquarian items assembled by various members of the Hannen family
24: Digital copies of items in the Hannen family archive and of additional items received from other related family members