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Burton family, of Cherry Burton
The Burton family bought estates in Cherry Burton from Sir James Pennyman in 1783. David Burton died childless in 1828 and the land passed to his great-nephew, David Robinson (1787-1854) who assumed the name and arms of the Burton family. David Robinson (Burton) was a justice of the peace and became deputy lieutenant of the East Riding. In 1813 he married Isabella Fawell and they had two sons and four daughters. They enclosed their land in 1829, giving them 1085 acres and the family continued to own just over 1000 acres until the early twentieth century. In 1916 David Fowler Burton (1857-1931) split up and sold the estates, just retaining the mansion and surrounding 42 acres. The family continued to live in Cherry Burton Hall until it was finally sold off in 1945. The 4000 items in this collection comprise title deeds and related papers from 1396 for estates in Cherry Burton as well as the correspondence for David Burton (1820-1890) and David Fowler Burton (1857-1931). The collection also contains the Sunderland and Durham title deeds of the Robinson family and their eighteenth-century correspondence and farm accounts and the personal and household account books of Sarah Robinson in the 1770s. [DDCB; DDCB(2)]