University Archives
William Raines, of Bilton
William Raines (1771-1833) owned Wyton Lodge, East of Bilton in East Yorkshire. He came from a junior branch of a family that could trace its Yorkshire heritage back to William Raines of West Newton whose will is dated 1487. Henry Raines (d.1660) was the first to be buried in Bilton church. William Raines was the son of William Raines (1737-1798) and Ann Caley (1751-1781). He married first Fanny (Franciscae) Brownely (1779-1807) and then Agnes Grace Dawson (d.1846). His eldest son, William Raines (1800-1874), became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn before becoming a judge in the county courts. He died unmarried and left his personal estate between three male friends and relations including Thomas Perronet Edward Thompson. This small collection of his papers largely comprises estate papers for Wyton Lodge but include a pre-nineteenth century family pedigree, the commissions of his father and grandfather, a doggerel poem about a trip to London and some letters about the building of a Raines family memorial window in Bilton church in 1852. [DDCV(2)/62]