Bankes family of Kingston Lacy, Owners of the Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle estates
Dates: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries in the cited estate context
Biography
The Bankes family acquired the Corfe Castle estate in 1635 and remained associated with the estate in nineteenth-century local and gazetteer evidence.
Notes / Sources
No individual successor has been entered where the source did not explicitly identify that person as holder of Afflington.
Research sources:
- John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, Corfe Castle entry, 1870-1872, stating that the Corfe Castle estate belonged to the Bankeses of Kingston-Lacy; Corfe Valley News, November 2022, linking Afflington land to Bankes estate records and leases. — https://opcdorset.org/CorfeCastleFiles/CorfeCastleImpGaz.htm
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