Lady Frankland-Russell, identified in secondary genealogical sources as Augusta Louisa Frankland-Russell, later Baroness Walsingham
Dates: Active as owner by 1861; exact birth and death dates not required for the manor record
Biography
Lady Frankland-Russell was the woman identified in the 1861 Alne estate survey as proprietor of the Aldwark estate and is credited with commissioning the present Aldwark Manor about 1863 and St Stephen's Church at Aldwark in the early 1850s.
Notes / Sources
The identification with Augusta Louisa Frankland-Russell is supported by genealogical and peerage material, but the manor source itself uses the name Lady Frankland-Russell.
Research sources:
- North Yorkshire County Record Office, M/2, Estate in the parish of Alne the property of Lady Frankland Russell, surveyed by Charles Child of Halifax, 1861, as cited by the Yorkshire Gardens Trust; supplemented by Louise Wickham, Aldwark Manor, Yorkshire Gardens Trust, July 2017. — https://www.yorkshiregardenstrust.org.uk/research/sites/aldwark-manor
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