The Kiplin Family Tree

There is an ongoing project at Kiplin to find out more about the owning families. Where did they come from, what did they do, and how did they make their money? With the Hall’s own extensive documentary records as an invaluable starting point, volunteers over the years have made good use of the County Records Office, records at other country houses owned by the families’ relatives, birth/marriage/death certificates from Victorian times, and more recently (and crucially) the internet.

We now have over 700 individuals listed in a specialist Family Tree database, all of whom were related by blood or marriage (however distantly) to the main families. This web-page enables you to

  1. view an interactive version of the tree, containing some biographical notes. These pages also show images of original Kiplin portraits or photographs of some family members (copyright reserved) - click on each image to enlarge it.
  2. view and print a number of PDF charts which between them cover most of the main branches. The number alongside each name in these charts counts the generations backwards or forwards from the starting individual, so that everyone with the same number is in the same generation.

There were 13 owners of Kiplin Hall from the original builder George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, to Bridget Talbot, who bequeathed it to the Trust in 1971. Yet it was only sold once, in 1722, and even then the buyer was the seller’s step-father. All other owners inherited the property, as set out in this Kiplin Owners chart.

Calvert family

Crowe family

Carpenter family

Talbot family