Note: this summary also covers the Tempest family papers in DDCA2/60.

The papers of the Tempest family of Bolton (Heaton, Rumworth, Lostock, Deane) and Broughton Hall are embedded within the larger archive of the Stapleton family of Carlton Towers which is owned by his grace the duke of Norfolk. The integral deposits of the family are catalogued separately as DDCA2/60 and DDCA4, containing circa 2000 items each. The remainder of the Tempest material is scattered throughout the rest of the Stapleton archive.

DDCA2/60 contains a large amount of estate material for the last quarter of the nineteenth century. There are circa 1750 letters to Charles Henry Tempest (1885-1894) about his estates and a plan of his estate ownership. In addition, there are estate rental records for the 1890s and household vouchers for the 1870s and 1880s. DDCA2/60 also contains the 1866 letters patent granting Charles Henry Tempest a baronetcy and accounts relating to the marriage settlement of Mary Ethel Tempest, his daughter and sole heir. An address of sympathy from the tenants of the Bolton estates upon the death of her husband shortly after their marriage is also in the deposit.

DDCA4 contains estate material of the Tempest family as follows: Cheshire (1851-1880) comprising estate correspondence and title deed material of Jemima Tempest (nee de Trafford) relating to Hatherton in the parish of Wyburnbury; Gloucestershire (1723-1891) including plans and considerable correspondence relating to 1-6 Fauconberg Terrace in Cheltenham; Lancashire (1747-1897) including the 1888 sale of Uplands Hall, a plan of Lancashire railways and the will of Henry Blundell (1809); Yorkshire (1866-1871) including inventories of Broughton Hall. DDCA4 also contains the accounts of family homes, Newland Hall and Uplands Hall, as well as the estate correspondence of Jemima Tempest relating to her residence at Uplands Hall. Her will and its codicils dated 1870-1881 are in the collection as is her marriage settlement to Henry Tempest, father of Charles Henry Tempest. The divorce papers of Charles Henry Tempest are at DDCA4/8 and all the settlement of his estate is in DDCA4/9. DDCA4/5 is a collection of some 500 letters and other material relating to the financial affairs of his son, Henry Arthur Joseph Tempest, brother of Ethel Mary. Miscellaneous material includes an obituary for Jemima Tempest.

U DDCA/31/6 has a further 12 letters of Charles Henry Tempest about estate affairs and DDCA3 has further material relating to the financial affairs of his daughter, Ethel Mary, and her daughter, Mona Josephine, who inherited the Stapleton estates as well as those of Bolton.