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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D7573/BOX/G/25
Title'Letters from the Duke of Devonshire to Sir R A/ letter from Sir RA to his daughter/ Robert A's account book/ Augustus Peter A's Appointment to various ships/ Richard A Grant of seat in Wirksworth Church/ Peter A's Commissions in Volunteers/ Frederic Charles A do'
DescriptionContained x 13 documents, x 1 blue envelope with glass plate negatives of 'Sir R A's Spinning Jenny' and a large envelope marked On Her Majesty's Service, containing x 4 documents
- Grant of a seat in the north aisle in the parish church of Wirksworth Chas Hurt to Richd Arkwright
- Book marked Robert Arkwright
- Commission of Peter Arkwright 1803
- Do 1808
- Do 1820
- Appointment as lieutenant on HMS Caledonia 1849Augustus Peter Arkwright
- Do Lieutenant on the Neptune 1854
- Do Trafalgar 1845
- Do Queen Charlotte 1859
- Do sloop Hope 1859
- Do Royal George 1856
- Do Waterloo 1857
- Envelope containing: - blue envelope certificates of volunteers; F C Arkwright Ensign Volunteer Forces 26/ 11/ 72; do 5th Derbyshire Volunteer Regt 1918; do 2nd Derbyshire Rifle Corps 10.1.82
NB: there were no letters from the Duke of Devonshire January, 2012
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorArkwright family of Cromford, industrialists and landowners
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