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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
1 - Title deeds including lead ore tithe - 1549-1872
2 - Title deeds
3 - Title deeds
4 - Accounts
5 - Accounts (D258/1), Philip Gell (1775-1842) (D258/5/2-6)
6 - Philip Gell (1775-1842)
7 - Various including Medieval deeds (D258/7/1), Ship Money (D258/7/6) and Other Assessments (D258/7/13/19-35, 41-48), Tithes and church property (D258/7/13/49-D258/7/19) and Mining papers (D258/7/20)
8 - Correspondence Christian-Gell re lead ore (D258/8/1) and Various papers (D258/8/2-56)
9 - Thomas Gell
10 - Sir John Gell I (1593-1671), Sir John Gell II (1613-1689), Civil War and various
11 - Various, 18th - early 19th century
12 - Various, 17th century
13 - Title deeds and other papers
14 - Various, 18th-19th century
15 - 17th Cent Printed Material
16 - Title deeds and other papers
17 - Quarter Sessions (D258/17/1-9), Business - Canals and railways (D258/17/10), Miscellaneous/Various (D258/17/11-29, 33-44), Correspondence (D258/17/30-31), Philip Gell correspondence including Cromford Canal (D258/17/32, 45)
18 - Manor of Hope (D258/1), Title Deeds (D258/18/2-3, 14-19, 21-34), Ashbourne Lectureship (D258/18/4), Estate papers (D258/18/5-D258/18/7/1-4, 30-38, D258/18/8), Wirksworth School (D258/18/7/5-29), Manors of Hopton, Carsington, Wirksworth, Hognaston, Middleton by Wirksworth and Hulland (D258/18/9-13), Assessments (D258/18/20), Miscellaneous printed items (D258/18/35-38)
19 - Various (D258/19/1-30, D258/19/31/24-33, D258/19/32-34), Ashbourne lectureship (D258/19/31/1-23)
20 - Various (D258/20/1-11, 30-66), Title deeds and leases (D258/20/12-29)
21 - Various (D258/21/1-20, D258/21/45/7-8, D258/21/46/1-7), Philip Gell (1723-1795) Correspondence (D258/21/21-24, D258/21/46/8-35), Yorkshire Quarter Sessions (D258/21/25), Estate papers and accounts 18th cent (D258/21/26-D258/21/45/6),Philip Gell (1723-1795) Various (D258/21/47/1-34), Various 16th-19th cent (D258/21/47/35, D258/21/48-66)
1 - "All in an epistle or a letter from a gentleman to his father on occasion of the army's retreat to Wickham" (printed) - 1647
2 - The Age Newspaper (death of Sir William Gell) - 28 Feb 1836
3 - Will of George Chaworthe, of Wyerton (Nottinghamshire), with probate, proved PCC - 1589
4 - "Answer of the Coffee Men to Propositions for changing the Excise now laid upon Coffee, Chocolate and Tea into an Imposition upon those Commodities at their Importation" (printed) - c.1700
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7 - Cartoon - The NABOB Purged - or - the Secretaries' Pilgrimage to Mecca. Printed - 1782
8 - Satirical verse - "Courage and Cowardice contrasted." - c.1805
9 - "An Elegy to the memory, of the Honourable William Cavendish M.P"., by J B - 1812
10 - Appointment of gamekeeper by Sir Phillip Gell, for the manor of Hulland (name left blank) - 1712
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14 - Sale particulars of a freehold estate at Hope to be sold by auction by Mr Shaw at the House of Mr Hall, Castleton, on 11 May (printed) - 1796
15 - Number not used
16 - "A New and Exact Survey of the River Dee or Chester-Water" by Capt. G Collins, hydrographer to the King (printed). Scale 1/12th inch: 1 mile. Size 64 cm × 55 cm - 1689
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19 - Account book of cash received by George Smith senior for tolls taken at Briers Well Turnpike - 1794
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23 - Rental giving tenants name, rent arrears, and place name - mainly property in Sheffield (Yorkshire) - Late 18th cent
24 - Middleton Wood - quarry account book kept by George Bestwick, accountant to P Gell - 1792-1796
25 - Yorkshire Quarter Session
26 - Estate account book - 1793
27 - Horse fodder account book [blank] - c.1800
28 - Cash book of Philip Gell - 1671-1689
29 - `Mrs Burgoine's day book' (household accounts) - 1792-1793
30 - Day book (accounts) - 1793-1794
31 - Account book for groceries bought of Joseph Bradley of Ashbourne - 1793-1794
32 - Turnpike road [Hopton Wood, Ashbourne Turnpike] account book - 1790
33 - Survey of Philip Gell's glebe land in Bakewell - Late 18th cent
34 - `An Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting and otherwise improving the streets, lanes and other public passages and places within the borough of Derby and for selling a certain piece of waste ground, called Nun's Green, towards defraying the expense of the said improvements.' 32 Geo III - 1792
35 - Nottingham Canal prospectus (printed) - 1791
36 - An Act for making and maintaining a navigable canal from the Cromford Canal, in the county of Nottingham to near to the town of Nottingham and to the River Trent near Nottingham Trent Bridge . . . . 32 Geo III (printed) - 1792
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41 - Household bills paid by William Senior - 1798
42 - Uckerby (Yorkshire) and Ricknall (Durham) estate bills - 1775
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44 - Notes from Dorothy Gell to George Bestwick and miscellaneous papers, mostly accounts of Bestwick - 1791-1795
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51 - Uckerby and Ricknall estate bills - 1778-1779
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53 - Notebook containing manuscript sermon notes - 17th cent
54 - Catalogue of part of the farming stock of the late Philip Gell, to be sold by auction at Hopton (with prices added in ink) Printed 26 Aug - 1795
55 - List of seeds and trees growing in South Carolina, [United States of America] sent in a box and a tub for Emma Boone - Late 18th cent
56 - Copy of a speech (in Latin) made to the king by the Polish Ambassador at his first audience - 18th cent
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59 - Order of Samuel Parker, Richard Daynes and Nicholas Lisle, commissioners for enquiring into the estates of Thomas Coke, to John Gell, as tenant of the lot and cope of Dovergange in Wirksworth to appear before them at the White Hart in Derby and produce his lease, on 3 Nov 2 Nov - 1652
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63 - List of seats in Wirksworth Church belonging to Hopton - 1849
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65 - Letter - James Maidment in London to Mr Pennington at Wirksworth - thanks Pennington for the offer to supply him with china ware but would need to see patterns and prices and know what amount could be sent each year - could sell as many good pieces as any man in the trade 9 Dec - 1794-1796
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22 - Parish Account Books (D258/22/1-3), Various, 16th-19th century (D258/22/4-23)
23 - Title Deeds and other papers (D258/23/1-19/5), Correspondence 16th-early 18th cent (D258/23/19/6-26, D258/23/20-22)
23 - Title deeds and other papers
24 - Sir Philip Gell (D258/24/1-5, D258/24/30-47, 49-54), Ashbourne Lectureship (D258/24/6), Various (D258/24/6/27, D258/24/7-8, D258/24/11-29), Wirksworth Hundred Tax Assessments (D258/24/9-10), Fagg v Gell (D258/24/48)
25 - Miscellaneous legal, financial and other papers
26 - Title Deeds etc
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28 - Title Deeds
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34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
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38 - Correspondence etc
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42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
43 - Hopton Receipt Papers
44 - Sir John Gell
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46 - Staffordshire estate papers, 19th century - 1834-1879
47 - Unidentified plan showing part of the course of a waterway, marked at points with numbers, and the dates 20 Aug and 22 Aug. Scale not given. Dimensions approx 150cm x 130cm - [19th Cent]
48 - Philip Gell (d 1842), draft deeds, estate and financial papers - 1706-1877
49 - Log book of the Cutter Yacht Albatross from the port of Cowes, Isle of Wight to any port or ports her owner may think proper, wind and weather permitting' [to Scotland] - 18 May-29 Aug 1836
50 - SIR WILLIAM GELL (1777-1836)
51 - Various
52 - Volume of bound letters and other documents - Late 17th-early 19th cent
53 - Printed Pamphlets
54 - Isabella Thornhill - c1850-1870
55 - Pedigrees and other papers
56 - Gell Family Papers Series A-D
57 - Family Papers
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63 - Number not used
64 - Boer War (largely Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell) - 1899-1902
65 - Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell (1872-1934) and other material
67 - Masque by William Browne written for the Inner Temple and associated correspondence - 1615-1964
68 - Pedigrees - 19th cent
69 - Plans - 1711-1828
70 - Manor of Holland p Wirksworth and Lands Grant [temp Q Anne] to Philip Gell of Hopton [outsize parchment deed, badly damaged by damp, partly illegible]
71 - Isabella Thornhill, nee Gell (1800-1878): diary - 1863-1875
72 - `Catalogue of the library at Hopton Hall' Arranged by size of volume: folio, quarto, octavo Duodecimo, `sixteens and twenty-fours' Title, edition and date of publication Folio paper vol, in slip case - ?17th cent
73 - Gell of Hopton Hall: family seal dies - late 19th cent
UL - Gell of Hopton Hall: unlisted records
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