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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)
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
27
28 - Title Deeds
29
30
31
32
33
34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
37
38 - Correspondence etc
39
40
41
42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
43 - Hopton Receipt Papers
44 - Sir John Gell
45
1
1-10 - Philip Gell's Estates
2
3
4
5
6 - Title deeds to a messuage at the Town Head in Carsington - 1775-1892
7
8 - Title deeds labelled "Bundle No. 3", described below - 1810-1879
9
10
11
11-38 - Deeds and papers relating to the Jessop family of Broomhall (Yorkshire)
12
13 - Leases
14 - Sheffield
15 - Brantcliffe
16 - Broom Hall (Yorkshire)
17 - Pontefract (Yorkshire)
18 - Hodroyd (Yorkshire)
19 - Beighton and Morton (Yorkshire)
20 - Drax (Yorkshire)
21 - North Lees (Yorkshire)
22 - Yorkshire (various)
23
24
25 - Lincolnshire
26 - County Durham
27 - Doyley family
28 - Eyre family
29 - Bolles family
30 - Wilkinson family
31 - Miscellaneous title deeds
32 - Office
33 - Plan
33 - Plan of certain lands near Sheffield belonging to the Duke of Norfolk with the contingent lands of the heirs of William Jessop, describing a proposed new line of division between the lands. Surveyed and drawn by William Fairbank. Scale: 2 chains = 1 inch - 1777
34 - Accounts and rentals
35 - Probates
36 - Miscellaneous
37 - Murray family
38 - Revd George Bossley
39 - Philip Gell
40 - Chandos Pole Gell
41 - Wirksworth School
42
42-46 - Miscellaneous
43-46 - Numbers not used
47 - Wilkinson: collection of taxes
48 - Anthony Gell School
1 - Copy of grant by Elizabeth I for a grammar school and an almshouse at Wirksworth, 27 Oct 26 Eliz - 1584
2 - Gift by Thurstanus Alen of Weaston, in accordance with the will of Agnes Ferne, late of Wirksworth, to the governors of the Anthony Gell School, of land in Wirksworth, 2 Sep 31 Eliz, and appointment by the governors of Anthony Bradshawe and Edward Hitchenson of Wirksworth as their attorneys, 7 Sep 31 Eliz - 1589
3 - Attested copy of a grant of rent charge of £20 a year and release of lands in Wirkworth to charitable uses, by Philip Gell to William Milnes - 5 Nov 1776
4 - Survey and valuation of estates at Wirksworth, Kirk Ireton and Kniveton belonging to the trustees of Wirksworth Free Grammar School, by Charles Heaton of Endon near Leek - Aug 1828
5 - Bundle of receipts of Wirksworth School, including a schedule of bills for labour and materials (1827-1828) - 1795-1834
49 - Miscellaneous
50 - Copies of manorial court rolls - 1598-1703
51 - Miscellaneous
52 - Drax
53 - Copy brief of pleadings and depositions in George De Smith Kelly vs John Blackwall and others re tithes of the parish of Kirk Ireton, Michaelmas 59 Geo III - 1819
53-55 - Miscellaneous
54 - Papers re James Dewhurst's mortgaged property in Macclesfield - 1855-1856
55
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
58
59
60
61
62
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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