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Collapse D589 - Strutt Library manuscripts and newspapers - 1560-1856D589 - Strutt Library manuscripts and newspapers - 1560-1856
Expand ZE - Denman Estate - 1847ZE - Denman Estate - 1847
Expand ZM - Manor of Scropton - 1584-1615ZM - Manor of Scropton - 1584-1615
Expand ZPO - Overseers of the Poor - 1763-1828ZPO - Overseers of the Poor - 1763-1828
Collapse ZZ - Genealogy - [16th-19th cent]ZZ - Genealogy - [16th-19th cent]
1 - Volume of manuscript pedigrees compiled by Sir John Zouch (Strutt Library Index Number B 149) - 1560
2 - ‘Register Domestic’ of Rev Charles Kerry containing notes on his family and on the related families of Turton and Grundy, and other miscellaneous notes (Formerly Strutt Library STRUTT/E/64) - [late 19th cent]
3 - Duffield, Makeney, Holbrook and Little Eaton Association for the Prosecution of Felons – articles of association, list of subscribers and accounts - 1791-1794
4 - Manuscript records of weather in Chesterfield kept by Mr Oates, plumber (Formerly Strutt Library STRUTT/A/63) - 1715-1731
5 - “Observations on the Weather” by Alan Hall of Pleasley, clerk, with manuscript notes on the rear fly leaf printed by Job Bradley, Chesterfield (Formerly Strutt Library STRUTT/C/98) - 1777
6 - White Watson’s manuscript catalogue of his collection of fossils, illustrated with drawings and illustrations. Also includes a number of letters to Watson from W Martin and others, on geological matters (Formerly Strutt Library STRUTT/B/224) - 1803
7 - Petition of the inhabitants of Wirksworth to Robert, Earl of Buckingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, asking that the Moot Hall be rebuilt elsewhere as it is in a ruinous condition and is an obstruction to traffic in the Market Place [Robert, Earl of Buckingham, was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1805 and again in 1812] - Early 19th cent
8 - Bound volume of newspapers viz (Formerly Strutt Library STRUTT/O/5) - 1751-1762
9-21 - Derby Mercury - 1801-1814
22-23 - Lloyd’s Evening Post - 1789-1790
24-80 - Derby Telegraph and Monthly Advertiser - 1854-1856
81-82 - Press cuttings relating to Derbyshire - 1789-1834
83 - Bill of Richard Bassano, grocer and tea man, Derby, to Thomas Kirk 5 May 179[-] - 1790s
84 - Manuscript poem – “From Lord William Russell to William Lord Cavendish” - [18th cent]
85 - “Original drawings of monuments etc by Samuel Watson, Henry Watson and White Watson, Bakewell” (label on spine) - 19th cent
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Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm
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Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier
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