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Collapse D7573 - Arkwright family of Cromford, industrialists and landowners - 17th-20th cent

D7573 - Arkwright family of Cromford, industrialists and landowners - 17th-20th cent

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BOX - Box-listed items

Collapse DRO - Items not mentioned in 2012 box-list and given a description by Derbyshire Record Office - 1649-1927

DRO - Items not mentioned in 2012 box-list and given a description by Derbyshire Record Office - 1649-1927

1 - Bundle in pink tape; larger item labelled "Settlement made on the marriage of Edward Nicholas Hurt Esquire with Miss Caroline Strutt 6 Aug 1823 - 1823

2 - Unidentified loose title deed dated 20 Feb 1649 - 1649

3 - Bundle tied in pink dated 29 Nov 1825. Settlement by Jos Strutt Esquire of a house (Number 34) Dorset Square London upon the Trusts of Mr & Mrs Edward Hurt's marriage settlement 29 Nov 1825 - 1825

4 - Bundle labelled "Sir Richard Arkwright High Sheriff 1787" - 1787

5 - Blue notebook labelled "Rental of the estates of the Lords of the manor of Matlock from Lady Day 1798 to Lady Day 1799. Thos. Pearson Reeve. - 1798-1799

6 - Small brown volume containing accounts with different members of the Simpson family, 1793-1829, Includes details of profits of the Bakewell Mill - 1829

7 - Prints of machinery, most mounted

8 - Large blue folder containing bundle labelled "Willersley mainly upholstered bills"

9 - Page from "The Sketch" dated 17 Apr 1912 recording the announcement of the marriage of Miss Marjorie Hardcastle to Richard Alleyne Arkwright - 1912

10 - Bundle wrapped in purple paper labelled "From JJ Banks & Son…" containing papers re executorship of Edward & SA Levett

11 - Bundle in white folder, blue string labelled "Listed as misc papers"

12 - Harrod's box containing 3 Ordnance Survey maps and I Bartholomew's map. Ordnance Survey maps Matlock Bath, Bonsall, Cromford, Lea and Wirksworth; Kirk Ireton, Idridgehay, Shottle and Darley and Matlock. The Bartholomew's map is sheet 24 Oxford etc.

13 - Unwieldy bundle containing one volume and many loose papers - relating to Alfred Arkwright deceased

14 - Roll - copy of letter/s from Richard Arkwright 1792 - 1792

15 - Additional box (includes 20th correspondence and other papers; 1927 sale of goods of Willersley Castle catalogues; Willersley Diary account book 1886-1927; marriage settlements; Meerbrook Sough correspondence; printed items re business interests such as Meerbrook Sough and Cromford Canal; 200 Cromford and High Peak Railway share certificates; other) - 1886-1927

16 - Additional box (Grant of Arms, Family Pedigrees, Militia;- Sir Richard Arkwright [five items];- List of Arkwright Societies 1844…;- Samuel Simpson…;- Sundry Family Correspondence 1797-1825 from Eton College, etc.;- Sir Richard Arkwright as Sheriff; also includes folder of original and copy letters; Sale room sheets 1924; Sale catalogues 1924, 1927; glass plate of Willersley Castle (wrapped in newspaper); argument and judgement in case of Arkwright v Evans 1880; other) - c1797-1927

17 - Additional box (includes Willersley inventory 1923; large envelope re Cromford almshouses and other Arkwright charities; Simpson executorship papers; "list of documents in cellar staff room"; correspondence re Arkwright papers, other lists; bundle re Cromford mines; OS Acreage Book; Willersley Estate, Farm, Household and Garden Accounts, 1920s; Inventory of Plate; various account books including annual statements 1840s, small payments of Alfred Arkwright; Samuel Ogdon, butcher of Wirksworth; volume re family history; other loose papers) - 1920s

18 - Arkwright family papers - 18th-20th cent

19 - Brown envelope addressed to F C Arkwright Esquire contains 4 photographs supplied by the Science Museum of the Arkwright machines in their collection - 1913

20 - Letters addressed to Richard and Mrs Arkwright from various correspondents and some family members - 1777-1820s

Expand Plan - Items mentioned in 2012 box-list - 1875-1891

Plan - Items mentioned in 2012 box-list - 1875-1891

Expand SBS - Items found in a small brown suitcase during 2012 survey - 1779-1889

SBS - Items found in a small brown suitcase during 2012 survey - 1779-1889

Expand SWB - Items found in a small white box during 2012 survey

SWB - Items found in a small white box during 2012 survey

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Florence Nightingale

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

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Florence Nightingale

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Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

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