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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1141/BOX/1
TitleAnthony Stone of Derby (1834-1902): personal and estate papers
Date1833-1911
DescriptionPedigrees (2): undated: most recent event recorded: 1847: descendants of Mary Tatlow, daughter of Thomas Tatlow of Bentley House, Longford and Thomas Swindell of Kedleston: six generations. One pedigree bears a single date: the other bears dates of only a small number of most recent events. The pedigrees include Mary Tatlow's eldest child, William Tatlow baptised at Longford in 1727. [A parish register search indicates that Mary Tatlow and Thomas Swindell were married at Ashbourne in 1730.]

Letter of Administration: 1911: Lucy Stone, widow, to administer estate of Arthur Richard Stone

Copy: will of Annie Stone: original date: 1907

Solicitors' accounts: Whiston & Sons:
1895: legal work for A Stone
1899: estate of C Stone
1903: estate of Anthony Stone
1907: estate of Mrs Anne Stone; with associated letter

Mortgage agreement: 1887: Anthony Stone and Counties Permanent Benefit Building Society

Solicitors' accounts: Frederick Eastwood: Anthony Stone: purchase of 68 Malcolm Street, Derby

Receipt: 1869: payment by Anthony Stone to Derby Burial Board: internment of Agnes Elizabeth Stone

Original note and later copy: undated: text of an advertisement offering for sale lists of unclaimed dividends; related newspaper advertisements, 1777-1850 and Chancery Court material from 1758 onwards

Notice to claimants: undated: appeal by Anthony Stone for donations to support a claim to the estate of William Tatlow of Bentley House, Longford: with a list of nine subscribers

Letter: undated: from John Close to Anthony Stone

Note: lists four names and addresses

Letter: undated: from Newdigate, Kirk Hallam: have searched parish register without success

Brochure: William Bennett: record agent, London and Derby: with letter: search for property transactions in London in relation to William Johnson: (date is ambiguous - could be 1867)

Manuscript: 1863: "Business thoughts and desires that came into Richard Wright's mind": "House of Lords Coffee House, Monday morning 5 o'clock 27 April 1863": reflections about the Tatlow inheritance: proposes an agreement between family members and claimants

Manuscript note: undated: narrative about William Tatlow and his property: Commissary in British Army; went to Germany: last letter 1760 from Muncaster, Hanover; ca 1802 advertisement seeking Swindell sisters: property of £50,000 being left to them

Original newspaper: Derbyshire Advertiser: 30 October 1863: contains report of appearance at Ashbourne Petty Sessions of James Clifford of Shardlow, accused of theft of the page from Longford parish register which included baptism of William Tatlow in 1727

Newspaper cuttings: no date identifiable:
Derby Reporter: letter about Jennings inheritance case
Sale notice: property of the late Peter Arkwright: on reverse: debate about Derby Borough Surveyor being given permission to undertake private work
Report about disputed claims for dilapidated houses in Blackfriars Road; the owner having disappeared

Notes: children and spouses of William Stone and Francis Harrison of Holbrook
children of William and Hannah Oldknow, John and Hannah Oldknow and Christopher and Easter Oldknow

Certified extracts from parish registers: extracts dated 1864:
1779: Chapel en le Frith: marriage of John Oldknow and Susanna Beverley
1830: Smalley: baptism of Joseph son of Christopher and Eliza Oldknow
1709: Smalley: baptism of John son of William and Hannah Oldknow
1711: Smalley: baptism of Samuel, son of William and Hannah Oldknow
1828: St Alkmund, Derby: marriage of Christopher Oldknow and Eliza Wall
1756: Smalley: marriage of John Oldknow and Hannah Smedley

Certified Bishop's Transcript extract|: extract date 1844 or 1864: 1727: Longford: baptism of William son of Mary Tatlow

Notes: undated: list of Oldknow baptisms: various dates 1702-1759

Letters: 1864: 32 letters mostly addressed to Anthony Stone or Thomas Brassington: from various correspondents reporting outcome of searches about Oldknow baptisms and related enquiries

Printed notice: undated: meeting of claimants to William Tatlow property

Letter: undated: from Thomas Brassington: Richard Wright

Manuscript: undated: "My Remarks on Richard Wright": author not named: written on an uncompleted Property and Income Tax Return form for parish of St Brides, 1850: pasted inside is what appears to be reprint of a newspaper report, 1813, of Grant v Crook, Court of Kings Bench

Copy letter: undated: from Anthony Stone to James Sutton: refers to money obtained by Sutton's father ca 1804-1808 which ought to have been divided between brother and sisters of Sutton's grandmother Ellen Swindell: seeks a meeting

Letters: 1867-1869 and 1876: aspects of claim for Tatlow inheritance

In Memoriam card: 1876: Jane, wife of John Thomas, New Cemetery, Warstone Lane [Birmingham]

Letters: 1862: 8 letters mostly addressed to Anthony Stone or Thomas Brassington: from various correspondents

Letters: 1863: 50 letters mostly addressed to Anthony Stone or Thomas Brassington: from various correspondents

Summons: 1863: to Anthony Stone: Derby Court

Letter: 1852: from James Sutton: declines to offer an appointment away from Shardlow: offers to pay passage if recipient chooses to emigrate

Letter: 1854: to Miss A S Mackay: response to enquiry about will of Mary Stanford of Cullompton,

Agreement: 1833: Thomas Gill of Risley and Walter Scattergood of Sandiacre: provision for Walter Scattergood to achieve ownership of a warp lace machine (through what in modern terms would be called rental purchase)

Certificate: 1825: admission of Christopher Oldknow of Derby and of 59th Regiment of Foot as an out pensioner of HM Royal Hospital, Chelsea [see also National Archives: WO 97/720/93]

Handwritten text of a ballad: "Will you love me then as now?" text bears no date and no name: appears to fit with an envelope addressed to James Clifford of Shardlow. [The ballad by Charles William Glover was first published in 1853]

Printed sheet: undated: "Fred's Half Dozen" political riddle in verse

Typescript letter: 1895: perhaps a copy: dissolution of a society (unidentified): F G L Davis, Cardiff and B D Pope, Bath

Letters from Adrian Bennett:
1852: from Clarence Barracks, Portsmouth: to Felicia (sister)
1853: from Regents Road Barracks: to Felicia (sister): sudden death of sergeant major; news of William Walton apprenticed to Mrs Stone of Derby - has made an advantageous marriage to a widow in Manchester
?1855: from Lazarretto, Crimea: to My dear sister: describes recent travels and experiences
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorAnthony Stone of Derby (1834-1902)
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