| Description | Clients' papers and miscellaneous office records, mostly in draft form, together with associated documents such as printed sale particulars. Comprising:
D5956/12-39: Taylor family: personal and business papers, c1849-1904
D5956/40-87: William Redfern of Bakewell, mercer, business and personal papers, c1833-c1916. |
| Administrative History | The Redferns were linked by marriage to the Taylor family as well as through their business connections.
Messrs Taylor of Bakewell, later Brooke Taylor, were a long established firm of solicitors with partners involved in many aspects of local life. Papers from them have been received in Derbyshire Record Office over a number of years (DRO ref. D504), and early in 2003 complementary papers transferred by the firm to Derby Local Studies Library in 1959 were re-located to the Record Office to re-unite previously separated parts of the firm's archive. It is these transferred papers which are now referenced D5956. |
| Custodial History | Acquired by Derbyshire Record Office in 2003. Formerly DL43. |