| Description | This collection is largely unlisted - the only fully listed series are D769/P and D769/B/13, each of which is made up of maps and plans. See search room supervisor for interim list, covering a small proportion of the unlisted material.
The Taylor, Simpson and Moseley collection is extensive, and its contents are reflective of a wide range of business and personal clients over a large span of years. Papers include:
Jackson Davis & Co, nursery boot and shoe manufacturer, Matlock: articles of association and other 1911-1918
Hardwick Colliery Company: estate and case papers 19th cent
Larges' Hospital Charity, Derby: minutes, accounts and apointments [admissions] 1818-1977
Holbrook manor court rolls 1633-1936, surrenders, admittances, deeds and other papers 17th-19th cent
Horsley manor court rolls 1842-1924
Shepshed, Leicestershire: manor court rolls 1675, 1765, 1790-1800, court papers 1752-c1812
Spondon manor court book and suit roll 1738-1753
Derby Society for the Extension of University Teaching: minutes 1888-1968, correspondence etc 1960s-1970s
Nottinghamshire Cricket Club: programmes 1859-1866
Various other Derbyshire organisations and families, including Sir John Port's Charity, Etwall, the Derby Canal Company, the Nutbrook Canal Company, and the Evans family of Darley Abbey
As a result of work to update the Manorial Documents Register for Derbyshire in 2013-2014, the following, more detailed information has been produced to cover manorial records within this collection.
Holbrook Manor: court books (4), 1633-1648, 1650-1678, 1678-1702, 1702-1745; minute books (2), 1786-1802 (including court procedures, 1785), 1803-1836; draft court proceedings, 1811-1813; suit rolls (7), 1785-1787, 1790-1794, 1798-1802, 1805-1809; verdicts, 1752-1805 (with gaps), 1842; jury lists, 1753, 1769, 1775, 1847, 1890, 1893; surrenders, admissison, letters of attorney, presentments, etc, for copyhold lands, 1626-1894; draft deeds of enfranchisements of copyhold lands, 1883-1895; appointments of stewards, 1767, 1777, 1785, 1861; chief rental, 1791; chief rent receipts, 1785-1791, 1802-1815; statement of fines, 1814-1832; legal accounts, 1861-1873; assorted precepts, notices, correspondence and ephemera of stewards, 1755-1896; index of tenants on court rolls, 1883; list of tenants, 1858; list of householders, 1873 and late 19th cent; list of defaulters, 1836; surveys of properties of George Strutt, 1859-1861; case papers on the Evans estate, 1835-1837; agreements (3) on manor, 1631-1632. [2 boxes, old reference "Box 90"] |
| Administrative History | The solicitor's firm Taylor, Simpson & Mosley, and its predecessor companies, has been based at 35 St Mary's Gate, Derby since at least the 1840s, By 1835, attorneys Simpson & Frear had an office in St Mary's Gate. Trade directories in the 1840s list James Blyth Simpson at 35 St Mary's Gate, Taylor. By 1857, the firm had become J&J Simpson, and by 1870 it was Simpson, Taylor & Simpson.
The firm also appears to have taken over the practices and clients from other Derby solicitors, including Joshua Priestley (1854-?1930), solicitor, 11 St Mary's Gate, Derby, and later also St Hilda, High Street, Repton. Joshua Priestley emigrated to Canada with his wife, Laura, and children in 1907. |