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D161 - Andrew MacBeth Cash & Company of Wirksworth, solicitors - 17th-20th cent

BOX - Andrew MacBeth, Cash & Company: box-listed records - 1623-20th cent

1 - Property records - 18th-20th cent

2 - Records re mining and quarrying - 18th-20th cent

1 - Agreement between (1) John Smith, farmer of Bolehill, Wirksworth and (2) George Colledge, contractor of Cromford and John Williams Keene, accountant of Oldbury near Birmingham for (1) to lease the Stone Quarry under the field called Bailey Croft, Wirksworth - 1871

2 - Account book of the Manystones Stone and Colour Company, Brassington - 1895-1896

3 - Account book of income and expenditure, Course Hill Mine, Brassington, the property of C H Hill of Woodborough Hall, Company. Notts, with loose correspondence, 1909. - 1904-1909

4 - Bundle of bills from various tradesmen to the Great Rake Mining Company. - 1899

5 - Bundle of correspondence addressed to the Manystones Quarries and Colour Company. - 1895

6 - Bundle of legal opinions, briefs, affidavits with newspaper report of case of a claim to a lead mine in the possession of Dr Cantrell of Wirksworth by Joseph Blackwell, John Bateman and William Bateman of Winster (approx 16 items). - 1863

7 - Bundle of papers relating to cases at the Barmote Court including minutes of evidenee, petitions, opinions etc (25 items). - 1775-1866

8 - Correspondence and copy agreements between John Waterfield, joiner of Wirksworth and various parties concerning access from the Wirksworth-Cromford road across the land of John Waterfield to the property of the Midland Railway Co. and between the National School and cemetery walls and the property of John Waterfield, North End, Wirksworth - 1855-1877

9 - Bundle of correspondence, legal papers etc re?case of Cantrell vs Blackwell and others, see also bundle 6. - c1764-1863

10 - Correspondence, plan and legal papers re sale of land (including Meerbrook Sough) between Birchwood Quarry and Soggs Wood and the River Derwent by Frederic Charles Arkwright, Esquire, JP?of Willersley to Ilkeston and Heanor Water Board. - 1848-1901

11 - Bundle of receipts including the Ball Eye Mining Co c1854-1858; works carried out at Biggin Farm, 1885-1886 and personal and household bills of Joseph Stone of Wirksworth, 1884-1887. - 1854-1887

12 - Memorandum and articles of association of Hopton Wood Stone Co Ltd with pencilled notes at the back. - 19th cent

13 - Legal papers in case of William Thomas Outram, farmer of Pear Tree Farm, Lea Bridge vs The Mill Close Mines Ltd re damage to his farm and stock from fumes from the Lea Lead Smelting Works. - 1920-1927

14 - Lease by the Crown to William John Harrison, JP of Wirksworth for one year and then from year to year, of the Moot Hall in Wirksworth. - 1934

15 - Draft copy of royal appointment of Arthur Harward, gentleman of Wirksworth as steward of the Manor and Wapentake of Wirksworth, part of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Manor of Ireton Wood. - 1879

16-17 - Bonsall Leys Mining Co: List of shareholders and number of shares, nd, and statement of receipts and payments to 6 November 1862. - 1862

18-19 - Draft and copy lease for 21 years by Henry Vernon, builder and George Henry Mart, corn merchant, both of Derby to George Colledge and Thomas Brittain, mineral merchants of Wirksworth, trading as the Wirksworth Stone and Mineral Co of the Manystones Quarries and Colour Works at Brassington for 21 years. - 1898

20 - Transfer with draft by John Gratton, blacksmith?and William Street junior, miner, both of Wirksworth to William Street the elder, miner of Wirksworth of a moiety of Old Gells Mine and Fox Clouds Mine. - 1873

21 - Draft lease of 10 years by Ellen Carrington, widow of Ashbourne to George Twigge, gentleman of Atlow Moat,?p Bradbourne and Samuel Parr, aerated water manufacturer of Sherwood Street, Nottingham to obtain minerals, but not lead ore, from various lands in Brassington. 1s6d for each ton of caulk, sand or clay extracted.

22 - Draft transfer by Ann Flint, widow of Wirksworth to Ann Wass, widow of Lea and Edward Miller Wass of Lea,?lead merchants and co-partners of 1/24 part of Raventor or Rantor Mine. - 1864

23 - Draft lease for one year and then year by year by the Crown to James Potter, silk weaver of Wirksworth of?the Wirksworth Market and fair tolls. - 1879

24-25 - Transfers by George Thompson, lead miner of Wirksworth to George Seeds, farmer of Wirksworth of 1/24 share?in the Righteous Lead Mine. - 1888

26 - Articles of partnership between Thomas Patston, wholesale clothier of Delmont House, Jackson Street, Derby and James Banks Hodgkinson, auctioneer and?land agent of Wirksworth re the Great Rake Mine at Brassington. - 1899

27 - Draft application for a patent by James Banks Hodgkinson, mine owner of Bank House, Brassington for "Improvements in roller crushing machines for crushing ores, stone and other minerals" with correspondence. - 1901

28 - Copy draft conveyance by William Slack, painter of Wirksworth and James Slack, joiner of Little Bolehill to the Hopton Wood Stone Firms Ltd of a parcel of land near Old Lane, Wirksworth. - 1906

29 - Schedule of deeds relating to property of the 1876 Ambergate Coal, Fire-Clay and Brick Co Ltd. - 1876

30 - Draft tenancy agreement and related correspondence by Caroline Anne Smedley, widow of Riber Castle, Matlock ?to John Sims, stone merchant of Coddington, parish of Crich? of the Riber Stone Quarry for one year and year by ?year. - 1876

31 - Copy agreement for lease for 21 years by Isaac Bowmer, gentleman of the Yews, Crich to John Richardson Hewitt, engineer of Station Street, Derby and George Baghurst, agent of Bridge Street, Derby of Ridgway Farm, near Ambergate including the seam called "the Alton Coal". - 1875

32 - Copy counterpart of lease by the trustees of the will of Isaac Bowmer of Crich to the Ambergate Coal, Fire Clay and Brick Co Ltd of mines and minerals under the Ridgway Estate, Heage - 6 Mar 1876

33-34 - Grant with draft by Albert Frederic Hurt, Esquire of Outwoods near Derby to Isaac Bowmer, gentleman of Crich of minerals under copyhold land at Heage - 1873-1876

35 - Prospectus of the Wyndam Consols Silver-Lead Mining Company, 10 Gray's Inn Square, London - c1852

36 - Smith and Trustee to Colledge: Lessee’s observations on draft lease - 1893-1894

37 - Prospectus of the Lamerton United Copper Mining Co, Threadneedle Street, London - c1852

38 - Duchy of Lancaster (High Peak Mining Customs and Mineral Courts): Bill to define and amend the mineral customs of certain parts of High Peak Hundred and to improve the administration of justice in the Barmote Courts - 6 Jun 1851

39 - Act to incorporate the proprietors of the Meerbrook Sough - 21 Jun 1841

40 - Correspondence re ? Smeadow Lead Mining Company - 1883

41 - Correspondence, conveyance of Doxey and Smith to Colledge - Feb 1894-Mar 1894

42-43 - Copy and draft agreement between (1) the Mineral Lime Co and (2) James Jeffries of Crich and Edmund Lloyd Owen of Bilston, co Staffs re working of the Minera quarries. - 1853

44 - Draft agreement and conveyances by Wirksworth Stone and Mineral Co and others for a tunnel from North End to the Dale Quarry, Wirksworth - 1876-1879

45 - Note: "Extracts from Mr Gray's letter". - 19th cent

46 - Notice of meeting of promoters of Ball Eye Mining Co, Cromford, 6 February with memoranda re auction of Dan Slack's property - 1854

3 - Deeds and related papers - 18th-19th cent

4 - Ephemera and War charities - 19th-20th cent

5 - Deeds and related papers - 18th-19th cent

6 - Deeds and related papers - 18th-19th cent

7 - Wills - 18th-20th cent

8 - Accounts - 19th-20th cent

9 - Personal papers, acts of parliament, business records - 18th-20th cent

10 - Records of Alsop and Eley Ltd, Sanitary Pipe Manufacturers - 19th-20th cent

11 - Records including re education - 19th-20th cent

12 - Records including local administration and justice - 19th-20th cent

13 - Business records - 19th cent

14 - Business records - 19th cent

15 - Wirksworth Cottage Hospital - 1880-1923

16 - Records of the Manor of Loddon Ingloss, Norfolk - 1623-1903

17 - Abstracts of title, mostly drafts - 19th-20th cent

18 - Abstracts of title - 19th-20th cent

19 - Andrew MacBeth, Cash & Co: unlisted records Box 19 (inspected by volunteer Celia Renshaw 18 May 2016)

20 - Andrew MacBeth, Cash & Co: unlisted records Box 20 (inspected by volunteer Celia Renshaw 18 May 2016)

Bonsall - Bonsall tithe award (copy) - 1846

ES - Sale catalogues - 19th-20th cent

Lincoln - 19th Century tracing of Dean of Lincoln’s property at Wirksworth - (18th cent) 19th cent

Meerbrook - Plan of Meerbrough Sough - 1835

UL - Andrew MacBeth Cash & Co, Solicitors, Wirksworth: unlisted records - 18th-20th cent

Wirksworth - Volume re Wirksworth small tithes - 1715

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