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D331 - Ogden family of Stanley - 1636-20th cent

1 - Frederick Soresby Ogden (1887-1980) - 1860-1972

2 - Frederick Soresby Ogden (1887-1980)

3 - Alexander Ogden (1834-1915)

4 - Alexander Ogden (1834-1915)

5 - Eliza Ogden (formerly Soresby) (1861-1943)

6 - Frederick Montague Ogden (Hogton) (1800-1873)

7 - Frederick Ogden

8 - Ralph Hogton (-1870)

9 - Other members of Ogden/Hogton Family

10 - Roger Soresby ( - 1693)

11 - Edward Soresbie (1665 - 1729)

12 - Gilbert Soresby ( -1775)

13 - Charles Sorsbie (c.1700 - 1763)

14 - Gilbert Soresby (1750 - c1836)

15 - Maria Soresby (1843 - 1872)

16 - Gilbert Mosley Soresby (1794 - 1879)

17 - Roger William Soresby (d.1923)

18 - Other Members of Soresby Family

23 - Higgs - Dakin Families

24 - Cox Family

25 - Sale Catalogues

26 - Miscellaneous

1 - `A booke containing divers sortes of hands, as well the English as French secretarie with the Italian, Roman, Chancelry and court hands. Also the true and just proportion of the Capitall Romae set forth by John de Beav Chesne P and M John Baildon. Im(printed) as London by Thomas Vautrovillier dwelling in the blacke frieres.' - 1571

2 - Lease, Crosse Yate Close, Kirk Ireton. William Smith of Kirk Ireton, yeoman, to Millicent Smith, his daughter - 1662

3 - Receipt for Darley for tax paid for the defence of William & Mary's realm - 1689

4 - Bond in £40. John Heydon, snr., of Hackney Lane, Darley, yeoman and John Haydon of Todehole, Darley, 2 Nov - 1692

5 - Unexecuted lease regarding Suppers Farm, Darley. John Haydon, the younger, of Darley, yeoman, to James Allen, of Wirksworth, blacksmith, 1 May - 1692

6 - Notebook containing love poems - [18th cent]

7 - `The Gentleman's compleat Jockey' (illustration of horse and list of potential ailments) - early 18th cent

8 - Pages from an account book containing cookery recipes, note regarding Mr Sanders farms at the time their landlord was bankrupt - [18th/19th cent]

9 - Notebooks of cookery recipes and receipts, Christian and other jottings - [18th cent]-1857

10 - Money left to be distributed to the poor of Brailsford by Mr Mugliston's will - [17th/18th cent]

11 - Figures regarding silk, wine, tobacco, coffee etc - [c1706]

12 - Copy lease for 21 years of property in Radbourne. Master, Schoolmaster, poor men and poor scholars of the hospital and free school of Sir John Port, Kt., in Etwall Repton, alias Reppingdon and John Merry of Radbourne, husbandman, 28 Jan - 1718

13 - Settlement certificate of William Redgate and family, Morley - 1719

14 - Robert Watt's notebook - 1733

15 - List of cattle/sheep killed - 1735

16 - An account of land in the hand of the lat[e] Lady Sedley - 1738

17 - Removal order, Martha Hunt, from Morley to Derby - 1753

18 - Almanacs/Pocket books - 1743-1782

19 - Wages receipt of John Flint - 1762

20 - Sketch of an estate at Ireton. Scale 1 inch : 2 chains. Size 21 × 32 cm - 1781

21 - Copy of a letter addressed to John Hunter, esq. and Dr Lettson containing a prospectus of a voyage to Africa for the purpose of collecting in Natural History, establishing a new species of comerce, and making Observations and Experiments etc. to which are added a view, Sketches etc. of a former Voyage, the advantages, disadvantages, etc. by Henry Smeathman - [c1785]

22 - Copy examination of Henry Vallance of Kirk Ireton, cordwainer touching his last legal settlement - [1799]

23 - Order for drugs, William Pakeman, Brailsford to Thos. Brown, druggist, Derby - [c1800]

24 - Notice of sale of village settlements, Queensland, Australia, overstamped `Samuel Hall, Shipping Broker, 4 Curzon Street, Derby' - c.1891-c.1895

25 - Remedies for rheumatism - [19th cent]

26 - Booklets printed and sold by J Rosewarne, Belper - [19th cent]

27 - Notes regarding the number 7 - [?19th cent]

28 - Religious tracts and cards - [19th cent]

29 - Pricked through picture of a dog retreiving a game bird - [19th cent]

30 - Encoded cards regarding `a painful subject' - [19th cent]

31 - Birthday cards - [19th cent]

32 - Poems - [19th cent]

33 - Denby Free School, plan of enlargement. Scale 5 feet : 1 inch. Size 65 × 46 cm - [19th cent]

34 - Plan of township of Belper - [19th cent]

35 - Letter - E Hampston at Scarborough [Yorkshire] to `Dear Sister' - [19th cent]

36 - Advertisement for William Day, wholesale and retail confectioner, Belper - [19th cent]

37 - Gold wedding ring attached to paper. - [?19th cent]

38 - Number not used

39 - Letter - William Chook at Kentish Town [London] to `Sir' regarding seeds - [19th cent]

40 - Penmanship and school exercise books - [19th cent]

41 - `John Bull and the Taxes' - political poem - [19th cent]

42 - A sermon occasioned by the death of Mr Proctor minister of [Gissing] [Norfolk], by the Rev. Mr Moore of Burston, (Norfolk) - [1823]

43 - Valuation for regulating church rates - Hulland - 1827

44 - Reward poster for a diamond ring lost between Wirksworth and Matlock Bath endorsed on reverse with recipe for ginger beer - 1833

45 - Declaration of the King in favour of the church by William Bemrose, Derby - 1834

46 - `The Recognition being the first part of the Vicar of Merton's portfolio', 2nd edition Awarded to Sarah Brown, Independent Sunday School, Belper, 1840 - 1828

47 - Scripture Calendar endorsed `Sarah Brown, Belper from Miss Pitman, Governess of the Mill School belonging to Messrs Strutt of Belper' - 1840

48 - Sampler by Sarah Brown, aged 8 - [c1840]

49 - Music book endorsed `James Wood, Holbrook Moor, Derbyshire' - 1839

50 - Notes on Gladstone family births, marriages and deaths - [1840s]

51 - Palace Hotel, Buxton, tariff card - [19th cent]

52 - Notice of dinner to be held at Green and Black's Head Hotel, Ashbourne, for gratitude in maintaining the Gilbert Union - 1842

53 - Letter - William Fisher at Parwich to `Sir', regarding need for Christian conversion - 1856

54 - Lines written on the occasion of the funeral of the late lamented William Evans, esq., of Allestree - 1856

55 - Survey & valuation of Stanley for the purpose of a poor rate - 1856

56 - Bills of Charles Ball, tailor and wollen draper, Bridge Street, Belper, for goods ordered by William Smith of Belper - 1860-1869

57 - Notes of Brailsford vestry meeting and meeting held at the church - 1861-[?1865]

58 - Longford - notice of annual ball - 1863

59 - Brailsford Church - restoration of chancel and erection of new vestry - music sheet - 1863

60 - Longford Amateur Concert programme - 1864

61 - Longford Horticultural Society - notice of exhibition - 1865

62 - `The Brailsford Alphabet' - [?1865]

63 - Almanac, includes advertisement for Gospel Hall for the Poor at Derby - 1867

64 - Rev. H Newman's rent book - 1867-1871

65 - First Battalion Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers, opening of the Drill Hall, flier - 1869

66 - Northop Gate, Holywell, district ticket - 1876

67 - Menu for dinner to celebrate the marriage of Hamar Bass, esq., M.P., at Rangewood, 15 Apr - 1879

68 - Ashbourne parish magazine - 1880

69 - Programme for evening entertainment at Bradley Lodge School, near Ashbourne - 1886

70 - Ley's Malleable Castings Co Ltd, Vulcan Ironworks, Derby, catalogue for Ewart's Patent Malleable Iron Chain driving belts - 1887

71 - Holiday notes and expenses of JW Day, Granham - 1893-1894

72 - Rate book, Stanley, not signed - [late 19th cent]

73 - Notes on the Griffin family of Wirksworth by Frederick Soresby Ogden - [20th cent]

74 - Advertisement for Bonne et Belle black silks, by Loverock and Son, Belper - [?20th cent]

75 - The `Borough' pocket guide to Belper, issued under the auspices of Belper UDC - [20th cent]

76 - Illustration of Longford Cheese Factory, with part of the history of The Farmer's Associations of Derbyshire and Staffordshire - [20th cent]

77 - `About Eyesight' booklet by Lancaster and Thorpe, The Opticians, 90 St Peters Street, Derby - [early 20th cent]

78 - Map of the North Staffordshire Railway and Canal - [c1900]

79 - Press cutting - obituary of John Whitehouse, founder, Midland Boiler and Engineering Works, Ilkeston - [1903]

80 - Plan of well and borehole, Repton School. Scale 1/8th inch. Size 48 × 19 cm - 1906

81 - Derby Corporation Art Gallery, exhibition of modern paintings, catalogue - 1906

82 - Great Central Railway Collieries showing railways and colleries in Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire (printed). Scale 2 miles : 1 inch. Size 134 × 105 cm - 1907

83 - Tourist map of the Peak of Derbyshire offering `cheap tickets to the Peak District of Derbyshire, the Switzerland of England'. No scale. Size 46 × 59 cm - 1908

84 - Morley Parish Almanacs - 1912-1913

85 - France's Day collectors badges - 1917

86 - Derby Strike Bulletin - 5 May 1926

87 - Supplements to Derbyshire Advertiser - 1927-1931

88 - Derbyshire County Council. Wild Bird Protection Acts, 1880-1908. Notice re. protected species - 1927

89 - [Conservative Party] Holiday Gala programme, Welbeck Abbey [Nottinghamshire] - 1928

90 - Shardlow RDC election notice of WJ Potter - 1928

91 - Appeal notice, St Oswalds, Ashbourne - 1929

92 - List of officers (A-H) of Derbyshire Horticultural Society - 1932

93 - Voluntary Service in the Countryside. Order of proceedings for the meeting arranged jointly by the National Council of Social Service and the Rural Community Councils of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire - 1932

94 - Tenth Annual Report of the Derbyshire Rural Community Council - 1934

95 - Notes of Henry Hunt of Weston Underwood - 1935

96 - An appreciation by a friend, in memory of Frances E Weston, a pioneer worker of the Bermondsey Medical Mission, 1904-1937 - [1937]

97 - Ilkeston Deanery Choir Festival programme. - 1938

98 - `Derbyshire Homes Through the Centuries'. British Red Cross Society, Derby Division - 1949

99 - Advertisement regarding Shardlow RDC 6% Local Housing Bonds and Savings certificates - [1940s]

100 - Textbook: Littleton's Tenures In English, lately perused and amended. Printed in London, 1621. Inscribed with name of Edward [?Sorsby] on inside cover. - 1621

101 - Pamphlet (covers missing), containing the text of a Sermon Preached Before the House of Peers by Thomas Lamplugh - 1678

102 - Textbook: (covers missing) The Young Clerk's Tutor Enlarged ... To which is Annexed, Several of the Best Copies Both of Court and Chancery Hand Now Extant. By Edward Cocker ... The Thirteenth Edition. [The Address to the Reader Signed: J. H., i.e. John Hawkins.]. On p95 is a manuscript addition of a medicinal recipe for "An approved drink for the yellows" (a disease of horses) - 1693

103 - Textbook: The Common Accidence Examined and Explained by Short Questions and Answers. By Charles Hoole, 1702. Inscribed with name of Thomas Twigge on inside cover. - 1702

104 - Pamphlet: The Perils of False Brethren both in Church and State: Set forth in a Sermon Preach'd before the Right Hon the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of London at the Cathedral Church of St Paul, 5 Nov 1709 - 1709

105 - Incomplete pamphlet (covers missing) containing pages 9 to 80 of The Unfortunate Shipwright: Or Cruel Captain, Being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparallel'd Sufferings of Robert Barker, Late Carpenter on Board the Thetis Snow, of Bristol, in a Voyage to the Coast of Guinea and Antigua, by Robert Barker, 1759 - 1759

106 - Textbook: A Short Introduction of Grammar, generally to be used: Compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latin Tongue. Printed in London by Buckley and Longman, 1760. Inscribed "Gilbert Soresby, His book, January 31st 1765" on inside cover. - 1760

107 - Pamphlet: A present for your neighbour; or the Right Knowledge of God and of Ourselves, by Richard Hill, London, 1776. Front cover marked "Edward Soresby, Brailsford, 1799". - 1776

108 - Incomplete script of a play: pages 37 to 70 of Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman, by Ben Jonson - 1776

109 - Pamphlet: A catalogue of the General Exhibition or Grand Museum of Arts and Sciences; consisting of the most capital works of both ancient and modern Masters in painting, sculpture, drawing etc., besides a great variety of mechanical and natural curiosities now exhibiting at the Great Room near Exeter Exchange in the Strand - 1777

110 - Textbook: (title page missing) [Mentoria: or, the Young Ladies Instructor, in familiar conversations on moral and entertaining subjects, etc] by Ann Murry, 1778. - 1778

111 - Book: The History of Miss Cleland or The Jealous Mother [once serialised in Town and Country Magazine Vol XV (1783) "a pathetic story to which is added Contentment: A Fable" [by Philartes]. - 1783

112 - Book: Injur'd Innocence, Or, Virtue In Distress. An affecting narritive founded on facts, containing the history of Miss Adams and Lord Whatley by his Lordship's Chaplain. With handwritten note on the front cover, "To endure but with patience those trials that you are exposed to with aptience and there is a reward" - 1787

113 - Printed book, covers missing: The Entertaining History of that amiable and loving Couple William Ratling and Sweet Poll of Plymouth, with the humours of his friend Jack Oakum, 1791. - 1791

114 - The Diary Companion, being a supplement to the Ladies' Diary for the year 1792, containing answers the last year's enigmas, rebuses, charades, queries and questions … with some new enigmas, rebuses, charades, queries and questions, proposed to be answered nex year. Also, calculations of the eclipses; with a continuation of the account of new comets, and other new discoveries in the heavens - 1792

115 - Pamphlet: The Speech of the Right Hon Charles James Fox in the House of Commons, 14 Dec 1792 on that part of the address to the King which implicated our being involved in a war with France - 1792

116 - Pamphlet: The Good Man's Comfortable Companion, or, a Daily Preparation for Heaven Wherein are Directions for passing our Time well and acceptable to God, by William Laud. Marked on the front "Gilbert Soresby, his book". - 1795

117 - Pamphlet: Lovers' Vows; or the Child of Love: A Play in Five Acts, Augustus von Kotzebue - 1798

118 - Printed prayerbook: Book of Common Prayer and Psalms, first few pages missing - [18th cent]

119 - Pamphlet: Some Remarks upon the Christian's Glory, as it is now metamorphosed into the Reprobates four Commandments [author not given] - [18th cent]

120 - Incomplete pamphlet, containing mis-ordered pages of The Songster's Delight collection of songs, including the Distracted Sailor's Garland, The Batchellor's Resolution - late 18th cent

121 - Bound copies of four tracts by the Religious Tract Society: The History of John Wise, a Poor Boy; The Warning Voice; The Harvest; To A Child. Early 19th cent. Endorsed with the names of Joseph Barker, 19 Jan 1817 and of Gilbert Mosley Soresby of Brailsford, 13 Feb 1857. - early 19th cent

122 - Pamphlet: The Parent's Best Gift, Derby, John Drewry, 1800 - 1800

123 - Textbook: The Juvenile Preceptor; or a Course of Moral and Scientific Instructions, volume II. Containing Spelling Lessons from Two to Seven Syllables, with Appropriate Moral Tales and Poems. Printed in Ludlow, 1803. Inscribed on inside cover "Kedleston, Derbyshire, William Smith, aged 10 years". - 1803

124 - Pamphlet: Admonitions against Swearing, Sabbath-breaking and Drunkenness, by James Stonehouse MD, Rector of Great and Little Cheverel, Wiltshire, 1800. Endorsed with the name of Gilbert Mossley Soresby, 1809 - 1809

125 - Textbook: A Treatise on Live Stock (missing covers) by William Youatt - 1810

126 - Textbook: Introduction to the English Reader, or a selection of pieces in prose and poetry calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading and to imbue their minds with the love of virtue to which are added rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety. Lindley Murry, 1813. Inscribed with name of William Smith on inside cover, Nov 1816. - 1813

127 - Textbook: The English Reader or Pieces in prose and poetry selected from the best writers… by Lindley Murray, 1813. Inscribed with the name of Hannah Humpstone, Kedleston. - 1813

128 - Prayer book: A form of Prayer to be used in all Churches and Chapels, throughout that Part of Great-Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 28 Feb 1794 - 1794

129 - Prayer book: A form of Prayer to be used in all Churches and Chapels, throughout England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, 9 Mar 1796 - 1796

130 - Prayer book: A form of Prayer to be used in all Churches and Chapels, throughout England, Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, upon Wednesday the 7th of March next, being the day appointed by Proclamation for a General Fast and Humiliation before Almighty God ... 1798 - 1798

131 - Prayer book: A form of Prayer to be used in all Churches and Chapels, throughout England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, 27 Feb [1799] - [1799]

132 - Prayer book: A form of Prayer to be used in all Churches and Chapels, throughout those parts of the United Kingdom called England and Ireland on 17 Feb 1808 - 1808

133 - Small book: The Home Story Book, New Juvenile Library, 1851 - 1851

134 - Textbook: Elementary Algebra For Schools, H S Hall and S R Knight, 1901. Surname Ogden on inside cover, "F S Ogden" across the page edges - 1901

135 - Almanac: Vox Stellarum or a Loyal Almanack for the year of human redeption, 1861. Marked on front cover: "Francis Moore, Physician" and "Maria Soresby, Brailsford near Derby" - 1861

136 - Almanac: Zadkiel's Alamanac for 1866, inscribed "G M Soresby, Brailsford" on inside cover - 1866

137 - Almanac: Zadkiel's Alamanac for 1868 - 1868

138 - Almanac: Zadkiel's Alamanac for 1879 - 1879

27 - Photographs/Illustrations

UL - Ogden family of Stanley: Unlisted material

Strutt family of Belper

Tweets by DRO

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

National Coal Board

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

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