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Collapse D6287 - Swanwick family of Whittington - [19th cent]-1941

D6287 - Swanwick family of Whittington - [19th cent]-1941

1 - Extracts from the minutes of the Committee of Way and Works Department relating to an application made by Mr Swanwick to the Engineer for the supply of 200 Rails of the Erewash Valley Railway Pattern from the Company's stock for the construction of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway. - 25 Sep 1849

2 - Loose accounts relating to building and repair work done on a house and outbuildings [Mr Swanwick's house at Whittington?] - 1854-1857

3 - Sanitary report on mansion at Whittington near Chesterfield - 6 Sep 1889

4 - Black and white photograph of Chesterfield Post Office - c 1900

Collapse 5 - Mrs Margery Eleanor Swanwick, nee Norton (c1880-1959) - 1915-1941

5 - Mrs Margery Eleanor Swanwick, nee Norton (c1880-1959) - 1915-1941

1 - Letter to Mrs Swanwick thanking her for her kindess to the sender's brother-in-law who is now working in "our Ammunitions factory" - 20 Jul 1915

2 - German-printed field postcards (feldpostcarte) to Mrs Swanwick sent from Private William Marshall of the Sherwood Foresters, in the Soltau Prisoner of War camp in Osnabrück, thanking her for the parcels sent and her kindness - Jan 1916-Mar 1916

3 - Postcards to Mrs Swanwick from Private W. L. Gothard, British Prisoner of War at Kreigsgefangenenlager, Münster, [No 1 Prisoner of War camp, Münster] Germany - Feb 1916-Dec 1916

4 - German-printed field postcards (feldpostcarte) to Mrs Swanwick from Alex Petrow [Petrov], a Russian prisoner of War at Wintermoor - Mar 1916-Nov [1916]

5 - German-printed field postcards (feldpostcarte) to Mrs Swanwick from Sergeant W. Marke of the 1st East Surrey Regiment, 22nd company, whilst at Döberitz, and later Soltau prisoner of war camps, Germany - Jul 1916-Aug 1917

6 - Letters to Mrs Swanwick from Private Joseph Fish from the Red Cross Hospital on Moss Side, Liverpool - Nov 1916-Feb 1917

7 - Letter to Mr and Mrs Swanwick from Mr C. De Boom in Dukenfield, Cheshire - 3 Feb 1917

8 - Letters to Mrs Swanwick from Sergeant Major Louis De Jongh of the Belgian Army, including one item from Neuss [Germany] during the Belgian Army's occupation of the town, and Mrs de Jongh in Fécamp, France and Antwerp, Belgium - Jan 1916-Apr 1919

9 - Letters to Mrs Swanwick from the Central, East Surrey Regiment and Russian Prisoners of War Committees - Nov 1916-Nov 1917

10 - Postcard and letters to Mrs Swanwick from several former refugees after their return to Belgium from Chesterfield - Apr 1919-Mar 1920

11 - Letters from Kevin Jean-Marie Donovan (1931-2008) to his mother, Marcelle Félicie Caudrillier (d 1974) - Oct 1941-Dec 1941

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