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Collapse D7573 - Arkwright family of Cromford, industrialists and landowners - 17th-20th cent

D7573 - Arkwright family of Cromford, industrialists and landowners - 17th-20th cent

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BOX - Box-listed items

Collapse DRO - Items not mentioned in 2012 box-list and given a description by Derbyshire Record Office - 1649-1927

DRO - Items not mentioned in 2012 box-list and given a description by Derbyshire Record Office - 1649-1927

1 - Bundle in pink tape; larger item labelled "Settlement made on the marriage of Edward Nicholas Hurt Esquire with Miss Caroline Strutt 6 Aug 1823 - 1823

2 - Unidentified loose title deed dated 20 Feb 1649 - 1649

3 - Bundle tied in pink dated 29 Nov 1825. Settlement by Jos Strutt Esquire of a house (Number 34) Dorset Square London upon the Trusts of Mr & Mrs Edward Hurt's marriage settlement 29 Nov 1825 - 1825

4 - Bundle labelled "Sir Richard Arkwright High Sheriff 1787" - 1787

5 - Blue notebook labelled "Rental of the estates of the Lords of the manor of Matlock from Lady Day 1798 to Lady Day 1799. Thos. Pearson Reeve. - 1798-1799

6 - Small brown volume containing accounts with different members of the Simpson family, 1793-1829, Includes details of profits of the Bakewell Mill - 1829

7 - Prints of machinery, most mounted. Not on list of material from Arkwright family and not part of Willersley collection. Provenance unknown. (A few similar prints are held in the Arkwright Society Archives at Cromford). These are plates have been cannibalised from (mainly 19th century) publications. Includes material associated with cotton spinning but also many other inventions

8 - Large blue folder containing bundle labelled "Willersley mainly upholstered bills"

9 - Page from "The Sketch" dated 17 Apr 1912 recording the announcement of the marriage of Miss Marjorie Hardcastle to Richard Alleyne Arkwright - 1912

10 - Bundle wrapped in purple paper labelled "From JJ Banks & Son…" containing papers re executorship of Edward & SA Levett

11 - Bundle in white folder, blue string labelled "Listed as misc papers"

12 - Harrod's box containing 3 OS maps and I Bartholomew's map. OS maps Matlock Bath, Bonsall, Cromford, Lea and Wirksworth; Kirk Ireton, Idridgehay, Shottle and Darley and Matlock. The Bartholomew's map is sheet 24 Oxford etc.

13 - Unwieldy bundle containing one volume and many loose papers - relating to Alfred Arkwright deceased

14 - Roll - copy of letter/s from Richard Arkwright 1792 - 1792

15 - Additional box (includes 20th correspondence and other papers; 1927 sale of goods of Willersley Castle catalogues; Willersley Diary account book 1886-1927; marriage settlements; Meerbrook Sough correspondence; printed items re business interests such as Meerbrook Sough and Cromford Canal; 200 Cromford and High Peak Railway share certificates; other) - 1886-1927

16 - Additional box (Grant of Arms, Family Pedigrees, Militia;- Sir Richard Arkwright [five items];- List of Arkwright Societies 1844…;- Samuel Simpson…;- Sundry Family Correspondence 1797-1825 from Eton College, etc.;- Sir Richard Arkwright as Sheriff; also includes folder of original and copy letters; Sale room sheets 1924; Sale catalogues 1924, 1927; glass plate of Willersley Castle (wrapped in newspaper); argument and judgement in case of Arkwright v Evans 1880; other) - c1797-1927

17 - Additional box (includes Willersley inventory 1923; large envelope re Cromford almshouses and other Arkwright charities; Simpson executorship papers; "list of documents in cellar staff room"; correspondence re Arkwright papers, other lists; bundle re Cromford mines; OS Acreage Book; Willersley Estate, Farm, Household and Garden Accounts, 1920s; Inventory of Plate; various account books including annual statements 1840s, small payments of Alfred Arkwright; Samuel Ogdon, butcher of Wirksworth; volume re family history; other loose papers) - 1920s

18 - Arkwright family papers - 18th-20th cent

19 - Brown envelope addressed to F C Arkwright Esquire contains 4 photographs supplied by the Science Museum of the Arkwright machines in their collection. Post marked September 1913. - 1913

20 - Letters addressed to Richard and Mrs Arkwright from various correspondents and some family members - 1777-1820s

Expand Plan - Items mentioned in 2012 box-list - 1875-1891

Plan - Items mentioned in 2012 box-list - 1875-1891

Expand SBS - Items found in a small brown suitcase during 2012 survey - 1779-1889

SBS - Items found in a small brown suitcase during 2012 survey - 1779-1889

Expand SWB - Items found in a small white box during 2012 survey

SWB - Items found in a small white box during 2012 survey

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Local Studies Periodicals

Local Studies Periodicals

National Coal Board

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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