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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
1 - Title deeds including lead ore tithe - 1549-1872
2 - Title deeds
3 - Title deeds
4 - Accounts
5 - Accounts (D258/1), Philip Gell (1775-1842) (D258/5/2-6)
6 - Philip Gell (1775-1842)
7 - Various including Medieval deeds (D258/7/1), Ship Money (D258/7/6) and Other Assessments (D258/7/13/19-35, 41-48), Tithes and church property (D258/7/13/49-D258/7/19) and Mining papers (D258/7/20)
8 - Correspondence Christian-Gell re lead ore (D258/8/1) and Various papers (D258/8/2-56)
9 - Thomas Gell
10 - Sir John Gell I (1593-1671), Sir John Gell II (1613-1689), Civil War and various
11 - Various, 18th - early 19th century
12 - Various, 17th century
13 - Title deeds and other papers
14 - Various, 18th-19th century
15 - 17th Cent Printed Material
16 - Title deeds and other papers
17 - Quarter Sessions (D258/17/1-9), Business - Canals and railways (D258/17/10), Miscellaneous/Various (D258/17/11-29, 33-44), Correspondence (D258/17/30-31), Philip Gell correspondence including Cromford Canal (D258/17/32, 45)
18 - Manor of Hope (D258/1), Title Deeds (D258/18/2-3, 14-19, 21-34), Ashbourne Lectureship (D258/18/4), Estate papers (D258/18/5-D258/18/7/1-4, 30-38, D258/18/8), Wirksworth School (D258/18/7/5-29), Manors of Hopton, Carsington, Wirksworth, Hognaston, Middleton by Wirksworth and Hulland (D258/18/9-13), Assessments (D258/18/20), Miscellaneous printed items (D258/18/35-38)
19 - Various (D258/19/1-30, D258/19/31/24-33, D258/19/32-34), Ashbourne lectureship (D258/19/31/1-23)
20 - Various (D258/20/1-11, 30-66), Title deeds and leases (D258/20/12-29)
21 - Various (D258/21/1-20, D258/21/45/7-8, D258/21/46/1-7), Philip Gell (1723-1795) Correspondence (D258/21/21-24, D258/21/46/8-35), Yorkshire Quarter Sessions (D258/21/25), Estate papers and accounts 18th cent (D258/21/26-D258/21/45/6),Philip Gell (1723-1795) Various (D258/21/47/1-34), Various 16th-19th cent (D258/21/47/35, D258/21/48-66)
22 - Parish Account Books (D258/22/1-3), Various, 16th-19th century (D258/22/4-23)
23 - Title Deeds and other papers (D258/23/1-19/5), Correspondence 16th-early 18th cent (D258/23/19/6-26, D258/23/20-22)
23 - Title deeds and other papers
24 - Sir Philip Gell (D258/24/1-5, D258/24/30-47, 49-54), Ashbourne Lectureship (D258/24/6), Various (D258/24/6/27, D258/24/7-8, D258/24/11-29), Wirksworth Hundred Tax Assessments (D258/24/9-10), Fagg v Gell (D258/24/48)
25 - Miscellaneous legal, financial and other papers
26 - Title Deeds etc
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14 - Royal pardon to Thomas Gell, in return for a payment of 33s 4d, who had succeeded without licence to lands etc at Ashleyhay, which his brother Anthony held in chief and devised to Thomas in his will dated 24 Feb 22 Eliz I [1580] 11 Feb 28 Eliz I - 1586
15 - Probate of John Feyrne of Wirksworth: to the poor box at Wirksworth, 10s - to Agnes his wife, his house and garden at Wirksworth with all his boles, bolesteads, smeltings and groves and all other his lands, for her life (except 2 acres in Gilkill Close which is devised to John Wigley of Wirksworth, his godson, with the house wherein John dwells) - to his wife also, all his land at Kirk Ireton and Dawyate, in or adjoining to Ashleyhay or "Yddersey", with all his lands etc at Wirksworth and a close near to the late Friars House at Derby, in fee simple properties at Middleton by Wirksworth, Derby and Ashleyhay also devised, various bequests made to servants and others. (Will dated 3 May 1549) 31 Oct - 1550
16 - Royal pardon to Sir John Gell of Hopton for all transgressions, rebellions etc, with restitution of all his lands etc 17 Nov, 12 Cha.II - 1660
17 - Receipt by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield to Ralph Gell their deputy collector in Bakewell, Hope and Tideswell for £29 5 7½d. - 4 Mar [1557]
18 - Bond in £100 by Thomas Wynfeld of le Hill by Wirksworth, yeoman, to Ralph Gell of Hopton, gent. 6 Apr, 5 Edw VI - 1551
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20 - Receipt for money received from Ralph Gell as farmer of lands at Willersley parcel of the lands of George, Earl of Shrewsbury Michaelmas, 4 Eliz I - 1562
21 - Draft will of Richard Smythe, vicar of Wirksworth - to be buried before the altar of St Helen etc 13 Jun - 1504
22 - Trade circular of the Forsyth Patent Gun company, 10, Piccadilly, London - c1820
23 - Grant by Richard, son of Roger Spornekorteys of Hognaston], to Henry son of Henry de Hopton of a plot of land called le Hauethalfakur ? adjoining the meadow of Hognaston], and 1 acre of land in le Longekroft next the land of Alexander son of Robert, subject to a rent of ½d a year Witnesses: Henry son of Thomas de Hopton, Henry de Ballidon of Hopton, Walter of Underwood, Henry le Eyr [Eyre]de Hognaston and John the clerk - [14th cent]
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28 - Title Deeds
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34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
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38 - Correspondence etc
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42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
43 - Hopton Receipt Papers
44 - Sir John Gell
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46 - Staffordshire estate papers, 19th century - 1834-1879
47 - Unidentified plan showing part of the course of a waterway, marked at points with numbers, and the dates 20 Aug and 22 Aug. Scale not given. Dimensions approx 150cm x 130cm - [19th Cent]
48 - Philip Gell (d 1842), draft deeds, estate and financial papers - 1706-1877
49 - Log book of the Cutter Yacht Albatross from the port of Cowes, Isle of Wight to any port or ports her owner may think proper, wind and weather permitting' [to Scotland] - 18 May-29 Aug 1836
50 - SIR WILLIAM GELL (1777-1836)
51 - Various
52 - Volume of bound letters and other documents - Late 17th-early 19th cent
53 - Printed Pamphlets
54 - Isabella Thornhill - c1850-1870
55 - Pedigrees and other papers
56 - Gell Family Papers Series A-D
57 - Family Papers
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63 - Number not used
64 - Boer War (largely Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell) - 1899-1902
65 - Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell (1872-1934) and other material
67 - Masque by William Browne written for the Inner Temple and associated correspondence - 1615-1964
68 - Pedigrees - 19th cent
69 - Plans - 1711-1828
70 - Manor of Holland p Wirksworth and Lands Grant [temp Q Anne] to Philip Gell of Hopton [outsize parchment deed, badly damaged by damp, partly illegible]
71 - Isabella Thornhill, nee Gell (1800-1878): diary - 1863-1875
72 - `Catalogue of the library at Hopton Hall' Arranged by size of volume: folio, quarto, octavo Duodecimo, `sixteens and twenty-fours' Title, edition and date of publication Folio paper vol, in slip case - ?17th cent
73 - Gell of Hopton Hall: family seal dies - late 19th cent
UL - Gell of Hopton Hall: unlisted records
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