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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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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
1 - Pedigree of the Gell and (Eyre) Gell family of Hopton - [mid 19th cent]
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3 - Letter, George Hodgkinson of Wirksworth, to Messrs Challinor and Co., solicitors, of Leek [Staffordshire], relating to Hopton quarry lease 11 Jun - 1859
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8 - Declaration of merger of tithes arising from Upper and Lower Calton Intakes in Calton, parish of Croxden [Staffordshire], belonging to Messrs Joseph and George Jackson 28 Feb - 1850
9 - Letter, Gregory and Co. of Bedford Row, London, to Messrs Challinor, Radnall and Co. of Leek [Staffordshire], relating to the Ipstones advowson 9 Jun - 1852
10 - Financial calculations marked 'Patriotic Fund, Mr Alsops a/c' on back of envelope sent to Alsop Downes Spilsbury and Co., silk manufacturers, Leek [Staffordshire], postmarked Dec 1854 - 1854
11 - Letter, George Spilsbury of Stafford to J Challinor Esq., with copy letter from Mr Lewis, relating to Cook's minerals, Jan - 1855
12 - Letter, Blagg and Son of Cheadle to Messrs Challinor and Co. of Leek, relating to enclosure at Kingsley [Staffordshire] 13 Sep - 1855
13 - Letter, J Kingerley of Manchester to Mr Mollatt of Leek [Staffordshire], relating to lease of a shop in St Ann's Street 5 Oct - 1855
14 - Removal notice for Nancy, Thomas and Benjamin Mellor, sent from the Overseers of Great Bolton [Lancashire] to the Overseers of Horton [Staffordshire] 28 Oct - 1857
15 - Schedule of extent, rent and rateable value of property of the late James Goodwin at Ladderely in the parish of Leek [Staffordshire] 7 Mar - 1844
16 - Memorandum addressed to John Cruso relating to legal proceedings concerning the Ball Haye Brook 11 Sep - 1865
17 - Sale catalogue of a farm house and 72 acres of land at Ford Wetley in the chapelry of Onecote [Staffordshire], for sale on 28 Nov - 1866
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20 - Poster advertising sale on 10 Oct 1872 of Mr William Hudson's lease of Yew Tree Villa on Branstone Road, Burton-on-Trent [Staffordshire], sent to Mr William Brough of Leek - 1872
21 - Plan from sale catalogue of Tunnel House Farm in the parish of Cheddleton [Staffordshire] - 1878
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23 - Notes relating to case of lunacy, by Gregory Rowcliffe and Co [solicitors] - 1877
24 - Conditions of sale of land at Dronfield - [19th cent]
25 - Sale catalogue of a freehold farm at Waterfall [Staffordshire], to be sold on 23 Apr 1879 - 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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