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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
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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
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23 - Title deeds and other papers
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25 - Miscellaneous legal, financial and other papers
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26 - Title Deeds etc
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28 - Title Deeds
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1 - Thomas Browne bankrupt
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1-4 - Watson's account book for Hopton: farm accounts of purchases and sales, wages paid, breeding, hay in the meadow, expenses of board wages, animals killed etc. With 3 enclosures - 1813-1822
5 - Accounts for labourers' wages and time - 1818-1825
6 - Book of accounts of disbursements, for Hopton Hall, including purchases of farm stock, straw etc, labourers' wages and time. At end, wages received by Watson (1814-1826) - 1826-1827
7 - Volume labelled inside cover "Labourers Account Book ?form Nov 14 1816 and 1817" also including sums received from P Gell 1816-1818, accounts of farm purchases 1818-1819, travel etc 1821-1827 At end, medicinal and veterinary recipes - 1816-1827
8 - J Watson's accounts for Philip Gell, chiefly accounts of timber sold, but also including bills paid on P Gell's account for lime, farm stock, hay etc, settled 1827 - 1821-1826
9 - Account of bullock and sheep hides and (near end of volume) "Memorandums" probably payments, including travel costs, lime, "thack", labour costs - 1823-1827
10 - "Flower Book" recording quantities of flour etc used: oats for stables, fine flour for kitchen, meal for dogs and fowls, coarse flour for bread "Livered out" by Watson. At end: flour etc purchases 1822-1823 - 1820-1822
11 - Similar to D258/29/2/10, with account of cows bulled 1823-1827 - 1823-1827
12 - Hopton coal book: coals to be delivered by Mr Gell's tenants at Hopton from Cromford Wharf 1813-1818 and coals used at Hopton Hall 1813-1819 - 1813-1819
2-4 - Joseph Watson's estate accounts
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5 - Quarter Sessions Justice's notebook relating to cases dealt with informally out of sessions in the Wirksworth area. Including the grant of warrants and committals in criminal cases and poor law and settlement. In two hands and the later entries are fuller - 1765-1782
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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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