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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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1 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Andrew Greensmith of Wirksworth, esq, of a parcel of land called Hollobyes Yokecliffe (tenant Mary Hollobye widow), a close called Robert Spencers Yokecliffe, (tenant Robert Spencer, butcher) and a pingle called Yokecliffe Pingle (tenant Robert Toplis, chandler), at Wirksworth - chief rent 4d 10 May - 1712
2 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to John Shore of Wirksworth, yeoman, of a close lying under Yokecliffe known as Wheatcrofts Pingle with a stable or bay of building in Wirksworth, adjoining the house occupied by Mary Wheatcroft, subject to a chief rent of 2d a year 30 May - 1712
3 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to John Stanley of Wirksworth, cordwainer, of a parcel of land in Joseph Stanleys Mowbray Close (tenant Thomas Taylor) and a parcel adjoining a stable in the tenure of Elizabeth and Mary Stanley, at Wirksworth - chief rent 1d 30 May - 1712
4-5 - Grant by Sir Phillip Gell to Henry Hurt of Wirksworth, gent, of a foot and horseway from the street in Wirksworth leading to Derby, through Gell's gate place adjoining Hurt's building called the Red Lyon, to the backside yard of the said buildings, with draft 15 Sep - 1712
6 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Thomas Collinson of Wirksworth, yeoman, of a house and garden in Collinson's tenure, a house, garden and stable (tenant Alice Bunting, widow) and a house adjoining on the west with a garden (tenant Thomas Blount), in Wirksworth subject to a chief rent of 4d a year 26 Mar - 1713
7 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Tristram Ridgeway of Nottingham, gent, of a close called Hollin Walls Close and a close called Hollin Walls Pingle in the tenure of Ridgeway, at Wirksworth, subject to a chief rent of 6d a year 26 Mar - 1713
8 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to William Wilson of Wirksworth, gent, of a close known as Gilkhill Pingle lying under Gilkhill at Wirksworth, subject to a chief rent of 2d a year 26 Mar - 1713
9 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Joseph Cadman of Wirksworth, shoemaker, of a close called Mowbray Pingle at Wirksworth - chief rent 2d a year 26 Mar - 1713
10 - Bargain and sale by Sir Philip Gell to Jonathan Smith of Bolehill, Wirksworth, yeoman, of a parcel of land called Ruffe Close, lying under Bolehill (tenant Bartholemew Griffen), subject to an annual rent of 6d as chief rent 12 Feb 1713/14 - 1714
11 - Bargain and sale by Sir Philip Gell to John Slack of Wirksworth, ironmonger, of a close called Towne Head Close (tenant Robert Spencer, butcher), a parcel called the Parke (tenant Adam Ragg) and a close called Salt Seates (tenant John Helloby), at Wirksworth - chief rent 6d a year 25 Sep - 1714
12 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Anthony Cheetle of Wirksworth, butcher, of a parcel of land adjoining Hopton Lane on the south, lying in Hopton Swampe at Wirksworth - chief rent 2d a year 8 Oct - 1714
13 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Nicholas Thacker of Wirksworth, labourer, of a parcel of land known as Hanging Acre, near the Middle Smelting Mill at Wirksworth - 8 Oct 1714
14 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Gervas Rossell of Wirksworth, esq, of 2 messuages in St Johns Street in Wirksworth (tenants William Wright and James Woodiwise) with a workhouse, 2 gardens and an orchard - chief rent 6d a year 11 Jun - 1715
15 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to John Wagstaffe of Gorsey Bank, Wirksworth, miner, of a close called Little Dale Feild, in the tenure of Adam Ragg, butting on the lane from Middleton to Hopton, and land in a close on top of Gilkhill - chief rent 6d a year, 26 Mar, with attached agreement by Wagstaff not to sell close on top of Grilkhill to John Topliss - 1716
16 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Nicholas Thacker of Wirksworth, yeoman, in consideration of £42, of 2 parcels of land near Gell's Upper Smelting Mill, known as West Peece and East Peece, at Wirksworth, subject to a chief rent of 6d a year 25 Mar - 1717
17 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Anthony Foard of Brownhouse, Wirksworth, baker, of 2 closes called Crimasses, being near the Hole House Brooke and adjoining the highway from Wirksworth to Bateman Bridge - chief rent 1s a year 25 Mar - 1717
18 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to Robert Cooke of Wirksworth, sadler, of a close known as Short Oathill (tenant Dorothy Beighton, widow) and 2 parcels of land known as North Peece and South Peece in Hopton Dale (tenant Adam Ragg), at Wirksworth - chief rent 8d a year 25 Mar - 1717
19 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell to German Yeomans of Wirksworth, yeoman, of 2 parcels of land in the close called Long Oathills at Wirksworth - chief rent 1s a year 25 Mar - 1717
20 - Deed of exchange between Sir Phillip Gell and Tristram Ridgeway of Nottingham, gent - Gell to have parcels of land in Northfield called Brickhill Peece (tenant William Hoade), Yewtree Acre (tenant Widow Higton) and Pearsons Long Land (tenant John Pearson). Ridgeway to have a parcel called Griffins Peece in a close known as Top of the Leys (tenant Tristram Ridgeway), another parcel in the said close, known as Spencer's Peece (tenant Tristram Ridgeway), and a parcel called Berresfords Peece in Northfield (tenant Rebecca Berresford, widow), all in Wirksworth 9 Apr - 1718
21-23 - Copy agreement and deeds re above exchange as in D258/31/1/20 - 1717-1718
24 - Bargain and sale by Tristram Ridgeway to Sir Phillip Gell of premises as D258/31/1/20 above 30 Apr - 1718
25 - Suit roll for the manor of Middleton 23 Oct - 1752
26 - Lease by Philip Gell of Hopton (eldest son and heir at law of John Gell dec'd) to John Toplis of Wirksworth, esq, of a cottage in Wirksworth near Nether St (formerly St John Street) (tenant John Hill), a cottage in Nether St (tenant Lydia Wheatcroft) with a garden, a slaughterhouse in Nether St (tenant Anthony Poyser) with garden adjoining (tenant Joseph Lomas) and two cottages (formerly three) and a garden adjoining Hannage, parcel of the Holland Manor of Wirksworth 1 Jan - 1795
1-12 - Title Deeds
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3 - Quit roll of the accounts of Philip Gell as sheriff of Derbyshire, 29 Sep 1821-29 Sep 1822 - 1822
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8 - Deed relating to corn and hay tithes in Great Longstone, Hassop, Rowland and Wardlow, also cottage and hempyard at Carsington (Kniveton/Rowsley - Tidderton) - 1592
9 - Deed relating to property in Hognaston (Jessop/Bainbrigge - Stone/Hurd) - 1712
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12 - Deed relating to land in Middleton by Wirksworth (Hope - Turner/Watham) - 1698
13 - Pardon of Sir John Gell by Charles II - 18 Mar 1661
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14 - Articles of agreement re repair to sough between John Lees and proprietors of lead mines in North Griffe Rake and Bailey Flatt Rake, Wirksworth (including Sir John Gell) 10 Dec - 1688
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16 - Appointment of Philip Gell as a deputy lieutenant of Derbyshire by William, Duke of Devonshire, 9 Jul - 1757
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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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