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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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34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
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4 - Survey of lands in Cutthorpe - 1572
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9 - By-laws made at Bakewell manor court, with details of fines payable - 1581
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19 - Survey of estates in Alderwasley, Wirksworth, Hognaston and area including plot by plot description of tenants' holdings - 17th cent
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21 - Extract from rental re lands held by Thomas Ferne at Hognaston - [16th cent]
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23 - Queries re raising of daughter's portions under the will of Sir Philip Gell - Early 18th cent
24 - Wirksworth land tax return - 1717
25 - Plan of "Carsington Pasture quartered 7 October" showing rights of way and field names and extents. - 1665
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28 - Plan of Carsington estate - 1800
29 - Plan of allotments on Little Sheffield Moor [? Sheffield, Yorkshire] showing owners'/occupiers' names. No scale. Size 87 × 42 cm - 18th cent
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31 - Account of the case Richard Pearle v Sir William Powel alias Hinson re lands at Callow, Dewsall and Twyford (Herefordshire) (printed) - 17th cent
32 - The case of Rowland Eyre and others against Thomas Eyre, for an equal division of the commons of Hope and Bradwell (printed) - 17th cent
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36 - Account of rents received and in arrears; (with rents due) - 1646-1651
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1 - Lease by Nycholas Powtrell of Tollerton (Nottinghamshire) to John Coghen of Atlow and Jane Tomlynson [his fiancée] of the tithe corn and hay with all the glebe meadows and farm at Hognaston for 12 years from 1552 at 53s 4d and 2 capons a year, 19 Oct, 1 Edw VI - 1547
2 - Draft deed between Nicholas Denman of London, gent, and William Buxton and Richard Gratton of Brassington, husbandmen, 27 Feb, 3 Edw VI 1549/50 - 1550
3 - Release and quitclaim by Robert Hayward of Carsington, yeoman, to William Booth of Carsington, yeoman, of all actions, causes etc, 9 Mar 1656/7 - 1657
4 - Extract of grant by Richard Buxton of Carsington to John Gell, esq, and Henry Buxton, of a dwelling house and two pingles leading to the Brook and Breirley Furlong with a close called Litle Medowe etc - 1664
5 - Memorandum of agreement between Sir Phillip Gell and John Ellott junior of Middleton, miner, re exchange of the Stitching Butt for a rood of Ellotts called the Burrs Rood in the Upper Field, 19 Jul - 1716
6 - Bargain and sale by Robert Haghe of Whitfield in Glossop, yeoman, to John Gell, esq, in consideration of £10, of all tithes of corn and hay in a farm called the Banke Top, being part of Westden, parcel of the herbage of Crachill in Hope, 10 Jan, 19 Cha II [1667/8] - 1668
7-9 - Draft indentures - [16th cent]
10 - Bargain and sale by William Steeple of Hopton, yeoman, to George Fearnes of Carsington, in consideration of £100, of 2 closes known as Leonards Clouds at Hopton butting on the Crowne Lands, part of Hopton Field - 1664
11 - Thomas Bagshaw to Sir Phillip Gell - encloses a copy of the Soresby Deed for Gell's observations - thinks it would be wise to let Soresby sweat a while, 24 May - 1709
12 - Survey of Soresby's lands at Middleton - 18th cent
13 - Draft indenture between William Soresby of Chesterfield, yeoman, and Sir Phillip Gell - 28 Oct 1709
14-15 - Bargain and sale by John Gell of Hopton, esq, to Godfrey Beird of Bank Top, yeoman, in consideration of £13, of all tithe corn and hay within 2/3 of a farm called Bank Top, 6 Feb, 19 Cha II, [1666/7] - 1667
16 - Bargain and sale by Sir Phillip Gell of Hopton to Edward Brownell of Westend p Hope, yeoman, in consideration of 50s, of all tithes of corn and hay upon a farm called Westend als. Westdeane, parcel of the herbage of Crokehill, in Hope, subject to a rent of 6d a year, 15 Sep - 1694
17 - Admission in Idridgehay manor court of Robert Bradshawe to a close called Ryddynges beside Day Yate, late the estate of his father, Edward Bradshawe, dec'd., 2 May, and 2 Philip and Mary - 1555
18-19 - Copy indenture between Thomas Stout of Carsington, gent, and John Gell of Hopton, esq, re land at Hopton and Carsington - 1625
20-30 - Copy bargain and sales by Sir Philip Gell of Hopton of houses and tenements at Wirksworth - 1710-1711
31 - Surrender in Wirksworth manor court by George Buxton and Margaret his wife of a close of pasture at Ireton Wood called Gibriddinge [tenant German Buxton his brother] to the use of German Buxton, 3 Feb, 17 Jas I - 1620
32 - Jurors in the case James Flynt v Thomas Eadman - 17th cent
33 - Draft deed by Henry Williams, Dean of Lichfield - 17th cent
34 - Case paper fragment - 17th cent
35 - Note re German Buxton's land - 17th cent
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52 - List of deeds received from Maria Catherine and Mary Gell - 1765
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55 - Honour of Tutbury receipts - 17th cent
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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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
George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist
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