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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
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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1 - Printed ? diary including printed poetry and flower drawings, used as ?a visitors/ friends book in which they signed their names and with paintings and manuscript drawings added - [mid 19th early 20th cent]
2 - H A Chandos-Pole-Gell's drawing certificate issued by Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 Dec, including photograph - 1903
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4 - H Chandos-Pole-Gell's year by year book (diary with a page each for the same date in the years 1920-1925) - 1920-1925
5 - Scribbling diary, written by ?woman, consisting of fairly full account of writer's daily life, with frequent references to Harry - 1904
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11 - Letter concerning H Chandos Pole Gell's will - 1895
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1 - Correspondence relating to Sir George Gore's complaints about the behaviour of Hopton villagers - 1867
2 - Agreement for purchase of shares - 1879
3 - Plan of Nether Town Hall Farm, Bradbourne size 36 × 22 cm
4 - List of deeds mentioned in a schedule (1644-1731) in envelope marked Hopton Estate Hall Meadow - 1804, 1896
5 - Agreement for tenancy of Rectory House, Radbourne - 1903
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7-8 - Letter about proposed works at Hopton Hall, 1905 and undated - [1900s]
9 - Hopton shooting particulars - 1907
10 - Letter referring to a mortgage and debenture stock etc - 1908
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12 - Correspondence about Hopton Hall mortgage - 1915
13 - Agreement for compensation of employee injured in the course of his employment - 1917
13 - Envelope containing glassier's bill and letter from Sir William Gell to Philip Gell - 1667, 1810
14 - Letter from P Lyttelton Gell at Hopton to his ?Landlord about receipt of a sculpture and its placing at Hopton and about Ralph Gell's will, family history - 1905
15 - Letter from Charity Commission re Hopton as district from Wirksworth which the charities benefit with accounts relating to Carsington Telegraph Office - 1908-1909
16 - File of correspondence trying to persuade H C Pole Gell to stand as a Parliamentary candidate in the South Derbyshire Constituency - 1908
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18 - Letter to Pole Gell from Curzon at Carlton House Terrace, London sending papers (not with the letter) and asking if he could send anything in support of this effort for the county, Oct - ?1910/1913
19 - Typed extracts from wills relating to foundation of school at Wirksworth, almshouses at Hopton (1583, 1719) - Early 20th cent
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21 - Account of fees for professional advice, Sir Bertrand Dawson [?a doctor] to Captain Pole-Gell, Jan - 1915
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23 - Minutes of Derbyshire County Council, 11 Apr - 1917
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25 - Letter on Harry [C O Gell]'s being unable to respond to appeal for London Bay Scouts as he is helping in his own County, Apr - 1918
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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
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