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D5430 - Wright family of Eyam Hall - [14th cent]-1994
1 - Title deeds to the main Wright family estate at Eyam and Foolow - 1628-1951
2 - Title deeds to the Wright family estate at Brampton and Newbold - 1642-1679
3 - Title deed to land at Unthank, parish of Dronfield - 1678
4 - Marriage settlements and deeds concerned with sales and purchases of land between Wright family members - 1635-1873
5 - Mortgage deeds - 1703-1869
6 - Leases and tenancy agreements - 1747-1932
7 - Rentals and rent accounts - 1640-1974
8 - Estate and household account books - 1723-1844
9 - Loose financial papers - 1644-1983
10 - Schedules, surveys and valuations of land - 17th cent-1880s
11 - Estate plans - 18th cent-1932
12 - Sale particulars and auction papers - 1797-1911
13 - Lead mining papers - 1647-1985
14 - Inventories and accounts relating to items at Eyam Hall and other family dwellings - 1641-1973
15 - Estate correspondence - 1797-1976
16 - Miscellaneous estate papers - 1834-1985
17 - Enclosure - 1676-1888
18 - Eyam tithes - 1824-1966
19 - Eyam Churchwardens' papers - 1702-1766
20 - Eyam Parish Church property - 1808-1872
21 - Eyam Poor Law and settlement papers - 1690-1794
22 - Eyam roads - 1750-c1801
23 - Eyam School - 1813-1876
24 - Miscellaneous Eyam parish and taxation papers - 1767-mid 19th cent
25 - Miscellaneous enclosure, turnpike and school papers - 1770-1878
26 - Thomas Wright of Unthank (c1608-1673) - 1651-1676
27 - Thomas Wright of Eyam (1674-1704) - 1700-1704
28 - John Wright of Eyam and Great Longstone (1700-1780) - 1723-1776
29 - Thomas Wright (1723-1759) - 1742-1759
30 - Major John Wright (1724-1779) - 1739-1779
31 - James Farewell Wright of Eyam (1738-1805) - 1770-1806
32 - Jane Wright (née Sisum) and the Sisum family of Kensington - 1767-1840
33 - Dorothy Wright (1729-1824) - 1809-1824
34 - John William Wright of Eyam and Sheffield (1771-1853) - 1798-1859
35 - Peter Wright of Eyam (1781-1862) - 1808-1882
36 - Dorothy Wright (1772-1858) and Mary Wright (1774-1860) of Eyam - 1823-1853
37 - James Farewell Wright of Sheffield (1800-1879) - 1816-1881
38 - John Wright of Tamworth (1805-1861) - 1836-1907
39 - Martha Hammond Thornewill, née Wright (died 1889) - 1840-1896
40 - Dorothy Wilkinson, née Wright - 1843-1880
41 - Mary Wright (died c1882) and Jane Wright (died 1868) - 1840-1892
42 - Revd Charles Sisum Wright (1840-1903) - c1860-1904
43 - Charlotte Elizabeth Wright, née Jervis (1841-1919) - c1910-1920
44 - Margaret Jane Wright (1843-1906) and Harriet Elizabeth Wright (1845-1915) - 1851-1915
45 - Revd William Peter Wright (1864-1944) - 1864-1981
46 - Charlotte Winifred Wright, née Eardley (1869-1937) - 1869-1938
47 - Emily Georgina Wright (1868-1925) - 1889-c1925
48 - Charles Sisum Wright (1894-1985) - 1880s-1982
49 - Dorothy Thornewill, née Wright (1895-1993) - 1907-1975
50 - Cookery books and recipes - 17th cent-19th cent
51 - Papers relating to the Wright family pedigree - c1776-1978
52 - Wright family photographs and pictures - 1849-1982
53 - Wright family of Great Longstone - 1637-1932
54 - Shiercliffe family of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire - 1635-1647
55 - Kniveton family of Kniveton, Ashbourne and Castleton, Derbyshire - 1656-1679
56 - Morton family of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire - 1656-1683
57 - Newton family of Newton (Cheshire) and Castleton (Lancashire) - 1703-1750
58 - Potts family of Castleton (Derbyshire) - 1656-1725
59 - Sherratt family of Tideswell, and Farewell family of Nuthall and Nottingham - 1597-1763
60 - Green family of Manchester and Trafford family of Trafford (Lancashire) - 1704-1758
61 - Rawson family of Philadelphia near Sheffield, Yorkshire - 1763-1934
62 - Ratcliff family of Nottingham - 1819-1970
63 - Thornewill family of Burton on Trent and elsewhere - c1800-1963
64 - Jervis and Livesey families of Sheffield - 18th cent-1946
65 - Evill, Eardley and Cockrem families - 1858-1974
66 - Yeoman family of Stokesley, Yorkshire - late 19th cent-1982
67 - Possible legal practice papers of Thomas Wright of Eyam - c1620-1833
1 - Manuscript book of copy indentures and court cases belonging to Thomas Wright - [18th cent]
2 - Notebook on legal terms (possibly later belonging to Thomas Wright) - c1620
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4 - Volume of abstracts of cases (with some loose pages), 1 Mar - 1741
5 - Appointment of Thomas Wright as deputy to the clerk of the peace for Derbyshire, 12 Nov - 1744
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7 - Admittance of Thomas Wright as an attorney of the Court of Common Pleas, 13 Apr - 1746
8 - Appointment of Thomas Wright as deputy to John Farnworth prothonotary of his Majesty's Court of Record - 29 Apr 1748
9 - Appointment of Thomas Wright as steward of the manors of Holmesfield, Baslow, Darley and Hazlebadge, 10 Apr - 1751
10 - Appointment of Thomas Wright as steward of the manors of Hathersage and Dore, 5 Jul - 1753
11 - Presentments of the small court of Ilkeston held by John Duke of Rutland - 1698-1720
12 - Procedures of the court leet and court baron of the manor of Baslow held by John Duke of Rutland, including the forms of oaths, table of fees and presentments at the manor of Holmesfield - 18th cent
13 - Instructions for court keeping at Sawley and Long Eaton, including the procedures at the opening of the court, the oaths of the jury, affeerers and constables and the form of the suit roll - c1741
14 - Court baron for the manor of Holmsfield held by John Duke of Rutland with a list of homagers and presentments, 10 Nov - 1758
15 - Abstract of a fine between Richard, Abbot of Bust (possibly Burnaston?) and Henry Tuschett and his wife Basil ( dated 1225), and of an agreement between the Abbot and Lords of Radbourne and of Langley concerning the common pasture of Merwin's Wood (dated 1281) - 18th cent
16 - Draft lease and release of a messuage divided into two or more dwellings and several closes in Rodsley, Thomas Parker of Rodsley in the parish of Longford, yeoman, to William Parker of Middleton by Youlgreave, husbandman, and Thomas Stone of Yeaveley, 4 Apr 25 Cha II - [1673]
17 - Will of Thomas Cresswell of Castleton - 18 Sep 1677
18 - Complaint to the Lord High Chancellor by Mr Walker of Derbyshire, yeoman, and his wife Anne that the land bequeathed to them by Robert Glossop of Derbyshire, yeoman, has been seized by Joseph Eyre - 18th cent
19 - Complaint to the Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal of England that William Vic[-] of St[-] and Richard Br[-] of St[-] have taken possession of the deeds relating to a messuage and cottage in St[-] in Derbyshire which had lawfully descended to the heir of Thomas M[-] of St[-] - 18th cent
20 - Copy of the will of Andrew Norton of Buxton, yeoman, 3 Feb 1705 - [1706]
21 - Draft release of a messuage called Plumley Hall [Eckington] for the maintenance of the vicar of St Alkmund Church, Samuel Goodwin of St Alkmund parish, Derby, gentleman to John Berrisford of Ashbourne, Michael Burton of Wirksworth, Henry Gilbert the younger of Lockoe and Henry Parker of St Alkmund, Derby, gentleman, 9 Jun - 1711
22 - Draft settlement for the forthcoming marriage between Richard Peacock, son of Richard Peacock of Rodsley and Sara Stubbing, daughter of Matthew Taylor of Gorsley Hill in the parish of Bradbourne, concerning a messuage in Rodsley, Woodley Farm, and several closes in Roston and Wyaston, 27 Oct - 1716
23 - Marriage settlement for the forthcoming marriage between John Arnfield of Thornsett Fields in the parish of Glossop, woollen weaver, and Elizabeth Lamb of Stockport (Cheshire), 12 Nov - 1717
24 - Articles of agreement in which Richard Lomas of Elton, ironmonger, Margaret Lomas of Elton, widow, Joseph Lomas of Elton, stockiner, Benjamin Lomas of Nottingham, mercer, John Buxton the elder and John Buxton the younger both of Chelmorton, yeomen will make an estate in fee simple of closes and parcels of land in Elton for John Brown of Elton, yeoman, 4 Sep - 1719
25 - Draft bargain and sale of a messuage in Rossington als Roston, John Collier of Stanton (Staffs), yeoman, to William Nicols of Cubley, yeoman, 8 Sep - 1722
26 - Draft bargain and sale of land in Rossington, Robert Bill of Rossington als Roston, yeoman, to James Gilman of Hollington, yeoman, 24 Oct - 1723
27 - Lease for 11 years of a farm called Thorsett Fields in Glossop, George Langstaffe of Stony Middleton, gentleman, to Nicholas Hurst of Thorsett Fields in the parish of Glossop, yeoman, 24 Mar 1739 - [1740]
28 - Draft bargain and sale of two closes in Carsington, 'R W' of Derbyshire, yeoman, and his wife Mary and Hanna his mother (widow of Richard Walton), to John Charlton of Brass[ingt]on, yeoman - 1749
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31 - Draft transfer of mortgage of a messuage in Eyam, Francis Fletcher of Peak Forest, husbandman (with the consent of William Fryth the elder of Eyam, butcher) to John Hadfield of Edale, gentleman - 1753
32 - Draft release of a house in Eyam, Thomas Worrall of Froggatt in the parish of Bakewell, baker, to John Hadfield of Edale, 7 Apr - 1753
33 - Bond in which Thomas Hyde of Hathersage, innholder, Thomas Bagnall of Hathersage, gentleman, and George Green of Hathersage yeoman are bound to John Lowe, sheriff of Derbyshire for £50, 5 Jan - 1755
34 - Order for the arrest of Richard Hardy late of Tideswell, currier, and Richard Hodgkinson late of Tideswell, carpenter, to answer Jonathan Oxley in a plea, 22 Apr - 1758
35 - The evidence of Mr Fogg, confined in Derby gaol for horsestealing , 2 Jan - 1833
36 - Confirmation by Prior Thomas that he has inspected a grant by Lord Roger of Weulannd of Coventry and Lichfield of land in Wytinton to Reginald Schirloc, dated 1288 - [17th cent?]
37 - Quitclaim by Robert Fishe of Nottingham, butcher, to Richard Elston and Robert Eggenton of Nottingham concerning a cottage in Nottingham, 29 Jun - 1615
38 - Appointment of William Cavendish, Count of Devonshire, as Forester, Chief Bailiff and Preserver of Forests and Parks, n.d. - [17th cent?]
39 - Great court of Francis Cecil, Duke of Shropshire, concerning a surrender of land to the use of John Parker, n.d. - [17th cent?]
40 - Receipt for the payment of money by Henry Fentham of Hampton in Arden (Warwickshire) to the trustees appointed by an Act of Parliament for the removing of obstructions in the sale of honours, manors and lands of the late king, queen and prince, 23 May - 1650
41 - Receipt for the collection of tax by John Gell for the honour of Tutbury (Staffordshire) - 1671
42 - Bond in which Richard Nuttall of Nuthall (Nottinghamshire) is bound to John Crompton of Bolton in Le Moores (Lancashire) for £1400, 15 Jul - 1692
43 - Account of rents collected and payments made on mortgaged lands in Elkstone (Staffs) which are in dispute between Joseph Parker and John Gould, and Nicholas Dakin - 1697-1709
44 - Draft settlement for the forthcoming marriage between John Digby of Mansfield Woodhouse (Notts) and Jane Wharton, daughter of Sir Thomas Wharton late of Edlington (Yorkshire) concerning the manor of Welford (Staffs), manor of Mickbroome (Staffs), manor of Mansfield Woodhouse and lands in Pleasley (Derbyshire), Warsop and Nettleworth (Notts) and other messuages and lands - 1699
45 - Abstract of a legal case concerning a jointure of £100 settled by John Grammar on his wife who had previously been married to John Staniforth, 11 Jul - 1709
46 - Settlement for the forthcoming marriage between Joseph Strettell, son of Thomas Strettell of Ashton upon Mersey, and Mary Ashton, daughter of James Ashton late of Ashton upon Mersey, concerning a messuage in Ashton Woodhouses in Ashton upon Mersey, 5 Jul - 1737
47 - Abstract of a case concerning a dispute over the delivery of deeds by Mr Cotton to his mortgagee Mr Mainwaring - c1741
48 - Will of Gilbert Deane of Neston (Lancs), gentleman (Fleetwood Deane is named as the sole executrix), 20 Aug - 1743
49 - Draft release by Fleetwood Deane of St Michaels (Lancs), widow, to Robert Wood of Northowram (Yorkshire) and John Bentley of Halifax (Yorkshire) of a messuage and several closes in Southowram (Yorkshire) and a third part of a cottage in Halifax - c1743
50 - Surrender by John Barlow of Tottington (Lancs) of a messuage in Tottington to the use of J G of Manchester, 1 Aug - 1745
51 - In the common pleas, William Wesson of Cambridge, joiner, makes oath that £38 2s is the whole purchase money paid to him by James Page for the purchase of a messuage in Cambridge to be conveyed by William Wesson, Alice Stratton his mother and James Redman to James Page, 17 Aug - 1786
68 - Further possible legal practice papers - [14th cent]-1824
69 - Papers relating to the Downes family of Tideswell - 1726-1841
70 - Papers relating to Eyam Church - early 20th cent-1991
71 - Papers relating to Eyam plague commemorations - 1915-1983
72 - Papers relating to Eyam well-dressings - 1955-1994
73 - Eyam groups, clubs and societies - 1924-1981
74 - Miscellaneous papers relating to Eyam and surrounding area - 1880-1994
75 - Pictures and photographs of Eyam and surrounding area - 19th cent-1959
76 - Miscellaneous papers - c1630-20th cent
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