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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 331 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: John William Sanderson Manners, of West Hartlepool, shipping merchant

Covering Dates: 1891-1886

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Ref: D/X 331/1

Miscellaneous papers of John William Sanderson Manners, eldest son of William Manners of Norton (of the firm of J. Manners & Co., merchants and shipowners of West Hartlepool and Middlesbrough). Include testimonials re his sea-faring ability, 1857-1879; letters from his cousins W. & Robert Sanderson in France and Italy, 1869-1870, including extract from an unspecified letter 3 June1886, describing the eruption of Etna; copy of the Northern Echo, 15 August 1872, recording his marriage on 14 August 1872, to Miss Elizabeth M. Dent, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Ralph Dent, of Streatlam House, Barnard Castle, agent to Mr. John Bowes of Streatlam Castle; newspaper cutting from unspecified paper, n.d., recording his death; notepaper with engravings of places in Co. Durham and elsewhere on it, 1841 and n.d.; part of ship's log of the Auld Reekie bound from 'parnangua to Valpariso' wrecked on Seaton Beach, 21 November, 1875; and letter from his grandfather to Wm. Sotheran, King 5 Head, Hartlepool, after eloping with Manners grandmother, a Ward in Chancery, 1833; 1819-1886 and n.d.
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