Catalogue

Notebook compiled by George Shaw of Durham, surgeon, listing names, dates of death, ages at death and causes of death (entries are given under each street in the city), January 1841 - February 1868 Including two 'Statistical Tables of the Mortality of the City of Durham', 1841 - 1850 and 1851 - 1859, infolded at end of volume George Shaw lived in Old Elvet and died on 20 February 1870. For his obituary see Durham Directory, 1871

Volume of folded maps concerning coal royalty boundaries at Witton-le-Wear, Witton Row, North Bedburn, Etherley, Railey Fell, and West Auckland, and showing the encroachment into part of Witton Row Common coal royalty by the lessees of Railey Fell colliery, n.d. [c.1760s - 1850] as follows: (1) Plan of the manor and common within the townships of Witton-le-Wear, Witton Row and North Bedburn, showing part of Railey Fell, the Witton-le-Wear, Witton Row and North Bedburn division, the Etherley division, and freeholds in each division, and the trespass by lessees of the Railey Fell colliery lease, n.d. [c.1800 - 1850] Scale: 20 chains to 1 inch [1:15840] (1 plan, 73 cm. x 53 cm., ink and colour wash on paper, linen backed) (2) Plan of the manor and common within the townships of Witton-le-Wear, Witton Row and North Bedburn, also the boundaries of Etherley and Railey Fell divisions, showing the trespass by the lessees of Railey Fell colliery lease (through the connivance of the lessees of Witton Park colliery) into the east part of Witton Row Common royalty of coal, n.d. [c.1800 - 1850] Scale: 20 chains to 1 inch [1:15840] (1 plan, 65 cm. x 82 cm., ink and colour wash on paper, linen backed) (3) Plan of part of the boundary of Etherl[e]y Colliery on Thickl[e]y Moors alias Brisleton [Brusselton] Moors, n.d. [c.1760s] Includes: houses, roads, limekilns, 'Surtuse's pit', orientation No scale (1 plan, 35.5 cm. x 42cm., ink on paper, linen backed) (4) Plan of part of the boundary of Eatherly [Etherley] Colliery on the south side of the River Wear, n.d. [c.1760s] Includes: houses, roads, Newton Capp bridge, mills, orientation No scale (1 plan, 22 cm. x 33 cm., ink on paper, linen backed) (5) Plan of coal belonging to Sir John Eden, bt., W[es]t Au[c]kland, at Dyke Nook Pitt, and table of reference, n.d. [c.1800] Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch [1:792] (1 plan, 33 cm. x 41 cm., ink on paper, linen backed) (6) Plan of the Dyke Nook Pitt, West Auckland Colliery, belonging to Sir John Eden, bart., and table of reference, n.d. [c.1800] [Draft of D/CL1/2(5)] Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch [1:792] (1 plan, 33 cm. x 42 cm., ink on paper, linen backed) (7) Plan of Moor Close, Green Field, Edderley [Etherley] Moor, Escomb Hurst and part of Railey Fell, n.d. [c.1765; Bowser's incroachment dated 1761] Includes: houses, roads, pits along the Etherley seam, incroachments, freehold and copyhold lands of Sir John Eden, Rev. Bowser, Francis Johnson, Mrs. Hannah Jackson, Mr. Shafto, Mr. Wren and Sir Thomas Clavering, remarks on the sinking of Green Field Colliery, and orientation No scale (1 plan, 55 cm. x 45 cm., ink on paper, linen backed)

Poll books and election posters for the City and County of Durham, 1761 - 1843 Includes: Poll Book for the City of Durham, 1761 Poll Book for the County of Durham, 1790 Poll Book for the City of Durham, 1832 Election Proceedings and Poll Book for the City of Durham, 1837 Poll Book for the County of Durham, 1820 Election Poster, 1832 Election Proceedings and Poll Book for the Northern Division of the County of Durham, 1837 Election posters and addresses, 1818 - 1841 'The addresses together with the speeches, hand bills, and other particulars' concerning the elections for the City of Durham, 1813 Election posters and addresses, mainly by John Bright, 1843

Parish magazines for New Seaham, Christ Church, January - December 1899

Parish magazines for New Seaham, Christ Church, January - December 1901