Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 072 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Durham City records: William Gainford, Robert Howe and election ephemera
Covering Dates: 1829-1899
Related Information
Catalogue Index
Use 
and 
to reveal/hide the structure of the catalogue index (requires Javascript to be enabled in your internet browser options). Click to jump directly to information at a specific level of the catalogue.
- Miscellaneous documents
Catalogue Description
(Acc: 100(D))County Record Office,
County Hall,
Durham.
DHl 5UL
William Gainford of Durham
Catalogue Contents
Ref: D/X 72/1(i)
Declaration of allegiance to the King, Lord Bishop of Durham and the Mayor and Corporation of the City of Durham and Borough of Framwellgate by Robert Howe the younger, weaver, admitting him as a freeman of the Weavers' Company, 9 February 1829
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 72/1(ii)Newspaper cutting attached to above, recording the death of Robert Howe, a Durham nonagenarian and eccentric, 20 January 1899
(I paper)
Ref: D/X 72/2(i)Printed bill from King Neptune to the electors of Durham, charged with bribery, instructing them to vote for Rob Roy and Jack Sheppard at the next election and testify their innocence of the charges of corruption preferred by Thomas Colpitts Granger, 9 June 1841
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 72/2(ii)Newspaper cutting attached to above, recording the death of Robert Howe, the oldest Durham freeman, n.d. [20 January 1899]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 72/3Indenture of apprenticeship between John Gainford and William Gainford whereby the latter is bound to the former for 7 years in the trade or business of a mason, 20 January 1855
(Parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref: D/X 72/4Indenture of apprenticeship between William Gainford of 29 New Elvet, Durham, with his father, John Gainford, and William Farmer of 4 Mead Place, Lambeth, Surrey, whereby William Gainford is bound for 3 years as apprentice in the art or business of a sculptor to William Farmer who is to be paid a consideration of £50 by John Gainford, 17 May 1859
(Parchment, 1 membrane)
