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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 117 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Brockett Papers: Gateshead families

Covering Dates: c.1560-1857

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(Ref: D/X 117/1-5)

BR0CKETT PAPERS

Papers of W. H. Brockett of Gateshead re the families of Gateshead. Materials relating to Brockett's work on Robert Trollop, d. 1686, builder of Newcastle Exchange (variously termed "Trollop news", "Gateshead collection", "Tradesmen's tokens")

Ref: D/X 117/1

Letters re genealogy of Gateshead families (Greene, Morris, Lambe, Dobson, Cole) and various subjects relating to Trollop, c. 1850-1857, including one letter enclosing an impression from a 17th-18th century tankard bearing the name and arms of Eleanor Caygil (buried 8th November 1747)

(1 bundle)

Ref: D/X 117/2

Miscellaneous notes relating to Harris, Rev. William Lambe, Trollop and his monument, Gateshead Church, including interesting reference to Daniel Defoe re verse on stone in Gateshead Churchyard (see also D/X 117/5), n.d.

(1 bundle)

Ref: D/X 117/3

Genealogy of Trollop, Harris, Dobson, Greene and Lambe families (one showing crest of Eleanor Caygill) and lists of marriages and burials of above families, c. 1560-1847

(1 bundle)

Ref: D/X 117/4

Plans and engravings comprising: engravings of tomb; plans of Trollop's Monument (erected by Trollop 1669 and restored by John Greene 1850); facsimile of the inscription; plans of Church and Churchyard; plans of Gateshead; plans of Gateshead Church (St. Mary's), November 1824, with enclosed letter from A. Bell to Brockett; sketch of Brass Rule bearing words "Robert Trollop of Yorke freemason 1655" [Letter relating to discovery of R. Trollop's admission to be a freeman - see D/X 117/1]

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Ref: D/X 117/5

Draft of work on the career of Trollop, n.d.

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