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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 243 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Belk family of Hartlepool

Covering Dates: 1788-1915

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BELK OF HARTLEPOOL

The Belk family held numerous official positions in Hartlepool. Thomas Belk was a Clerk to the Borough Justices and Town Clerk to both the old Corporation recreated in 1841 and the new open Corporation established in 1850-1851. Stephen Herbert Belk succeeded him in the office of Clerk to the Justices and also acted as Clerk to the West Hartlepool magistrates. Henry Belk was Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority c. 1890, while Alfred Belk succeeded Stephen Herbert Belk as Clerk to the Borough Justices.

Catalogue Contents

Miscellaneous documents - Belk of Hartlepool (Ref: D/X 243)Election posters. etc. (Ref: D/X 243/1-123)

Printed material (mainly posters) re the dispute over the proposed building of the West Harbour and Dock by the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway Company, 1844
(11 papers)


Printed material (mainly posters) re the new charter of incorporation of Hartlepool, and the subsequent election of councillors, 1850-1851. Includes general notices, candidates' addresses, words of election song and results of poll
(73 papers, 2 cards)


Posters and a circular letter of one of the candidates re election of additional councillors after the creation of aldermen, 1851
(8 papers)


Poster advertising the first issue of The Hartlepool Gazetteer, 1850
(1 paper)


Posters re gas supply of the Borough, 1850
(2 papers)


Posters re Borough election, 1857
(25 papers)


Poster announcing the forthcoming arrival of Benjamin Coleman at West Hartlepool, c. 1858. Benjamin Coleman's allegations and disclosures led to a Committee of Investigation into the activities of the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company
(1 paper, 2 copies)

Charities (Ref: D/X 243/124-132)

Ann Crooke Charity (Crooke's Endowed Boys' School, Hartlepool)


Trustees minutes, 1799-1811 (include accounts, 1788-1815, and costs of building the school, 1790-1791)
(1 volume)


Trustees minutes, 1829-1871, 1874-1904
(4 volumes)


Trustees' draft minutes, 1865-1868 (1 volume)


Trustees' accounts, 1813-1890 (vol. 131 includes receipts and payments, 1922-1926)
(2 volumes)


Trustees' bank book, 1867-1895
(1 volume)

Henry Smith Charity (Ref: D/X 243/133-143)

Letters to and from Thomas Belk re inquiry concerning persons in whom the legal estate of the charity was vested; with a report (copy) of G. Wilson (enclosure in 133), 1846
(5 papers, 1 file)


Scheme for the Management and Regulation of Henry Smith's Charity at Hartlepool ... and for the Application of the Income thereof as approved by the Court of Chancery, 1855
(1 volume, 2 copies)


Schemes and draft scheme for the administration of the charity, as approved by the Charity Commission, 1883-1884
(3 files)


Opinion and advice of the Charity Commission giving Governors of the Henry Smith School authority to contribute £1 ,000 towards the construction of a sea wall to protect the headland of Hartlepool, 1886
(1 paper)

Rules. etc. of local organisations (Ref: D/X 243/144-148)

Rules, orders, regulations and bye-laws of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company, 1845
(1 parchment)


Rules of the Hartlerool Literary, Scientific and Mechanical Institution, 1847
(1 booklet)


Fifteenth annual report and statement accounts of the above, 1848
(1 booklet)


Hartlepool Local Board of Health. Provisional orders for the application of the Public Health Act (1848) to the Borough of Hartlepool together with the Act for confirming them, 1851
(1volume)


Bye-laws of the Borough of Hartlepool, 1892-1893
(1 volume)

Acts of Parliament. etc. (Ref: D/X 243/149-154)

Merchant Shipping Act, 1854
(1 volume)


Criminal Proceedings - Oath Relief Act, 1861; Criminal Consolidation Act, 1861; Criminal Statutes Repeal Act, 1861
(1 volume)


Employers and Workmen Act, 1875, and Rules, 1877
(1 booklet)


Elementary Education Act, 1876
(1 volume)


Defence of the Realm Consolidation Order (6 copies), a covering letter from a Staff Captain in the Tees and Hartlepool Defences, 1914
(6 files, 1 letter)

Plans (Ref: D/X 243/155-157)

Street maps of Hartlepool, 1915. D/X 243/155 indicates the position of clubs, works and licensed premises (prepared for the North-East Coast Armaments Committee)
(2 plans)


Plan of Hartlepool docks, n.d.
(1 plan)

Personal (Ref: D/X 243/158-159)

Report on accounts re Thomas Belk's estate, 1899-1902, 1905-1915
(2 files)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/X 243/160)

Circular letter addressed to the inhabitants of West Hartlepool from Ralph Ward Jackson re his dispute with the Rev. John Burges, Vicar of Christ Church, 1856
(1 letter)