Catalogue

First census of children in Tow Law Urban District and Thornley Rural District, completed by William Garraway, Attendance Officer, and sent to the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, vol. 1, August 1877

First census of children in Tow Law Urban District and Thornley Rural District, completed by William Garraway, Attendance Officer, and sent to the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, vol. 2, August 1877

Second census of children in Tow Law Urban District and Thornley Rural District; third census of children in Tow Law Urban District and Thornley Rural District; fourth census of children in Tow Law Urban District and Thornley Rural District; all completed by William Garraway of Tow Law, Attendance Officer, and sent to the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, vol. 3, 28 November 1890, September 1896, 28 November 1901

Fourth census of children in Tow Law Urban District and Thornley Rural District completed by William Garraway, Attendance Officer, and sent to the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, vol. 4, October - November 1901

Note of appointment of William Garraway as school attendance officer, 26 June 1877; and letters from Durham County Council to William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, concerning a claim for compensation for the loss of office of school attendance officer under the Committee of the Guardians of the Weardale Union, 27 October 1904 - 12 August 1905

Bye-laws of the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, 1880

Request for a certified copy of the entry of recording the birth, on 14 November 1904, of Thomas George Littleplus, North Cottages, Dans Castle, Tow Law, under The Factory and Work Shop Act, 1901, by William Garraway, School Attendance Officer, 2 October 1891

Bye-laws of the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, 1892

Correspondence between William Garraway and the chairman and members of the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, concerning an increase in the pay of the former, 22 February 1888, 1 December 1893, 5 December 1893

Notes on Bye-laws of Weardale Union School Attendance Committee, n.d., [c. 1900]

Lists of children examined for Certificates of Proficiency at Tow Law School, 1894, 1901

Bye-laws of the School Attendance Committee of the Weardale Union, 1901

Correspondence between the Board of Education, the Weardale Union and William Garraway, School Attendance Inspector, Tow Law, 29 December 1881 - 16 July 1903

Newspaper cutting regarding the proposed appointment of full-time school attendance officers, 26 October 1904

Letters to A. J. Dawson, Secretary for Elementary Education, Shire Hall, Durham, from William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, regarding the discontinuation of the position of part-time school attendance officers, 2 February 1905

Letters from the Weardale Union to William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, 31 January 1905 - 18 June 1908

Letter from William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, to the Secretary of the Local Government Board, Whitehall, London, with reply, 8 June - 12 June 1908

A letter from Durham County Council Accountants' Department concerning a request for an increase in pension by W. Garraway of Tow Law, 29 March 1921

Correspondence from John Emmerson, Clerk to Tow Law Local Board, to William Garraway regarding his appointment as Inspector of Nuisances with copy of Duties of the Inspector of Nuisances, 7 January 1874

Letter to W. Garraway, Tow Law, from Inspector William Flemming of Durham County Constabulary, Spennymoor, requesting information concerning James Richie who married Mrs. Gibson who kept The Travellers Rest public house in Spennymoor, 11 October 1877

Letter from Edward Sutton, Assistant Secretary to the Local Government Board, Whitehall, to William Garraway, High Street, Tow Law, regarding his appointment as Inspector of Nuisances at Tow Law, 22 September 1882

Rules and regulations of the Tow Law Burial Board, 1885

Reports of William Garraway as Inspector of Nuisances, and of the Medical Officer, to the Chairman and Members of the Tow Law Urban District Council, 8 January 1896

Letters from the Weardale Union to William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, 26 June 1877 - 13 April 1904

Notebook kept by W. Garraway as Inspector of Nuisances in Tow Law, May 1907

Medical notebook kept by W. Garraway as Inspector of Nuisances in Tow Law, 16 June 1908

Poster issued by Tow Law Urban Sanitary Authority concerning the registration of cowkeepers, dairymen, and purveyors of milk, under the Dairies Cow Sheds and Milk Shops Order 1885 and the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1886, n.d., c. 1910

Miscellaneous correspondence sent to William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, in his roles as School Attendance Officer and Inspector of Nuisances, and as a rent collector, 7 December 1880 - 5 June 1907

Cash book of John W. Garraway of High Street, Tow Law, 1 January 1893 - 17 April 1894

The Course Book Keeping Journal of J. Campbell of 1 Dan's Castle, Tow Law, 24 May 1945 - 20 April 1946

Account of rent collected by W.Garraway on behalf of Les Wherly, of 3 Eastbourne Gardens, Monkseaton, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, 10 September 1910 - 1 April 1914

Account of rent collected by W. Garraway on behalf of Mrs. E. Lumsden, 4 June 1910 - 24 February 1913

Account of rent collected by W. Garraway on behalf of Mrs. E. Lumsden, 22 February 1913 - 31 March 1916

Account of rent collected by W. Garraway on behalf of Mrs. E. Lumsden of Stanford House, Etherley Lane, Bishop Auckland, 1 April 1916 - 21 May 1918

Account of rent collected by W. Garraway on behalf of Mrs. E. Young of 'Penmaen', Clifton Road, Darlington, formerly known as Mrs. E. Lumsden of Stanford House, Etherley Lane, Bishop Auckland, 25 May 1918 - 26 October 1920

Account of rent collected on behalf of Mrs. E. Black/Blake of Green Terrace Inn, Willington, formerly known as Mrs. E. Young of 'Penmaen', Clifton Road, Darlington, 5 December 1931

Letters and receipts sent to W. Garraway by John Robson of 25 Newcomer Terrace, Redcar, Yorkshire; Biggin Farm, nr. New Brancepeth, and Ushaw Farm, concerning the collection of rents, 4 December 1894 - 6 November 1899

Note book used as time sheet for Thomas Hall and W. Garraway in the service of [?] Murray and [John] Robson, with general notes, 13 August 1909 - 5 November 1909

Cash book of Herbert Dalkin of Tow Law, dairyman, 26 April 1937

Cash book of Mrs. Hannah Dalkin of 26 Hamilton Row, Waterhouses, with income tax return, 22 April 1940

Cash book of Mrs. Hannah Dalkin of Hamilton Row, Waterhouses, with income tax return, 23 April 1941

Cash book of Mrs. Hannah Dalkin of 26 Hamilton Row, Waterhouses, with income tax return, 29 April 1942

Handbill for the U.D.C. and Board of Guardians elections, including a photograph of Thomas Hall of Tow Law, 7 April 1913

Handbills issued by F. R. Pattison and John Graham for U.D.C. elections, 4 April 1910

Handbills issued by G. A. Garraway, Charles A. Dunn, John Robert Wheatley, Alfred Anderson, and Joseph Ridley, for the U.D.C. elections, 7 April 1919

Handbill issued by John E. Rogerson for the county council election in the Wolsingham Division, 1904

Poster soliciting votes for [Joseph] Ridley, in the U.D.C. and Board of Guardians elections, 1910

Poster soliciting votes for Thomas Hall in the U.D.C. and Board of Guardians elections, 1910

Notice of poll in the U.D.C. and Board of Guardians elections, with candidates' names, addresses and professions, and lists of proposers and seconders, 26 March 1913

Poster giving names, addresses and professions of candidates in the U.D.C. elections, 13 March 1913

Poster giving the results of the U.D.C. election with the names and addresses of candidates, and votes polled, 8 April 1913

Notice of poll in the U.D.C. election, giving names of candidates, addresses, professions, proposers and seconders, 26 March 1919

Handbill issued by Kitchen, Rawes and Graham, the Temperance candidates in the Tow Law Local Board election, n.d., [c. 1880]

Letters from Margaret Willey of 12 Hyde Park Place and 79 Harley Street, London, to her niece, Elizabeth Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, concerning a dispute between Elizabeth's father and Elizabeth and her stepmother, 14 January - 8 November 1870

Memorial card for the repose of the soul of Margaret Willey of North Mustrum, Nottinghamshire, who died in London on 17 April 1870, aged 63, 17 April 1870

Last will and testament of Margaret Willey of North Mustrum, Nottinghamshire, June 1871

Letters from Chas. E. Hunter, solicitor, Town Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, concerning the will of Margaret Willey of North Mustrum, Nottinghamshire, and her bequest to Elizabeth Garraway, 26 January 1874 and 7 October 1874

Letter to Mrs. E. Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, from Mrs. Draycott of Cranford, Nottinghamshire, concerning the will of Margaret Willey of North Mustrum, Nottinghamshire, 21 September [c. 1882]

Correspondence from B[echer] Tidd Pratt, solicitors, North Gate, Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, to Mrs. Elizabeth Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, concerning the will of Margaret Willey of North Mustrum, Nottinghamshire, 16 September 1870 - 22 September 1882

Part letter to B. T. Pratt, solicitors, from [E. Garraway of Tow Law] concerning the will of Margaret Willey of North Mustrum, Nottinghamshire, 28 January 1894

First Mate's Certificate issued to John Willey [brother of Elizabeth Garraway of Tow Law], 4 May 1870

Letters from John Willey, a seaman, to his sister, Elizabeth Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, 19 June 1869 - 12 March 1882

Letters from Edith Willey, wife of John Willey, 3 Prospect Terrace, Staple Hill, Bristol, and Lower Park Road, Downend, Gloucestershire, to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth Garraway of 100 High Street, Tow Law, n.d., [c. 1870] - 1 October 1882

Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Garraway and William Garraway of Tow Law, concerning the whereabouts of John Willey, whose last known address was Barry Island, Glamorgan, South Wales, 1 February 1867 - 14 April 1910

Copy of a letter sent by Elizabeth Garraway of Tow Law, to John and Edith Willey at an unidentified address, 9 December 1897

Certificates of employment issued to John Willey serving as able seaman, second officer, and chief officer or first mate, aboard merchant ships, 1 February 1867 - 9 November 1898

List of addresses, annotations, and notes of the expected tides at Barry Docks, Glamorgan, South Wales, issued by the Barry Railway Company to John Willey, seaman, 1909

Letter from Edward G. Tedder, registrar, Mill House, Westbury-in-Trym, Bristol, to William Sharp, concerning the death of John Willey, seaman, 27 April 1910

Funeral account issued to Mr. Garraway by S. J. Carter, undertaker, for the funeral of John Willey, seaman, of Tintern Villa, Avonmouth, Bristol, in Shirehampton cemetery, Bristol, 1 April 1910

Receipt for interment of John Willey in Shirehampton cemetery, 31 March 1910

Receipt for the cost of a grave at Shirehampton cemetery, Bristol, for the interment of John Willey, 31 March 1910

Letter from Mrs. M. J. Hopper, 61 Northumberland Street, Sunderland, to her brother, W. Garraway, c. 1918, and 9 January 1919

Mortgage repayment book of W. Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, with the Tow Law 'First Popular Building Society', 20 February 1912 - 29 August 1916

Payment book of William and Elizabeth Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, with the Tow Law Industrial and Provident Society Ltd., 30 April 1919 - 2 March 1929

Receipt and repayment book belonging to Elizabeth Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, with the Tow Law First Popular Building Society, 13 March 1894 - 6 February 1912

Tow Law and District Industrial and Provident Society Ltd: report and balance sheet for the half year ending 7 December 1926

Inland Revenue estate duty form with an account of property chargeable with estate duty on the death of William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, who died aged 78, 25 January 1928

Letter and notices relating to the demolition of 83 and 84 Dan's Castle, Tow Law, sent to J. Garraway, trustee of W. Garraway, dec'd, at 100 High Street, Tow Law, 18 February 1938

Notices of demolition of 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 Dan's Castle, Tow Law, sent to James Garraway, trustee of W. Garraway, dec'd, 100 High Street, Tow Law, 11 February 1935 Includes: reports on the condition of these houses and reasons for demolition, with names of occupants, c. 1935

Account of rent collected for property in Dan's Castle, Tow Law, 18 May 1929 - 29 December 1934

An agreement between Joseph Buckham Garraway, son of William Garraway, of Fellwall Coal Company, and Martins Bank Ltd., Tow Law, concerning an overdraft, 9 May 1932

Correspondence, and agreement, with plan, between J. Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, and the North Eastern Electric Supply Company Ltd., 17 October 1932

Assessment of the income to be expected from the ownership of 2 High Street, Tow Law, and five cottages, n.d., [c. 1890]

Notice of sale by auction of properties in Sunniside and Hedley Hill (Over-the-Hill) near Tow Law, owned by the late William Ridley, and sold by Order of Chancery in the case of Harkers Ltd. v. Ridley, 22 November 1912

Sale catalogue of five freehold properties belonging to Mrs. Hunter, facing the main road to Durham and Tow Law, 3 July 1882

Correspondence between D. Hood; W. Garraway of Tow Law; William Dodd, on behalf of Mary Brown, 7 Victoria Road, Darlington; and W. Dolphin of Wolsingham, concerning property owned by Mary Brown, 5 August 1890 - 12 February 1893

Letter, and receipts, from J. P. Dolphin, solicitors, Wolsingham, to W. Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, regarding the conveyance of property from the trustees of [Brown], 25 August 1892 - 18 February 1893

14 March 1893 (2) William Garraway of Tow Law (2) Thomas Hall of Tow Law Mortgage of shop, dwelling house, and premises in Tow Law Consideration: £140

Receipts of payments to Thomas Hall by William Garraway of Tow Law, 9 August 1893 - 29 August 1896

Probate copy of the will, dated 3 August 1901, of Thomas Hall, the younger, of High Street, Tow Law, 10 March 1908

Letter from Proud, Proud and Dewhurst, solicitors, 12 Market Place, Bishop Auckland, to Thomas Hall, the elder, butcher, of Tow Law, concerning duty to be paid on dwelling house, shop and premises, and cottages at Tow Law, 4 September 1908

Letters from Douglas and Himes. solicitors, Crook and Tow Law; Corbin, Greener and Cook, solicitors, 52 Bedford Square, London; Proud, Proud and Dewhurst, 12 Market Place, Bishop Auckland; to William Garraway, Tow Law, concerning the will of Thomas Hall, the younger, of Tow Law, 8 November 1920 - 8 June 1921

Summons addressed to William Garraway , in the case of Annie Hoggarth and Ellen McMinn, daughters of Thomas Hall, v. William Garraway and John Scott, 17 November 1920

Amended summons as in D/X1200/88, 30 December 1920

Certificate of taxation of costs in the case, as in D/X1200/8, 15 March 1921

Judgement in Chancery against William Garraway of Tow Law and John Dawson Scott in the matter of the will of Thomas Hall, junior, dec'd, in favour of plaintiffs, Annie Hoggarth and Sarah Ellen McMinn, 17 January 1921

Letter from the Police Office, Stanhope, to Mrs. Elizabeth Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, rescinding her licence to retail spirits, wines and beers, as she had ceased to trade for 12 months, 21 September 1891

Will of Michael Buckham of Low Meadows Farm, Lanchester, 24 November 1884

Letters from Dickinson and Miller, solicitors, 31 Whitby Street, North Shields, Northumberland, and 4 Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and Fred J. McKenzie, solicitors, 15 John Street, Sunderland, on behalf of The Sunderland Star Permanent Building Society, to Mrs. Garraway concerning property called 'The Mill', Victoria Street, Lanchester, occupied by Mrs. Isabella Garraway, formerly owned by Michael Buckham, dec'd, of Low Meadows Farm, Lanchester, who had granted Isabella Garraway, the mother or William Garraway of Tow Law, and sister of Michael Buckham, free tenancy for life, 16 February 1885 - 20 October 1885

Letter from the solicitors of The Sunderland Star, Permanent Building Society, to the occupier, Mrs. Isabella Garraway, offering an agreement of tenancy with the new owners of 'The Mill', Victoria Street, Lanchester, 13 April 1886

A poster advertising the sale of 'The Mill', Lanchester, by public auction at the Three Tuns Hotel, Durham, on Tuesday, 2 February 1886

Letters from W. Dolphin, solicitor, to William Garraway of High Street, Tow Law, concerning his offer to purchase 'The Mill', Victoria Street, Lanchester, 2 February 1886 - 23 March 1886

Letter from Fred J. McKenzie, solicitor, 16 John Street, Sunderland, to Isabella Garraway, 'The Mill', Victoria Street, Lanchester, concerning the re-advertising of the property for sale at public auction at the Three Tuns Hotel, Durham, requesting her to quit the property or sign the new tenancy agreement, 3 May 1886

Notice of eviction addressed to Isabella Garraway, 'The Mill', Victoria Street, Lanchester, from Fred J. McKenzie, solicitor, 16 John Street, Sunderland, acting for The Sunderland Star Permanent Building Society, 6 May 1886

Copy letter from J. F. McKenzie, 16 John Street, Sunderland, to W. Garraway, High Street, Tow Law, concerning the sale of 'The Mill', Victoria Street, Lanchester, at a deficit, to Mrs. Garraway for £110, 2 November 1887

Letters to Isabella Garraway of 'The Mill', Lanchester, from Somerset House, London, regarding succession duty on 'The Mill', Victoria Street, Lanchester, 21 October - 16 November 1887

Letters from Frederick and J. McKenzie, solicitors, 16 John Street, Sunderland, representing The Star Permanent Building Society of Sunderland to William Garraway of 100 High Street, Tow Law, regarding an agreement between W. Garraway and J. Buckham of Wolsingham, 17 July 1885 and 4 February 1886

Copy will of Joseph Buckham of Upper Town, Wolsingham, 25 September 1897

The accounts of Joseph Buckham, dec'd, 1913

Copy will of Henry Budd of Wolsingham, 23 October 1885

Details of the estate of Henry Budd, late of Uppertown, Wolsingham, n.d., c. 1895 Includes: trustees' account of the estate of Henry Budd of Uppertown, Wolsingham, c. 1895 - 8 July 1933

Part letter to Sarah Budd of Wolsingham, from an unidentified solicitor, claiming that her marriage to her late husband, Henry Budd, was bigamous, as he had a previous wife, Priscilla, living in Devon, and that his property is, as a consequence, claimed by a nephew, n.d., [c. 1895]

Letter to 'Nurse' Budd, daughter of Henry Budd of Wolsingham, from Mather, Cockcroft and Dickinson, solicitors, Bank Chambers, Mosley Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, advising that no action be taken concerning the claim that her father's marriage was bigamous, n.d., [c. 1895]

Letter from W. Garraway, High Street, Tow Law, to C. Johnson, surveyor, Bishop Auckland, concerning the sanitary condition of property owned by Mrs. Budd at Sunniside, 22 June 1896

Copy will of Jane Boal of High Street, Tow Law, one of whose executors was Joseph Garraway, Tow Law, 30 April 1925

Copy extract from the will of Sarah Coates of Langley Park, sister of Charles Garraway, Ferryhill, 2 May 1926

Copies of the will of John Feely, 106 High Street, Tow Law, one of whose executors was William Garraway, 100 High Street, Tow Law, 14 March 1921

Copy of the will of John Foster of Wolsingham Road, Tow Law, foundry engineer, October 1907

Copy of the will of Charles Henry Winterbottom of 193 Parliament Street, Manchester, Lancashire, 16 August 1909

Notice of a meeting of the Committee, and Annual General Meeting, of the Stanhope Literary and Social Institute, 27 February 1905

A hymn card of Crook Masonic Lodge, no. 2019, Masonic Hall, Crook, printed by Bro. T. Linton, printer, Crook, n.d., [c. 1900]

Statement of account of the Crook Masonic Lodge, no.2019, February 1908