Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1369 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Records of General Arthur Aylmer of Walworth Castle
Covering Dates: 1728-1842
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Records given:4 September 2002 Acc: 2874(D)
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Records of General Arthur Aylmer of Walworth Castle (Ref: D/X 1369/1-28)
Arthur Aylmer was a son of Sir Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Aylmer of Donadea Castle, County Kildare, Ireland. He was a Major in the Manx Ferables in 1794, served with the 108th Regiment of Foot (which became the 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers), was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 68th Foot (which became the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry) in 1800, Colonel in 1810, Major General in 1813 and Lieutenant General in 1825. He married Anne Harrison, daughter and heiress of John Harrison of Walworth Castle and, when General Aylmer came to live at Walworth, he became a Magistrate for the County and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions. He had one son, John Harrison Aylmer. General Aylmer died on 5 February 1831 and was buried at the parish church of Heighington.
Ref: D/X 1369/1An Account of the Masters Fire Coal, 1728 - 1729
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/2Account of T. Graham, shoemaker, Sunderland, to Colonel Aylmer, for boots, 28 March - 30 May 1807
(1 file)
Ref: D/X 1369/3Account of Joseph Armstrong, tailor, Summer House, to Colonel Aylmer, for making, mending and altering clothes, 20 June 1807 - 7 January 1808
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/4Account of William Pomfret, shoemaker, High Coniscliffe, to Colonel Aylmer, for boots, 29 June - 17 October 1807
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/5Account of H. Boyd, Walworth, to S.P.U. Aylmer, esquire, for carriage of wire netting, slates, wine, and parcels, 7 January - 11 September 1899
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/6Accounts of Captain Aylmer of payments for soldiers' lodgings and for clothes, and to individual soldiers, August 1794
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/7Letter from Armstrong, Percy Street, to Major Aylmer, 108th Regiment of Foot, Southampton, concerning his expenses as agent for the 108th Regiment, 16 January 1795
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/8Letter from Fraser Reed & Sons, Dublin, to Major Aylmer, concerning Battalion allowances, 12 March 1799
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/9Letters from Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Aylmer to Messrs. Fraser Reed & Sons, concerning payments he has made to officers, with an account of the payments, January - October 1801
(8 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/10Letters from J. Fisher, London, to Colonel Arthur Aylmer, with details of his account for silver cutlery and engraving, and concerning recommendations Colonel Aylmer has made to other soldiers, 12 November 1806 - 20 August 1807
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/11State of the Regiment on inspection in Ireland and following transfer to England, giving numbers of soldiers, including deserters in England and new recruits, 1 - 19 September 1842
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/12Memorandum by Major G. Sharp, on handing over the Battalion, concerning settlement of soldiers' lodging accounts, staff pay and equipment held by the Quarter Master, n.d., [early 19th century]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/13A Plan of Building Ground at Bishop Wearmouth belonging John Harrison, Esquire, Surveyed by John Rain, 1796
Endorsed: Plan of High Street Properties, Sunderland
Shows Bank Street, Barns Street, Chapel Street, Crowtree Lane, Cumberland Street, Dock Street, Dunning Street, Gree Street, Jackdaw Quay, King Street, Matlock Square, Middle Street, Prince Street, Queen Street, South Street, Union Street, Walworth Street, West Street and York Street, with landowners/tenants' names
Scale: 1 inch to 50 yards [1:1800]
(1 plan, 55 cm. x 80 cm., coloured)
Ref: D/X 1369/14Letter from Thomas Peacock, Denton, to [Arthur Aylmer], concerning the lease of glass houses and sale of land to Mr. Pemberton in 1795, 23 February 1821
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/15Letters from Thomas Collin, London, to Major General Aylmer, Walworth Castle, concerning the sale of Biss's Field, [Deptford], 14 May 1821 - 3 June 1822
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/16Letters from T.W. Hill, Sunderland, to Major General Aylmer, Walworth Castle, concerning the delay in the purchase of Mr. Biss's estates at Deptford, 10 September 1821 - 1 March 1825
(9 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/17Letters from James Hogg, Bishopwearmouth, to General Aylmer, Walworth Castle, concerning the delay in the purchase of Biss's land, [Deptford], 7 July 1823 - 26 March 1825
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/18Letters from Leo Raisbeck, Stockton, to General Aylmer, concerning the completion of the sale of Biss's land, [Deptford], 20 January 1824 - 10 September 1825
(5 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/19Letters from Robert Smart, Sunderland, to Major General Aylmer, concerning the conveyance of Biss's Field, Deptford, 23 January - 28 April 1824
(8 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/20Book of reference to the Plan of Walworth Estate in the Parish of Heighington, belonging to Mrs. Aylmer, surveyed by Thomas Dixon, land surveyor, Darlington, 1838
Includes: field names and acreages for Walworth West Farm, Walworth Castle Farm, Low Walworth Farm, Walworth East Farm, Peel Acres Farm, Crawley Moor Plantation, Walworth North Farm and Walworth Gate Lands
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1369/21Letters from F. Sandys to General Aylmer, Walworth Castle, concerning a legal action against him, 22 June - 9 July 1815
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/22Letter from Arthur Aylmer, Robert Spencer, Newby Lowson, Robert Surtees, William Chaytor, J.H. Faber and W. Nesfield, Magistrates; to Cuthbert Rippon, George Crowhall, Joseph Little, Thomas Emerson and others, the principal Inhabitants of the Parish of Stanhope, asking them to assist Francis Johnston, Constable of Stanhope Forest Quarter, to apprehend Thomas Lowe, Emerson Fetherston, John Kidd, Anthony Liddle and John Curry for a violent assault on Joseph Dawson, 6 August 1818
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/23Correspondence between Arthur Aylmer, Walworth Castle, and Rev. W. Wilson, Wolsingham, concerning unrest among the Weardale miners, a daring outrage ...at Stanhope, by some of the Weardale poachers, against a body of constables ...and two prisoners rescued, the poor organisation of the constables and the use of rewards as the best means of apprehending the offenders, 18 August - 15 December 1818
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/24Letters from T.H. Faber, Auckland Castle, to General Aylmer, concerning the Weardale miners threatening to march to Bishop Auckland and Durham, having in vain petitioned for relief, and a plan to apprehend the men wanted for assault at Stanhope, 28 September - 4 December 1818
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1369/25Letter from Colonel T. Beaumont, Hexham Abbey, to Arthur Aylmer, concerning the Weardale miners' unrest and their poaching on his moors, 4 October 1818
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/26Letter from Lord Darlington, Newton House, to [Arthur Aylmer], concerning the Weardale poachers, and his support for military intervention if found necessary, 14 December [1818]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/27Details of settlements of Mrs. Vivian, Mrs. Scott, and Mrs. Eade, and amounts of money paid by General Aylmer to the trustees and transferred to John Harrison Aylmer of Walworth Castle and to Messrs. L. & C. Aylmer, n.d., [early 19th century]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1369/28Admission of John Tomlinson of Carlisle as a burgess and freeman of the Burgh of Annan, 13 January 1797
(Parchment, 1 membrane)
