Catalogue

List of (Gainford) Parish Records re rates etc. for nineteenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Gainford Parish Registers (Baptisms, 2 October 1560 - 28 April 1784; Marriages, 22 May 1569 - 12 July 1763; Burials, 25 April 1569 - 11 July 1784), n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts of Gainford Parish Registers (Marriages, 21 May 1754 - 30 November 1812 and Banns, 11 December 1791 - 26 August 1810; Baptisms, 15 January 1784 - 15 October 1812; Burials, 8 January 1784 - 29 December 1812); and miscellaneous parish memoranda, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Gainford Parish Registers (Baptisms, 1798 - 1820), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Gainford Parish Registers (Burials from, 1852 - 1886), n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts of Gainford Parish Registers (Burials, 20 September 1886 - 27 May 1944), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Gainford Parish Registers (Burials, 19 January 1813 - 2 January 1869), n.d. [20th century] Enclosure in I

Newspaper cuttings and rough notes of the deaths of Gainford residents, n.d. [20th century] Enclosure in D/Ed 15/1/6(I)

Indexes to Gainford registers (Baptisms, 1784 - 1841; Marriages, 1754 - 1837; Banns, 1823 - 1832; Burials, 1784 - 1852), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of Churchwardens' Accounts for Gainford Parish, (1799 - 1868), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of Gainford Poor Rate Book, (9 May 1906 - 14 November 1917), n.d. [20th century]

Photograph of a page from the (Overseers of the Poor) accounts for [Gainford ?] for 1765, n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts from Gainford Parish books of John Lively, (1628 - 1636), n.d. [20th century] Including: D/Ed/15/1/15 enclosing copy of a statement by Edward Lively (late 16th century)

Transcripts of expenditures of [John Lively], (March 1636 - April 1637), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Rev. James Malled'sTithe Account Book, (1731 - 1735), n.d. [late 19th century]

Copy of Vestry Minutes (1863 - 1873, 1904, 1905, 1909), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Denton Parish Registers (Baptisms, 1586 - 1673; Marriages, 1579 - 1647; Burials, 1576 - 1646); with an introduction by J.R. Walbran, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Denton Parish Registers (Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1673 - 1798; with an account of the augmentations of the living of Denton, 1837 - 1876), n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts of Denton Parish Registers (Banns and Marriages, 1755 - 1812), n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts of Denton Parish Registers (Marriages, 1813 - 1837), n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts from the Burial registers of Winston, (1600 - 1614), n.d. [1930]

Transcripts from Winston Church Book, 1778 - 1837, containing Churchwardens' Accounts, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Coniscliffe registers (Marriages, June 1754 - December 1812; Banns, May 1755 - March 1819), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Coniscliffe registers (Marriages, 1813 - 1834; Baptisms, 1814 - 1855; Burials, 1838 - 1902), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of the registers of Coniscliffe, published by the Durham and Northumberland Parish Register Society (Baptisms, 1590 - 1812; Marriages, 1590 - 1812; Burials, 1591 - 1812), 1908

From parish registers of Barnard Castle (Baptisms, 1609 - 1812; Marriages, 1609 - 1812; Burials, 1617 - 1812), n.d. [early 20th century]

From Barnard Castle registers, (1754 - 1812), and from Monk Hesledon registers, (1578 - 1812), n.d. [late 19th - 20th century]

From Heighington marriage register, (1798 - 1812), n.d. [20th century]

Extracts from the Monkwearmouth Parish Registers by Herbert Maxwell Wood, March 1902

A published transcript of the first volume of the parish registers of Elsdon, Northumberland, n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts from Darlington marriage register, (1677 - 1771), n.d. [20th century]

Transcript of part of the parish register of East Carlton from, (1559 - 1585), n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcripts from registers of North Runcton, Norfolk (Baptisms, 1563 - 1652; Marriages, 1563 - 1650; Burials, 1563 - 1652), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts from register of Baptisms, 1764 - 1811; Burials, 1743, 1756 and 1764 and Marriages, 1778, 1785 and 1793, at (Scargill), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts from Baptisms at Hardwick (January 1743/4 - October 1747), n.d. [20th century] paper)

Copy from Minute Book of appointment of Assistant Overseer of the Poor, [March 1911]

Report on the Transcription and Publication of Parish Registers etc., 1892

Second Report of the Committee for promoting the transcription and Publication of Parish Registers, 1896

Article about "The Printing of Parish Registers Cui Bono?", n.d. [late 19th century]

List of volumes of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society's Transcripts for sale, n.d. [c.1890 - 1910]

List of Parish Registers and other Genealogical works edited by Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1908

Copy of Addenda and Corrigenda to a published list of printed Parish Registers, n.d. [20th century]

Part of a report of a meeting containing a discussion on the printing of Parish Registers, n.d. [20th century]

Notebooks of Alice Edleston containing information relating to Gainford parish, n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]

Notes and transcripts of records about John Craddock and his family in the seventeenth century, n.d. [late 19th - 20th century]

Notes and transcripts of records relating to the Brackenbury family of Gainford, sixteenth century - eighteenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Notes and transcripts of records relating to the Threlkeld family, sixteenth century - seventeenth century, 1899 - 1900

Notes and transcripts of records relating to the Lively family of Gainford, sixteenth century - seventeenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on the life of Peter Smart, born (c.1569), n.d. [1904]

A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Durham, July 7 1628, by Rev. Peter Smart, printed in 1640

Two Petitions of the Sequestred Clergie of England and Wales ..., printed for Richard Royston in (1647), 2 August 1647

Transcripts of records relating to Peter Smart and family in the seventeenth century, n.d. [1930's]

Notes taken from Treasury Papers and State Papers Domestic concerning Richard Marshall's activities as Stud Master to William III, his petitions and his will, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of the will of Gilbert Marshall of the parish of St. James, Westminster, Esq., (dated 10 April 1719), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of the will and probate of Richard Marshall of Hampton Court Park, Middlesex, Esq., (dated 28 March 1725), n.d. [20th century]

Copies of letters taken from the Rawlins Letters, 1652 - 1679, to Lord Wharlon, from George Sanderson, H. Gunter, William Etherington, at Gilling, William Brisco, n.d. [early 20th century]

Transcripts and notes of letters between Horace Walpole and Rev. W. Cole, and others, from (4 June 1767 - 26 August 1775), n.d. [20th century]

Extracts copied from A Further Discovery of that Generation of Men called Quakers a pamphlet originally published in (1654), n.d. [20th century]

Notes about [Quaker] meetings at Bishop Auckland and Durham from (1653 - 1656), n.d. [20th century]

Notes about Luke Coates who obtained his B.A. in 1685, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on the prosecution of Richard Robinson, in 1676, for non-payment of church rates, n.d. [20th century]

An attested copy of Thomas Earl of Strathmore's Bill and of Jane his wife and Anne and Mary Nicholson of West Rainton against James Malled, Joseph Craddock, George Lodge and Margaret his wife and Elizabeth Wilkinson in a dispute over the right of presentation to the chapelry of Denton, 23 July 1741

Abstract of the Amended Bill ,(dated 7 June 1744), n.d. [20th century]

Copy letters to [James Malled, Vicar of Gainford] from Edward Vernon, Bursar at Trinity College, Cambridge, dated 2 December 1726 and 12 September 1727, concerning a controversy over the endowment of Gainford rectory, n.d. [18th century] Enclosing D/Ed 15/2/174(II)

n.d. [18th century] (1) Abbot of Monastery of St. Mary, York (2) William Cundell, vicar of Gaynesford Copy of an agreement between (1) and (2) whereby (2) gives up all great tithes of Summerhouse, a toft and croft in Querrington and all tithes in Querrington, Sledwick and Westwick and manor house in Barnard Castle; all other small tithes and houses at Gainford and Stainton remain to (2), dated 12 July 1261, at Durham

Notes and transcripts of records relating to James Malled, eighteenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of Dr. Beaumont's Survey of 2 August 1563, of Gainford Rectory; copy of Extract from Augmentation Office relating to tithes of Gainford Rectory, n.d.

26 October 1769 (1) Tobias Heyrick, Clerk (2) Mathew and Elizabeth Atkinson Attested copy of final concord whereby (2) acknowledges 2 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow and 3 acres of pasture and common rights in Gainford to be the right of (1)

Transcripts of records relating to Tobias Heyrick, vicar of Gainford, (c.1762 - 1782), n.d. [20th century]

Miscellaneous notes and transcripts of records relating to vicars of Gainford, n.d. [20th century]

Notes and transcripts of records re property at Gainford:- Beadkirk at Barnard Castle, 1556, belonging to the Spencer family (1632 - 1739); Watsons Cottage (1602 - 1874); Stobb Hill and Stoney Flatts closes (1848 - 1898); house in Church Row; land owned by St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle; Water Corn Mill, "Locksons" (1656 - 1840); cottages in North Row (1628 - 1795), and relating to land ownership and enclosure in the parish, n.d. [20th century]

Gainford Academy accounts of boys fees received, 1 October 1860 - 1 April 1863

Extracts from the log book of (Gainford school) from (1862 - 1870), n.d. [1950]

Copy of a letter by R.J. Dent at Gainford Academy to his mother about an excursion to Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of records from P.R.O. in which John Forcer relates how he was sent to Gainford Academy, (14 October 1601), n.d. [20th century]

Letter of A.W. Atkinson at Darlington to Mrs. Hardy at Gainford enclosing letter of Mrs. J.A. Stapleton at Spennymoor to Mrs. Atkinson which encloses photographs of school boys and masters of Gainford Academy, also enclosing advertisement for the Congregational Church Mart on (25 August 1891), 1 September 1937

Letters of L. Robinson at Gainford to Alice Edleston at Gainford re Gainford Academy and enclosing a list of pupils, (1895 - 1898), 31 December 1943 and 5 January 1944

Invoice from William Bowman to Mrs. Taylor for tuition and school books, 23 April 1890 Transferred to D/Ed 1/8/86

Words to a song about Gainford school, n.d. [1920's]

Copies of letters of Rev. John Harriman at Gainford to J. Edward Smith; founder of the Linean Society, and between J. Harriman and the Bishop of Durham at Auckland Castle, dated 19 August 1798 - 2 September 1806, concerning botanical matters especially lichens, n.d. [late 19th century]

Transcript of Chantry Certificates for Gainford, (1545/6), n.d. [19th century]

Notes about Richard Cradocke's tenancy at Gainford, n.d. [20th century]

Transcript of the names of the Inhabitants of Gainford who took the Protestation, and those who refused, on (24 February 1642), n.d. [c.1930's]

Transcript of part of an Inquisition into Charitable Uses referring to Gainford, taken at Durham on (21 June 1650), n.d. [1940's]

Transcript of Articles and Interrogatories from Exchequer Special Commission relating to William Tompson and Hugh Clerke re land at Gainford, (1576), n.d. [1940's]

Abstract concerning Ambrose Peele and John Headlam re leases of property at Barnard Castle, (1638), n.d. [20th century]

Extract from a (petition) of the early seventeenth century concerning Christopher Hutchinson, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on the life of Robert Spensley Pape of Gainford, n.d. [20th century]

Transcript of Beaumont's Survey of Gainford Rectory Pensions, (dated 1563), n.d. [c.20th century]

Rough notes on Thomas Wakefield, predecessor of [Edward Lively], n.d. [20th century]

Copy of an article from the Durham County Advertiser, 8 February 1856 about Suicide in the bell-loft, at Gainford, of Robert Franks, n.d. [20th century]

Printer's proof of draft of a Petition to Richard Barnes, Bishop of Durham by Cuthbert Braidley and an Inventory of the goods and of Conant Appleby of Gaynfurth, (1576), n.d. [20th century]

Extract from Agricola's Road into Scotland by Jessie Mother Eole about the village of Gainford, especially the church and its associations with Roman Piercebridge, n.d. [20th century]

Notes concerning Trinity College, Cambridge and tithe payments re Gainford, n.d. [20th century]

Notes concerning the various township united within Gainford parish, n.d. [20th century]

Extract copied from the Exchequer Special Commissions about a survey of Langton and Gainford for the division and inclosure of the lands, n.d. [20th century]

An account of the early days of bus service from Gainford to Darlington which began after First World War, n.d. [20th century]

Notes about the Wesleyan Methodist chapel at (Gainford), n.d. [20th century]

List of the churchwardens of Gainford, Piercebridge, and neighbouring townships, (1852 - 1938), n.d. [1930's - 1940's]

Notebook and loose copies of letters to and from M.A. Denham, (1840's - 1850's), n.d. [late 19th - 20th century]

Publications by M.A. Denham concerning sayings and folklore especially re the North of England, September 1846 - 1859

List of publications about rhymes and sayings, n.d. [20th century]

Photograph of the gravestones of [John] Loadman and Ambrose Denham, n.d. [1930s]

Negative of Ambrose Denham and son's name plaque, n.d. [20th century]

Photographs of M.A. Denham's house at Piercebridge, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of will of Ambrose Denham of Piercebridge, (dated 18 October 1834), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of the will of Michael Aislabie Denham of Piercebridge; (dated 27 February 1859; proved 1 November 1859, proved 14 April 1882), n.d. [c.1948] Extracted from the Durham District Probate Registry

Copy of the will of Jane Ward of Darlington, (29 July 1881), n.d. [c.1948] Extracted from the Durham District Probate Registry

Postcard of John Cresswell Brigham at Darlington to Alice Edleston about a volume of Tristram Shandy with its fly-leaf endorsed "M. Aislabi Denham 1821 Piercebridge", 17 June 1926

Copy of note from William Harrison at Isle of Man to [A. Edleston] about M.A. Denham's version of a nursery song, [1928]

The Complaint of Miles Stapylton of Durham against Dr. Denys Greenville, archdeacon of Durham, concerning the rental of Mr. Hedworth's estate, n.d. [late 1670]

Part of an account of the History of the Bishops of Durham (1333 - 1595), n.d. [early 19th century]

Notes concerning William Talbot, Bishop of Durham (1721 - 1730), with pedigree, n.d. [early 19th century]

Copy of letters from Wm. Flower, the Bishop's Chaplain, at London to Mr. Stapylton at Durham concerning the death of [a bishop?], (dated 1671), n.d. [19th century]

Copy of a letter concerning Dean Granville, n.d. [late 19th century]

Table giving the names of the holders of the following offices in County Durham, from 1072 - 1559: Bishops of Durham; High Sheriff; Constable of the Castle; Seneschal; Temporal Chancellor; Attorney-General, n.d. [19th century]

Description of the launching of the "Lord Duncan" at Sunderland on (2 March 1798), n.d. [early 19th century]

Description of the number and type of boats using Sunderland harbour and the numbers of men employed by the trade, 20 June 1809

Table showing the height of the tides in Sunderland harbour, annotated with notes about the provision of lifeboats for Sunderland, 1809

An account of the ships building in the port of Sunderland on 11 March 1814, giving details of their names, tonnage, for whom built, and estimated date of completion etc., 11 March 1814

Notes on the history of Tunstall, 1814

Statement of the background to proceedings in a suit in Chancery at Durham concerning the charities established by the will of Dr. William Hartwell, 2 February 1773

Extract from the Award of the Division of Winston Moor, County Durham, (dated 1767), n.d. [late 18th century]

14 April 1838 (1) Richard Storey of Chirton, Northumberland (2) James Storm and Partners of South Shields, ship owners (1) binds himself as an apprentice to (2) for 6 years

Extracts from Earl of Darlington's book Operations of the Raby Pack in years 1800 and 1801, n.d. [c.1850]

Extracts from Cole's Diary, for the years (1765 - 1769), n.d. [late 19th century]

Sketch plan of The Banquetting House in the plantation, Forcett, by James Paine, architect, (c.1760), n.d. [19th century]

Statement concerning the exclusion of Mr. Spencer and Mr. Currie from the Commission of the Peace, n.d. [19th century]

Rough notes detailing the names and terms in office of various Bishops of Durham, (1617 - 1648), n.d. [c.late 19th century]

Notes of Alice Edleston relating to Winston, n.d. [late 19th - 20th century]

Notes of Heighington, Headlam, South Shields, and court cases, n.d. [1919]

Notes on translation and transcription of a grant by Robert de Littlebyre to William de Kellaure, from appendix to the Castle of Brancepeth, 23 November 1920

List of curates at Barnard Castle church, (1313 - 1914) and St. John's Hospital, (1305 - 1847), n.d. [1929]

List of curates of Denton, (1570 - 1884) and of Whorlton, (1577 - 1902), 15 March 1929

List of Rectors of Winston, n.d. [19th - 20th century]

Names of Curates in the eighteenth century at [Coniscliffe?], n.d. [20th century]

Transcript from P.R.O. Durham indictments concerning a burglary committed by Richard Simpson of Barnard Castle, 26 January 1710 and copy of letter of Rev. John Rogers at Barnard Castle, 31 December 1663, to Lord Wharton, n.d. [1934]

Transcript of part of the proceedings in the case of John Hutton v Robert Dixon in Chancery, about property in Staindrop in (1617), n.d. [1934]

'Some Teesdale Titbits', extracted from the Fitzhugh Magasine, (c.1873), by Alice Edleston, 21 August 1937

List of occupiers of various lands in Weardale, (1367 - 1610), n.d.

Note about an oak tree rooted in a rock at the Old Lodge, Raby Park, n.d. [1948]

Transcript from the Chancery Proceedings re Henry Marley of Hilton and Thomas Birkebeck of Morton, Devon concerning a bond, n.d. [20th century]

A note about a public house at Piercebridge, n.d. [1940's]

Brief biography of Thomas Edward Witham of Lartington, n.d. [1940's]

Copies of letters from Tempest Widdrington concerning the confiscation of horses belonging to Papists, and other extracts from Surtees, (1689 - 1753), n.d. [1940's]

The Reaver's Penance, a ballad of the Bishopric of Durham, n.d. [19th century]

Draft of A Parochial Gazetteer of the Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, together with Berwick-upon-Tweed, by Alfred Octavius Bell, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Interrogatories and Depositions concerning Sir Henry Vane re his Lord ships in Raby and Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Interrogatories and Depositions concerning St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th century]

Extract from Inquisitions Post Mortem of Richard Burrell of Headlam, (dated 20 September 1609), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of article 'Relics found at Cliffe Hall, Yorks' (from North Riding Pictorial Journal, May 1857), n.d. [20th century]

Transcript of the Petition of the Parishioners of Wolsingham to the House of Commons, from the State Papers Domestic, (1653 - 1654), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of a petition to Sir John Otway, Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham, n.d. [20th century]

Pages from a publication concerning the Coleman Deeds in County of Durham, n.d. [20th century]

Brief history of the Ecclesiastical District of Bolam from its formation in (1867 - 1913), n.d. [20th century]

Brief story concerning the visit of John Wesley to Denton, taken from Reminiscences by Margaret Raine, n.d. [20th century]

Incomplete notes about the Rectory of Richmond, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of a letter, dated 12 January 1668, from [Ambrose] Barnes at Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Rev. [Elkanah] Wiles concerning the prosecution of many people for religious unorthodoxy, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on a conveyance of property in South Bailey, Durham, involving the Cholmeley family, n.d. [20th century]

Extracts from the (Court Roll of the Manor of Bondgate, Darlington) concerning property held by the Stephens family, from (1777 - 1801), n.d. [20th century]

Abstract of the grant of Curation of Wentworth Carr of Aycliffe, (29 May 1649), n.d. [20th century]

Incomplete copy of an Indenture between John Bourchier of Benningbrough, Yorks., and Robert Sewel of Barforth, Yorks., (dated 1 April 1726), n.d. [20th century]

Schedule of deeds and papers, 1648 - 1652, relating to estates of the late Charles Allen, in the custody of John Perrott, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts from Patent Rolls of a Special Pardon granted to Cuthbert Best on 3 December 1546; grants to Robert Hitchcock and John Gifford and their heirs, to Robert Morgan and others and to William Typper and Robert Dawe of various lands in Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th century]

Calendar of letters patent of 2 Elizabeth I, 1560, restoring the manor of Sledwishe and Windleston to [Ninian] Menville, n.d. [c.20th century]

Transcript of Certificates concerning the Protestation, for Denton, Whorlton and Kelloe, (February 1641), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of a letter of John Rogers to Lord Wharton, Barnard Castle, 31 December 1663, from Rawl. letters, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Commissioners' presentments of recusants relating to Coniscliffe, especially Thomas Salkeld, (1625 - 1626), n.d. [20th century]

Extracts copied from Churchwardens' accounts of Heighington, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on the contents of letters, and the history of tithebarns at Piercebridge and Summerhouse, Bolam Chapel and Gainford School, (1834 - 1876), n.d. [c.20th century]

Antiquarian notes concerning ownership of land and property at Piercebridge and [tithesj due, sixteenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Transcript of Interrogatories to be ministered to witnesses on behalf of William Courte, plaintiff against John Laydman deft, from Public Record Office, Durham re land at Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th century]

Transcript of documents, P.R.O. Durham Chancery, Bills, Answers, 1638, concerning Ambrose Peele, John Headlam and Matthew Stodert and property at Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on the Manor of Bowes and Rectory, n.d. [20th century]

List of certain Exchequer Special Commissions concerning Concealed Lands in County Durham, n.d. [20th century]

Note about Rev. J. Blackburn's induction into the Rectory of Romaldkirk, (1821), n.d. [20th century]

Transcript of Durham Cursitors' Records, Rolls of Bishop Matthew, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of a letter ,dated 9 October 1878, to Margaret Hunt nee Raine from Hannah Peacock at Woodhouse Terrace about a letter received describing Mr. Birkbeck and Denton village, n.d. [20th century]

Notes from Durham Affidavits re Geo. Race v James Tillie, John Proud of Raby Castle v Tillie, and John Mawbray, n.d. [20th century]

Transcript concerning case of Sir Wm. Bellary and Edward Blakiston v George Menton and George Garth concerning land at Denton, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of interrogatories and Depositions to witnesses for Thomas and John Dobson v Thomas Bowes, 1621/22, concerning tithes at Whorlton, from P.R.O. Durham Exchequer Special Commissions, n.d. [1917]

Part of an article concerning Richard Marshall, Richard Freeman, Gilbert Marshall and Anna Freeman and their Estates in the eighteenth century in County Durham, n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of Barnard Castle County Jury, 1650 - 1788, and transcripts of various records relating to County Durham including Raby Court, n.d.

Transcripts of register of marriages and banns of Wycliffe, 1754 - 1897; notes from Dr. Raine's Recollections written at Middleton-on-Tees; notes from Kirkby Ravensworth registers, 1614 - 1705; records of the Congregational Church of Gainford, 1830's - 1870's and copy conveyance of a chapel at Gainford, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of a catalogue of paintings and casts of statues belonging to Henry Thornton and Marie Witham and extracts from Romaldkirk (burials, 1756 - 1784, baptisms, 1754 - 1768), n.d. [20th century]

Notes concerning Richardus Thrilkillus, priest, and list of Durham recusants and other abstracts relating to ecclesiastical matters, n.d. [20th century]

Notes about finds at Piercebridge, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of sale notice of farms at Hart and Streatlam from the Newcastle Courant, (7 October 1786), n.d. [20th century]

Extracts from the 1851 census relating to Whickham parish of the Strathmore household and the occupiers of Streatlam, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of extract from the Newcastle Courant of 3 April 1773, about a dispute over the ownership of some trees at Colpighill, n.d. [20th century]

Copy of advertisement for tenders for alterations to Snow Hall, from the Teesdale Mercury, (9 June 1875), n.d. [20th century]

Copy of an article from the Newcastle Courant of 10 February 1787 about Sir Edward Blackett, being made the owner of Sockburne for killing a monster with his sword, n.d. [20th century]

Notes about the Wythes estate at Middleton, n.d. [20th century]

Notes about various properties to be sold, and diversion of the moor and other notes relating to Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th century]

Papers relating to the history of the Edleston, Cumming, Humfrey and Farrar families, including pedigrees, notes, wills and extracts from various original documents, 19th and 20th century

Papers relating to the Cotton family of Cambridge including transcripts of wills and inventories, extracts from parish registers and pedigrees, 20th century

Pedigree, will, list of baptisms of Elliots from Stanhope, Middleton-in-Teesdale and Gainford, n.d. [20th century]

Papers relating to the history of the Garth family of Headlam and Bolam, and especially Dr. Samuel Garth, an eighteenth century physician, including copies of Chancery proceedings, wills and correspondence, notes and pedigrees and notes on the Garth connection with the Beaufoy family, n.d. [20th century]

Papers concerning the history of the Larkin family of Gainford during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including notes and a copy of a will of Thomas Larkin, M.D., n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts of public records, correspondence, notes and a pedigree relating to the Raine family of Gainford, n.d. [1910's]

A pedigree and notes on the Saviles of Hawley, n.d. [20th century]

Papers concerning the history of the Sherwood family of Snow Hall, including copies of letters to Robert Surtees, wills and publications, n.d. [20th century]

Pedigrees and copies of wills of the Swainston family of Gainford, n.d. [20th century]

Notes concerning the history of the Surtees family including pedigrees and transcripts from registers and from records in the P.R.O., n.d. [20th century]

Describing how Captain Rodney was made an admiral, and the battered condition of the ship, 23 January 1759

About the possibility of his becoming an officer, 30 May 1760

Letter of William Radcliffe to Robert Surtees at Mainsforth, concerning the pedigrees of the Platt family and the Surtees family, 4 April 1828

Review of A Memoir of Robert Surtees, author of the History of the County Palatine of Durham, by George Taylor, n.d. [19th century]

Plan of Airey Hill Farm [Greatham] giving acreages and layout of the fields, n.d. [late 19th century] No scale

Copy of a covenant from a (lease for lives?) involving William Edward Surtees, n.d. [20th century]

n.d. [1889] (1) Susan Emma Airey and Frances Anne Airey both of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, spinsters, devisees and executors of the will of Robert Airey (2) William Edward Surtees of Seaton Carew, esq. Copy of an agreement for sale, dated 31 March 1862, by (1) to (2) of a piece of land called Low Close, and an intake containing 1a.3r. all at Hedley, Northumberland. Plan attached

Correspondence chiefly of W.E. Surtees at Seaton Carew and at Tainfield, Somerset, of John Stonehouse at Greatham and of John Fletcher at Norton to H.J. Curry at Stockton-on-Tees, agent for the Hedley Estate belonging to W.E. Surtees, concerning the running of the estate, 3 September 1867 - 21 May 1891

Particulars of the fields in Marsh House Farm estate, Greatham listing the names of the fields and their crops, n.d. [1867]

Schedules of rents due from tenants, n.d. [1867]

Correspondence and statement of account between Pyke and Parrott, solicitors at London and H.J. Curry at Stockton-on-Tees concerning the winding up of the estate of W.E. Surtees, 29 March - 28 December 1899

Correspondence to Alice Edleston and other papers relating to T.W. Marley's genealogical research into his own family tree and several Gainford families including the Raines and Middletons, 10 January 1895 - 14 July 1921

Miscellaneous family trees, n.d. [20th century]

Correspondence to R.H. and Alice Edleston concerning genealogical research, 5 December 1897 - 1952

Certified copy of the entry of the marriage, dated 27 July 1743, between John Cookson and Eliza Lutwige at Whitehaven, Cumberland, 18 January 1918

Copy of burial entries relating to the Ventriss family, (1599 - 1610), n.d. [20th century]

Certified extract from the register of burials for 1722, of St. Edward's Cambridge, concerning Nathaniel Vincent, n.d. [20th century]

Illustration of arms and figures of members of the Sherard family, from Stapleford Church, (1628), n.d. [19th century]

Record of some researches into various families by T.J. Howe, 1 May 1905

Notes on the Buddle family of Helpston, [Cambs.], in the seventeenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on the Hugall family of Gilligate, n.d. [20th century]

Part of an account of the Pudsey family, n.d. [20th century]

Brief notes on Procter family, (1820's - 1870), n.d. [20th century]

Notes concerning Bell of Tuddo, n.d. [20th century]

Brief notes on George Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln, (1787), n.d. [20th century]

Rough notes detailing the inhabitants of the parish of Brignall, n.d. [20th century]

n.d. Notes on family tree of [N. Wilshere] (1692 - 1720), n.d. [20th century]

Note of birth of Bertrand Russel, 17 April 1747, St. Martin in the Fields, Charing Cross, London, n.d.

Copies of diary entries and letters and notes relating to Dr. Bois, a seventeenth century Cambridgeshire clergyman, n.d. [20th century]

Notes relating to Cambridge University history and property in Cambridge, [late 19th - 20th century]

Will of Margaret Wilbourne of Gainford, 22 March 1776

Will of Thomas Woodness, Brother of Christs Hospital, Sherburn, 4 September 1824

Copy of the Will of Miss Frances A. Gatty, dated 6 September 1921, proved 14 March 1925

Photocopy of Will of Charles Smith of Westminster, (dated 4 April 1831, proved 4 February 1845), 6 March 1936

Copy of the Will of Dorothy Ledgard of Staindrop, widow, (dated 16 October 1744), n.d. [1949]

Copy of Will of Michael Callendar of Gainford, (made 23 June 1843, proved 26 September 1843), 12 October 1946

Copy of Will of Thomas Johnson of Middleton-in-Teesdale, (made 24 June 1686), n.d. [20th century]

Transcripts and abstracts of Wills and administration de bonis non of persons chiefly of Gainford and Barnard Castle, dated 1430 - 1834, chiefly to be published by the Teesdale Record Society, n.d. [1920's - 1940's]

Miscellaneous Antiquarian notes including lists of vicars, general historical notes on places in England, miscellaneous transcripts of deeds and extracts from Parish records, Chancery Proceedings, State Papers Domestic and Augmentation Office, late 19th - 20th century

Transcripts of Exchequer Special Commissions chiefly relating to County Durham, n.d. [20th century]

Miscellaneous antiquarian notebooks of Alice Edleston containing rough notes on various historical and genealogical topics, n.d. [20th century]

Indexes of Miscellaneous Antiquarian notes by Alice Edleston, n.d. [20th century]

Note asking for list of destroyed villages, n.d. [20th century]

Napoleone III, by Licurgo Cappelletti, 1899

Napoleon IV, a play by Maurice Rostand, 20 October 1928

Memoirs of the Prince Imperial, n.d. [20th century]

Account of the beginning of the Austro-Prussian War, (1866), n.d. [c.1919]

Rough notes and copies of speeches and letters to and from Napoleon III, (1860's - 1870), n.d. [early 20th century]

Proofs of D/Ed 15/6/112, n.d. [1930's]

Speeches and Letters of Napoleon III by R.H. Edleston, n.d. [1930's]

Invoices from Jonathan Palmer, Printer, at Cambridge, for expenses in connection with the publication of the book, September 1923 and November 1925

Rough drafts and notes for R.H. Edleston's articles on Napoleon III in England, n.d. [1920's]

Letters to R.H. Edleston about the publication of the book, 29 January 1925 - 6 February 1929

Part of map depicting campaign of Napoleon III in Italy (in 1850's), n.d. [19th century]

Advertisements for Napoleon III and Italy, 1908

Des Idees Napoleoniennes, by R.H. Edleston, 1919

Notes for an article by R.H. Edleston about Prince Napoleon, n.d. 1930's - 1940's

Notebooks containing notes on the letters of Dr. Barthez about Napoleon III, (1861 - 1864), n.d. [20th century]

Letters of R.I. Severs, at Cambridge to R.H. Edleston concerning the printing of one of his books on Napoleon III, 13 January 1930 - 16 September 1931

Letters to R.H. Edleston concerning the purchase of souvenirs of the Imperial family, and publications about them, 20 May 1917 - 2 August 1934

Scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings about the Imperial family, 1904 - 1915

le Figaro, 18 - 20 July 1920

Newspaper cuttings about members of the Imperial family, n.d. [1900 - 1949)

Picture postcards depicting members of the Imperial family or places connected with them, n.d. [early 20th century]

Photographs of members of the Imperial family, mainly Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie and their funerals, n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]

Etchings of Louis Napoleon and his wife, n.d. 20th century

Sale catalogues and lists of lot numbers of items belonging to Empress Eugenie and Napoleon III, 1921 - 1927

Church notice from St. Michael's Abbey Church, [Farnborough] detailing church services for the coming week, including a mass for the victims of the war requested by Empress Eugenie, n.d. [1910's]

Programme of Theatricals held at Farnborough Hill Hospital, 1918

Account of Prince Imperial's birthday, (18 March 1872), n.d. [c.1922]

Account of departure of Empress for Spain and visit of Emperor and Prince Imperial to Torquay, Exeter and Bath (between 1871 and 1873), n.d. [c.1922]

Copy of Proces Verbal of the "mise en biere" of Napoleon III, 14 January 1873 and of the Prince Imperial, 11 July 1879 and other notes, n.d. [20th century]

List of books for sale re Napoleon I and III, n.d. [20th century]

Notes on "a link with the Prince Imperial", n.d. [20th century]

Page from a book including a photograph of a letter of Napoleon to the Prince Regent, (dated 13 July 1815), n.d. [20th century]

Rough drafts of parts of articles by R.H. Edleston on "The French Presidency", n.d. [c.1939]

Newspaper cuttings about events in France, including articles written by R.H. Edleston, 1900 - 1940

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of articles by R.H. Edleston concerning France, 1940's

Rough draft of an article entitled "A Glimpse of Belgium and France Today" by R.H. Edleston, 1939

Word puzzle about Napoleon III, n.d. [20th century]

Papers concerning Polish self determination including articles by E. Malynski and notes on the Polish question, 1918

Rough notes on Polish Genealogy, with particular reference to Vladislaus, [1947]

Part of an essay on Prince Wladislaw son of Casimir, Duke of Gniewkov in the mid-fourteenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Newspaper cuttings concerning Poland including articles by R.H. Edleston, 1920 - 1940

Notes on the correspondence respecting the negotiations for the Rectification of the Greek frontier, n.d. [1916]

Quotation from a circular of Mr. Waddington, dated 1876, concerning the role of the Powers at the Congress of Berlin with regard to Greece, n.d. [1918]

England and Turkey, by R.H. Edleston, 1922

List of complimentary copies of "England and Turkey" sent to various papers, 17 December 1922

Letters to R.H. Edleston about England and Turkey, December 1922 - 22 December 1923

Abdul Hamid II and England Series of articles by (R.H. Edleston), n.d. [1940's]

Newspaper cuttings about events in Turkey, 8 January 1920 - 23 April 1936

Draft account of "The Portugese Royal Family" by R.H. Edleston, n.d. [20th century]

Family tree of the Royal House of [Portugal?], 1556 - mid-nineteenth century, n.d. [20th century]

Rough drafts of the article, "The Fall of the Russian Empire" by R.H. Edleston, n.d. [c.1940]

Newspaper cuttings from the Teesdale Mercury, of nine of the parts of R.H. Edleston's, "The Fall of the Russian Empire", 18 September 1940 - 29 January 1941

Newspaper cuttings concerning Russia, [1919 - 1929]

Draft versions of an article by R.H. Edleston about the Papal Election, n.d. [1922]

Newspaper cuttings of articles by R.H. Edleston about the Pope, n.d. [1922] and 18 February 1939

Draft version of article (for a newspaper) by R.H. Edleston "The Royal Tomb House at Windsor", n.d. [c.1925]

Notes by R.H. Edleston about Andorra, n.d. [1930's]

Newspaper cuttings about Andorra, Spain from The Times, June - September 1933

Rough drafts of an article by R.H. Edleston entitled, "The European Situation", n.d. [1934 - 1935]

Newspaper cutting of The Situation in Europe, written by R.H. Edleston, from (The Darlington and Stockton Times), [1934]

Article by R.H. Edleston, entitled Postscript, September 1930

Account of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary on 7 May 1908, written by R.H. Edleston, n.d. [1908]

Copy of quotation concerning Cavour by R.H. Edleston, n.d. [20th century]

The Monument of Cardinal Prince Frederick of Poland in Cracow Cathedral, by R.H. Edleston and draft, 1916

Notes and Queries containing articles on incised slabs by R.H. Edleston, 30 June 1934 - 3 July 1943

Incised Monumental Slabs, by R.H. Edleston, parts I-VI, [1934] - 1943

Leaflet advertising R.H. Edleston's 3 recent publications, Some Northern Thoroughbreds, and Incised Monumental Slabs, parts V and VI, n.d. [1940's]

Some Tomb Slabs in Teesdale Churches, by R.H. Edleston with draft copy, n.d. [20th century]

Leaflet advertising Illustrations of Incised Monumental Slabs on the Continent of Europe, March 1944

Printer's proof of R.H. Edleston's work on continental brasses, n.d. [20th century]

An Incised Slab in Startforth Church, n.d. [1930's]

[Lectures] by R.H. Edleston on monumental brasses and incised slabs, n.d. [20th century]

Photographs and rubbings of brasses, monumental slabs and inscriptions, late 19th - 20th century

Notes and correspondence of Mr. J.E. Morris at Totnes, Devon, concerning monumental inscriptions in Great Britain and Europe, 1930's - 1940's

Indexes of monumental brasses in England arranged topographically, n.d. [20th century]

Lists of in criptions entitled "Inscriptions"Vol. I, part I and II, [1887]

Booklets containing transcripts of inscriptions in England organised topographically, [late 19th - 20th century]

Additions and corrections to Haines' List of Monumental Brasses, by R.H. Edleston

Rough notes and transcripts of monumental inscriptions from: Bedfordshire (D/Ed 15/7/159-166); Buckinghamshire (D/Ed 15/7/167-172); Cambridgeshire (D/Ed 15/7/173-197); Cumberland (D/Ed 157/7/198-200); Dorset (D/Ed 15/7/201); Durham (D/Ed 15/7/202-231); Gloucs. (D/Ed 15/7/232); Isle of Wight (D/Ed 15/7/233-234); Herefordshire (D/Ed/15/7/235-236); Herts. (D/Ed 15/7/237-239); Kent (D/Ed 15/7/240-251); Lancs. (D/Ed 15/7/252-253); Leics. (D/Ed 15/7/254); Lincs. (D/Ed 15/7/255-256); London (D/Ed 15/7/257-266); Middlesex (D/Ed 15/7/267); Norfolk with Suffolk (D/Ed 15/7/268-309); Northants (D/Ed 15/7/310-312); Oxfordshire (D/Ed 15/7/313-322); Suffolk (D/Ed 15/7/323-325); Staffs. (D/Ed 15/7/326); Sussex (D/Ed 15/7/327); Warwicks. (D/Ed 15/7/328-331); Wilts. (D/Ed 15/7/332-334); Worcs. (D/Ed 15/7/335); Yorks. (D/Ed 15/7/336-346); from several counties (D/Ed 15/7/347-357)

Notes and transcripts of monumental late inscriptions from France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark and Poland, n.d. [late 19th - 20th century]

Correspondence to R.H. Edleston, including letters of the Monumental Brass Society concerning monumental inscriptions, especially granting of permission to take brass rubbings, in Great Britain and Europe, 6 January 1890 See also D/Ed 12/5/419-479: letters of F.A. Greenhill

Miscellaneous papers re monumental inscriptions including lists of churches visited, lists of inscriptions, and miscellaneous notes concerning unidentified monumental inscriptions, n.d.[late 19th - 20th century]

Correspondence chiefly of O. de la Chapelle at London to R.H. Edleston and other papers re the search for the marriage certificate of John Bowes and Josephine Benoite Coffin-Chevalier, 7 June 1926 - 28 January 1937

Copy of the marriage certificate of John Bowes and Josephine Benoite Coffin-Chevalier, (dated 3 August 1854), 6 February 1937

Copy of the death certificate of Josephine Benoite Bowes, (dated 10 February 1874), 22 June 1926

Copy of the Will of John Bowes of Streatlam Castle, (dated 1 June 1878), and 6 codicils, (dated 17 July 1880 - 25 September 1885), 1893

Copy of a notice warning against sporting on the property held by the devisees of John Bowes, Earl of Strathmore, (dated 1820), n.d. [1890's] Enclosure in D/Ed 15/8/17(I)

Notes re John Bowes and family and the Earls of Strathmore, n.d. [20th century]

Memorial card for Josephine Benoite Countess of Montalbo, wife of John Bowes, 1874

Photograph of John Bowes, n.d. [20th century]

To Alice Edleston at Gainford, about the marriage of George Bowes and Mary Scollick, enclosing certified copy of the entry in the Warcop marriage register of the marriage on (19 February 1798), 27 November 1945

To R.H. Edleston enclosing some notes re John Bowes (missing), 26 July 1930

Letters between R.H. Edleston and parish clerk of St. Luke's church, Chelsea enclosing certified copy of the entry in the register of the baptism of John Bowes, (dated 29 June 1811), 2 - 5 November 1926

Letter of Olive Spiller at Barnard Castle to R.H. Edleston enclosing postcards of John Bowes and his wife, 26 November 1929

Part of a draft letter by R.H. Edleston, n.d. [c.20th century]

Photographs, n.d. [1920's - 1930's]

Picture postcards, n.d. [late 1920's]

Invitation to the consecration on 29 September 1928

Newspaper cuttings, [November 1925] - November 1926

Copy of an article about its dismantling, n.d. [1927]

Letters to R.H. Edleston about demolition of Streatlam Castle, 14 March - 19 August 1927

Newspaper cuttings, n.d. [1927]