Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 386 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Darlington diary, probably of George Ornsby
Covering Dates: 1798-1805
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DIARY (Ref: D/X 386/1)Ref: D/X 386/1
Pages from diary of unidentified person apparently living in Darlington; mostly re social life in S. Durham and N. Yorkshire, mentioning many acquaintances, and re legal transactions (the writer being apparently an articled clerk or lawyer: 28 and 29 August 1798 "made affidavit (?) of due execution of clerkship ... Admitted an attorney of all the temporal courts of Durham and Sadberge")
[Probably George Ornsby of Darlington, gent; made affidavit of due execution of clerkship (to Henry Ornsby) on 28 August 1798. (Public Record Office, Durham 9/3) For susequent career see W. Longstaffe - History of Darlington, PXCV (in record office library) (see article in New Law Journal, 20 December 1973).]
1798, 1805
(1 volume)
