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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 118 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Teesside records including Franks family and printed papers

Covering Dates: 1763-1872

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Ref: D/X 118/1

Miscellaneous papers including: papers relating to the Teesside and Cleveland districts, including: poster on proposed canal from River Tees to the coal district near Auckland, 4th August 1818; paper expounding relative merits of canal or railroad for the above scheme, 8th August 1818; report on the proposed Stockton Gas Lights by J. Glynn, November 1821; a Scheme of Husbandry for Mr. Longstaff's farm at Stranton, 1821-1824; letter from Thomas Webster (Stockton) to Mr. Longstaff (Norton), 1833 (December); report on the proposed Harbour at Redcar in the Works of Nautical and Geographical Science, 1832; poster advertising the sale of family residence of Mrs. Robinson and dwelling-house of Mr. Jackson in Stockton-upon-Tees, n.d.; ·vaccination notice for Stockton Union, 1841
(1 bundle)

Ref: D/X 118/2

Papers of the Franks family: letters of Samuel Franks to Miss Gaunt, December 1801 and January 1802; copy of the will of Samuel Franks dated 9th May 1806. Apprenticeship Indenture of Mr. Henry Franks of Stockton to Henry Moore of Newcastle, surgeon, December 1820
(1 bundle)

Ref: D/X 118/3

Miscellaneous papers including: frontpiece of programme about Sermon at Oxford on "The Influence of Religion on Human Laws", March 1763; The Shrewsbury Chronicle (pages 5-10) relating to the Archaeological Institute's meeting at Shrewsbury, 10th August 1855 (2 copies); handwritten copy of Virgil's First Eclogue - "Tityrus, Melibaeun, Tityrus", n.d.
(1 bundle)

Ref: D/X 118/4

Specimen number of "Richmondshire", based on Dr. Whitaker's work, 1872; contains pedigrees of Wharton of Gilling, Boynton of Sedbury, Gascoine of Sedbury, Gilpin of Sedbury, Darcy of Sedbury, Hertford of Hartforth, Tempest of Hertford, Serjaunt, Craddock, Norton/Conyers.
(1 volume)



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