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Solicitors’ Records

Summary

This guide provides a list of firms of solicitors who have deposited records in Durham Record Office. Please note that the size of deposit varies from one document to hundreds of boxes and volumes. Records deposited with us may consist of clients’ papers, title deeds, case-papers, correspondence, copy letter books, office diaries, etc.

The name and location of each law firm is followed by corresponding catalogue references. Principal solicitors’ collections held in Durham Record Office are shown in bold.

Andrews, Son, & Huxtable, Dorchester
D/X 200/1

Armstrong, Rose & Appleby, Newcastle
D/X 207/1-5

Baileys, Shaw & Gillett, London
D/X 751/1-8

Bailey, Strickland & Bryant, St. Leonards on Sea
D/X 40/1-39

Barr, Ellison, Cambridge
D/X 249/1; D/X 490/1-11

R. Bell & Son, Hartlepool
D/Be 1-17

Bidwell & Sons, Cambridge
D/X 282/1-4; D/X 394/1-6

Birch, Cullimore & Co., Chester
D/X 879/1-19

Braund & Hill, London
D/X 225/1

Burton, Yeates & Hart, London
D/X 155/1; D/X 223/1,2; D/X 231/1-3; D/X 232/1-3

Messrs. Cartmel, Brampton
D/X 177/1-21

Chaundler & Son, Biggleswade
D/Ph 250/1-9

Clayton & Gibson, Newcastle
D/CG

W.H.C. Cobb, Grays, York
D/X 492/1,2

Collyer & Bristow, London
D/X 903/1-109

Thomas Cooper & Co., London
D/X 227/1,2

Thomas Cooper & Stibbard, London
D/X 668/1-24

Cripps, Harries Hall & Co., Tunbridge Wells
D/X 1/1-13

Cross & Co., Bury St. Edmunds
D/X 132/1

Crutes, Sunderland
D/X 65/1

Darling, Heslop & Forster, Darlington
D/X 136/1-23

Davies Bell & Co., Newcastle
D/X 22/1-4

Dees & Thompson, Griffith & Co., Newcastle
D/X 410/1

Denton, Hall, Burgin & Warrens, London
D/X 906, 915/1-281

Dickinson, Dees & Co., Newcastle
D/DD/1-142

Dickinson, Miller & Turnbull, Newcastle
D/X 364/1-16; D/X 400/1-6

Druces & Attlee, London
D/X 656/1-3; D/X 663/1-2

Edgeley & Co., London
D/X 429/1; D/X 430/1

Eland Hore Patterson, London
D/EHP 1-57

Ellis, Peirs, Young & Jackson, London
D/X 224/1

Farrer & Co., London
D/Fa 1-344; D/X 236/1-8; D/X 654/1-43; D/X 752/1-31

Fawcett, Faber & Fawcett, Stockton
D/X 286/1-314

Francis & Co., Cambridge
D/X 674/1-478

Frere, Cholmely & Nicholsons, London
D/X 230/1-11

Godden & Holme (later Godden & Thicknesse), London
D/X 614/1-39

Gray, Dodsworth & Cobb, York
D/GrDC 1-3

Green & Co., Beaconsfield
D/X 615/1-4

Gregory, Rowcliffe & Co., London
D/X 238/1-25; D/X 239/1-4

Hall, Betts & Wilson, Newcastle
D/X 345/1-17

Hanby Holmes, Barnard Castle
D/HH

Harding, Clinton & Burn, Sunderland
D/X 297/1,2

Hart Jackson, Halliday & Lewis, Hexham
D/X 698/1

Hewitts, Darlington etc.
D/Hew

Hodgkinson & Beevor, Newark
D/X 140/1

Hodgson & Co., London
D/X 658/1-3

Howes Percival, London
D/X 1090

Keenleyside & Forster, Newcastle
D/X 882/1-42

Kenneir & Co., Swindon
D/X 380/1-2

Kingsbury & Turner, London
D/X 459/1-101

Legge & Miller, Houghton le Spring
D/X 755/1-7

Leman, Chapman & Harrison, London
D/X 649/1-222

Levinsons, Walker & Lister, Hartlepool
D/LWL 1

Lindsay, Howe & Co., Edinburgh
D/Th 1-3

Longbourne, Stevens & Powell, London
D/X 660/1,2

Longden, Mann & Wright, Seaham
D/X 790

Longden, Mann & Wright, Sunderland
D/X 60/1

Longueville & Co., Oswestry
D/X 10/1-42; D/X 11/1-34

Lucas & Wyllys, Great Yarmouth
D/X 156/1,2

McKenzie Bell & Sons, Sunderland
D/X 76/1-10

Maples, Teesdale & Co., London
D/X 597/1-6

Marshall & Galpin, Oxford
D/X 447/1-3

May, May & Deacon, London
D/El 1-47; D/X 644/1

May, May and Merriman, London
D/X 1094

M.E.P.C. plc, London
D/X 1091

Robert Muckle, Son & Hall, Durham
D/X 636/1-18

Newby Robson & Cadle, Stockton
D/NRC 1-21; D/X 50/1

A. Ogden & Sons, Bowburn
D/X 449/1-8

Leonard, Osterman & Co.
D/X 805/1-36

Paice & Cross, London
D/X 218/1-2

Park, Nelson, Dennes, Redfern & Co., London
D/X 220/13

M. Pattison & Co., Durham
D/X 409/1

Peak & Co., London
D/X 533/1

Pennington, Lewis & Lewis, London
D/X 217/1; D/X 598/1-12; D/X 616/1-2

Pennington and Son, London
D/X 34/1,2

Radcliffes & Co., London
D/X 904/1,2

Raper & Co., Chichester
D/X 8/1

Richmond, Thorp & Huntingdon, Newcastle
D/Va 1-64

Richmonds, Newcastle
D/Ric

Rickerby, Jessop and Flint, Gloucestershire
D/X 1057

Riders, London
D/X 426/1-2

Rocks Rider, London
D/X 1092

Rowley, Son, & Royce, Royston
D/X 42/1

Royds Rawstorne & Co., London
D/TP 1-5

Rudlings & Wakelam
D/X 943/1-17

Rutter & Marchant, London
D/X 652/1-3

Ryder, Heaton, Meredith & Mills, London
D/X 3/1-21

Rye & Lemon (formerly Flegg & Sons), London
D/XP.OS 379

Shepherd and Wedderburn, Edinburgh
D/X 766/1

Slatter, Son, & More, Stratford upon Avon
D/X 590/1-16

Slaughter & May, London
D/X 237/1-22

Smith & Graham, Durham
D/X 896/1-24

Snowball, Tucker and Bibby, Durham
D/X 1056

Sparkes & Blake, Crewkerne
D/SB

Stanton, Atkinson & Bird, Newcastle
D/X 321/1-5

Steavensons, Plant & Park, Darlington
D/X 121/1

William Sturges and Co., London
D/X 1093

Allison Stott, Durham
D/X 836/1-45

Swinburne & Jackson, Durham
D/SJ; D/X 373/1-39; D/X 413/1; D/X 482/1 10

Swinburne & Jackson, Gateshead
D/X 116/1; D/X 117/1-5; D/X 118/1

Taylor, Garrett, London
D/X 786

Ticehurst, Wyatt & Co., Cheltenham
D/X 165/1-5

Titley, Paver, Crowe & Fedden, Harrogate
D/X 679/1-35

Torr & Co., London
D/X 662/1-7

A.P. & J.W. Tweedie, London
D/X 593/1-4

Wace, Morgan & Salt (formerly Wace & Sons), Shrewsbury
D/X 688/1-11

Waller, Neale & Houlston, London
D/X 234/1-25

Messrs. Warren, London
D/X 651/1-19

Waterhouse & Co., London
D/X 228/1,2

Watson, Barnard Castle
D/Wat, D/X 891/1-13; D/X 895/1-26

Watson, Burton, Booth & Robinson, Newcastle
D/X 168/1-13; D/X 169/1-81

Warrens, London
D/X 784

Western, Sons & Neave, London
CC/X

Wheldon, Houlsby & Co., South Shields
D/X 351/1; D/X 401/1-27; D/X 344/1-5

Wilkinson & Marshall, Newcastle
D/WM 1-166

Williams & James, London
D/X 753/1-5

Winckworth & Pemberton, London
D/X 785

Winterbotham, Gurney & Co., Cheltenham
D/X 164/1

Witham, Weld & Co., London
D/X 299/1; D/X 300/1-3; D/X 431/1-2

Withers, London
D/X 1089

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