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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1141 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Wheatley and Sons, undertakers, of Tow Law

Covering Dates: 1887-1979

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Station Hotel, High Street, Tow Law (Ref: D/X 1141/1-2)

R. Wheatley is listed as licensee of the Station Hotel, 63 High Street, Tow Law, in 1902, 1910 and 1914; Mary A. Wheatley is listed as its licensee in 1921, 1925 and 1929.


Account of spirits received into stock, 24 July 1896 - 1 July 1911
(1 volume, card bound)


Account of spirits sent out of stock, in the name of R. Wheatley, 16 November 1912 - 10 September 1914; in the name of Mary Ann Wheatley, 14 October 1914 - 29 June 1925; in the name of J.R. Wheatley, 9 October 1925 - 10 June 1955; in the name of T. Wheatley, 24 June 1955 - 25 April 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Records of Robert Wheatley and Sons, undertakers, High Street, Tow Law (Ref: D/X 1141/3-11)

Robert Wheatley is listed in 1879 and 1890 as a furniture broker; in 1894 as a cabinet maker and cab proprietor in High Street, Tow Law; in 1921, 1925, 1929, 1934 and 1938, as R. Wheatley and Sons, undertakers, in High Street.

Robert Wheatley is listed in the 1891 census in High Street, Tow Law, as a cabinet maker and farmer and aged 56. Also present in the household were Mary Ann Wheatley, aged 35, his wife, and John Robert Wheatley, his son, aged 3.


Funeral day book, headed Tow Law Cabinet Works, 6 January 1894 - 16 December 1901
(1 volume, card bound)


Funeral day book, headed Tow Law Cabinet Works, 16 February 1902 - 28 December 1915
(1 volume, card bound)


Funeral day book, 9 December 1939 - 15 January 1949
(1 volume, card bound)


Funeral day book, 5 July 1949 - 18 August 1957
(1 volume, card bound)


Funeral day book, 30 August 1957 - 13 February 1964
(1 volume, card bound)


Funeral day book, 23 February 1964 - 25 May 1969
(1 volume, card bound)


Funeral day book, 31 May 1969 - 22 January 1973
(1 volume, card bound)


Funeral day book, 22 January 1973 - 18 June 1976
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Funeral day book, 23 June 1976 - 29 September 1979
(1 volume, card bound)

Records of the cemetery at Tow Law (Ref: D/X 1141/12)

The census of 1891 shows George Wheatley at Dans Castle, aged 65, 'Keeper of Cemetry'. George Wheatley was R W Wheatley's brother.


Notebook recording burials in the cemetery at Tow Law, kept by George Wheatley, 6 November 1887 - 3 March 1895
(1 volume, cloth bound)