Seventy boxes of mixed business and personal papers

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Box 1 - Papers referring to the Parish Church, Keighley, the Sunday School, and Keighley Free Grammar School. 1820s- 80s. Statement of the 'Samaritan Fund', Keighley Parish Church, 1826. Poll Book for church rate, 1842. Book of memoranda on the running of the church including a dispute with the clerk and wardens, I846-S2. Ten bundles of Sunday School vouchers including receipts, bills, and other papers concerning the setting up and management of Keighley Church Sunday School (set up in 1840 in Harehill Free School House), 1840-64. Papers referring to Sunday School Sick Society, 1846-60s (established 1846). Includes accounts from 18s0s and 1860s and details of the rules. Several 'Churchman's' and other almanacks. 1800s and 1860s. Most are marked 'Mr Marriner from SS'. Statement of affairs of Keighley Free Grammar School, 1807-40. Mr W. L. Marriner to Revd R. Stansfield; agreement for tenancy of site of St Peters Iron Church at Keighley. Box 2 - Further papers referring to Keighley Church and Church Schools,1820s- c1885. Large bundle of papers concerning Sunday school and church affairs, 1820s- 80s.Includes bills and receipts. Methodist hymns copied from the 18gos. Copy of 'National School Account' as sent to the commissioners in London, 1844 (very detailed account). Documents referring to St Peters Church, Keighley, 1880s, including detailed building accounts for 1880, architect Sir Isaac Booth of Halifax. Box 3. Eleven Diaries, mainly Methodist. 1781-180g. Many are almost unused with odd entries of household accounts and Methodist devotions. One of 1804 is marked D. Spencer, woolstapler. Two of 180g belonged to K. M. A. Spencer and H. S. Marriner, Spring Gardens, New Keighley. There is little indication of the owners of the earlier diaries but they were almost certainly members of the Spencer family or Listers of Frizinghall. The two diaries for 1787 and 1789 are ladies' diaries. Box 4. Miscellaneous Family and Social Papers. 1840s- 50s. Letters to various members of the Marriner family. No obvious business references. Mainly to and from women and children in the family. Box 5. (a) Stock Books and Accounts ofJohn Spencer & Sons and David Spencer, woolstapler, Keighley. 1798-1817. Four account and memoranda books of David Spencer containing notes on orders and sales, lists of accounts due or owing, record of payment of accounts, and some details of goods and prices. Many names of suppliers and customers are given. Three books cover the period 17g8-1800, and the fourth, for 1815, is mainly confined to lists of overdue balances. 'Stock account for 1800' giving book debts and credits naming debtors and creditors. Notebook containing copy of 'Stock Book Totals', July 1816, and copy of David Spencer's account with &pencer & Company, July 1816 - May 1817. Outline stock account of Messrs John Spencer & Sons, May 1817, with a list of bad and doubtful debts and the private cash account of Mrs D. Spencer. Loose accounts of Mrs D. Spencer withJ. Spencer &< Sons, 1817, and Thos Binns, 1818. Various loose accounts of persons with the exors of John Spencer, 1817. Box 5. (b) Bundle of Business and Family Papers referring to Listers of Frizing Hall and the Spencer Family.c. 1741-1850s. Includes bill for cloth purchases, James Lister from William Rawson, 1741, and articles of agreement between Christopher Smith of Halifax, woolstapler, and James Lister of Frizing Hall, 1753. A large number of family and social letters - many to the Lister family of Frizing Hall. Some refer to the settlement of family wills, e.g. David Spencer's from 1816. A number ,of letters are to David Spencer at Bradford (early nineteenth century) and give some business information, e.g. bills and drafts for wool purchase and sale. List of debits and credits outstanding naming debtors and creditors, Feb. 1808 (probably Spencer's). Copy of case against John and David Spencer, woolstaplers, concerning an unpaid loan of £400, 1807. Odd papers, 181OS,giving some indication of summary accounts of the firm (Spencer's). Bond of indemnity of Messrs Binns & Williamson, woolstaplers and worsted spinners, to Miss Spencer for a loan of £10,000, 1821. Box 6. Business and Estate Correspondence of Marriner Family. c. 1865-1880s. Book of over a thousand copy letters mainly signed by Wm Lister Marriner or Benjamin Flesher Marriner, Greengate Mills. Many are family letters but some refer to business, e.g. the settlement of accounts and relations with employees, 1865-9. Bundle of papers, mainly letters to and from Wm Lister Marriner. Most refer to the administration of various properties and there is little reference to business. Box 7. Large bundle of old manuscript sermons (n.d.). (c. mid -late eighteenth century.) Box 8. Bundle of Lister and Marriner Business Papers. 1700s- 1847. Includes letter from London about soap supplies, and bills to Lister for wool bought in 1706. Specification and diagram for building a goit, 18Ig. Details of interest accruing on bills, 182I. Tops, rovings, and yarn in hand (Marriner's), 1824. Sheet of book debts and credits (n.d.). Stock Book, 1833-8, giving a detailed inventory and valuation of stock, utensils, and machinery, Dec. each year. Includes yarn to Glasgow and later Manchester. Only the warehouse stock is given for 1838 but an additional stockbook for that year provides the complementary information. Stock Book, 1847, gives detailed inventory and valuation of machinery, shafting and wood fixtures in all rooms. Box 9. Papers on Family History to the Twentieth century. Much detail of ancestry, mainly investigated in the twentieth century, from a variety of sources. Family traced back to Edward III. Some early nineteenth-century letters concerning the family are included. (Richard Fox Lister, d. 181I, was possibly the last of the family to live at Frizing Hall. His sister Clarissa married David Spencer. Their daughter married Benjamin Flesher Marriner of Keighley. Their son was Wm Lister Marriner.) Box 10. Probate of the will of William Marriner and other papers. 1876-1921. Concerns settlement of the legacy, succession, and trust following the death of William Marriner. Wound up in 1921. Box 11. Marriner Family Papers. Includes papers concerning the death of Norman Butler Marriner, worsted spinner and manufacturer, died 1903. Family baptism, marriage, and death certificates from nineteenth century. Letters about the Marriner family tree, 1940s. Box 12. Papers-relating to Christopher Netherwood, Cliffe Hall, Keighley, 1840s (plus 1783). Christopher Netherwood was a partner at West House Spinning Mill, Blubberhouses, 1840S (Messrs Netherwood & Company). Papers mainly refer to administration of property and sale of land. Some refer to West House, e.g. letter from Paris purchasers of yarn. Includes a memoranda book of 1783 inscribed 'Netherwood'. Box 13. Papers relating to Hope Mill Estate, Keighley. 1856-g2. Including 1862, 1869, and 1871 mortgages of the estate with Hope Mill, worsted spinning machinery and fixtures. Also conveyance from the trustees of the Keighley & Craven Permanent Benefit Building Society (mortgagees of Mr Benjamin Bedford) to Wm L. Marriner, 1892. Insurance policy, 1879, indicates that the mill was dismantled. Box 14. Marriner Business Papers. 1820-53· Rough agreement of Benjamin and William Marriner to let to Thos Robinson a part of the third room in Greengate Mill, with power to turn eight worsted spinning frames, for five years at a rate of 6/- per spindle per year, 1825. Statistics of water and steam spindleage and cost of fixed capital purchases (n.d.), c. 1820s or 1830s. Figures possibly referring to stock and fixed capital values, 1840-8. Rough statistics of trade and other expenses, stock totals, withdrawals of partners, and wages paid each year, 1850-3. Box 15. Miscellaneous papers mainly referring to Family, Church, and Property. Includes papers referring to volunteers in Keighley, 1803, and John Spencer, Ensign, 1804. Tenth Report of Keighley Mechanics Institute, 1836, with list of members and catalogue of books and apparatus. Papers referring to the schooling of W. L. Marriner, 1830s and 1840s, including yearly lists of pupils at Revd John Paine's School, Dewsbury Moor. Newspaper notices of births and deaths in the family. Short account of 'Mother and Father's visit to Sweden', 1895, by R. V. Marriner. Box 16. Miscellaneous Property and Family Papers, 1613-1895, with reference to machinery at Hebden Bridge, 1791. Typed list of deeds relating to Frizing Hall and District, 1613-1895. Ladies diary, 1771, with sparse social entries, Rebbecca Lister? Many letters to Rebecca Fox Lister from her brother Thos Myers. 'The Yorkshire Memorandum Book' B. F. Lister, 1791, containing record of payments for irregular work done (building and gardening) and notes on family visits and marriages. On II May he records a visit to Hebden Bridge to see the cotton machines and 'Rawdens' water-wheel. Description of wheel, depth of water, number of frames of worsted, number of scribbling frames, twisters, rovers and spindles with cost per spindle. At the back are some rough calculations of spindleages and labour required for certain work. Box 17. Family, Social, Property and Household papers, late eighteenth tq twentieth centuries. Includes journal of James Bedford, Beckside, Keighley (probably a constable), Nov. 1842 - Oct. 1844; daily observations of drunk and disorderly behaviour. Ladies Almanacks, 1769 and 1787, sparse entries. Box 18. Papers referring to Parish Church, Keighley, and Free Grammar School. c. 1824-62. Quarterly accounts of church members, 1820S, 1830s. Account Book of donations, 1820S- 40s. Memorandum Book of Free Grammar School, B. F. Marriner was trustee. Account of ca~h disbursements, 1859-62, for building work done. Includes bills and vouchers. Box 19. Letters and Personal Papers of B. F. Marriner. 1810s - 60S. Includes several hundred letters mainly from friends and famiL~ with little reference to business. Some are from America. Hotel bills from Lincoln, Stamford, Newark, and Spalding, c. 1820S. Paper giving value of machines in warping mill, rents charged and wages paid (n.d.). Papers and account of Mrs and Miss Spencer with Mr Binns and exors of John Spencer, senr, 1820S. Receipts for insurance premium payments, 1860s. Box 20. Papers ofB. F. Marriner. 1820S- 60S. Three notebooks of petty private cash expenses, 1820S- 40s. Deeds relating to Blackburn & Addingham Turnpike Trust (B. F. Marriner and W. L. Marriner were trustees) plus statement of accounts for 1855. Accounts of Keighley & Bradford Turnpike Trust, 1860s. Files of private letters received 1865 and 1866. Box 21. Insurance Policies. 1813-55. Globe 51350,1813, MessrsJohn and ThosBlakey and Ann Marriner, insurance of Keighley Cotton Mill, fixed capital and stock £4,000, plus water-wheel. Receipts for premium payments. Leeds and Yorkshire policy 1911, 1842, Messrs B. and W. Marriner, insurance of 'Old Mill', £6,000. Great detail of worsted mill given. Receipts for yearly premiums paid to the Leeds and Yorkshire for early policies on mill and warehouse, 1831-46. Amounts of insurances stated. Receipts of yearly premium payments to Halifax, Bradford & Keighley Insurance Company, 1849-55. Box 22. Mill Accounts. 1818-58. Balance sheet of Greengate Mill concern. John and Thos Blakey and Mrs Marriner's shares are detailed and a total valuation of the concern is given, 1818. Yearly interest accounts on short term loans to Greengate Mill, M., W., and B. Marriner and others. Amounts loaned and interest rates are given. 1834-7, 1841-3 and 1849. Detailed yearly balance sheets, I838-g, 1839-40, 1848-53, and 1858. These give the balance of book debts and credits, value of machinery, stock and buildings, floating capital, and a profit and loss statement. The difference between single and double entry balances is stated for 1838-9. Box 23. Church and School Papers, 1825-49. Parish Church cash book, 1821-8. Keighley Savings Bank account book of Edwin Smith in trust for Sunday School Fund, 1825-35. Parish Church subscriptions, 1839-49. Papers recording expenditure on behalf of National School. Box 24. Spencer Family Letters. 1817-20S. Mainly concerning property and family affairs. Includes settlement of estate on death of David Spencer, 182I. Box 25. Keighley Church, Sunday School, Grammar School, and National School. 1810s- 90S. Papers referring to various accounts, excursions, church rates, and administration. Bills and receipts. Press cuttings on the 'religious question'. Detailed churchwarden'l\ accounts, 1840S and 1860s. Account of subscriptions received for establishment of National School. Accounts of Missionary Association, I840S- 50S. Papers referring to St Peter's Church, Keighley, I880s, 18gos. Box 26. Legal Documents. 1791-1895. Includes schedule of deeds belonging to W. L. Marriner and relating to his properties, 1791-1895. Bill to Messrs Marriners from Christopher Netherwood for arranging loans on security of property. Release of premises at Greengate, Keighley, to Messrs B. and W. Marriner from F. J. and E. Greenwood, Hartley, and others. Box 27. B. F. Marriner, Personal and Estate Papers. 1814-70. Account book ofB. F. Marriner concerning expenditure and receipts of Frizing Hall Estate, 1814-25. Includes list of callicoes in Mr Gilson's warehouse, 1814-17. Rent account book and memoranda of Frizing Hall Estate, 1825-65. Personal letters to B. F. Marriner, c. 1820S.Book recording wages paid on garden, farm and 'in trade' naming workers and indicating work done, 1850-6 I. Book containing account of annuity expenditure, 1850-7, and memoranda, 1858-70. Box 28. Legal Documents, 1870s. Mortgages and conveyances of hereditaments in Keighley including those of Enoch Tempest and W. L. Marriner, brickworkers. Box 29. Miscellaneous Papers mainly of W. L. Marriner. Letters received, addressed to W. L. Marriner at Greengate Mills but mainly referring to family and social matters, I840S- 60S,with a complete folder for 1866. Statement of assets and liabilities ofMr W. L. Marriner deceased, Dec. 1917. Box 30. Papers mainly of W. L. Marriner (social affairs and brickworks). 1839-80s. . Small number of school letters, 1839-40. Letters to W. L. Marriner, 1843-5, from various friends. Most are from Thos Claphartl, Niagara, Canada. Diary, 1852, containing family and social memoranda. File of callers received, 1855-6, similar to those in Box 29. Papers relating to Greengate Brick Works, I877-9. Includ~s calculations of income, expenditure and economic viabilitY. Memoranda on Blind Lane property, costs of purchase, excavation and mortgage details, 1870s. Large bundle of papers, 1870S and 1880s, referring to various properties particularly brickworks and quarry, Blind Lane, and Wicken Cragg. Box 31. Wills and Legal Papers. Notes on wills of the family since the seventeenth century. Stamp duty papers, 180g (Wm Marriner, senr). Will of Luke Smith, Keighley, woolcomber, 1813. Mr Thomas Hanson and others (including woolcombers particularly Smith family) to Mr Benjamin F. Marriner; Bond ofIndemnity relating to the will of Luke Smith. Box 32. Papers on Early History of the Marriner Textile Concern. 1786-c.1819. Sales and Purchase Account Book, 1786-1791. Inscribed Watson, Blakeys, Smith & Greenwood, Far Greengate Cotton Factory. Indexed accounts of named suppliers and customers with their locations. Twist and cotton wool sold, cotton bought. Trade mostly with Blackburn, Bury and Manchester. Includes loose bills of Blakeys and Blakeys & Marriner, 1814. Several bundles of bills of exchange, Blakey and Marriner, 1790-1820S. Mostly three-months bills on London. Bond of several cotton spinners, including William Marriner, with the exors of William Blakey, regarding a sum of £800, 1795· Letter from William Marriner to his cousin of the same name in Skipton, referring to prices of tops and wool, 1795. Bond of several persons to Wm Marriner for sum of £1,000, 1800. William Marriner's statement of income with Watson Blakey & Marriner, 1801-4· A complaint from Illingworth & Marriner, cotton spinners, Oct. 1814, concerning damaged cotton wool bought from Joseph Robinson of Manchester. Agreement. Mr. Blakey giving up one third of Greengate Mill and contents to Wm and Benjamin Marriner for one year, 1817. Valuation of cotton machinery made by John Roper for 'J.W.' (n.d.) c. 1800s. List of deeds concerning Greengate Mill, 1817-20. Miscellaneous business papers including private account ofThos Blakey, Greengate Mill, 18I8, plus bills and correspondence. John Blakey, Mrs Blakeys, Ann Marriner, Thos Blakey, private and current accounts with Greengate Mill, 1818-19. Box 33. Miscellaneous Papers. Various papers concerning the interests of the Marriner family in turnpike roads, railways, quarrying, farming and other concerns. Box 34. Family Papers. Large number of letters to and from various members of the family including many from widespread parts of the British Empire, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bundle of Mrs D. Spencer's letters, early nineteenth century. Large bundle of letters to Mr Richard Fox Lister of Frizing Hall. Other letters of Lister, Spencer, and Marriner families. Prayers and personal memoranda. Box 35. Letters to Benjamin F. Marriner. 1860s. Mainly from children and grandchildren. Many have reference to religion. Box 36. Diaries and Notebooks with some references to Business. 1835-1905. Diaries of B. F. Marriner, 1835 and 1837. The latter has entry of 9 March referring to the start of building the foundation for the engine house. Pocket book, 1848, of Wm L. Marriner. Notebook difficult to read but starts on 7 Sept. 1843 and possibly refers to wool dealings, and cen~us returns of 1851-61. A similar notebook from Jan. 1855 refers more certainly to wool dealings and the 1860s entries refer to property repairs and administration. Book of addresses of London agents and dealers with notes on expenses, 1858-9. At the other end the book records expenditure on farming, animals and labour, 1860s. Diaries for Ig02-5 possibly belonging to Wm L. Marriner and containing some business references. Diary of 1850 kept by one of B. F. Marriner's sons with full entries but mainly referring to social activities. Box 37. Legal and other Documents of Lister Family, Frizing Hall, mid-eighteenth century, nineteenth century. Includes agreement for, sale of coal pit at Frizing Hall, Richard Fox Lister to Messrs Clark & Beanlands, 17g2. List of goods and tonnage sent and received by Mr James Lister via Bradford Navigation, 1774-6. Bundle of deeds, I750S- 18IOS.Conveyances and leases oflands in and near Frizing Hall and at Heaton, Spencer and Lister families. Box 38. Conveyances, Deeds, and other Papers, eighteenth century to 1920s. Includes three eighteenth-century bonds for securing loans for Abraham Smith. Estimates for erections at Frizing Hall, 1825' Papers concerning the administration of estates; the letting of coal seams, farms, and cottages; roads at Heaton and Greengate, and affairs with local railways, 1820S- 70S. Papers relating to Turf Tavern including valuations, I840S- 60S. Abstract of title o~ Samuel Smith, machine maker, to land at Spring Gardens, 1872. ' Release and indemnity of R. V. Marriner to H. G. Pearson from loan secured by mortgage of lands at Frizing Hall (1872), Ig08. Details of other loans to R. V. Marriner from members of the family and friends. Box 39. Miscellaneous Papers. 1822, I900. Bills from various inns, 1822. One copy of Bailey's Managers' and Overlookers' Assistant (worsted spinning), stamped Marriner, Son & Naylor, June 1900. Box 40. Business Papers, 1831-50s. Two letters from William Marriner to his brother with reference to the wool and cloth business, 1831. Details of bill of exchange endorsed by Marriner's for George Moody, stuff merchant of Manchester and London, now bankrupt, 183g. Bills for purchases including wool and oil, 1830S- 50S. Results of sorting and spinning wool from various named suppliers, 1841. Bills for lime from Riddlesden Lime Kilns, 1856. Box 41. Miscellaneous Papers mainly nineteenth century. Plan of Halycroft estate near Keighley, 1749. Copies of Acts of Parliament referring to roads: Otley to Skipton and Skipton to Colne, 1802; Leeds to Hebden Bridge, 1814; and Keighley to Bradford alterations, 1815 Nineteenth-century posters for social events, saving banks, auction sales, Keighley water supply (including plan), lotteries, and poor rates. Anti-Methodist pamphlets, mid-nineteenth century. Box 42. Wills. 1730S- 1900s. About forty wills of various members of Marriner, Spencer, Smith, Lister, and Anderton families. Box 43. Business Papers. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bill-heads and adverts from various periods illustrating the mill buildings. Itineries of works trips and dinners. Interior and exterior photographs of Greengate Mills. Photographs of named persons including W. ]. Boissande, London agent, 1906. Press cuttings referring to the history of the firm, 1928, 1950. Box 44. Personal Papers. Twentieth century. Letters and documents concerning Mary Marriner and S. F. Marriner. Includes personal financial affairs, share purchases, etc. Box 45. Mill and Machinery Papers. 1820S,30s, and 1908. Letter from S. Hardwick, Stamford Bridge, concerning a large oak tree probably for use in making wheel and machinery, 182I. Note on water rent for goit, 1826. Gas rate bill, 1828. Bundle of price quotations, for 30 h. p. condensing steam engines, from Haigh Foundry Company, Wigan; Soho Iron Works, Bolton; Galloway Bowman & Glasgow of Manchester; Fairburn of Manchester; and Bowling Iron Company, 1836. Agreement with Bowling Company, and agreement with Haigh Foundry Company, for making 30 h.p. condensing steam engine - detailed description given with price, 1836. Various chimney, dressing room and boiler house estimates, 1830s. Plan of chimney from Haigh Foundry Company, 1827. Notes on various quotations, 1835-6. Agreement of Benjamin Berry to make worsted spinning framesdescriptions given, 1838. . Agreement to make a screw gill roller from Taylor Wadsworth & Company, 1839. Agreement to let middle room of New Mill, Greengate to Mr Thos Waterhouse, Keighley, worsted spinner. Undated papers referring to letting of room, power, and machinery including details of machinery and its value in a room to be let. Letter to B. and W. Marriner from London solicitor concerning a summons for infringement of patent carding machine, 1838. Notes on Greengate Mill water level and water proposed to be sent down the River Worth by the Bradford Corporation Waterworks Bill. Detailed inventory (no valuation) of machinery proposed to be taken over by R. V. Marriner from the estate of Marriner, Son & Naylor, Greengate and Hope Mills, Keighley, March 1908. Box 46. Marriner Legal and Business Documents. 1784-1883. Proposal and articles of agreement for building a cotton mill and going into partnership, Rowland Watson, Joseph Blakey, John Blakey, Abraham Smith, James Greenwood, 3 Nov. 1784. Notice of dissolution of the firm Illingworth & Marriner, cotton spinners and manufactur~rs, Groves Mill, Keighley, 1822. William Marriner to B. F. and W. L. Marriner, lease of her edit aments and premises at Greengate, Keighley (his share of the mills, etc.), 1858. Conveyances of lands from Marriners to Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Great Northern Railway, 1865 and 1883 respectively. Box 47. Papers concerning Mill and labour. 1825 - c. 1918. First annual report of Keighley Mechanics Institute, established 1825. Report of Sub-committee of Inspectors District Eleven giving number of families, earnings, numbers of straw beds, and other remarks on living standards, including sickness, nuisances, and drains, 1831. Particulars of births and deaths in three parishes, Keighley,' Kildwick, and Haworth, each year 1838-44. Details of fines, donations and subscriptions, 1830S - 48, e.g. Mill forfeits and sick dues - giving details and names of workers with the rooms in which they worked. Signed declaration of Greengate Mill workers that they would protect the mill and not join riotous assemblies, Aug. 1842. Notice of dissolution of partnership of B. F. Marriner and Wm Marriner, to be continued by B. F. Marriner and W. L. Marriner, 1857. Duties of B. F. Marriner, Wm Marriner, W. L. Marriner and 'S.B.B.' in the mill are stated (n.d.). Dole book, 1882-92, giving a record of payments to named workers probably from a club at thf' mill. Itinerary of an excursion to Morecambe, 1913. Papers concerning workers' occupations during the First World War. Agreement of Messrs Marriner, Son & Naylor with Mr S. Dawson Watson as market man, 1917. Box 48. Business Papers. 1820S- 70s. Letters from R. Gallou, Leeds, merchant, 1820-1. Five booklets of B. and W. Marriner giving prices of various types and qualities of carded yarns, heald yarns and genappe yarns. Includes a large number of detailed price lists of all yarns produced by Marriners, 1838-60s. Samples of silk and cloths, many of which incorporate a silk warp. Various pattern diagrams. A few loose orders received for various yarns, 1830s. List of the value of Marriners' monthly sales in Manchester, 1852, with wage costs also detailed. Letter from a Liverpool exporter concerning the state of North American market and indebtedness there. Box 49. Newspaper and Magazine Cuttings. 1820s- 1910s. Cuttings from Leeds and Bradford newspapers and from Evangelical magazines. Many refer to Marriners or to local events or economic circumstances of interest to the business. Some refer to roads and waterworks (mid nineteenth century) where they affected the Marriner interests. Box 50. Personal Papers of Lister, Spencer, and Marriner Families. 1624- 1930s. Large bundle of deeds and other papers, from 1624onwards, referring to the settlement of Lister family affairs and estates. Family letters and accounts of the Listers and the Spencers, late eighteenth to early ninett>enth centuries. Some of the Spencer letters refer to the woolstapling business. Marriner family letters, nineteenth century, mainly referring to social and personal affairs and estate administration, little reference to business. Copy of Act for supplying water to town of Keighley, 1876. Constable's account of town and parish of Keighley, 1834-6. Book of letters sent by Edgar S. Marriner from Africa, 1891. Bills and cheques, 1920S- 30s. ' Box 51. Frizing Hall Deeds. Three large bundles from seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Lister family and others. Box 52. Lister and Marriner Estate Papers, mainly 1779-1844. Account Book, 1779-81, of farm rents received. Indexed by name of tenant. Letters from Revd John Myers to his sister-in-law, Mrs Rebecca Lister, 1786-97. (He administered her property in Lincolnshire.) Other Myers/Lister family letters. Papers concerning administration of Frizing Hall estate including large bundle ofletters to R. F. Lister, 1800s, referring to property dealings, and from friends and relatives. Detailed account of cash receipts and disbursements of an estate, 1813-16. Receipts of John Spencer's payments of rent to Lord G. H. Cavendish, 1816-21. Printed book of calculations of interest accruing on outstanding bills at various percentages and over various lengths of time (n.d.), probably early nineteenth century. Book of farm accounts, 1821. Small album of poetry 'M. R. Marriner' and W. L. Marriner, 1844. Twentieth-century income tax claims and other papers. Box 53. Leases and Conveyances ofland at Greengate, 1711-1825. Leases, releases, conveyances and sale documents (12 items). Box 54. Anderton, Spencer, and Marriner Business References. lvr 1782-1850. Includes diary of 1782 inscribed 'Marriner' and recording appointments and expenses with some reference to dealings in cloth. Account book, 1795-6 (probably John Spencer), containing indexed accounts of named purchasers of wool, tops and noyles (no quantities stated). Account book, 1813-32, with irregular i entries including some references to wool sales - probably John Spencer. Bundle of letters to John Anderton, merino and worsted manufacturer of Cullingworth, 1843-50. Some business letters from f Bradford and Liverpool merchants referring to the export of cloth to Genoa, Valparaiso, Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. Bills for dyeing and the purchase of soap. Box 55. Family Trees of various branches of the family from late sixteenth to twentieth century. Box 56. Lister Estate Papers. Plan of Greengate Mill (1908). Papers mainly concerning the Listers' rights to various lands, 1613-late eighteenth century. Many references to Richard Fox Lister raising money by loans and mortgages. Indenture for sale of coal mines near Frizing Hall, 1757. Lease of.coal mines at Shipley to Mr Lister, 1758. Family letters of Mrs Ashley (nee Lister), mid -late eighteenth century. Ladies pocket journal, 1781, belonging to Rebecca Lister of Lincoln. Early nineteenth-century religious texts. Plan of Greengate Mill, 1908. Box 57. Mill and Property Papers. 1784-1919. Mr William Sharp, shalloon maker, to Watson Blakey Smith and others, wool staplers and cloth manufacturers: lease of water course at Far Greengate, 1784. Specification for mason and joiner's work on the enlargement of the warehouse at Greengate Mills, 1831. Various early nineteenth-century papers concerning the rights of roadways across and near the Marriner estates. Papers concerning disputes about roads near the mill, 1831 and 1845, and water levels, 1845. Agreement to lay lead pipes (in Mill?) 1840. Plan for diversion of Sutcliffe House Beck (1857?). Specification for the erection ofa culvert at Sutcliffe House for Wm Marriner, 1857. Grant of privilege of widening goit to Greengate Mills, 1857 and 1860. Memos on cost of new goit, 1859. Detailed plans for the extension of Greengate Mills, Jan. 1861. Plans of Greengate Mills and estate (n.d.). Correspondence concerning a goit, 1870s. Papers referring to the renting of cottages and farms and disputes with tenants and neighbours. Agreement for sale ofland to Keighley §L Worth Valley Railway, 1865. , Plans and a paper concerning the partition of the Marriner estates, 1885. Proposed mill building plan, Edw. Marriner, 1889. Auction notice ofGreengate Mills and other premises (still powered by water), 1912. W. H. L. Marriner to R. V. Marriner -lease of one equal undivided moiety of Greengate Mills, 1919. Box 58. Marriner Family Letters. Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Family letters of Margaret Marriner (d. 1845) - mainly to her parents. Edgar Marriner's letters (d. 189I). Letters from Sidney Fox Marriner to Mary Marriner from India and also mentioning South African' War and Great War, 1914-18. Box 59. Anderton family Account Books etc. c. I 797-1860s. Tenants' Waste Book, 1797-181 I, recording receipts from and other dealings with tenants, and expenses incurred in administration of the estate. Loose bills of exchange, 1800s. Papers concerning case of a refusal to repay in full £2,000 lent on mortgage by John Anderton to Mr Sutcliffe of Stansfield Hall, 1810. Indenture, Mr John Parnably to John Anderton (farmer)- lease of premises at Cullingworth. Details of bills of exchange payable, 1828-66. Record of dates of birth in the Anderton family, 1784-1801. Will of John Anderton, woolstapler, 1819. Stamp duty papers. Papers referring to Anderton's involvement in various court cases with related solicitors' bills, 1810S, 1860s. Papers authorising four different firms in Havana, Cuba, to be sole attorneys and agents for John Anderton, merchant, of Cullingworth, 1832, 1835, 1842, and 1845. Papers concerning various Anderton properties including references to Wilsden Mills, 1830s, e.g. indictment ofJohn Anderton for employing a girl, under 18 years old, more than nine hours a day. Papers on assessed t~es of John Anderton, 1830S- 40s. Business letters 1842, 1858, referring to trade with Hamburg and the wool shortage. Account Book, 1839-60, containing accounts of various named persons with some references to wool and cloth dealings but mainly concerning property, mortgage, and interest dealings. Various Anderton wills including that of Joseph Anderton, 1853. Documents relating to the deed of settlement between John Anderton ofWilsden and W. L. Marriner, 1866. Box 60. Mill Notebook, 'B. F. Marriner'. i Calculation tables of: ends, weight, and drafts for various warps, 120 yards long; how to calculate the weights of bundles of yarn from hanks per knott and knotts per bundle; the 'draft the roving is made for'; rule of how to tell the weight of a warp having the number ot<- ends, lengths and counts given, and how to take the draft and twist ofa frame. At the back are memoranda referring to every branch of worsted spinning at Greengate Mills. Comments on the best methods for various processes, and definitions of terms used in the trade. Box 61. Documents and Letters relating to partition of the Marriner Estates (1889)' 1820S- 99. Agreement to dissolve partnership of W. L. Marriner and Edward David Marriner, 1888, including detailed plan of Greengate Mills and reservoir. Comments of solicitors and arbitrators on all possible arrangements. Some earlier legal documents relating to the estate are included, 1820S- 88. Papers, 1889-90S concern affairs arising out of the partition, disputes, etc. Box 62. Lister and Spencer Papers. Seventeenth to early nineteenth century. Bundle of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Lister family papers including receipts for payment of hearth tax and other dues, papers concerning property and family affairs, and inventory and valuation of debits and credits ofJoshua Marshall, clothier and cloth merchant, of Heaton (d. early eighteenth century). Accounts, bills and other papers kept by R. F. Lister as surveyor of roads in Heaton, 1786-7. Book containing farming and household accounts, 1777-97· (Probably belonged to R. F. Lister as he was paying interest to Scholefield. ) Bundle of legal papers, 1795-1810, concerning R. F. Lister and lands at Frizing Hall. Includes mortgages for securing various amounts of money. Notebook of David Spencer, c. 1796, and four account books' 1797-8, 1802-3, 1804, and 1810-1 I. All give notes on dealings in tops and wool, naming purchasers and suppliers, and giving outstanding accounts, naming debtors and creditors. Some interesting loose business letters are included in each book. Notebook of Clarissa Spencer, 1808, contains personal jottings, mainly devotional ~oems and prayers. Wallet containing a varied assortment of family letters to Spencer, Lister, and Marriner family members, mainly early nineteenth century. Box 63. Marriner: Personal Property Papers. 1832-79. Correspondence concerning Spring Gardens, Keighley - bills for builders work, and detailed specifications, 1832. Plans, bills and other papers relating to the erection of a house at Worthville for Wm Marriner, 1850s. Papers, 1850S- 1913, referring to subsequent dealings with this and other houses. Includes mortgage of Worthville and lands for £5,000, 1879. Box 64. Legal Papers with references to Mills, 1680s- 1860s. Includes indenture and two leases referring to 'Mills', 168os. Abstract of title to disputed water rights, mid eighteenth centuryhas references' to indentures from 1680s concerning fulling mills and goits in Keighley. Many legal papers referring to Frizing Hall Estate and Spencer and Anderton family properties. Includes abstract of mortgage from John Spencer to Mr David Denbigh of Utley for securing £800. Agreement for a new road near Greengate, 1840. Other papers concerning roads and land in Keighley, I860s - 80S. Indenture, Wm Marriner to B. F. Marriner and W. L. Marriner, referring to Greengate Mill, 1858. Box 65. Personal Papers. Early nineteenth century. Household Account Book. 1807-10 (Richard Fox Lister). Book of poems and maxims, possibly B. M. A. Spencer, early nineteenth century. Copy of Moore's Almanack, 1820. Notebook, 1829-30s, containing poems, jottings, private memoranda. Box 66. Major Accounts of the Marriner business, Two Ledgers. 1841-84. Ledger. Jan. 1841- Dec. 1855. Accounts of named purchasers and suppliers of goods, 1841. Locations are given and are mainly West Riding. Goods sold are mainly yarns. Purchases include soap, oil, and wool. Includes sales of yarn to Philadelphia. Indexed. June 1842- Dec. 1855. Half-yearly (June and Dec.) list of debtors and creditors of B. and W. Marriner with amounts owed or owing. Ledger page references to relevant transactions. Balance calculated. A balance sheet for each half year is given, with the value of machinery, fitments, wool, and other raw materials (subdivided), buildings, and yarn. These are put against the balance of the debt sheet and rents. Page references to other ledgers are given for each valuation. The balance of the various ledgers is given in some years and for 1855 the balance of ledgers is marked as 'carried to the profit and loss account'. Ledger. June 1856- Dec. 1884. Half-yearly accounts as in the above ledger. Balance of trade account and balance of ledgers are marked as carried to the profit and loss account. Box 67. Books and Papers relating to Marriners' 'Caminando Brass Band'. 1844-60s. Rules of the band (founded 1845), record of membership and subscriptions, accounts, note of instruments played. Two diaries of events and occasions at which the band participated, 1844-50s. Judges comments at contests at Aston Park, Birmingham, 4 Aug. 1862, and Crystal Palace, 9 Sept. 1862, when Marriners won. Box 68. Various Business Valuations, Accounts and other papers. 1776-1925. Deed of apprenticeship of Wm Marriner of Settle to Wm Sinclair, linen draper, of Skipton, 26 Oct. 1776. Bundle of letters, 1822-30. Mainly between B. and W. Marriner, their sister and their mother. Personal references, particularly to religious and social affairs. They inc1ude some business content, mainly information on the purchase of wool. Some are written by B. Marriner from Scarborough where he was buying wool. Names of suppliers and prices are given. Yearly list of debtors and creditors with amounts owing by or owed to Marriners, c. 1816 (n.d.). Marked Blakey and Marriner, 1818-20, and 1837. Account of yarn and money in the hands of about 50 named weavers, detailed with cuts, wefts, and combed or uncombed amounts. Private interest accounts of B. Marriner and W. Marriner. Pieces on hand, unfinished and finished. List of debtors and creditors with amounts owing or owed. Yearly in Dec. 1823, 1824, 1830-4. Weavers not named in the later accounts. The same accounts, excluding yarn in weavers' hands, and together with details of loans from named persons giving principal and interest. 1821, 1825-6, and 1828-36. Tops, rovings and yarn (details) in the hands of named persons, Dec. 1826 and April 1827. Detailed inventory and valuation of machinery, fitments, and stock of materials, Jan - April 1827. Balance sheet, 1827. List of debtors and creditors and private interest accounts, 1827. Debtors and creditors list and balance sheet similar to those in Ledgers of Box 66, 1841. Heald yarn accounts, Dec. each year 1833-7. Names, ledger numbers and locations (West Riding and Lancs.) of more than 100 persons with 'Mr. Nixon's commission on money received', 'doubtful', and 'net balance owing'. Obviously yarn sales. Eight similar heald yarn accounts quarterly, 1840 and 1841. Between 50 and 60 named purchasers with debts doubtful, balance, heaids sold, discount, and money received. The balance of sales and cash received is given each quarter. Detailed plan of Greengate Mills, 1893. Plan of Greengate Mills and its environs showing proposed new road (n.d.), late nineteenth century. R. V. Marriner, Esq., to R. V. Marriner Ltd; lease of Greengate Mills, Keighley, I Sept. 1925. Box 69. Family, Estate and Business Papers. 1613!1771-1901. Schedule of deeds, etc., relating to Lister and Marriner properties. Account of Bradford Navigation sent to James Lister, 1771-7. Fifteen old printed road surveys for many routes including several in Wales, plus for example York to Whitby, York to Manchester (n.d.). Whig poster, c. 1833. Early nineteenth-century plan of the position of Greengate Mills (n.d.). A few press cuttings, 1822-1926, including obituary articles on B. F. Marriner, 1866, and William Lister Marriner, I906, and several pieces on the General Strike of 1926. Photographs and drawings of the family, 1860-1940, and local scenes including a photograph of Frizinghall, 1860. Three small almanacks for the years 1854-6, containing odd memoranda mainly of a personal nature, W. Marriner. Small 'Ledger', 1866-71, containing short daily notes on orders received naming purchasers and giving a page reference to another ledger. Named 'accounts to receive and record of receipts' are given, 1868-71. Box 70. Diaries of W. L. Marriner. 1838-89. Day to day events described are predominantly of a personal or social nature but there are an increasing number of intermittent references to business as the years progressed. The first is for 1838 and refers to school work as Marriner was just a young boy. The second volume covers the years 1842-8 when he was taking an increasing interest in the business. The remainder are for individual years: 1851, 1852, 1857-9, 1861, 1863-9, I870-9, 1880-1889. There are two for 1888 but one is possibly not W. L. Marriner's.

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