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Total number of records: 64

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society55
Brotherton Collection2
Business Archives1
Medical Collections1

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letters2
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cotton trade1
dissection1
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Clay, J W2
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Duncan, Thomas Beveridge1
Etton Family of York1
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Gott, William1
Hey, John (1777-1801)1
Hey, Richard (1789)1
Hey, Samuel (1815-1888)1

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Archive Collection

PHOTOCOPY OF A LETTER FROM CHARLES FAIRFAX AT MENSTON TO MR NICHOLAS DENMAN, MAYOR OF HULL

(1645)

Relating to the plague in Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford and Halifax. Gives details of numbers of dead in various townships. With transcript. Original is in Hull City Record Office L402

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T.B. Duncan. J.P., Lord Mayor, City of Leeds vol.1

1919-1920

Scrapbook on T. B. Duncan, Lord Mayor of Leeds, from 1919-1920. Contains news cuttings, invitations, menus for many of the events he attended, meeting notices, a letter from Douglas Haig, orders of s...

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ORDER OF THE MAYOR OF RIPON FOR PAYMENT TO THE WIFE OF THOMAS METCALFE, A PRIVATE IN THE RIPON LOYAL VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

20 May 1804

Payment of 3/-d per week for one month to Dorothy Metcalfe of Aismunderby with Bondgate, unable to support herself and child while her husband Thomas Metcalfe, bucklemaker, is serving as a private in ...

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INDENTED LIST OF MUNIMENTS RELATING TO THE BOROUGH OF PONTEFRACT

9 Sep 1735

List of 87 items from 1193/4 to 18th century. Delivered from John Hitchingman, late mayor of Pontefract to John Lee, esquire, present mayor of Pontefract

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GRANT OF EASEMENT AND PRIVILEGE

5 May 1853

1. Joseph Whitely esquire of Halifax and John Bryan of Ovenden, farmer 2. The mayor and alderman and burgesses of Halifax

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: GENEALOGICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

nd [19th century]

Comprising a volume lettered "Genealogical and Topographical Collections", by Radcliffe. It contains material relating to Doncaster with a list of Mayors, notes regarding Sprotborough and Brierley, ex...

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Miscellaneous documents

nd [19th-20th century]

18. Two letters from Alfred Malim to the parish clerk, Wakefield, requesting genealogical information from Rotherham and Wakefield parish registers in connection with the Malin/Malim family, 7-9 Feb 1...

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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ORGANS

1837-1950s

Includes 'A History of Leeds Town Hall Organ' by W Cattley (organ builder) [1950s], a booklet 'Specifications of Organs built by Abbott and Smith Leeds' [n.d.], a copy of 'The Organ' magazine, featuri...

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REVEREND JOSEPH HUNTER MANUSCRIPTS: NOTES AND EPHEMERA

1822-1851

Collection of notes and printed ephemera relating to Southwark London and Middlesex including:

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Leeds Luncheon Club papers

1913-2000

Comprises: (1) Administrative papers and correspondence of the Leeds Luncheon Club between 1938 and 2000, with fuller coverage of the years 1955-1986, including statements of the annual accounts, form...

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THOMAS BECKWITH, MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: NOTES AND DRAWINGS

16th century-18th century

Comprising a volume containing, (a) Monumental inscriptions of some Churches in Ainsty including rough pencil sketches of churches. (b) Arms and monumental inscriptions of some Yorkshire churches. (...

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