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Total number of records: 49

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society32
Brotherton Collection5
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Feminist Archive North1
Liddle Collection1

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Archive Collection

GENEALOGICAL NOTES REGARDING KNOWLES FAMILY OF FOXUP 16TH-18TH CENTURY

1988

Includes information extracted from wills and manorial records.

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

FOSTER-GREENWOOD COLLECTION

14th century-20th century

Deeds and papers of Greenwood, Sutcliffe, Foster and other families.

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HISTORICAL NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF W E PRESTON

[20th century]

Preston's notes of 16th-18th century documents seen at Skipton Castle; draft of article on Arthington nunnery; notes and extracts relating to the Bradford area in the 16th-17th centuries

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EXTRACTS FROM DOCUMENTS ABSTRACTED BY REV D A JACKSON

20th century

Including: Star Chamber proceedings by Sir Stephen Proctor nd Hammond family wills 17th-18th century Pateley Bridge and area Methodist class lists and bishop's transcripts extracts 18th-19th centur...

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RECORDS OF THOMAS LEEFE'S IRONMONGERY, YORKERSGATE, MALTON

16th century-20th century

Includes accounts etc 18th-20th century, title deeds of the shop premises and of lands at Acklam and Kirby Grindalythe, 16th-17th century

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THE TRAGIC SIDE OF CHILD LIFE IN HOLBECK, AS SEEN BY A SCHOOLMASTER

c1928-1929

Account by G K Sanderson, headmaster at Prince's Field school, Holbeck, c1928

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DEEDS AND PAPERS RELATING TO COAL MINES AT INGLETON AND BENTHAM

17th century-18th century

Contains several leases (17th-18th century), legal papers in various law suits, act for enclosing Bentham Moor (1767), copies of decrees in Chancery (16th-17th century) concerning the custom of the te...

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DEEDS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO TAYLOR FAMILY AND PROPERTY IN GOMERSAL

1690-1829

Includes 48 titled deeds belong to and relating to property of John Taylor of Fomersal, merchant. Including various wills of family members.

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PAPERS OF E W CROSSLEY: EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS DOCUMENTS

(13th-20th century)

Including papers relating to Newland preceptory 13th-16th century; survey of parish records initiated by the Diocese of Wakefield Parochial Documents Commission 1920s; abstracts of wills from the re...

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MANORIAL DOCUMENTS

Late 18th century-early 19th century

Relating to the manor of Marsden Late18th-early 19th century and deeds and other papers relating to Elland (pews in the parish church), Haworth, Sowerby and elsewhere 16th-19th century Includes valua...

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DEEDS, LEGAL PAPERS ETC RELATING MAINLY TO THE CRAVEN AREA

16th century-19th century

Relating especially to Arncliffe, Barnoldswick, Burnsall, Clapham, Dent, Easington, Giggleswick, Horton in Ribblesdale, Howgill, Kilnsey, Lawkland, Long Preston, Middop, Sedbergh, Settle, Tosside and ...

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