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Notes relating to the dispute with John Wainwright

c.1833-c.1839

Includes: 1. Notes in pencil headed 'Rider at p.3', relating to Cemetery land and John Wainwright [n.d., c.1830s] 2. Sketch plan of Cemetery site, in pencil, [n.d., c.1830s] 3. Note re settlement...

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Correspondence and notes relating to offers of land for the Leeds General Cemetery

17 Apr 1833-9 Feb 1835

Includes: three letters sent to the Committee re offers of land for the cemetery from Abraham Parkinson, Mr Vincent and R.C. Hay; and notes by Thomas Toller Luccock, company treasurer, with informatio...

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Notes on property deeds and agreements for the Leeds General Cemetery Company

n.d. [c.1849]

The notes were most likely made by Edwin Eddison, solicitor to the Leeds General Cemetery Company.

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Correspondence and notes on agreements relating to cemetery land, drainage and boundaries

12 Jul-26 Dec 1833

Includes: 1. Note of an offer from Mrs S Barron to sell land to the Company [n.d.] 2. Notes on drainage at the Cemetery site [n.d.] 3. Offer letter of land to the Company from Thomas E Upton of ...

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Correspondence, notes and plans relating to the Leeds General Cemetery site and the design competition

c.1821-c.1836

Includes: 1. Used cheque book in account with Beckett, Blayds & Co., 1833-1836 2. Six copies of a plan of the site, surveyed by Charles S Fowler in 1833 and lithographed by R. Inchbold, Leeds [n.d...

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Notes by and correspondence sent to Payne & Eddison, mainly relating to the dispute with John Wainwright

6 Feb-3 Sep 1835

Includes: 1. Two extracts from the birth and death registers from Marylebone parish, 1835, as examples for creating the Cemetery burial registers 2. Printed notice of committee meeting, 6 Feb 1835...

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Notes by and correspondence sent to Payne & Eddison, relating to building work on the Cemetery and the dispute with John Wainwright

May-Nov 1834

Includes: 1-2. Notes on estimates and costs for work on the Cemetery buildings, 1834 3. Notice served to John Wainwright concerning labour and progress, from John Clark, 5 May 1834 4. Letter fro...

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Notebooks and papers by Thomas Toller Luccock, treasurer, relating to the formation of the Company and construction of the Leeds General Cemetery

1833-1835

Includes: 1. Small notebook with notes relating to the formation of the cemetery, shareholders subscriptions and accounts for construction work, 1833-1834. 2. Small, marbled-cover notebook contain...

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Estimates and quotations for landscaping of the Leeds General Cemetery site

c.1834-c.1835

Includes: three estimates for felling trees, a note on work on hedges, and a summary of quotations for the supply of trees and shrubs

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Lists of claimants of an interest in burial rights at the Leeds General Cemetery, who requested photographs of a gravestone

n.d. [c.1965-c.1966]

Photocopies of the list of claimants to burial rights who requested photographs of a gravestone at the cemetery prior to landscaping.

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Committee minute book

12 Dec 1925-8 Jul 1939

Leather-bound, paginated, manuscript minute book. The minutes start after the alphabetical index, which is unused. The final page (p.202) contains notes on the Company's war loan.

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File of completed forms and associated correspondence relating to termination of burial rights: Claimants S-Z

1965-1974

Previously held in paper folder entitled 'S-W'. The forms and correspondence are stapled or attached together for each correspondent, and then arranged in alphabetical order. Some of the forms have re...

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