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Total number of records: 17
Correspondence and papers mainly relating to land rights, valuations, cemetery management and maintenance
c.1884-c.1973
Includes: 1-7. Licences for the removal of remains, certificates for burial of ashes and Registrar's certificates of disposal, 1921-1973. 8. Pages of extracts from the Company minute book relating...
Correspondence and papers relating to share ownership and transfer
1852-1892
The papers are grouped by the name of the principal shareholder, vendor or testator and are arranged roughly in chronological order: 1. Letter from Susanna Reynolds [n.d.] 2. Letter from William W...
Lists of shareholders
c.1833-17 Jan 1956
Draft printed and manuscript lists drawn up by the Company solicitors containing shareholders details, such as: name, address, occupation, number of shares owned, dividends, and any remarks. The ind...
Papers of Payne & Eddison, solicitors, including various agreements as to cemetery property, drafts of Company documents and resolutions, and shareholders circulars
c.1832-c.1867
Includes: 1. Lease of Sexton's house at Leeds General Cemetery to Charles Jackman, 1 Aug 1835. 2. Memorandum of agreement in respect of a proposed drain in Woodhouse Lane, 23 Dec 1833. 3. Letter...
Correspondence and documents relating to appointing new Company trustees and producing a new trust deed
7 May-31 Dec 1873
Includes: 1. Letter from Robert Lawson Ford to ?Charles Bulmer, re declining an invitation, 7 May 1873, with pencil notes on verso. 2-7. Draft notice for an extraordinary general meeting to appoin...
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...
Lists of shareholders and correspondence relating to ownership and transfer of shares
1835-1848
Correspondence and papers sent to or produced by solicitors Payne & Eddison. Includes: 1. A list of shareholders who have not signed the deed of settlement, 21 Jul 1835; with attached annotated copy...
Correspondence from architects and others in connection with the architectural competition for the design of the Leeds General Cemetery
21 Sep-13 Dec 1833
The details of the correspondents for each letter sent to Payne & Eddison are as follows: 1. Thomas J Hadfield, Liverpool, 21 Sep 1833 2. James White, Manchester, 24 Sep 1833 3. Richard Forrest,...
Correspondence with solicitors Payne, Eddison & Ford, mainly relating to a purchase of land by Joseph Ogden March
28 Jun 1839-1856
Includes: 1. Letter to Payne, Eddison & Ford from Charles Naylor as to costs in the case of Baines and others vs John Wainwright, 28 Jun 1839. 2. Letter to the Company Trustees from William Nicho...
Correspondence relating to the dispute with John Wainwright and other legal matters, and draft circulars
28 Dec 1833-25 Nov 1835
Includes: 1. List of shareholders in the Leeds General Cemetery Company, 1 Jan 1835 2. Letter from John Wainwright to Thomas Benson Pease re payment for work undertaken on the Cemetery site, 22 Ja...
Correspondence and documents relating to the case of Baines & others v John Wainwright
9 Mar-27 Dec 1838
Includes: 1. Notes on the case of Baines & others v Wainwright, [n.d.] 2. Draft document relating to the case of Baines & others v Wainwright [n.d.] 3. Letter to Thomas Toller Luccock from Edwin...