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Total number of records: 750

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SubjectCount
cemeteries1
cremation1
registries1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baines, Edward (1774-1848)1
Baines, Sir Edward (1800-1890)1
Eddison, Edwin (1805-1867)1
Grimshaw, John Atkinson (1836-1893)1
Leeds General Cemetery Co. Ltd. (1833-1967)1
Leeds General Cemetery Company1
St George'S Fields1
Woodhouse Cemetery1

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From 170011
From 1800460
From 1900279

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Up to 17997
Up to 1899421
Up to 1999317
Up to latest5

Archive Collection

Leeds General Cemetery Company Ltd Archive

Leeds General Cemetery Co. Ltd. (1833-1967)

1733-1992

Includes: corporate correspondence and records; committee minutes; shareholding records; financial records; records relating to property ownership and other legal matters; papers relating to the opera...

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Corporate, Administrative and Shareholding

1821-1973

Records relating to the governance and overall management of the Leeds General Cemetery Company. Includes: Committee meeting minute books, Commitee correspondence and papers, mainly relating to the fo...

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Archive Series

Minutes

1833-1954

Draft and official minutes of meetings of the Committee of the Leeds General Cemetery Company.

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Archive File

Bundle of draft committee minutes and papers

1833-1883

Envelope containing: two draft committee minute books, 1833-1834 and 1833-1835; draft minutes and two lists of shareholders, 1833; Report of the Sub-Committee on alleged encroachments on the Company's...

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Commitee minute book

24 Jun 1833-14 Nov 1925

Leather-bound, manuscript minute book. Contains an alphabetical index section at the front of the volume which has not been used, apart from the first page which includes notes about work on the cemet...

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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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Committee minute book

12 Aug 1939-14 Aug 1954

Leather-bound, paginated, manuscript minute book. The first two pages of the book contain notes on the Company's war loan and improvements undertaken to the cemetery site, 1934-1939. The volume starts...

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Committee correspondence and papers

1821-1973

Correspondence, papers and accounts, mainly created by or sent to various members of the Committee of the Leeds General Cemetery Company. The majority of the papers relate to the original development ...

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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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Papers and correspondence relating to the Leeds General Cemetery Company finances, and accounts with contractors

c.1833-c.1836

Includes: 1. A list of shareholders of the company, n.d. [c.1833-1834] 2-4. Three memoranda listing various payments, including for land purchased and work on the cemetery site, n.d. [c.1833-1835]...

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Estimates and price lists for the supply of trees and shrubs for the Leeds General Cemetery site

01 Dec 1829-13 Dec 1834

The estimates are labelled from 'No.2' through to 'No. 8'. Three of the estimates are written on printed price lists. The estimates are from the following suppliers: William & Francis Pontey, Kirkhe...

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Estimates and correspondence for work on the Leeds General Cemetery site

18 Nov 1833-20 Aug 1835

Includes: a report of the Sub-Committee of the Leeds General Cemetery Company on plans for the cemetery site, 18 Nov 1833; eleven estimates and related documents for work on the site, 1833-1834; and t...

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