Includes York Cemetery Trust annual reports 1989-1998; meeting papers and cultural programme leaflets.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Correspondence regarding Hugh Murray's book 'This garden of death'. Also includes despatch notes, publishers quotes and associated details.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes details of trustee responsibilities; grave maintenance service; interview documents for an admin assistant; plans of York Cemetery Gatehouse; glossary of words used on epitaphs; and papers for the Past Generations pack.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes education service leaflets; guided tour information 1997-1998; balance sheets 1993-2001 (incomplete set) and meeting papers (incomplete set).
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes meeting papers 2008-2010; FOYC News; leaflet on the herb garden; and City of York Council leaflet on 'Funding for Voluntary and Community Organisations 2002/4'.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Editions of the 'The Last Post' newsletter.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes trades and occupations listed in cemetery; manuscript list of names; standard trails for schools - guidance and trails; site plan of the masons' workshop; and a list entitled 'Box 29'.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)City of York Council planning application for the restoration of the Chapel, 1990 and Ronald G. Sims architect's drawing of the restoration of the cemetery gatehouse.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes restoration history magazine cutting; York Cemetery Trust business plan 1994-1996; and guided walks list (undated); as well as maps for walks.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Correspondence with F. Emerson, monumental mason.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes early correspondence and legal documents; as well as regulations; licences for removal of human remains and reburial.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Prints from the York Cemetery website, including Shona's funeral order of service, Kath Hamer's funeral, 1979 Conveyance of Liquidation of York Cemetery company; Guide to best practice: Burial plans and memorials; list of organisations and diocese and Hugh Murray notes on catacombs.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Miscellaneous correspondence and photographs relating to York Cemetery.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Details of monumental inscriptions 'A-G'.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Details of monumental inscriptions 'H-T'.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Details of monumental inscriptions 'PP-ZZ' and 'Southwell SW'.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Correspondence and press cuttings between ABA and John Bradfield about funeral laws and practice including green burials, boundaries and public footpaths.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes details of changes in burial law, and report on the structural integrity of Lawn Memorial headstones.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes plan, marked out in purchase and consercration dates; Act to amend the burial acts 25 August 1857; plans and proof of cemetery 'trails'; printed trails 2-6 (multiple copies) and additional pamphlets.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes papers on the responsibility of charity trustees, papers relating to the Friends of York Cemetery, and some copies of documentation relating to deceased persons.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Compiled by David Poole. Section OO.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Compiled by David Poole. Section NN.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Compiled by David Poole. Sections KK, LL and MM.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society, and revised by David Poole. Sections FF and GG.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society and Hugh Murray. Sections NW, AA, BB, CC and DD.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Sections W, X, Y and Z.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Contains newspaper coverage of relevant stories.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes policy documents; education finding correspondence; press cuttings about public interest in cemeteries; Memorial Mason registration; Rymers press cuttings and notes on internment.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Papers relating to the liquidation of the cemetery company. Includes copies of correspondence, research notes and newspaper cuttings.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Research notes into the history of the cemetery. Includes copies of correspondence and newspaper cuttings.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Also includes typed extracts from annual reports and additional correspondence.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes some talks and research notes. Many streets in York are covered, so please see individuals file descriptions for more detailed information. Please note reference number HMU/8/49 was not used in cataloguing.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Notes to accompany slides of streets and buildings in the city centre areas around St. Sampson's Church.
Entitled 'Readings by 'Sequa'. Includes notes, press cuttings and additional papers relating to many aspects of York; lectures, tours, wartime matters and the York Festival.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Papers relating to the York Traffic Act 1753; as well as notes, plans, brochures, press cuttings, correspondence relating to many York buildings, including Naburn Banqueting House, Middlethorpe Hall, Assembly Rooms, 25 Coney Street, St Williams College and Jacobs Well.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes papers relating to The Retreat, Old Baile, Bar Convent, Peasholme House, St Martin's Coney Street Vicarage, Guildhall (1935-1938), George Hotel (1855), St Oswald's Fulford, Assize Courts, The Retreat, Riverside development and York Mansion House.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes a scrapbook 1885-1985, as well as two files of notes relating to York suburbs.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes details relating to Tanner Row and Toft Green; Coney St, Jubbergate, Mount Villas, Nessgate; St Saviourgate, St Sampsons Square; Castlegate; New Walk and Deansgate.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Compiled by Florence Wright.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes photocopies of Brierley's architect drawings: Ouse Bridge, Foss Bridge, Adventurers Hall, County Hospital, Bootham Bar, St Helen's Church and Castle Yard. Also includes details relating to other areas, including Haxby, Bulmer, Hovingham, Castle Howard, Harrogate, Sheffield, Doncaster and Kirbymoorside.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)The papers primarily relate to Holgate mill, as well as others in York, Skidby and Boroughbridge.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Action report for York Civic Trust on Bishophill May 1972.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes registers of the Bedern, York 1682-1868, transcribed by Rev N B Pace.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Notes on Pavement, Piccadilly, George St, Walmgate, Fossgate, St. Saviourgate, Hungate, Peaseholme Green, St. Andrewgate, Bedern, Aldwark, Ogleforth, Goodramgate, College Street, High Petergate, Lop Lane, Duncombe Place (including buildings), Blake Street, Museum Street, Lendal; Davygate, New Street, Coney Street, St. Helen's Square, Guildhall, Stonegate, Low Petergate, Grape Lane, Colliergate, Pavement and High Ousegate.
Includes a draft document on Bedern by Julian Richards with note attached, as well as catalogue of deeds and indentures and maps and plans of the street with notes.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes manuscript notes; newspaper cuttings; 'A Short History of Bedern Hall' by Lawrie Watson; city map; off print of a book by LP Wenham; papers relating to the possible demolition of the Bedern chapel; correspondence with Peter Hanstock and George Whipp; off prints on Bedern Hall (various); and original file with notes in manuscript.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes Bedern rents and title deeds: manuscript notes (tied up with picture cord), as well as original file with notes in manuscript.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Bedern scale measurements, including measure from 1852 map 1:1056 (5ft: 1 miles). Also includes drawings and photocopied maps (1852 map).
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes details from street directories (York) 1851, 1872, 1876, 1893, 1949-50 (sections only) as well as manuscript notes and photocopies.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Papers relating to the bank in Coney St. Swann Clough & Co, Coney St, existed till 1879 and was taken over by Beckett's. The site was bought in 1746 and a house built on it. It was later sold in 1771 to Samuel Compton of Derby and used as bank known successively (1771-1802) as Crompton's, Garforth's and Raper's, or (accounts differ) Willoughby, Raper & Co., including Clough & Swann as partners.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Papers relating to the bank in Coney St. Swann Clough & Co, Coney St, existed till 1879 and was taken over by Beckett's. The site was bought in 1746 and a house built on it. It was later sold in 1771 to Samuel Compton of Derby and used as bank known successively (1771-1802) as Crompton's, Garforth's and Raper's, or (accounts differ) Willoughby, Raper & Co., including Clough & Swann as partners.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Bank book of John Young Esq., in account with Beckett & Co., (following on from Swann Clough & Co).
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Typed manuscript document titled 'Heslington Hall and its owners during the past four centuries'. Numbered paged 1-52. Includes handwritten corrections and one inserted page of notes by John Bowes Morrell.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)A series of eight handwritten notes or copied sources relating to Heslington Hall. Includes an article from Country Life dated 2nd September 1971; reprint from Historic Houses of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire by G.J.M. FitzJohn entitled 'Heslington Hall'; geneaological notes of the Reresby family; copy of Heslington - A Rural Poem; and an Old Peterite dinner invitation 1983.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Notes on Coppergate, Castlegate, Tower St, York prison, Clifford St, Nessgate, Low Ousegate, Ouse Bridge, Bridge St, Skeldergate, North St, Tanner's Moat, railway offices, Rougier St, Micklegate, Trinity Lane, Bishophill area, and notes on a YAYAS visit to St Helen's Square.
Series of original and copy letters by Hugh Murray to the Deramore family and others, including the architect Francis Johnson and including geneaological details.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)A series of six handwritten notes or copied sources on Heslington Hall including undated sale document; notes on the Eynns family; York Civic Trust Plans for the a 'Folk Park' in the grounds of Heslington Hall; and press cuttings from the York Evening Press dated 14 July 1981 about the RAF in Heslington.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes notes on Lingcroft Lodge, Naburn (now called Persimmon House), based on a query letter from the company and then a series of research notes. Also includes letters about the will of Edward Lloyd (died 1863), owner of the house, and pedigree of the Lloyd family; and typed letter from Persimmon Limited, dated 17 August 1984 about Persimmon House, Fulford (which is Lingcroft Lodge, Naburn) and its heraldry.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Handwritten notes on Heslington Hall, including a wallet of notes with extracts from a number of books.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Photocopied sources and handwritten notes on the heraldry of Heslington Hall.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Pedigrees of owners of Heslington Hall. Includes handwritten notes and press cuttings. The families mentioned are Greame, Lloyd, Bateson, Eymes, Yarburgh, Hesketh, Neville. Also includes a copy of the Heslington Hall chapter from Wheater's Historic Mansion of Yorkshire, 1866.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Full size copy of Country Life article on Heslington Hall from 19 July 1913. Also includes a short document describing the proposed site for the University of York.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Two handwritten sets of notes on Gilling Castle, including a copy of Sir William Fairfax Books of Arms of Yorkshire and correspondence relating to 'The Great Chamber of Gilling Castle' by Hugh Murray.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes Christies catalogue of antiquarian books 1995; newspaper and magazine articles relating to research at Gilling Castle; illustrations and descriptions of armorial bearings at Gilling Castle; first floor plan of Gate House, Sheriff Hutton; and a map of the wapentakes of the North Riding.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes notes and newspaper cuttings relating to Gilling Castle research, including the Sotheby sale of Elizabeth panelling and glass 1929, notes and correspondence relating to the sale, book about the armorial glass of the Inns of Court and a booklet entitled 'A Knaresborough Tercentenary'.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Notes for a walk around the Bishophill area to the Knavesmire; as well as St George's Field, Fishergate, Fulford Rd and side streets, barracks, Fulford High Street, Naburn; Walmgate Bar, Lawrence St, Hull Rd to the Beeswing pub, Hull Road, Nunnery Lane, Victoria Bar, Dove St, Terry Avenue, Nunthorpe Rd., Bishopthorpe Rd., Rowntree Park, Nunthorpe Hall and school and the Terry's factory.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Includes Gilling pedigrees and illustrations; drafts and notes relating to 'The Great Chamber at Gilling Castle' booklet; and illustrations of St. Donat's College, Wales.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)A collection of copied documents and notes on the Old Nunthorpe estate off the Bishopthorpe Road, including details of the 1902 sale, with maps, and Hugh Murray's notes on residents taken from street directories. The residents mentioned include George Lawton, William Lawton, Sir Wilfred Forbes Home Thompson, Bart., T.F. Wood and J.W. Proctor.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)A number of documents about the early activity in the Assembly Rooms. Includes a photocopy of the 1729 list and account of interest and arrears with Subscription list of 1777, listing the 190 original subscribers and the present proprietors. Also includes a List of Nobility and Gentry appearing at the Assembly Rooms in the Race Week of 1776.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Bundle of notes extracted from undefined sources (M23/1) with extracts from the records of the Assembly Rooms. The notes start in 1730 with the purchase of Mr George Gibson's house on Finkle Street to enable a passage to be built for drains. Ends 1773 (marked as p155 of the original source).
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Two typed letters from Chessingham Estates (The White House, Bishopthorpe), signed Michael Hammill BSc ARICS, to S. Heppell Esq., 29 Broadway West, Fulford Road, enquiring about houses on the corner of Lawrence Street and Foss Island Road and the Ideal Laundry Site on Trinity Lane.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Book entitled 'The King's Manor' reprinted from Royal Commission on Historial Monuments 'City of York' vol IV. Also includes a letter from John West-Taylor dated 22 January 1985 from the University of York to York Civic Trust entitled 'An appeal to restore the fabric of the King's Manor'.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)A number of documents concerning specific York buildings including Estate Agent particulars for 42 and 44 Burton Stone Lane and the Old Rectory, 7a Tanner Row (with an enclosed letter from Edward Waterton asking Hugh Murray if he know about potential buyers) and the Old Manor House, Clifton. Also includes an article on the Tudor House, Stonegate; documents on St Oswald's Hall, Fulford, the Guildhall and a folder of copied photographs from the York Historian of building styles, as well as a bundle of documents and sources about 78 Bootham from 1990 assembled by Hugh Murray to help prevent modification of the house by a developer.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Series of letters and documents relating to the York Housing Association developments of Walmgate. Includes a large Architect's plan of the area and details and photos of 114 Walmgate.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)Photocopied articles, house plans and extracts from street directories for Elm Bank House on the Mount. Also includes press cuttings.
Murray; Hugh (1923-2013)