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Papers relating to the Gray family of York including geneological information, legal papers, accounts, correpondence as well as extensive diaries and travel journals. Also includes some further records relating to the Cawood family.

Papers relating to the family history of the Gray family including Robert Gray, William Gray and Johnathan Gray. Includes legal documents, letters, notes and pedigrees which trace the history of the family including those who married into the family.

Letters and pedigrees for the MacGregor family.

Papers relating to the death and estates of Reverand Samuel Gray, William Gray and Charles Gray. Also includes the printed memoirs of William Gray.

Letters and papers relating to the role William Johnson Gray played in the First World War in South Africa. Includes details of his death, obituaries and other family information.

Papers relating to the marriage of William Gray and Elizabeth Halton including letter from Andrew Halton consenting to his daughter's marriage.

Pedigrees and documents detailing the family tree of the Gray family starting with Robert Gray.

Notes written, possibly by Faith Gray, on the geneology of the Gray Family.

Includes geneological notes, pedigrees and marriage documents relating to families who married into the Gray family.

Memorandum and documents relating to discussions between William Gray and John Piggott of Treasurers House. Also includes land convayance deed between Robert Gray and John Gray. Also includes a manu script account of owners of Treasurers house, possibly written in the 1930s and thought to be inaccurate.

Article of Agreement for William Gray's appointment as Keeper of the Seal of the Sheriff's office in York. Also includes indenture of Johnathan Gray's appointment as Undersheriff of York.

Account books of William Gray and Faith Gray including household and personal accounting information.

William Gray, senior. ledger 'No 1', pocket and miscellaneous expenses, rent accounts, interest accounts and charity funds, besides account of numerous trusts and executorships. The accounts for the Committee of the Association (for parliamentary Reform), of which William Gray was Secretary, appear on page 42 for the year 1781

Includes Faith Gray's household and personal disbursements, the personal accounts of William Gray, William Gray's charity fund disbursements, receipts of Faith Gray and William Gray's tract of charitable donations of £5 and upwards.

Volume is titled, 'Multum in Parvo' and includes detailed receipts of William Gray, senior as partner in the law firm of Graves & Gray, 1775-1783, and of his separate receipts during that partnership and the subsequent ones with Mr Thorpe and Jonathan Gray. Also includes a summary of his general accounts 1775-1839, 'with occasional minutes and calculations respecting my circumstances'.

Correspondence of various Gray family memebrs including William Gray Senior and Junior, Johnathan Gray and Mary Gray. Covers a wide variety of personal, financial and religious subjects.

Letters to and from William Gray Senior to William Gray Junior, Mary Gray, Johnathan Gray and his sister Elizabeth Gray. Letters cover a variety of personal subjects such as marriage, health, education and religion.

Letters from William Gray Junior to his brother Samual Gray during William's time as secretary to the York and North Midland Railway in York. Includes discussions regarding the railways and on other local issues.

Letter of Johnathan Gray and his wife Mary Gray mainly to his son William Gray. Subjects are on family matters such as travel, health as well as a discussions on local York news. Includes one letter referring to the Luddites in Huddersfield dated 7th September 1812.

This series currently comprises family newspapers only.

Various letters and notes relating to the Gray family including receipt for donation (of £1,000) to the Exchequer from the Stamp Office, York, signed N. Vansittart, letters to William Gray, junior, as a child from his aunts, Lucy and Margaret, and letter of condolence on the death of Jonathan Gray. Also includes a note made by Edwin Gray of an engraving by Bewick at Gray's Court.

Press cuttings and correspondence to Mrs Edwin Gray about her book 'Papers and Diaries of a York Family', 1927-32, incl. a letter from Mrs Sidney Webb.

Includes letters from Faith Gray, William Gray, Elizabeth Gray, Ann Gray, Lucy Gray, Jane Gray and Johnathan Gray. Letters largely cover personal family matters and local news.

Letters between friends William Gray and George Tennyson, Grandfather of the poet.

Letter and notes relating to Brafferton Hall and College in Virginia, United States of America.

Various letters and poems of the Gray family. Includes letters of dispute, poems and notes relating to religious texts.

Manuscript newspapers titled Brafferton Gazette, St Peters Chronicle and Thirsk Chronicle with handdrawn illustrations created by and for the Gray family. Includes details of births, marriages and deaths as well as other news from family members.

Invitation to William Gray, to a dinner at York Guildhall to meet Prince Albert and the Lord Mayor of London, (on ornamental gilt card).

Diaries of Faith Gray and of William Gray during the later years of his life. Also includes notes by William Gray recollecting his youth and reflecting on Faith's religious state in the last few days of her life.

Diary containing loose leaf genealogical notes, memos and printed verse.

Diary written up in her written from 1817 in her husband's (William's) hand from her memorandum books.

Includes William Gray's recollections of early life in East Yorkshire and York and his description of Hedon (East Riding of Yorkshire) and the dame's school there. Also includes
William Gray's account of his wife Faith Gray, religious state during the last weeks of her life.

Journal of William Gray during his old age including details of his health, religious state and activities.

Includes geneological information and discussions on other personal matters relating to her children and immediate family.

Journals & descriptions of tours by William Gray , Jonathan Gray and Margaret Gray to various national and international locations.

Journals of a tour of Scotland made by William Gray, senior.

'Itinerary notices'. Descriptions of rides and excursions, chiefly in Yorkshire, c. 1806-16 by William Gray, senior

Notes by William Gray, senior on various churches around the UK.

Journals of a tour of Scotland made by Jonathan Gray (aged 17).

Journals from a tour of North Wales, made by Jonathan Gray. (aged 21)

Journal from a tour of West Country and South Wales made by Jonathan Gray.

Journal from journey from York to Bath and in Derbyshire made by William Gray, senior.

Journal from a tour of Belgium, made by Jonathan Gray. Includes newspaper cuttings with annotations by Gray.

Journal from a tour of Isle of Man made by Margaret Gray, daughter of Jonathan Gray. (aged 14)

Journal from a tour of Craven, Cambridge, London, made by Margaret Gray, (aged 15-16).

Journal from a tour of Scandinavia, made by William Gray, junior. Includes details of a solar eclipse and verious sketches of the landscape.

Various manuscript and typescript sermons and religious notes by various members of the Gray family. Includes notes on the death of Lucy Gray.

Includes manuscript sermons by Rev. Thomas Adam in his own hand. 'Thoughts on marriage with the unconverted', by Rev. W Richardson of York with a copy made by Lucy Gray.

Memorial notes relating to Elizabeth Vaughan who died 16 Jan 1808

Account of the last illness of Lucy Gray Hey, by her father, Rev. Samuel Hey

An account of the illness and last hours of Lucy Gray, Jan 1813, by her brother Edmund Gray including copies of relative's letters. Also includes a silhouette of Lucy Gray as a frontispiece. Pages 39-70 are an account of the illness and death of Margaret Hey, nee Gray, by her husband the Rev. Samuel Hey, Jan 1826.

Includes printed sermons and hymns by Reverand E. Gray and Reverand W. C. Hey and programmes and flyers for the unveiling of a window at Blyth Church for Charles Gray. Alson includes notes and sermons on Lucy Gray and extracts from the journal of William Gray featuring his correspondence with Archdeacon Wilberforce.

Various published material relating to and collected by the Gray family including memoirs, notes and press cuttings.

Letters from the Continent in 1818; afterwards published in the York Chronicle. by Jonathan Gray

'Some account of the personal religion of Margaret Gray', by Jonathan Gray, her father; printed by J Wolstenholme.

Reprint of Johnathan Gray's obituary notice from the York Chronicle and printed Sermon preached on the death of Gray by Rev. John Graham.

Memoir of William Gray, Esq. reprinted from the Christian Observer; printed in London. Also includes a typescript copy of Faith Gray's obituary in Yorkshire Herald.

Visit to Chamouni, in Savoy, extracted from the York Chronicle, by Jonathan Gray.

Press cuttings on a wide variety of subjects including paintings, engravings and The First World War and it's effect in York.

A group of papers relating to the Smith family of Cawood, possible brought to Gray's Court by Nicholas Smith Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, who married Faith Gray's first cousin Elizabeth daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson, Bart.