York Cemetery Chapel Bell dedication order of proceedings.
Sans titreCorrespondence and invoices regarding 'This Garden of Death' by Hugh Murray.
Sans titreCopies of legal documents (including probate) relating to the Johnson family, as well as correspondence and notes.
Sans titreAlphabetical list of people with memorial stones in York Cemetery, with notes by Hugh Murray. Also includes a list of Boer War deaths and additional notes.
Sans titreCorrespondence with Entrust, the Environmental Trust Scheme regulatory body.
Sans titreCorrespondence regarding planning and legal issues relating to the Cemetery, as well as electricity supply and general enquiries.
Sans titrePhotocopies of 19th century memorial cards and order of service for the funeral of Joyce Galbraith in 2002.
Sans titreCopy of a dissertation entitled 'The contemporary role of York Cemetery' by Robert M Tuke.
Sans titreCopies of reports on health, poverty and burial grounds in 19th century York.
Sans titreVarious notes on York families.
Sans titreIncludes photocopies of articles; handwritten notes and summary documents.
Sans titreDecade by decade statistics and analysis, and plan showing cemetery in 1909.
Sans titreHandwritten exercise book listing mainly graves in 'Children's Corner'.
Sans titreMiscellaneous regarding trails. Some notes and handwritten.
Sans titreIncludes York Cemetery Trust annual reports 1989-1998; meeting papers and cultural programme leaflets.
Sans titreCorrespondence regarding Hugh Murray's book 'This garden of death'. Also includes despatch notes, publishers quotes and associated details.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreIncludes education service leaflets; guided tour information 1997-1998; balance sheets 1993-2001 (incomplete set) and meeting papers (incomplete set).
Sans titreIncludes 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'.
Sans titreEditions of the 'The Last Post' newsletter.
Sans titreIncludes 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'.
Sans titreCity 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.
Sans titreIncludes restoration history magazine cutting; York Cemetery Trust business plan 1994-1996; and guided walks list (undated); as well as maps for walks.
Sans titreCorrespondence with F. Emerson, monumental mason.
Sans titreIncludes early correspondence and legal documents; as well as regulations; licences for removal of human remains and reburial.
Sans titrePrints 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.
Sans titreMiscellaneous correspondence and photographs relating to York Cemetery.
Sans titreDetails of monumental inscriptions 'A-G'.
Sans titreDetails of monumental inscriptions 'H-T'.
Sans titreDetails of monumental inscriptions 'PP-ZZ' and 'Southwell SW'.
Sans titreCorrespondence and press cuttings between ABA and John Bradfield about funeral laws and practice including green burials, boundaries and public footpaths.
Sans titreIncludes original plans of the cemetery spaces.
Sans titreIncludes original plans of the cemetery spaces.
Sans titreIncludes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.
Sans titreIncludes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.
Sans titreIncludes details of changes in burial law, and report on the structural integrity of Lawn Memorial headstones.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreIncludes papers on the responsibility of charity trustees, papers relating to the Friends of York Cemetery, and some copies of documentation relating to deceased persons.
Sans titreCompiled by David Poole. Section OO.
Sans titreCompiled by David Poole. Section NN.
Sans titreCompiled by David Poole. Sections KK, LL and MM.
Sans titreCompiled by the City of York and District Family History Society, and revised by David Poole. Sections FF and GG.
Sans titreCompiled by the City of York and District Family History Society and Hugh Murray. Sections NW, AA, BB, CC and DD.
Sans titreContains newspaper coverage of relevant stories.
Sans titreIncludes policy documents; education finding correspondence; press cuttings about public interest in cemeteries; Memorial Mason registration; Rymers press cuttings and notes on internment.
Sans titrePapers relating to the liquidation of the cemetery company. Includes copies of correspondence, research notes and newspaper cuttings.
Sans titreResearch notes into the history of the cemetery. Includes copies of correspondence and newspaper cuttings.
Sans titreAlso includes typed extracts from annual reports and additional correspondence.
Sans titreIncludes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.
Sans titreIncludes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.
Sans titreIncludes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreEntitled 'Readings by 'Sequa'. Includes notes, press cuttings and additional papers relating to many aspects of York; lectures, tours, wartime matters and the York Festival.
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreIncludes a scrapbook 1885-1985, as well as two files of notes relating to York suburbs.
Sans titreIncludes details relating to Tanner Row and Toft Green; Coney St, Jubbergate, Mount Villas, Nessgate; St Saviourgate, St Sampsons Square; Castlegate; New Walk and Deansgate.
Sans titreCompiled by Florence Wright.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreThe papers primarily relate to Holgate mill, as well as others in York, Skidby and Boroughbridge.
Sans titreAction report for York Civic Trust on Bishophill May 1972.
Sans titreIncludes registers of the Bedern, York 1682-1868, transcribed by Rev N B Pace.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreIncludes Bedern rents and title deeds: manuscript notes (tied up with picture cord), as well as original file with notes in manuscript.
Sans titreBedern scale measurements, including measure from 1852 map 1:1056 (5ft: 1 miles). Also includes drawings and photocopied maps (1852 map).
Sans titreIncludes details from street directories (York) 1851, 1872, 1876, 1893, 1949-50 (sections only) as well as manuscript notes and photocopies.
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titreBank book of John Young Esq., in account with Beckett & Co., (following on from Swann Clough & Co).
Sans titreTyped 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.
Sans titreA 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.
Sans titreSeries of original and copy letters by Hugh Murray to the Deramore family and others, including the architect Francis Johnson and including geneaological details.
Sans titreA 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.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
Sans titreHandwritten notes on Heslington Hall, including a wallet of notes with extracts from a number of books.
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