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Research notes compiled by Hugh Murray on various churches and York Minster, as well as church graveyards. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes York Cemetery Trust annual reports 1989-1998; meeting papers and cultural programme leaflets.

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.

Two bundles of general correspondence.

Includes correspondence with people erecting memorials etc.

Various notes on York families.

Copies of reports on health, poverty and burial grounds in 19th century York.

Miscellaneous regarding trails. Some notes and handwritten.

Compiled by David Poole. Section OO.

Compiled by David Poole. Section NN.

Compiled by David Poole. Sections KK, LL and MM.

Sections W, X, Y and Z.

Sections U and V.

Sections HH and JJ.

Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society, and revised by David Poole. Sections FF and GG.

Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society and Hugh Murray. Sections NW, AA, BB, CC and DD.

Alphabetical 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.

Photocopies of 19th century memorial cards and order of service for the funeral of Joyce Galbraith in 2002.

Handwritten exercise book listing mainly graves in 'Children's Corner'.

Papers relating to the liquidation of the cemetery company. Includes copies of correspondence, research notes and newspaper cuttings.

Includes files relating to the history and development of York Cemetery, such as plans and memorial information, as well as papers regarding the liquidation of the cemetery. Also includes details of monumental inscriptions.

Includes historical notes; Deed of Settlement 1924; notes on the history of York Cemetery; correspondence; extracts from minute books 1952-1966; list of types of tombs and other notes; Cemetery trail leaflets and papers regarding the chronology of the cemetery.

Chronology and statistics regarding the cemetery and national burials.

Photocopies of graphs regarding cemetery staffing; and handwritten notes and costs of burials from 1856-1962 (incomplete series).

Includes restoration history magazine cutting; York Cemetery Trust business plan 1994-1996; and guided walks list (undated); as well as maps for walks.

Miscellaneous correspondence and photographs relating to York Cemetery.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Copy of a dissertation entitled 'The contemporary role of York Cemetery' by Robert M Tuke.

Correspondence and press cuttings between ABA and John Bradfield about funeral laws and practice including green burials, boundaries and public footpaths.

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.

Includes Cemetery hall file with manuscript notes in Hugh Murray's hand; and plan of cemetery with locations of graves of York Mayors and descriptions / mini biographies.

Includes papers regarding individuals; list of graves and locations (with correspondence); obituaries and death announcements; and Fawkes and Hawkesworth pedigrees.

Includes papers on bereavement services; poverty in York; cemetery trails; graves; regulations for burial grounds 19th century; Leeds General Cemetery notes by Hugh Murray; 1941 ARP document; and offprints of articles on cemeteries by Julie Rugg and Catherine Crompton.

Newspaper cuttings regarding the cemetery and cremation reports of Cemetery Committee 1910, 1911 and 1913; as well as Hugh Murray's handwritten notes.

Friends of York Cemetery agendas and meeting papers.

Friends of York Cemetery agendas for meetings and Wardens reports.

Papers regarding placing a register on a computer database.

Handwritten notes and photocopies relating to local undertakers.

Correspondence regarding an indemnity agreement and cemetery liquidation.

Notes on varied types or categories of people buried in the cemetery.

Correspondence with F. Emerson, monumental mason.

Includes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes details of changes in burial law, and report on the structural integrity of Lawn Memorial headstones.

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.

Includes printed leaflets; Friends of the Cemetery guided tours 1993-1999 (much duplication); documents containing general information, and papers regarding cemetery care.

Correspondence regarding Hugh Murray's book 'This garden of death'. Also includes despatch notes, publishers quotes and associated details.

Includes policy documents; education finding correspondence; press cuttings about public interest in cemeteries; Memorial Mason registration; Rymers press cuttings and notes on internment.

Copy of 'Monuments and memorials' by C E Hessey (d.1874). 2 copies.

Includes VAT refund correspondence; act to further to amend the laws concerning the Burial of the Dead 14 August 1855; plans for public use and access; description of conditions in York 19th century to the 1930s; notes by Hugh Murray and architects drawings of the Gatehouse and Lodge.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Handwritten notes regarding ground work and maintenance at York Cemetery.

Handwritten notes and photocopies of photographs.

Photocopies of maps.

York Cemetery Chapel Bell dedication order of proceedings.

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.

Includes early correspondence and legal documents; as well as regulations; licences for removal of human remains and reburial.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'H-T'.

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

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.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

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'.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'A-G'.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'PP-ZZ' and 'Southwell SW'.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Correspondence with Entrust, the Environmental Trust Scheme regulatory body.

Correspondence regarding planning and legal issues relating to the Cemetery, as well as electricity supply and general enquiries.

Decade by decade statistics and analysis, and plan showing cemetery in 1909.

Includes photocopies of articles; handwritten notes and summary documents.

Research notes into the history of the cemetery. Includes copies of correspondence and newspaper cuttings.

Notes and press cuttings relating to Rowntrees, Sessions, Rymers, Cookes, Commerce House football team, Barnitts, Waterworks, Bettys, Maxiprint, Stubbs and York Gas Company.

Press cuttings and notes relating to York businesses.

Photocopies of adverts and press cuttings relating to York Dispensary and Langleys Solicitors. Also includes a manuscript index of businesses.

File of newspaper articles relating to prominent York buildings.

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.

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.

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).

Notes and Pedigrees on various York architects and craftsmen.

Taken by H Bramham, 16 Colliergate, York.
Format: Black and white card, 10 x 6
Provenance: Bramham

Taken by Matt. Cuthbert, Central Photographic Rooms, Corner of New Street Daveygate, York.
Format: Black and white card, 10 x 6
Provenance: Cuthbert

The subject of the photograph is named as Mary Ann Smith.
Format: Black and white card, 10 x 6
Provenance: pres Hornibrook