Receipt books for financial activites by the York Cemetery Company. Includes transactions during the liquidation of the Company and formation of York Cemetery Trust.
Volumes detailing expenditure for the York Cemetery Company. Also includes details of expenditure as part of the liquidation process of the Company before becoming a Trust.
There is a gap in the sequence between 1918-1957.
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Details of expenditure, day sheets and legal records regarding the liquidation of the York Cemetery Co. Ltd.
Bank books for an account with the York City and County Banking Company.
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Books detailing wages for various paid positions at the York Cemetery Company. Includes details of memebrs of staff and salaries paid for different roles.
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Details of wages and holidays taken for individual Cemetery staff. Note that most of this volume is blank.
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Overview account books for Blacksmiths and Masons' associated with York Cemetery.
Order books for Masons' associated with York Cemetery Company.
Volumes recording the sales of headstones and other monuments. York Cemetery Company later took over the business of monumental masons in other places.
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Correspondence regarding those employed by the Cemetery.
Various letters requesting chaanges to gravestones and markers including changes to inscriptions and the erection of new stones. Also includes some scale drawings of proposed gravestones.
Various correspondence regarding activities by the Cemetery post liquidation largely regarding financial matters.
Various correspondence regarding the sale of land, war graves and the Chapel.
Letters complaining about the condition of graves and the Cemetery with responses from the Cemeterary company directly.
Correspondence regarding grave plots held and their ownership during the liquidation of York Cemetery Co. Ltd.
Discussions around restoring and maintaining the Cemetery including restoring the chapel and recruiting staff to maintain the grounds. Also includes discussions around funding bids to hire an education officer and on various environmental surveys.
General correspondence regarding projects and operations at the Cemetery. Also includes details of potential funding sought for the Trust.
Copies of legal records and correspondence regarding the liquidation and future of the York Cemetery including possibe sale.
Various deeds and legal documents relating to land the Cemetery is built on at Gate Fulford. Also includes information relating to shareholders of the Cemetery and papers relating to the liquidation of the Cemetery.
Relating to temporary erection of a pole and cable on a wall belonging to the cemetery. Also includes a letter relating to increase in rent.
Relating to the boundary wall of the Cemetery. 3 copies.
Includes copies of Instructions to Council (C. Slade) to advide York Cemetery Co on sheddits of its liability to maintain the cemetery. Also includes case opinion as to whether the Cememtery could be sold to a wholly owned subsidiary and further information on the payment of dividends.
Holden was Chairman of the Cemetery and the report discusses a recent conference with Counsel regarding the payment of dividends.
Regarding a conference on 3 May 1963.
Advising that the Cemetery goes into compulsary liquidation.
Copies and original documents supplied to court at the liquidation of the York Cemetery Co Ltd. Includes names and addresses of shareholders.
Various legal affadavits and supporting correspondence and papers supplied to court during the liquidation of the York Cemetery Co. Ltd.
Deeds detailing the exchange, lease and release of land at Gate Fulford to which the Cemetery now stands. Many of these documents include original wax seals.
Deeds and associated notes concerning land in Leeming and later Ogleforth owned by the Dent and Place families.
Records relating to the day to day operations of the Cemetery including burial registers, day books, grave books and plans. Also includes further operational information regarding the setting up and management of the Cemetery as York Cemetery Trust by the Friends of York Cemetery.
Available on microfilm. Volumes 1-6 have duplicate copies created at a later date, commissioned by the Cemetery to provide an additional copy to original records.
Includes burial numbers 1-5.380. Available on microfilm. Includes original and a later handwritten duplicate created by the Cemetery as a method of backing up original records.