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York Cemetery Chapel Bell dedication order of proceedings.

Correspondence and invoices regarding 'This Garden of Death' by Hugh Murray.

Copies of legal documents (including probate) relating to the Johnson family, as well as correspondence and notes.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Various notes on York families.

Includes photocopies of articles; handwritten notes and summary documents.

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

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

Miscellaneous regarding trails. Some notes and handwritten.

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

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

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.

Includes education service leaflets; guided tour information 1997-1998; balance sheets 1993-2001 (incomplete set) and meeting papers (incomplete set).

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'.

Editions of the 'The Last Post' newsletter.

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'.

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

Correspondence with F. Emerson, monumental mason.

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

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.

Miscellaneous correspondence and photographs relating to York Cemetery.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'A-G'.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'H-T'.

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

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

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

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 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 papers on the responsibility of charity trustees, papers relating to the Friends of York Cemetery, and some copies of documentation relating to deceased persons.

Compiled by David Poole. Section OO.

Compiled by David Poole. Section NN.

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

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.

Sections W, X, Y and Z.

Sections U and V.

Contains newspaper coverage of relevant stories.

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

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

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

Also includes typed extracts from annual reports and additional correspondence.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Includes a scrapbook 1885-1985, as well as two files of notes relating to York suburbs.

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.

Compiled by Florence Wright.

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.

The papers primarily relate to Holgate mill, as well as others in York, Skidby and Boroughbridge.

Action report for York Civic Trust on Bishophill May 1972.

Includes registers of the Bedern, York 1682-1868, transcribed by Rev N B Pace.

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.

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.

Includes Bedern rents and title deeds: manuscript notes (tied up with picture cord), as well as original file with notes in manuscript.

Bedern scale measurements, including measure from 1852 map 1:1056 (5ft: 1 miles). Also includes drawings and photocopied maps (1852 map).

Includes details from street directories (York) 1851, 1872, 1876, 1893, 1949-50 (sections only) as well as manuscript notes and photocopies.

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.

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.

Bank book of John Young Esq., in account with Beckett & Co., (following on from Swann Clough & Co).

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.

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.

Series of original and copy letters by Hugh Murray to the Deramore family and others, including the architect Francis Johnson and including geneaological details.

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.

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.

Handwritten notes on Heslington Hall, including a wallet of notes with extracts from a number of books.