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Additional minute volumes not forming part of main series of house books.

A (1719-1728)
B (1728-1743)
C (1743-1763)
D (1763-1784)
E (1784-1802)
F (1802-1816)
G (1816-1827)

Draft minute books, some containing minutes of Quarter Sessions

H (1659-1666)
I (1668-1673)
K (1675-1680)
L (1680-1685)
M (1685-1692)
N (1711-1714)
O (1714-1719)

Various memoranda books that cover a wide range of topics include gild ordinances, rents, tolls, taxes, chantries, oaths, official correspondence, recognizances, inrolments, hospitals, leases, certificates, wills, charities, fishing rights. Memoranda and register books that relate to specific functions are listed elsewhere. The first two volumes were previously also known as A/Y and B/Y.

Collections of memoranda on a wide variety of subjects such as elections, courts, orders, measures. Detailed information on the contents can be found in the Giles Catalogue (1909). When ordering please state the E number in addition to the reference number.

E32. Vol 1. (c.1461-1509)
E33. Vol 2. Titled: 'Ouse bridge presidents 1' (c.1600s)
E34. Vol 3. Titled: 'Ouse bridge presidents 2' - Contains index (c.1600s).
E35. Vol 4. Titled: 'Ouse bridge presidents 3' (c.1600s)
E36. Vol 5. Includes copies of judgments and resolutions (c.1489-1610)
E37. Vol 6. Precedent book (c.1600-1700s)
E38. Vol 7. Predecent book (c. 1603-1625)
E39. Vol 8. Precedent book (c. 1461-1471)
E40. Vol 9. (1484-1834)
E40A. Vol 10. (unknown)
E40B. Vol 11. (unknown)
E40C. Vol 12. (unknown)

Includes petitions, dispute and judgment papers, a lease, pasturemaster accounts and inclosure papers.

Includes petitions, dispute and judgment papers, meeting minutes, inclosure papers, deeds and property transactions, pasturemaster accounts.

Inclosure and dispute papers.

These volumes contain indexes.

1 1940-54
2 1954-62
3 1963-74

Volumes 89.1, 89.4, and 89.5 are indexed, volumes 89.2 and 89.3 are not.

Annual report for the North Yorkshire County Council Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education

These volumes contain indexes.

21 1931-36
22 1936-41
23 1941-46
24 1946-49
25 1949-52
26 1952-54
27 1954-57
28 1957-60
29 1960-62
30 1962-64
31 1964-66
32 1966-68
33 1968-71

34. 1971-74

Finance and General Purposes Hospitality sub-committee minute book
10a 1957-1966

Finance and General Purposes Mansion House sub-committee minute book
10b 1966-1973

This volume is part indexed
18 1953-56

These three volumes are indexed
19 1956-59
20 1959-62
21 1962-65

Renamed Civil Defence Committee from 1950. These volumes contain indexes.

1 1943-59
2 1960-72

1 1884-89
2 1889-94
3 1894-1905
4 1905-13
5 1913-23
6 1923-1930
7 1930-40
8 1940-49
9 1949-53
10 1953-57
11 1957-63
12 1963-74

Bound committee minutes

All four volumes are indexed.

Includes Ordnance Survey maps of York and neighbouring areas, some with locations of schools marked on. Also includes 'Geographia' maps with schools marked on and OS maps showing different wards in and around York.

Comprises statistical information on the health of school children in York and reports on health services provided.

Books recording inspections of nuisance complaints affecting dwellings. Nuisances inspected include privies, air quality, keeping of animals, offensive trades, and drains. Also records inspections of premises for overcrowding, and for sanitary conditions at the home accommodation of patients with infectious diseases. A small number of volumes include plans and this is indicated in the relevant item descriptions.
Indexed by street name at the start of each volume.

Records drainage improvements carried out in properties. Entries include situation of premises, name of owner and builder, a brief description of works, and a line sketch of drainage on the premises (note: the volume covering 1936-1956 does not include any sketches)

Registers of complaint of nuisances and unsanitary conditions. Entries include date of complaint, situation of premises and brief description of complaint, name and address of complainant, date investigated and result (if any). Includes references to Assistant Sanitary Inspectors' report books. Indexed by street name.

Local Board of Health papers relating to the outbreak of cholera in York in 1832

Returns and statistics recorded as part of an enquiry into a Typhoid Fever outbreak in York 1886

Papers relating to the administration and application of the Infectious Diseases Acts, 1890 and 1889.

Correspondence files on specific individuals in the care of the York local authority.

Papers concerning the provision of food in an emergency and communal feeding provisions, including British Restaurants.

The returns relate to Messrs T F Wood & Co. Very often the specific cargo is not detailed. Also include details of accounts and goods received.

Comprises stand alone images relating to health education and health promotion. Includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives and photographs.

Comprises records relating to promotional events and health exhibitions

Comprises results of analyses of food stuffs carried out by the Public Analyst on behalf of the City of York. Records type of food analysed, results and whether the product conforms to food standards.

Results of examination of samples by the Public Health Laboratory Service

Printed copies of user and consumer safety advice from government departments for recommended safe use of chemicals in Great Britain.

Registers of complaints received by the Health Department regarding rodents. Entries typically include situation of property; names of owner and/or occupier, nature of complaint and any action taken. Volumes indexed by street name.

Records of vehicle licensing and registration, including motor cars and motorcycles, and heavy vehicles. Some registers combine cars and motorcycles, whilst others contain just one or the other, so more than one volume may need to be consulted to cover the same licence plate or year range. Registers occasionally include cancellation and transfer dates, plus occasional inserted correspondence.

We are able to provide certified copies of entries for a fee, please see our website or contact us for futher details.

Four of the 28 volumes are restricted under the Data Protection Act (Y/PPT/3/1/9, Y/PPT/3/1/21 to 23 covering the period 1948-1959) Researchers may consult these volumes after filling in a Data Protection Researcher Exemption form. This form may take up to 48 hours to be authorised so please contact us in advance if you wish to see these volumes.

Photographs documenting progress on construction of York Outer Ring Road

Includes plans of the improvement area; schedules of required works; Bye-Law for preventing overcrowding; summaries of area (including houses to be demolished and level of overcrowding); correspondence; reports to the Unhealthy Areas Sub-Committees; summaries of overcrowded houses (including size of bedrooms and numbers of occupants); letters to establish owners; Layerthorpe Clearance Area: reports of the Medical Officer of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector used at an Enquiry [8-9 Mar 1932}]; papers concerning various properties in Layerthorpe and Bilton Street belonging to one owner; also draft summaries and notes/

Includes civil defence publications, papers relating to wardens, ARP Emergency Committee agendas and minutes, Air Raid Precautions (ARP) correspondence, shelter files, instructions to civilians and papers regarding the welfare of citizens, fire service and fire prevention files, papers relating to the Women's Voluntary Service, papers regarding the billeting of workers, Ministry of Health files, papers regarding air raids and resultant war damage, papers regarding the Halifax bomber crash in York, staff registers, papers regarding training exercises, casualty lists, invasion committee papers, Operations Regional Comissioner correspondence, A.R.P Control Headquarters register of permits and papers relating to German chemical warfare explorations.

Two of these volumes contain indexes (excluding 1961-1973)

Tramways Committee minutes
1923-29

Tramways and Motors Committee (from 1925) minutes
1929-60

Transport Committee minutes
1961-73

Records relating to the York Court of Record. Includes Cash Books, Appearance Book, Judgement Rolls Court Registers, Account Book etc.

Files created by City of York Council related to town planning.

Comprises records relating to the oversight and licensing of slaughter houses and abattoirs.

Comprises records relating to the registration and oversight of cowsheds, dairies and cowkeepers in York.

Edited/open version of the electoral roll. This is the version that may be bought from the council and used for marketing. If you would like your details removed from this version please contact Electoral Services at the City of York Council.

Royal charters and letters patent granted to the mayor and commonality of the city, inhabitants and gilds. Eleven are damaged and unidentified.

1 (c.1155)
2 (1189)
3 (1256)
4 (1256)
5 (1283)
6 (1312)
7 (1327)
8 (1376)
9 (1382)
10 (1407)
11 (1407)
12 (1414)
13 (1423)
14 (1430)
15 (1431)
16 (1436)
17 (1438)
18 (1440)
19 (1447)
20 (1449)
21 (1456)
22 (1458)
23 (1459)
24 (1459)
25 (1462)
26 (1464)
27 (1485)
28 (1514)
29 (1519)
30 (1524)
31 (1527)
32 (1545)
33 (1547)
34 (1554)
35 (1554)
36 (1556)
37 (1560)
38 (1563)
39 (1570)
40 (1576)
41 (1579)
42 (1588)
43 (1610)
44 (1620)
45 (1630)
46 (1665)
47 (1668)
48 (1670)
49 (1670)
50 (1682)
51 (1683)
52 (1684)
53 (1685)
54 (1773)
55 (1794)
56 (1808)
57 (1830)
58 (1836)
59 (1836)
59A (1837)
60 (1860)

Includes:
E60a: Transcriptions of City Charters, volume I;
E60b: Transcriptions of City Charters, volume II;
E60c: Transcript of a charter of King Edward VI, issued in 1547.
E60d: Translation of Two Charters relating to the Common Council of the City of York by a citizen 1662 and 1676

Bound copy of act

Bound copy of act

Development Plan 1951, report of the survey

Records concerning marketing, publicity and media relations relating to education.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section on a regular basis as they are catalogued..

These letters of thanks were received from members of the armed forces from York on active service during the First World War, following the decision by the council to send each of them a present of a bar of chocolate for Christmas 1914. As a result the letters are more commonly referred to as the Chocolate Letters. The letters are individually numbered and arranged alphabetically by surname.

Includes papers relating to royal visits to York, and civic preparations for jubilee events and coronations.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Park and Allotments department.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Housing and Parks department.

Diaries of staff involved in deliveries and pickups of patients, food and other items. Also records some cases of insect control.

Legal cases pursued under the Public Health Acts and bye-laws.

Comprises registers relating to the oversight and inspection of midwives following the Midwives Act, 1902

Includes the Provision of Meals Sub-Commttee & Maintenance Grants and Meals Sub-Commttee, 1912-18 and 1922-32, and the Provision of Meals Sub-Committee 1932-34.

Includes plans, proposals, leaflets, photographs and publicity relating to the organisation and staging of the festival.

Includes plans, proposals, leaflets, photographs and publicity relating to the organisation and staging of the festival.

Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material.

It is likely that the items in this series were collected by the York Festival team as examples of good practice.

Account rolls for St Anthony's hospital for years 1592-1595, 1611-1614, 1617-1620.
Four account rolls belonging to one of the hospital (which exactly is unclear): One 1540, one fifteenth century and 2 undated.

Records relating to poor relief prior to the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Includes minutes; accounts and relief assessments.

See ref: PLU for poor relief records relating to the York Poor Law Union and the Public Assistance Committtee (1837-1960s).

Comprises correspondence files concerning the investigation and measurement of air pollution.

Volumes recording weather and pollution readings from sites around York

Log books for Rufforth Undenominational School. The log books include information about school attendance, upkeep of the buildings, the absences of particular pupils and the names of those admitted to or leaving the school. In some cases the schoolmaster states why the pupil is leaving and where they are moving on to. The schoolmaster from January 1881-October 1882 was J. Thomas Conyers Robson; he returned to the school in April 1883 after an absence of 5 months, during which time James Whitworth was master.

Records of the New Earswick Primary School

Includes photographs of various structures and monuments in York. The monuments are individually listed.

Reports related to maintenance and restoriation of City of York council owned properties.

Day to day accounts of gaoler's activities at York Castle prison including attendance at quarter sessions, births in the prison, suicide attempts, disciplinary issues and punishments, arrivals and departures of prisoners including executions. From 1838 city felons were sent to the Castle prison, rather than the city prison.

Files created by City of York Council related to development in York

Files created by City of York Council related to Local Plans.

Comprises files relating to the building and maintenance of council housing, particularly in the post-World War II period. Files consist primarily of correspondence and associated papers. .

The account books were the informal day to day version of the corporation accounts. Incomplete series.

1 (1446)
1A (1449 and 1480)
2 (1520-1525)
3 (1526-1528, 1535, 1538)
4 (1542, 1554)
5 (1559, 1565, 1584)
6 (1585, 1587, 1588)
7 (1591, 1593)
8 (1594, 1596)
9 (1597-1598)
10 (1599, 1600)
11 (1602-1603)
12 (1605-1606)
13 (1607-1608, 1610)
14 (1611-1613)
15 (1614-1616)
16 (1617-1619)
17 (1620, 1621, 1623)
18 (1624)
19 (1625-1627)
20 (1629-1632)
21 (1633-1636)
22 (1637-1639)
23 (1640-1645)
24 (1646-1651)
25 (1653-1654, 1656, 1658, 1661, 1663, 1664-1665)
25A (1655)
26 (1666, 1668, 1671-1672, 1679)
27 (1680, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1686, 1687)
28 (1688, 1692, 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696)
29 (1697-1702)
30 (1703-1709)
31 (1710-1714)
32 (1715-1721)
33 (1722-1728)
34 (1729-1733)
35 (1734-1738)
36 (1734-1738)
37 (1744-1748)
38 (1749-1751, 1753-1754)
39 (1755-1759)
40 (1760)
41 (1761)
42 (1762)
43 (1763)
44 (1764)
45 (1765)
46 (1766)
47 (1767)
48 (1768)
49 (1769)
50 (1770)
51 (1771)
52 (1772)
53 (1773)
54 (1774)
55 (1775)
56 (1776)
57 (1777)
58 (1778)
59 (1779)
60 (1780)
61 (1781)
62 (1782)
63 (1783)
64 (1784)
65 (1785)
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84 (1804)
85 (1805)
86 (1806)
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88 (1808)
89 (1809)
90 (1810)
91 (1811)
92 (1812)
93 (1813)
94 (1814)
95 (1815)
96 (1816)

Contracts for maintenance work in council buildings. Includes plans and correspondence where appropriate.

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E64: Names of able bodied and their arms and horses (c. 1509-1547)

E41: Muster roll of 102 soldiers sent to aid in war against Scotland (1543) and list of able bodied in the City and Ainsty and their arms.

E47: Names of persons, horses, weapons, armour in City and Ainsty plus deer parks and horse breeding (1573)

E41A: Muster roll of men chosen to be soldiers in 1584 and 1587 plus an assessment upon the Ainsty towards the cost of two light horseman to serve in Ireland 1578

E47A: Names of persons in Ainsty with weapons (1666)

E87: Names of soldiers appointed by ordinance of 23 May 1648

E41C: Names of men enlisted to serve in land and marine forces 1708-1711

E125: Commissioners for York and Ainsty minutes re: apprehension of men for army and Navy 1744-1745.

E41B: Minutes, accounts, etc connected to raising militia against Scotland 1745

E42: Minutes of Lieutenancy re: raising additional militia pursuant to 1797 Act.

E42A: Names of ballot in pursuance of Militia Act 1806.

E43: Minutes of Lieutenacy re: cavalry pursuant to 1797 Act.

E92: Raising of forces for defence of city in 1745, orders relating to vagrants, carriages impressed for royal service 1805

Great war notes and lists of men for Roll of Honour 1918
List of ex Prisoners of War from York incarcerated during the First World War

List of York men killed 1914 - 1918 and some correspondence from next of kin.

List of ex-Prisoners of War 1914 - 1919

List of repatriated Prisoners of War

Notes by City of York & District Family History Society on the York World War I Index

Includes information about telephone company contracts, a dinner card, information booklets, notes on gas poisoning, papers relating to housing schemes, circulars and copies of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Comprises house inspection records for Layerthorpe; Hallfield Road; Hallfield Terrace; Duke of York Street; Hart's Terrace; Kidd's Terrace; St Cuthbert's Road; Chicory Yard; and Redeness Street.

Report on a central area traffic scheme

Final Report, volumes one and two.

Reports, studies and development opportunities related toYork Inner Ring Road

Complete series of minute books of the corporation, traditionally known as "house books". The first series started in a different format before municipal reform in 1835.

1 (1835-1837)
2 (1838-1842)
3 (1842-1850)
4 (1850-1853)
5 (1854-1855)
6 (1855-1859)
7 (1859-1862)
8 (1862-1864)
9 (1864-1866)
10 (1866-1867)
11 (1868-1869)
12 (1870-1872)
13 (1872-1873)
14 (1873-1874)
15 (1875-1876)
16 (1876-1877)
17 (1877-1879)
18 (1879-1880)
19 (1880-1882)
20 (1882-1883)
21 (1883-1885)
22 (1885-1886)
23 (1886-1887)
24 (1887-1889)
25 (1889-1892)
26 (1892-1895)
27 (1895-1899)
28 (1899-1902)
29 (1802-1904)
30 (1904-1906)
31 (1906-1908)
32 (1908-1909)
33 (1909-1911)
34 (1911-1912)
35 (1912-1914)
36 (1914-1916)
37 (1916-1918)
38 (1918-1920)
39 (1920-1922)
40 (1922-1923)
41 (1923-1925)
42 (1925-1927)
43 (1927-1929)
44 (1929-1931)
45 (1931-1934)
46 (1934-1937)
47 (1937-1944)
48 (1944-1949)
49 (1950-1953)
50 (1953-1957)
51 (1957-1960)
52 (1960-1964)
53 (1964-1966)
54 (1966-1969)
55 (1969-1971)
56 (1971-1973)
57 (1973-1974)
58 (1977-1978)
59 (1978-1979)
60 (1979-1980)
61 (1980-1981)
62 (1981-1982)
63 (1982-1983)
64 (1983-1984)
65 (1984-1985)
66 (1985-1986)
67 (1986-1987)
68 (1987-1988)
69 (1988-1989)
70 (1989-1990)
71 (1990-1991)
72 (1991-1992)
73 (1992-1993)
74 (1993-1994)
75 (1994-1995)
76 (1995-1996)
77 (1996-1997)
78 (1997-1998)
79 (1998-1999)
80 (1999-2000)
81 (2000-2001)
82 (2001-2002)
83 (2002-2003)
84 (2003-2004)
85 (2004-2005)
86 (2005-2006)
87 (2006-2007)
88 (2007-2008)
90 (2009-2010)
91 (2010-2011)
92 (2011-2012)