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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)

Includes minutes of all committees connected to the administration and maintenance of the York Union Workhouse (later the City Institution and then The Grange)

Parochial, municipal and parliamentary registers of electors. Depending on the extent of the franchise at different periods, these may be found in seperate volumes or combined together. Registers up to and including 2006 are on open shelves in the Archives reading room and do not need to be ordered: Y/COU/6/1, Y/COU/6/2, Y/COU/6/3, Y/COU/6/4. The current electoral roll is found in series Y/COU/6/5 and Y/COU/6/6 and do need to be requested. Different access regulations appy to the edited and full versions, staff will be able to advise on which you should order.

Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series, including a synopsis of each letter.

Includes lease and release and conveyance relating to land in Clifton. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Financial ledgers and documents relating to the management of the York Cemetery Company including account books, grave memorial ledgers, details of shares and annual returns. These papers run from the Company, through it's liquidation and it becoming York Cemetery Trust. Also includes some financial information from the Friends of York Cemetery Trust.

These volumes contain indexes.

6.1 1836-38
6.2 1838-64
6.3 1864-71

These volumes contain indexes.

1 1836-47
2 1847-57
3 1857-68
4 1868-77
5 1877-84
6 1884-87
7 1887-90
8 1890-94
9 1894-97
10 1897-1900
11 1900-02
12 1902-05
13 1905-06
14 1906-08
15 1908-10
16 1910-13
17 1913-17
18 1917-21
19 1921-25
20 1925-31

These volumes are indexed.

1 1836-48
2 1849-60
3 1860-72
4 1872-79
5 1879-86
6 1886-92
7 1892-98
8 1898-1904
9 1904-08
10 1908-15
.11 1915-21
12 1921-27
13 1927-32
14 1932-38
15 1938-43
16 1943-48
17 1948-52

Meeting minutes and annual reports from the York Cemetery Co. Ltd and following the liquidation of the company York Cemetery Trust and the Friends of York Cemetery Trust.

Includes specific information on many individual York pubs, as well as more general information on the history of pubs in the city and the history of beer.

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.

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

Records details of individuals who applied for relief (welfare) through the Relieving Officer of the York Poor Law Union and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.

Comprises application and report books; abstracts of application and report books; and application, report and transitional payments determination lists (Public Assistance Committee).

Relief lists record the amounts of out-relief (i.e. welfare payments in money or in kind) granted to individiuals on a weekly basis. Lists were kept by the Relieving Officers of the York Poor Law Union. Note that these lists record payments to individuals who were not in the workhouse.

Comprises weekly outdoor relief lists; abstracts of outdoor relief lists; and index of persons appearing in outdoor relief lists.

Comprises two leases relating to the property.

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Comprises general ledgers for the York Poor Law Union; York Out-Relief Union; Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union .

Ouse Navigation Cttee Minute Books

1837-1846
1846-1870
1870-1883
1883-1888
1888-1895
1895-1902
1902-1907
1907-1914
1914-1923
1923-1938
1938-1957
1957-1968

Ouse & Foss Navigation Minute Book

1968-1974

Comprises poor rate books for parishes within the city area of the York Poor Law Union. Also includes some lighting rate books.

Information recorded for each rateable property may include: name of occupier; name of owner; description of property (e.g. house, garden, public house); name and situation of property; rateable value of property; amount of rate; amount of rate collected.

Note that earlier rate books may not include a street address for the property.

Comprises incoming and outgoing correspondence of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Commitee.

Comprises receipt and payment books for the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee; the York Out-Relief Union; the Flaxton and Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Unions; and the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Includes probate of the will of William Richardson, and recoveyance relating to 'Cleveland.' Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes two appointments of pieces of land. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Comprises minutes of the meetings of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union (also known as Union minutes); and from 1929 the minutes of the Public Assistance Committee.

See also Flaxton Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/12; and York Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/13

At present this series only comprises one settlement deed on the marriage of Mr Charles Gregory Fairfax the younger to Miss Mary Tasburgh.

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At this time he was in residence at Allestree Hall near Derby.

Includes documents, leaflets and other published materials which were not intended to be sold. See individual items entries for more detailed information.

All the letters were sent from Ockbrook.

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Comprises receipts and registers of relief granted on loan to individuals by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.

The papers all relate to coal seams, including Haigh Moor.

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Comprises notices of deaths and one notice of admission directed to the Clerk to Visitors, Lunatic Asylums
Grove House Acomb was a private asylum.

Includes lease and conveyance in fee, further conveyances, mortgage, transfer of mortgage and reconveyance. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Correspondence to and from the City Commissioners under the York Improvement Act

Includes specifications, resolutions of the Regiser Office Boardroom Committee; plans and tenders.

Includes extracts from the enclosure awards for Hemingbrough, Cliffe cum Lund and Barlby. Also includes abstract of title relating to Hemingbrough, conveyance relating to Hemingbrough and deed of covenant. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes minutes of proceedings, annual reports, financial papers, subscription papers, lists of subscribers and correspondence files.

Comprises copy agreement and demise.

The drawings are arranged chronologically by date. See individual item entries for more detailed information.

Comprises declaration and copy conveyance.

Includes one deed of appointment, and probate documents for Mary Sharp and Maria Smithson.

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Includes correspondence of Robert D Ker with his solicitor W Gray of York, and copied extract from correspondence between Glyn, Mills & Co and National Bank of Scotland. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Files of additional papers which cannot be easily classified into series. Please see file and item level desciptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Minute books detailing procedings at various meetings of the York Penitentiary Society. Also includes 2 minute books for Clifton Holme in particular.

The Acts and bills relate to the railways in north east England primarily. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Order and directions for sale; conditions of sale; correspondence; and conveyances.

Records of children placed in apprenticeships while under the care of the York Board of Guardians.

Comprises a register of apprentices and an apprentice indenture.

Comprises registers of non-resident and non-settled poor chargeable to the York Poor Law Union, and after 1930 the York Public Assistance Committee.

Non-resident poor refers to individuals receiving poor relief who were legally settled in York but residing elsewhere.

Non -settled poor refers to individuals receiving relief who were living in York but legally settled elsewhere.

Books of transits observed including details such as date, star or planet observed, telescope wire, mean passage, clocks error and daily rate. Also includes additional notes and remarks on the findings.

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Conveyances relating to various lands in Clifton. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes correspondence from various clients of Grays solicitors, including Robert Menzies, John Menzies, Lord Egremont and G Lloyd Graeme, as well as Inland Revenue account relating to the estate of Jacob Dowell of Helmsley, and release relating to the will of the late Reverend Edmnd Gray. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes correspondence with various clients of Grays solicitors on a number of matters, as well as calculations regarding Mrs Menzies renewal of a lease, a complaint to the York Board of Health regarding Baynes, Duffill & Co, appeal against assessed taxes by Reverend M N Stone and receipts. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

At present this series only comprises one series of printed rules and reports. Bound into one volume.

Visiting Books recording visits to shelters and buidlings associated with the York Penitentiary Society. Includes Case book, Matron's Report book, "Jottings book", Register of Inmates and 'shelter reports'.

Matilda Emily Webber died on 18 July 1917. This series includes marriage settlements, copies of deeds, authority to pay income, draft appointments, notice to trustees, correspondence from Lloyds Bank Ltd, sale of stock details, appointment of trust funds.

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Printed orders from the Poor Law Board and later the Local Government Board to the York Poor Law Union.

Comprises minutes, agreement, specifications, tenders and invoices

Comprises plan; papers relating to sale of land in Clifton; papers relating to finance of building; correspondence and other papers.

Comprises notices from the Board of Guardians; memorandum; abstract of title; and division of proceeds of sale.

Comprises order books of relief granted by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee. Also includes register of individual paupers relieved by the York Out-Relief Union.

Papers relating to the Dodsworth and Tetley families, including marriage settlement and counterpart assignment as a term of security.

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Summary accounts of receipts and expenditure for individual parishes within the York Poor Law Unon.

Includes parochial ledgers for the York Rural Sanitary Authority, the York Out-Relief Union and the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Letters between William Etty and Thomas Bodley on various subjects.

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

Comprises 20L, 10L, 5L and 2L fuel can measures; 2 boxes of pipettes; 56 LB weight; and 2 inspectors' scales (one labelled 'York' and one labelled 'Hull')

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Includes two bundles of accounts for Messrs Ridsdale and Craddock, in account with Messrs Smithson & Teasdale, and one agency account with Messrs Emmet Son and Stubbs. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Ordnance Survey maps of York and the surrounding area. See individual descriptions for the scales and areas covered.

Copies of MAP/4/1 to MAP/4/411 are in an open access cabinet in the Local History Room at York Explore.
MAP/4/412 to MAP/4/1947 are kept in the archives store - please ask staff about arranging an appointment to view these.

Comprises records relating to the inspection and oversight of common lodging houses.

Includes plans for various houses in Albert Street and Walmgate, as well as a list of plans orignally contained in York Reference Library.

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These legal documents were found during the course of cataloguing, and are not thought to have been listed elsewhere. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes letters of administration, mortgage, release and excerpt from a deed of settlement.

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These volumes contain newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes by J W Knowles about Yorkshire events and personalities, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire churches, saints and local politics. Arranged chronologically by date. There are no surviving scrapbooks for the years 1928 to 1933.

Includes release of annuity, probate of the will of Elizabeth Wilson, assignment of lease, probate of the will and codicil of Alicia Maria Lloyd and draft appointment of new trustees. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Legal cases concerning investigations, claims and prosecutions instigated by or involving the York Poor Law Union. Includes cases concerning poor law union staff and paupers.

Summary statistics compiled by the York Poor Law Union (the including Out-Relief Unions)and Public Assistance Committee for reporting to central government officials.

Comprises weekly and annual returns and monthly statistics.

Volume is indexed.

Includes mortgage between Edmund Robinson and Reverend Charles Thorp, and reconveyance of Thomas William Evans to Henry Newton.

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Includes legal opinion, coveyance and assignment, transfer of residual estate and correspondence relating toland held by the Croft family (in particular Reverend Robert Croft). Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes mortgage, further charge, recovery and release and reconveyance relating to Thorpe Green, in the hands of the Robinson family. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Bound committee minutes

Approved minutes of the York Union Finance Committee. Includes two volumes of combined minutes of the York Union Finance Committee and the York Out-Relief Union Finance Committee.

These volumes include handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings compiled by J W Knowles about people and places in York, as well as additional loose handwritten notes.

Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series, including a synopsis of each letter. Includes three letters, one list of attendees at a dance party, and a copy of the dance programme.

A series of published works by Piazzi Smyth regarding his research in Teneriffe and Egypt on the pyramids. Also includes contemporary articles about Smyth's life works.

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Includes abstract of title to land in Snainton, declaration of Robert Smyth (possibly Lyth), coveyance of land in Snainton, memorandum and receipt.

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The papers all relate to coal seams, including Broomhall Seam.

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Includes conveyances, statutory declarations, abstracts of title, conditions of sale and other legal papers, primarily relating to property and land at Newton le Willows. Also includes a copy of the will of Christopher Todd Thorpe of Patrick Brompton. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

At present this series only comprises one plan of the building, showing a proposed - but not built - extension on the rear of the York Assembly Rooms. Date is estimated.

Comprises papers relating to the erection of and provision of accommodation at the Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge.

Contracts wth various tradesmen for building work at New Board Room offices

From c.1885 the name of the school changes to Hungate Mission School. The collection includes four minute books, one receipt for a tea delivery, one class register and one notice of a general meeting.

Includes charge for securing £200 and conveyance, both relating to land in Fulford. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Summary accounts of monies received by the relieving officer and amounts of relief charged to each parishes/ward.

Note, these records contain very few names of individuals. Individuals are only recorded where their particular case has incurred extra costs.

Comprises relief and expenditure books for the York Poor Law Union, York Out-Relief Union, Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, Escrick Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

Includes copy deed of settlement, will of John Roper deceased, correspondence relating to the marriage settlement and contract notes.

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Includes probate of the wills of Matthew Beal and Emily Stork, marriage settlement for the two families and details of the appointment of trustees for the marriage settlement.

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Volumes, lists, and notes regarding theatre performances and other cultural productions in York and Yorkshire and across the country. Compiled by Cuthbert Joseph Kleiser. Includes pantomimes, ballets and operas. Also includes details of his visits to London to attend performances. Also lists productions in Paris, France.
The dates of several of the volumes overlap.
Some of the notes are written in biro, dating their creation to the mid to late 20th century, most likely pre-1989..