Catalogue description Bagshawe collection

About 170 deeds from the office of Bagshawe & Co., Sheffield, including:

Sheffield deeds: relating to properties in:- Broad Lane (Red Hill Close), Carver Street, Allen Lane, Water Lane, Burngreave (Hollowstorths), Listerfields and Pyebank, Campo Lane and Darnall, 1438, 1583-1864. They concern the families of Hawke, Law, Greaves, Crawshaw, Hurt, Atkin, Matthewman, Meek, Brightmore, Gaunt (155).

Kimberworth deeds: Park Gate (Greaves), 1693-1842 (10).

Petition: to the Duke of Norfolk re road at Stannington, c.1825.

Also deposited: a small accumulation from the office of Joseph Hall, solicitor, of Castleton:

Derbyshire deeds: (mainly Ashton and Hall families) Ashford, 1718-1800 (35), Bradwell, 1674-1785 (17), Castleton, 1617-1803 (32), Hathersage, 1693-1783 (13), Chapel-en-le-Frith, 1762-1836 (9), Hope, 1635-1809 (includes agreements re leadmining) (17), Totley (estate of Aeneas Rotherham), 1680-1788 (15), Sheffield-Chapel Turnpike Trust, 1823-1852 (5). Also, additional material of an antiquarian collection, mainly of Derbyshire interest and including a strong section on lead mines, made by E G Bagshawe. Some of them emanate from his own family and the related family of Wyatt of Foolow (Derbyshire). Including: Eyre of Hassop (Bag C Part 1 A 1004-3308): Family muniments of the Eyres of Hassop, Derbyshire, subsequently called Earls of Newburgh. Including: Manor court rolls of Plumpton family manors 15th-19th century (various Derbyshire places); Deeds, wills and settlements, relating to Derbyshire 13th-19th century; Estate papers 15th-18th century; Plans 17th-19th century; Letters, mainly Eyre family, and various estate letters 18th-19th century; Legal Cases, 16th-17th century, including recusancy proceedings 1626-1640.

Manor: Hope: court book 1704-1731, verdicts 1729-1735, copyhold rents 1735-1802.

High Peak: rents payable to the crown 1709, survey of copyholds 1820, appointment of steward 1739.

Parish:

Eyam and Foolow (Wyatt papers): Foolow pauper settlements and indentures 1710-1830; minutes of committee relating to tithe commutation 1838-1841; returns of males aged 15-60 in Foolow, with particulars (for militia) 1798; Foolow returns of indoor and outdoor poor 1848-1855; assessments (various) 19th century; Wyatt's miscellaneous papers relating to tithe commutation.

Hasland: parish account books 1766-1772, 1800-1837; rate assessments 1811-1836; tithe book 1835-1849.

Grindlow (Bagshawe papers): overseers' account book 1803-1863.

Tithe apportionment for Bubnell and Crich 1840; Hope tithe payments c1800.

Petition re Eyam Grammar School 1856.

Surveys: Monyash 1848, Hope 1853.

Treeton, Yorkshire: Constables' accounts 1734-1743.

Whitgift and Hook, Yorkshire: assessments for repairing banks and staithes 1762-1763.

Deeds:

Bakewell (Grammar), Calver, Monsal Dale (Ellis Lee Farm), Taddington, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Darley, Wensley, Eyam, Foolow, Glossop, Tideswell, Hathersage, Youlgreave, Winster, Chesterfield, Tapton (Dowker), late 16th-c1850 (370), Dore and Totley 1280-1763 (36), Ashbourne, Brassington, Matlock, Wirksworth 1646-1779 (20). Bradfield, Kilnhirst, Rawmarsh c1220-1595 (90), Doncaster, Bentley, Hampole, Fishlake, Sheffield, Swinton and other places in South Yorkshire and Yorkshire generally 1406-1829 (120).

Alstonfield, and Sheen, Staffordshire 1600-1793 (7).

Other counties (20).

Apprenticeship indentures, Derbyshire and Sheffield.

Estate and family:

Eyre of Highlow:

Rentals and accounts for estates in Tideswell, Bamford, Highlow, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Bakewell, Castleton, Little Hucklow, Litton 1672, 1674, 1708-1753.

Particulars of sale 1802; Totley and Barnby estates 1693.

Rough plans, sketches and drawings. Family correspondence 1710-1735 (200).

Legal papers of families related to Eyre - Newton, Gell, Pegge, 17th and 18th century (all in one volume).

Bagshawe of Foolow:

Miscellaneous surveys, farming accounts for the Foolow, Grindlow, Great Hucklow area, 19th century.

The following papers are those of W Wyatt's clients:

Barker of Bakewell - as agents for the Duke of Devonshire: instructions to W Barker 1707; Hardwick Hall accounts 1734, 1782; Chatsworth estate accounts 1743, 1755, 1771; Dore, Hathersage and Derwent estate accounts 1785-1819; Dore rental 1792-1802; Ashford rental and accounts 1772-1775. - family business: letter books 1753-1811 (including potash business in Philadelphia); household ledgers and accounts (various) 1776-1825; testamentary business including Alexander Barker, Captain Barker, Rev William Barker, Dean of Raphoe, late 18th century. Rev W Bagshawe: Wormhill rentals, assessments, tithe business 1818-1841.

William Carleill of Great Longstone: Carleill wills, correspondence, pedigrees and papers relating to Hedon and Outnewton in the East Riding 1801-1878.

Eaglesfield Smith (who inherited the estate of the Bradshaws at Eyam, Foolow and Bretton): Rentals 1802-1857, Wyatt's accounts as agent 1790-1858, correspondence between Smith and Wyatt 1795-1861; lease of Bradshaw Hall 1791; declaration re pew in Eyam church 1808.

Other families: Birds of Eyam, Middleton of Leam, Denman of Stoney Middleton, Longsdon of Eyam; Bernard Howard's estates at Wheston Hall and at Onneley, Staffordshire with correspondence from the Ellisons of Glossop Hall.

Leadmining papers:

A large collection of plans, deeds of partnership, accounts and business records, collected and accumulated by W Wyatt and also by the Bagshawes. The mines covered can be grouped topographically in the following areas: Old great vein or Eyam Edge and Hucklow mines (the largest group); Taddington, Flagg and Chelmorton, including Wheal Slough; Winster, Stanton and Alport; Wardlow and Tideswell; Sheldon; Cromford including Cromford Sough and Grassington, Yorkshire; Mixon, Staffordshire, Alston, Cumberland and Bond, Ireland (a few only), 18th and 19th century.

Barmasters' books: Ashford and Monyash, the King's Field, Taddington, Brushfield and Blackwell c1760-1842.

Barker and Wilkinson's smelting business: ore accounts (bought, sold and smelted), cupola accounts, cash accounts 1731-1850s.

Personal papers:

Diaries: White Watson (Derbyshire geologist) 1780-1831 and also his catalogue of fossils; Rev E Bagshawe's day book 1715-1751; Rev Thomas Brown, vicar of Tideswell 1792-1799; Robert Fournes, engineer 1793; W Wyatt 1790-1810.

Letters: Benjamin Bagshawe's, relating to Sheffield Liberal politics 1876-1905, to Sheffield and Ruskin museums, to antiquarian matters from Llewellyn Jewitt, William Morris and others.

Samuel Bagshawe's relating to Derbyshire elections.

Wills and executors' papers of Wyatts, Bagshawes and many other families for whom they acted in a legal capacity.

Personal cash-books of Wyatts and Bagshawes.

Antiquarian notes: Mainly Benjamin Bagshawe's, including pedigrees of Derbyshire families and folders of notes on a topographical basis relating to North Derbyshire.

Bagshawe and Co, solicitors, of Sheffield

• Ashton family of Derbyshire
• Hall family of Castleton, Derbyshire
• Derbyshire
• Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
• Foolow, Derbyshire
• Kimberworth, Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire