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Archive Collection:
YAS/MD476 (Add1)

19th-20th century

Includes family papers relating to the Crossley family including correspondence, valuations, insurance, wills etc. Papers relating to the Wheelwright Family. Papers relating to Mearclough Mill. Pap...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1010

18th century-20th century

Including: farm account books of Isaac Denison of Dunkeswick and others 1809-1893 and diary of a farmer recording the weather, events on the farm, payments 1855-1893 (back of diary records accounts re...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1054

c1970

With full references to relevant documents and printed sources including parish registers, wills, Wakefield court rolls, directories and Yorkshire fines.

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD106

17th century-18th century

Includes nine deeds relating to Lamb Close, Rawmarsh 1783-1798 and probate of will of Mary Beale of Rotherham, 23 Feb 1714/5 and will of Francis Denner of Rawmarsh, 27 Aug 1770

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1077

1969-1974

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD11

1720-1818

Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD110

1793-1812

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1104

20th century

Files, presscuttings, journal reviews, articles and private study notes relating to Europe, Africa, Far East, India, Anglo-Saxon Britain, pottery, querns, vikings

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD112

1739-1949

Includes: registers 1749-1831 and 1833-1949; accounts 1739-1810, 1837-1874; housekeepers' accounts 1770-1771, 1816-1817; accounts and vouchers for the building of the new schoolhouse 1739; examiners' ...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1144

20th century

Including pedigrees of Bentley, Dinsdale, Palmer. A list of Jackson entries in the Terrington N. Yorkshire parish registers (18-19th century), a list of early settlers in Whatcom County [Washington, U...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1156

1847-1906

Also an additional deposit of 65 photocopy letters.

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD116

1739-1814

Comprising petition from the citizens of Halifax against the repeal of the act establishing a court of requests for the collection of small debts n.d. [1776]; deeds of George Wood and John Broadhead r...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1164

1790-1960

Contains certificates, copies of testamentary documents, correspondence, pedigrees, research notes, newspaper cuttings, apprenticeship indenture, cashbook of Henry Atkinson of Salford and scrapbook

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1165

1902-1937

Including letters received from F Elgee, W Farrer, FG Simpson, F Villey and R E M Wheeler

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD117

17th century-19th century

Relating to Heseldon or Heseltine family of Brackenbottom, Horton-in-Ribblesdale and Sothwell, Nottinghamshire

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1174

c1800-1969

Including diaries 1915-1969, and notes and correspondence on historical, archaeological and personal matters, the YAS and the Roman Antiquities Committee. Also includes several 19th century documents

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD118

18th century-20th century

Including 'Mile Cross' belonging to the Gledhill and Holgate families

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1189

1642-1976

Consists mainly of photocopies and correspondence exchanged with historical scholars including P Aheir, W Paley Baildon, W Farrer, LC Loyd, WE Preston, FM Stenton and A Hamilton Thompson. Topics inclu...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MD12

1606-1813

Relating to properties at Hambleton and Mount St John, near Thirsk, Feliskirk and Marderby, Thirlby, Ravensthorpe (par. Feliskirk), Boltby and Hesketh, Cold Kirby, Aiscough, Hudswell, Brompton-on-Swal...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1202

20th century

Consisting of notes, transcripts and photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to Yorkshire history, mainly to Abbotside and Wenleydale, and to the Thwaite(s), Metcalfe and other families ...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1208

1902-1921

Comprising notes and plan of the Leeds area by F Villy nd, traced plan of Castley and Wescoehill 1921, annotated Ordnance Survey maps for Rigton and Wothersome 1902, Alwoodley, Bramham and Newton Kym...

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD121/add

17th-19th century

Includes: Court books for Skipton manor 1847-1882, honour 1825-1882 and manors of Eshton 1741-1764, Gargrave 1761, Silsden 1752-1882, Stirton with Thorlby 1753-1882 Field books for Skipton 1757, Sils...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1215

c1970-1979

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1222

1776-1940

Scrapbooks of presscuttings are of general Yorkshire interest, but notably relating to the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and Roman Antiquities Committee 1906-1939