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Total number of records: 750

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SubjectCount
registries1
cemeteries1
cremation1

Count of People and organisations

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Leeds General Cemetery Company1
St George'S Fields1
Woodhouse Cemetery1
Leeds General Cemetery Co. Ltd. (1833-1967)1
Grimshaw, John Atkinson (1836-1893)1
Baines, Edward (1774-1848)1
Baines, Sir Edward (1800-1890)1
Eddison, Edwin (1805-1867)1

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From 170011
From 1800460
From 1900279

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Up to 17997
Up to 1899421
Up to 1999317
Up to latest5

Archive Collection

Leeds General Cemetery Company Ltd Archive

Leeds General Cemetery Co. Ltd. (1833-1967)

1733-1992

Includes: corporate correspondence and records; committee minutes; shareholding records; financial records; records relating to property ownership and other legal matters; papers relating to the opera...

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Corporate, Administrative and Shareholding

1821-1973

Records relating to the governance and overall management of the Leeds General Cemetery Company. Includes: Committee meeting minute books, Commitee correspondence and papers, mainly relating to the fo...

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Property and Legal

1773-1937

Papers and correspondence mainly relating to property ownership and legal work undertaken for the Leeds General Cemetery Company Ltd. Includes title deeds, contracts and agreements, and correspondence...

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Records of Burial

1835-1992

Contains registers and certificates recording interments at the Leeds General Cemetery. Includes: burial registers; plot registers; order books for burials; stone books; a register of burial plot owne...

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Operations

1896-1973

Contains records relating to the operational management of the cemetery site. Includes: receipt books for purchasing and maintaining graves; stock, order and payment books for purchasing grave stones;...

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Finance

1833-1973

Financial records for the Leeds General Cemetery Company Ltd, including: day books and analysis books of payments; ministers' fee and employee wages books; dividend account records; audited annual acc...

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University of Leeds records relating to the Leeds General Cemetery Company Ltd

1917-1992

Papers produced or kept by the University of Leeds Busar's Office relating to the acquisition and later management of the Leeds General Cemetery. The records mainly cover the process of passing the Un...

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Minutes

1833-1954

Draft and official minutes of meetings of the Committee of the Leeds General Cemetery Company.

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Committee correspondence and papers

1821-1973

Correspondence, papers and accounts, mainly created by or sent to various members of the Committee of the Leeds General Cemetery Company. The majority of the papers relate to the original development ...

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Shareholding papers

1833-1957

Records relating to shareholding at the Leeds General Cemetery Company. Includes registers and lists of shareholders, deeds transferring ownership of shares, and correspondence with shareholders.

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Annual Reports

1835-1956

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Burial Registers

23 Jul 1835-30 Jan 1992

A set of registers recording information for persons buried at the Leeds General Cemetery. The registers also include interments or scatterings of cremations. Burial information is recorded under th...

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