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Archive Collection:
MS 421

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...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 421/1

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...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 421/2

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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MS 421/3

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...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 421/4

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;...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 421/5

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...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 421/6

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...

Archive Series:
MS 421/1/1

1833-1954

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

Archive Series:
MS 421/1/2

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 ...

Archive Series:
MS 421/1/3

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.

Archive Series:
MS 421/1/4

1835-1956

Archive Series:
MS 421/3/1

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...