Will and inventory of Elizabeth Mountforth of Kilnhurst 1549
The will of Elizabeth Mountforth of Kilnhurst Hall, with an inventory detailing her possessions, including two gowns and two head-dresses and her livestock.
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from John Guest to Edward Chrimes Jnr Regarding the Temperance Society 1844
The letter discusses the possibility of opening a lecture room to accommodate the Rotherham and Masbrough Temperance Society (founded 1839) which campaigned against alcohol abuse.
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Steel Peech and Tozer - Letters about R. J. Buttershaw
Letters concerning the theft of 760 by a company cashier.
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Richard Holden’s Lake District Journal 1808
Rotherham solicitor’s account of his family’s tour of the north of England in particular the increasingly popular tourist area of the Lake District.
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Map of Aston 1775
Part of a deed of sale of the Aston Hall estate to the Verelst family showing all the farms, cottages, fields and woodland in Aston with a list of tenants.
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Thomas Pearson’s drawings c 1840
This plan is in a volume of drawings and notes from a series of records about collieries and railways drawn or collected by Thomas Pearson, who was proprietor of Herringthorpe Colliery and also the secretary of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway.
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