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Papers of William Aldam of Frickley
Catalogue reference: DD/WA
What’s it about?
This record is about the Papers of William Aldam of Frickley dating from 1718-1890.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DD/WA
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Title (The name of the record)
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Papers of William Aldam of Frickley
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Date (When the record was created)
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1718-1890
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Description (What the record is about)
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DD/WA/A/1-31 Education 1825-1840.
DD/WA/B Business.
DD/WA/B1/1-60 Business Records of Aldam, Pease, Birchall and Co. of Leeds 1718-1840.
DD/WA/B2/1-36 Business Records of William Aldam 1847-1890.
DD/WA/C Correspondence.
DD/WA/D Diaries.
DD/WA/D1/1-24 Domestic Diaries of William Aldam 1848-1890.
DD/WA/D2/1-18 Domestic and Foreign Travel 1830-1851.
DD/WA/D3/1-4 Other Diaries 1843-1846.
DD/WA/D4/1-4 Commonplace Books 1839-1844.
DD/WA/E Estate.
DD/WA/H Household and Personal Accounts.
DD/WA/M Charitable, Voluntary and Recreational Organisations.
DD/WA/O/1-5 Township of Frickley with Clayton 1768-1862.
DD/WA/P/1-55 Parliamentary Politics 1820-1850.
DD/WA/PL Maps and Plans.
DD/WA/Q Public Business.
DD/WA/Q1/1-34 Quarter Sessions Notebooks 1851-1885.
DD/WA/Q2/1-37 Quarter Sessions and Magistracy Business : Memorandum Books 1852-1890.
DD/WA/Q3/1-28 Quarter Sessions and Magistracy Business : Papers 1850-1890.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Doncaster Archives
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>Aldam, William, 1813-1890, of Frickley, Clayton with Frickley, West Riding of Yorkshire</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11 Sub fonds
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <p>The papers of William Aldam of Frickley Hall and his parents William and Sarah, are currently being recatalogued. The existing catalogue will be gradually superseded by this revised catalogue. Please consult this catalogue first, as records formerly contained in the old catalogue will be progressively transferred to this one, which contains the current document references where these have been revised.</p>
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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William Aldam (1813-1890) acquired the Frickley estate as a wedding gift from his father in 1844. The Aldam surname was adopted as a result of inheritance and the family, originally a branch of the Quaker Pease dynasty, had gained its wealth through the Leeds woollen trade. The archive includes the records of the family firm. William Aldam gained a first class degree in mathematics at Cambridge and was called to the bar. He served as one of the MPs for Leeds between 1841 and 1847 and thereafter combined landownership and improvement, a wide range of business interests (including chairmanship of the Aire and Calder Navigation Co), a prominent position in the West Riding magistracy and other local government bodies and participation in a wide range of charitable societies.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/050838cf-bd53-456b-8d01-3cbea8f32c54/
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Papers of William Aldam of Frickley