Ronksley collection

Ronksley Collection. The collection consists of materials for the history of the chapelry of Bradfield, compiled by Mr J G Ronksley. It comprises a small number of original documents, volumes of abstracts and notes, and intricate indexes. Records including:

Original documents:

Manorial: Sheffield: byelaws, 1733.

Dungworth and Wigtwizzle: documents relating to commons (3), 13th century (attested copy), 1709.

Stannington: chief rental, 1637.

Parish: Bradfield: constables' accounts, 1748, 1773-1774; feoffees' accounts, 1814; poor rate assessments, 1773, 1804-1807; highways assessment (Moorwood), 1837; agreement concerning town miller, 1711. Ecclesfield: cases re tithes, Gargreave's charity, 1769-1771; vestry meeting resolution, 1775.

Deeds: etc., concerning the Ronksleys and related families, of Bradfield, 1449-1807; also of Fox of Sheffield, 1742-1775 (about 100).

Personal: Book of sheep marks, 1767.

Recipe book for animal medicines, 1825.

Transcripts:

Bolsterstone: parish registers, 1691-1814.

Bradfield: parish registers (now published to 1722) - marriages to 1754, baptisms to 1761, burials to 1767; constables' accounts, 1607-1765; feoffees' accounts, 1622-1774; churchwardens' accounts, 1617-1777; overseers' accounts, 1635-1779. (Selected years only).

St. James' Church, Sheffield: parish registers, 1789-1808.

Tombstones: Midhope chapel yard inscriptions; index to Bradfield and Stannington tombstones.

Pedigrees, etc:

Hall, Marriott; notes only-Ibbotson, Morton, Revell, Ronksley, Waterhouse; book of pedigrees (mainly from Hunter's MSS.); abstracts from parish registers, relating to Bradfield families.

Notes and Abstracts, in six bound volumes, relating mainly to Bradfield, but including also material relating to Sheffield and neighbourhood. The abstracts (including some full transcripts) were made from the Wilson MSS., the Hunter and Mitchell MSS. in the British Museum, the Norfolk Estate Office records, and other miscellaneous sources. The Wilson MSS. (of which there is a synopsis in two volumes, in addition to the abstracts) were collected by the antiquary, John Wilson of Broomhead (d. 1783), and the collection was sold in 1843, most of it going to the Phillipps Collection. When the latter was broken up, a portion of the Wilson MSS. was repurchased by the Wilson family, by whom the documents were again sold in 1953. The original collection was studied by Joseph Hunter about 1806-1808, and the Ronksley abstracts may be partly from his notes. They are mainly, however, of those manuscripts which were in the possession of the Wilsons at Waldershelf in Ronksley's time. There are elaborate indexes (in boxes) to the abstracts.