Elmhirst family muniments

Family muniments of the Elmhirsts of Houndhill, Ouslethwaite and Round Green in Worsbroughdale, including some emanating from the Elmhirsts of Stixwold, Lincolnshire. Also some records of the solicitor's business of A. O. Elmhirst. They form a fairly continuous record of a local family of farmers, an apothecary, clergy, lawyers and landowners from the mid-eighteenth century. The family was in Worsbroughdale in the 14th century but few records are of an early date. Elmhirst records:

Parish: Worsborough "parish book" (accounts of overseers, churches etc.) 1738-1799; surveys and assessments 1804-1806; pews and seating plan 1796, 1836; deeds and papers re highways 1804-1814 and rights of way 1840-1841, schools and charities 1794, 1893; faculties re Elmhirst and memorials 1721, 1917.

Thorne: allocation of pews 1717.

Afford, Lincolnshire: day book of spinning school 1787 (mutilated).

Transport: Printed annual statements of Sheffield - Wakefield turnpike trust 1827-1862. Printed annual statements, minutes, etc. of Dearne & Dove Canal Co. 1772-1824.

Deeds: Worsbrough 1600-1900 (100), Ecclesfield, Bradfield, Dodworth, Thurgoland 1546-1880 (70), Thorne (20) (families include Copley, Archdale, Hall, Steade, Pigott); Friskney, Fulletby, Stixwold, Lincolnshire, 18th century; leases, settlements and wills (all estates).

Estate including Farm records:

Note: between about 1864 and 1934 the Elmhirsts' did not farm any of their estates themselves. (Numerous but scattered items until 20th century) Surveys, rentals, valuations, farm leases, cropping and field books, for estates at Worsbrough, Dodworth, Ecclesfield from c.1800, Hatfield and Thorne 17th-19th centuries, Fulletby from 1700; tenant right valuations 1864-1953.

Enclosure papers (in connection with estates): Worsbrough boundary, dispute, expense accounts; Hatfield claims, schedule of allotments; Wadsley papers; copy of Barnsley award.

General day book and ledger accounts 1782-1806, 1849-1864.

Sale particulars etc.: Ouslethwaite (1768), Hatfield and Fishlake estates, Lincolnshire estates, Derwent Hall, Derbyshire and others. Ouslethwaite inventory 1843.

Half yearly rentals, income and capital accounts 1899-1942; farm and cottage rentals 1931-1966.

Farm diary (Round Green) 1825-1826 (six months only).

Farm returns to Ministry of Agriculture 1937-1960, annual farm valuations 1935-1955, farm day books, sales, wages, register of milk records, milk sample reports, pedigree herd book all c.1934-1960, special project files (silage, economic research).

Stud pedigrees 1750-1823.

Collieries: Leases, reports etc. Worsbrough and Dodworth, from about 1800 - also ironstone and quarries; leases to Barrow and Haematite Steel Co., Stafford and Barnsley Main collieries 1882-1938; Darley Main, Wharncliffe, Silkstone, and others in Worsbroughdale, c.1843-1932.

Opencast mining and land restoration papers 1943-1957.

Plans: Farms in Hatfield c.1800, Bradfield and Worsbrough, including farm buildings 18th-19th centuries, Round Green garden 1862; Barnsley colliery 1719; Dearne and Dove canal 1792-1793; projected road from Sandal to Wakefield Bridge, early 18th century.

Correspondence: Family and estate business 1782-c.1900 (with gaps, especially 1820s-1830s), including some letters from Potts family, emigrants to Australia in 1840s, and from Robert Elmhirst at St. Aidan's theological college 1859-1861.

Estate letters from 1904 and chronological files from 1935; farm and personal correspondence of A. O. Elmhirst from 1932.

Diaries: Various 1800-1857 (mainly ladies of the family).

Medical: Ledger of William Elmhirst, surgeon-apothecary 1768-1773.

Foreign Trade: Daybook of Thomas Elmhirst, Quebec merchant (sales in Canada) 1827-1834.

Pedigree: Elmhirst pedigree roll 1638; 19th century correspondence concerning.

Strafford estate records:

William Elmhirst was manorial steward to the 3rd Earl of Strafford of the 3rd creation, in the later 18th century.

Manor: Worsbrough and Worsbroughdale: copy of court book and papers 1656-1739, 1755-1801.

Deeds: Gawber Hall (Darton parish) 1590-1703 (Cutler and Barber - 20); Norton Conyers and Ashby Puerorum, Lincolnshire 1624-1669 (3). Schedules of deeds to estates in Yorkshire, Northampton, Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Lines., London and Middlesex, 1728 (at end of this vol. are receipts of a shipping partnership and division of profits between the partners 1664-1668)

Estate: Inventory of Wentworth Castle 1748.

Surveys of Stainborough and Rockley 1791 and Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire 1735, 1792.

Solicitor's records:

A. O. Elmhirst purchased the Sherburn-in-Elmet business of Joseph Clarke, subsequently of Frank Perkins.

Manor: Court books for Sherburn, Aberford, Barwick, Bramham, Garforth 19th century.

Compotus roll for barony of Sherburn 1479-1480.

Tenants and holdings in manors of Sherburn, Barwick, Garforth, Parlington and Aberford 1875; Sherburn copyholders 1925.

Sherburn lordship: receipts of rents and customs 1798-1803.

Parish: South Milford town book 1704-1708; enclosure papers, South Milford and Lumby 1792-1794.

Deeds: Barnsley, Dodworth (Clarke and Rooke families), Denby and Sherburn 1601-c.1850 (150).

School Board: Sherburn: abstracts of accounts 1875-1880.

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