Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 44

INTRODUCTION

This is the forty fourth volume of Additional Manuscripts (Add Mss) to have been catalogued in the West Sussex Record office and it has been compiled, in general, along the lines indicated in the introduction to the first volume in November 1956

The class of Additional Manuscripts embraces all the smaller gifts and deposits of documents received by the West Sussex Record Office, as distinct from the large family and estate collections, such as Goodwood MSS.; or accumulations from solicitors' offices, such as Oglethorpe and Anderson MSS.; collections of official bodies, such as Quarter Sessions records; or collections from other bodies, such as the records of the Royal Sussex Regiment, each of which is referred to and quoted by name. The majority of Additional Manuscripts have been deeds of title, though increasingly a healthy balance of a vast range of other original material has been catalogued in these volumes. However the pressure of the sheer weight of material to be catalogued has meant that since volume 29 in March 1983, the catalogues of title deeds, instead of being the detailed calendars that had been prepared until that date, have mainly been summary lists, with the emphasis being placed on the property concerned in the transaction, rather than on the parties involved, or the technicalities of the type of legal conveyance being used. From the thirty sixth volume in November 1987, the accession number of each collection catalogued is given at the head of each separate catalogue

The documents listed in this catalogue range in date from a deed of property in Midhurst, 1543 (Add Mss 47473) to the Sussex County Veterans track and field rankings, 1994 (Add Mss 47681). As well as the usual deeds of title, there are manorial records, and maps, such as those for the Manor of Woolborough in Worth, 1735 (Add Mss 47644); the Manor of Tortington, 1724 (Add Mss 47691) and for South Bersted, Bosham, Chichester, Runcton and Tangmere, c.1750-1896 (Add Mss 47645-47652) and a farm in South Bersted, 1828 (Add Mss 47631) Records of organisations include those of Sussex Piscatorial Society, 1891-1939 (Add Mss 47025-47043); the St. Pancras Community Association, 1964-1983 (Add Mss 47363-47366); Horsham Business and Professional Women's association 1959-1983 (Add Mss 47491-47501); Hurstpierpoint Forget-Me-Not Club, 1953-1982 (Add Mss 47540-47544); Chichester and Worthing Teachers Association, 1980-1993 (Add Mss 47637-47638); and West Sussex Women's Institutes, 1920-1988 (Add Mss 47367-47417 and 47570-47615) Records of sporting clubs include those of Chichester Bowling Club, 1982-1992 (Add Mss 47490); and Sussex County Athletics Clubs, 1988-1994 (Add Mss 47674-47681). There are a number of business records such as those of Malcolm McNeile Ltd, 1949-1969 (Add Mss 47004-47024); records of W. Goodridge & Co., motor cycle dealers of Chichester, 1926-1939 (Add Mss 47044-47057); the Penney family, shipowners in Southwick, Hurstpierpoint and Brighton, 1580-1987 (Add Mss 47099-47352) (now a separate catalogue 'Penney Collection' in A2A); Dunn & Sons, linen drapers of Chichester, 1917-1942 (Add Mss 47357); and Messrs. H.W. Seymour and Son of Bognor, builders, 1911-1961 (Add Mss 47508-47526). However, the largest part of the catalogue is devoted to the list of the documents collected by East Grinstead Town Museum, 1707-1968 (Add Mss 47696-47992)

No index has been provided for this volume, as all the relevant details of this and all previous volumes have been included in the card indexes of persons, places, manors and subjects, which are to be found in the Search Room of the West Sussex Record Office

Searchers are again asked to exercise care in quoting references, and to use the form Add Mss (or MSS.) followed by the relevant number or numbers. In printed works the reference should be preceded by 'West Sussex Record Office' or ('W.S.R.O.' in subsequent references). Those wishing to have photocopies of items catalogued in these pages should seek permission from the Search Room Supervisor. When they have ascertained that the document may be copied they should complete the appropriate REP form and sign the copyright declaration before submitting the appropriate payment in advance. Those seeking permission to quote documents or reproduce them in published work, should ask permission in writing from the County Archivist

RICHARD CHILDS

December 1997

County Archivist

CONTENTS

Add Mss 47004-47024 Profit and Loss Accounts of Malcolm McNeille Ltd. and General Developing and Printing Co. Ltd., 1949-1969

Add Mss 47025-47043 Records of the Sussex Piscatorial Society, 1891-1978

Add Mss 47044-47057 Records of W. Goodridge and Co., Ltd., motor-cycle and cycle depot, Chichester, 1926-1939

Add Mss 47058-47077 Records of the Twocock Family, 1849-1993

Add Mss 47078-47081 Miscellaneous records, 1943-1974

Add Mss 47082 Apprenticeship Indenture of Bernard William Durling of Bosham, 1929

Add Mss 47083-47098 Records of Warden Court Girl's School, Cuckfield, 1819-1993

Add Mss 47099-47352 Records of the Penney Family of Poole, Dorset and Southwick, Hurstpierpoint and Brighton, shipowners, 1580-1987

Appears as a separate catalogue 'Penney Collection' under the from Landlord to Labourer project in A2A

Add Mss 47353 Scrap Book of foreign travel compiled by Major J.F. Ainsworth, 1959-1964

Add Mss 47354-47356 Title Deeds of property in Broadwater and Yapton, 1875-1906

Add Mss 47357 Account Book of Dunn and Son, linen drapers of Chichester 1917-1942

Add Mss 47358-47362 Records of the Gudgeon and Jupp families of Worthing and Ferring, 1897-1919

Add Mss 47363-47366 Records of the St. Pancras Community Association, 1964-1983

Add Mss 47367-47417 Records of Southbourne, Cuckfield, Lodsworth, Wolstonbury, Partridge Green, Slinfold, and Rustington Women's Institutes, 1920-1988

Add Mss 47418-47472 Title Deeds of the Fleece Inn, East Street, Chichester, 1705-1972

Add Mss 47473-47488 Miscellaneous title deeds, 1543-1856

Add Mss 47489 Title Deed of Sharps, West Grinstead, 1759

Add Mss 47490 Minute Book of Chichester Bowling Club, 1982-1992

Add Mss 47491-47501 Records of Horsham Business and Professional Women's Association, 1959-1983

Add Mss 47502-47507 Copies of the Diaries of the Rev. Henry Palmer together with Letters from his son, 1854-1887

Appears as a separate catalogue 'Palmer family of Sullington' under the from Landlord to Labourer project in A2A

Add Mss 47508-47526 Records of Messrs. H.W. Seymour and Son of Bognor, builders, 1911-1961

Add Mss 47527-47535 Title Deeds of property in Edburton and Fulking, copyhold of the Manor of Perching, 1734-1839

Add Mss 47536 Title Deed of Stubbers Garden, Chichester on which an Iron Foundry was built, 1819

Add Mss 47537 Notebook on practical botany from Chichester High School, 1929

Add Mss 47538 Diary of Peter Hollands of Keymer, miller, 1868

Add Mss 47539 Papers relating to the proposed establishment of a Chichester Environmental Studies centre

Add Mss 47540-47544 Records of the Hurstpierpoint Forget-Me-Not Club, 1953-1982

Add Mss 47545-47563 Title Deeds of Easton Farm, Sidlesham, 1694-1894

Add Mss 47564-47568 Miscellaneous plans and papers relating to Sussex Gas Works, 1922-1949

Add Mss 47569 Title Deed of property in West Harting, 1666

Add Mss 47570-47615 Records of West Sussex Women's Institutes, 1943-1987

Add Mss 47616-47623 Miscellaneous title deeds and plans, 1786-1930s

Add Mss 47624-47630 Title deeds of property in East Grinstead, 1723-1873

Add Mss 47631 Plan of a farm in South Bersted, 1828

Add Mss 47632-47635 Title Deeds of miscellaneous properties in Worthing, 1909-1926

Add Mss 47636 Bond, 1649

Add Mss 47637-47638 Records of Chichester and Worthing Teacher's Association, 1980-1993

Add Mss 47639-47643 Miscellaneous bonds and solicitor's papers, 1757-1791

Add Mss 47644 Map of the Manor of Woolborough in Worth, 1735

Add Mss 47645-47652 Maps of property in South Bersted, Chichester, Runcton and Tangmere, c.1750-1896

Add Mss 47653-47669 Title Deeds of Oakendene Manor in Cowfold, 1657-1925

Add Mss 47670 Ministry of Information Leaflet, 1994

Add Mss 47671-47673 Articles of Association, shares form and Quarter Sessions standing orders, 1901-1931

Add Mss 47674-47681 Sussex County Athletics ratings and newsletters, 1988-1994

Add Mss 47682-47683 Wartime editions of the Daily Mail and the Picture Post, 1945 and 1946

Add Mss 47684-47689 Title Deeds of Perryers and Outlands in Shermanbury and properties in Horsham and West Grinstead, 1721-1781

Add Mss 47690 Scrap Book of items relating to Middleton, 1957-1967

Add Mss 47691-47695 Map of the Manor of Tortington, 1724 and title deeds of property in St. Martin's Lane, Chichester, 1784-1877

Add Mss 47696-47992 Records collected by East Grinstead Town Museum, 1707-1968

Add Mss 47993 Probate copy of will of William Apps of Bosham, 1879

Add Mss 47994 Thesis on Lord Lyons, 1991

Add Mss 47995 Petition of the Inhabitants of Midhurst against the Rev. Everard Levitt being Master of Midhurst Grammar School, 1735

Add Mss 47996-47999 Papers concerning Dunford House, Heyshott, 1926

Add Mss 48000 Photograph of a plan of Petworth House, 1752

Records are open for consultation unless otherwise indicated