The Bagshawe Collection

1. Documents acquired by Benjamin Bagshawe and E.G. Bagshawe for their antiquarian interest. Benjamin Bagshawe, particularly in his early life, in the 1870s, was planning a history of the High Peak; his son, E. G. Bagshawe, was concerned mainly with a pedigree of the family of Bagshawe, widespread in the Peak district. In pursuit of these hobbies, they collected deeds and other documents, the most important being items acquired from the Bateman sale and the muniments of the Eyres of Hassop Hall. It has not been possible to discover the origins of all the other documents.

2. In addition to this collection, the Bagshawes, father and son, made copious notes from documents in the British Museum, the Public Record Office and others in private hands, which were relevant to their Derbyshire studies. These and some antiquarian correspondence form a second part of the whole collection.

3. Benjamin Bagshawe's father was the executor of a cousin, William Wyatt of Foolow (d.1857), mineral agent and solicitor and himself the owner of lead mining interests which he left to Bagshawe. His papers included a large collection of Derbyshire lead mining account books, maps and papers, covering the 18th and early 19th centuries. These were in part the records of his own business, but many of them had been acquired by him. Altogether they form a valuable record of Derbyshire lead mining history.

4. Lastly, there are the solicitors' and other business papers of Wyatt, Bagshawe and others. Among Wyatt's clients were the Derbyshire families of Barker, Carleill and Middleton. Wyatt and Bagshawe were both active in Liberal, and later Unionist, politics; Bagshawe acted as Liberal-Unionist agent for the Hallamshire & Doncaster Divisions, 1885-1905, and there is some correspondence relating to these activities. He also appears to have acquired the business papers of the Hall family, old established solicitors of Castleton, of - Brown, solicitor of Tideswell and of Richard Heyward, surveyor of Bakewell, but whether for their historical interest or as business successor is not clear.

Included among Bagshawe's business papers are some later 19th century farming accounts, lease books, etc., belonging to his own family as farmers. Few of them, unfortunately are likely to be of much value historically.

The whole collection also contained various Derbyshire Enclosure Acts, Acts relating to lead mining, and other printed material, which is catalogued in the card index of the Sheffield Collection of printed books and not in this catalogue.

PART 1: THE ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTION

A. THE EYRES OF HASSOP

1. DEEDS OF TITLE, LEASES, ETC

Foljambe and Plumpton deeds and settlements

DERBYSHIRE. HIGH PEAK HUNDRED

Bakewell parish: Hassop, including the manor

Bakewell parish: Rowland, including the manor

Bakewell parish: King Sterndale, including the manor

Bakewell parish: Calver, including the manor

Bakewell parish: Taddington and Priestcliffe

Bakewell parish: Moniash

Bakewell parish: Buxton

Bakewell parish: Baslow

Bakewell parish: Bubnell

Bakewell parish: Ashford

Bakewell parish: Gt. and Little Longstone

Bakewell parish: tithes

Castleton parish

Chapel-en-le-Frith parish: Bowden

Hathersage parish

Hathersage parish: Derwent

Hope parish

Hope parish: Thornhill, including the manor

Hope parish: Ashop

Hope parish: Aston

Hope parish: Bradwell

Hope parish: Brough

Hope parish: Coates

Hope parish: Cowlow

Hope parish: Fairfield

Hope parish: Hucklow

Hope parish: Kings Haigh

Hope parish: Shatton

Hope parish: Woolow and Pigtor

Hope parish: tithes, etc

Tideswell parish: manor and village

Tideswell parish: Wormhill, including the manor and mill

Tideswell parish: Hardwickwall

Tideswell parish: Litton

Tideswell parish: Tunstead

Tideswell parish: Wheston

Youlgreave Parish:

SCARSDALE HUNDRED

Barlow (Barley) parish

Brampton and Chesterfield parishes

Dronfield parish

Heath, Northwingfield and Pleasley parishes

Staveley parish

Ashover parish (Reresby deed - foreign)

WIRKSWORTH HUNDRED

Ashbourne parish

Ashbourne parish: Clifton and Compton

Ashbourne parish: Parwich

Ashbourne parish: Yeldersley

Bradbourne parish: Brassington

Hartington parish

Kniveton parish

Mapleton parish

APPLETREE HUNDRED

Edlaston parish

Norbury parish

Norbury parish: Snelston

MORLEY AND LITCHURCH HUNDRED

Crich parish

Derby

REPTON HUNDRED

Melbourne parish: Chellaston

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. BASSETLAW HUNDRED

Hayton parish: Tilne

Ordsall parish

Worksop parish: Osberton

THURGARTON HUNDRED

Caunton (?) parish

STAFFORDSHIRE. OFFLOW HUNDRED

Kings Bromley parish

Newborough, including Agardsley

Pipe Ridware, Maveson, Hampstall and Hill Ridware parishes

Tutbury parish: Castlehay

Yoxall parish

PIREHILL HUNDRED

Barlaston parish

Stafford

TOTMONSLOW HUNDRED

Alstonfield parish

Calton parish

Ilam parish

Sheen parish

Tatenhall parish: Barton under Needwood

Uttoxeter parish: Stramshall

Wetton parish

YORKSHIRE. CITY OF YORK

EAST RIDING: Howden parish

WEST RIDING. AGBRIGG AND MORLEY WAPENTAKE

Wakefield parish

STRAFFORTH AND TICKHILL WAPENTAKE

Bradfield chapelry

Handsworth parish

Sheffield parish

OTHER COUNTIES

Cheshire: Worth, Poynton

Herefordshire: Kington

Hertfordshire: Aldenham

Middlesex: Grosvenor Square and Mayfair

Northamptonshire: Middleton Cheney, Warkworth

Northumberland and Co. Durham

Ireland: Co. Cork

Items omitted from previous sections

2. SEQUESTRATION FOR DELINQUENCY DEEDS

3. FAMILY SETTLEMENTS, WILLS, MORTGAGES

4. BONDS, ETC

5. PERSONAL, DEEDS OF APPOINTMENT, ETC

6. MANORIAL RECORDS

7. TOWNSHIP ASSESSMENTS

8. ESTATE RECORDS

Rentals, surveys and maps

Accounts, financial papers

Inventories

Estate correspondence

Personal items

Legal cases

Addenda

9. NORTHUMBERLAND and Co. DURHAM DEEDS

10. ADDENDA

B. MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS

1. DERBYSHIRE: HIGH PEAK HUNDRED

Bakewell Parish: Bakewell

Bakewell Parish: Beeley

Bakewell Parish: Buxton

Bakewell Parish: Calver

Bakewell Parish: Curbar

Bakewell Parish: Great Longstone

Bakewell Parish: Over Haddon

Bakewell Parish: Monsal Dale

Bakewell Parish: Monyash

Bakewell Parish: Priestcliffe

Bakewell Parish: Taddington

Castleton Parish: Edale

Chapel-en-le-Frith Parish: Chapel-en-le-Frith

Chapel-en-le-Frith Parish: Ford

Darley Parish: Darley

Darley Parish: Farley

Darley Parish: Northwood

Darley Parish: Wensley

Eyam Parish: Eyam

Eyam Parish: Foolow

Glossop Parish: Glossop

Glossop Parish: Bowden

Glossop Parish: Brownside

Glossop Parish: Chapel Milltown

Glossop Parish: Chinley

Glossop Parish: Haigh

Glossop Parish: Padfield

Hathersage Parish: Hathersage

Hathersage Parish: Stoney Middleton

Hope Parish: Hope

Hope Parish: Abney

Hope Parish: Ashop

Hope Parish: Aston

Hope Parish: Bradwell

Hope Parish: Offerton

Hope Parish: Shatton

Hope Parish: Woodland

Tideswell Parish: Tideswell

Tideswell Parish: Dalehead

Tideswell Parish: Litton

Tideswell Parish: Wormhill

Youlgreave Parish: Youlgreave

Youlgreave Parish: Alport

Youlgreave Parish: Birchover

Youlgreave Parish: Elton

Youlgreave Parish: Winster

Various parishes

MORELESTON AND LITCHURCH HUNDRED

Derby Parish: Derby

SCARSDALE HUNDRED

Chesterfield Parish: Chesterfield

Chesterfield Parish: Brampton

Chesterfield Parish: Calow

Chesterfield Parish: Newbould

Chesterfield Parish: Tapton

Dronfield Parish: Holmesfield

Dronfield Parish: Stubley

Dronfield Parish: Totley

Pleasley Parish: Shirebrook

South Wingfield Parish: South Wingfield

Sutton-in-the-Dale Parish: Duckmanton

WIRKSWORTH HUNDRED

Ashbourne Parish: Parwich

Bonsall Parish: Bonsall

Bradbourn Parish: Brassington

Carsington Parish: Carsington

Kniveton Parish: Kniveton

Matlock Parish: Matlock

Wirksworth Parish: Wirksworth

Wirksworth Parish: Ible

MISCELLANEOUS BONDS

MISCELLANEOUS WILLS

2. STAFFORDSHIRE: TOTMONSLOW HUNDRED

Alstonfield Parish

Sheen Parish

Wetton Parish

Various

3. YORKSHIRE: EAST RIDING

HARTHILL WAPENTAKE

Brantingham Parish: Ellerker

Bulwith Parish: Breighton

Cottingham Parish: Newland

Holme-on-Spalding Moor: Welham Bridge

LIBERTY OF HOWDENSHIRE

Eastrington Parish

Howden Parish: Balkholme

Howden Parish: Yokefleet

4. YORKSHIRE: NORTH RIDING

Parishes of Alne, Wilton and Pickhill

5. YORKSHIRE: WEST RIDING

AGBRIGG AND MORLEY WAPENTAKE

Almondbury Parish

CLARO WAPENTAKE

Knaresbrough Parish: Bilton

Ripon Parish: Littlethorpe

OSGOLDCROSS WAPENTAKE

Campsall Parish: Campsall

Campsall Parish: Fenwick

Kellington Parish: Beal

Pontefract Parish:

Snaith Parish: Balne

Snaith Parish: Hook

Whitgift Parish: Whitgift

Whitgift Parish: Redness

STAINCROSS WAPENTAKE

Cawthorne Parish

Penistone Parish

STRAFFORTH AND TICKHILL WAPENTAKE

Arksey Parish: Arksey

Arksey Parish: Bentley

Arksey Parish: Stockbridge

Armthorpe Parish

Barnby Dun Parish

Bradfield Chapelry: Bradfield

Bradfield Chapelry: Loxley

Bradfield Chapelry: Stannington

Bradfield Chapelry: Ughill

Bradfield Chapelry: Wadsley

Bradfield Chapelry: Westmundhalgh/Westnal

Bradfield Chapelry: Whitwell

Bradfield Chapelry: Wisewood

Braithwell Parish: Bramley

Brodsworth Parish

Clayton Parish: Frickley

Conisbrough Parish

Doncaster Parish: Doncaster

Doncaster Parish: Balby

Doncaster Parish: Wheatley

Ecclesfield Parish: Hagg

Fishlake Parish: Fishlake

Fishlake Parish: Sykehouse

Hatfield Parish: Stainforth

Hooton Pagnell Parish

Kirk Sandall Parish

Rotherham Parish: Rotherham

Rotherham Parish: Kimberworth

Rawmarsh Parish: Rawmarsh

Rawmarsh Parish: Kilnhurst

Sheffield Parish: Sheffield

Sheffield Parish: Brightside

Sheffield Parish: Burngreave

Sheffield Parish: Greystones

Sheffield Parish: Neepsend

Tickhill Parish

Treeton Parish: Treeton

Treeton Parish: Brampton-in-le-Morthing

Treeton Parish: Ulley

Thorpe Salvin Parish

Warmsworth Parish

Wath-on-Dearne Parish: Swinton

Additional deeds

DONCASTER - SALTERSBROOK TURNPIKE

WEST RIDING VARIOUS PLACES

6. OTHER COUNTIES

Cheshire

Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire

Leicestershire, Lincolnshire

Montgomeryshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk, Sussex, Warwickshire

APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURES

C. ITEMS FROM THE BATEMAN COLLECTION

D. MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUARIAN ITEMS

PART II ANTIQUARIAN NOTES

PART III WYATT'S LEAD MINING RECORDS

Mining records

Mining plans

Barmaster's papers

Papers of Messrs. Barker and Wilkinson

Papers of George Heyward and William Longsden

Lead mining deeds

Miscellanea

PART IV PAPERS OF THE WYATT, BAGSHAWE AND OTHER FAMILIES

A PAPERS OF THE WYATTS

Public local affairs: parish records

Public local affairs: Volunteers

Public local affairs: Constabulary

Public local affairs: elections

Public local affairs: schools

Business papers as solicitors and estate agents

Papers of the Barker family

Personal papers of the Wyatts and their executors

B PAPERS OF THE BAGSHAWES

Public and semi-public local affairs

Elections and political affairs

Lead mining papers

General business papers

Papers relating to executorships

Estate records: Derbyshire and Sheffield

Antiquarian correspondence

General correspondence

Miscellaneous papers

C PAPERS OF THE HALL FAMILY OF CASTLETON

Lead mining papers

General business papers

Papers relating to the estates of the Duke of Devonshire

Records of the manor of Hope

Estate papers, deeds

D MAPS AND PLANS OF RICHARD HEYWARD

Lead mining plans

Roads, railways

Legal, estate and other plans

E VARIOUS FAMILIES

Brown of Tideswell, Ling, Simeon, Ward

F ADDITIONAL DEEDS, HATHERSAGE AND HOPE

PART V MISCELLANEOUS MAPS AND PLANS

<p>Note: Some material from the collection of Benjamin and E.G. Bagshawe which did not come to Sheffield Libraries (and subsequently to Sheffield Archives) was purchased for the South Yorkshire Industrial Museum (Cusworth Hall Museum). See the list headed 'Lead Mining MSS' in the Cusworth Hall Museum list 2 (filed with the Doncaster Archives lists). (?Documents now in the Goodchild Collection, Wakefield?)</p>

• <persname>Bagshawe, Benjamin, d 1907, antiquarian</persname>
• <persname>Bagshawe, E G, d 1956, antiquarian</persname>

In the autumn of 1956 the executors of Mr. E. G. Bagshawe (who died in August of that year), gave to the Sheffield City Libraries a large collection of documents and papers which had been accumulated by him and his father, Benjamin Bagshawe (d.1907). The Library also acquired another large consignment of these papers which had passed into the hands of a bookseller. When they were all assembled they comprised a number of sacks containing deeds, a number of metal deed boxes and wooden chests containing books and papers, and numerous cartons of more recent correspondence.

The whole collection was in very bad condition, particularly the contents of the metal boxes and wooden chests which were mildewed and very dirty; the bundles of papers in many of them had broken and become hopelessly confused, as well as having been a prey to mice and spiders. Several interesting maps were picked up as they lay torn on a garage floor. The work of cleaning, sorting and repairing therefore took a good deal of time. Eventually, the component parts of a very heterogeneous collection came into view.

Benjamin Bagshawe's family lived at Foolow in the parish of Eyam. He himself was a Sheffield solicitor, as was his son. Their connections with Foolow remained close, and it was their Derbyshire background and interests which produced the collection.