Harbour Master's Archive Date Ref Digital Description 1660 5830 Manor of Godrevy, Newlyn Pier Constitution, 1660
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Harbour Master's Archive Date Ref Digital Description 1660 5830 Manor of Godrevy, Newlyn Pier Constitution, 1660. Very old document containing a list of items presumably landed at the pier. Of interest was the word Fardel (fardle) which is mentioned in Shakespeare's Hamlet and means 'a bundle' or 'a bunch of' and 'a puncheon' of prunes which is a small cask. 1851 5626 Henry Kelynack, his book, Penzance1851. Personal log kept by H Kelynack of voyage, on the schooner 'Queen of the West', Penzance to Buenos Aires via Cadiz, 2/6/1851-15/2/1852. Journey took 7 months 14 days. Master of schooner was Stephen Tregarthen. Cargo was salt and barrels of olives from Cadiz. Tallow, bones and hides were brought back. Names mentioned in journal: Thomas Glasson, James Baker Gubbs, Israel Quick (who left voyage at Cadiz due to hospitalisation). Shorter part of log (6/11/1852-15/2/1853) describes a voyage on barque 'Mercy' from Penzance to Cardiff then on to the Cape of Good Hope and to Moulmein in the East Indies. Log stops at Cardiff but the book includes later dates with rupees on bills that suggest Henry didn't leave the voyage. Henry drafted a letter dated November 1853 to his father asking permission to learn French from fellow French lodgers where he was staying. Location unknown. Book also includes: Handwriting practice. Bills and costs. Drawing of a ship. Mention made of schooner ‘Celerity’, and names John Sullivan, James Roberts and Tom Lobb. Poems and amusing doggerel. Henry drafted a letter dated November 1853 to his father asking permission to learn French from fellow French lodgers where he was staying. Location unknown. Book also includes: Handwriting practice. Bills and costs. Drawing of a ship. Mention is made of the schooner ‘Celerity’ and the names John Sullivan, James Roberts and Tom Lobb. Filed 11 HM Box 1851 1859 4225 Henry Kelynack Masters Certificate awarded 23/4/1859 1884 244 Newlyn Pier and Harbour Order 1884. List of first commissioners: Richard R Bath, Silas Bath, Thomas Keigwin Harvey, Stephen Hitchens, Henry Kitchen, Samuel Payne, Richard Pollard Jn., John Roberts, Peter Smith, William Gates Strick, John Oates Strick, William Tonkin, all fishermen. John Blewett, boatbuilder. James Morrish, boat owner. James Runnels, merchant. Peter Thomas, & John Weeks, masons. James Philip Cattran, Thomas Harvey, & Richard Boase Kelynack, master mariners. George Marrack, rope maker. Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, clerk. Richard Toman, builder. 1884 6290 Memorandum about conveyance of Newlyn Pier to Susan Clarke Lemon on 23/6/1884 1884 & 1886 6171 On front of book: Newlyn Pier & Harbour Orders 1884 & 1886. Newlyn Harbour Commissioners. Newlyn. Fragile black leather-bound book in poor condition. Spine broken, Held together with sellotape. Pages loose. pp81-98 (1884). ‘Order for the Construction, Maintenance, and Regulation of a Pier, Harbour, and Works, at Newlyn.' Digital version and typed version pp81-88. pp122-137 (1896). 'Order for amending 1884 Orders and construction & maintenance of an additional pier at Newlyn.' 1884,1906 6235 Harbour badges 1884 and 1906. 1884-1891 5599 Newlyn Pier & Harbour Diary. No title. Black hard covered book with sellotaped spine. Names of commissioners in the order of elections from 1884-1891. Diary from 26/3/1885. Letters from 1885-1890. At back papers relating to laying of foundation stone and celebrations. Some digital pages. 1884-1897 5921 Newlyn Pier & Harbour Minute Book 1. Worn, cream hard backed A4 book. Broken spine at top. 17/9/1884-6/2/1897. Minutes of NP&H Commissioners dealing with progress & problems of construction of South Pier & Lighthouse, purchase of the old pier, construction of North or Victoria Pier & its extension (part 1). Also, fresh water supply for harbour & general harbour matters (part 2). 1884-1911 903 Notes made at the CRO on 17/09/2009 about the first Newlyn Harbour Commissioners 1884- 1892. Includes: Newlyn Pier and Harbour Order 1884. Qualification of Electors. 11 January 2018 Page 1 of 22 Date Ref Digital Description 1885-1916 6153 Newlyn Pier Register of Mortgages 1885-1916. There are 9 entries in the book. The first three mortgages (1885, 1888 and 1889) and further mortgages in 1907 and 1908 were with the Public Works Loan Board. In 1894, money was borrowed from Thomas Bedford Bolitho of Trewidden and Batten, Carne & Carne Bank. The latter were to go bankrupt in 1902 when the mortgage was transferred to Bolitho. Bolitho also stepped in (1907) to take over a mortgage given to the James Charles Inglis in 1903, in lieu of his claims against the commissioners as the harbour engineer. Finally, the mortgages taken out in 1913 and 1916 were both with HM Treasury, presumably related to the war effort. 1886 6291 Collection of information to do with Newlyn Harbour dated 1886. Schedule of deeds, 31/08/1886 containg information aboput miss Lemon's ownership of pier. 1886-1913 5568 Newlyn Pier & Harbour Loan Ledger 1886-1913. Blue covered book with brown/red spine with Ledger and Loans embossed on spine. Alphabetical index at front not used. Part 1 pp1-6. Loan Account. 1886 South Pier loan of £20,000 with Public Work Loan Commission. 1888 North Pier loan of £10 000 with Public Work Loan Board. Minimal information and referral to folio 6. Part 2 pp 9-140. Harbour Masters Cash Account over 16 years, 27 March 1897-31 March 1913. 1887 6292 Collection of information to do with Newlyn Harbour dated 1887. List of rates and dues from NPHC to PWB, 12/2/1887 1888-1897 5567 Newlyn Pier & Harbour Cash Book 25/3/1888- 25/3/1897. Green book with Cash Book printed on orange spine. Contains rent, rates, revenue, loans, mortgages, salaries, charges, water supply, maintenance, repairs, etc. North Pier account and extension account. South Pier account. Oil for lighthouse light. Fish packing plots for rent. Original book. 1888-1897 5709 Newlyn Pier & Harbour. Ledger, 25/3/1888-27/3/1897. Navy A4 heavy book, brown leather spine & corners. Contents: Alphabetical listing of contents. Accounts, loans, salaries, banking, revenue, rates, harbour improvements, maintenance, water supply, etc. Digital summary available. 1891-1895 5805 Minutes of Technical Instruction Committee 25/11/1891, 4/1/1893, 1895. Unknown source. 1892 1213 Newlyn Pier and Harbour Statement of Accounts for the year ending 25/03/1892. Salaries paid to Secretary, Harbour master & collector, light keeper. HH Pezzack was auditor. R Toman was secretary. 1894 5609 Copy for 'Years of Vision' by Michael Treave, about the history of the piers at Newlyn Harbour. Photo opening of North Pier 1893. Cornishman 31/1/1991. 1894 5820 Collection of information to do with Newlyn Harbour dated 1894. Porthleven protest over Sunday fishing in Mounts Bay. Report of a meeting on 20/1/1894 to consider problems of Sunday fishing. Extract from Cornish Telegraph 25/1/1894.License betwen NPHC and Joseph Wren for land on which to pack fish, 2/6/1894. 1895 6031 Newlyn Pier & Harbour. Bye Laws & Regulations for Newlyn Harbour. May 1895. Small thin brown book, back cover missing. String loop to hang by, still attached. Bye laws sealed 15/5/1895 in presence of Richard Toman, secretary when RR Bath was chairman and confirmed by the Board of Trade 18/5/1895. 1896 5804 Fishing. Report of Technical Instruction Committee Cornwall County Council 1896. Deals with Newlyn, Mousehole and St Ives. Unknown source. 1896.03 5740 Balance sheet. Newlyn Harbour capital account 1896, 25/3/1896 1896-1897 5840 Accounts for year 25/3/1896-20/3/1897. A3 folded lined papers tied together with string. No other information. 1897 6079 Revenue accounts for year 2/5/1896-25/3/1897. Filed 11 HM Box 1897 1897-1898 6114 Newlyn Pier & Harbour Committee of Management, Minutes Book 20/3/1897-1/10/1898. Leather-spined, faded book, smaller than A4 size. Contains minutes of 25 meetings. Regular reports from officials, financial position, harbour dues (letting and setting of), harbour safety (lighting, repairs, boat moorings) and harbour assessments. 11 January 2018 Page 2 of 22 Date Ref Digital Description 1897-1904 5964 Newlyn Pier & Harbour Accounts Ledger 27/3/1897-March/April 1904. 1897-1909 6015 Cash Book 27/3/1897- 20/4/1909. Maroon, A4 book with brown leather spine and corners. Cash and Contra accounts including loans, water supply, lighting, maintenance, repairs, rent, rates, taxes, banking, establishment charges etc. Fish plot rents from 1903. 1898-1903 6006 NP&H. Minute Book 2. Part 1. 1/10/1898-22/12/1903. Part 2. 1/10/1898-22/12/1903 1899.03 5741 Newlyn Harbour statement of account 25/3/1899. 2 sheets. 1899.10 5510 Copy of notice for the election of harbour commissioners dated 21/10/1899. James Phillips Cattran was returning Officer. Douglas Williams Collection. 1902-1903 3857 Newlyn Pier and Harbour Statement of Accounts for the year ending 25/03/1903. HH Pezzack was secretary 1903-1905 5814 Newlyn Pier& Harbour Letter Book. 7/11/1903-15/4/1905. Faded A4 book with brown leather spine & corners. Contains copies of letters written by HH Pezzack secretary of Newlyn Pier & Harbour Committee of Management. Alphabetical list of names, pages referenced. Large blue crayon numbers at head of pages appear to link subject matter. Whereabouts of charts, maps and plans 1903-1922 6089 Newlyn Pier & Harbour. Wages Book (on spine). 2/1/1903 – 30/12/1922. Large navy book with faded maroon spine. 1904 5849 Collection of information to do with Newlyn Harbour dated 1904. Daily weather report 1904. Letter from RR Bath to PWLC about landing stage erected by him in front of his ice store, 16/6/1904.