GB 0538 MSS Keighley Public Library This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 12325 The National Archives pi H. M. C. 6 ) 12325 NATIONAL REGISTER OF ARCHIVES NATIONAL REGISTER OP ARCHIVES West Riding (Northern Section) Committee Title : Keighley Library. Custodian : The Chief Librarian, Central Library, Keighley. Date of Completion : April 1967. Not6 : The Brigg MSS, also housed in Keighley Library, have been listed in separate reports, see BBA 6338 LIST OF CONTENTS Keighley Parish and Union Overseers1 Accounts 1 ­- 16 Poor Rate Books 17 -­ 33 Overseers' and Guardians1 Papers 3k ­ - hi Surveyors and Constables U8 -­ 50 Miscellaneous 51 -­ 55 Keighley Corporation : Minutes 56 -­ 61 Borough Engineers 62 -. 65 Baths and Washhouses 66 -­ 67 Miscellaneous 68 -­ 70 Keighley Mechanics' Institute 71 -­ 80 Schools 81 -­ 82 Bowcock1 3 Charity : Estates 83 -­ 86 General Accounts 87 -­ 89 Cash Accounts 90 -. 95 Distributions 96 -­ 107 Apprenticeships and Scholarships 108 -­ 110 Miscellaneous 111 Spencer, Clarkson and Co., 8olicitors*: Tithe Commutation 112 ­ 122 Railways 123 ­ 129 School Boards 130 - 13h General Election 135 Waterworks and Sewage 136 ­ 137 Deeds 138 - lhl Sale Notices and Particulars lh2 ­ 150 Acts of Parliament 151 ­ 158 Miscellaneous 159 - l6h Bairstow Deeds : Hebden, Conistone and Beamsley 165 Kettlewell 166 ­ 185 Kildwick 186 ­ 190 Silsden 191 - 21h Haworth Manorial Court 215 ­ 222 Worth Valley Education Sub-Committee 223 - 22h Coach Accounts 225 ­ 226 Miscellaneous Account Books 227 ­ 230 Miscellaneous 231 ­ 237 * Now incorporated in Messrs. Wright and Wright. KEIGHLEY LIBRARY KEIGHLEY PARISH AND UNION OVERSEERS1 ACCOUNTS 1-15 1* Bills and vouchers to churchwardens, overseers, surveyors, Relieving Officer etc., with some surveyors' accounts and including accounts from other unions for relief, expenses connected with enclosure and a hill to A. Wildman for his daughters' school fees. (Pound loose) 1780-1840 2. Overseers' accounts, mainly concerned with bastardy. 1815-38 3. Accounts of payment of poor relief. 1829-38 h. Accounts of payments to "casual poor". 1831 At the front is a loose sheet with "names of persons received cotton". 1831 5. Accounts of payments of "necessities" - legal expenses etc.. 1831-32 6. Cash accounts of overseers. 1831-38 7. Cash accounts of overseers. 1831-38 8. Accounts of overseers' incidental payments. 1831-38 9. Accounts of payments to "monthly poor". 1831-38 10. Accounts of payments to "casual poor". 1831-38 11. Accounts of payments of out-township relief. 1831- 38 12. Rough accounts of payments to "casual poor" and memoranda of select vestry orders for payment of relief. 1832 1 13. Accounts of overseers incidental payments. 1832- 38 (Poor condition) lh. Accounts of payments to "casual poor". 1832-38 15* Memoranda book of the overseers of the town and parish of Keighley. 1837 At back are copy accounts. 1835-36 KEIGHLEY LIBRARY KEIG-HLEY PARISH AND UNION OVERSEERS1 ACCOUNTS 16 - 33 16. Rough accounts of payments of out-township relief. N.d. POOR RATE BOOKS 17. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish. 1828 18. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (2nd rate). 1828 19. Poor rate hook (3rd rate) 1828 20. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (1st rate). 1829 21. Poor rate hook for Keignley pariah (3rd rate). 1829 22. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish. 1829- 30 23. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish. 1830- 1 2h. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (1st rate). 1831- 2 25. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (3rd rate). 1831-2 26. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (1st rate). 1833-h 27. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (2nd rate). 1833-h 28. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish. 183h 29. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (1st rate). 1834- 5 30. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (2nd rate). 1834- 5 31. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish. 1835 32. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (1st rate). 1835- 6 33. Poor rate hook for Keighley parish (2nd rate). 1835-6 KEIG-HLEY LIBRARY KEIG-HLEY PARISH AND UNION OVERSEERS' AND GUARDIANS' PAPERS 34 - 45 34. Apprenticeship indentures. A "bundle. 1664-1809 35. Papers concerning settlement including certifi­ cates and examinations, with a maintenance bond. (Pound loose) 1688-1805 36. Miscellaneous overseers' and guardians1 papers, including maintenance bonds, filiation orders, orders for payment of relief, settlement certificates, removal orders, accounts and correspondence, many being 1838-40. A bundle. 1695-1840 37. Miscellaneous overseers1 and guardians1 papers, including removal orders, orders for apprehension of vagabonds, examinations, accounts and corres­ pondence, many being 1838-40. A bundle. 1715/6-1840 38. Miscellaneous overseers' and guardians1 papers including settlement certificates, removal orders, filiation orders, vestry orders for payment of relief, lawsuits and expenses of Keighley Enclosure Act. A bundle. 1702-1840 39. Settlement certificates etc.. A bundle. The documents are damp and have stuck together so that inspection is impossible. 18th cent.? 40. Papers concerning bastardy including filiation orders etc.. (Found loose). 1749-1850 41. Removal orders and related papers. (Found loose). 1796-1840 42. Register of apprenticeship indentures. 1802-31 43. Miscellaneous overseers' and guardians' papers including examinations, removal orders, certificate of membership of friendly society, correspondence etc., 1838-40 and claims to vote 1838, most being 1838-40. A bundle. c.1811-40 44. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Keighley Union, most addressed to Abraha m Wildman the relieving officer. (Found loose). 1838-40 45. Lists of people paid relief by Keighley Union with memoranda of people who are to leave the workhouse. (Found loose). 1838-40 KEIGHLEY LIBRARY KEIGHLEY PARISH AND UNION 1 OVERSEERS j AND GUARDIANS PAPERS 46 - 54 1 46. Owners claims to vote, addressed to overseers of parish of Keighley. (Found loose). 1839 47. Orders for apprehension of Jonas Sugden late of Keighley who has left his wife and family. (Pound loose). 1839 Note; Among the records in Keighley Parish Church is a register of settlement certificates, bonds, filiation orders, apprenticeship indentures etc., down to 1802, which may relate to some of the documents listed above. SURVEYORS AND CONSTABLES 48. Notices to constable about estreat money and some papers concerning rates. 1800-40 (Pound loose.) f 49. Constable s accounts. 1820-21 At back is a list of "First Clas Men under 30 having No Children" giving ages and occupations. 1 50. Surveyor s accounts for the North Side. 1824-25 See also no. 1 MISCELLANEOUS (The following items were apparently included in this deposit.) 51. Account of collections at Temple Row Sunday School. 1826 52. List of combs in the hands of wool combers in A. w"ildman's works. 1835-37 53. Day book of the treasurer of the Keighley and District Anti Compulsory Vaccination League. 1879-1926 54. Register of deaths kept by James Pearson, Keighley. 1894-1921 KEIGHLEY LIBRARY KEIGHLEY PARISH AND UNION MISCELLANEOUS 55 - 65 55. Notes from parish registers of first occurrences of family names. N.d. KEIGHLEY CORPORATION MINUTES Educ ati on 56. Minutes of Keighley School Board. 1875-190h 57. Minutes of the School Management Committee. 3 vols.. 1880-1910 58. Minutes of the School Attendance Committee. 188U-97 59. Minutes of the Education Committee. 190h-5 Miscellaneous 60. Minutes of the Building, Finance and General Purposes Committee. 6 vols.. 1876-1910 61. Minutes of the General Committee, Library and Reading Room Committee and Finance and General Purposes Committee. 1897-1902 BOROUGH ENGINEERS 62. Files of Inward Letters to Keighley Local Board, Borough Engineers and Surveyors. 1867-1905 63. Letter books of Keighley Local Board and Engineers. 1872-1906 6h. "Street ledger" recording expenses of paving etc, 1911-12 65. Borough Engineers' files. 20th cent. KEIGHLEY LIBRARY KEIGHLEY CORPORATION BATHS AND WASHHOUSES 66 - 7& 66. Poll books for voting on grant of further sum of £2,500 for baths and washhouses. 4 vols.. 1869 67. Poll books for voting on grant of further sum of £2,500 for baths and washhouses. 2 vols.. 1875 MISCELLANEOUS 1 68. Printed evidence in the Queen s Bench suit, referred to arbitration, between Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., and Keighley Corporation concerning Thwaites Gasworks. 1900 69. Register of mortgages. 1876-1913 70. Contracts concerning trackless trolley systems. 1914, 1916 & 1924 KEIGHLEY MECHANICS' INSTITUTE 71. Minutes of the Committee. 1829-43 At hack is a list of lectures. 1835-37 Enclosed are rough accounts. One gathering from a hook. 1850-51 1 72. Minutes of the Committee of Keighley Mechanics Institute. 1866-70 73. Minutes of the Library and Newsroom Committee. 1869-86 74. Minutes of the Lecture Reading and Class Committee, and later of the Entertainments Committee. 1869-80 75. Minutes of the Discussion Class. 1871-73 76. Minutes of Entertainments Committee, Exhibition Committee, Refreshment Committee, Decoration Committee and Joint Committees, 1872 & 1879-86 KEIGHLEY LIBRARY 77 - 86 KEIGHLEY MECHANICS' INSTITUTE 77. Minutes of General Committee and Annual General Meetings. 1883-92 78. Minutes of the Council of Science and Art (concerned with the Trade and Grammar School, the Institute, awards of scholarships). 1885-91 79. Keighley Institute Students' Pee Register. 1900-190h 80. Accounts i n ledger form of household goods, "bedding etc., (lent to evacuees?) with index of evacuees at front. In a Mechanics' Institute Debit Day Book. 1941-44 SCHOOLS 81. Annual accounts of Keighley Free Grammar School. 1853-72 82. Minutes of the Airedale Pupil Teachers Prize Scheme Association. I886-I905 BOY/COCK'S CHARITY ESTATES 83. Copy report of J.W. Farrer on the accounts of Bowcock's Charity made under a court order of 1835 concerning an act of Parliament of 1834 for more effectually vesting the estates i n the feoffees, and copies of bills of costs for the purchase of estates, also made under court orders and referring to the Act.