NRO 3410/Bud/137-142
Creation dates: 1779-1890
Scope and Content
Bundles of miscellaneous colliery, legal and personal papers of John
Buddle and the Buddle Atkinson family. The original bundles and order
within the bundles have been retained.
NRO 3410/Bud/137
| Miscellaneous Colliery
Papers |
Creation
dates: 1779 - 1890
Extent and Form:
146 documents in 5 bundles
Scope and Content
5 bundles of reports, accounts, leases, correspondence and plans
of John Buddle and others re Sheriff Hill, Saltwellside, Stella
Grand Lease and the Bishop of Durham's Collieries, 1779 - 1841.
1890.
Arrangement
The original arrangement of the bundles and sub-bundles has been
retained.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1
Sheriff Hill and Saltwellside.
Creation dates: 1803 - 1834, 1890
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/1
Sheriff Hill
Colliery.
Creation dates:
1803
Scope and
Content
Valuation of the lessees interest
Midsummer
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/2
Sheriff Hill
Colliery.
Creation dates: 14
April 1804
Scope and
Content
Calculations re remaining coal
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/3
Sheriff Hill
Colliery.
Creation dates: 17
June 1804
Scope and
Content
Estimate and valuation of coal
remaining
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/4
Sheriff Hill
Colliery.
Creation dates: 28
June 1825
Scope and
Content
Estimate of coal remaining and description
of current workings
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/5
Sheriff Hill
Colliery.
Creation dates: 21
June 1828
Scope and
Content
Proposed terms for a lease to Mr Ellison of
the King Pit shaft to work the Beaumont and Bensham
Seams
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/6
Sheriff Hill
Colliery.
Creation dates: 7
March 1890
Scope and
Content
Letter from John Simpson to J.B. Simpson
returning the above papers
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/7
Saltwellside
Colliery.
Creation dates: Nov
1805
Physical characteristics: 47 x
74cm, tracing paper, coloured.
Scope
and Content
Plan of Saltwellside and Saltwellside
Hall, including Marshall Meadows, Field House and High Team,
marking pits, with reference giving field names and acreages,
royalty owned by John and Robert Chapman, scale 6ch: 1", by
William Casson
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/8
Saltwellside
Colliery.
Creation dates: 1805 -
1831
Extent and Form:
23 pp
Scope and
Content
Notebook containing extracts and copies of
reports, mainly re estimates and valuation of available coal
by Ralph Dodds, Mr Chapman, Edward Steel and Mr Barron, with
section of the colliery
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/9
Saltwellside
Colliery.
Creation dates: nd
c.1833
Scope and
Content
Proposed terms of a lease for 21 years from
June 1833.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/1/10
Saltwellside
Colliery.
Creation dates: 11
April 1834
Scope and
Content
Abstract of a lease
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2
Stella Grand Lease Collieries
Creation dates: 1779 - 1823
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/1,3-5
Creation dates: 17 April - 14 Nov
1823
Scope and
Content
Proposal of terms for leases of coal under
Derwenthaugh, belonging to P.E. Townley with correspondence
with W.Ainsley
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/2
Creation dates: nd and 1779-1786
Scope and Content
Boring accounts for
Blaydon Colliery by Andrew Wake and Thomas and George Rawling,
1779 - 1786, with plan showing the extent of the workings,
owners names and boreholes, scale approx 10ch: 1",
n.d.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/6
Creation dates: 24 June 1826
Scope and Content
List of shareholders in
Derwenthaugh
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/7
Creation dates: 1831
Scope and Content
Proposal from the
lessees of Benwell to lease the Beaumont seam under Dunston
Haugh for 21 years from May 1831.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/8
Creation dates: nd
Scope and Content
Plan of Walker Colliery
marking the Thistle Pit and Jane Pit Dykes, barriers, Old
Byker and St Anthony's Engines, no scale
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/10
Creation dates: nd
Scope and Content
Calculations re capacity
of tanks
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/11-14, 20-24
Creation dates: nd
Scope and Content
Notes from court rolls,
deeds etc re the title from 16th cent to lands in the Ryton
area belonging to Mr Dodds and Walker Lawson
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/15
Creation dates: nd
Scope and Content
Information from Robert
Forster, aged 84, re Stella Grand Lease estates
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2/16-18
Creation dates: 1791 and nd
Scope and Content
Accounts of working
charges for George Pit, Chopwell Colliery, including lists of
Pitmen's names, 2 - 27 July, 16 Aug - 7 Sept 1791
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3
Crawcrook Colliery.
Creation dates: 1820 - 1822
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3/1
Creation dates: 28 Feb 1820
Scope and Content
Receipt for 10 guineas
from John Dunn for plans of Crawcrook
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3/2
Creation dates: 1 - 23 May 1821
Scope and Content
Pay bill for borings,
signed by James Hall
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3/3-14
Creation dates: June 1821 - May
1822
Scope and
Content
Monthly pay bills
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3/15
Creation dates: 16 March 1822
Scope and Content
Abstract of account of
costs for the year 1821
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3/16
Creation dates: 24 Jan 1823
Scope and Content
Pay bill, 22 May - 31
Dec 1822 and memoranda of outstanding debts
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3/17
Creation dates: 23 Feb 1822
Scope and Content
Account to Thomas
Blackett for copying bridge plans
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/3/18
Creation dates: nd
Scope and Content
List headed Crawcrook
Fields giving owners and acreages
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/4
Stella Grand Lease
Creation dates: 1833 - 1841
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/4/1-59
Creation dates: 8 June 1833 - 31 Jan 1840 and
nd
Extent and Form: 59 letters
and papers
Scope and
Content
Bundle of correspondence of John Buddle re
Stella Grand Lease Collieries, including proposals of terms
and draft leases and memoranda.
Index of correspondants and
persons making proposals for leases, (N.B. this is not a
comprehensive persons index) -
Atkinson, R.J.
54
Blackett, C. 29
Clayton, John 44 - 46
Donkin,
Armourer 25, 27, 40, 42, 49
Dunn, M.W. 25, 27, 30, 31, 42,
52
Hall, James 16, 30
Hall, T.Y. 54
Lamb, Humble 5,
56
Potter, Addison, L. 18-22
Silvertop, George 2-4, 20,
21, 23
Stable, George 25
Townley, P.E. 8-12, 21, 24, 26,
28, 32-39
Willis, Mr 27
Wood, Nicholas 7
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/4/60-70
Creation dates: 24 Dec 1839 - 26 Sept 1840,
24 Oct 1840 - 2 Jan 1841
Extent and Form:
10 documents
Physical
characteristics: Printed forms completed in
manuscript
Scope and
Content
Monthly pay bills for Stella Coal Company's
Collieries
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5
Bishop of Durham's Collieries
Creation dates: 1794 - 1829
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/1-17
Creation dates: c.1794 - 1799
Scope and Content
Bundle of correspondence
and reports re the colliery interests of the Bishop of Durham,
including Beamish, Bedlington, Bitchburn and Etherley,
Chester, Coxhoe, Edmondsley Fell, Flatts, Gateshead Fell,
Houghton, Newbottle, Tanfield and Urpeth, correspondence with
Thomas Calvert, William Emm, Anthony Hood, Arthur Mowbray,
James Ramsey and J.R. Rowntree
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/18
Creation dates: 23 May 1810
Scope and Content
Letter to John Buddle re
the supply of coal to naval bases
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/19
Creation dates: 3 Jan, 24 April
1824
Scope and
Content
Receipts of David Crawford and James Hall
for the purchase of a house and land at Barmoor
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/20-21
Creation dates: 25 Aug 1824 and
1829
Scope and
Content
Account of keel dues for the Tyne
Staiths
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/22
Creation dates: nd
Physical characteristics: Printed, part
missing
Scope and
Content
Part of an end elevation of an
engine
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/23
Creation dates: nd
Scope and Content
List headed Crawcrook
Fields giving owners and acreages
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/24
Creation dates: 1782, nd
Scope and Content
Notes re a lease of
Tanfield and North Thornmade
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/5/25
Creation dates: nd
Scope and Content
Plan of a device for
drawing coal by conductor to prevent the corves dashing
against the sides of the pit, scale approx 11/3: 1", with
reference giving description and proposals for the erection of
the device, by J. Curr
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138
Miscellaneous Colliery Papers
Creation dates: 1809 - 1841
Extent and Form:
7 documents
Physical
characteristics: Leather wallet containing 7 documents,
labelled R.J.Atkinson, 4 St Mary's Place, N.C. on
inside.
Scope and Content
Bundle of miscellaneous reports and plans re Seaton, Wideopen,
Percy Main and Evenwood Collieries, 1841.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138/1
Creation
dates: 26 Feb 1829
Scope and
Content
Schedule of terms on which the various coal
royalties at Seaton are held
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138/2
Creation
dates: 1809 - 1826, 1 July 1841
Scope
and Content
Abstracts of leases of Wideopen and Weetslade
Collieries dated
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138/3
Creation
dates: 15, 16 July 1841
Scope and
Content
Report re Wideopen Colliery including the amount
and value of coal remaining in the pillars with appendix re current
workings including sections of seams and produce, by R.J. Atkinson
and John Buddle
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138/4
Creation
dates: 1841
Scope and
Content
Copy of NRO 3410Bud/138/3
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138/5
Creation
dates: 2 Nov 1841
Scope and
Content
Plan of part of the Coble Dean Way at Percy Main
Colliery, workings plan with notes re drainage, scale 3ch:
1"
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138/6
Creation
dates: 9 Nov 1841
Scope and
Content
Instructions for a valuation of Gordon and
Evenwood Collieries, including details of the lease, current
workings, working charges and produce, refers to plan 7
below
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/138/7
Creation
dates: nd c. 1841
Physical
characteristics: Tracing paper
Scope
and Content
Plan of Norwood, Ramshaw and Evenwood
Royalties referred to in 6 above, coloured, scale 16ch: 1",
n.d.
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139
Miscellaneous Colliery and Legal Papers
Creation dates: 1730 - 1842
Extent and Form:
118 docs
Scope and
Content
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence, reports, deeds and legal
papers, 1730 - 1842, including copy court rolls from 1620.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/1
Creation
dates: nd
Scope and
Content
Abstracts from the court rolls of Chester [le
Street] re the copyhold tenements of Calverly Bewicke Esq at Urpeth,
rolls dated 1620 - 1786, abstract
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/2
Creation
dates: nd
Scope and
Content
Copy report re boundaries of Stumplewood Colliery
by Robert Wright, John Rudd and Surtees Swinburn, refers to a plan
(not included), original report 3 May 1709. copy
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/3
Creation
dates: 12 Oct 4 George II, [1730]
Scope and Content
Descriptions in a case in
Chancery of Mary Johnson, Matthew White and Elizabeth his wife v the
Duke of Somerset re Tynemouth
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/4
Creation
dates: 21 April, 5 June 1739
Scope and
Content
2 letters from William Radley to John Airey re the
case of the Attorney General v Redhead and Lord Derwentwater's
Estates
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/5
Creation
dates: 9 Jan 1764
Scope and
Content
Lease for 18 years from Thomas Preston to Thomas
Airey and Francis Hurry of a quay at South Shields
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/6
Creation
dates: 21 Dec 1775 - 7 Dec 1839
Extent and
Form: 51 docs
Scope and
Content
Bundle of reports, correspondence, abstracts of
agreements and accounts re Washington Colliery
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/7
Creation
dates: 1779 - 1790
Extent and Form:
14 docs
Scope and
Content
Bundle of reports, correspondence and accounts
with the proprietors of the Grand Lease Collieries re Derwenthaugh
Waggonway, including report re Lintz and Bucksnooth
Collieries
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/8
Creation
dates: 1780 - 1789
Scope and
Content
Abstracts of the Bishop of Durham's leases of coal
mines in Durham
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/9
Creation
dates: Sept [17]85
Scope and
Content
Copy of Horne's speech for the defense from the
state trial re the legality of embargos on corn
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/10
Creation
dates: 14, 22 Nov 1788
Scope and
Content
2 letters from Roseby Hann to John Buddle re
Wallsend Colliery
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/11
Creation
dates: 1789
Scope and
Content
Report, including estimate of working costs, re
Attercliffe Colliery, Yorkshire, for the Duke of Norfolk, 1789 and
pay bill, 4 - 11 April 1789
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/12
Creation
dates: 1792 - 1799
Extent and Form:
8 docs
Scope and
Content
Bundle of correspondence, accounts, plan and draft
lease re Sir John Eden's Estates at St Helen and West Auckland,
including plan of land at West Auckland, giving field names, scale
6ch: 1" and plan of land on the north side of Garnless, St Helen
Auckland, with reference giving field names and acreages, no
scale
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/13
Creation
dates: 1799
Scope and
Content
Estimate of the value of the Pan Boat at
Sunderland, by John Buddle
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/14
Creation
dates: 1810 - 1826
Scope and
Content
Farm accounts of John Buddle in partnership with
W.Burnett
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/15
Creation
dates: 14 Jan 1811
Physical
characteristics: Printed
Scope and
Content
Form of binding agreement, not completed
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/16
Creation
dates: 1811-1812
Scope and
Content
Memoranda book containing reports re Acklington
Colliery, 14 Oct 1811, Longbenton Colliery, 22 Nov 1811 and Fawdon
Colliery, 18 Sept 1812.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/17
Creation
dates: 13 Sept 1814
Scope and
Content
Minutes of the Committee of the Tyne and Wear Coal
Owners re vend regulation
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/18
Creation
dates: 9 Nov 1819
Scope and
Content
Letter from the Mayor of Newcastle to John Buddle
re the over-measures carried by Mr Russel's keelmen
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/19
Creation
dates: 1822 - 1825, 1833
Extent and Form:
23 docs
Scope and
Content
Bundle of letters and accounts re the affairs of
Mr William Russel including negociations with Lord Londonderry re
the purchase of Hetton Coal, Daldon Harbour and a wayleave to
Penshaw Staith, including plans of part of the Tees and Weardale
Railway showing the route affecting the Wynyard and Blakinson
Estates, scale 8ch: 1", and showing the route affecting the estates
of the Marquis of Londondery, scale 1": 1 mile
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/20
Creation
dates: 3 Feb 1813
Scope and
Content
Description of a plan of a locomotive engine by
W.C. [William Chapman] (1 sketch plan only, remainder of plan not included)
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/21
Creation
dates: 19 May 1823
Scope and
Content
Letter from Robert Walters to John Buddle
enclosing an agreement re the boundary of Jesmond Colliery
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/22
Creation
dates: Dec 1830
Physical characteristics:
Printed
Scope and
Content
Illustrated specification for Morton's Patent
Slip
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/23
Creation
dates: 30 March 1842
Scope and
Content
Section of the Bensham Seam, Percy Main
Colliery
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/139/24
Creation
dates: nd
Scope and
Content
Notes re the effects of Hartlepool Harbour and
Railway and the proposed colliery at Ludworth, endorsed "Mr
Morton"
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/140
Dalkeith Collieries.
Creation
dates: 1839 - 1842
Scope and
Content
Bundle of papers and letters re a dispute between the Duke of
Buccleugh and the Marquis of Lothian, conducted through Messrs
Gibson and Home and Messrs Tod and Romanes, solicitor, re Dalkeith
Collieries, including trespass and drainage through the New Mills
Level, 14 Nov 1839 - 5 April 1842.
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/141
Letters to John Buddle
Creation dates: 1826 - 1829
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/141/1
Creation
dates: 23 Sept 1826
Scope and
Content
Stray letter to John Buddle
From George
Stephenson requesting him to visit his manufactory to give
advice
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/137/2
Creation
dates: 5 July 1829
Scope and
Content
Stray letter to John Buddle
From Rev John
Hodgson, Whelpington, asking how he can obtain a copy of the minutes
of the Coal Trade Committee of the House of Lords and mentioning the
death of Sir Humphry Davy
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Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142
Personal Papers of John Buddle and Buddle
Atkinson
Creation dates: 1824 -
1864
Extent and Form:
7 documents
Physical
characteristics: Leather wallet
Scope and Content
Bundle of miscellaneous statements of accounts and schedules
relating to John Buddle and B. Atkinson, 1824 - 1864 and n.d.
including a copy of John Buddle's will, 9 Oct 1843.
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142/1
Creation
dates: 7 Feb 1824
Scope and
Content
Statement of charges for the purchase and mortgage
of John Buddle's estate at Benwell, in account with John Bainbridge
and Armourer Donkin, 1811 - 1821, with receipt from Armourer
Donkin
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142/2
Creation
dates: 9 Oct 1843
Scope and
Content
Copy of the will of John Buddle made
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142/3
Creation
dates: nd [1843]
Scope and
Content
Schedules of the contents of John Buddle's safe
and cash box at Wallsend
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142/4
Creation
dates: 1844
Scope and
Content
Statement of account for the Stella Coal
Company
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142/5
Creation
dates: 22 Oct 1864
Scope and
Content
Account of B. Atkinson with James Parves and Son,
Cabinet Makers, Hide Hill, Berwick, for furnishings supplied for
Barmoor Castle
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142/6
Creation
dates: nd
Scope and
Content
Specification from Cotterell Bros, Decorators,
Bridge Street, Bath for work proposed to be done at Wooley Grange
for B. Atkinson
Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/142/7
Creation
dates: nd
Scope and
Content
Part of an unidentified valuation by C.
Brough
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