Scope and Content

Section two comprises bound volumes of correspondence, report, working papers and plans of George Baker Forster. These relate to his colliery interests in the North East and in Yorkshire, the Midlands, Cumberland, Wales and elsewhere.

NRO 3410/For/2/37-39 are 3 Volumes of original and copy letters, papers and plans re Longwitton Colliery and Greenleighton Quarry and Lime Works, owned by Sir W.C. Trevelyan and subsequently by Sir Charles Trevelyan (Greenleighton) and Cecil Spencer Percival (Longwitton), leased by the Longwitton and Greenleighton Coal and Lime Company. Much of the correspondence is with Thomas Gow, agent for the Trevelyans and C.S. Percival, including reports re the progress of workings in the colliery and quarry and royalty rent statements, also correspondence with applicants to work the colliery, 1874 - 1894.

The following is an Index of correspondents in NRO 3410/For/2/37-39. The letters are arranged in annual sections in Vol 37 but roughly in alphabetical order in Vols 38 and 39

Archer, Thomas Date of Letters: 1891, 1893

Armstrong, J Date of Letters: 1883

Barningham, J Date of Letters: 1894

Bainbridge, James Date of Letters: 1894

Bonner, George Date of Letters: 1886

Bonner, Thomas Date of Letters: 1876

Cochrane, E Date of Letters: 1877

Daglish, John Date of Letters: 1877

Dees and Thompson Date of Letters: 1879 - 1880, 1886 - 1887

Dixon, D.W. Date of Letters: 1881

English, Ralph Date of Letters: 1889

Gaskell, J.W. Date of Letters: 1891

Gow, Thomas Date of Letters: 1876 - 1886

Jack, J.L. Date of Letters: 1893

Jordon, J.J. Date of Letters: 1891

Liddell, Thomas Date of Letters: 1886

Linsley, J.R. Date of Letters: 1886

Lynn, J.R.D. Date of Letters: 1879

Maynard, Charles Date of Letters: 1886

Morris, J.A. Date of Letters: 1893

Mundie, W. Date of Letters: 1889

Nicholson, J.W. Date of Letters: 1891, 1894

Nimmo, John Date of Letters: 1886

Oliver, James Date of Letters: 1886

Pattinson, John Date of Letters: 1878

Percival, Cecil Spencer Date of Letters: 1879 - 1894

Ramsay, W. Date of Letters: 1891

Robinson, James Date of Letters: 1886

Robson, H.J. Date of Letters: 1886

Robson, W.C. Date of Letters: 1879 - 1880

Roscamp, J. Date of Letters: 1884, 1886

Ross, Alex Date of Letters: 1891

Simpson, Robert Date of Letters: 1886

Spencer, N. Date of Letters: 1877

Stainton and Atkinson Date of Letters: 1883

Thompson, John Date of Letters: 1891

Thompson and Sons Date of Letters: 1894

Topham, Joseph Date of Letters: 1886

Turnbull, Robert Date of Letters: 1894

Urwin, John Date of Letters: 1886

Weddell, John Date of Letters: 1893

Widdas, John Date of Letters: 1891

Wilkinson, William Date of Letters: 1886, 1888 - 1889

Woodman, W. Date of Letters: 1874, 1876

NRO 3410/For/2/40-54 are 15 volumes of original and copy letters, reports and plans re the Whitehall Royalties at Allhallowes Colliery, parishes of Allhallowes, Bolton and Torpenhow, Cumberland, royalty owners Sir Wilfred Lawson, George Moore, H.A. Clark, William Fletcher and the Ecclesiastical Commissions (glebe land), leased to Waugh and Fletcher, later the Allerdale Coal Co. The papers are mainly concerned with the management of the royalty of George Moore including correspondence with William Fletcher, lessee and Philips, Sidgwick and Biddle, trustees for George Moore. The volumes also include reports re the conduct of the colliery, including sections of seams, current workings, production, establishment and the 1897 strike, mainly by Thomas Bailes for G.B. Forster and T.P. Martin, manager and surface and workings plans 1868 - 1922.

Index of correspondents in NRO 3410/For/2/40-54

Allerdale Coal Company Date of letters: 1881 - 1900

Allhallowes Coal Company Date of letters: 1916

Brown and Adams Date of letters: 1882

Eden, C.H. Date of letters: 1883 - 84, 1888, 1892, 1894

Faulder, Joseph Date of letters: 1886

Fletcher, L.H. Date of letters: 1907 - 1908

Fletcher, William Date of letters: 1876 - 1899

Foster Brown, T. Date of letters: 1882 - 88, 1892

Gilmore, Alan, Maryport Iron and Steel Co. Date of letters: 1884 - 1887

Graham, W. Date of letters: 1921

Harris, Rev Henry Hibbert Date of letters: 1873

Henny, John, Allerdale Coal Co. Date of letters: 1881 - 1892

Hough, Samuel Date of letters: 1879, 1881, 1884 - 86

Martin, Robert Date of letters: 1876

Martin, T.P. Date of letters: 1879 - 88, 1892, 1896

Moore Agnes Date of letters: 1883 - 1888

Moore, George Date of letters: 1868 - 69, 1878

Moore, William Parkin Date of letters: 1892, 1907 - 21

Mounsey, Bowman and Graham Date of letters: 1909 - 1911

Phelps, Sidgwick and Biddle Date of letters: 1877 - 1909

Ramsay, William Date of letters: 1898

Reay, George, Allerdale Coal Co. Date of letters: 1887

Reay, Joseph, Allerdale Coal Co Date of letters: 1894 - 1896

Robinson, R.A. Date of letters: 1883

Semple, William Date of letters: 1897

Simpson, John B. Date of letters: 1881 - 1883

Smith, James Allerdale Coal Co. Date of letters: 1898 -1900

Stobart, H. Date of letters: 1879

Thomson, P.M. Date of letters: 1910 - 1916

Waugh and Musgrave Date of letters: 1989, 1907

Wilson, Robert Date of letters: 1877

Wood and Bowman Date of letters: 1885, 1887

Arrangement

The volumes, were originally in two separate numbered series, but as they are obviously a single series of similar volumes they have been amalgamated into a single series.

Reference: NRO 3410/For/2/1

Volume of bound original and copy letters, reports and plans re the Egton Estate and iron workings North Yorkshire 1862 - 1874

Volume of bound original and copy letters, reports and plans re Hollin Hill and Slaperworth Ironstone, Yorkshire, 1859 - 1881 and Standingstones Iron Ore, Millom, Cumberland, 1873

Except where otherwise specified, NRO 3410/For/2/2/1-154 are 104 letters between G.B. Forster and Charles Attwood (2), J. Lowthian Bell (1), William Charlton, Mining Engineer (25) including the case of Vaughan v. Charlton re a breach of contract for the supply of ore, Charles Griffith (1), T.E. Forster (1), J. Millar (1), Alex Mitchell (1), Henry Newton (5), Newton, Robinson and Brown, solicitors. York. (31), J.E. Thomas, York (15), H.W. Thomas (22), 1859 - 1881

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans, 1863 - 1871

Folios 1-49 refer to Lord Boynes Royalties 1866-1872

Folios 68-128 refer to Cochrane Royalties 1863-1871

Folios 130-203 refer to Deanery Estate Royalty including Adelaide Colliery 1869-1871

Folios 208-211 refer to Hildyards Coal 1869-1870

Folios 216-219 refer to Tudhoe 1867-1869

Except where otherwise specified NRO 3410/For/2/3/68-120 are 49 Letters between G.B. Forster and A.H. Cochrane, Biddleton Hall, Rothbury and Gainford (11), Griffiths, Creighton and Atkinson, solicitors (8), John Marley, North Brancepeth Coal Co (25), J.W. Swinburn (2) amd R. Thompson, North Brancepeth Coal Co (3) re Cochrane's Royalties at Langley, Litteburn and New Brancepeth, 1863 - 1871

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans re the coal royalties of Major John Philip and Admiral Robert Mitford at Longframlington and Prestwick Carr, 1858 - 1873

f.118 - 146 Are in the same hand and probably copies made c. 1870

Volume of original and copy letters, report and plans, 1835 - 1871

Folios 1-39 refer to Bottleslow & Brookhouse, North Staffordshire 1869

Folios 45-85 refer, to Brunton & Shields Railway 1835-1871

Folios 102-123 refer to Byers Green 1871

Folios 126-205 refer to Dearham & Broughton Moor, Cumber land 1871

Folios 208-241 refer to Felling 1871

Folios 248-279 refer to a case of Gwyn v.Price re a breach of covenant in a lease of coal under the Duffryn Estate worked by the Neath Abbey Co

Volume of original and copy letters and papers, 1870 - 1879

Except where otherwise specified, NRO 3410/For/2/6/1-49 are 24 letters between T.E. and G.B. Forster and Robert F. Middleton (3), John G. Rawes (16) and George Woodruffe, Lincoln's Inn (5), 4 Oct 1870 - 12 June 1877

NRO 3410/For/2/6/65-98 are between G.B. Forster and Thomas Bailes (1), William Coulson and Son, Borers (12), John G. Rawes (15) and Robert W.H. Smart, Lincoln's Inn (1), 1878 - 1879

Folios 1-64 relate to the Mainsforth Estate

Folios 65-106 relate to the Trewitt Estate

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans re Hodbarrow, Cumberland, Rampside, Lancashire and miscellaneous business and personal papers, 1867 - 1870

Except where otherwise specified, NRO 3410/For/2/6/1-60 are Letters between G.B. Forster and William Barnett (12) and Edward Wadham (10) and tenders and correspondence re the tenders for sinking, timbering and tubbing and supply of materials from G. and W. Nicholson, Henry Ritson for Benfieldside Sawmill, Robson and Lyal, William Horsley for Whitehill Iron Works, Henry Lawrence for Grange Iron Co, J. Dixon for Barnes, Craig and Co and Pow and Fawcus, 2 Feb - June 1870

Folios 1 - 61 relate to Hodbarrow Iron Mines, Millom, CUMBERLAND

Folios 62 - 119 relate to Rampside, Lancashire

Folios 121 - 233 relate to miscellaneous Personal and Business letters to or from G.B. Forster except where specified

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans re the coal royalties of John Norman and William Reay at Crosby, Cumberland, 1870 - 1873

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans re Broad Oak, Lancashire and Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, 1870 - 1876

Folios 1-18 relate to Broad Oak, Lancashire

Folios 24-177 relate to Stapleford, Nottinghamshire

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans, 1871 - 1873

NRO 3410/For/2/10/1-36 are 26 letters between G.B. and T.E. Forster and Lionel Brough, Inspector of Mines, Clifton (4) and William Needham, Abercarn (22) including discussion re a fire in the colliery, 12 Aug 1872 - 2 Sept 1873

Folios 1-49 relate to Abercarn, Monmouthshire 1872

Folios 50-95 relate Little Houghton, YORKSHIRE 1871-1872

Folios 100-152 relate to Pixton, Somerset 1872-1873

Folios 158-197 relate to Woolley, YORKSHIRE 1872

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans, 1825, 1872 - 1876

Except where otherwise specified, NRO 3410/For/2/11/1-39 are 29 letters between T.E. and G.B. Forster and Thomas B. Keetley (2), John Roseby, Frodingham Ironstone Mine (3) and Coningsby Sibthorpe, Canwick Hall (24) re trials for ironstone on the estate, 1872 - 1873

FOLIOS 1-50 relate to Canwick, Lincolnshire 1872-1873

FOLIOS 51-111 relate to a dispute between George Dixon, Mining Engineer, and James Bain at Woodend and Frizington Park, Cumberland

FOLIOS 112-206 relate to Kippax. YORKSHIRE 1875

FOLIOS 208-222 relate to Saltwick and Cockhill 1825-1873

Volume of original, copy and printed letters, reports and plans re Risca, Blaen Rhonda and Dunraven, South Wales, 1871 - 1873

Volume of original, copy and printed letters, reports and plans re Risca and North Dunraven Collieries, South Wales, 1876 - 1878

Except where otherwise specified, NRO 3410/For/2/13/1-127 are 107 letters between G.B. Forster and Thomas Bailes (1), E. James, viewer at Risca (10), S.W. Kelly, South Wales Coal Co (20)

C. Mitchell, Shipbuilders, Walker (60), Henry F. Swan (1) and W.H. Milburn (2) and E.H. Watts of Watts and Milburn (13), mainly re Risca new winning, 1877 - 1878

Volume of original and copy letters, legal papers and plans re a case at Queen's Bench of John Stobbs v. Weardale Iron Company re alledged damage to Stobb's property caused by the workings at Tudhoe Colliery, the case being referred to G.B. Forster as umpire, 1875 - 1877

Volume of original and copy letters and legal papers re a case of trespass in the Woodend Mine, Egremont, Cumberland between James Bain, James Robert Bain and John Stewart Simpson against J. and J. Lindow

NRO 3410/For/2/15/1-100 are 98 letters between G.B. Forster and James Bain and Co, Hematite Works, Harrington (5), Arthur Deaulands, surveyor, Durham (40), Brockbank and Helder, solicitors, Whitehaven (39), Dees and Thompson (3), Helder, Roberts and Gillett (2) and Lumb and Howson (9), 1877 - 1878

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans, 1872 with copy papers from 1716

FOLIO 1 relates to Botleslow 1872-1873

FOLIOS 11 - 112 relate to Bryans Leap 1716-1872

FOLIO 116 relates to Firth's Coal Cutting Committee 1872

FOLIOS 127 - 131 relate to Fry's Limestone, Cleasby, Yorkshire 1872

FOLIOS 133 - 145 relate to General Mining 1872

FOLIOS 146 - 160 relate to Hodbarrow Iron Ore, Millom, Cumberland 1872

FOLIOS 162 - 216 relate to Kelloe, Trimdon Grange and East Hetton 1872

FOLIOS 225 - 226 relate to Mainsforth 1872

FOLIO 230 relates to Newton 1872

FOLIOS 239 - 255 relate to Northumberland Steam Coal 1872

FOLIO 256 relates to correspondence with Mr. Prestwick 1872

FOLIO 263 relates to Redheugh 1872

Volume of original and copy reports, letters and plans re Clifton and Melgramfitz Collieries, 1872 - 1879

Volume of original and copy reports and letters re Plumbley Colliery, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1878 and the case of Jowsey v. Jowsey, [Joicey]

Except where otherwise specified. NRO 3410/For/2/18/1-65 are 58 letters between G.B. Forster and T.S. Bramwell, Arcot House, Dudley, (15), William Unwin (2), George and Oswald Dyson, Middlesborough (26), James Keen, manager of Plumbley Colliery (8) and John Rhodes, lessee, Beighton, Sheffield (7) re making of report, 1878

FOLIO'S 1-117 relate to Plumbley Colliery, Derbyshire 1878

FOLIO'S 118-154 relate to the case of Jowsey v. Jowsey re the Settlement of properties at Satley, Finchale, High Moor Hill, Woolsingham, Anick and North Shields 1878-1880

Volume of original and copy letters and reports re the minerals on the Egton Estate, Yorkshire, 1868 - 1888

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans re damage to Mr Westmacott's house and lands owned by J.W. Pease and others at Benwell by workings from Benwell Colliery, 1878 - 1883

Except where otherwise specified NRO 3410/For/2/20/1-122 are 118 letters between G.B. Forster and Thomas Bailes (1), R. Brown (1), William Cochrane Carr, South Benwell Colliery (2), Henry Clarke (1), John Daglish, Marsden (12), Dees and Thompson, solicitors (1), Alfred S. Dinning, surveyor (2), J. Hodgkin (1), Thomas G. Hurst, Lauder Grange, Corbridge (3), John Liddell (1), John W. Pease (1), John Johnson (52), Thomas Potts (1), Miss Shield (1), Valpy, Chaplin and Peckham, Lincoln's Inn (10) and Percy Westmacott, Elswick Works (28), 1881 - 1883

Volume containing original and copy letters and plans re the mineral royalties of Sir John Errington, Cocklaw Freestone and Limestone Quarries, leased by Messrs Jameson and Herbertson and Whittington Colliery, leased by Messrs Hall 1884 - 1892

Volume containing original and copy letters, reports and plans re the Errington Minerals as For/2/21 above also including references to Oakwood minerals, 1893 - 1898

Volume containing original and copy manuscript and typescript letters and reports re Whittington Colliery as in For/2/21 - 22 above, 1898 - 1909

Volume of original and copy letters, reports and plans

FOLIOS 1-74 relate to Harmby Limestone, Leyburn, Yorkshire 1889-1892

FOLIOS 75-92 relate to Woodside and Esp Green 1888

FOLIOS 93-114 relate to Benwell Damages 1887-1888 re the alleged damage caused by workings of Mr Cochrane Carr at Benwell to Condercum House, property of Col. Dyer and Mr. Rendell

FOLIOS 115-174 relate to Thornley and Ludworth Valuation 1884-1885

FOLIOS 179-194 relate to Wentsland Manor, Monmouthshire 1886-1890

(Except where otherwise specified) NRO 3410/For/2/24/115/165 are 36 letters between G.B. Forster and John Daglish, Marsden, South Shields (27), J.B. Simpson (8) and John Sparkes (1) re valuation claims of the lessors against the lessees and valuation of the inaccessable coal, 9 Nov 1884 - 14 Sept 1886