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Don Coles’s Archive – Index

Envelope 1 – Wills and Inventories

(Note – those wills that have inventories attached are highlighted below with an *)

• B1
  • Richard Kirke (1659)
  • Richard Hobson (1673)
  • Christopher Kirke (1680)
  • Isabella Waite (1689/90) *
  • John Oddy (1697) *
  • Thomas Harper (1716) *
  • William Nicholson (1723) *
  • John Driver (1728) *
  • William Oddy (1730) *
  • George Wood (1734) *
  • John Smith (1745)
  • Christopher Kirke (1763)
  • Samuel Ingman (1789)
  • William Hobson (1807)
  • William Hobson (1818)
  • Benjamin Hobson (1826)
  • Inventories without wills – William Wilson (1718), Francis Harper (1727) Joseph Padgett (1767)
• B2
  • Richard Arkdale (1590)
  • Robert Roger (1549)
  • Richard Wood (1568)
• B4
  • William Clough (1707) *
  • John Midgeley (1691/2) *
  • Samuel Wetherill (1717) *
  • Andrew Scatchard (1725) *
• B5
  • Tobias Furnish (1692/3) *
  • Susanna Wood (1725) *
• B6
  • Richard Kirk (1613)
• B7
  • Joe Broadbelt (1720) *
  • William Waite (1629)
• B8
  • Robert Moyser (1690) *
  • Solomon Swale (1699) *
  • Henry Portington (1709) *
  • John Brookbank (1720) *
  • Eliza Scott (1708) *
  • Thomas England (1734) *
  • Robert Mitchell (1663) *

Envelope 2 – Documents for the church display at Cookridge Methodist church

• Doomsday record: Adel
• Letter and ‘translation’ written by Thomas Kirk of Cookridge Hall 17th cent.
• Will of George Wood 1734 (blacksmith)
• Part of valuation of Cookridge estate (1807)
• Turnpike records (1828)

Envelope 3 – Manor House, AdelEnvelope 4 – Arthington nunneryEnvelope 5 – ‘Interference from People that Don’t Know Sod All’: A Twentieth Century Oral History Study of Farmers’ Experiences with Outside Bodies in Lower Wharfdale, Yorkshire, by Jane Rowling. (MA English Local History, University of Leicester, 2011).Envelope 6 – Leake Family Tree of Bankside Farm and Hird FarmEnvelope 7 – Thomas Arthington’s Estate (1796)Envelope 8 – Agricultural Reports

• Map of Arthington map (1849)
• Creskeld Estate (1988)
• Will of Richard Wardman (nunnery) (1559)
• Plans of Wood Top Farm

Envelope 9 – O.S maps of Adel, Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup (1851-1909)

Envelope ten – Estate maps, various, for Adel Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup.

Including:

• A plan by Johnathan Taylor (1804)
• A plan of an estate situate in the parishes of Addle and Harewood by Jonathan Taylor
• A plan of the Cookridge estate by W.
  

  F. Wormald (1906)

• Terrier map of Adel rectory
• Tithe map (1849)
• Thomas Jeffery’s map (1770)

Envelope 11 – maps from Church display of Adel, Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup (1722-1988)Envelope 12 – assorted archival material

• Naylor family records from Adel registers (1607-1809)
  • Tax records for Jacob Naylor (1777)
  • Tax records for John Naylor (1807)
• The landscape of Cookridge and Tinshill recreated by Don Cole (1660)
  • Cup and ring marks in Gab Wsood
  • Moseley Wood, Mr Kirke’s creation in the 17th century
• Lawns Wood – It’s all in the Name, research and reminiscences by Don Cole
• Plans and conditions of the sale of the Cookridge Estate (including Cookridge Hall), 20th April 1919
• Arthington during the 1939-45 War: excerpts from Parish Council minutes
• Arthington Grange – a short history of the farm and some of its tenants
• Life in Cookridge Towers, memories of Hicks and Binns
• Extract from the codicil annexed to the will of Robert Jackson (1730)
• Don Cole’s sketch books of various stone pillars in Adel, Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup
• Deed: – Dade to Stanhope re: Moseley (1678)
• Lease Thomas Arthington to John Craven (1754)
• Marriage settlement: – Dade to Stanhope/ T.
  

  Kirke (1652)

• Compensation paid relating to Halfway Farm (1954)
• Cookridge Hall management (Nov. 1955)
• Creskeld Estate (Feb. 1988)
• Sale details of Dacre, Son & Hartley, relating to the sale of Park Cottage South, Arthington Lane, Arthington
• Adel Mill: – details of some of the early tenants (1540-1848)
• Extracts from Eccup School logbook (1889, 1894, 1894 and 1904)
• A rough plan of High Farm Buildings (as they were when Don and Sheila Cole were there)
• Lease of Glebe at Eccup (1737/8)
• Plan of Leeds produced and published by ‘Geographia’ (no date, circa 1920?)