Archives Listing

477 Pages·2016·4.76 MB·English

by  Adrian Allan

Cumberland and Westmorland
Antiquarian and Archaeological Society

Archives Listing

Archives of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian
and Archaeological Society; its Affiliated Groups; and
members of the Society.

Adrian Allan

1st June 2016
(Issue 2 Revised August 2016)
Archives of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society

Table of Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgements. ....................................................................... 5
Key to abbreviations ................................................................................................. 6
Note concerning access to the archives of CWAAS .................................................. 6
Archives of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological
Society ...................................................................................................................... 7
Minutes and agenda papers of the Council, General and Annual General Meetings . 7
Minutes and agenda papers , etc. of Committees, Sub-Committees and Sections of
CWAAS .................................................................................................................. 11
Activities Committee ............................................................................................... 12
Editorial Committee, now Publications Committee .................................................. 12
Cumberland Excavation Committee later Excavation Committee, later Fieldwork and
Excavation Committee ............................................................................................ 14
Hadrian’s Wall Pilgrimage Organising Committee ................................................... 15
Committee for Industrial Archaeology ..................................................................... 18
Outreach Committee ............................................................................................... 21
Committee for the Parish Register Section ............................................................. 21
Committee for Prehistoric Studies ........................................................................... 22
Promotional Committee .......................................................................................... 48
Recruitment and Publicity Working Party ................................................................ 48
Research Committee, now Research and Grants Committee ................................. 48
Transactions of CWAAS and the Society’s Newsletter .......................................... 49
Papers of Society officers ....................................................................................... 50
President ................................................................................................................ 50
Hon. General Secretary .......................................................................................... 52
Hon. Excursions Secretary ...................................................................................... 55
Editor of Transactions ............................................................................................. 59
Librarian ................................................................................................................ 101
Archives of the Affiliated Groups of CWAAS ......................................................... 104
Carlisle Affiliated Group ........................................................................................ 104
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Kendal Historical & Archaeological Society ........................................................... 109
Penrith Affiliated Group ......................................................................................... 111
South-West Cumberland Regional Group, later the South-West Cumbria History &
Archaeology Society ............................................................................................. 111
Archives of members of CWAAS (in alphabetical order) ...................................... 113
Dr Amos Beardsley ............................................................................................... 113
Mr Richard Bellhouse ............................................................................................ 114
Professor Eric B Birley, MBE, FBA ........................................................................ 116
Revd J Lowther Bouch and Canon C M Lowther Bouch ........................................ 116
Mr Henry Brierley .................................................................................................. 117
Mr Michael J H Bunney ......................................................................................... 118
Miss Mary N Burgess ............................................................................................ 126
Miss Mary E Burkett, OBE .................................................................................... 126
Revd W Slater Calverley ....................................................................................... 127
Mr William K Calvert ............................................................................................. 133
Miss Dorothy Charlesworth ................................................................................... 133
Mr James Cherry and Mrs Joyce Cherry ............................................................... 134
Professor R G Collingwood ................................................................................... 135
Mr W G Collingwood ............................................................................................. 140
Mr H Swainson Cowper ........................................................................................ 143
Mr John F Curwen ................................................................................................ 145
Colonel Henry J Darlington .................................................................................. 146
Dr Rob David ........................................................................................................ 146
Mr Michael Davies-Shiel ....................................................................................... 148
Mr William Dent .................................................................................................... 148
Mr Ronald F Dickinson .......................................................................................... 150
Mr W P Dobson .................................................................................................... 150
Mr Harold Duff ...................................................................................................... 151
Mr Charles W Dymond .......................................................................................... 156
Dr Terence G Fahy ............................................................................................... 157
Miss Mary C Fair ................................................................................................... 158
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Lt Cdr Charles R S Farthing .................................................................................. 171
Mr John F Fawcett ................................................................................................ 171
Miss Clare I Fell .................................................................................................... 172
Mr Charles J Ferguson ......................................................................................... 187
Mr Richard S Ferguson ......................................................................................... 189
Mr John Fleming ................................................................................................... 219
Miss Marjorie Garnett ............................................................................................ 219
Mr Harper Gaythorpe ............................................................................................ 225
Professor Francis J Haverfield .............................................................................. 226
Mr James L Hobbs ................................................................................................ 227
Mr Thomas Hesketh Hodgson, Mrs Elizabeth Hodgson and Miss Katherine Hodgson
............................................................................................................................. 227
Mr C Roy Hudleston .............................................................................................. 231
Dr E D Hyam ......................................................................................................... 238
Mr William Jackson ............................................................................................... 238
Mrs Nina Jennings ................................................................................................ 241
Mr Bruce C Jones ................................................................................................. 242
Mr Walter T McIntire ............................................................................................. 242
Dr John D Marshall ............................................................................................... 244
Mr James Melville ................................................................................................. 247
Miss C M Newton .................................................................................................. 247
Mr Denis R Perriam .............................................................................................. 248
Very Revd Hastings Rashdall ............................................................................... 251
Canon H D Rawnsley ............................................................................................ 252
Mr George G S Richardson .................................................................................. 253
Professor Sir Ian Richmond .................................................................................. 259
Mr John Robinson ................................................................................................. 260
Dr William Rollinson .............................................................................................. 261
Mr F Gerald Simpson ............................................................................................ 262
Revd W Slater Sykes ............................................................................................ 268
Mr Bruce L Thompson .......................................................................................... 271
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Mr Nathaniel N Thompson .................................................................................... 272
Mr W N Thompson ................................................................................................ 272
Dr John M Todd .................................................................................................... 272
Dr Blake Tyson ..................................................................................................... 273
Rt Revd Henry Ware ............................................................................................. 273
Revd. Canon James Wilson .................................................................................. 274
Professor Angus J L Winchester ........................................................................... 284
Unidentified member ............................................................................................. 285
Carlisle Library: calendar of William Jackson’s autograph collection ..................... 286
‘Autographs : Cumberland Nobility’, ref. H -1 ........................................................ 286
‘Autographs : Westmorland : Eminent Natives’, reference H - 4 ........................... 306
‘Autographs : Cumberland : Eminent Natives’, reference H - 5 ............................. 329
‘Autographs : Cumberland : Eminent Natives’, reference H - 6; ............................ 356
‘Autographs : Cumberland Connections’, reference H - 3 ..................................... 386
‘Autographs : Westmorland Nobility’, reference H - 2 ............................................ 400
‘Autographs : Cumberland : Families’, reference H - 7 .......................................... 416
‘Autographs : Miscellaneous’, reference H - 10 ..................................................... 444
‘Autographs : Howards’, reference H - 11 ............................................................. 464

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Introduction and Acknowledgements.
In the course of producing this list of the archives of the CWAAS, its affiliated groups,
and its members, I have been much indebted to the staff of the Cumbria Archive
Service, Carlisle Library’s Local Studies department, and Tullie House Museum and
Art Gallery for facilitating my access to the archives and agreeing to the transfer to
Carlisle Archive Centre (which holds the core archives of the CWAAS) of certain
archives of the Society and its members which have hitherto been in their custody.
Archivists and librarians from elsewhere in the country have been good enough to
provide me with details of their own holdings of archives of members of CWAAS. I
hope that those accessing this list will draw my attention to corrections which should
be made to the list and to archives which I have omitted to include, in particular the
deposited papers of members of the Society which may be found in a wide range of
national and local record repositories. It is intended that this present list will be
periodically updated to cover accessions to existing deposits as also archives drawn
to my attention.
It should be noted that The National Archives’ Discovery website
(discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk) holds more than 32 million descriptions of records
held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country,
though, of course, it should be observed that these descriptions only cover those
archives that have been both listed and the lists made available online. Reference
should also be made to Michael Winstanley and Rob David, A Guide to Cumbrian
Historical Sources (Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster University,
2006), which describes in general terms the major library, museum and archive
holdings, with entries for individual record offices, libraries, museums and art galleries,
and specialist archives and collections, and also draws attention to deposits of
Cumbrian material to be found elsewhere in the country, and to online sources.
Providing the major online resource for the history of Cumbria is the website of the
Cumbria County History Trust (cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk); the Trust was launched
in May 2010 to coordinate and gather resources for the Victoria County History of
Cumbria project, a collaborative community project created to research and write the
histories of all parts of Cumbria and to make historical information generally available,
within the framework and standards of the Victoria County History of England.
In 2016, the CWAAS celebrates the 150th anniversary of its foundation. During the
anniversary weekend of 9 and 10 September, Revealing Cumbria’s Past: 150 years
of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, edited
by Michael Winstanley, Ian Whyte and Rob David, will be launched. A complimentary
copy of this volume will be given to all who are members of CWAAS during the
anniversary year.
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I am much indebted to Sally Gall for her devoted labours in formatting this list. I am
very grateful to John Steel, the Society's Webmaster, for the trouble he has taken to
make this list available on the Society's website
Adrian Allan, May 2016
The Golden Fleece, Carleton, Carlisle, CA4 0AN [email protected]
Key to abbreviations
CAC (Carlisle): Carlisle Archive Centre
CAC (Barrow): Barrow-in-Furness Archive and Local Studies Centre
CAC (Kendal): Kendal Archive Centre
CAC (Whitehaven): Whitehaven Archive and Local Studies Centre
CASCAT: Cumbria Archive Service Online Catalogue
CL: Local Studies Collection, Carlisle Library
CASCAT: Cumbria Archive Service’s online catalogue and its associated Catalogue
Guides can be found on the Service’s website at:
http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/Online_ catalogues/default.asp
For a few tips on getting the best out of CASCAT, see Robert Baxter’s article in
CWAAS Newsletter, No. 80, Autumn 2015, p.14.
CW1 Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and
Archaeological Society, old series (1866 – 1900)
CW2 Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquiarian and
Archaeological Society, new series (1901 – 2000)
CW3 Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and
Archaeological Society, third series (2001 - )
Note concerning access to the archives of CWAAS
The general closure period for the agenda papers (including minutes) of the CWAAS
and its committees is 7 years (whereby seven years has to elapse after the date of the
papers in question before they are ‘open)’; the deposited correspondence of the
Society is closed for 20 years.
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Minutes and agenda papers of the Council, General
and Annual General Meetings
(See, too, the agenda papers,
etc. listed amongst the papers
of the General Secretary.)
From the report on the founding
of the CWAAS, 11 September
1866, published in [The Carlisle
Journal, 14 September 1866],
and Membership Tickets, 1866
(Carlisle Archive Centre, in DSO
1/1)

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Reference Description Covering Years
CAC (Carlisle), Minutes of General and AGMs and of the 1866-73
DSO1/1 Council (supplemented by notices of
meetings, press cuttings, etc.), September

1866 – August 1873 (1 vol.)

(Note : In a note at the front of DSO1/4,
which he corrected in April 1932, J.F.C. [Mr J
F Curwen (d. 1932), Secretary of CWAAS,
1898 – 1911] recorded that the succeeding
minute book, dating from September 1873 –
July 1884, was in the possession of Mr Titus
Wilson [d.1917, Secretary of CWAAS, 1871 –
1911], and that the next volume followed on
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Reference Description Covering Years
from September 1884 to April 1907. Neither
volume can nowadays be traced.)
CAC (Carlisle), Minutes of meetings of General and AGMs 1907-23
DSO1/4 and of the Council, 11 July 1907 – 5 July
1923; pasted into the volume are copies of
the Arrangements and Programmes for
meetings 11 & 12 July 1907 – 5 & 6 July
1923, lists of Council agenda items, and a
press cutting ‘Shap Abbey : Lord Lonsdale’s
Strange Action’ [1910] (concerning the
removal of column stones to Lowther Castle).
(1 vol.)
CAC(Carlisle), Minutes of meetings of General and AGMs, 1923-38
DSO1/5 4 September 1923 – 8 September 1937,
and of the Council, 4 September 1923 – 24
March 1938; pasted into the volume are
copies of the Arrangements and
Programmes for meetings / excursions 4 &
5 September 1923 – 8 & 9 September
1937, and lists of Council agenda items.
(1 vol.)
CAC(Carlisle), Minutes of meetings of General and AGMs 1938-54
DSO1/16 and of the Council, 30 June 1938 – 14
September 1954; pasted into the volume are
copies of the Arrangements and Programmes
for meetings 30 June & 1 July 1938 – 14 & 15
September 1954, and lists of Council agenda
items (those for meetings from April 1951
onwards being fuller). (1 vol.)
CAC(Carlisle), Minutes of meetings of the Council, 14 1954-61
DSO1/17 September 1954 – 7 September 1959, and of
General and AGMs, 26 March 1955 – 3 July
1959 and 31 August 1961; also lists of Council
agenda items for meetings 26 March 1955 – 7
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