The Duke of Sutherland versus J. E. Heathcote, Esq: Controversy over Mining Rights in Longton
In the 1890s George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), the third Duke of Sutherland, brought a case against Mr. J. E. Heathcote concerning the Duke's rights to mine for coal and ironstone ...
Mr. Daniel's Time Book, Knowles Colliery, September 10th 1797
This document lists the names of the miners working in the pits (Pooldole). Most of the men were in the same group as their names appear all through the book, with some women’s names but not many.
There ...
Mining Agreement
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April 4th 1791.
Meirheath colliery.
John German John Ball William Donkin and Richard Donkin agree with ...
Meirheath Colliery Coal Agreement, 1792
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Mearheath colliery
William Hickenbottam and Samuel Yates agree with Thomas ...
Longton at the End of the Lane by Kate Box
Kate Box from the North Staffordshire Mining History Group has has examined documents in the Sutherland Papers which provide an insight into the life of North Staffordshire potters during the late eighteenth ...
Knowles Colliery Mining Agreement, 1796
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We whose names are hereunto subscribed do agree with Thomas Heath to sink an engine pit and a bye pit at Knowles colliery for the proprietor thereof ...
Joseph Lockett & John Brown Mining Agreement, 1791
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Mearheath colliery.
Thomas Heath agreed with Joseph Lockett and John Brown to get all the coals beyond the distance ...
Jonathan Shaw Tabbeners Mine Agreement, 1799
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Meirheath colliery Dec. 3rd 1799.
Jonathon Shaw agrees with Thomas Heath to get and draw and sell all the coals which ...
John Tomlinson by Len Ball
One weekend in April/May 2007 I was back home from my caravan, as myself and my wife had been invited to my wife’s nephew’s baby’s Christening on the Sunday at Stoke Minster.
The North Staffordshire ...
James Stokes Wages Agreement, 1798
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Jan 12th 1798
Agreed to give James Stokes 3/6 per yard heading and ten shillings ...
James Stokes Wage Agreement with Thomas Heath, 1797
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Oct 10th 1797.
T. Heath agreed to give James Stokes Three shillings and three pence a stack getting the coals so long as ...
Instructions for Managing the Colliers
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Instructions
Take care of the sale of coals, visit all the pits twice a day, examine the brick bank and see as none are stolen or disposed of without ...
Human Interest Stories in the Mining Papers
Joyce Wilson from the North Staffordshire Mining History Group has examined many of the letters surviving amongst mining documents in the Sutherland Papers. The letter featured above involves an old lady ...
Henry Hazlehurst Brick Making Agreement, Meirheath Colliery, 1796
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Mearheath colliery Dec 14th 1796
Henry Hazlehurst agrees with T Heath to make one hundred thousand bricks at Poole Dole for the Marquis ...
Details of Men Hired by Thomas Brundred, 1796
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Jan 30th 1796
Thomas Brundred informs me that he has hired Thomas Moss aged 26 John ...
Agreement with Colliers for the Sale of Coals, c.1790s
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List of Colliers Names with Details of the Pits they Mined, 1799
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Water Supply at Cotes
Amongst papers relating to the Cotes estate in Eccleshall is a ‘Certificate of Sufficient Water Supply’ relating to the ‘Public Health (Water) Act, 1878’. The Certificate was issued on 29th November 1907 ...