Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
HA/8/1-36 |
paper relating to St Michael's Mount and Penwith, 1396-1663, including relating to pilchard and herring fisheries, fish tithes, quays
|
1396 - 1663 |
fishing |
EN/145-7 |
papers relating to coinage of tin, 1568-1753, notably 145g, merchants' petition to the King, seventeenth century, regarding trade; 146a, export accounts of Penzance and Truro, 1660-1
|
1568 - 1661 |
trade |
NAN/27 |
letter of Lord Paulet to John Nance requesting him to watch for wrecks in manors, 1589
|
1589 |
wrecks |
NAN/32 |
letter of Arthur Harris to John Nance regarding threat of Spanish to coast, c.1590
|
1590 |
coastall defence |
NAN/35 |
letter to John Nance regarding coastal defence, 1597
|
1597 |
|
HG/7/12 |
Admiralty commission to Francis Basset and others for inspecting goods and merchandise from pirate ship at St Ives, 1623
|
1623 |
law piracy |
HF/16/35 & 37-9 |
legal papers regarding Helford river fishing, c.1659
|
1659 |
law |
Phil/1-20 |
letters of the Enys family, Falmouth merchants, 1667-97
|
1667 - 1697 |
trade commerce |
HB/60-80 |
papers of the Basset family relating to wrecks, 1683-1867
|
1683 - 1867 |
wrecking |
HD/13/28-35 |
papers relating to tithes of Crantock, 1686-1744
|
1686 - 1744 |
tithes |
Phil/A |
papers of Miss M.E. Philbrick, mainly files of ms notes and photocopies relating to the Post Office packet service & postal history, including lists of sailings, mostly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, notably 1-20
|
1700 - 1899 |
ships |
MEN/119 |
account of John Pendarves Basset regarding export of slates from Hayle, 1736
|
1736 |
commerce |
HU/13/8 |
manor court book of Predannack Wartha, parish of Mullion, 1715-63, with reference to items washed ashore, 1739
|
1739 |
wreck admiralty |
GAT/E/16 |
printed notice from Privy Council regarding quarantine restrictions at Falmouth, 28 July 1743
|
1743 |
Health |
MEN/121 |
deposition regarding brandy found in river Gannel, 1749
|
1749 |
customs |
MEN/82/A-O |
letters of Francis Basset concerning Portreath quay and shipping, 1765-7 (also see 99-101)
|
1765 - 1777 |
dock port |
BIR/28 |
lease regarding tithe fish of Lelant, St Ives and Towednack, 1770
|
1770 |
fishing |
HA/16/70 |
legal papers relating to fish tithes in Mount's Bay, 1771
|
1771 |
fishing |
B/1/23 |
release and assignment of St Ives pier, 1777
|
1777 |
port |
NL(C)/18/1 |
letter from D. Bamfield, St Ives, to N.R. Pearce regarding help given to distressed vessel, c.1790
|
1790 |
rescue |
HA/16/68 |
account regarding smith work at St Michael's Mount quay, 1792-4
|
1792 - 1794 |
blacksmith |
MEN/15 |
Admiralty boat licence for Fowey pleasure boat of Revd Robert Walker, 1793
|
1793 |
leisure |
NL(C)/17/7 |
bill of Samuel Tresidder, jun. to Revd Edward Walmsey regarding work on the Black Rock, Falmouth, 1794
|
1794 |
port |
A/1988/1 |
`Experiences and reminiscences of over forty years at sea' by William Harris, with photographs, nineteenth century , health & welfare
|
1800 - 1900 |
mariner |
B/1/29 |
assignment of a moiety of three deeds poll on St Ives pier, 1804
|
1804 |
port harbour |
Acc. 1943 |
logbook of the Hopewell of St Ives, brig, 1810-14, including of voyage from Falmouth to France, [printed Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, ns 1, pt 2 (1952), 122-9]
|
1810 - 1814 |
trade |
(z)z/13/42 |
letters of administration on estate of James McGuinis, Penryn seaman, 1819
|
1819 |
mariner |
NL(C)/16/1-5 |
letters of Sir Christopher Hawkins relating to the Thomas and Mary, the Mary, fishing, St Ives and Pier Bill, 1820-5
|
1820 - 1825 |
fishing |
NL(c)/10/1-3 |
three journals relating to fish catches in the St Ives area, 1822-74, with some notes of wreck and with letters regarding Italian market, 1850-1, 1852, 1884
|
1822 - 1884 |
Fishing Trade |
NL(C)/15/4-5 |
letters from Sir Christopher Hawkins to G. Roberts, St Ives, regarding erection of new quay at St Ives, 1825
|
1825 |
port |
Hooper/1-20 |
papers relating to Banfield & Hooper, and other nineteenth-century shipping agents in Scilly and misc. papers, including photographs, relating to Scilly, notably 1-2, letter books, 1825-36, 1879-99; 2a, pilotage rates in Scilly district, |
1825 - 1911 |
ships shipping |
RSVR/4 |
journal of Thomas Pope Rosevear, Boscastle merchant and shipowner, 1825-46, including note on shipbuilding, 1826
|
1825 - 1846 |
shipping |
HOBLYN/9-38 |
naval service papers of Edward Lee Hoblyn, 1826-81, including certificates, commissions, letters, pension papers
|
1826 - 1881 |
navy seaman |
HL/9/1-71 |
misc. papers relating to creation of Wadebridge railway and dock, 1830-65
|
1830 - 1865 |
transport |
HEND/KEND/26 |
memorandum of agreement regarding harbour at Par, 10 March 1830
|
1830 |
port |
PPC/2/1 |
papers relating to the Helford Independent Seine, 1837-56, including cash account, minutes of shareholders' meetings, shareholders' accounts, rules
|
1837 - 1856 |
Fishing accounts |
HE/4/10 |
legal papers regarding transport of goods through Padstow, 1841
|
1841 |
trade law |
A/1988/4 |
coastguard certificates of service of Edward Avery of Mousehole, 1842-58
|
1842 - 1858 |
coastguard |
MPP/1-3 |
papers relating to the Snowdrop, Fowey schooner, comprising account book, 1842-52; inward and outward shipping certificates for port of Liverpool, 1843; naval certificate of half-yearly return of documents, 1852, certificate of sale, 1842 |
1842 - 1852 |
ships shipping accounts |
Acc.1958(Victoria Wills bequest), |
logbook of the Mystery, lugger, from Newlyn to Melbourne, 1854-5
|
1854 - 1855 |
trade |
Misc. 10 |
journal of A.F.G. of his voyage from England to Sydney possibly on the Parramatta, 1876-7, and return
|
1876 - 1877 |
travel |