Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
A/B/1/193-4 |
request of Christopher Carlisle for support of proposed voyage to America, 1580s
|
1580 |
exploration travel |
A/B/3/154 |
paper regarding committee considering place for unloading and discharging cargoes at Burton Head, 1707
|
1707 |
commerce |
A/B/3/225 |
request of Liverpool merchants for storehouse to be erected at Burton Head, 1715
|
1715 |
trade commerce buildings construction |
A/B/3/227 |
paper regarding navigation improvement at Burton Head, 1715
|
1715 |
|
A/B/4/37 & 47 |
proposal for tax on goods from Chester to St David's Head, 1732, and amendment, 1733
|
1732 - 1733 |
customs levies trade |
A/B/4/5v |
petition from Chester to House of Commons requesting trade to Africa to be continued upon present establishment, 1726
|
1726 |
government parliament commerce |
A/B/5.77 |
petition from Chester against Bill regarding embanking coasts of Abergele, county Denbigh, and restraint of stone trade, 1794
|
1794 |
Wales environment commerce |
A/B/5/25 |
paper regarding Chester corporation presenting address to King requesting regulation of African Slave Trade, 1788
|
1788 |
Royalty commerce slavery colonies |
A/B/5/437 |
proposal for harbour to be supported in Parliament by Chester M.P.s, 1819
|
1819 |
development port government |
A/B/6/102 |
paper regarding prisage of wine at Liverpool and Chester, 1836
|
1836 |
alcohol customs prices |
C/Mc 155 |
Bill concerning carrying away of stones from Caernarvon shore, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
coastal erosion environment |
C/Mc.48 |
agreement concerning voyage to Virginia, 1698
|
1698 |
America travel |
C/Mc.62-3 |
draft of charter party for freight to Rotterdam and St Petersburg, 1752
|
1752 |
Europe commerce trade |
CAP/1 |
Port of Chester New Haven assessment and account book, 1555-1604
|
1555 - 1604 |
|
CAP/2 |
Port of Chester primage papers, inc. receipts and disbursements by treasurers of the haven, 1567
|
1567 |
accounts |
CAP/3 |
Port of Chester papers relating to the prisage of wines, 1637, 1815-32, 1845
|
1637 - 1845 |
prices alcohol trade commerce |
CAP/4 |
Comptroller's subsidy book for the port of Parkgate, with names of ships and ports of origin, 1790-1802
|
1790 - 1802 |
|
CCF/6/1-117 |
misc. papers and reports of the River Dee Committee, pre-1850, inc. letters and volumes of soundings, 1850-89, plans and charts of river Dee estuary, 1693-1849
|
1693 - 1889 |
shipping trade waterways maps |
CR/134/1-36, 135/1 |
records of the River Dee Company, 1733-1829, inc. accounts, copy letters, abstracts and misc. papers
|
1733 - 1829 |
shipping |
CR/8/1 |
attested copy of an agreement between John and Thomas Whittle, brothers, Chester brewers, with reference to share in the Swift, the Mary and the Amelia and the Hannah, ships trading from Liverpool, 19 September 1824 |
1824 |
alcohol ships commerce |
CR31/16 |
letter with description of voyage to India, 1849
|
1849 |
correspondence travel |
CR31/3-14 |
letters of David Brown of Upton regarding work on ships, 1842-52
|
1842 - 1852 |
correspondence repairers maintenance |
CR31/4-5 |
letters regarding voyage to China, 1843
|
1843 |
correspondence travel East |
CR352 |
letter book of Daniel Peck, Chester merchant, regarding trade inc. with Bristol, London, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Lisbon, 1703 - 1704 [see D/Mc.1, ts of one page]
|
1703 - 1704 |
commerce Europe |
CR391 |
papers of the River Dee Company comprising 1-3, minutes and accounts, 1733-1889; 4-5, Parliamentary Acts, 1771-1868
|
1733 - 1889 |
shipping |
CR585/1/1-21 |
21 photographs of ships built at Crichtons, shipbuilders, Saltney near Chester, c.1920-30
|
1920 - 1930 |
construction Companies |
CR619/1-7 |
photographs of HMS Chester and crew during First World War, 1917-18
|
1917 - 1918 |
ships navy battles |
CR619/10 |
photograph of crew of HMS Valient disembarking at Liverpool Docks to help in the police strike, c.1919
|
1919 |
navy ships |
CR656/11 |
account of shipping for port of Lancaster, inc. details of cargoes, destinations, etc., 1683
|
1683 |
trade commerce |
CR656/5 |
fragment of account recording receipt of five shilling guarding H.M. Yacht Mary, 20 March 1674/5
|
1674 - 1675 |
navy security prices |
CR656/5, 7-10, 13-15, 19-20, 29-33 |
papers of Matthew Anderton, Chester merchant, 1674-91, comprising letters, receipts and accounts relating to trade with Ireland and London
|
1674 - 1691 |
commerce |
CR675/1 |
logbook kept by George Wade on board HM Temeraire, on a voyage to the West Indies, March 1761 - June 1762
|
1761 - 1762 |
navy ships colonies |
F/R/67 |
paper regarding Mayor & Sheriff of Chester engaged in sending victuals to Conway, Beaumaris and Caernarfon Castles, 1400-1
|
1400 - 1401 |
food |
H.S. 250 |
journal by William Harrison of travels by horse in North Wales, 1808
|
1808 |
animals transport |
M.L.2.277 |
Ship Money assessment on Liverpool, Lancaster, Anglesey, Cardiff, Denbigh, Cumberland, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Carlisle, Caernarfon, Flint, Newport, Glamorgan, Pembroke, 1635
|
1635 |
accounts finances |
M/B/28/32 |
recognizance regarding voyage to Carrickfergus, 1600
|
1600 |
leisure travel |
M/L/2/199, 215, 245, 264 |
misc. papers relating to post boats to Holyhead and Ireland, 1607-14
|
1607 - 1614 |
packets |
M/L/2/214 |
letter relating to treasure transported to Ireland via Liverpool, 1608
|
1608 |
correspondence |
M/L/2/215 |
letter regarding Chester barque hired by Dublin merchants, 1608
|
1608 |
correspondence barges trade commerce |
M/L/2/232 |
paper relating to English and Scottish passengers to Lough Foyle robbed by pirates, 1610
|
1610 |
piracy crime |
M/L/2/246 |
letter regarding Chester sailor who embezzled goods of Dublin merchant, 1611
|
1611 |
correspondence mariners crime cargo |
M/L/2/321 |
paper relating to ship belonging to Chester mayor seized at Milford Haven on account of it coming from Waterford, 1649
|
1649 |
ownership |
M/L/3/402 |
quarantine restrictions regarding ships from plague-infected places in the United Provinces, 1664
|
1664 |
animals health welfare disease |
M/L/5/1 |
letter from Mayor of Dublin to Mayor of Chester regarding Chester customs and Dublin merchants, 1550
|
1550 |
correspondence commerce trade |
M/L/5/104-5 |
award regarding owner and crew of the Brave relating to damage incurred at the Isles of Scilly, 1593
|
1593 |
ships wrecks |
M/L/5/146a |
paper regarding ships laden with malt from Cambridgeshire offered to Mayor of Chester for sale, 1597
|
1597 |
cargo trade commerce |
M/L/5/30-1 |
report on pirates in Irish Sea, 1581
|
1581 |
piracy |
M/L/5/7 |
letter from Captain at Point of Air regarding impressment of ship for royal service, 1558
|
1558 |
correspondence navy recruitment |
MMP/16 |
collection of papers regarding the transport of 175 men to Dublin, July - September 1616
|
1616 |
shipping cargo |
PE 1865 |
plan of Liverpool Bay, 1858
|
1858 |
ports harbours development |
Q/F |
instructions on indictments for transportation to America, late eighteenth century
|
1750 - 1799 |
shipping |
QAP |
minute book of the Point of Ayr Lighthouse Trust, 1775-1889, with names and particulars of appointed pilots, 1776-1827
|
1775 - 1889 |
|
QRTc/1-15 |
Quarter Sessions contracts for transportations of convicts, 1764-75
|
1764 - 1775 |
shipping cargo criminals |
QSE/3/27 |
examination of Thomas Throckmorton with relation of his part-ownership of a barque carrying letters of marque against Bretons and visit to Poland, 1581
|
1581 |
barges warrants commissions |
QSE/3/60-85 |
examinations of sailors, 1585-8, inc. relating to piracy, the Armada
|
1585 - 1588 |
pirates navy fleet |
QSE/8/28, & 31-2 |
examinations concerning customs charged at Liverpool, 1610
|
1610 |
trade commerce docks |
QSE/9/17 |
examinations concerning piracy at Newfoundland, 1609
|
1609 |
pirates Canada Islands |
QSE/9/36-47 |
misc. examinations relating to customs, 1610, inc. relating to cargoes of herring and on the theft of a boat
|
1610 |
trade commerce crime levies |
S/B/7f/f.125a-b & 127a |
references to wares laden at Chester... |
1539 |
commerce |
S/B/9cf.93 |
note of goods loaded aboard the Trinity of Wicklow, 1549
|
1549 |
trade commerce cargo ships |
SB/1-9 |
Sheriffs' Books, 1422-1559, inc. Chester Customs Entries for goods in named ships [see K.P. Wilson (ed.), Chester Customs Accounts, 1301-1566, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, 1969]
|
1422 - 1969 |
trade commerce |