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Name: Cambridgeshire Archives
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Postal address: Shire Hall
Castle Hill
Town: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Post code: CB3 0AP
Telephone: 01223 699399
Web address: http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/

49 documents found for Cambridgeshire Archives:

Code Description Date Keywords
R105/003 Wisbech Port (addnl): register of merchant ships 1885-1974, transfer register, 1959-1985 and registration papers, 1937-94 1937 - 1994 harbours trade
P76/28/8

letter of Revd H. Lumsdale describing life and work in the Falkland Islands, 1932

1932   travel
P150/3/13

volume compiled by vicar of Swaffham Prior Church of misc. papers including relating to the Berlin, G.E.R. Steamer wrecked off Hook of Holland, 1907

1907   ships wrecks
R70/61

Wisbech crew lists of 94 vessels, 1863-1913

1863 - 1913 shipping
R55/7/127/5-6

two bundles of Tharp estate papers, 1863-5, including invoices for goods shipped to Jamaica, insurance policies, accounts of sales of goods shipped from Jamaica, 1863-5

1863 - 1865 trade commerce West Indies
588/Z.44

tricolour cockade of the captain of the Hercule sent to Lady Cotton, 4 June 1862

1862   navy
R65/5/box 6

misc. papers of the Smith family of Dry Dayton including papers regarding Admiral Sir George King's settlement, 1858-73; bank books of Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 1796-1818; naval papers of Sir Charles Cotton as captain of HMS Mars, 1794-6<

1858 - 1873 navy documents
P126/28/5

drafts of sermons preached by Revd George Whitaker, mid-nineteenth century, including the Canada, Cunard steamship, 1856

1856   religion ships
588/C.177-8

two letters from William King at Plymouth and on the Simla to his family, 18 & 26 July 1854

1854   correspondence navy
R105/099 Whittlesey Wash Commissioners : records 1854-20th cent. 1854 - 1999
R102/062 Port of Wisbech: register of crews engaged 1851 - 1909 harbours mariners
588/O.57

letters and certificate concerning will of Charles Cotton, midshipman on Princess Charlotte, 16 & 22 July 1850

1850   navy death
R37/7.3.20.2c

letter to Thomas Chapman from Gaspard L. Marchet, Newfoundland, regarding conditions there, 1849

1849   mariners
R57/24/18/(b)6

eight letters from Henrietta Collison regarding travel to the continent including Ostend and Corfu, 1845

1845   travel
R57/24/21/1(c)

daily journal of voyage of SS Essex from Portsmouth to Madras, June - September 1841

1841   travel journal
R59/26/2/25

journal of John Candler in Jamaica, 1840

1840   travel
R57/24/25

recommendation of F.C. Herbert for Lieut., appointment as mate on HMS Niagara and commendation for organising port of Sinope, 1839-57

1839 - 1857 navy recruitment
R53/4/210

bill of sale of share in the Mary of King's Lynn, 22 August 1836

            registration

1836   shipping
R81/66

two volumes of registers of Wisbech ships, 1836-54 and transactions register only of ships registered up to 1854, 1855-77

1836 - 1877 shipping
R59/26/2/22

letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler on religious visit to Pacific Islands, 1835-8

1835 - 1838 travel religion
P175/28/2

certificate of Office of Prizes regarding seaman's will, 1834 recruitment

1834  
588/C.117

letter to Admiral Sir Richard Knight from W.H. Hamilton regarding hopes for regaining naval post, 1828

1828   navy correspondence
P148/28/3

receipt by Pay Office for letters of adminstration of John Goodman, late of HMS Spitfire, St Domingo and Anaconda, 1824

1824   navy
P27/1/4

baptisms in parish register of St Clement for sons of Edward Coulson on HM Sloop Albacore, 1812

1812   navy
P25/1/15/7

bastardy bond relating the wife of Samuel Westwood of HMS Defence, 1810

1810   navy
588/C.76

letters from Admiral Rowley to Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 1810

1810   navy correspondance
588/C.77

letters from Admiral Berkeley at Lisbon to Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 1810

1810   navy correspondance
588/C.93-7

 letters to Lady Philadelphia Cotton, 1810-12, regarding naval news, Sir Charles Cotton, Admiral Rowely's death

1810 - 1812 navy correspondance
588/C.73-4

misc. correspondence relating to naval affairs, 1807, 1808

1807 - 1808 navy
588/C.71

letter from Sir Charles Cotton to Lady Cotton with naval news including death of Nelson, 11 November 1805

1805   navy correspondance
588/Z.32

transcript of last letter of Lord Nelson on HMS Victory to Emma Hamilton, 1805

1805   navy correspondence
588/C.116

copy letter from Captain Richard Knight to his father Admiral Sir Richard King, 27 October 1805, with description of battle of Trafalgar

           

1805   correspondence navy war
588/C.115

letter from Lord Nelson on HMS Victory to Sir Charles Cotton regarding appointment for one Gillespie, 1805

1805   correspondence navy
R55/7/128(c)/5

two letters of Caleb Fletcher of Liverpool to John Tharp sen. relating to banking and shipping, 1803-4

1803 - 1804 correspondence trade commerce
R55/7/128(c)/3

letters from James Wareing of Liverpool to John Tharp sen. regarding ships in which Tharp had interests, 1801

1801   trade commerce correspondence
588/Q.4

plan of proposed Wapping Dock and Basin, 1800

1800   ports harbours development
588/C.83

account of Admiral Cornwallis' attack on French ships, 1795

1795   navy
P71/17/1-2

orders to raise a man of Fordham for naval service, 1795 service

1795   navy recruitment
R55/7/124/1-5

shipment books for sugar grown in Jamaica, 1795-1819

1795 - 1819 trade commerce
588/C.64

Admiralty letter of authorisation to Sir Charles Cotton regarding the Hobby Horse, his private rowing boat, with reference to not engaging in smuggling, 13 July 1785

1785   Admiralty smuggling
R55/7/128(a*)

bundle of letters sent to John Tharp in Jamaica, 1777-1804, including shipping accounts from William Miles, 1795, 1798, accounts notice for shipping madeira wine to Jamaica, 1802

1777 - 1804 trade commerce West Indies correspondence
588/C.39

two letters from W. Sandwich at Hinching Brook concerning the appointment of a navy surgeon, 20 September & 5 October 1775

1775   correspondence navy medical
588/O32-47

papers of Sir Charles Cotton, admiral of the White, 1753-1812, including naval orders, 1779-83, log book of the Prince, 1799; misc. papers, 1800-1812; notebook, 1804-7; appointment papers; bundles of misc. papers relating to naval affairs m

1753 - 1812 navy correspondence
R53/7/5/4a

order from R. Rudder to Captain Campden of HMS Gloucester regarding heading convoy to the South Seas, 7 June 1748

1748   navy
L78/77

regarding Nelson Blacklock alias Robert Smith of HMS Deptford, 1736

1736   navy
P135/16/5

reference to Scarborough ships at Kings Lynn, 1732

            ownership

1732   shipping
17/C1

letter from Vice Admiral Sir David Mitchell, 1704

1704   navy correspondance
R55/7/43/7(e)

account of HM ships prepared for war, seventeenth century

1600 - 1699 navy
349/2/19

seal of the office of Admiralty of the borough of King's Lynn courts

  admiralty court