A handlist to resources relating to Black, Asian ...

A handlist to resources relating to Black, Asian & minority ethnic people and communities in Gloucestershire

How to use this handlist .................................................................................................................................................... 4

Parish Register Entries & Bishop Transcripts ................................................................................................................... 5

Published Works ............................................................................................................................................................... 9

Newspapers & Cuttings ................................................................................................................................................... 12

County Council and District Council Records.................................................................................................................. 13

Gaol Registers ................................................................................................................................................................. 15

Records of Local Groups, Associations and Projects ..................................................................................................... 16

Other Documents ............................................................................................................................................................ 19

Records relating to Slavery ............................................................................................................................................. 23

Records relating to BAME communities outside Gloucestershire ................................................................................... 30

Africa ................................................................................................................................................................................ 32

Records relating to Ethiopia ............................................................................................................................................ 32

Asia ................................................................................................................................................................................... 32

Records relating to China and the Chinese Community in Gloucestershire ................................................................... 32

Records relating to India and the Indian community in Gloucestershire ......................................................................... 47

Records relating to Pakistan and the Pakistani Communities in Gloucestershire .......................................................... 87

Records relating to the Philippines .................................................................................................................................. 89

Records relating to Thailand ........................................................................................................................................... 89

Caribbean, West Indies and South America ................................................................................................................. 92

Records relating to Antigua ............................................................................................................................................. 92

Records relating to Argentina .......................................................................................................................................... 96

Records relating to Barbados and residents in Gloucestershire ..................................................................................... 98

Records relating to Jamaica and the Jamaican communities in Gloucestershire ......................................................... 103

Records relating to St Lucia .......................................................................................................................................... 111

Records relating to Trinidad and Tobago ...................................................................................................................... 112

Europe ............................................................................................................................................................................ 114

Records relating to Bulgaria .......................................................................................................................................... 114

Records relating to Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and to Czech Communities in Gloucestershire ............................................................................................................................................................. 115

Records relating to Estonia ........................................................................................................................................... 118

Records relating to Hungary .......................................................................................................................................... 118

Records relating to Latvia .............................................................................................................................................. 122

Records relating to Lithuania ......................................................................................................................................... 123

Records relating to Poland and the Polish Communities in Gloucestershire ................................................................ 124

Records relating to the Ukraine and Ukrainian communities in Gloucestershire .......................................................... 131

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How to use this Handlist

This handllist (or detailed guide) lists the resources held at Gloucestershire Archives concerning the historic county’s Black. Asian and minority ethnic communities, as well as detailing resources held relating to the original home countries of the communities. The main section (from pp.32 onwards) is arranged alphabetically by nationality, and each entry will give the Archives’ document reference number, details of the content of the document, and the covering dates of the document (a rough date will be given if an exact one is not known). The earlier sections of the Handlist are arranged thematically. All the documents listed are available to view at Gloucestershire Archives, and you can find details of the Archives’ opening hours and location, as well as other information that will help you to get the most out of a visit, by following this link. Unless otherwise indicated, the documents are not currently available to view online. Please note that many of the countries that appear in the Handlist experienced long periods of Western involvement, and our holdings include documents which reflect the settlement and activities of Western concerns in these countries. The Handlist includes these documents for the sake of completeness, and the original language is used. The handlist has been compiled by Sarah Aitken and Paul Evans, and was updated by Jenny Rutland in August 2020.

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Parish Register Entries & Bishop Transcripts

Generally the nationality of an individual is not recorded in parish registers. However as there were few Black and Asian people around, race was sometimes noted in early registers. The term “black” might refer to the colour of someone’s skin or it might be a nickname. For example 'Black Samuel Cox' might have been a black man or he might have been a blacksmith or just a man with a ‘black’ temper. A person’s place of birth was also sometimes noted, e.g. “a Barbados merchant” could be black or white. There are also entries of baptism of slaves who were brought to live and work as servants in this country. These types of entries generally stop when formal printed registers were introduced in 1813 (1754 for marriages).

Reference Entry Parish Date

MF511 (Bishops Transcript)

George Bristol ‘a black', was baptised. Awre 3 October 1733

P47 IN 1/1 John Davies ‘ye black’ was buried. [Difficult to be sure that ‘black’ refers to his skin]

Bisley 22 November 1603

P78/3 IN 1/2 Ruth an adult Native of Madras, Ayah in the service of Colonel Rowlandson, was baptised in the Tamil Language. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Cheltenham, Christchurch

26 July 1882

D4290/PP1/1 James Hudson, a Negro aged about 30 years, was baptised. Cheltenham, St Gregory's Roman Catholic Church

16 February 1816

P78/1 IN1/10 Baptised: ‘Samuel son of Saul and Gertrude, surname unknown, natives of Madagascar, slaves.’ You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Cheltenham, St Mary 10 May 1828


Romeo Hamilton, a negro, was buried. Cheltenham: St Mary 21 October 1810


Mingo, a black man, 30 years old, was buried. Cheltenham: St Mary 12 July 1817


Margaret Walden, spinster, a ‘person of coller', was baptised. Cheltenham: St Mary 13 August 1817


Jane Ross was baptised. Parents unknown. An adult, born a household slave at the Cape of Good Hope, now the servant of Major Robertson.

Cheltenham: St Mary 6 August 1831

http://www.ancestry.com/



P86 IN 1/9 Sidh Bisill Mahli, child of Nizam Ull Din and Rasham Bibi Mahli of Badoo-Mahli, Punjaub, India, was baptised. Father's occupation: private gentleman. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Cirencester 21 February 1894

P23 IN 1/3 “Hannah, daughter of Thomas Liston, a Barbados merchant was baptised” [most probably white]

Cold Ashton 4 December 1668

P120 IN 1/1 Jacob the servant of George Hanger Esq ‘a moore’ was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Driffield 5 June 1687

P127 IN 1/17 Ann Johnston, a woman of colour, 35 years old, was buried. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Eastington 29 February 1876

P153 IN 1/3 William Frocester, supposed to be about 11 or 12 yrs old, born on the island of Barbados and now a servant of Edward Bigland Esq. residing in Jamaica, was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Frocester 4 November 1790

P154/11 IN 1/3 Thomas Williams, a negro of the parish of St Mary de Crypt, was buried. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Gloucester, St Mary de Crypt

27 November 1802

P154/14 IN 1/3 Julius Cesar, a black drummer, was buried Gloucester, St Michael 25 February 1795

P154/15 IN 1/2 ‘John Cesar, Mr Vernom’s Black’. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Gloucester, St Nicholas 25 July 1737

P154/15 IN 1/2 ‘John son of Catrna, a black woman belonging to Mr Vernom, base born', was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Gloucester, St Nicholas 19 August 1737

P36 IN 1/2 George Tudor, ‘a native of the Kingdom of Golconda', was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com [Golconda was the former name of Hyderabad.]

Great Barrington 9 September 1705

P166 IN 1/6 Wm Hamlet, son of African parents aged about 16 years as alleged, of Hasfield, servant, was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Hasfield 9 April 1815

P166 IN 1/6 James Austin, son of African parents aged about Thirty years as alleged, of Hasfield, servant, was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Hasfield 21 July 1820












P166 IN 1/6 John Wulledi M'dogo [son of] African parents unknown was baptized. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Hasfield 27 August 1865


‘was bap'zd a Negro by the name of Jno Caesar Hinton.’ Hinton-on-the-Green 27 February 1736/7

P110 IN 1/3 Romiack, a black, was buried. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Littledean 28 July 1782

P217 IN 1/18 Thomas Davis, 'an infirm travelling Black', was buried. 67 years old. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Minchinhampton 20 June 1826

P227 IN 1/4 Thomas Pipes, an East Indian Black, was baptised at Coleford. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Newland 6 February 1788

P234 IN 1/1 Daniel ‘a black stranger’ buried Nympsfield 31 December 1719

P234 IN 1/2 Francis London 'a servant to the Rt.Hon. Lord Ducie supposed to be 17 years of age - a native of Africa' was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Nympsfield 20 June 1773

P272 IN 1/2 ‘William Jubiter – black', was buried. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Rodborough 1 July 1778

P278 IN 1/4 John Coolin, an African brought from ‘Goree’, was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

St Briavels 25 February 1780

P289 IN 1/2 George, a black slave, was baptised. St Briavels 12 August 1736

P320 IN 1/6 Adam John Parker, Negro, 32, was buried. Parish Funeral. [Parish funeral indicates poverty] You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Stroud, St Lawrence 28 February 1786

P320 IN 1/6 ‘A Negroe man age about 40 yrs’ was buried. Stroud, St Lawrence 24 May 1800

P320 IN 1/6 William Ellis, son of Qualquay Assedew, a Negro of Guinea, aged 12 years, was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Stroud, St Lawrence 7 May 1801

P328/1 IN 1/19 Mary Ann Elding, about 40 years old, was buried. ‘a travelling woman, the wife of a man of colour’. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Tetbury, St Mary 10 March 1827












P330 IN 1/5 Susanna Young, late of St Elizabeth, Jamaica, a free woman of colour aged 55 was buried. Died at and brought from Alveston.

Thornbury 5 June 1797

P333/1 IN 1/2 Peter Evans, a negro, was buried. Tidenham 29 January 1800

P333/1 IN 1/2 Dido, a female negro belonging to Sir George Bolton, was buried. Tidenham 24 November 1805


William Gloucester 'a black negroe' was buried. Tidenham 18 October 1776


John Romes 'a black negroe', Charlotte Braithwaite 'a black negroe' & Elizabeth Millington 'a black negroe' were baptised.

Tidenham 24 October 1780

P343 IN 1/1 Peter ‘a black boy of Peter Hancock, Esq' was baptised. You can view this entry online at www.ancestry.com

Twyning 17 April 1767


Published Works

Gloucestershire Archives holds a variety of published items. These include books, pamphlets, reports, notices and brochures. Below are some published materials which relate to the BAME Communities in Gloucestershire. Some were written by local authorities, others by local groups or individuals.

Reference Title Sub Title/Description Author Date

B335/50320GS 1991 Census Atlas of Parishes in Gloucestershire

Statistics on 1991 census including population, ethnic minority, employment and housing.

1991

D12817/1 "A Cat crept out of the Crypt: memories of a Gloucester youth"

Chapter 6 (p100) includes reference to the first black boy to attend Crypt grammar school.

Richard Abraham 1950s-2012

DY13/10843.4GS Slave colonies of Great Britain

Or a picture of negro slavery drawn by the colonists themselves

1825

GAL/G5/35890GS Humanity, a West Indian negro slave 1758-1818

[Gloucestershire historical studies, no. 7, 1976, p. 16-19]

Slave trading as revealed by the Codrington family papers

Margaret Tweedy 1976

GAL/H6/50275GS South Gloucestershire at war

Photograph on page 84 shows the racism in the U.S. army. White servicemen were allocated wooden barracks, whilst the black servicemen were allocated tents. After the departure of the Americans the camp at Ullenwood Court was used by the Polish Army.

Peter Gill 1995

J9.263GS Gloucestershire black mental health project

Leaflet (2000?)


J22.18GS Culture Pie Collection of recipes from Gloucestershire, including those from different ethnic communities: Polish - Afro/Caribbean - Irish - Asian - Chinese - Ukrainian - Scottish - Welsh - with a list of food stores

Lockett, Rob; Cooling, Sharron; producers

1988

JR13.59GS Gloucestershire Ethnic Minority Business Association directory

Ismail Koli, compiler

1993

JR15.65GS Ethnic Minority Achievement Project Event

Pack of assorted papers produced to accompany the Ethnic Minority Achievement Project Event held on Monday 9th July 2001 at City Works.

Gloscat 2001

LR11.12GS Forest of Dean community profile

Tables for population, education, employment, women, minority ethnic people, unemployed people, older workers, social deprivation.

Gloucestershire Labour Market Information Unit

2000

N13.344GS Immigrants in the retail trade

A report by the Gloucester Council for Community Relations

Gloucester Council for Community Relations

(1969?)

NQ13.76GS Immigrant and education conference report

Notes on Education conference held at the Teacher's Centre, Cromwell Street, Gloucester, 18th October 1969.

Gloucester Council for Community Relations

(1969?)

NR12.150GS (Letter to Gloucester Community Relations Council concerning Asian population)

Includes population calculations Charles Watson 31st July 1989

NR13.107GS Roshni Asian Women's Centre

Annual report April 1999 - March 2001 2001


NR30.33GS Survey of black elders living in the city of Gloucester

Group report prepared by Gloucestershire Social Services Department, Gloucestershire Racial Equality Council and Social Services Inspectorate.

M Davies 1991

SA1.17GS Long five years Caribbean elders in Gloucester

Part of the 'Long five years' Project for Black History Month

Text; Gail Johnson, Photographs: Simon Pizzey

1995

SR25/49595GS Everyone's a winner This video has been produced by Gloscat to celebrate the achievements of students and staff from minority ethnic groups in Further Education

Gloscat 2001

N12.716GS Hidden homeless A report of a survey on homelessness and housing among single young blacks in Gloucester

Harry Cowen prepared by Department of Town and Country Planning and Gloucestershire College of Arts & Technology

1982

JR9.167GS It's about trust Race and community relations policy and strategy Gloucestershire Constabulary

March 2000

J11.392GS Saturday school Gloucestershire Afro-Caribbean Association Gloucestershire Afro-Caribbean Association

n.d.

Newspapers & Cuttings

Gloucestershire Archives holds various local newspapers, particularly the Gloucester Journal 1722-1992 and Gloucester Citizen 1876-2005. Newspapers are likely to contain a lot of information about local people, communities, events, groups and places. There is also likely to be a local spin on national or international events. Local newspapers may also contain letters to the editor about local and national issues. For more information about newspapers please see the Newspapers Guide. The following is an example of some articles found by members of staff in old newspapers.

Reference Title Description Date

D10820/C4-1/m Copy of 'London Courier' 14th July 1814 Contains account of a town meeting to protest against possible revival of African slave trade. Cuttings from Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard, 1933, giving background.

1814, 1933

D269C/F15 Book of newspaper cuttings with contemporary index, relating to farming, religion, and events in which Thomas Beale Browne took part; includes copy letters and/or sermons on religion

Includes one describing the habits of the negroes of Barbados; photograph of a Jamaican boy, n.d.

1857 - 1889

Dean Forest Mercury 21/9/84 [held at Cinderford Library]

Charles [Ashume] ' a black servant to Mr George Wyrall who departed this life…aged about 24'.

Gravestone inscription - no reference to colour in parish register.

6 November 1721

Gloucester Journal

Article (inc photo) re baptism of Chinese woman and her baby, Susie Ellen Chong, 3 & a half months (p11)

Page 11 25 March 1930

Gloucester Journal Charles Powell, a lusty, black fellow, said to be born in Monmouth, Ran away the 16th inst. from the service of Mr Viney of the City of Gloucester, with a blue Livery lined with yellow… and a dark brown wig: These are therefore to caution all Gentlemen & others from hiring him…

24 August 1731

County Council and District Council Records


GCC/EDU/3/3/3/4/1 Correspondence and papers concerning the absorption of Ugandan Asians into the educational system

Includes census-type details of Ugandan Asian families settling in Gloucestershire

1972 - 1973

K1090/40-41 Gloucester Council for Community Relations, 1965-1972; 1974-1977

Set up by the City Corporation to promote racial harmony

1965 - 1977

K1359/2 Accident to police patrol car: Austin Westminster 9199 DD at Twigworth (Claim 1963/70)

Includes: references to hard winter of 1962/63, interviews with members of Gloucester's West Indian Community

1963

K1605/1/2 Minutes of the West Indian Action Group Includes copy of the constitution 1987; details concerning the recruitment of black people by the County Council and outside organisations 1988; and information on other Afro Caribbean groups and initiatives within Gloucestershire 1988

1987 - 1988

K1605/1/3 Minutes of the Arts Advisory Group and GAP (Gloucestershire Arts Promoters) meetings

Includes a working party report entitled Àttitudes amongst the Black and Asian Communities to Arts Provisions within the County' 1989

1987 - 1989

K1705/4/33 Statistics concerning immigrant children attending Gloucester City Schools

1968

K1705/4/34 Statistics concerning immigrant children attending Gloucester City Schools

1969

K1927 "Our Untold Stories" project Photographs, sound recordings, background information, exhibition material, publications and other material relating to "Our Untold Stories" project, also referred to as the "Ethnic Minorities History Project".

(1947) - 2005

DC92/5/5 Profile of ethnic minorities in Kingswood Borough Council’s district

Includes population statistics of ethnic groupings for each parish within the district of Kingswood;

and the numbers of residents within each household

1993


DC92/5/6 Profile of census data published by Kingswood Borough Council

Includes details of the resident population within Kingswood;

the age structure of the population;

the birthplace of residents;

the ethnic grouping, economic position and household characteristics of residents;

and migration statistics 1981-1991

1993

DC139/4/4 Files relating to aid provided for Uganda Asians Resettlement. By Gloucester City Council

1972 - 1974

GBR/L/2/3/2/18 Proposed [West Indian] social club: Horton Road

(see also GBR/L/2/3/2/11, GBR/L/2/1/3/1, DC124/19) 1963 - 1965

GBR/L/6/23/B6920 Commonwealth immigrants: “correspondence relating to West Indians and meetings at Guildhall over coloured population”

1955 - 1964

GBR/L/6/23/B7115 Gloucester Council for Community Relations: correspondence about immigrant population and formation of Council

1965 - 1973

GBR/L/6/23/B8740 Immigration and race relations: correspondence about Select Committee and number of immigrant children in city schools

1970

Gaol Registers

Gaol registers are one of the few records which usually specifically noted someone’s race. This was because a physical description of the inmate was needed to identify them before the use of cameras. The records listed below have been indexed by name and therefore very easy to search and identify the entries which refer to BAME people.

Reference Entry Notes Date

Q/GLi 16/5 John Collins, sailor, native of Antigua, aged 19. Two months hard labour for larceny. ‘Left his home 10 yrs ago. Since then has been at sea in a merchant ship...’

24 March 1849

Q/GLi 16/6 Henry Dyson, 20, Antigua; David Hunt, 25, W.Indies; Emmanuel Davidson, 22, W.Indies; all Men of Colour together with James Kear, 24, W.Indies, Mulatto; Mariners; jointly charged with stealing a wooden bottle and a quantity of bread & cheese & cider. Remanded overnight.

6 September 1867

Q/GLi 16/6 William Bailey, pedlar of Pennsylvania, America, blackman. Charged with sleeping rough at Littledean.

20 August 1875

Q/GLi 16/6 John Delen, 35, 'mallotta' [?mulatto] from Calcutta. 7 days imprisonment for drunkenness at Newnham-on-Severn.

12 August 1879

Q/GLi 16/7 Frank Decrews, 34, ‘man of colour’ born at Demerara. Begging at Cinderford (16th) & Drunk & Disorderly at Ruspidge (23rd). 7 day Hard Labour on each count.

16 & 23 September 1886

Q/GLi 16/7 Robert Allen McCall, cook & baker of South Africa, complexion ‘black’. Theft of valuables to value of £6-10s. Committed to Assizes for trial.

Sentenced to 6 months imprisonment.

10 December 1888

Q/GLi 16/7 John Shields ‘American man of colour’ drunk at Cinderford Sentenced to 7 days imprisonment with hard labour.

6 August 1890

Q/GLi 16/8 Henry Mitchell, no fixed abode, black man, aged 62. On remand charged with theft

Sentenced to 1 months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

18 December 1897

Q/GLi 16/8 Tommy Roney, labourer, no fixed abode, a Negro born in Johannesburg. Larceny

Sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour.

6 November 1914

GBR G3/G 3/2 ‘Hassan’ and ‘Milmahomed’. Each described as ‘A man of Culler and cant speak Inglish’. ‘Idle and disorderly Persons… found wandering and gathering Alms in the streets of this city’ [Gloucester].

Imprisoned with hard labour for 3 days each.

8 January 1834

Records of Local Groups, Associations and Projects

Reference Title Description/Notes Dates

D2972/2/14 General correspondence to the Gloucester Trades Council

Topics include opposition to apartheid in South Africa and to racism in Britain, 1976-8

1976 - 1984

D2972/2/6 General correspondence to the Gloucester Trades Council

Topics include opposition to apartheid in South Africa and to racism in Britain, 1973-77

1970 - 1979

D3168/4/13/7/2 Minutes and other papers concerning Gloucestershire Racial Equality Council, 1986-1996

1986 - 1992

D8497 BBC Radio Gloucestershire Interviews, transcripts and programmes made by BBC Radio Gloucestershire for the BBC's millennium oral history project, The Century Speaks

Some items in this collection are closed to the public.

(1898) -1999

D11240 Gloucestershire Inter Faith Action See catalogue for full list of items 1983 - 2005

D12756 Black South West Network Information boards documenting "Back to the Future" project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, 2011

Please note that this collection is not yet listed in detail

2011


D13230/3/34 Audio footage of interview with Fiona Kam Meadley, recorded on 7 July 2011, with photographs taken at the time of the interview, list of interview questions, and text explaining Fiona Kam Meadley's project "The Barton Street Recordings", during which she recorded people from Barton Street speaking various different languages, in 2009

Subjects include: The Barton Street Recordings; intergenerational learning; GARAS; Artshape; Community building and community venues

2011

D15189/1 Church Banned film Thirty minute film created by Fresh Air Foundations (www.freshairfoundations.org/) considering how some members of the West Indian community created their own opportunities for worship after some local congregations proved unwelcoming, and how music has become a key element of their worship

2019

D14522/1 Brexit and Me A recording of an event organised by Naisha Hussain and delivered with guests at the Gloucester History Festival on 10 September 2017

2017


K1927 Gloucestershire County Council: Community & Adult Care: Library Service: "Our Untold Stories" project

The "Our Untold Stories" project was initiated and organised by Black and Minority Ethnic Communities Development Librarian Nasreen Akhtar. The project ran between 2000 and 2003, and aimed to document the history of the African Caribbean, Chinese and Asian communities in Gloucestershire. Multilingual researchers were trained to interview community members and record people's experiences of arriving in Britain and in Gloucestershire as first-generation immigrants in the mid-20th century. Stories were collected from a diverse range of cultures including Chinese, African-Caribbean, Hindu, Muslim, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Sikh, and were published in three books: "Our Untold Stories: the African-Caribbean Community in Gloucestershire"; "Our Untold Stories: the Asian Community in Gloucestershire", and "Our Untold Stories: the Chinese Community in Gloucestershire". Other project outcomes included an exhibition held at Gloucester Museum and a day of celebration centred around each culture

(1947)-2005

Other Documents


Bigland Historical Monuments Part 1 1791

James Long (d. 17 March 1773) and Charles Morson (d. 16 Feb 1776). ‘They were natives of Africa and servants to Sir James Laroche at Over [Over Court, Almondsbury], who caused this stone to be erected.’

Gravestone inscription 17 March 1773

16 February 1776

D149 R38 Testimonial from Richard Raikes supporting the application of John Hart, Writing Master, to the post of master at Bisley Blue Coat School ‘Unfortunately he is a Mulatto, a native of the West Indies…

5 July 1815

D153/1/166 Letter from Nicholas Jackson to his sister, 6 August 1764

[ Jackson family of Sneyd Park, Westbury-on-Trym]

Refers to a black servant (aged 14) whom he has brought home from Bengal

1764

D260 (Coroner's Account)

Samuel Sewer, a black, found dead in Messrs Wilcox & Co glasshouse, 22 February. Verdict: Visitation of God.

Visitation of God = natural causes

24 February 1792

D1245/F2 Correspondence on estate and family matters, accounts, etc., 1788-1811, including letter to "Mr. Peter", negro servant to Sir Geo. Strickland, and lists of women servants at Boynton, 1789 and 1796

1788 - 1811

D1245/F39 2 letters, one from Mrs. Telfair, Mauritius; and printed book by Charles Telfair on Slavery in Mauritius, 1830-1832

1830 - 1832

D2355 Index of Anglo-Indian monumental inscriptions in Gloucestershire

(1783) -1948

D2455/F7/2/2/1 Papers and genealogical notes concerning the history of the Beach, Wither and Bramston families

Includes baptisms, marriages and burials of their servants, including the baptism and burial of "John Othello a black Boy belonging to Mrs Worsley of Hall"

[17th century -20th century]


D2667 Deeds relating to a small estate near Little London inherited by Duncan Thompson Stephens, the son of John Stephens of Churcham (sea-captain) and Mary Thompson, a free quadroon woman of St Elizabeth, Jamaica

According to his niece Beatrice Cunningham, one of the deponents of 1840, Duncan had learned his trade somewhere in the west of England before returning to Jamaica to carry on the trade of saddler at Black River. He died there in 1821.

1814 - 1840

D3921/V/8 In Memoriam: Dr M.L.Bangara 1881-1927. Doctor at Cinderford 1914-27.

1927

D4866/2 Correspondence of F. C. Adey, Honorary Secretary of Cheltenham Council of Churches, relating to assisting Ugandan Asian refugee families in Cheltenham

1972 - 1973

D5102/22/G67

Thomas Bloomsbury 'a Native of Africa and for…55 Years a faithful servant to the late Samuel Richardson Esq.'

Gravestone inscription - no reference to colour in parish register.

7 October 1829

D7979 5/4 Testimonial and subscription for Dr R.N. Nanda at St Briavels c.1923 – c.1945

c.1930

D8831/4/3 Photographs of soldiers outside Leckhampton Court Hospital

Includes 'Dr McAldowie and patients' (four black soldiers shown)

[1915 -1919]

D8832/3/13 Pamphlets and letters about racism held as part of the Cheltenham Council of Churches collection

1978 - 1979

D8832/3/14 Letters and leaflets from the British Council of Churches about subscription and important issues such as racism [see also D8832/1/4 and 3/11]

1978 - 1979


D10674 Cheltenham Rendezvous 'An African's View of Cheltenham': report by Cecilia Obuya, a social worker from Kisumu, Kenya, on a visit to Cheltenham, 1985; 'Community Link', newsletter of National Standing Committee on Overseas Links, 1985

1985

K1927 "Our Untold Stories" project Photographs, sound recordings, background information, exhibition material, publications and other material relating to "Our Untold Stories" project.

(1947) -2005

Q/SO4 1714-24

John Prince ‘a black boy lately bought into England’ was apprenticed to John Trigge, Attorney at Law.

Easter 1715

PS/CH/RA/2/1 [Settlement examination]

Edward Williams: born in the island of Santa Cruiz in the West Indies, and has been in England about 7 years… About 2 years ago was hired by Mr [?Breesnall] who then lived in London for a year at wages of 20 guineas…

November 1820

S154/24/3/5/1 Syllabuses and teaching schemes Includes some notes on teaching children of immigrant families

1964 - 1966

S154/7/1 Gloucester British School: ‘The African black boy has caused considerable commotion in the School, some boys being afraid of him, & others being more bold commenced playing tricks with him, so that Mr C[ox] found some difficulty in keeping the school in order. Having addressed the boys about their conduct towards him, & offered a reward of 2d to any who would give me information of those boys who took his food from him & otherwise played tricks with him, I find order is now restored.’

6 February 1845


Q/Y/5/14 Aliens and overseas visitors registration

[Closed for 75 years from the date of last entry]

The term "aliens" refers to overseas citizens living in or visiting Britain who have been subject to a series of controls since the Aliens Act 1905. Historically citizens of Commonwealth countries have not been Aliens and since the early 1980's citizens of member states of the European Union have not been required to register with the police as Aliens.

The requirement for Aliens to register with the police was introduced under the provisions of the Aliens Restriction Act 1914; it was renewed by the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act 1919 and the Immigration Act 1971. The legislation gave to the government the power to require Aliens to register with the police giving detailed particulars including name, address, marital status, employment or occupation, including employer's name and address, a photograph, and to pay a registration fee. A registered person is required to register changes of address, marital status, nationality, and employment or occupation within seven or eight days of the change. In return the Alien receives a police certificate of registration.

1939 -[c2007]

Records relating to Slavery

Reference Title Notes Date

B246/28984GS Codrington correspondence, 1743-1851 being a study of ... letters from the West Indian islands of Antigua and Barbuda mostly addressed to the Codringtons of Dodington

1951

B507/43894GS

B507/45339GS

B507/47424GS

B507/48031GS

Bristol, Africa and the eighteenth century slave trade to America

Volume 1: 1698-1729

Volume 2: 1730-1745

Volume 3: 1746-1769

Volume 4: 1770-1807

1986

1987

1991

1996

B602/49114GS Slavery obscured the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port

2001

D6/F32 Election and political correspondence to W. H. Hyett, with some draft replies

21) (16 Sept. 1831) From Jn. Partridge of Bowbridge, Stroud

- Advising him to prepare answers to possible questions on slavery and corn laws

22-23) (17 Sept. 1831) Drafts: to Jn. Partridge

- Statement of views on slavery and corn laws

50-51) (21 Sept. 1832) Drafts: to Secretary of Anti Slavery Association

- Refuses to supply him with a statement of his views on abolition of Slavery

68) (28 July 1833) From Hyett to John Partridge

- Re Stroud resolution on West Indian Slavery Bill

1829 - 1838


D6/F37 Draft and fair copy of statement by W. H. Hyett to his Committee of his views on the abolition of slavery

1832

D48/C8 Letters to Capt. H. Huntley from M. Forster concerning war in Africa and the slave trade.

1840 - 1859

D108/M86 Courts Baron and Special Courts: papers mainly lists of jurors, notices summoning jurors, presentments of manorial officials (including presentments of nuisances) and of homage juries, and admissions and surrenders.

Includes: April 1702, presentments by homage jury (appointed to enquire who was the rightful heir to land) that Thos. Webb the eldest son could not appear earlier às taken by a sally man and hath been a slave under the King of Morocco for the space of nine years past'

1693 - 1705

D471/C6 Letters from Fitzhardinge Berkeley concerning colonial slavery, with copy enclosures from Lord Ducie, and draft replies of Col Kingscote

1822 - 1826

D1340 Society of Friends The Society of Friends (Quakers) were involved with the anti-slave trade movement. A number of their records make a reference to their activities. In particular see:

D1340/B2/M5

D1340/B2/M6

D1340/C2/A2

D1388/Box no. 90 Gray v. Stewart, in Chancery: re estate (plantations, slaves, etc.) of Charles Gray, decd., in Tobago; correspondence and copy deeds, including some papers of New York Emigrant Society

1834 - 1836

D1421/18 Mortgage of Rose Hill plantation and slaves, Jamaica, with detailed schedule of slaves and stock, 1826

1801 - 1826


D1548/8/7 Circulars and papers relating to Anti-Slavery society, including copy resolution of Minchinhampton public meeting, 1832

1832 – 1839

D1571/F528 Admiralty instructions for H.M.S. Eclair, including many concerning 1817 treaty with Brazil for suppressing slave trade

1844 - 1846

D1571/F544 Private journal written off west coast of Africa, January-September 1845, including comments on futility of combating smuggling and slave trade with an armed force, description of expedition inland, destroying villages, taking of slave ship and sickness among crew

1845

D1610 Codrington family of Dodington The Codrington family had a large estate in the West Indies. Although most of the records of this portion of the estate are now held by the National Archives of Antigua, a number of documents about visits to the West Indies, slavery and family members’ attitudes to slavery remain at Gloucestershire Archives

D1610/E38a Remarks upon the object of His Royal Highness Prince Albert's prize treatises, in connection with the cause of distress in the West India Colonies and of their impending ruin, under unfair and unequal competition with slave trade

nd [1840s?]

D1610/F43 Diaries of travels of Lady Georgiana Codrington in the West Indies, 1843-44

1843 - 1844

D1610/L5a Papers relating to the estate of Sir Peter Parker called Skerrett's, Antigua

(1787) -1814


D1610/X17 Election papers, including detailed Accounts of election expenses, 1797, 1802, 1807, and Accounts of legal expenses contesting petition against return, 1797-98

1797 - 1812

D2698/3/6 Letters from various correspondents to Benjamin F. Flint, son of Thos. Flint, (1800-69)

Includes letters on the organisation of anti-slavery meeting in Canterbury, 1847

1812 - 1851

D3549/14/1/8 'An account of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa', by Alexander Falconbridge, late surgeon in the African trade, London 1788; 'The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery', Philadelphia 1788

1788

D3549/13 Papers of Granville Sharp (1735-1813), including correspondence

Noted campaigner for the abolition of slavery.

D4432/4/4 Order to sail Brazilian slave ship "Isobel" to St. Helena for adjudication in the Vice-Admiralty courts

1846

D4500/1/1 Manumission for three female slaves of Mercy Dixwell Scott, written by John Lucomb, Esq., churchwarden of St. Michael's parish, Barbados

1805

D4500/1/2 Declaration of Joseph Clarke, witness to the manumission for three female slaves of Mercy Dixwell Scott [see D4500/1/1]

1805

D4500/1/4/1 Papers concerning legal disputes arising from the disposal of the late Joseph Leacock's Barbados estate, Mount Brevitor

Includes: copy inventory and valuation of estate, naming and valuing slaves individually (1818)

1817 - 1830

D4582/6/6 Letter from [James Edward Bowly], Sierra Leone, to his parents describing the dreadful conditions aboard a captured slave schooner

1863


D6528/1 Papers mainly relating to Captain Richard Barlow (d.1827) army officer, 1813-1827

Papers include: 'A Brief View of the Nature and Effects of Negro Slavery, as it exists in the Colonies of Great Britain', 1823 (issued by the Committee of the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions), with critical annotations, 1823; printed notice stating the case against proposed anti-slavery petition from Borough of Tewkesbury, with related newspaper cuttings, 1824

1813 - 1827

D9125/1/11007 Original petitions to W H Hyett, MP, from electors of Stroud and Minchinhampton, requesting him to support Lord Althorp's Bill for the abolition of slavery.

1833

D9228 Lewis family of London and Gloucestershire; Highlands Cottage Charity, Amberley

The collection includes conveyance concerning the sale of slaves (named) in Jamaica ( Rev Jasper F Baillie of Great Rissington, trustee under the will of David Baillie), 1832

Please note that this is part of a collection that is not yet listed in detail

1773 - 1988

D10820/B7-2/e Pamphlet on West India Slavery' - 11th April 1833. By F Horefield

1833

GAL/G5/47189GS Tewkesbury & the abolition of the slave trade Tewkesbury Historical Society bulletin, no. 10, 2001, p. 45 - 51

2001

J5.13GS

To the electors of the Eastern Division of the county of Gloucester

Letter against C. W. Codrington as a prospective MP on the grounds that he was in favour of slavery.

(1834?)

JR1.130GS Heritage & Archaeology Newsletter which includes articles on the history of anti-slavery in South Gloucestershire.

2008


JR22.41GS Inhuman Traffic Resources for Key Stage 2 based on the papers of abolitionist Granville Sharp, co-founder of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Includes information sheets and copies of original documents from Gloucestershire Archives and Stroud Museum Service. With a DVD 'Inhuman Traffic: a virtual exhibition by Gloucestershire Archives to mark 200 years since the abolition of the British slave trade'

2007

P27 IN 1/1 Register of baptisms, marriages and burials for the parish of Aston-sub-Edge

Includes briefs for Protestants in Lithuania 1661; redemption of English captives in Turkish slavery 1670

1539 - 1719

P32 CW 2/1 ‘Gave unto 3 men that came from Barbadus: 8d’

probably white indentured labourers returning to England.

1678

P32 CW 2/1 ‘Gave unto 5 men that had been 3 years in slavery: 1s 8d’

could be black slaves; could be white sailors captured by Barbary pirates & enslaved in N.Africa or Turkey.

1678

P49 IN 4/1 Commonplace book of Rev John Jelf [rector 1728-1778], with some additions [by Rev William Black] c.1800-1825

p34: copy of part of sermon "preached to black slaves"

1732 - 1825

P170 CW 1/1 Churchwardens' accounts and rates Includes reference "Gave unto 14 seamen that were slaves in Turkey" 1698

1698

P216 CW 2/1 Churchwardens' accounts, with a few receipts and other papers

Disbursements: "pd. John Mansdon his father & his Brother being in slavery under the Turcke" 1651

1651

P308 IN 1/1 Register of baptisms, marriages and burials for the parish of Stanway

Includes note of collection to relieve English slaves in Morocco 1700

1700

P311 IN 1/2 Register of baptisms, marriages and burials for the parish of Staverton

including a list of names and amounts for a brief in 1680 towards "captives under the Turkes slaverie”

1680


P320 CW 2/1 Stroud Churchwardens' accounts Includes subscriptions for redemption of Christian slaves from Turks 1670

1670

R66.8GS True and perfect account of the examination, confession, tryal, condemnation, and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John & Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of William Harrison, gent.

Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath happened in the memory of man, sent in a letter (by Sir T. O. of Bourton, in the county of Gloucester, kt. and one of his Majesties justices of the peace) to T. S. dr. of physick in London. Likewise Mr. Harrison's own account, how he was conveyed into Turkey, and there made a slave for above two years; and then his master bought him there, dying, how he made his escape, and what hardship he endured, who at last (through the providence of God) returned to England, while he was supposed to be murder'd; here having been his man-servant arraigned (who falsly impeached his own mother and brother as guilty of the murder of his master) they were all three arraign'd convicted, and executed on Broad-way-hills in Glocester-shier

(1750?)

R293.131GS Reply to Mr. Borthwick's lectures on colonial slavery, delivered at Stroud

Author: Theyer Lawrence Townsend 1832

R293.157GS Stroud versus slavery 2003

RQ293.2GS Mr. Borthwick's orations on slavery, delivered in Stroudwater 5 and 7 Nov. 1832, answered

3 parts [RQ293.2(1)GS, RQ293.2(2)GS and RQ293.2(3)GS]

1832

RX293.9GS Electors of the borough of Stroud ... vote for Scrope

George Poulett Scrope's pre-election poster, putting forward the causes of trade, agriculture and anti-slavery.

1832

Records relating to BAME communities outside Gloucestershire


B314/51375GS Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself

It went through nine editions in his lifetime and helped gain passage of the British Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished the slave trade. This edition published 1995

1789

B654/11634GS Memoir of Thomas Burchell Twenty-two years a missionary in Jamaica 1849

D340a/C32 To and From Capt Francis Reynolds (3rd Lord Ducie of Tortworth, 11 Sep 1785).

10) To his father. Speaks of money affairs and mentions a negro rebellion in the island of Tobago. "Quebec" 10 Jun

11) From the same at Barbados. "Duplicate." Discusses his affairs in Barbados. Then "we hope you will return to us in your Batchelor state, and not be inveigled into Matrimony by some sweet Dowager with large plantations" 4 Jul 1770

Plus others relating to affairs in Barbados

1761 - 1785

D421/X13 Letters from Sir Ralph Woodford, Governor of Trinidad, concerning affairs and customs in Trinidad (with mention of slaves) and Madeira

1804 - 1820

D866/X4 Letter to Obediah Thurston and copy letter to Mrs. Thurston of Awebridge, Hants., from Sir John B. Thurston, Governor of Fiji, concerning family history and describing events in Fiji; newspaper cuttings mainly obituaries of Sir J.B. Thurston 1897 but some relating to events in Fiji and slavery

1895 - 1897


D2455/F7/2/2/1 Papers and genealogical notes concerning the history of the Beach, Wither and Bramston families

Includes baptisms, marriages and burials of their servants, including the baptism and burial of "John Othello a black Boy belonging to Mrs Worsley of Hall"

[17th century -20th century]

D2972/2/31 Southern Africa Coalition south west region: copy minutes, letters from regional secretary, circulars and national publicity material

The Coalition, which consisted of the Trades Union Council, individual trade unions, churches, the Anti-Apartheid Movement and others, was formed to persuade the British Government and other organisations to make what was seen as an effective contribution to the ending of apartheid in South Africa. Mr Cook was the body's local co-ordinator for the Cotswold European Parliament constituency

1989 - 1990

D3549/35/3/1 "A few amusing and interesting documents from the Browne papers"

Include an account book relating to the support by the parish of Uley of an African boy called Granville Sharp, n.d

late 19th cent

Africa Records relating to Ethiopia


D2659/27/53/30 Bath Chronicle and Herald articles concerning Haile Selassie, ex-Emperor of Ethiopia (resident in Bath) and his possible return as the vassal of Italy and the selling of his Bath home

1939

D12638/4 Sermon of Revd Sidney Riggs on the Ethiopian Appeal 27 October 1984

1984

P78/11 IN 4/6/8 Sermons on war in Ethiopia 1936 1936

Asia Records relating to China and the Chinese Community in Gloucestershire


B111/50985GS For love of the Chinese 1989

B335/50319GS Bessie Life of Bessie born 1861 in Wotton St. Mary. It includes her missionary work in China until her death in 1935.

2005

B611/48276GS I ching 1995

Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic

RANFORD, Lance-Corporal, 2nd Gloucesters, Bridge building Photo taken by Lnc.Corp. Ranford Photographed in Tientsin China

1914


D37/1/324 Letter concerning naturalist Mr Forest, and his plant collecting in China and Siam.

1920

D37/1/368 Letter concerning Japanese patent for producing cultured pearls. Mentions letter in Times from Mr Giles of Cambridge about Chinese method of culturing pearls, and alternative Siamese method.

1921

D37/1/423 Letter mentioning Sir Aurel Stein's 5 volume book on "Desert of Cathay" Oxford University Press, 12 guineas. Originally trade route to China and very productive. Discovery of Caves of Thousand Buddhas and secret Treasure House. 2 June 1922

(1922)

D37/1/579 Letter mentioning troubles in China (probably Bolshevist). 19 June1925

1925

D37/1/588 Letter speculating that comments by Chinese and present trouble in China is `largely engineered by Bolshevists'. 21 August 1925

1925

D37/1/600 Letter mentioning present unsettled state of China. References to old Empress of China and Bolshevism making headway in China. 13 November 1925

1925

D37/2/31 Letter mentioning German intrigues with Indian, Indo-chinese and Chinese

1917

D48/C8 Letters mainly to Capt. H. Huntley, R.N. while in the Gambia from his wife Anne mentioning Chinese expedition, etc

1840 - 1859


D48/C9 Letters to Capt. H. Huntley, R.N., some while in the Gambia, concerning the political situation in Africa, Turkey and China

1840 - 1859

D421/T119 Agreement between East India Co. and Wm. Fazakerley and other merchants for the transport of goods to China and their disposal, 1722

1673 - 1725

D540/F71 Personal Diary of Gardner S Bazley Starting at India, China, Japan, USA and Canada, returning home in August

1893

D2455/F3/7/1/2/5 Letters to Lady Lucy Hicks Beach from her son Michael Hugh Hicks Beach during his trip around the world

Written from Mhow (India), Srinagar (Kashmir), Colombo (Ceylon [Sri Lanka]), Jehol (China), Shoji (Japan), Winnipeg and Ottawa (both Canada [See D2455/F3/10/4/1-3 for his diaries of the trip]

1903

D2455/F3/10/4/1 Diary of a trip round the world by Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, volume 1, 10 October 1902-12 October 1903

Michael Hugh set off on his own on 21 February 1903; he then travelled via Ceylon, Singapore, Saigon and Hong Kong to China, where he joined an expedition to Mongolia, entirely by chance: the companion of Mr Russell, the leader of the expedition, was unwell when Michael Hugh arrived in Peking [Beijing] on 18 July, and he decided to replace him, leaving on the expedition on 20 July. On his return in September, he travelled on via Korea to Japan.

1902-1903

D2455/F3/10/4/7 Certificate of identity of Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, issued by the British Consul at Chefoo [now Yantai], China, 10 July 1903

Michael Hugh was travelling on to Port Arthur [now Lushun], Dalny [now Dalian] and Newchwang [now Yingkou]

1903


D2455/F3/10/4/8 Papers concerning Michael Hugh Hicks Beach's journey into Mongolia, July-September 1903

Envelope labelled "Maps of Travels in Korea etc - 1903?" by Lady Lucy Hicks Beach, first Countess St Aldwyn, containing map of China with routes marked "Donaldson Smith 1897" and "C W Campbell's Route 1902"; [Mongolian prayer flag]; map of Mongolia [China and modern Inner Mongolia] showing "Route followed by Messrs Russel & Hicks-beach Aug-Sept 1903", stamped by Royal Geographical Society 25 April 1904 Envelope [addressed to Michael Hugh Hicks Beach at Yokohama] containing letter from Colonel A Wingate [of the Tien-tsin [now Tianjin] Intelligence Department], concerning Michael Hugh Hicks Beach's map of his journey in Mongolia, commenting on its accuracy, 15 September [probably 1903]; note from [C] Russell commenting on cards from various Chinese and Mongolian dignitaries, with translations, 21 September 1903; four cards, three with translations on reverse, giving names of people

1903 - 1904

D2455/F3/10/4/9 Maps showing the route into Mongolia taken by Claud Russell and Michael Hugh Hicks Beach

Comprise: large scale map showing China, Korea, Mongolia and Manchuria, marked to show route from Peking to Tsi-tsi-har; 1 inch: 10 mile scale map showing route from Shih-pien-tze to Hua-Shui, and from Hua-Shui to Tsi-tsi-har

1903

D2455/X4/1/1/39 Letters to Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach from Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

Subjects include affairs in China, 1901; Chinese loans, 1902

1896 - 1916


D2455/X4/1/1/44 Letters to Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach from St John Brodrick and Lord George Hamilton

Hamilton's letters concern Army pay and troops in China

1901 - 1902

D2455/X4/3/1/17 Correspondence and papers concerning matters in China

1: Correspondence concerning the withdrawal of troops from China, 1900-1902 2: Correspondence concerning a loan to the Viceroy of Wuchang, 1900 3: Correspondence and papers concerning a loan to China; Chinese customs; Talienwan and Wei-hai Wei; railway concessions in China; the United States' interests in China, 1896-1899 4: Copies of telegrams concerning threatening situation in China [the Boxer Rebellion] and action to be taken, 1900 With manuscript notes on the contents and subjects of the papers, made by Lady Victoria Hicks Beach, [1920s]

1896 - 1902

D2659/29/3 Notes on tombs and temples The volume is illustrated with colour wash drawings of megalithic monuments and includes notes about tombs and monuments in China (near end)

c. 1845 -1850

D2794/18 Invoices of Spanish stripe cloths to McGlew & Barker shipped to Canton, China

1838

D2972/2/21 United Aid to China Fund and National Council of Labour Help for Russia Fund, 1941-1943

1941 - 1945

D3355/7 Diary of R E Grice-Hutchinson, 1 November 1913-11 June 1914

7 April: Horrible murder in Vancouver. Chinese boy killed his mistress, cut her up and burnt her in the oven! Chinese servants are being sacked by the score! (page 121)

1913 - 1914


D3549/8/1/4 “Chinese printing": specimens sent to Judith Sharp from David Hastings of Northumberland

1757

D3549/27/3/20 Letters marked "interesting, mainly 1920-1924"

Include letter from George Montgomerie, stationed in China 1899 with photographs

1899 - 1924

D3981/28 Diary, June 1900 - April 1901 20 June [Start of new method of setting out "War News" (from S. Africa, China and Ashanti) daily] 5 July War news - China - "Abandoned" Europeans in Peking left to their fate

1900 - 1901

D4018/F13 Miscellaneous Gingell family letters Includes letter from W. R. Gingell of Hankow, China, concerning family matters and hunting, 1859, with printed translation of a Chinese poem

1823 - 1859

D4018/F24 Papers concerning will of W. R. Gingell (Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Hankow in the Empire of China)

1860 - 1882

D4180/4 Scrapbook of First World War events Includes: Chinese declaration of war on Germany; photograph of Chinese soldiers

1917 - 1919

D4500/1/9 Papers belonging to Rashleigh M. Cadwallader, merchant seaman

Include correspondence with his mother while he was in China [See also D4500/4/1 and 4/5]

1882 - 1897

D4500/4/5 Postcards and photographs mainly of places in Gloucestershire

Also includes photographs taken in [China], n.d. [late 19th C.] (2); set of postcards of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai commemorating King's coronation service [?1910] (6);

19th-20th Century?


D4582/5/14 Letter from William N. Cornewall on board the "Encounter", Hong Kong, to his cousin Harriet Whalley, n.d. c.1861/62; letter from George Henry Cornewall to the Whalleys enclosing a copy of a letter received from the "Encounter" describing the circumstances of William's death, 1862 (shot during an engagement against the "rebels" in Ningpo, China)

[1861] -1862

D4791/27/18 Contract between The Purchasing Commission, Kwong-Shiu, Kwong-Kow and Chu-Shiu Railways, Canton, on behalf of the Canton Kowloon Railway, and Messrs. Perrin's (China) Ltd., Hong Kong, on behalf of Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company for the supply of 4 passenger car underframes and bogies, 9 January 1933

1933

D4791/43/4 Cancelled agreement for The British American Trading Company of Tientsin, China, to act as sole agents in North China (manuscript and typed copies), 23 June 1911

1911

D4791/43/5 Agreement for The British American Trading Company of Tientsin, China, to act as agents in North China, Manchuria and Korea, 14 May 1912; with letter of 18 November 1913 terminating the agreement.

1912 -(1923)


D4791/43/9 Agreement for Messrs. Perrins Ltd. of London to act as sole agents for the Republic of China and Manchuria for 3 years from 1 January 1932, 12 December 1931

1931

D6026/6/47 A letter from the missionary W Medhurst in China, 1829

1714 - 1939

D6901 Gloucestershire Chinese Community Group

Development report 1989-1992; survey 1992; Women's Guild and home visiting reports 1993-1994; *newsletters 1994-1996

1989 - 1996

D6901/1 Records of the Gloucestershire Chinese Community Group, founded 1989

(1989)

D6901/1/1 Gloucestershire Chinese Community Group development report

1989 - 1992

D6901/1/2 Survey of social welfare needs of the Chinese Community in Gloucestershire

1992

D6901/1/3 Newsletters (written in Chinese) of the Gloucestershire Chinese Community Group

1994 - 1995

D6901/1/3/1 Newsletter (written in Chinese), July 1994

D6901/1/3/2 Newsletter (written in Chinese), December

1994

D6901/1/3/3 Newsletter (written in Chinese), February 1995

D6901/1/3/4 Newsletter (written in Chinese), June 1995

D6901/1/3/5 Newsletter (written in Chinese), November

1995

D6901/2 Records of Gloucestershire Chinese Women's Guild


D6901/2/4 Home visit advice service report Contains introduction on the development and role of the home visit advice service; confidential notes on members of Chinese community visited by Guild volunteers

1994

D6977/1/1 Collection of "certain papers of interest which throw light on the history of the firm" begun in 1951

Reminiscences of a former British governor of a Chinese province, 1877

1853 - 1955

D7338/8/2/9 (part) Press cutting South China Morning Post, 05 August1964: 1964

D7338/8/2/13 (part) Press cutting Fielding and Platt leaflet in Chinese, undated [1970]

[1970]

D8451/7/2/21 Letters from George Yeh [exiled Foreign Minister in Formosa, China]

1930 - 1960

D10423/Box 46/1 Articles on "China and Japan" by George Frederick Seward

c.1880

D10423/Box 46/9 Extracts from the Century Magazine: "In the City of Canton, How the Chinese Work and Live" by Hezekiah Butterworth, November 1894 and "Scenes in Canton, the Punishment of Criminals, and the River Population", January 1895

1894 - 1895

D10423/Box 46/11 Harper's Magazine extracts: "The Philosophy of Chinese" by John Heard, Jun

c.1890

D10423/Box 46/14 Extract from the Century Magazine: "In the City of Canton, How the Chinese Work and Live" by Hezekiah Butterworth, (14 pages), November 1894

1894


D10423/Box 46/21 Magazine extract: "The Truth about the Chinese Emperor" by Pashin Kin (4 pages), March 1899

1899

D10423/Box 46/32 Extract from Naval and Military Magazine: "Chinese Invasions of India" by Cainos (10 pages), March 1899

1899

D10423/Box 46/35 Extract from the Century Magazine: "Through Eastern Tibet and Central China" by W Woodville Rockhill (12 pages), March 1891

1891

D10423/Box 46/36 Magazine extract: "A Journey to the Sacred Mountain of Siao-Outai-Shan in China" (2 pages, no author), undated

c.1891

D10423/Box 46/47 Extract from Harper's New Monthly Magaazine: "A Collection of Chinese Porcelains" (8 pages, no author), April 1885

1885

D10423/Box 46/50 Magazine extract: "Through Eastern Tibet and Central China" by W Woodville Rockhill (11 pages), undated

c.1890

D10423/Box 46/52 Extract from Cosmopolitan Magazine: "China and Japan" by George Frederick Seward (6 pages), April 1895

1895

D10423/Box 46/58 Extract from the Century Magazine: "Summer Splendour of the Chinese Court" by Minnie Norton Wood, (12 pages), August 1902

1902

D10423/Box 46/60 Magazine extract: "The Border Land of China" by W Woodville Rockhill (16 pages), December 1890

1890


D10423/Box 46/62 Extract from the World Wide Magazine: "Queer Sights in China" by Arthur E Swinton (8 pages), April 1898

1898

D10423/Box 46/72 Magazine extract: "The Border Land of China" by W Woodville Rockhill (16 pages), December 1890

1890

D10828/1/1/16 Letters from Gerald Bullett Includes a recommendation of ' Chinese Lyrics', translated by Ch'in Ta - Kao (Cambridge University Press), August 1937

1936 - 1951

D12789/1/43/1 Records relating to Clarence Hack as chief sales engineer: includes report on a sales visit to China in 1974

1974

D13099/5/2 Letter mentioning unsettled affairs with China

1875

D13099/5/2 Letter believing there is no chance of a war as China and Burma have ‘given in’

1875

D13099/7/9 Letter written from HMS Caesar, Trieste Mentions China 13 July [1900]

D13099/10/2 Letter written from Winburg Mentions situation in China 18 July 1900

D13099/10/2 Letter written from Winburg, Orange River Colony

Mentions situation with Chinese 10th July 1900

D13230/2/4 Photographs, copy of presentation by the Anglo Asian Cultural Centre, and videos of presentations, from the Barton and Tredworth Memory Fair held on 18 June 2011, with publicity material and other supporting documents

2011


D13230/3/11 Audio footage of interview with Lily Chen, Kam and Michelle, recorded on 17 August 2011, with photographs taken at the time of the interview at the Anglo Asian Cultural Centre in the former All Saints’ Church

Subjects include: Kam's arrival from Hong Kong; first impressions of Gloucester; opening of Anglo Asian Cultural Centre; Story of the Dragon Boat; History of the Lantern Festival; Chinese and Western Culture

2011

DC83 Cheltenham Borough Council Cheltenham Borough Council: Reports concerning council delegation visits to Russia and China, 1998

(1998)

IP/48386GS Gloucestershire Connections First edition published in April 1992. Gloucestershire Connections is a free magazine listing workshops, courses, talks, and regular events related to health, healing, spirituality and personal growth. Also includes a directory of practioners and therapists - acupuncture, Alexander Technique, Allergy testing/therapy, animal reiki healing, aromatherapy, astrology, Bowen therapy technique, Chinese herbal medicine, chiropractic, counselling, cranial osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, crystal healing, feng shui, floatation, geopathic stress, holistic career counselling, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, I Ching, indian head massage, kinesiology, massage, meditation, Metamorphic Technique, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, nutritional therapy, osteopathy, psychic counselling, psychotherapy, relexology, reiki training, relationship coaching, shiatsu, spiritual healing, stress management, tarot, weight management, yoga

1992 - 2005


J15.97GS Mandarin, millennium language By Robert Anthony and Helena Yanfang Hicks and Wu Na

c.2002

J22.18GS Culture Pie, Collection of recipes from Gloucestershire, including those from different ethnic communities, including Chinese

Produced by Rob Lockett & Sharron Cooling 1988

JR9.170GS Review of services for the Black, Asian and Chinese communities

Include survey (1995)

JR11.95GS Development report of the Gloucestershire Chinese Community Group

Includes illustrations, some portraits. Compiled by Mew Ning Chan-Edmead

1992

JR22.99GS Engage 2007, celebrating culture and life in South Gloucestershire

The Engage 2007 festival was held in South Gloucestershire and featured 40 live performances, 250 performers, Indian, Mediterranean, Chinese and British food, have-a-go workshops, youth and environmental activities and 60 interactive and information stalls. With a DVD of the performances

2007

K1927/2/3 "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire" by Vera Li and Yee Lin Weller

2001

K1927/3/3/1 Exhibition panels: introduction and header boards for "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire" exhibition

c.2001


K1927/3/3/2 Exhibition panel: introduction to "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire" exhibition and text describing the arrival in the UK of members of the Chinese community

c.2001

K1927/3/3/3 Exhibition panel: text describing the arrival of members of the Chinese community in Gloucestershire, and the Chinese population at the end of the 20th century

c.2001

K1927/3/3/4 Exhibition panel: text describing Chinese festivals and Chinese New Year celebrations, with photograph

c.2001

K1927/3/3/6 Exhibition panel: text describing the Chinese community, with photograph

c.2001

K1927/3/3/7 Exhibition panel: text and photographs about the two authors of "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire", Vera Li and Yee Lin Weller

c.2001

K1927/3/3/12 Exhibition panel: photograph of Yee Lin Weller, co-author of "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire", with brief caption

c.2001

K1927/3/3/13 Exhibition panel: photograph of Vera Li, co-author of "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire", with brief caption

c.2001


K1927/4/3 Photographs of events marking the launch of "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire" and Chinese Day, 26 February 2003

Include photographs of exhibition mounted in Gloucester City Museum and celebrations in Gloucester Library

2003

K1927/5/3/1 Interview with Kum Ming Yeung, used in "Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire"

1 microcassette c.2001

N12.657GS Barton Street facelift scheme Text in English, Gujarati, Chinese, Hindi and Urdu.

1992?

N26.9GS Gloucester almanack for 1851 Include: Mr Fortune's adventure in China on his way to the tea district - reports on tea trials

1851

P2.139GS Gospel triumphs in inland China Address delivered in the Walker Memorial Church, Whaddon Lane, Cheltenham on February 15th, 1925. Mr Easton worked with the China Inland Mission which was founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The mission continues today as the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Reprinted edition with an explanatory note is by Jonathan Hunt

2009

P149/MI/7/3 Parish Magazines February issue includes an extract of a letter from China

1863

P154/7/MI/1/65 Parish Magazines S. Catharine's Parish Magazine. Contains in June edition, leaflet 'The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society - In China Today'.

1938

P154/7/MI/1/125 Outlook - St. Catharine's, Gloucester. Contains in March edition, invitation from Church Missionary Society (CMS), to an evening of sharing experiences of a visit to Chinese Republic and Hong Kong

January -December 1998


P329/1 IN 4/2/1 The Tewkesbury Parochial Magazine Bound volumes for each year Include letters from missions in Southern Africa, Northern China, Queensland and Western Canada

1888 - 1929

P345 IN 4/7 Letter concerning donation to Archbishop's appeal for the Church in China

[1945 -1961]

S1.13GS, S1.14GS, S1.15GS

Our Untold Stories, the Chinese community in Gloucestershire

Compiled by Vera Li and Yee Lin Weller 2001

S23/2 Log Book Entries include page 33: money raised for Aid to China Fund, 1944

1940 - 1964

S343/1/3 Log Book Includes note of visit by Chinese national who gave address on China to the children, 1925

1924 - 1974

VB11.9GS Chinese acrobats 1975

VF17.4GS Some aboriginal tribes of south-eastern China

1929

35771GS Nona Ransom Concerns Nona Ransom, living in Brockweir, who taught in China in the 1930s and 1940s

1962

There are many other references to China in our online catalogue (https://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/CalmView/)

Records relating to India and the Indian community in Gloucestershire


B166/52332GS Gloucestershire Historical Studies Volume 1a - The correspondence of C. G. Ducarel in the service of the East India Company 1764-1784

1966 - 1970


B203/6365GS Manual of British government in India, by E R Humphreys

1857

B322/45200GS Collection of papers relating to Captain Martin's case, printed by J Roberts

Appeal for a living following injury sustained in India resulting in blindness, circa 1805

1824

B523/16724GS Sir William Wedderburn and the Indian reform movement, by S K Ratcliffe

1923

B601/48567GS Victorian Legacy by Stanley Rudman Profile of the cosmopolitan Victorian congregation of Christ Church, Cheltenham, with its connections with India and the East India company. Includes transcripts of the memorials

1998

B623/5599GS Food grains of India, by Sir A H Church 1886

B652/38643GS Gloucestershire in the eighteenth century Studies in local historical records. Includes The correspondence of C. G. Ducarel in the service of the East India Company 1764-1784

1965 - 1966

B670/15176GS Life of John Thomas, surgeon of the Earl of Oxford East Indiaman, and first Baptist missionary to Bengal, by C B Lewis

1873

C/CC/V4/1/10 Visit of President Radhakrishnan of India to Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

One file 1963

Clifford/336 Sporting Memories, My life as Gloucestershire County Cricketer, rugby and hockey player, and member of Indian Police service, by Major W Troup

1924

Cotswold Life, February 1984

Photograph of Clara Burton photographed in Madras, India, 8th July 1879

Born in India, lived in Charlton Kings 1879

D6/F72 Letters to Mrs. Hyett (formerly Miss Anne Jane Biscoe) from brother John Seymour Biscoe in India

1821 - 1822


D6/F88 Correspondence from James P. Basevi of the Royal Engineers to Mary (C. Hyett), mainly from India, describing incidents in the Mutiny

1854 - 1857

D6/F167/5 Letters from Francis Hyett’s daughter Lucy written from the Soldiers House, Rawal [India], 1916-1917

1916 - 1917

D6/F168/2 Obituary of Captain James Palladio Basevi superintendent of trigonometrical survey of India

1871

D6/F173/1 Letters from Sebastian Dickinson’s grandmother to his father in India discussing `Sib's' future career, 1820-1840; letters from Sebastian to his grandmother sent from Bombay, 1840 onwards

1820 – 1840s

D6/F173/2 Letters to Sebastian Dickinson, mainly from members of his family whilst in India, notably his mother, father and sister Fanny

Other family correspondents include his elder brother Thomas Malcolm, a soldier with 14th Regiment, Native Infantry in India

c.1827 – c.1880

D6/F176/5 Notebook of Minnie Elizabeth Dickinson containing reminiscences of her mother's childhood in India

20th century


D6/F181/1 Typescript copies of official correspondence to and from General Sir Richard Meade whilst serving as a British government official in India

The correspondence was originally organised into 7 files, marked A-G, only two of which survive: `B' marked `Mutiny Papers' and `F' marked `Baroda' Found loose: letter to Marquis of Salisbury signed by various people asking for Col. Meade to be able to remain at Hyderabad [after his retirement?], 1878; copy of letter by S. Lytton concerning Sir Richard Meade's resignation, with letter of support from Lytton concerning Meade's conduct during Sir Salar Jung's "intrigues", 1887

(1857) -c.1896

D6/F181/3 Copies of The Times newspaper containing articles concerning Indian mutiny

1857

D6/F181/4 Sir Robert Sanderson and the Indian frontier policy. By Thomas Thornton

1895

D36/F33 Journal of Eliza Dickinson, July-November 1836

Chiefly contains details of social life of the English community in India

1836

D36/F42 Journal of Lieut. Francis Wemyss, January 1836-March 1837

Relates chiefly to army life in India, including sport

1836 - 1837

D36/F44 Journal of Lieut. Francis Wemyss, June-October 1839

Contains more general observations on conditions in India. Possibly kept for his wife to read

1839

D36/F46 Letters to Lieut, later Major, Frank Wemyss, at Chatham, Gloucester, and Poonah and Bombay, India

1829 - 1843

D36/F47 Letters to Mrs. Eliza Wemyss (nee Dickinson) wife of Lieut. Frank Wemyss, at various addresses, chiefly in Bombay, India, Stroud and Mitcheldean

1837 - 1856


D36/F50 Household accounts of Mrs. Eliza Wemyss in India and Gloucestershire (brief)

1843 - 1847

D37/1/21 Letter mentioning irregularly of Indian mails. Maynard Colchester-Wemyss' second son Jock sailing as adjutant and paymaster with `sealed orders' with Indian expedition

1914

D37/1/23 Letter mentioning conveyance of some 70,000 Indian troops from Karachi to Marseilles. Meeting of Indian contingent and Territorial troops sailing eastwards in Mediterranean - some 70 ships

1914

D37/1/29 Letter of Maynard Colchester-Wemyss mentioning that his son Jock is with Indian contingent of 15,000 in German East Africa, 11 November 1914

1914

D37/1/47 Letter mentioning heavy losses at Neuve Chapelle. Indian regiments lost nearly all officers, 25 March 1915

1915

D37/1/100 Story of German missionaries in India and their demand of Sir Edward Grey for safe conduct home

1916

D37/1/150 Account of Henrietta Davies' travels overland from India through Persia (see also D37/1/599)

19th C

D37/1/260 Letter mentioning unrest in Egypt and India, possibly being manipulated by Germany or Bolshevism

1919


D37/1/377 Letter mentioning wheat crops in `black soil' of India

1921

D37/1/392 Letter mentioning book about contemporary Indian Christian mystic Sahu Sundar Singh. 25 October 1921

1921

D37/1/399 Death of Roose-Keppel, whose career was associated with North West frontier of India

1921

D37/1/430 Story of a non-cooperative elephant at London Zoo. Professional mahout from India effected remarkable success

1922

D37/1/556 Letter mentioning wheat consumption in India is increasing

1925

D37/1/599 Anecdote of an aunt who, 100 years ago, rode side-saddle from India to Baghdad (see also D37/1/150)

1925

D37/2/57 Letter mentioning German support for Indian nationalists. 2 January1925

1925

D149/F18 Letter concerning cloth purchases of E. India Co

1720

D149/F114 Clothier’s letter book mentioning sales (chiefly to East India and Levant Cos.) and prices

1768 - 1791

D153/1/114 Letter from Nicholas Jackson junior, in Bengal, to Nicholas Jackson (his father), 12 December 1750. Includes an account of his journeys

1750

D153/1/130 Letter referring to war with French in India 1758


D153/1/166 Letter from Nicholas Jackson to his sister, 6 August 1764, referring to a black servant (aged 14) whom he has brought home from Bengal

1764

D245/V/9 Copy will (1848) and details of career of John Gwennap Hume, Major in the East India Co.'s 10th Regiment of Native Infantry, of Thornbury

19th C

D245/V/10 Obituary of Gen. Thos. Taylor, Col. of the 5th Bengal Light Infantry, n.d. [c.1860]

nd [c.1860]

D245/V/21 Circularized copy letter to Mrs Colonel Mactier, Calcutta, containing an account of the massacre of English soldiers and families after the seige of Futtehghur [Fatehgarh], India

1857

D421/X15 Letters re places (? as writers) in the East India Co.'s settlements in India and the Cape of Good Hope, 1822-4, with a report on Indian affairs from a correspondent in Bangalore, 1821

1821 - 1824

D460/Z3 Letters to Chas. Harrison concerning appeal for aid from widow of Indian bearer (Harrison served as Postmaster General in the Indian Civil Service)

1930

D540/F70 Personal diary, including trip to India 1892

D540/F71 Personal diary of trip starting in India 1893

D678/1/F16/1/23-24 News from Charles Dutton in India, 30 March 1875

1875


D678/1/F16/1/58 Letter from Charles Dutton, Nynee Tal, India; social; India is very jolly in the winter; Agra durbar for the Duke of Edinburgh will surpass anything of the sort seen before; has passed exam in Hindustani, which equips him for a staff position

1869

D678/1/F18/2/4-5 Indian Photograph album, 1866-80, and 'The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, held on 1st January 1877', by J. Talboys Wheeler (London)

1866 - 1880

D855/E7 Copy letter relating to an estate near Calcutta, India

1806

D866/F30 Letter to Miss Lawrence of Broadway, Worcs. from E. Johns describing life on a military station near Calcutta, India and the journey there from England

1825

D873/C14 Letters and a few papers relating to the failure of Leckie and Co., Bombay (India) and its effect on Rimington, Cartwright and Co., coffee importers

Some letters from Hen. Durance Cartwright in Bombay on financial position there

1865 - 1866

D873/C20 Letters to parents from son, chiefly while on travels abroad for health reasons

Including letters from India 1855 - 1860

D1086/F181 Letters from brother, on campaign in India 1846

D1086/F188 Journal of voyage to India, as Lieut. Col. of 82nd Regiment on H.M.S. Adventure, 20 May - 20 Nov. 1857, including brief account of military expedition made on arrival

1857 - 1860


D1086/F189 Letters to Lieut. Col. Hale from army headquarters during campaign in India, with press cuttings

Includes information on progress of war and other military details

1858 - 1859

D1245/FF33 Letter book of John Freeman of Fawley Court to his brother Thomas Cook of Fort St. George and Calcutta, and to others, re his interests in East India trade and family affairs, 1717-1742

1717 - 1742

D1245/FF43 Letter to Mrs Freeman about necklace from India

1818

D1340/A1/M5 Note of religious visits, Russell Jeffrey of Cheltenham, to India

1862

D1571/F459 News cuttings from English, Indian and Maltese papers concerning the expedition to navigate the Euphrates and establish route from Mediterranean to India and cuttings and extracts from 'Bombay Courier' concerning expedition and merits of the Euphrates and Red Sea routes to India

1835 – 1838

D1571/F464 Printed parliamentary paper including letters and despatches to India Board, 1835-8 and abstract of expedition (as entry above) expenses

1838

D1578/6/2/2 Marriage settlement of J N Bullen and Louisa C Ilbery, both of Calcutta, India

1856

D1610/C106 Letter from Captain Charles B Codrington written while in India with the army, describing the shooting

1836


D2025 Williams family of Dacca (India): accounts and letter books 1781-1795; correspondence 1788-1822; letters from Warren Hastings on Indian affairs, 1819-1832

1781 - 1832

D2079/II/8/F38 Letter addressed to "My Dear Tom" [? T.B. Woodman] describing events in India

1791

D2091/F7 Letters from James and Gustavus Ducarel to their uncle

3. 5 Oct. 1765, Madras: from James. Studying fortification and language on voyage. The Company flourishing. English residents `secret' towards newcomers. 4. 14 Sept. 1767, Allahabad: from James. Country tranquil under Clive's reforms. Describes action against a fort in the Decan. `Rapid Fortunes are now totally at an end'. 5. 4 Jan. 1771, Purnea : from Gustavus. Reports death of James. His house at Purnea and proposed tour towards Bhutan. Severe famine. 6. 12 Oct. 1783, Burdwan : from Gustavus. Expects to leave in December. The Peace has saved the Company's possessions

1765 - 1783


D2091/F9 Letters from James Ducarel on board ship and in India, to his mother, sisters and others

7. 3 Nov. 1766, Allahabad: to brother G.G. Ducarel. Specimen of his handwriting [after he had lost his right arm when in command of troops accompanying the Mogul; he later was removed from this command when additional troops were sent]. 8. 3 Oct. 1767, Allahabad. Hopes to be restored to a command by Verelst, on Clive's recommendation. 9. 5 Sept. 1768, Benares. After being passed over for promotion has asked Clive for his help to appointment as Perpetual Resident with the Nabob of Oudh 10. 11 March 1769, Allahabad. Verelst had refused promotion. Considered return to England. 11. 14 March 1769, Allahabad: to uncle, Dr. A.C. Ducarel at London. Describes his life at Allahabad. 12. 29 Sept. 1769, Calcutta. Blames enmity of Verelst against Clive for his lack of promotion. His brother was supervising collection of revenue of Purnea.

1766 - 1769

D2091/F10 Letters from Gerard Gustavus Ducarel, mostly to his mother, including 16 March 1765, Portsmouth. Stresses importance of not offending Lady Clive since Clive could "make our fortunes or ruin us in Bengal". Despite ill-health his mother must go to London to vote for Clive in the Company elections.

1765


D2091/F11 Letters from Gerard Gustavus Ducarel, mostly to his mother, written from India

1. 6 Oct. 1765, Fort St. George. Safe arrival after good voyage on which he and his brother James had studied Indian history, language, and military affairs. The Company prospering. Description of Madras. 2. 30 Dec. 1765, Calcutta. Had dined with Clive, and been appointed deputy Paymaster to the Army at Monghir. Clive had recommended James for a command of sepoys. Describes his house and servants, Calcutta, and peace celebrations. 3. [Feb. 1766, near Monghir]. Detailed description of journey from Calcutta. 4. 24 Jan. 1767, Calcutta. Appointment by Clive as Cash Keeper to his successor Verelst. Clive had given him a gratuity of £500. 5. 18 March 1767, Calcutta. His continuing progress. His brother [who had lost his arm] attended by a Danish surgeon [Peter Flor of Bergen, Norway]. 6. 12 April 1767, Calcutta. Description of Bengal and Behar. Company policy to balance power between Indian states. Criticises English political interference. 7. 18 Sept. 1767, Moorshedabad. His brother's military success in taking the fort of "a refractory mountain Rajah". His own appointment as Persian Translator at the Durbar under the Resident, Sykes. 8. 6 Dec. 1767, Moorshedabad. Describes tour with Sykes to settle revenues. Agrees with his mother against marrying an Indian, but praises Sykes's Indian wife. 9. 4 Feb. 1768, Calcutta. Satisfaction at Company election, but feels well enough established to survive changes. Fears Parliamentary interference. 10. 29 March 1768, Calcutta. Description of journey to Moorshedabad, and use of servants. 11. 25 March 1769, Moorshedabad. Sykes replaced by Becker, and hopes Verelst will be succeded as Governor by Cartier. Will be writing to Clive to inform him of Indian affairs. 12. 1 Dec. 1769, Moorshedabad: to his sister Maria, who had just gone to live with Clive's family. His appointment and duties as "Supravisor" at Purnea. Characters of Verelst and General Smith. 13. 1 Dec. 1769, Moorshedabad: to [Robt. Sutton, husband of his sister Elizabeth]. Critical of changes within the East India Company. His duties and reforming aims as Supravisor at Purnea. 14. 15 Dec. 1769, Moorshedabad. Changes feared from new Directors in April.

1765 - 1769


D2091/F14 Letters to G.G. Ducarel at Exmouth (England) from India, 1784-1789

1784 - 1789

D2091/F15 Letters from J.B. Esteve, Ducarel's attorney in India, to G.G. Ducarel at Exmouth (England)

1. 15 Aug. 1794, at Dacca : death of Mirza Caym Beg at Patna in April and arrangements for his son to keep the management of the altumghaw. He and Redfearn, Junior Judge of the Dacca Division, preparing to leave India. Salaries no longer paid in paper money. 2. 25 July 1796, at Dacca; claims against Messrs. Chiswell's merchant bank of Muilman & Co., which had failed. 3. 12 May 1797, at Dacca; claims against Messrs. Muilman's merchant bank. 4. 20 July 1797, at Dacca: claims against Muilman's bank. News of Ducarel's friends, threat of war with Zemann Shaw. Failure of indigo manufacture. Bad trade and credit facilities. 5. 15 Aug. 1797, at Dacca: claims against Muilman's bank. 6. 22 Sept. 1797, at Dacca: claims against Muilman's bank, war in Europe and news of Ducarel's friends. 7. 22 Jan. 1798, at Calcutta: Sir John Shore hoping to sail for England after settling affairs in Lucknow ; he would try to find a salaried post for Mirza Caym Beg's son. Desire for peace in Europe to restore credit facilities. Intends to return to England, partly to settle affairs with Muilman's bank. 8. 13 Feb. 1798, at Calcutta: despatch of cloth to Ducarel. Court revolution in Lucknow. Hopes to sail for England soon. Encloses his account with Ducarel

1794 - 1798


D2091/A4 Insurance policies on merchandise shipped from India to Europe in French and Danish ships, 1778, 1781

1778 - 1781

D2091/A5 Bills of exchange drawn on the Danish East India Company, with related papers

1780 - 1787

D2091/X4 Letter book of G.G. Ducarel as commissioner at Burdwan

Contains copies of out-letters, bills of exchange, demands for commission on Burdwan revenue, and requests for settlement of debts especially after March 1783

1782 - 1783

D2091/X5 Letter book of G.G. Ducarel as commissioner at Burdwan and Calcutta

Contains copies of out-letters, bills of exchange, demands for commission on Burdwan revenue, and requests for settlement of debts especially after March 1783

1782 - 1783

D2355/1 Index of Anglo-Indian monumental inscriptions in Gloucestershire (1783)-1948, compiled by Brigadier H Bullock

Chiefly in or near Cheltenham, but including Gloucester and parishes throughout the county, and a few in Worcestershire and Wiltshire At beginning: index of personal names A-G only, and incomplete list of graveyards visited

(1783) - 1948

D2455/F3/6/4/19 Diary of Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach during a visit to Egypt, Sudan, India and Ceylon

Includes itinerary of the Indian part of the trip, January-February 1903 [the itinerary is dated 1902 but this is clearly a mistake], mentioning places visited including the Golden Temple, Warren Hastings' house, and the zoo and botanical gardens at Calcutta

1903

D2455/F3/6/4/20 Bills of Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach and Lady Lucy Hicks Beach, while travelling in India and Ceylon

Include hotel and other bills at Bombay [Mumbai], Delhi, Lahore [now in Pakistan], Agra, Lucknow, Benares [Varanasi], Tanjore [Thanjavur] and Trichinopoly [Tiruchchirapalli] (all India), Colombo, Kandy, Newera Eliya [Nuwara Eliya], Hatton, (all Ceylon)

1903


D2455/F3/7/1/2/5 Letters to Lady Lucy Hicks Beach from her son Michael Hugh Hicks Beach during his trip around the world

Include from from Mhow (India), Srinagar (Kashmir), Colombo (Ceylon)

1903

D2455/F3/7/1/3/10 Letters to Lady Lucy Hicks Beach from her daughters Susan and Victoria Hicks Beach, written during a tour of Ceylon and India, 11 November 1905-14 October 1906

Written from Kandy, Colombo and Guindy (all Ceylon), Madras, Kirkee, Delhi, Agra, Umballa, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Murree, Tronkol, Islamabad, Srinagar and Gulmerg (all India)

1905 - 1906

D2455/F3/7/1/3/17 Letters to Lady Lucy Hicks Beach, Viscountess St Aldwyn, from her daughter Susan Hicks Beach and the Duchess d'Aosta, 17 October 1913-9 June 1914

1913 – 1914

D2455/F3/11/1/3 Letters to Victoria Hicks Beach from her sister Susan Hicks Beach on hunting expeditions in India and Ceylon, 1913-1914, with the Duchesse d'Aosta

1913 - 1914

D2455/F3/11/2/1 Diary of Susan Hicks Beach on a trip to India, December 1902-May 1903

The diary includes a description of the Coronation Durbar in Delhi, held at the beginning of 1903 to mark the coronation of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

1903 - 1904

D2455/F3/11/2/2 Diary of Susan Hicks Beach on a trip to Singapore, returning via Ceylon and India, 19 August 1905-1 October 1906

1905 - 1906

D2455/F3/11/2/3 Diary of Victoria Hicks Beach on a tour of India, 20 July-4 August [1906]

1906

D2455/F4/3/3/5 Letter to [Margaret Caroline Clevland] from Archibald William Hicks Beach [Caroline's son], stationed in India [on military service]

1881


D2455/F8/5/3 Notebooks containing notes on military, naval, American and Indian history, owner unknown

undated, [mid-late 19th century]

D2455/X4/3/1/10 Map of country around Kabul and Ghazni, with routes to India

1878 - 1879

D2455/X4/3/1/13 Papers concerning the army and the War Office, relating to the situation in India

Includes: Confidential Cabinet paper concerning addition to the strength of the Army, based on demand in India

1885

D2501/C1 Letters from C.R. Davies Calcutta, India, to M. Davies, her aunt, and a cousin describing life in India, 1789, 90, 95

1789 - 1795

D2646/134 Letter thanking David Mushet for readiness to conduct experiments into qualities of Indian iron. Sends long quotations from letters from Mr. Heath in India re processing of Indian ore

1835

D2659/19 Diaries of Rev Charles Blathwayt Include numerous notes on the Indian Mutiny 1857

D2659/21 Diaries of Lt. Col. Linley Wynter Blathwayt

The diaries include a description of voyage from India to father's deathbed, 1873-1874. The diarist lived in India again 1874-1877

1873 - 1877

D2659/25/17/5 Postcard from L. Kershaw & E A S Bell, liquidators, about the liquidation of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company Limited

1946

D2659/27/53/5 A postcard of Indian children at the Franco-British Exhibition in London, 1908

1908


D2659/27/53/6 Bath Herald obituary for Col M P Ricketts, Indian Mutiny veteran

1915

D2659/27/53/30 Times obituary for Captain E Kitson, late Bengal Staff Corp

1939

D2659/27/53/34 A Times article about a cyclone which hit Bengal; a letter to the editor of The Times, appealing for donations to be sent to the Indian High Commission for the victims of the Bengal Cyclone

1943

D2659/29/3 Notes on tombs and temples (1 volume) The volume is illustrated with colour wash drawings of megalithic monuments and includes notes about tombs and monuments in Persia, Ceylon and India

c.1845 - 1850

D2794/28 Memorandum book of Hen. Jas. Hogg King, engineer

Contains notes by H. J. H. King, press-cuttings, drawings and advertisements about his engineering inventions and contracts, including pipes for Calcutta (India) Water works

(1866 – 1893)

D2866/1 2 photographs of the Sharkey Memorial Girls School, Masulipatam, S. India

[1882]

D3330 21/12 "Reminiscences of the Indian Rebellion of 1857"

1868

D3398/1/3/3 Letters from W A Forbes in Allahabad, India mentioning the political situation

1836 – c.1876

D3398/1/3/14 Receipts for dresses, drink and supplies, some purchased in Allahabad, India

1861 - 1862

D3398/1/3/19 News cutting including one from Indian newspaper reporting death in riots, marked "witness", 1872

1872


D3398/1/3/20 Papers of W A Forbes whilst commissioner of Bareilly division, India

Includes booklet containing comments on his scheme for canals; papers about revised assessments of the Khadir villages in Pergunnah Hustinapoor including list of villages with notes on their state of cultivation; rough notes on "permanent settlement"

1872 - 1873

D3398/1/3/21 Papers of W A Forbes whilst commissioner of Bareilly division, India

Includes recommendations of Indians for jobs and requests for jobs, list of furniture, Allahabad; report of directors of Bank of Bengal, 1873

1872 - 1873

D3435/54 Notes on photographs taken in India, 1925 - 28

1925 - 1928

D3435/55 Photographs of Brazil and India, 1920-27

1920 - 1927

D3435/57 Photographs of Batty family in Rio de Janeiro and India

[1920 – 1927]

D3435/58 281 photographs taken while Mr Batty was based in Cawnpore, India: town, village and countryside scenes. Compiled in 1928

1925 - 1928

D3435/62 Extracts from typescript made from Diaries of Albert Batty

Include Radio recordings. News programmes about India, 11 July 1975

Tales from the British Raj in India 1927-9, 3 March 1976

TV recordings. Tales of India. 8 May 1978

1975 - 1978

D3513 Engraving of Warren Hastings, c.1815 c.1815

D3549/13/1/A5 Letter from Granville Sharp condemning dissolute life-style of many European settlers

nd


D3549/13/1/P7 Letter from Granville Sharp about prize essay on best way of civilising subjects of the British Empire in India

1806

D3549/31/1/1 Samples of "a very full and regular diary" of the Indian frontier campaign, taken from newspaper reports

1897

D3549/31/3/12 Letters from India, including from Soldiers Home, Punjab (India)

1906 - 1912

D3549/33/3 Letters to Arthur Barwick Lloyd-Baker from his sister Nelly writing from a missionary camp in India

nd [between 1919 and 1967]

D3554/2/1 Bundle of correspondence and copies of correspondence, 1827 to 1870 relating to the business affairs of Thomas Fortescue of Suffolk Hall, Cheltenham, mainly in India and Wexford, Ireland

1827 - 1870

D3867/IV/21 Text of lecture on South Indian temples, with list of accompanying slides

1973

D3867/IV/55 Tape-recording of the lecture "South Indian temples”

1974

D3871/4 Papers concerning loan of £3,000 by W.A.B. Bingham to F.W. Gordon Canning for purchase of share in Indigo plantation in India

1880 - 1914

D3893/13/3 "Letters of Appointment to different Offices in India and matters connected therewith"

1798 - 1821


D3893/13/4 Memoranda relating to Indian service Includes "lines written at the Hurdwar"; temperatures, rain, earthquakes, 1819

1798 - 1821

D3893/13/6 Copies of letters from Thomas Fortescue to J. S. Stuart from Delhi about Indian affairs

(c.1819 – 1820)

D3893/13/7 Private correspondence with Lord Metcalfe, Mr. Deane, Dr. Ballard, Mr. Galloway and Mr. Ross connected with Indian affairs

1811 - 1819

D3893/13/8 Details of founding of H. H. Club [Hog hunting], Bengal

c.1807

D3893/13/9 Copy letter from Thomas Fortescue to C. T. Metcalfe [Resident of Delhi] about resignation from Indian service

1820

D3893/13/10 Letter from Jn. Forbes urging Thomas Fortescue to leave India

1820

D3893/13/12 Letters from George Harcourt about the Wellesley family and Indian affairs

1807 - 1809

D3893/13/21 Documents relating to Thomas Fortescue giving evidence to the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the affairs of the East India Company and into instances of extortion

1830 - 1834

D3893/13/25 Letters from acquaintances in India c.1820 - 1832

D3893/13/39 Documents in Indian scripts c.1798-1820


D3921/V/8 'In memoriam, Dr. M. L. Bangara, 1881-1927' [an Indian doctor working in the Forest of Dean], 1927. 34 pp.

1927

D3979/6 Application to War Office by George Worlock for information about son John serving in India

1849

D3979/7 Letters to and from Mayor of Bath concerning promotion prospects for John Worlock who had "been in all the Engagements under Lord Gough" in India

1850

D3981/42 Diary entry about the King's visit to India - behaviour of two maharajahs etc, 1 January

1912

D4084/Box 53/5 Papers concerning financial affairs, including particulars of Indian property, 1786-1806

1786 - 1806

D4084/Box 53/6 Insurance policy for Mrs. Hastings travelling to India, 1785

1785

D4084/Box 54/5 Deeds relating to Indian property 1753 - 1833

D4084/Box 54/6 Bengal, India: papers concerning the Allypore estate belonging to Julius Imhoff

18th – 19th C

D4084/Box 54/7 Bengal, India: papers relating to dispute over Julius Imhoff's estate, 1798-1809; letter written by Julius to Warren Hastings concerning Indian affairs, 1798

1798 - 1809


D4084/Box 54/8 Letters and papers relating to Sir Chas. Imhoff's finances, including Indian property, c.1827-40

c.1827 - 1840

D4140/3/4/Box 1 Examples of printing produced by Cotswold Collotype

Includes Geological Survey of India (job number 8) nd [1935 – 1959]

D4180/1 Scrapbook of First World War events, including Indian soldiers in France

1914 - 1915

D4373/9/9 Appeals from Serampore Mission, India, signed by W. Carey

1833

D4402/2/12 Letters from Roger Willoughby of Dublin, military historian, on research for a work on Gilbert Bethune Hadow, who served as an army surgeon during the Indian Mutiny

1985 - 1986

D4432/8/1 'Form of prayer' to restore peace in India 1857

D4432/8/2 Deed relating to property in India [note in English of registration of deed in 1864]

1864

D4453/Box 2/3 George Francis Dowdeswell [d. 1891]: personal papers and correspondence

Includes letters referring to accusations of dishonesty while serving with the army in India

[1861 – 1887]

D4500/4/4 Discourse on the situation in India and Natal (unsigned)

nd [?1905-1908]

D4582/5/3 Letters from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whalley in Calcutta, India, to Rev. William Morgan Whalley (in 1807 from Charles, on his arrival and describing Government House)

1807 - 1812


D4644/2/101 Wool invoice book, 1823-28 includes: At front: memorandum on large order from East India Company, (1820)-(1821)

(1820)-(1821)

D4791/17/3 Side and interior views of a first class carriage of Indian Railways

nd

D4791/19/8 Indian State Railway: Eastern Bengal Railway, packing of a carriage bogie

c.1922

D4791/19/39 South Indian Railways: model arrangement of motor bogie corner gusset, brake hanger and wing link bracket

c.1933

D4791/20/L109C Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Drawing Office requisition book

Includes Lifting gear, spare order: British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. (pp.88 & 88A) 1960, order number 5335

1960

D4791/20/420 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Drawing Office requisition book

Includes South Indian Railway: steel motor and trailer cars (3 compo. motors, 4 3rd motors and 14 trailers), order number 6667

1932 - 1933

D4791/24/6 South Indian Railway: motor coaches electrification

Drawings by Robert White and partners, including general arrangement of trailer bogie (Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company contractors) Order number 5875

1933 - 1934

D4791/24/84 Indian Railways Inter and 3rd class coaches: arrangements of bogie, brake work and axle box

[Drawing number 31A in register D4791/23/10] 1954

D4791/27/4 Contracts, tenders and specifications for the supply of under frames for troop carriages and wheels and axles to The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, 1898, 1903-1913

1898 - 1913


D4791/27/5 Contract, tender and specification for the supply of 200 covered goods wagons to the Indian Midland Railway Co. Ltd., October 1898

1898

D4791/27/10 Contract, tender and specification for the supply of 135 covered goods wagons to the Indian Midland Railway Co. Ltd., 28 June 1900

1900

D4791/31/6 Patent number 7840, patentors Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company and F. Gibbins, engineer: improvements in steel wagons (registered at Government of India Patent Office, Calcutta), 25 January 1922

Grant of patent with specification and drawings 1922

D4791/31/11 Grant of licence by E. S. Cuard, first assistant locomotive and carriage superintendent, and M. M. Lindsley, chief draughtsman, both of the locomotive and carriage department of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Company, to use patent for improvements in couplings for railway and other vehicles, 10 May 1892

1892

D4791/31/17 Papers concerning an application for a patent from the Government of India for improvements in bogies for railway stock, 3 January 1947

1947


D4791/31/18 Papers concerning an application for a patent from the Government of India for improvements in axle boxes, 3 January 1947

1947

D4791/45/10 Memoranda and financial statistics for the operation of the "Kipling" tank wagon agreement by a cartel, including Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, supplying tank wagons to India, March 1938-December 1939

1938 - 1939

D4791/62/25 Grants of licences by Gardners to A.P.V. Engineering Company Private Ltd. of Calcutta, India, to manufacture and sell mixing machines, November 1961-June 1962

1961 - 1962

D4920/2/4/3/12 Photograph album of Jeremy Taylor including snapshots and memorabilia relating to his time in 2 Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, WW2

The album contains earlier photographs relating mainly to Meerut, Kashmir and Lucknow, India, mainly of scenery and friends but a few of his troop, identified as "XRH" [10th Hussars] c. 1930

c.1930

D5107/2 Bengal Nagpur Railway: high sided coal wagon

1906

D5107/10 South Indian Railway, Nilgiri Railway: 3rd class carriage

1936

D5130/40 Letter written by the Earl of Ellenborough at Southam House, Cheltenham, to the editor of the 'Naval and Military Gazette'

Concerns a statement in [Kaye's?] book 'The History of the War in Afghanistan' "injurious to the character of the 26th regiment of N[ative?] I[nfantry]" relating to their conduct at Pashawur, India, 1842

1851


D5130/46 Letter written by T. Valpy French at St. Paul's, Cheltenham, to his "dear friend" Brown, n.d. [1869?]

Refers to his unsuccessful mission in Cheltenham and his plans for a centre at Lahore, India [he was vicar of St. Paul's between 1865 and 1869 and became the first bishop of Lahore]

[?1869]

D5130/51 Letter written by Josephine Butler "social reformer", to Cheltenham librarian about borrowing a biography of John Nicholson and others involved in Indian mutiny

1902

D5307/41 Material about Peniston Hastings, vicar of Bledington, 1730-1738, and his son Warren, first Governor General of India

Includes news cuttings about Warren Hastings and other members of Hastings family, c.1936

c.1936

D5458/5 Extracts from letter[s] from unidentified female writer to her mother, Mrs. Grove Price

Refers to the writer's recent arrival in India and announces her pregnancy

[mid-19th C]

D5458/6 Letter to Laura [Forbes?] from her cousin Jessie Lloyd

Refers to Laura's return home from India and a relative's insanity which doctors attribute to last six months in India

[mid-19th C]

D5574 Postcards sent to Nellie Shaw from India and other countries

c.1903 - 1916

D5731/3/6/3 Album of a tour of India including photographs, with captions, maps, invitations and visiting cards

1907 - 1908

D5922/2/27 Lal Bagh Palace, Indore (correspondence relating to payments)

1921

D6163/2/13 reports of meetings of the Land Mortgage Bank of India (Credit Foncier Indien) Ltd, 1879-80

1879 - 1880


D6345/2/19 Photographs of bedstead, wash basin and porte cochere for Lal Bagh Palace, Indore, India

nd

D6652/1 Records of Frank Rouse & Co Ltd of Cheltenham, motor trimmers

One of the most memorable jobs was to re-upholster the Daimler Grey Star of India in 1971, owned by the Maharaja of Rewa

1971

D6723/1 Documents written in Urdu and Hindi, one dated either 1828 or 1832 and one referring to Allahabad (N. India)

[19th C]

D6885/2/2 letters from Birendralal Chaudhury giving an insight into end of war, pre-independence India from an Indian point of view, 1946

1946

D6978/2/1 Programmes of Opera House productions, including Ram Gopal with his Indian ballet & orchestra, 1951

1951

D7089/10/1 leaflet on Christian endeavour in Pakistan and India, 1950s

[1950s]

D7107/3/24 Metal award badges and ribbons: Beaver Award for work in India

nd

D7213 Correspondence of Anne Rolt in India 1799-1812

1799 - 1812

D7213/3/3 Letter 03 December 1806 Susana Hiorns, Riga, to Anne Rolt, Calcutta, concerning possibility of joining her in Bengal, description of business, threat of French army, tentative passage arrangements

1806


D7213/3/14 Correspondence relating to Anne Rolt's passage back to India

1810 -1811

D7213/4 Confidential memo from East India House regarding the salary of the Advocate General of Calcutta (37620 rupees p.a.)

1845

D7338/2/1/120 Agency Agreement (selling) of Fielding and Platt and Wickman Limited, Coventry, relating to distribution of machine tools in India

1956

D7338/8/2/9 (part) Press cutting: Indian Engineering Association, February 1966: metal forming by hydrostatic extrusion now possible

1966

D7338/8/2/13 (part) The Gloucester Citizen 20/09/1972: Mr Garfield James Sales Director of Fielding & Platt on promotional mission to Far East and India; Machinery Market, London 19/10/1972: "Marketing Tour", Mr Garfield James, sales director, recently carried out a tour of India

1972

D7338/8/2/14 (part) Midlands Industry and Commerce Journal, November 1972: A promotional visit for Mr Garfield James to India

1972

D7338/8/2/16 (part) Evening News 06/09/1972: '£140,000 Contract'. Mr. Daljit Singh of India Supply Mission at Redeman Heenan Froude inspects hydraulic dynamometer at Fielding & Platt

1972


D7338/8/2/20 (part) Press cutting: Order worth £116,000 from Ashok-Leyland of Madras for F series dynamometers from Fielding & Platt

1980

D7338/10/1/6 Fielding & Platt order book Orders include Bombay Marine, India 1889 - 1892

D7591/7/2 Correspondence and pamphlets relating to the charity Actionaid and the sponsoring of children in India

Include the personal profiles and photographs of three sponsored children in India; pamphlets and information leaflets for the Akshya Pratisthan Integrated School and Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust; and drawings and personal messages from the sponsored children, addressed to the sponsor

1990 - 1999

D7788 Documents relating to William Watts’ business interests in India

These are in boxes 11,12,13,15 and 16. William was governor of Fort William in Bengal

18th – 19thC

D8296/1/2 two copies of 'Divine Poems' published by Mahavira Publications, India

1950

D8451/2/2/5 letter from an Ian G Fitchell, a war correspondent based in New Delhi, India, signed 'John' with references to conditions in New Dehli

1943

D8460/3/2/1 'Early Reminscences' by General Sir Daniel Lysons

information about General Sir Daniel Lysons' school days and travels abroad to France, Ireland, India, Canada and the West Indies

1824 - 1847


D8497/1/49 Dev Padam, postal worker, born in India (now Pakistan) 2 February 1937, interviewed in Gloucester by Andy Vivian on 18 January 1999, with photograph

Interview covers: early life in India including attitude to girls, discipline; impact of Indian Independence on himself as school boy and on father as an Indian civil servant; tensions within family leading him to leave for Britain; initial impressions of England; life in north London as diamond tool maker; marriage to an English woman and discussion of mixed marriages; family tensions and their resolution many years later; move to Tuffley; period of redundancy followed by employment as postman; daughter's education and life; feelings about possible return to India; thoughts on destiny; attitude to caring for elderly

(1937) -1999

D8497/1/104 Anonymous widow, formerly housewife and market researcher, born in India on 28 March 1916, interviewed in Winchcombe by Andy Vivian on 1 April 1999

Interview covers: memories of childhood in India until eight (father a civil servant); coming to England and living on the Norfolk Broads; work as a driver during World War II; meeting husband, description of honeymoon touring Africa including visit to gold mine; work as market researcher in Scotland; managing household finances; move to Gloucestershire as widow; life in sheltered accommodation; attitude to various things including prospect of living with family; money and shopping; opinion of the internet.

(1916) -1999


D8497/1/114 Salim Kholwadia, civil servant, born 26 November 1960, interviewed in Gloucester by Andy Vivian on 10 April 1999

Mr Kholwadia's father had emigrated from Gujerat, India to Nottingham in the 1950s and later moved to work at Morelands match factory in Gloucester. He was the first Asian in Gloucester and Salim was the first Asian baby to be born in Gloucester. Most of the interview concerns Mr Kholwadia's experiences as Asian and a Muslim living in Gloucester. Interview also covers: perceived decline of Tredworth as a community following the opening of ASDA supermarket; examples of integration; choosing wife from a photograph; misconceptions about Islamic faith; sense of personal and national identity

(1960) -1999

D8667/1/80-81 Postcards from Elizabeth Chatwin (India)

1984 - 1986

D8841/1/1 Travel diary of (Tom Brown's father's) trip from Benares [now Varanasi, India] to Kashmir

1911

D8841/1/4 Description of "a journey into Rajputana" (now the state of Rajasthan, India)

1946

D8841/2/2 Photograph album of India [during Tom Brown's childhood] showing places, buildings, people and animals

c.1920s

D9668/3/15/5 Visitors book belonging to the Workman family

Includes names of visiting forestry groups from India 1950 - 1992

D9668/3/21/2/2 Correspondence to and from R Bourne concerning published articles and papers on forestry

Includes letters from the Indian Forestry Service 1940 - 1943

D9668/3/22/8 Envelope inscribed with the words 'beautiful thoughts' written by John Workman

Includes copy of an Indian prayer [1970 – 1990]


D10423/Box 25/71 East India Post Card, franked "Patiala State 23 May 1893" and "Bombay 23 May 1893" with hieroglyphics on both sides; stamped "Errington and Martin Stamp Importers, South Hackney NE" on reverse; unsigned

1893

D10620/3/3/1 Minutes referring to manufacture of Moulders and Presses by Podar Sons, India, 16 April 1962

1962

D10620/3/4/1 Minutes referring to agreement with Alfred Herbert India Ltd, 9 July 1951

1951

D10800/6/2/1/13 Programme for Australian Services XI v All-India XI, Unofficial Test match, at the Madras Cricket Association, December 1945

1945

D10820/B7-1/c Famines in India and How to Prevent Them' by Frederick Bravender - published 1879

1879

D11462/1/3/9 Lists of newspapers compiled for various countries Marie Hall visited on tour, including India and Ceylon

nd [1913]

D11462/6/4/2 Images of India and Ceylon Photographs and commercial pictures which feature land marks and scenes from everyday life. These photos may have been collected during Marie Hall's tour of the region in 1913

nd [1913]

D11928 Plan of coal mine in India, 1930s nd [1930s]

D12638/3 Sermon of Revd Sidney Riggs Sunday after the death of Mrs Indira Gandhi - Prime Minister of India 4.11.1984

1984


D12912/1/4/92 Sidgewick and Jackson Ltd write to F W Harvey regarding proofs and introduction for 'Comrades in Captivity', and about allowing the Christian Literature Society for India to use an F W Harvey poem

1919

D13066/2/6 letter from Corporal Theo R Hewitt in India to Leslie Drake detailing conditions, travel and personal news (1917)

1917

D13066/3/8/2 Envelope of used foreign stamps, including India and Ceylon [Sri Lanka]

nd [20thC]

D13099/3/1/1 Sermons that appear to have been used by Robert Le Marchant

Handwritten sermons which appear to be from multiple authors, including ‘Day of humiliation for the Indian Mutiny’

nd, c.1857

D13099/5/2 Edward Le Marchant’s letters from Burma 1875 and outward journey Oct-Dec 1874

Letter of 28 June 1875 mentions negotiations between King of Burmah and Indian Government ; letter of 29 July 1875 mentions that he has been in the Service 18 months and in India for 9 months; his social activities; that has passed his Hindustani exam; ink sketches of Burmese people; family news; details of his ‘bill of fare’ and the Indian parcel post

1874 - 1875

D13099/5/3 Edward Le Marchant’s letters from Madras and Bangalore 1876-1878

1876 - 1878


D13099/5/4 Edward Le Marchant’s letters from Afghanistan 1879-1880’

Letter of 22 January 1878 Mentions that he expects to remain in Rawul Pindi [Rawalpindi] for some time; describes surroundings and conditions; lists places he’s been to in India; believes Regiment will finish their service there and not return to Madras Presidency; family and regimental news; refers to Princess Alice’s death and incidents in Khandahar. Letter of 15 January 1879 mentions that they arrived at Rawalpindi yesterday, the cold and his sore feet; due to go to Lawrencepore en route to Khohat [Pakistan], but waiting for draft of 250 men; says will finish remainder of Indian Service in Bengal; enjoyed being in Bangalore. Letter of 24 May [1880] mentions that he doesn’t know what the plans are, but hopes won’t be marched down country due to the heat; doesn’t know which station they shall get in India at end of the year, but thinks it could be Belgorm [Belgaum]; promotion prospects; regiment and family news; mentions new Viceroy of India and new Government. Letter of [August] 1880 mentions that all British soldiers and ‘natives of India’ leaving Kabul tomorrow; thinks will be out of Afghanistan and in Peshawar by middle of September; believes will be returning to Bangalore; mentions battle at Kandahar. Letter of [late 1800s] mentions that he is heading to ‘Lawrencepore’ the following morning en route to Afghanistan frontier; thinks will be sent to Jallahabad; describes conditions including dust, cold and provisions for the front in 15 bullock carts; march will be 93 miles and take about 7 days; doesn’t know if will see any fighting; sorry to leave Bangalore; expects to serve remainder of service in Bengal, India; mentions meeting the Careys at Bangalore

1878 - 1880


D13099/5/5 Edward Le Marchant’s,letters from Bangalore, Cannanore and Secunderabad (1881-1885); a letter from Simla (1898)

1881 – 1885; 1898

D13099/8/2 Letters from Ernest Basil Le Marchant from India 1906. Also letters from his wife, India 1906

1906

D13099/9/1 Letters (7) from OC (Cecil) Le Marchant Royal Sussex Regiment from India 1900-1901

1900 - 1901

D13099/12/1 Letters from Louis St Gratien Le Marchant, East Lancashire Regiment from India and Burma 1887-1898

1887-[1898]

D13099/12/2 Letters from Louis St Gratien Le Marchant East Lancashire Regiment from Ahmadnagar 1907

1907

D13230/3/42 Audio footage of interview with Mahmoud M Patel, recorded on 11 July 2011, with photographs taken at the time of the interview

Subjects include: First impressions of Gloucester; moving from Barbados, family from Gujarat in India; Accommodation in London Road, Salisbury Road; Education at St James Infants, Hatherley Road Boys, and Central School; Walls Ice Cream Factory and Migrant

2011

GAL/C4/40448GS Calcutta in the Cotswolds Looks at some of the families who returned from India, to retire in the Cotswolds. Makes references to Daylesford, Sezincote, Cheltenham and the Cockerell family.

1981

GAL/E3/47674GS Officers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Pt. 3, Indian Army 1914-1920 1914 - 1920

GAL/G5/41070GS Cheltenham and the Indian connection, by Eva Bailey

Article in the Cheltenham Local History Society journal, 14, 1998, p. 48-51

1998


GAL/H1/54844GS Tracing your British Indian ancestors, a guide for family historians by Emma Jolly

2012

GAL/L2 Six years, 1856-1861, the diaries of Edward Welch of Arle, edited by Carolyn S Greet

Edward Welch joined the 93rd Highland Regiment, and his diaries record his service in the Indian Mutiny

1997

GCC/EDU/2/1/2/27 Minutes of the County Council Higher Education Sub-Committee, 24 April 1944-19 March 1945

Includes employment of Indian teachers [no page number given]

1944 - 1945

Gloucestershire Life, March 1990

Where Indian maharajas paid a shilling by Katherine Marsh

Article: Memories of trade at the Aerodrome cafe on the outskirts of Tetbury, on pp.42 - 43

1990

(Hyett) E7.7GS Guide to the Indian palace bazaar, Stroud 1891

JF13.21GS Resolutions of a meeting of the woollen manufacturers of Gloucestershire, and other persons interested in the woollen trade, respecting the renewal of the charter to the East India Company

The meeting was held at the Fleece Inn, at Rodborough, 16 April 1812

1812

IP/40765GS First Indian restaurant in Tewkesbury Advert for the Munira Tandoori Restaurant, Tewkesbury in the Gloucestershire Businessman, November 1982, p. 28

1982

JR22.99GS Engage 2007, celebrating culture and life in South Gloucestershire

The Engage 2007 festival was held in South Gloucestershire and featured 40 live performances, 250 performers, Indian, Mediterranean, Chinese and British food, have-a-go workshops, youth and environmental activities and 60 interactive and information stalls. With a DVD of the performances

2007


K923/6 Notes on British India Education Cruises 1974 - 1981

K1258/2/5 Visits to Gloucestershire schools by education professionals and students from India 1958

1958

K1927/1/5 Printout of "Indians in Gloucestershire" exhibition material produced by James Turtle, Education and Outreach Manager at Gloucestershire Record Office

The exhibition included photographs and text about three Indian doctors who practised in Gloucestershire in the 1920s and 1930s, Dr M L Bangara, Dr Nanda and Dr Seal

c.2000

K1927/1/8 Photographs of Nasreen Akhtar and others at events in Cheltenham and Gloucester to mark the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Indian Sub-continent, 23 August 1997

1997

K1929 Gloucestershire County Council: Community and Adult Care; Education and Lifelong Learning

Arts development files concerning Indian Independence and Indian Association (Cheltenham),

nd

NZ29.7GS 'Gompertz's grand historical panorama of the rebellion in India',

Playbill 1858

Obituaries microfiche (volume 2:1906-1917) p212

Gloucester Journal article recording the death of Charles Brown, veteran of the Indian Mutiny

1911

P2.40GS India, England’s Crimes and Duties A sermon preached by John Gow, B. A. minister of the Bayshill Chapel

nd

P9.22GS Cheltonian Honours List, 1841 - 1900 Lists contain the names of those who gained distinctions at the universities; at Addiscombe, Woolwich, Sandhurst, and Cooper's Hill; in the Royal Navy and the Indian Civil Service

1841 - 1900


P13 IN 4/6/2 Photographs of Revd. John Bilderbeck. Missionary from Madras. Preached at Amberley 1869, c.1865, Madras (p.27/4), and Revd. T.Y. Darling. Missionary in South India. Preached at Amberley 1871, c.1865, Telugu, South India (p.30/1)

c.1865

P35 MI 1/6 Parish magazines. February issue includes an appeal for the Indian Famine Relief Fund

1897

P76 IN 4/6 Notification of the consecration of Rev A M Hollis as bishop of Madras, India

1942 - 1943

P86/2 CW 2/11 Subscriptions to organ fund for Ghorpadi church, Poona, India

1887

P141 IN 1/29 Record of services taken by Edward Keble as chaplain to RAFVR for the RAF in India and Burma, March and April 1946

1946

P173 MI 20/8 Parish magazines: February issue includes information about the release of the popular film 'India Today'; June issue announces a visit from Miss Sorabji from India; July issue reports on Miss Sorabji's visit.

1926

P347 IN 1/22 "Book of Strange Preachers" Includes Bishop of Madras [1845 – 1868]

P366 IN 1/18 Notes on Warren Hastings [Governor-General of India 1732-1818]

nd

PE 87/1 J. Whiting, "G.G. Ducarel and the East India Company, 1765-1784", in 'Indian Archives', Vol. 16

1968


PE87/2 B.S. Smith, "Catalogue of the Ducarel papers relating to India in the Gloucestershire Records Office, England", 'Indian Archives' Vol. 17

1968

R115.107(3)GS Form of prayer to be used in all churches and chapels throughout ... the United Kingdom ... on the seventh day of October 1857, being the day appointed by proclamation for a solemn fast, humiliation, and prayer before Almighty God

In order to obtain pardon of our sins, and in the most devout and solemn manner to send up our prayers and supplications to the Divine Majesty, imploring His blessing and assistance on our arms, for the restoration of tranquility in India

1857

R302.264GS Advert for the Munira Tandoori Restaurant, the first Indian restaurant in Tewkesbury

1982

SA21.28GS Letter to the editor of the Gloucestershire chronicle, from Major-General Thackwell, concerning events after the Battle of Sobraon, India, from Camp Lahore, 1846

1846

SRPort/WyllieGS Photograph of Sir William Curzon Wyllie, K.C.I.E., M.V.O., born at Cheltenham October 5th, 1848, served in both the British and Indian Armies

nd

SX5.1GS Service of table ornaments, the property of the late rt. hon. Earl of Ellenborough, P.C., G.C.B. presented by his lordship's friends on his leaving India ... sold ... 17 July 1885

Includes biography of Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough, of Southam

1885

T8.10GS Monody, on the death of an officer in the East India service, printed by Cliffe and Co

1844

VB9.5GS Marriage custom of the aborigines of Bengal, by Edwin Sidney Hartland

Article in the Asiatic quarterly review, vol. 15, 1892

1892


Y3/11651GS Twelve years of a soldier's life in India extracts from the letters of the late Major W. S. R. Hodson... including a personal narrative of the siege of Delhi and capture of the king and princes

1859

There are many other references to India in our online catalogue (https://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/CalmView/)

Records relating to Pakistan and the Pakistani Communities in Gloucestershire


D2455/F3/6/4/20 Bills of Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach and Lady Lucy Hicks Beach, while travelling in India and Ceylon

Include hotel and other bills at Lahore 1903

D4644/7/6/1 Commercial correspondence from Pakistan to Playne & Co, cloth manufacturers

1953

D4791/20/L151 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co drawing office requisition book

Order from Pakistan Railways for 50 low sided wagons

1961

D4791/24/49 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Order from Pakistan Railways for 50 low sided wagons, including diagrams

1961

D4791/24/50 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Order from Pakistan Western Railways for 4 wheeled low sided wagons, including diagram

1961

D4791/27/31 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Contract for the supply of 50 "BG" (5 foot 6 inch gauge) low sided open wagons "OM" type for the Ministry of Railways and Communications (Railway Board), Government of Pakistan, 25 July 1961

1961

D4791/43/11 Agreement for Jaffer Brothers Ltd. of Karachi, Pakistan, to act as sole agents for the supply of Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co built rolling stock for Pakistan railways, 10 June 1960

1960

D7089/10/1 Leaflet on Christian endeavour in Pakistan and India

1950s

D7338/5/1/3 Fielding & Platt correspondence file concerning Pakistan Machine Tool factory

1983


D8497/1/42 Interview with Babar Vaqas, medical student, 1999

Mr Vaqas' parents are from Pakistan and this interview contains much information and comment on British and Asian cultures, the Islamic faith and living as an extended family

(1978) -1999

D8497/1/49 Interview with Dev Padam, postal worker Born in India (now Pakistan) 2 February 1937, interviewed in Gloucester by Andy Vivian on 18 January 1999. Interview includes early life in India including attitude to girls, discipline; impact of Indian Independence on himself as school boy and on father as an Indian civil servant; tensions within family leading him to leave for Britain

(1937) -1999

D13230/3/2 Video footage of interview with Nasreen Akhtar

Recorded on 18 June 2011, including introduction to the Hidden Lives project; with photographs taken at the project event at which the interview was recorded, scanned copies of photographs and memorabilia, and digital story created from the interview and photographic material. Nasreen was born in the Punjab in Pakistan.

2011

D13230/3/17 Audio footage of interview with Anisa Farooq, recorded on 21 July 2011, with photographs taken at the time of the interview in the clothing shop run by Anisa Farooq

Subjects include: First memory of Barton; setting up Islamic women's clothing shop on Barton Street; Comparison of British and Pakistani education systems; Widden School

2011

Records relating to the Philippines


D7107/8/13 Gloucestershire Girl Guides Association Enrolment and progress book

Includes photographs of Filipino Guide official and her family, and of views in the Philippines, with related letter, 1950s

1950s

Records relating to Thailand


D6/F167/4 Letter from Maynard Colchester-Wemyss about arrangments for tutoring Prince Asdang of Siam, 1906

1906

D37 Correspondence of Maynard W Colchester - Wemyss

Collection of miscellaneous correspondence most of which is between Mr Maynard Colchester-Wemyss and the King of Siam Rama VI. They cover current events, family news, political comment and social activities up to the King's death in 1925

1903 - 1925

D1799/A101 Invoice for silk laden aboard the 'Herbert' in Siam, 1686

1686



[Susan Hicks Beach went on a hunting expedition in India, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia as companion to the Duchesse d'Aosta [formerly Princesse Helene d'Orleans], accompanied by a Captain Piscicelli, returning to Europe via Sydney, San Francisco, Panama, Jamaica and New York. The letters describe the trip in detail, and include Susan's diary entries]

1913 - 1914

D4791/17/2 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Works photograph album

Pp.134-137 Visit of the Crown Prince of Siam showing a party inspecting various parts of the works, 29 July 1902 (12 photographs)

1902

D4791/19/61 Visit of the Crown Prince of Siam to Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Works, 29 July 1902

1902

D7107/12/1 Press cutting: 1st Woodmancote Brown Owl's visit to Thailand, 1991

1991

D7338/2/1/103 Agency agreement between Fielding and Platt and Gerson and Sons Limited, Bangkok, Siam

1953

GAL/G5/41375GS Crown prince of Siam at Westbury Court Article by Barbara Owen in New Regard, no. 7, 1991, p. 23-28

1991

GPS/354/16 Photograph of Crown Prince Vajiravudh of Siam at Westbury-on-Severn

1902?


RR328.20GS Mr Carlton H.Terris and company in 'In Honour Bound', ' Old Cronies' and 'The King's Command’

Programme of 3 short comediettas performed at Westbury Court on August 21st, 1902. Carlton H.Terris was the pseudonym of the Crown Prince Vajiravudh of Siam, who wrote 'The Kings Command' and directed and performed in the plays whilst staying as a guest of Mr and Mrs Colchester Wemyss at Westbury Court

1902

RR328.21GS Wartime letters of a Westbury squire Letters of the Great War 1914 - 1918 written by Maynard Willoughby Colchester-Wemyss of Westbury on Severn to H.M. King Vajiravudh of Siam

1994

RR328.22GS Articles and news cuttings regarding the friendship between the King of Siam and the Colchester-Wemyss family

1991 - 1992

Caribbean, West Indies and South America

Records relating to Antigua


B232/14884GS West Indies in 1837; being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, and Jamaica, by Joseph & Harvey Sturge

1838

B246/28984GS Codrington correspondence, 1743-1851, being a study of ... letters from the West Indian islands of Antigua and Barbuda mostly addressed to the Codringtons of Dodington, by Robson Lowe

Includes postal history of the Antiguan mail

1951

D421/X12 Accounts of sugar from Barbados, Tobago, and Antigua sold in Bristol, January 1802-May 1803

1802 - 1803

D1086/B13 Letters containing references to importing of sugar from Antigua

1781 - 1800

D1086/B14 Correspondence about debts owed, chiefly by sugar-importer on Antigua

Includes copy letters from agent in West Indies on state of sugar industry

1781 - 1796

D1610/A17a Receipted bills of exchange from Antigua 1863

D1610/A75 Accounts for stores sent to Antigua 1786 - 1787

D1610/A76 Accounts for stores sent to Antigua 1788 - 1790

D1610/C8b Letter to [Sir Wm.] Codrington from James Athill in S Redhead's absence, reporting on the Antigua and Barbuda estates, 1766

Endorsed: note of sugar sold at London, 1767

1766, 1767

D1610/C23a Letter to C B Codrington from L L Hodge in Antigua, referring to Bolans and Jennings estates and possible sale of the latter

1809


D1610/C35a Stores issued by the Ordnance Office in Antigua to C B Codrington, proprietor of the island of Barbuda

1797

D1610/C56a Letter book originally used by C B Codrington and contains letters written to his attorneys in Antigua and Barbuda

1805 - 1807

D1610/C90/1-5 Letters concerning negotiations for joining central sugar factory in Antigua, 1910-12, 1916-17

1910 - 1917

D1610/E1a Deed of revocation by Sir William Codrington of the settlement on William and John Williamson of estate in Antigua

1733

D1610/E2a Bond relating to conveyance of plantations on Antigua to S Redhead [as attorney to Sir William Codrington]

1768

D1610/E22a Power of attorney from Christopher Codrington to his brother William in Antigua to appoint attorneys to manage his estates in Antigua and Barbuda

1793

D1610/E28a Legal opinion concerning the cutting of wood on Barbuda by people from Antigua

1766

D1610/E145a list of debts owing on the Clare Hall estate, Antigua 1827

D1610/F29 Reports on possible settlement of Dodington estate and agreement as to family mortgage on Antigua estates

1925, 1937

D1610/F43 Diary of travels abroad by Lady Georgiana Codrington in the West Indies

Contains interesting descriptions of Antigua society

1843 - 1844


D1610/F46a Scrap album compiled by Sir Gerald Codrington, including page 6 item 2: Press cutting on Jubilee celebrations in Antigua, [1887]; page 13 item 4: Press cutting about Antigua, undated; page 30 item 9: Letter from Sir Gerald, Betty's Hope, Antigua, to his mother, 23 April, 1872; page 34 item 1: Plan of Antigua showing its bays and parish boundaries, undated; page 34 item 2: Press cutting: letter on the decline of the economy of Antigua, 16 June, 1900; page 35 item 2: Pamphlet recording a resolution about central sugar factories in Antigua, 1 September, 1871; page 69 item 4: Press cutting: notes on the Anglican cathedral of St John's, Antigua, undated; page 82 item 8: Press cutting: description of Antigua, undated

19th C - 1900

D1610/L5a Papers relating to the estate of Sir Peter Parker called Skerrett's, Antigua

Include estate bills numbered 1-17 (missing items 4, 8, 10, 13, 14 & 18), with schedule showing balances remaining unpaid during the management of the estate by Roland Burton, and several legal bills (1787) -1814; related letters to Chris. Codrington mainly from Sam Martin, manager of the estate from 1811, 1809-12; valuation of the slaves, livestock, canes and lands of Skerrett's plantation, 1811

(1787) - 1814

D1610/P18 Estate survey of the Codrington’s Antiguan estates (on pp.72 – 74)

1768 - 1771

D1751 Papers of the Swindell family, including deeds of St. Kitts and Antigua and estate accounts

1851 - 1862

D2957/248/1 Annuity in Antigua mentioned in will 1778

D10423/Box 8/106 Official Receipt Mrs Wade from Jose Anjo Ltd, St John's, Antigua. 8 April 1954

Passage to UK April. $467 dollars Antigua

1964


D10423/Box 9/50 Postcard showing black and white print of Homeward Bound, Antigua. Two natives carrying burden on heads

Undated

D10423/Box 13/60 Letter to Charles P Wade, White House, St Kitts, from E I I Maginley, Kensington House, St Johns, Antigua, confirming reservation for 4 nights from Monday 26 April; letter dated 8 April 1954

On reverse is a "to do" list in CP Wade's writing

1954

D10423/Box 13/61 Bill (receipted) to Mr Wade for 7.5 days board, from E Maginley, Kensington House, Antigua, dated 3 May 1954

1954

D10423/Box 17/2/2 Letter to Charles Wade, St Kitts, from Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Antigua, confirming sailing from Antigua to Dieppe on SS Fort Desaix, 22 March 1954, together with an invoice for a cost of $467, 3 May 1954

1954

D10423/Box 17/2/4 Letter to Charles Wade, St Kitts, from Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Antigua, confirming passage on one of their banana boats to the UK at a cost of $467, 29 January 1954

1954

D10423/Box 50/63 Profit & Loss Account for Codrington Estate, Antigua, for the year ended 31 December 1943 showing a trading profit of $605, the current account with Sendall & Wade for 1943, and two pages of accounting entries dated 25 May 1944

1943 - 1944

D10423/Box 50/94 Invoice to Charles Wade from Compagnie Generale Transatlantique for first class travel on paquebot Gascogne from Antigua to England on 2 April 1951

1951

R106.6GS Betty’s Hope, an Antiguan sugar plantation, by Birgit Carstensen

Betty's Hope was one of the most prosperous sugar plantations in Antigua owned by the Codrington family of Dodington Park

1993

Records relating to Argentina


D3310/1/18/4 R A Lister and Co of Dursley, engineers Annual reports and accounts of overseas subsidiary in Argentina (Buenos Aires)

1931 - 1935

D3310/1/19/5 R A Lister and Co of Dursley, engineers Correspondence relating to business affairs of overseas branch in Argentina (Buenos Aires)

1934 - 1937

D4432/8/5 Photograph of Lake Nahuel Huapi in Argentina

nd [early 20th cent.]

D4791/17/2 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co miscellaneous photograph album 2

Includes photos of "Ferro Carril Gran Oeste Argentino" built by Mendoza, c.1900

c.1900

D4920/2/2/3/10 Note about Argentinian horses written by Private Percy Coole Osborne of D squadron, Bristol

1914 - 1918

D7338/2/1/46 Selling agency agreement between Fielding and Platt and Herbert Argentina S.R.L., Buenos Aires

1947

D7338/2/1/285 Certified Declaration of Working with regard to invention 95995 in Argentina from Abel and Imray, Chartered Patent Agents ('FAH/KG')

1964

D7338/2/1/297 Patent for Argentina control arrangements for Hydraulic Rams (Patent 95410/54)

1962

D7338/2/1/325 Patent number 95410 for Improvements in or relating to control arrangements for hydraulic rams (Fielding and Platt) issued in Argentina

1954


D9249/2/4 cuttings relating to the kidnapping of Ronald Grove, Vestey's General Manager in Argentina and the payment of a ransom by Lord Vestey, 1972

1972

D11873/57/1/3 Programme: England v Argentina at Twickenham

2006

RR342.31GS Painting was worth the trip, Argentinian art work led writer to Cotswold Town. Article in the Gloucestershire Echo, June 5th, 2003

Art writer Jorge Luis Correa travelled to Winchcombe to visit the home of the artist Mariette Lydis.

2003

Records relating to Barbados and residents in Gloucestershire


B147/15926GS Gloucestershire notes and queries, a collection of cuttings from the Stroud journal, 1881-1882

Includes monumental inscriptions from Jamaica and Barbados

1881 - 1882


1838

D23a/8 Affidavit in Bowen v. Berwick, re plantation in Barbados

1771

D340a/C32 Letters to and from Capt Francis Reynolds (3rd Lord Ducie of Tortworth)

Letters of 10 February, 4 July and 24 September 1770 concern Barbados

1770

D340a/X14 Crown grant of place of Provost Marshal of the Barbados, 1716, and five agreements concerning offices there

1716 - 1774

D421/X12 Letters and accounts re Barbados sugar 1803

D678/2 F14/3-5 Copies of letters received by Commodore Legge as Commander-in-Chief Barbados and the Leeward Islands, 31 October 1746-1 August 1747

1746 - 1747

D1571/T4 Decrees in chancery suits allowing Saml. Beresford, esq., of Barbados possession, rents and accumulated profits of farm called Sherborne tenements, 1795, powers of attorney, agreement for sale, valuations, receipts, 1806-11; extract from will of mortgagee, Thos. Daniels of Lambeth, merchant, 1802, copy will of Saml. Beresford, 1804

Copy will, 1804, and power of attorney, 1806 have great seals of Island of Barbados (in poor condition)

1795 - 1811


D1610/F46a Scrap album compiled by Sir Gerald Codrington Page 13 item 6: Letter from H Hancock, Westbury on Trym, appealing for funds for Codrington College, Barbados; nd [1876?]; page 34 item 4: Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts quarterly paper no XL, describing Codrington College, Barbados, 1847; tipped in; page 34 item 5: Press cutting: the destruction of Codrington College by fire with notes of its history, [1926]; 4 columns: glued to back of no 4; page 41 item 2: Note in French on Christopher Codrington of Barbados from the Biographie Universelle, undated; page 98 item : Notes by FM Alleyne on old houses in Barbados, undated

1847 – [1926]

D1610/Q4a Extract from Sir R H Schomburgh's `History of Barbados' referring to the foundation of Codrington College and its history to 1846

nd [late 19th cent.]

D1844/C4 Letter from Wm. Blathwayt about his son then in Barbados, 5 Jan. 1688/9

1688/9

D2455/B1/3 Account book of James Harding of Mere (Wiltshire)

Daily accounts of invoices issued and receipts and payments. Includes customers and associates in Barbados

1744 – 1751

D2455/B1/4 Account book of James Harding of Mere (Wiltshire)


1751 - 1759

D2455/B1/5 Account book of James Harding of Mere (Wiltshire), 1759-1775, 1778


1759 - 1778

D2659/2 Correspondence of William Blathwayt about Barbados

1700 - 1704

D3549/13/1/D20 Letter of Rev Duke of Barbados concerning the promotion of Christianity in West Indies

1784


D3549/13/3/27 Song of Negro slaves at Barbados In 2017 this document was inscribed onto UNESCO's Memory of the World register in recognition of its international significance.

Late 18th Century

D3549/13/5/11 Pamphlets by Granville Sharp and others: 'An argument in the case of James Somersett, a Negro' by Mr Hargrave, London, 1772; 'An essay on the treatment and conversion of African slaves in the colonies' by Rev James Ramsay, London, 1784; 'Letters on slavery' by William Dickson, former secretary to the governor of Barbados, London, 1789; 'An essay in the African slave trade' by Granville Sharp, 1790

1772 - 1790

D4500/1/1 Manumission for three female slaves of Mercy Dixwell Scott, written by John Lucomb, Esq., churchwarden of St. Michael's parish, Barbados

1805

D4500/1/3 Letters to Joseph Leacock, Barbados, from Jonathon Rashleigh, Lincolns Inn [his brother-in-law]

1817

D4500/1/4/1 Papers concerning legal disputes arising from the disposal of the late Joseph Leacock's Barbados estate, Mount Brevitor

Include copy will (1817); copy list of furniture sold (1817); copy inventory and valuation of estate, naming and valuing slaves individually (1818); copy letter from executor, Jn. Goding, to Jonathon Rashleigh (1818); legal statement as to the estate, n.d. [post 1823]; Chancery case papers (Leacock's children v. Goding) 1828-30

1817 - 1830

D4557/4/19 "Barbados Film" (colour) c.1970s

D10423/Box 22/24 Passenger tariff leaflet from Fyffes Line, 15 Stratton Street, London W1, for services to Jamaica, Bermuda, Barbados and Trinidad, July 1949

1949


D10423/Box 52/2 (part) Report by PW Briggs on Cotton Ginneries in the Leewood and Windward Islands and Barbados, visited 18 March to 17 September 1947

1947

D11613/1 DVD containing digital images of documents from D3549 (Granville Sharp papers) used in "Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice" digital project published by Adam Matthew Publications

Contains digital images of the following documents: D3549/13/1/B19 (correspondence with Anthony Benezet) D3549/13/1/B25 (correspondence with Justice William Blackstone) D3549/13/3/27 (song of Negro slaves at Barbados) D3549/13/3/28 (account of occasion which first compelled Granville Sharp to take up the anti-slavery cause) D3549/13/3/29 (diagram showing layout of slave ship) D3549/13/5/11 (pamphlets by Granville Sharp, Mr Hargrave, Rev James Ramsay and William Dickson)

2009

D13230/3/42 Audio footage of interview with Mahmoud M Patel, recorded on 11 July 2011, with photographs taken at the time of the interview

Subjects include: First impressions of Gloucester; moving from Barbados, family from Gujarat in India; Accommodation in London Road, Salisbury Road; Education at St James Infants, Hatherley Road Boys, and Central School; Walls Ice Cream Factory and Migrant

2011

GAL/C3/24808GS Notes on Capt. John Turner of Barbados by G Andrews Moriarty in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol. 66, 1945, p. 246-254

1945


GAL/G5/41070GS Barbadian legacy, the unacknowledged earlier life of William Hinds Prescod by Glenn O Phillips, an article in Cheltenham Local History Society journal, no. 16, 2000, p. 14-17

William Hinds Prescod owned Alstone Lawn in the Nineteenth Century, having been born in Barbados in 1776. His son, Samuel J. Prescod, was a close friend of the abolitionist John Scoble.

2000

GBR/C10/2 Enrolment of indentured servants for Virginia and Barbados

1658/9 - 1660

GDR/F1/1/2009/6559 Tewkesbury with Walton Cardiff: Disposal of unused processional cross (The “Choir” Cross): to be donated to St Matthew’s Church St Michael, Barbados: Chancellor’s faculty, 23 November 2009

2009

P18 IN 1/3 Arlingham baptisms of children of Thomas Liston, a Barbados merchant

1668 - 1670

P32 CW 2/1 Great Badminton Churchwardens' accounts 1676-1837

Includes disbursements for three men from Barbados and five ex-slaves

1678

Records relating to Jamaica and the Jamaican communities in Gloucestershire


B147/15926GS Gloucestershire notes and queries, a collection of cuttings from the Stroud journal, 1881-1882

Contents include monumental inscriptions from Jamaica and Barbados

nd


1838

B344/55741GS Memoirs of a Jamaican peasant boy, by Bernard E Westcarr (Severnprint, 2006)

Autobiography of Bernard Westcarr, born in St Catherine, Jamaica in 1937. He emigrated to England in 1960 and after living in Birmingham for a few years settled in Gloucester. This book looks back on his life in Jamaica and his life and community work in Gloucester. He worked as an engineer at RHP Aerospace for over 30 years. He recounts how he encountered racism and discrimination in England and as a result, became involved in race relations and a campaigner against discimination. In 1979 he was appointed as the first black magistrate in Gloucester and served as a JP for 22 years. He also served as School Governor at Finlay Primary School

2006

B603/48902GS High hopes and great expectations, from Jamaica to England... one man's view, By Carlton Green

2000

B654/11634GS Memoir of Thomas Burchell, twenty-two years a missionary in Jamaica, by William Fitz-Er Burchell

1849


D6/F167/15 "Letters from [W. Herbert] Seddon and on his death"

Includes one long letter en route from Jamaica to California, 1922

1922

D269C/F15 Copy letters and/or sermons on religion, one describing the habits of the negroes of Barbadoes; photograph of a Jamaican boy

nd

D1421/18 Mortgage of Rose Hill plantation and slaves, Jamaica, with detailed schedule of slaves and stock, 1826

1826

D1799/C153 Letters from Robert Hibbert in Jamaica and Cobham (co. Surrey)

c.1788 - 1820

D1799/X7 Correspondence, draft letters, etc., relating to office as Secretary for Jamaica

Correspondence with Col. Peter Heyward, Chief Justice for Jamaica, 1712, contains reference to hurricane damage, and death of James, 4th Duke of Hamilton

1712

D2383/F15 copy state of accounts of the Governor of Jamaica

1777 - 1782


Susan Hicks Beach went on a hunting expedition as companion to the Duchesse d'Aosta [formerly Princesse Helene d'Orleans], accompanied by a Captain Piscicelli, returning to Europe via Sydney, San Francisco, Panama, Jamaica and New York. The letters describe the trip in detail, and include Susan's diary entries

1913 - 1914

D3524 Da Silva family of Cheltenham: testamentary papers concerning property in Middlesex and Jamaica

1861, 1873

D3524/1 Probate will of Solomon Mendes da Silva of Cheltenham concerning property called Rio Hoe or da Silva's Hope, Jamaica

1861


D3524/2 Probate will of Solomon de Silva Lindo of St. Anne's parish, Middlesex, concerning property in Middlesex and Jamaica

1873

D3549/13/1/T5 Letters concerning Philip Thicknesse’s experiences in Jamaica

1765 - 1776

D3549/13/3/55 Various writings by Granville Sharp including address to the colonial assemblies of the West Indian isles... particularly Jamaica

nd

D4365/T2 copy P.C.C. administration of estate of Wm. Smith, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, to sister Mary Evans

1795

D4540/16 'In Fair Jamaica'. By William Bellows. Published by Kingston Educational Supply Company. 19pp. (with illustrations)

1907

D4582/6/1 Letter from Samuel Bowly in Jamaica to his uncle Daniel Bowly, Cirencester, concerning the progress of his recently established business in Jamaica

1736

D5412/III/47 Letter informing George Pegler of the death of his son John in a military hospital at Port Antonio, Jamaica, 1817

1817

D6112/32 Cotswold Roundabout broadcasts number 42, March 1966

Includes Ernest Morris former chairman of the Cotswold Tape Recording Society with a message from Jamaica. Counter: 4 - 65

1966


D6528/1 Letters on the stationing of Captain Richard Barlow as paymaster to the 22nd Regiment at Stoney Hill barracks, Jamaica (subjects include climate, scenery and deaths of soldiers due to disease), and on his death of a fever there (tributes, condolences, Administration of his estate)

1827

D7338/8/2/12 (part) Newscutting from the Daily Gleaner, 13 November 1966

Jamaican Students with British Industrial Firms, Mr Lindon Dennis at Fielding & Platt

1966

D8497/1/12 Interview with Mr) Vivian Blake, Afro-Caribbean poet and retired factory worker, born 2 April 1927, interviewed in Gloucester by Andy Vivian, [1998] (date not given)

Mr Blake was born in Jamaica and came to England in 1944. Interview covers: family situation in Jamaica; joining RAF in World War II and decision to come to England; feelings about Gloucester as a place to live and about Jamaica; description of how he spends leisure time; comments on race relations and the influence of the black community on Gloucester; experience as lone parent; attitude to state benefits

(1927) - 1998


D8497/1/109 Interview with Violet Ellis, church worker, formerly psychiatric nurse, born 22 March 1938, interviewed in Gloucester by Andy Vivian on 8 April 1999

Mrs Ellis was born in St Catherine's, Jamaica and came to England in 1965. Interview covers: family background and early memories of Jamaica including schooling and ideas about Britain; meeting her future husband and circumstances taking first him and then her to England; her journey to England and initial impressions and experiences; nurse's training at Coney Hill hospital; experience of single motherhood; comment on increasing levels of crime amongst young people; theological courses attended; church life and the importance of religion; personal sense of identity. With photograph

(1938) - 1999

D9228 Conveyance concerning the sale of slaves (named) in Jamaica ( Rev Jasper F Baillie of Great Rissington, trustee under the will of David Baillie)

1832


1949

D10423/Box 23/5 1959 Pepys Whitehall pocket Diary for M G Graham Wade, The White House, St Kitts, BWI, and Snowshill Manor, Glos. Brief entries only, but the diary records sailing from St Kitts on 28 March 1959 and docking in Southampton on 8 April 1959, a holiday in South Africa from 7 May 1959 to 9 October 1959, and sailing to St Kitts via Jamaica on 22 October 1959

1959


D10423/Box 54/69 Advertisement for sending gifts of foodstuffs from Australia to Britain; orders could be given to one of two stores in Kingston, Jamaica

nd [1940s]

D13066/3/8/2 envelope of used foreign stamps, including Jamaica

nd

D13099/7/5 Beginning of letter written from HMS Wye Port Royal, Jamaica, 13 September 1880

Mentions arrived from Bermuda; describes Port Royal and the fruit available ‘bananas, oranges, cocoa nuts, mangoes and alligator pears [avocados]’; heading for Colon and Barbados and joining [HMS] Forward; mentions damage done by hurricane

1880

D13099/7/5 Letter written from HMS Wye, Barbados, 26 September 1880

Mentions that has left Jamaica; details of Colon, Panama, voyage to Barbados and details of island

1880

D13230/3/20 Audio footage of interview with Carlton Green, recorded on 20 June 2011, with photographs taken at the time of the interview, scanned copies of photographs, and digital story created from the interview and photographic material

Subjects include: Arrival in Gloucester from Jamaica; Accommodation for immigrants in Gloucester; Changes in Area; Fielding and Platt; Settling in Barton; Comparisons between first generation Jamaican immigrants and their descendants' experiences of Britain

2011

D13230/3/21 Audio footage of interview with Joyce Green, recorded on 29 September 2011

Subjects include: Arrival in Gloucester from Jamaica on 31 December 1959; Living in Howard Street; First impressions of Gloucester; living in Tredworth; racism and housing in the 1960s; Churches in Tredworth; St James' Church

2011


D13230/3/33 Audio footage of interview with Donald McCalla, recorded on 11 August 2011, with photographs taken at the time of the interview at the Church of God and Prophecy

Subjects include: Arrival in Britain from Jamaica; Church of the God of Prophecy Tredworth; First impressions of Tredworth; Memories of Conduit Street

2011

D13230/3/45 Audio footage of interview with Neil Patterson, recorded on 30 April 2011

Subjects include: Growing up in Barton in 1960s; Qualities instilled by upbringing and Jamaican parents; Picturedrome

2011 [closed until 2112]

D13230/3/46 Audio footage of interview with Vera Patterson, recorded on 31 March 2011

Subjects include: Arrival in Gloucester from Jamaica in 1956; House in Widden Street; Shift Work at Hospitals; Changes to Barton post 1950; Robinsonwood Pentecostal Church Tredworth

2011 [closed until 2112]

DC124/19 Proposed Jamaican sports & social club 1965 - 1972

GCC/EDU/1/1/71 Minutes of the Education Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 17 January-15 May 2000

Includes discussion of educational links with Jamaica

2000

GDR/B4/2/T50 Gloucester Diocesan Court case concerning Lucius Tucker of Jamaica, later St Mary le Bow, Middlesex.

1792

GDR/F1/1/1953/628 Pebworth: Faculty to place a tablet in the church in memory of Hilton Chambers Shekell of Mountain Springs, St. James, Jamaica, 2 July 1953

1953


N5.55GS Order of service for thanksgiving service, 25th anniversary of Jamaica independence and centenary of the Excellent Marcus Garvey on Sunday 9th August 1987 ... St. James Church, Upton Street, Gloucester

(1987?)

NZ13.1GS Governor General of Jamaica visits Gloucester

Governor General, Sir Howard Cooke and the High Commissioner for Jamaica, David Muirhead visited the Black Elders Day Centre at the beginning of their visit, taken from Barton & Tredworth Developments Ltd’s Community & Enterprise News, Issue No. 13, September 2002, p.1

2002

NZ13.1GS Opening of a new takeaway 'Caribbean Wrap 2' which specialises in Jamaican food

Taken from Barton & Tredworth Developments Ltd’s Community & Enterprise News, Issue No. 16 July 2003, p.7

2003

NZ13.1GS Social club in liquidation Jamaican Sports and Social Club and Community Centre went into liquidation on 9 March 2005, taken from Barton & Tredworth Developments Ltd’s Community & Enterprise News, Issue No. 22 May 2005, p.1

2005

SA3.27GS In fair Jamaica, by W Bellows 1907

SA21.5GS Memoir of the Rev. Joshua Tinson, president of the Theological Institution, Calabar, Jamaica, by J M Phillippo, an article in the Baptist Magazine., series 4, 14, p. 417-429

1851

SR20.11GS Governors of Jamaica in the eighteenth century; Major-General William Selwyn, by Frank Cundall, an article in the Jamaica review, August 1926, p. 26-31

1926


V23.17GS Work and play in Jamaica and Canada; a few notes from a pencil diary, biography of Charles Lee Williams

Article from the Gloucester Journal, 11th July 1908

1908

Records relating to St Lucia



1838

D1610/F46a Scrap album compiled by Sir Gerald Codrington, including page 9 item 3: Press cutting: establishment of the St Lucia Central Sugar Factory, 24 January, 1874

1874

D10423/Box 12/10/54 Letter (and envelope) to "My dear Charlie", 9 Temple Fortune Hill, Golders Green, from mother, Grenada, about her travels on ship and plane to St Lucia and Dominica, undated

c.1915

Records relating to Trinidad and Tobago


D340a/X16 Papers relating to a negro insurrection at Tobago, with thanks from the Governor and Assembly to Captain Reynolds, Captain of H.M.S. Quebec

1770

D340a/C32 Letter mentions a negro rebellion in the island of Tobago

1770

D421/X11 Papers, mainly printed pamphlets, on various subjects, including 39) Copy of letter from Col. W. Pullarton to H.R.H. the Duke of York, re prosecution of Colonel Picton for allowing the use of torture in Trinidad, 1807

[Picton, afterwards General Sir Thos. Picton, was military governor of Trinidad 1797-1802. He was killed at the battle of Waterloo. William Pullarton, as Commissioner for Trinidad, was responsible for Picton being brought to trial. See 'Dictionary of National Biography']

1807

D421/X12 Accounts of sugar from Barbados, Tobago, and Antigua sold in Bristol, January 1802-May 1803

1802 - 1803

D421/X13 Letters from Sir Ralph Woodford, Governor of Trinidad, concerning affairs and customs in Trinidad (with mention of slaves)

Ralph Woodford was offered the new office of registrar of slaves in Trinidad in 1812, which he rejected and then through the patronage of Lord Bathurst Sec of War and Colonies, accepted the post of Civil Governor of Trinidad a post which he still held at the date of his last letter in 1820. The subjects of his letters include difficulties during his term of office in Trinidad and especially those occasioned by the revolt of the Creoles against the Spanish

1812 - 1820

D1388/Box no. 90 Gray v. Stewart, in Chancery: re estate (plantations, slaves, etc.) of Charles Gray, decd., in Tobago; correspondence and copy deeds

1834 - 1836


D6416/1 invoice of plantation stores shipped to estate in Tobago

1839

D8451/1/2/2/4 Letters of John Moore to his mother, whilst stationed at the Royal Naval Station, Trinidad

Includes references to local villages, African wildlife, food, climate and attitudes to the war; details of his tasks as part of the naval party; flying and observation exercises

1941

D8451/1/2/4/11 Correspondence and papers relating to John Moore's wartime experiences

Includes correspondence between John Moore and N E Dunford, member of RAF 749 Squadron, under John Moore's command in Trinidad, 1941, 1952

1952

D9939/2/4 List of ‘Duties of Her Excellency’s Personal Secretary’ for time in Trinidad (November 1958)

(1958)

D10423/Box 7/231 Account statements for board and sundries in April and May 1948 together with receipt for payment, for Mr and Mrs C Wade, from the Hotel Coblenz (previously the Coblenz Guest House), Port of Spain, Trinidad; receipt dated 11 May 1948

1948


1949

NF30.23GS Programme of arrangements made by Central Office of Information, South Western Region, on behalf of Commonwealth Relations Office for a party from Trinidad and Tobago, 28th January to 6th February 1963

Includes amendments to the programme 1963

Europe

Records relating to Bulgaria


D37/1/134 Letter giving account of Serbians taking Monastir (Macedonia) from Bulgarians

1916

D37/1/571 Letter referring to failure of murderous coup in Bulgaria. 24 April 1925

1925

D2455/X4/3/1/2 Maps of Turkey, Rumelia and Bulgaria 1876 - 1877

D2871/1/12 Notes compiled by Dr. C. Scott-Garrett M.B.E., archaeologist and antiquarian: "Phallas data, oculus idols, bossed bone plaques, phalanges"

Includes: examples from Rumania, Bulgaria, Spain and Ireland

(1930s) -(1960s)

D10636 Papers of Leslie Ware of Gloucester (1907-1976)

Papers concerning trips to Germany, Holland, Bulgaria and Turkey, 1950s-1960s, including postcards, guidebooks, correspondence, photographs and itineraries; slides mostly of holidays abroad, nd [1960s-1970s]

1950s -1970s

D13492/2 Transcript of diary of George Gasser Mentions occupation of Bulgaria 1914 - 1919

Records relating to Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and to Czech Communities in Gloucestershire


D540/F135 Correspondence with the Anti-Socialist and Anti-Communist Union, Cotswold Bruderhof, British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia

1937 - 1940

D2659/27/53/14 Articles in The Bath Herald and The Bath and Wilts Chronicle

Describing visit by M R Reti, Czech chess player, to Bath Chess Club (he demonstrated blindfold chess)

1923

D2659/27/53/29 Report from The Times about the Czechoslovakia crisis, following a meeting between Chamberlain and Hitler; Photographs from The Times of scenes during the crisis in Czechoslovakia

1938

D5574 Postcards sent to Francis Sedlak of Whiteway colony

[Described in his obituary as a "rebel Czech" and "Hegelian philosopher", he died in 1929]

c.1903 -1916

D5847 2/3 Czech philosopher on the Cotswolds An account of the life of Francis Sedlak by Nellie Shaw. Includes Francis Sedlak's philosophical work, by Arnold Miller - My military experiences, by Sedlak and a portrait

1940

D6885/5/4 Holiday diaries of travels to Europe (especially Germany and Czechoslovakia)

1989 - 1992

D7338/8/2/2 (part) Presscutting from the Citizen Fielding and Platt orders to France, South Africa and Czechoslovakia

1962


D7338/8/2/9 (part) Presscutting from the Financial Times Picture of model of 1,500 ton Fielding press for forging steel ingots to be shown at Brno trade fair in Czechoslovakia. Also Extract from BBC programme put out in Czech on Fielding steel press

1964

D7338/12/7/3 Microform copies of Fielding and Platt drawings entitled "Czech Machine"

c.1990s

D7501/3/5 Correspondence with the British Committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia about temporary placements for 400 Jewish refugees who had arrived in London unexpectedly

1939

D9846/7/5 Maps issued by War Office during World War II, showing parts of Czechoslovakia

1942-1945

D10500/1/E/27 A letter written to the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak as if from Johannes Brahms, with some talk of their respective works, mention of Tolstoi and of other composers

Actually written by Ivor Gurney 1927?

D11462/1/2/9 Typed extracts and reviews from a variety of British and international newspapers of Marie Hall’s violin performances, including in Czechoslovakia

1904 - 1938


D13230/2/9 Material collected at the Barton Fair on 24 September 2011, including audio footage of interviews with members of the public on their memories of Barton Fair, Czech children singing, rapping, beatboxing and explaining the songs they sang, and interviews with workers and visitors at the City Farm on their memories of the farm, and children's designs for coat of arms, great seal and chain of office for the Mayor of Barton, and flag for the Barton area

2011

PF18.3GS Town Hall, Cheltenham ... Tuesday, 15th June (1965) ... the Corporation of Cheltenham, in association with the Coventry Committee for International Understanding present a concert by Czechoslovakia's top broadcasting band, the Rozmarynka Band, Prague ...

Notice 1965

SR19.27GS Lecture on Christian education in Czechoslovakia by Mrs. M. Novotny

Typescript 1971

Records relating to Estonia


D7107/9/2 Journal, by Miss Margaret Smith of Tetbury, of Scouters' and Guiders' cruise to Holland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden, led by Lord and Lady Baden-Powell

Includes programme and photographs 1933

Records relating to Hungary


D6/X5/18 Communiques from Hungarian government relating to Willoughby Hyett Dickinson’s work for the Society of Nations, with English translation

1929

D37/1/147 Letter referring to Austrian-Hungarian prisoners working on farms

1917

D37/1/256 Letter referring to Upset of Hungarian Republic

1919

D37/1/258 Letter mentioning General Smut's mission to Hungary

1919


D678/1 Z7/8 A guide to Triest/Trieszt/Trieste of the national-patriotic/irredentist stripe; cover shows areas of the non-Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire claimed to be inhabited by Italians

It excludes Bolzen/Bozen/Bolzano and north to the Brenner and also Tarvis/Tarviso; includes Istria and up to the Julian Alps [largely inhabited by Slavs various] but not Fiume and immediate surrounds [i.e. somewhat less territory than Italy took in 1919, and excluding places still in Italy]; illustrated with scenes of the port, public gatherings, protests, 'popular demonstrations', etc

1904

D1610/C111 Letter from the Duchess of Beaufort, describing tour of the Esterhazy estates and castles in Hungary

Letter of 11 Oct 1839 1839

D1610/F55 Letter to Baron Neumann from Lord Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary asking for Neumann's help in making sure that a new Times correspondent to Hungary stays ìn good hands' and remains à good Austrian'

Letter of 1 Sept 1849 1849

D2002/7/1/3 Letter and notes relating to hunting chamoix, etc., in Carinthia as guest of County Karolyi [Austro-Hungarian ambassador]

D2482/8 Papers concerning marriage of Baron de Neumann, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Lady Charlotte Somerset

Includes marriage contract, marriage certificate, and Baron de Neumann's will

1844 - 1851

D3867/IV/39 File of photographic negatives labelled "1933 - Hungary, Austria"

1933

D4248/13/10 account of Hungarian refugees at Rodborough Fort

1956


D6822/49 Newspaper report on finding a balloon containing Hungarian anti-communist propaganda at the Roman camp in Little Sodbury

1956

D6977/2/11 Letters to their children from John and Elizabeth Bellows whilst in Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia on their journey on behalf of the Friends' Armenian Relief Fund

1896 - 1897

D7107/9/24 Miss Doreen Baker (originally a Guide in the 1st Tetbury later captain of the 1st Thornbury): certificate of participation and photograph album of the first "Pax-Ting" (international Guide and Girl Scout jamboree) in Hungary

1939

D7338/8/2/12 (part) Press cutting from Steel International Hungarian Steel Chiefs to tour Fielding and Platt 1968

D7338/8/2/12 (part) Press cuttings from the Citizen and Western Daily Press

Hungarians visit Fielding and Platt 1969

D7338/8/2/13 (part) Press cutting from the Gloucestershire Echo

"Mr G Hartley (Publicity Manager) will represent Fielding & Platt at the British engineering week in Budapest, Hungary

1971

D7338/8/2/13 (part) Press cuttings from Sheet Metal Industries

"International co-operation agreement", agreement with Csepeli Acelmu and Csepel Export Office of Budapest, Hungary to incorporate Fielding and Platt designs into their equipment, and 'International co-operation agreement concluded between Fielding Plant Design of Bournemouth and Csepeli Acelmu and Csepel Export Office of Budapest, Hungary’

1972

D7338/8/2/14 (part) Press cutting Fielding and Platt Agreement with Hungary Csepeli Steelworks

1972


D10423/Box 54/48 Brochure advertising the performances of the Hungarian State company of Dance, Song and Music at the Palace Theatre, London

[1940s -1950s]

D11805/1 Copy letters from Herbert Sumsion to Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer and conducter, about his conducting works at the Three Choirs Festival, (1928-1936), with two copy letters to Sumsion from the editor of Kodály's letters, (1980-1981)

1928 - 1981

D12912/7/6 Letter from the Committee in the UK for the Assistance of Hungarian Freedom Fighters, requesting donations, 5 November 1956

1956

DP3/40290GS Correspondence from Dr. Herbert W. Sumsion to the Hungarian composer Kodaly with reference to the performance of Kodaly's works at the Three Choirs Festivals of 1928 and 1936

Copies accompanied by two letters from Dr. Dezso Legany, Budapest, addressed to Dr. and Mrs. Sumsion, dated 31st October 1980 and 25th March 1981 concerning the copies of the letters and the publishing of them

1928 - 1937

GCC/EDU/3/3/3/3/1 Hungarian refugees correspondence 1957 - 1958

K1013/19 Tibor Tamas of Quedgeley: Registration certificate as Hungarian refugee

1957

Newspaper cuttings volume 42 p201

Article from Weekend Telegraph, 2 Nov 1996

Tim Brown, Cotswold farmer and his partners buy Hungarian land

1996

NZ29.6GS Playbill for Hungarian singers 1837

P172 Papers concerning accommodation of Hungarian refugees in Hazelton

1957


SB12.5GS Notification of Madame Zoltan Kodaly's death received by Mr and Mrs Sumsion in 1958

notification card in Hungarian in Kodaly's hand in original envelope - printed notification in Hungarian with English translation

1958

Records relating to Latvia




Records relating to Lithuania




D7266/Accession 10461/Box 23/2

Architect’s file concerning an animal shelter in Lithuania

1995

P27 IN 1/1 Briefs for Protestants in Lithuania 1661 1661

P77 IN 1/1 Note of brief collected for protestants in the dukedom of Lithuania 1661

1661

Records relating to Poland and the Polish Communities in Gloucestershire


D37/1/36 Letter concerning the theatres of war, including Poland

1915

D37/1/329 Letter suggesting that Soviet Bolshevists fomenting unrest all over the world and waging war on opponents in Crimea and Poland

1920

D45/X8/3 'Guardian' report on Poland, Feb. 1859 1859

D1022/9 Letter in French from C. I. Jeret, native of Ansbach and "pasteur premier" of Thorn [Poland] to a bishop [? Stephen Weston, Bishop of Exeter], asking him to secure the protection of the King of England for Thorn

1728

D2600/1/10 Chipping Campden: Springhill Lodges, a Polish resettlement hostel

6 negatives of photographs taken from 'Gloucestershire Countryside', VI (1949), 239-41, 248

[mid 20th century]

D3549/23/1/14 Letter from John Owen mentioning the translation of the Bible into Polish

1809

D6112/38 Cassette tape number 38: Cotswold Roundabout number 54, March 1967

Interviews by Peter Duddridge: Northway, Blockley, at a Polish Hostel (the only remaining one in the country). Counter: 424 - 500

1967

D7338/2/1/59 An Agreement appointing Maciej Czarnecki as agents in Poland for the sale of Hydraulic Machinery, pneumatic Rivetters and other Fielding & Platt machinery

1949


D7338/8/2/7 (Page 33)

Press cutting within album The Citizen 18/11/1961: Photo: Members of the first Polish technical trade delegation to the UK, headed by Poland's Minister of Heavy Industry , Mr Tadeusz Kossowski, visited Fielding and Platt Gloucester factory

1961

D7338/8/2/12 (part)

Polish mission visits Fielding and Platt Press cuttings from the Citizen and the Birmingham Post

1967

D7338/8/2/13 (part)

Press cuttings from Trade and Industry, the Citizen, the Birmingham Evening Mail and the Birmingham Post

Photograph of Fielding and Platt 400 tonne concrete kerb press, similar presses have been supplied to Poland; also 'More big orders for city firm'. Two orders worth £280,000 for Norway and Poland (3 cuttings)

1971 - 1972

D13230/3/1 Audio footage of interview with Agnieszka, recorded on 3 October 2011

Subjects include: Arrival in Gloucester from Poland in 2006; Establishment of Polish Support Group; Shops Selling Polish Goods; Polish Food; Polish Diaspora

2011

D13230/3/3 Audio footage of interview with anonymous Polish woman, recorded on 5 September 2011

Subjects include: Arrival in Gloucester from Poland; Accommodation; Children at School; intergenerational and intercultural learning; Barton Street Riots; Food and Polish Cooking

2011


D7338/8/2/17 (part)

Press cuttings from the Citizen, Croners Export Digest, British Export Business, Metalworking Production, Sheet metal Industries, Fluid Power International and Metallurgia & Metal Forming

`Redman win orders from Russia and Poland'. Redman Engineering Division of Fielding and Platt. Stankoimport (Moscow) and Metalexport (Warsaw) order machinery for use in automotive industry (3 cuttings). Also `Russia measures up with image analyser'. Russia and Poland order measuring instruments from Metrology Division of Rank Precision Industries Ltd. Also Redman Engineering Division of Fielding and Platt gains orders from Stankoimport (Moscow) and Metalexport (Warsaw) for machinery for use in automotive industry.

Also 'Italian and Polish Engineers Here To Inspect Exports' with photograph of Redman hydraulic roll forming machines at Fielding and Platt prior to export. Also 'Export orders on time despite restricted working week' referring to Fielding and Platt presses for Poland and Italy. Also`Fielding and Platt complete two large roll forming machines'. One MK1 for FSO factory in Warsaw, Poland, and one MK11 for Alfa-Sud factory at Pomigliana, Italy, with Photograph

Also 'Factory workers' humane gesture'. Fielding and Platt workers have raised £70 to bring Mr Leonard Laskiewicz's sister from Poland to visit him as he is seriously ill in Standish Hospital. Mr L left Poland to live in England in 1937; served with the Free Polish forces during the war; joined Fielding and Platt in 1959 and works there as a blacksmith. With photograph of Mr L.

1973 - 1974


D7338/8/2/17 (part)

Press cuttings from the Birmingham Post, Trade and Industry, the Citizen, British Export Business, Metalworking Production and Machinery Market

'Milestone for a small firm', with photograph of John Flannagan of Finrose Gauge and Tool of Handsworth' completing an order for a car bumper piercing rig for Poland as a subcontract from Fielding and Platt. Also 'Heavy-duty hydraulic press to Poland', with photograph (6 cuttings)

1974 - 1977

D7338/8/2/18 (part)

Another Polish contract for GKN Press cutting from the Birmingham Post 1976

D8451/7/3/47 Correspondence between Feliks Topolski and John Moore

[Feliks Topolski (1907-1989) was a Polish-born British expressionist painter. After studying at Warsaw Academy of Art and training as an artillery officer, he eventually moved to UK in 1935 and founded a studio near Waterloo. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. He gained British citizenship in 1947.]

1954

D8497/1/25 Cyril Miles, retired local government officer and animal health inspector interviewed on 1 December 1998 by Andy Vivian. The contributor was born in Bream, Forest of Dean. Much of his contribution concerns his life as a Forester

Includes impact of World War II and "foreigners/outsiders" (including mention of German Prisoners Of War and Polish refugees from Communist regime)

(1934) -1998

D8497/1/57 Elfreida Hall, retired housewife, Born in East Germany, 15 March 1928, interviewed by Andy Vivian on 27 January 1999

Includes early days as child in large family on farm in East Germany near Polish border; "Polish war" 1939; fleeing as a family from the Russians in 1944 and the death of her father; life as refugees near Berlin, meeting husband and coming to live in Bledington

(1928) -1999

D9014/1/4 Minutes of directors' meetings of Copeland Chatterson of Dudbridge

Includes order for the Polish army, 1946 1946

D9486/5 Personal wartime documents of L B Stone Includes news cutting reporting attack on Poland and Polish confirmation of action

1938 – 1946


D9846/7/5 Maps issued by War Office during World War II, showing parts of Poland

1942 - 1945

D10820/W2-1/ag Correspondence Cirencester Home Guard Includes list of postings of Free Polish Servicemen from Fairford Camp.

[1939 -1945]

D11948 Polish Hostel, Fairford See catalogue for full list (1947) -2009

D12835/2 Registration certificates of 2 Polish men, patients at the County Asylums, under the Aliens Orders 1920 and 1953

1947 - 1955

GCC/EDU/1/1/34 Minutes of the Education Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 5 May 1952-23 February 1953

Include arrangements for the education of Polish children under the Polish Resettlement Act, including the Education Committee assuming control of the Polish schools in the area on the ceasing of the Gater Committee which had been administering them

1952 - 1953


Includes closure of Polish secondary schools 1953 - 1954


Include administration of Polish schools and arrangements for medical inspection of Polish schoolchildren

1954 - 1955


Includes arrangements for Polish students living in hostels in Gloucestershire and attending Swindon Technical College

1956 - 1957


Includes Polish schools and adult education in Polish hostels

1958 - 1960



Includes closure of Northwick Park Polish Primary School, the last Polish school maintained by the Education Committee, due to resettlement of Polish people elsewhere

1962 - 1964

HO22 lists of Polish patients at Horton Road and Coney Hill Hospitals, compiled for the Polish Ex-Combatants' Association, with related correspondence,

Please note that this is un-catalogued and notice should be given if you wish to view it

1960 - 1967

GCC/EDU/3/3/3 Correspondence files relating to the settlement and education of refugees in Gloucestershire

Includes correspondence relating to Polish and Hungarian refugees.

1952 - 1962

K766/4/6 Correspondence concerning staffing of Polish primary schools in Gloucestershire

1949 - 1962

K1613/1 Tadeusz Kazimierz Otolinski of Gloucester (formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

Soldier's service and pay book, army papers, correspondence and cards from family and friends in Lodz, Poland, identity card, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital medical and appointment cards, invoices and receipts for parcels sent by Mr Otolinski to family in Poland, electricity meter collection record, national registration identity card and certificate, photographs of himself, family and friends in Poland, Polish newspaper cuttings and religious ephemera, national insurance form, employment registration card and papers, papers relating to income tax, alien identity certificate, National Service Hostels membership card

Includes: Silver Swiss-made pocket watch and a bronze medal

Note: Most of the material is in Polish, material also in English, German and Italian

1940 - 1990


K1807 Gloucestershire County Council: Community Services, Library Services

This is an uncatalogued collection which includes papers relating to the loan of Polish books, 1960-1979 at Gloucestershire Libraries

1960-1979

N30.99GS Polskie Jadlo

[leaflet]

Polskie Jadlo, a Polish cafe and take away in Southgate Street, Gloucester. Pikn's, Polish shop opened in Worcester Street in April 2010.

2010

P6.61GS Polish displaced persons hostel at Northwick Park, Blockley, Glos and Springhill, Blockley, Glos

Northwick Park 1948-1972, Springhill 1948-1968 (1996?)

P135 IN 1/2 Accounts of collections on briefs for erection of churches in Poland and Transylvania (Rumania)

1717

P191a PC2/1 Sports and Social Club Committee meeting minutes

Includes a list of club rules including 'no person of Polish nationality be admitted', (19 January 1948)

1948 - 1950

PR9.7GS Towards new education papers prepared by the Polish section of the 7th International Congress of the New Education, Cheltenham, 31st July-15th August, 1936

1936

R130.47GS Fairford Polish hostel 1947-1959 commemorative plaque ceremony 30th May 2009

The 50th anniversary of the closure of the hostel marked by a commemorative plaque erected by the Ernest Cook Trust on the site of the former hostel.

2009

R130.50GS Collected photographs and reminiscences of Fairford Polish Hostel 1947-59

2010

RR51a.7GS History of Northwick Park Polish D.P camp Gloucestershire 1948 - 1969

2007

S107/1 Daglingworth Polish Primary School Admission registers 1944-1960; attendance registers 1952-1961; reports 1955-1960; syllabus 1955-1958

1944 - 1961

S141 Fairford, Polish Primary School Admission registers 1948-1957; accounts 1952-1958; circulars 1948-1958; correspondence 1951-1958

1948 - 1958


S52/2 Blockley, Northwick Polish County Primary School

Timetables 1952-1959; record of lessons 1959-1961 1952 - 1961

SRPort/KayGS Photographs of Isoline Harvey with her violin

Isoline was a pupil of Sevcek the Polish violinist c.1915 – c.1950

TBR/B/131 Government evacuation Scheme, circulars, re repatriation of Polish nationals

1945 - 1946

Records relating to the Ukraine and Ukrainian communities in Gloucestershire


D7338/8/2/13 (part) Press cutting from the Citizen Mr. Georgy Birick, Deputy Minister of the Ferrous (Iron and Steel) Industry of the Ukrainian S.S.R. visited Fielding and Platt

1970

D8497/1/93 Maria Czornij, retired housewife and former factory worker, born in Calabria, Italy on 4 February 1939 interviewed on 23 March 1999

Includes working in a cotton mill in Manchester; meeting her husband,(a Ukrainian) and moving to Dursley

(1939) -1999

D13230/3/24 Audio footage of interview with Maria Hlad, recorded on 19 November 2011, with photograph taken at the time of the interview, and scanned copies of photographs

Subjects include: Arrival in UK from Naples in 1956; House in Painswick Road; Work at Nursing Home in Malvern, Standish Hospital, and Coney Hill Hospital; Marrying Ukrainian Husband; Learning about Ukrainian Language and culture at Ukrainian Club

2011

D13750 Ukrainian community in Gloucester Recordings of various Ukrainian community events and history of the Church of the Good Shepherd

2011-2012


GAL/G5/47189GS Pawlo Kostiuk's story, oral history transcription, in Tewkesbury Historical Society Bulletin, No. 22. 2013, pp.48-49

Brief biography of Pawlo Kostiuk, a Ukrainian who was conscripted into the German army in the Second World War. He moved to Ashchurch camp at the end of the war as a prisoner of war and later settled in Twyning

2013

GDR/A17/2/66 Gloucester All Saints: Church of the Good Shepherd, Derby Road, including purchase by Ukrainian Catholics

1972 - 1986

K1013/11 Petro Hrynkiw: Ukrainian identity card 1944

K1015/4/3 Application for porch and extension to sacristy for Ukrainian Catholic Church, Derby Road

1989

K1927/4/4 Photographs of exhibition marking Ukrainian Day, 28 February 2003

2003

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