a handlist to resources relating to black, asian
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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
MF528 (Bishops Transcript)
Romeo Hamilton, a negro, was buried. Cheltenham: St Mary 21 October 1810
MF638 (Bishops Transcript)
Mingo, a black man, 30 years old, was buried. Cheltenham: St Mary 12 July 1817
MF638 (Bishops Transcript)
Margaret Walden, spinster, a ‘person of coller', was baptised. Cheltenham: St Mary 13 August 1817
MF670 (Bishops Transcript)
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
Reference Entry Parish Date
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
Reference Entry Parish Date
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
MF563 (Bishops Transcript)
‘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
Reference Entry Parish Date
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
MF616 (Bishops Transcript)
William Gloucester 'a black negroe' was buried. Tidenham 18 October 1776
MF616 (Bishops Transcript)
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?)
Reference Title Sub Title/Description Author Date
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
Reference Title Sub Title/Description Author Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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 `Attitudes 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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description/Notes Dates
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
Reference Title Description/Notes Dates
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
Reference Title Description/Notes Dates
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]
Reference Title Description/Notes Dates
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
Reference Title Description/Notes Dates
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
Reference Title Description/Notes Dates
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
Reference Title Notes Date
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 `as 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
Reference Title Notes Date
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
Reference Title Notes Date
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
Reference Title Notes Date
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
Reference Title Notes Date
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
Reference Title Notes Date
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
Reference Title Notes Date
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
Reference Title Notes Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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?
Reference Title Description Date
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)
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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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
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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
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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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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]
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
[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?
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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
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
Reference Title Description Date
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)
Daily accounts of invoices issued and receipts and payments. Includes customers and associates in Barbados
1751 - 1759
D2455/B1/5 Account book of James Harding of Mere (Wiltshire), 1759-1775, 1778
Daily accounts of invoices issued and receipts and payments. Includes customers and associates in Barbados
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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 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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
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
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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 `in good hands' and remains `a 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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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 Lithuania
Reference Title Description Date
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
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
GCC/EDU/1/1/35 Minutes of the Education Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 29 May 1953-22 February 1954
Includes closure of Polish secondary schools 1953 - 1954
GCC/EDU/1/1/36 Minutes of the Education Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 31 May 1954-28 February 1955
Include administration of Polish schools and arrangements for medical inspection of Polish schoolchildren
1954 - 1955
GCC/EDU/1/1/38 Minutes of the Education Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 28 May 1956-25 February 1957
Includes arrangements for Polish students living in hostels in Gloucestershire and attending Swindon Technical College
1956 - 1957
GCC/EDU/1/1/40 Minutes of the Education Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 12 May 1958-22 February 1960
Includes Polish schools and adult education in Polish hostels
1958 - 1960
Reference Title Description Date
GCC/EDU/1/1/42 Minutes of the Education Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 28 May 1962-24 February 1964
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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
Reference Title Description Date
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