Diaries
|
The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available. Please feel free to add or update with any additional information. |
| Description | Date | Catalogue Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Mr Battye, solicitor, pocket book and diary | 1838 | KC315 |
| Henry Berry, Shelley, diary (entitled "Account of things") | 1864-1881 | S/SM/1/6 |
| J. Blackburn & Co. Ltd., woollen manufacturers, also James Beaumont, joiner, includes diary containing religious notes and observations (probably belonged to Samuel Beaumont) | 1872 | KC197 |
| Frank Bonser, Deighton, diaries | 1977-1991 | KC854 |
| Hannah Briggs (nee Heaton), Birstall, papers, including diaries | 1865-1995 | KC753 |
| William Carr, doctor, magistrate and antiquarian, of Gomersal House, and
later of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk, diary |
1867-1902 | DD/CA/6 |
| Francis William Cawthra, Bell Street, off Newsome Road, Huddersfield,
diary |
1914 (January to October, just a few entries from November) | KC815/9 |
| John S Crossley, Huddersfield, diary extracts re Ramsden Street Chapel (copied by his son, Frank Crossley, in 1902) | 1843-1848 | KC150 |
| John Dawson, excise officer in London and Kent, journal | 1692-1765 | KC688 |
| Eli Exley, millworker and Liberal activist, Kirkburton, record of local
and national events |
1847-1893 | KC168 |
| Adam Eyre of Haslehead, an officer in the army under General Fairfax,
diary and accounts. (Part has been published by the Surtees Society, vol 65, edited H J Morehouse, 1875) |
1641-1688 (mainly for 1647-1649); | KC312/5/3 |
| Albert Field, Skelmanthorpe, journal (transcript) | 1852-1861 | KX320 |
| Victor Hardy, private, Rifle Brigade, diary relating to his first
weeks in the Army (photocopies) |
1915 | KC327 |
| Crosland Hirst, Longwood (of firm of C & J Hirst) diaries | 1885-1897 | KC592/7/1 - 7/l2 |
| James Hirst, weaver, Worts Hill, Pole Moor, diary and notes (photocopies); also extracts from diary c1899 | 1795-1897 | KX390 and KC592/2/9 |
| George Horton, diary of 22 day voyage aboard the "Agadir" to coast of
Morocco and Grand Canary (photocopies) |
1910 | KC614/1/35 |
| Ralph Jepson, weaver, diary mainly re his religious work | 1879-1880 | KX415 |
| Sir John Lister Kaye of Denby Grange, diaries (photocopies)
including detailed accounts of his journeys in North America 1884-1890 |
1883-1896 | KX276 |
| Florence Lockwood, feminist and Liberal activist, Linthwaite, war diaries | 1914-1920 | KC329 and KC909 |
| William Mallinson & Sons, builders and quarry owners, Lockwood and Crosland Moor, business diaries | 1894-1904 | KC999 |
| Robert Meeke, clergyman, Slaithwaite, transcript of the surviving parts of his diaries by Mary and Margaret Freeman | 1689-1704 | KX367 |
| Moldgreen Congregational Church, records including diaries | 1865-1992 | WYK1113 |
| Rev John Murgatroyd, Lingards, master of Slaithwaite Free School to
1786, diaries (7 vols) and notebooks 1768-1791 containing some diary entries (2 vols) |
1781-1804 | KC242 |
| John Nowell, scientist and antiquarian, Farnley Tyas, weather diaries | 1854-1869 | KC312/13/3-4 |
| Sir John William Ramsden of Byram and Longley, business diary relating
to the Huddersfield Estate |
1899-1910 | DD/R/C/vol 1 |
| Rev William Sagar, curate of Meltham, "diary" (basically memoranda and
accounts) (transcript by Philip Ahier, made from a copy in commonplace book of William Sykes) |
1729-1767 | DD/AH/95 |
| Beaumont Stephenson, Canada, diary re life in Canada and return to
England (transcript by Clifford Stephenson) |
1906 | KC668/1 |
| W B Stocks, railway enthusiast, Huddersfield, dairies 1943 and 1946 re
Second World War and its aftermath; also diary 1977-1978 re the Huddersfield Light Railway which he built in his back garden |
1943-1978 | KC435/1/1-3 |
| Eleanor Sykes, teacher, Netherton, daries 1921-1975, and diary of trip to
USA on Concorde |
1979 | KC520/28 and 31 |
| George Sykes, artist, Huddersfield, diary | 1886 | KC520/17 |
| William Sykes, schoolmaster of South Crosland, notebooks (photocopies and transcripts) | 1752-1803 | KX256 |
| Mrs. Polly Taylor, diary | 1951-1963 | KC1056/29 |
| G Norman Tapp, scout master, Liversedge, diary | 1913 | S/SVS/28 |
| Catherine Thackray, CND member, Huddersfield "Diary of a Provincial
Peace Woman or Carry Greenham Home" |
1983-1984 | KC378/8/1 |
| Richard Tolson, Leeds, diary from the time of his going to
school in Holland in 1776 (written in English in German script) |
1776-1784 | DD/TO/2 |
| Richard Tolson, Leeds, diaries of his business journeys to Holland,
Germany, and Flanders (4 volumes) |
1779-1794 | DD/TO/3-6 |
| William Turner, diary , mainly about births and deaths in
Huddersfield and district, but includes some other information (transcript by Philip Ahier) |
1750-1772 | DD/AH/88 |
| Fred Unpleby, boy scout, Cleckheaton, dairy | 1914 | S/SVS/29 |
| Joe William Wilson, tinsmith, Lockwood, two "diaries" - first contains
historical notes about Huddersfield (mainly births and deaths) 1827-1869; second contains notes about deaths 1888-1920 mainly in Huddersfield district |
1827-1920 | B/JWW/1-2 |
| Joseph Wood, Quaker Minister, Birdsedge, diaries | 1773-1820 | KX400 |
| Book of notes and accounts late 16 cent to early 18 cent, including
diary for a few days in 1704 about an attack of gout (2 pages only) |
Late 16 cent to early 18 cent | DD/WBE/I/130 |
| Two pages entitled "Diary at London etc 1712", comprising short diary
entries in cipher and accounts of items bought |
1712 | DD/WBH/40 |
| Weather diary (possibly belonged to Peter Carter of Marsden?) | 1833-1863 | KC391/17 |
| Diary, probably of Samuel Beaumont, joiner and builder, Batley, includes religious notes and observations | 1872 | KC197/81 |