Diaries

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

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