Kirklees Diary Topic List

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 It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date.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.

DIARIES

Mr Battye, solicitor, pocket book and diary, 1838 KC315 (box marked Battye)

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, 1872 (probably belonged to Samuel Beaumont) KC197

Frank Bonser, Deighton, diaries 1977-1991 KC854

Hannah Briggs (nee Heaton), Birstall, papers, 1865-1995, including diaries 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 1843-1848 (copied by his son, Frank Crossley, in 1902) 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 1641-1688 (mainly for 1647-1649); (part has been published by the Surtees Society, vol 65, edited H J Morehouse, 1875) KC312/5/3

Albert Field, Skelmanthorpe, journal 1852-1861 (transcript) KX320

Victor Hardy, private, Rifle Brigade, records 1915-1919 including letters home to his family in Moldgreen, and diary 1915 relating to his first weeks in the Army (photocopies) 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 1795-1897 (photocopies); also extracts from diary c1899 KX390 and KC592/2/9

George Horton, diary of 22 day voyage aboard the "Agadir" to coast of Morocco and Grand Canary 1910 (photocopies) KC614/1/35

Ralph Jepson, weaver, diary 1879-1880 mainly re his religious work KX415

Sir John Lister Kaye of Denby Grange, diaries 1883-1896 (photocopies) including detailed accounts of his journeys in North America 1884-1890 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 1865-1992, including diaries WYK1113

Rev John Murgatroyd, Lingards, master of Slaithwaite Free School to 1786, diaries 1781-1804 (7 vols) and notebooks 1768-1791 containing some diary entries (2 vols) 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) 1729-1767 (transcript by Philip Ahier, made from a copy in commonplace book of William Sykes) DD/AH/95

Beaumont Stephenson, Canada, diary re life in Canada and return to England 1906 (transcript by Clifford Stephenson) 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 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 1752-1803 (photocopies and transcripts) 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 1776-1784 from the time of his going to school in Holland in 1776 (written in English in German script) DD/TO/2

Richard Tolson, Leeds, diaries of his business journeys to Holland, Germany, and Flanders 1779-1794 (4 vols) DD/TO/3-6

William Turner, diary 1750-1772, mainly about births and deaths in Huddersfield and district, but includes some other information (transcript by Philip Ahier) 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 B/JWW/1-2

Joseph Wood, Quaker Minister, Birdsedge, diaries 1773-1820 KX400

Miscellaneous

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) DD/WBE/I/130

Two pages entitled "Diary at London etc 1712", comprising short diary entries in cipher and accounts of items bought 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 1872; includes religious notes and observations KC197/81