| Name: | Cambridgeshire Archives |
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| Postal address: | Shire Hall Castle Hill None Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0AP |
| Telephone: | 01223 699399 |
| Web address: | http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/ |
Documents: 49
| 588/C.64 | Admiralty letter of authorisation to Sir Charles Cotton regarding the Hobby Horse, his private rowing boat, with reference to not engaging in smuggling, 13 July 1785 |
1785 -1785 | Admiralty smuggling |
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| 349/2/19 | seal of the office of Admiralty of the borough of King's Lynn courts |
None | admiralty court |
| R57/24/21/1(c) | daily journal of voyage of SS Essex from Portsmouth to Madras, June - September 1841 |
1841 -1841 | travel journal |
| R59/26/2/25 | journal of John Candler in Jamaica, 1840 |
1840 -1840 | travel |
| R57/24/18/(b)6 | eight letters from Henrietta Collison regarding travel to the continent including Ostend and Corfu, 1845 |
1845 -1845 | travel |
| P76/28/8 | letter of Revd H. Lumsdale describing life and work in the Falkland Islands, 1932 |
1932 -1932 | travel |
| R59/26/2/22 | letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler on religious visit to Pacific Islands, 1835-8 |
1835 -1838 | travel religion |
| R37/7.3.20.2c | letter to Thomas Chapman from Gaspard L. Marchet, Newfoundland, regarding conditions there, 1849 |
1849 -1849 | mariners |
| L78/77 | regarding Nelson Blacklock alias Robert Smith of HMS Deptford, 1736 |
1736 -1736 | navy |
| P148/28/3 | receipt by Pay Office for letters of adminstration of John Goodman, late of HMS Spitfire, St Domingo and Anaconda, 1824 |
1824 -1824 | navy |
| P25/1/15/7 | bastardy bond relating the wife of Samuel Westwood of HMS Defence, 1810 |
1810 -1810 | navy |
| P27/1/4 | baptisms in parish register of St Clement for sons of Edward Coulson on HM Sloop Albacore, 1812 |
1812 -1812 | navy |
| 17/C1 | letter from Vice Admiral Sir David Mitchell, 1704 |
1704 -1704 | navy correspondance |
| 588/C.71 | letter from Sir Charles Cotton to Lady Cotton with naval news including death of Nelson, 11 November 1805 |
1805 -1805 | navy correspondance |
| 588/C.73-4 | misc. correspondence relating to naval affairs, 1807, 1808 |
1807 -1808 | navy |
| 588/C.76 | letters from Admiral Rowley to Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 1810 |
1810 -1810 | navy correspondance |
| 588/C.77 | letters from Admiral Berkeley at Lisbon to Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 1810 |
1810 -1810 | navy correspondance |
| 588/C.93-7 | letters to Lady Philadelphia Cotton, 1810-12, regarding naval news, Sir Charles Cotton, Admiral Rowely's death |
1810 -1812 | navy correspondance |
| 588/O.57 | letters and certificate concerning will of Charles Cotton, midshipman on Princess Charlotte, 16 & 22 July 1850 |
1850 -1850 | navy death |
| 588/C.177-8 | two letters from William King at Plymouth and on the Simla to his family, 18 & 26 July 1854 |
1854 -1854 | correspondence navy |
| 588/Z.32 | transcript of last letter of Lord Nelson on HMS Victory to Emma Hamilton, 1805 |
1805 -1805 | navy correspondence |
| 588/Z.44 | tricolour cockade of the captain of the Hercule sent to Lady Cotton, 4 June 1862 |
1862 -1862 | navy |
| R55/7/43/7(e) | account of HM ships prepared for war, seventeenth century |
1600 -1699 | navy |
| R53/7/5/4a | order from R. Rudder to Captain Campden of HMS Gloucester regarding heading convoy to the South Seas, 7 June 1748 |
1748 -1748 | navy |
| 588/C.83 | account of Admiral Cornwallis' attack on French ships, 1795 |
1795 -1795 | navy |
| 588/C.116 | copy letter from Captain Richard Knight to his father Admiral Sir Richard King, 27 October 1805, with description of battle of Trafalgar
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1805 -1805 | correspondence navy war |
| 588/O32-47 | papers of Sir Charles Cotton, admiral of the White, 1753-1812, including naval orders, 1779-83, log book of the Prince, 1799; misc. papers, 1800-1812; notebook, 1804-7; appointment papers; bundles of misc. papers relating to naval affairs m |
1753 -1812 | navy correspondence |
| R65/5/box 6 | misc. papers of the Smith family of Dry Dayton including papers regarding Admiral Sir George King's settlement, 1858-73; bank books of Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 1796-1818; naval papers of Sir Charles Cotton as captain of HMS Mars, 1794-6< |
1858 -1873 | navy documents |
| P175/28/2 | certificate of Office of Prizes regarding seaman's will, 1834 recruitment |
1834 -1834 | None |
| P71/17/1-2 | orders to raise a man of Fordham for naval service, 1795 service |
1795 -1795 | navy recruitment |
| 588/C.39 | two letters from W. Sandwich at Hinching Brook concerning the appointment of a navy surgeon, 20 September & 5 October 1775 |
1775 -1775 | correspondence navy medical |
| 588/C.115 | letter from Lord Nelson on HMS Victory to Sir Charles Cotton regarding appointment for one Gillespie, 1805 |
1805 -1805 | correspondence navy |
| 588/C.117 | letter to Admiral Sir Richard Knight from W.H. Hamilton regarding hopes for regaining naval post, 1828 |
1828 -1828 | navy correspondence |
| R57/24/25 | recommendation of F.C. Herbert for Lieut., appointment as mate on HMS Niagara and commendation for organising port of Sinope, 1839-57 |
1839 -1857 | navy recruitment |
| 588/Q.4 | plan of proposed Wapping Dock and Basin, 1800 |
1800 -1800 | ports harbours development |
| P135/16/5 | reference to Scarborough ships at Kings Lynn, 1732 ownership |
1732 -1732 | shipping |
| R53/4/210 | bill of sale of share in the Mary of King's Lynn, 22 August 1836 registration |
1836 -1836 | shipping |
| R81/66 | two volumes of registers of Wisbech ships, 1836-54 and transactions register only of ships registered up to 1854, 1855-77 |
1836 -1877 | shipping |
| R70/61 | Wisbech crew lists of 94 vessels, 1863-1913 |
1863 -1913 | shipping |
| R55/7/124/1-5 | shipment books for sugar grown in Jamaica, 1795-1819 |
1795 -1819 | trade commerce |
| R55/7/127/5-6 | two bundles of Tharp estate papers, 1863-5, including invoices for goods shipped to Jamaica, insurance policies, accounts of sales of goods shipped from Jamaica, 1863-5 |
1863 -1865 | trade commerce West Indies |
| R55/7/128(a*) | bundle of letters sent to John Tharp in Jamaica, 1777-1804, including shipping accounts from William Miles, 1795, 1798, accounts notice for shipping madeira wine to Jamaica, 1802 |
1777 -1804 | trade commerce West Indies correspondence |
| R55/7/128(c)/3 | letters from James Wareing of Liverpool to John Tharp sen. regarding ships in which Tharp had interests, 1801 |
1801 -1801 | trade commerce correspondence |
| R55/7/128(c)/5 | two letters of Caleb Fletcher of Liverpool to John Tharp sen. relating to banking and shipping, 1803-4 |
1803 -1804 | correspondence trade commerce |
| P150/3/13 | volume compiled by vicar of Swaffham Prior Church of misc. papers including relating to the Berlin, G.E.R. Steamer wrecked off Hook of Holland, 1907 |
1907 -1907 | ships wrecks |
| P126/28/5 | drafts of sermons preached by Revd George Whitaker, mid-nineteenth century, including the Canada, Cunard steamship, 1856 |
1856 -1856 | religion ships |
| R102/062 | Port of Wisbech: register of crews engaged | 1851 -1909 | harbours mariners |
| R105/099 | Whittlesey Wash Commissioners : records 1854-20th cent. | 1854 -1999 | None |
| R105/003 | Wisbech Port (addnl): register of merchant ships 1885-1974, transfer register, 1959-1985 and registration papers, 1937-94 | 1937 -1994 | harbours trade |