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Papers and correspondence relating to the Graves family (Manuscript)
1900-05-03 - 1901-02-17
BAT/11/9
Extracts from Gores Liverpool Advertiser of marriage anouncements related to the Bates family (Manuscript)
1848-1873
BAT/11/1/7
Press cutting about Edward Bates (Manuscript)
c.1871
BAT/11/1/3
Extract from the Liverpool Daily Post of an obituary of Edward Bates (Manuscript)
1896-10-19
BAT/11/1/5
Extract from the Liverpool Mercury, entitled The New Baronets, about Edward Bates (Manuscript)
1880-04-26
BAT/11/1/4
Private memoranda book of E. Percy Bates (Manuscript)
c.1863
BAT/11/4
Personal papers and correspondence, mainly relating to the First World War (Manuscript)
1914-08-09 - 1921-05-02
BAT/11/5
Personal correspondence written during the Second World War (Manuscript)
1940-1945
BAT/11/6
Memorandum of agreement between Edward Bates and Revd W. Walsh regarding a property in Grimblethorpe (Manuscript)
1864-12-08
BAT/11/12
Indenture between E. Percy Bates and Anna Mary Campbell McArthur of an appointment of new trustees and release of retiring trustees (Manuscript)
1897-05-19
BAT/11/11
Agreement regarding the sale the NIGHT HAWK and BANSHEE to the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Co (Manuscript)
1867-01-05
BAT/9/4/2/3
Sections from a book about the Bates family entitled ‘Some Transactions of a Halifax Family’ (Manuscript)
c.1923
BAT/11/1/1
Ship plan of SS FORTH (Manuscript)
1905-06-05
BAT/9/2/2
Agreement for Thomas Ridley Oswald to build two sailing ships for Edward Bates (Manuscript)
1876-08-15
BAT/9/4/1/1
Insurance policy from the Royal Insurance Co for the ship ERATO (Manuscript)
1868-05-07
BAT/9/3/1
Memorandum of agreement regarding the sale of the BANSHEE to the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Co (Manuscript)
1866-05-26
BAT/9/4/2/2
Memorandum of Association of the Hooghly Mills Co Ltd (Manuscript)
1882-09-12
BAT/2/2/2
Memorandum of Association of the Missouri Steamship Co Ltd (Manuscript)
1881-09-27
BAT/2/2/1
Private copy letterbook, Edward Bates & Sons Liverpool to Bombay [Mumbai] (Manuscript)
1881-10-01 - 1883-01-31
BAT/3/2/4
Letterbook by H.G. Wilson (Chief accountant of Brocklebank's), November 1920 - March 1923 (Manuscript)
1920-11-25 – 1923-03-23
BAT/3/7/2
Letter from Ricardo Lopez Bates, a distant relative of the Bates' family (Manuscript)
1900-09-20
BAT/11/8
Letters and papers related to Samuel Robert Graves and his wife Elizabeth (Manuscript)
1873 -1892
BAT/11/9/1
Documents related to the Cunard Company (Manuscript)
BAT/10/6
Assorted loose letters and papers (Manuscript)
1848-1867
BAT/3/1/2
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