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| D.1 |
Ring Binder No. 1 containing copies of transcripts of the Radley Parish Registers and other documents, as follows:
(1) Introduction to the Parish Registers by Stanley Baker, July 2000.
(2) Baptisms 1599-1900.
(3) Burials 1599-1900.
(4) Marriages 1599-1900.
(5) Banns (for non-Radley Church marriages) 1761-1895.
(6) Davis Charity distributions 1821-1900.
(7) Bowyer Donations 1840-1849.
(8) Martha Bristow’s Charity distributions 1878-1902.
(9) Radley Church Donations (i.e. donations given by the Church) 1722-1747.
(10) Radley Census 1811 (gives names of heads of families, numbers of people in their houses divided into males and females, occupation of the head)
(11) Return by Vicar of Radley as to baptisms (male & female), burials (male & female) and marriages for the years 1801-1810. Dated June 19th 1811.
(12) (i) Particulars for Religious Census 1851 (re Sunday School) dated March 31 1851.
(ii) Particulars re Radley Church in reply to Bishop’s Circular.
1852, dated June 1st 1852.
(iii) Names and ages of Radley persons confirmed during the incumbancy of Dr Samuel Wilberforce, Lord Bishop of Oxford, at St Helen’s Church, Abingdon, dated March 17th 1854.
(13) Radley Register of Baptisms 1599-1900 - Index of Personal Names.
(14) Radley Register of Marriages 1599-1900 - Index of Personal Names.
(15) Radley Register of Burials 1599-1900 - Index of Personal Names. |
| D.2 |
Ring Binder No. 2 containing a transcript of the Terrier of the Manor of Radley 1633, prepared by Stanley Baker in May 2000 from a photocopy owned by Mr Patrick Drysdale of the original document, together with an Index of Place, Field and Furlong Names and an Index of Personal Names. Also Spreadsheets compiled by Christine Wootton from the Radley Terrier 1633, listing the occupiers of lands and their holdings, with collected total acreages. |
| D.3 |
Ring Binder No. 3 containing the following copy documents:
(1) Monumental Inscriptions on memorials in Radley Church and on gravestones in the churchyards, including an Index of names.
(2) 1871 Census - List of Names of Radley persons and their ages.
(3) 1891 Census - List of Names of Radley and Kennington persons and their ages.
(4) 1871 Census - Northcourt.
(5) 1871 Census - Abingdon Workhouse.
(6) 1881 Census - Northcourt.
(7) 1891 Census - Northcourt.
NB For the 1881 Census of Radley, Radley College, Kennington, Sunningwell, Sugworth and Thrupp Wick see Documents D.113. |
| D.4 |
The document formerly filed here has been transferred to Cat. Ref D. 113. |
| D.5 |
The Stonhouse Family. Copies of documents supplied to Mr David Beckett of Radley at the end of 2000 by Sir Michael Stonhouse, Bart., of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and copied with his permission for the Radley History Club, comprising the following (two copies of each):
(A) Stonhouse Family Tree (27 pp).
(B) Stonhouse Family History (15 pp).
(Ba) History Notes (14 pp).
(Bb) History Appendices (3 pp).
(C) Places with Family Connections.
(D) Transcription and translation of Plaque above the Stonhouse monument in Radley Church (4pp). [Inaccurate and not to be relied on. See Document D.6 for a more accurate transcription and translation]
(E) Article about Rev. Sir Michael Stonhouse in The Star Phoenix newspaper, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada on 16th September 2000. |
| D.6 |
Stonhouse Monument in Radley Church. Transcription and Translation of Latin text of Plaque above the monument, by Stanley Baker. November 2000. |
| D.7 |
Canopy over Pulpit in Radley Church. Envelope containing copy correspondence and papers 1990-91 of Rosemary Smith of 3 Bowgrave Copse, Peachcroft Estate, Abingdon re the canopy, by tradition said to be the canopy which hung over Mr Speaker William Lenthall’s Chair in the House of Commons, 1640-53. The documents are:
(i) Copy correspondence July 1990 - May 1991.
(ii) Two black and white photos of the Canopy.
(iii) Extracts from Radley Church and Parish by Sydney E. Allso, 1971, being the chapters entitled The Parish Church and After the Dissolution of the Abbey.
(iv) Extract from Country Life February 24th 1950, containing a letter concerning Radley Church Woodwork, e.g. the pulpit canopy and choir stalls.
(v) Extract from the Diocesan Herald 4th November 1964, being an article entitled Besselsleigh, the home of Speaker Lenthall by Nigel Hammond.
(vi) Copy of reprints from the Oxford Times 3rd and 17th August 1907 of an article entitled The Lenthall Family (? by Henry Paintin 1907). (21 pp but further page(s) missing).
(vii) Copy of pedigree of Lenthall of Besselsleigh, Co. Berks. (May have been part of (vi) above). |
| D.8 |
Historical Manuscripts Commission, National Register of Archives. Copies of the Register entries for records of the Stonhouse Family of Radley and Bowyer Family of Denham Court, Bucks. |
| D.9 |
Institute of Historical Research - History Publication. Royal Household: Officers of the Green Cloth. Provisional Lists 1485-1646, compiled by J.C. Sainty, June 1999 (copies of the Lists of Clerks and Clerk Comptrollers). |
| D.10 |
A Cruck House in Lower Radley, Berks, by David A. Hinton. Copy of an article relating to 35 Lower Radley, once owned by the Leventus family and now demolished, published in Oxoniensia, the journal of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society, Volume XXXII, 1967 (1969). Also a further copy with five photos of the demolition of the house, presented by Richard Dudding, November 2010 |
| D.11 |
Wick Hall, Radley. Leaflet containing historical notes on the house and gardens. 1996. |
| D.12 |
Extract from Oxford Gardens by Mavis Batey, Chapter 12 - Victorian Oxford - page 154, first published 1982, reissued by Scholar Press 1986. Relates to the gift by John Ruskin of a cottage and garden in Radley to a little girl. |
| D.13 |
(i) Notes on the history of Radley, taken from Mr A.E. Preston’s papers and lent by Miss Baker 1947. (Copied from Radley College archives; copy also in Abingdon Library).
(ii) Further copy of the above. |
| D.14 |
Front cover of Radley News, October 1994, showing a cottage in Whites Lane, formerly the village Post Office in Victorian times. (See also Photographs P.1) |
| D.15 |
Front cover of Radley News, September 1999, showing the former village shop in Foxborough Road. |
| D.16 |
Front cover of Radley News, August 2000, showing Chandlings Farm House, once the family home of the Deane family, photographed by Dick Deane of Park Farm, Radley. (See also Document D.17). |
| D.17 |
Front cover of Radley News, September 2000, showing Chandlings School (formerly Chandlings Farm House, see Document D.16), photographed in 1988 by Dick Deane of Park Farm, Radley. |
| D.18 |
Article in Radley News, September 2000, by Stanley Baker (a member of the History Club) entitled Radley Parish Registers. |
| D.19 |
Article in Radley News, December 2001, by Stanley Baker (a member of the History Club) entitled A Christmas Tragedy, being an account of the accident on the Great Western Railway which occurred at Shipton-on-Cherwell on Christmas Eve 1874. |
| D.20 |
Article in Radley News, September 2002, by Stanley Baker (a member of the History Club) entitled St. Giles’s Fair, Oxford, September 1830. |
| D.21 |
‘The Bowyer Family’ - a short talk by John Homewood, delivered to the History Club in September 2002. |
| D.22 |
‘The Railway at Radley’. Talk by Denis Standen to the History Club on 14th January 2002. |
| D.23 |
‘A Bloomin’ Wonder – The History of the Radley Road Nurseries’ by Rita Ford, delivered to the History Club on 8th September 2003. |
| D.24 |
Transferred to Maps M.2. |
| D.25 |
Transferred to Maps M.3. |
| D.26 |
Radley Women’s Institute, 1925-2003:
(i) Particulars of the activities at every monthly meeting of the Radley W.I. from its foundation in February 1925 to December 2003.
(ii) Nominal Roll of the Presidents, Secretaries, Treasurers, and Committees of the Radley W.I. for every year from 1925 to 2003.
(Prints taken from floppy disc loaned to the History Club by Christine Wootton of the Radley W.I.). |
| D.27 |
Tribute to David Buckle for 51 years service on Radley Parish Council, and other public service. (Extract from Abingdon Herald 18th December 2003). |
| D.28 |
(i) Obituary by John Homewood to Dick Deane of Park Farm House, Radley who died on 15th November 2003, printed in Radley News, December 2003. |
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(ii) Article in Abingdon Herald 24 November 2003 re death of Dick Deane. |
| D.29 |
A Guide to Funding Opportunities in Oxfordshire, July 2003 Version. Sponsored by Oxfordshire County Council and the District Councils (incomplete). |
| D.30 |
Transferred to Books B. 71. |
| D.31 |
(i) Oxford and Great Western Union Railway - Copy Transcript of evidence before House of Lords Select Committee May 1837 with reference to Radley area (evidence by James Gould and John Badcock).
(ii) Copy of part of Railway Surveyor’s Map for 1843 for Oxford and District Railway (reduced from scale of 4 inches to a mile).
(iii) Copy of Section of part of Oxford - Didcot Railway, c.1843 (reduced scale).
(These copy documents were presented by Robert Sephton of Kennington in January 2004). |
| D.32 |
(i) Copy extract from Sale Catalogue of Radley Hall Estate 2nd July 1889, relating to the Bowyer Arms Inn.
(ii) Copy of Letter 27th October 1915 from J. Silvester, Coal, Coke and Gravel Merchants, of Bowyer Arms, Radley, to J.L. Norton, Esq., re outstanding account.
(Framed copies of these two documents were presented by the History Club to Eddie and Carol Cavanagh, Landlords of the Bowyer Arms, Christmas 2003). |
| D.33 |
Radley V.E. Day Commemoration Documents presented to the History Club by Doug Rawlinson of 37 Selwyn Crescent, Radley (a member of the Club) on 9th February 2004, as follows:
(i) Minutes of meeting of Commemoration Committee 17th February 1995.
(ii) Minutes of meeting of Commemoration Committee 17th March 1995.
(iii) Minutes of meeting of Commemoration Committee 7th April 1995.
(iv) Printed invitation to Radley residents to take part in Radley’s commemoration programme (May 1995).
(v) Radley Village Plan featuring venues for Commemoration events. 8th May 1995.
(vi) 50th Anniversary of V.E. Day - Thanksgiving Service in Radley Church (Sunday 7th May 1995).
(vii) Celebration Service in Radley Church, Sunday 7th May 1995 (probably a draft of (vi)).
(viii) Souvenir Programme - 1945 - 1995. Radley Anniversary Events, V.E. Day. £1. (8th May 1995).
(ix) Ticket to the Silk Hall, Radley College - Velvet Tones Big Band. 8th May 1995. 8 pm to 11.30 pm. Price £6. |
| D.34 |
Extracts from The Old Radleian 1999 and 2000, re article Invasion 1940, and pillboxes. (For photographs of pillboxes, see P.1.61 (i-iv); for printed booklet of the above article, see Books B.26; for Tony Money’s talk on CD, see C.2.11). |
| D.35 |
Original Letter from Charles Lockett, a prisoner of war in Oflag IV-C, Germany (Colditz Castle), to his wife Mrs Charles Lockett of Neat Home Farm, Radley, Abingdon, Berks, England, postmarked 14.4.42. (Also a photocopy and a transcript). |
| D.36 |
School Exercise Book of Anthony Leary at Radley C. of E, School as marked by his English Teacher (n.d.). Donated by Mary Hutson and includes her recollections, 2004. |
| D.37 |
Documents donated by Mary Shayler (a member of the History Club), March 2004:
(i) Radley Rail Gala. 150th Anniversary, 1844 - 1994, of the GWR Didcot - Oxford Railway. Souvenir Programme. 12th June 1994.
(ii) Cutting from the Daily Mail 1947, being a report of the visit of Princess Elizabeth to Radley College on the occasion of its centenary celebrations.
(iii) Cutting from the Oxford Mail in April --- , being an account of a Roman mosaic floor excavated at the Peach Croft Farm site, Radley Road, Abingdon.
(iv) Cutting from the Oxford Mail (?), being an account of the excavation of the remains of a Saxon warrior at the Radley Road dig, Abingdon (n.d.).
(v) Cutting from the Oxford Mail , April ---, being an account of the excavation of a Roman skeleton at a dig at Abingdon School (n.d.). |
| D.38 |
(i) Typescript of Summaries of the H.M. Inspectorate of Schools reports after examinations of Radley C. of E. School in November 1866, November 1867, December 1868 and for the year ended October 31st 1869.
(ii)Typed extracts from Radley School Diary 1866 and 1868.
(From Patricia Groser, March 2004). |
| D.39 |
Cromerian Interglacial Deposits at Sugworth, near Oxford, England, and their Relation to the Plateau Drift of the Cotswolds and the Terrace Sequence of the Upper and Middle Thames. By F.W. Shotton, F.R.S., A.S. Goudie, D.J. Briggs and H.A. Osmaston. 7 May 1980. (Extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B.289, pp. 55 - 86. 1980). |
| D.40 |
Copy of Report by Alison Mitchell on Radley Vicarage, compiled in November 2000 (presented by the author). |
| D.41 |
Copy of Article by Peter Higginbotham on Abingdon Workhouse (copied from the author’s website with his permission). |
| D.42 |
Return of Owners of Land 1873, presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1875. (Copy of first two pages of Volume 1, showing entry for Sir George Bowyer of Radley Park). |
| D.43 |
Sale Catalogue of the Radley Hall Estate, for sale by auction in lots, 2nd July 1889. (Photocopy presented by John Homewood). (For a Tracing and print of the Map referred to in this Catalogue, see Maps M.7.). |
| D.44 |
Harry Taylor of Radley’s Conquest of Everest - Cutting from Abingdon Herald 20th May 1993, giving an account of this solo ascent without oxygen. (Presented by Patricia Groser). |
| D.45 |
Copy of List of Listed Buildings in Radley. |
| D.46 |
(i) Copy of Sale Catalogue of Wick Hall Estate, July 16th 1930. (Presented by Jean Deller). (For copy of Sale Plan see Maps M.18).(ii) Second copy of the above with annotations and with uncoloured plan, presented by Mr Doug Rawlinson, 2005. |
| D.47 |
Copy of Report on Radley Vicarage by Surrey Domestic Buildings Research Group, compiled at the invitation of the Rev. Daniel and Mrs Pope. June 1981. |
| D.48 |
Copy of Report on the structural inspection of (Old) Radley Village Hall, made for Mr W.J. Gill by J.H. Hayward, Clerk of Works, Church Farm, Radley, on 19th December 1968. |
| D.49 |
Brass Rubbing of Memorial Brass to Thomas Radley and his wife in St. Mary’s Church, Garsington, 1484, taken by Patricia Groser and presented by her. Mounted on a board. (Also photocopy). |
| D.50 |
Typescript of talk by Sandy Fowlie Life in a Rural Scottish Village (‘Insch’) in the 1930s and 1940s, presented to the History Club on 13th September 2004. (See also CD of this talk, ref C.2.15). |
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