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| Subject | Name | Year (Y,M,D) | Location | Boat | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | 1714-03-17 | Bawtry | Act for River Idle, navigation between Retford and Bawtry | A-084 | ||
| Water Supply | 1720- | Harthill | Map of, showing land closes, and tenents, and original Pebley Pond and mill. | M-125 | ||
| Cargoes | 1722-12-19 | Bawtry | p99, lead was taken by boat to Stockwith and Gainsborough. Stored there to become a paying ballast for the coastal shipping, thereby making the transport of other goods, inward and outward, safer and cheaper. | P-363 | ||
| Cargoes | Lister, Thomas | 1722-12-19 | Bawtry | p12, Lord of the Manor, so "by right and ancient custom" entitled to a duty of 3d per ton on goods passing on the Idle through his lands. Feared trade, especially lead and millstones, would be diverted if the Don made navigable. | P-363 | |
| Wharfs | Pickering, Edward | 1726-04-14 | Retford | Wharfinger, East Retford, River Idle. Recently river not navigable, tide being stopped at Misterton Soss, Court of Sewers ordered Sluice Keeper not to do so. | P-360 | |
| General | Monson, Lord | 1730-04-02 | Beighton | Approx year. Report on making the River Rother navigable from its mouth at Rotherham, up to Beighton (4 miles). Beighton to become an inland port for Chesterfield. May be the work of Palmer, William. Nothing further done | P-002 | |
| Cargoes | Staniforth, Thomas | 1743- | Killamarsh | Start of his sickle-making business in Beighton. When canal completed took his wares to Killamarsh, loaded onto boats, West Stockwith, Hull, for coastal shipping | C-019 | |
| Lead Mines | Twigg, Nicholas | 1752- | Winster | Joint owner of lead mines Yate Stoop and Burning Drake also others at Winster | A-011 | |
| General | Jackson, John | 1755-11-17 | Chesterfield | Saw "a lofty leaden crooked spire yet seems to threaten to fall upon spectators" | A-217 | |
| Ironworks | Cavendish, Richard | 1762- | Staveley | Leased forge and furnace to Fell, John of Attercliffe Forge, Clay, Joshua of Sheffield for £110 per year until 1783 | A-111 | |
| General | 1763- | Chesterfield | Road names | A-086 | ||
| General | 1763- | Chesterfield | To 1779. List of tradesmen, and roads, in the town | A-086 | ||
| Navvies | Worstenholme, Martin | 1763-01-26 | Eckington | Carpenter. Contracted to do swivel bridges, Dutch River, for Brindley | A-115 | |
| Cargoes | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1764-05- | Retford | Bought 11cwt of Staveley coal, at 9d per cwt | A-038 | |
| General | Howard, Henry | 1765- | Approx Date. Distant cousin of 9th Norfolk, Duke of. Duke was childless, appointed Henry as his Auditor in Sheffield (Duke a big landowner there). One of Henry's sons becomes 12th Duke | A-023 | ||
| Lead Mines | Whitfield, Joseph | 1766- | Chesterfield | London Lead Company, Quaker founded and operated. General Manager of mining and smelting in Derbyshire. Promoted turnpike roads from lead-mining area to Chesterfield "then the great outward town for Derbyshire". | P-205 | |
| Lead Mines | Whitfield, Joseph | 1766- | Chesterfield | Promoter, with others of the [Quaker-formed] London Lead Co, of a turnpike road from Ashover (the site of the Company's smelt mill) to join the Chesterfield-Mansfield turnpike | P-205 | |
| General | Lax, Anthony | 1766-05-22 | Chesterfield | Married Heathcote, Dorothy | A-035 | |
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1767-04-20 | Retford | Set off for tour of Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, Shrewsbury, Litchfield, Derby. Returned on 29th | A-038 | |
| Bawtry route | Grimthorpe, James | 1767-12-31 | Bawtry | Cargoes carried on the River Idle, to/from Bawtry in the previous 12 months. 6420 pigs of lead is 802 fodders at 24 hundred is 962 tons. 684 barrels red lead at 8 hundd per barrel is 273 tons. Sundry down 340 tons. Sundry up 1730 tons. Timber 57 tons. Stone and freestone 97 tons. Smith, Paul 707 tons. Bingley, Mr 249 tons. Wrote to Whitfield, Joseph on 1769, July 30. | A-240 | |
| Bawtry route | 1768- | Bawtry | Approx date. Route to be via Bawtry to Stockwith, 28 miles. Other data on rise and fall of route | A-011 | ||
| Boats | 1768- | Bawtry | Approx date. Proposed 70 feet long, 7 feet wide, draw 3 feet, carry 24 tons. 6 men and 3 horses per 24 hours. Possibly planning 24 hour running. 4 day passage | A-011 | ||
| Canal | 1768- | Bawtry | Approx date. Canal to be 28.5 feet wide, each bank 12ft | A-011 | ||
| Tunnels | 1768- | Norwood | Approx date. Proposed 630 yards long | A-011 | ||
| Canal | Brindley, James | 1768- | Approx date. Estimate for building canal, £100,000 | A-012 | ||
| Cargoes | 1768- | Approx date. Proposed. Yearly. Coal 30,000 tons along canal, 50,000 tons to Lincoln, Newark, Gainsborough. Others, mileages, charges, profits, etc in source reference | A-012 | |||
| Cargoes | 1768- | Approx date. Estimate, coal at Gainsborough will undercut River Don Co by 1s.2d per ton. River Don Co sells coal at Gainsborough 10s per ton, covering costs of 8s.11d. | A-012 | |||
| Canal | Brindley, James | 1768- | Chesterfield | His costs estimate of building the canal was commissioned by the Quaker-led London Lead Company | A-240 | |
| Canal | 1769- | Gainsborough | Route still Chesterfield to Gainsborough | A-004 | ||
| Cargoes | 1769- | Projected exports, corn, lime [fertiliser], timber, earthenware, millstones, marble, barley/malt, roof tiles, sail cloth(from Retford), hops, gravel, stone, coal. Projected imports, deals, balks, hemp, flax, fine wool, iron, rice, oils, wines and liquors, sugar, tobacco, groceries | A-004 | |||
| General | Slater, Richard | 1769- | Chesterfield | Rented land, Tapton Bridge Close | A-035 | |
| General | Wilkinson, Allwood | 1769- | Chesterfield | Rented land at Tapton and Lockoford Lane | A-035 | |
| Construction | Baldwin, MW | 1769- | Approx date. On early canals embankments and cuttings often considered independently, spoil heaps left. Early dams faced with clay so cracked when levels down | P-016 | ||
| Surveying | 1769- | Chesterfield | The detailed survey "much of the cost of which was borne by the Quaker-formed [London Lead] Company" | P-205 | ||
| Shareholder | Mason, G | 1769- | Retford | Paid for a subscription to the canal scheme | A-264 | |
| Canal | Varley, John | 1769-06-15 | Retford | Surveying for route in the area, for next six weeks | A-038 | |
| Canal | Varley, John | 1769-07-16 | Retford | Been surveying route, Worksop to Trent, not paid as Company not yet formed. Paid by Stevenson, Seth Ellis on 7 more occasions in the period | A-038 | |
| Construction | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-07-16 | Retford | Paid 5s/8d to Varley, John to be claimed from Canal Co when formed. £1/1s more on each of 7 occasions | A-038 | |
| Bawtry route | Grimthorpe, James | 1769-07-30 | Bawtry | Wrote that "the business at the wharf has been gradually decreasing for a number of years" | A-240 | |
| Bawtry route | Whitfield, Joseph | 1769-07-30 | Bawtry | Checking the River Idle trade, then planned to be the terminus of the canal. Had asked for the figures for 1768, but received those for the previous year | A-240 | |
| Canal Co | 1769-08-12 | List of deeds. 4x lists of names and sigs of non-objectors to proposed canal. Affected land owners. | A-059 | |||
| Canal | Brindley, James | 1769-08-24 | To remain within estimate has formed his calculations at one third higher than his previous similar work | A-005 | ||
| Canal Co | Brindley, James | 1769-08-24 | Worksop | Promo meeting, Red Lion, 11.00, route to Gainsborough | A-103 | |
| Canal | Bonsor, Henry | 1769-09-26 | Retford | Published, 18-page pamphlet, "Cursory View of the Advantages of an Intended Canal from Chesterfield to Gainsborough". Arrived in Retford from London [A-038] | A-004 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-09-26 | Retford | 3 day visit to Whichcot, Mr, and Wray, Sir Cecil, and Hornby, Mr | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | Heathcote, Geoffrey | 1769-10-12 | Chesterfield | Subscriptions taking opened, plans there | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Maddison, Mr | 1769-10-12 | Gainsborough | Subscriptions taking opened, plans there | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-10-12 | Retford | Subscriptions taking opened, plans there | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | 1769-10-12 | Worksop | Promo meeting, Red Lion, 11.00, route to Gainsborough. Committee appointed for Application to Parliament | A-103 | ||
| Canal | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-11- | Retford | During the month, invited several influential people of the town to dinner. All of whom became shareholders | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-12-07 | Retford | He had 1,000 copies printed of his promotional pamphlet "Seasonable Hints relating to the Intended Canal from Chesterfield in Derbyshire to the River Trent below Gainsborough". Tomlinson, Mr of Ordsall printed 1300 copies | A-038 | |
| Boats | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-12-08 | Estimated that a boat of 30 tons burthen, would navigate the canal...20 miles a day, for 200 days...at 3.5 pence per ton per mile, is £750 | A-005 | ||
| Canal | 1769-12-08 | West Stockwith | Route now Chesterfield to West Stockwith | A-005 | ||
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-12-09 | Retford | 200 copies of his pamphlet dispersed in the area. 400 to Nall, Mr in Chesterfield | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | 1769-12-14 | Worksop | General meeting, Red Lion, 11.00, route to Gainsborough | A-103 | ||
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-12-26 | Wiseton | Dined with Acklom, Mr [Jonathan] at the Hall [will be near route] | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1769-12-28 | Retford | Large meeting at the Crown, Gainsborough investors, probably unhappy route is now to West Stockwith | A-038 | |
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770- | Survey of River Idle, with Beardshaw, Mr and Dyson, Mr | A-052 | ||
| Bawtry route | Gunthorpe, Mr | 1770- | Wharfinger [Bawtry]. With Grundy, John on survey of River Idle | A-052 | ||
| Bawtry route | Lister, Mr | 1770- | Owner of navigation rights on Idle, River | A-052 | ||
| Canal | Grundy, John | 1770- | Bawtry | Comments on canal's proposed route | A-110 | |
| Ironworks | 1770- | Staveley | Approx date. Estimate, making 1 ton of iron with charcoal | A-111 | ||
| Canal Co | 1770-01-25 | List of deeds. 4x lists of names and sigs of non-objectors to proposed canal. Affected land owners. | A-059 | |||
| Canal Co | Heathcote, Geoffrey | 1770-01-25 | Chesterfield | Taking 2 percent of subscriptions to pay for the Act | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Brindley, James | 1770-01-25 | Retford | General meeting, Crown, 11.00, route to West Stockwith. 2 percent of subscriptions to pay for cost of applying for Act | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1770-01-25 | Retford | Taking 2 percent of subscriptions to pay for the Act. Also Taylor, John and Wright, John in the town. | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Peacock, Mr | 1770-01-25 | Worksop | Taking 2 percent of subscriptions to pay for the Act | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | 1770-02-02 | Chesterfield | Shareholders payment receipts still hand-written | A-032 | ||
| Shareholder | Heathcote, Godfrey | 1770-02-02 | Chesterfield | Paid first instalment on his £1,000 investment | A-032 | |
| Shareholder | Newcastle, Duke of | 1770-02-03 | First installment paid on £3000 subscription to Company. 2% = £60. Further regular payments made when called | A-014 | ||
| Shareholder | Bright, John | 1770-02-03 | Share ownership data runs until 1776-05-03, account of calls made on 5 shares subscribed. | A-055 | ||
| Shareholder | Bright, John | 1770-02-03 | Retford | A set of receipts for share instalments paid to Canal Co. 2 x handwritten by Popplewell, George and 13 x printed receipts. See A-055 for list. | A-056 | |
| Roads | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1770-02-04 | Retford | 3 days, to Chesterfield and return, carriage hire 19s/9d | A-038 | |
| Shareholder | Kirke, William | 1770-02-07 | Retford | Paid £10/10s for 2% instalment of his shares | A-065 | |
| Parliament | Acklom, Jonathan | 1770-02-24 | Wiseton | Letter from Saville, G. The Canal Bill laid aside this year. Advice on wording, tactics for re-introduction. | A-040 | |
| Shareholder | Wade, Miss | 1770-03-02 | Retford | Invested £200, together with Bowzer, Mr | A-038 | |
| General | Lax, Anthony | 1770-04-05 | Chesterfield | His house to be let "convenient for a small family" | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Heathcote, Geoffrey | 1770-05-07 | Chesterfield | Taking subscriptions, plans can be seen there | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1770-05-07 | Retford | Taking subscriptions, plans can be seen there. Also Bright, John in the town | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Peacock, Mr | 1770-05-07 | Worksop | Taking subscriptions, plans can be seen there | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Varley, John | 1770-05-07 | To stake out the route during May | A-103 | ||
| Parliament | 1770-05-07 | Application for Act postponed until next session | A-103 | |||
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1771-06-28 | Worksop | The meeting in Derby, cost him 4s.10d for travelling | A-038 | |
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-08-22 | Report (printed) on Bawtry and Retford routes. Offers alterations, revisions cost savings and recommendations. Map included | A-052 | ||
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1770-08-24 | West Stockwith | Met Tinker, Captain on his ship | A-038 | |
| Construction | Grundy, John | 1770-09- | Costs estimates - plain canal digging £400 per mile. Norwood tunnel £4.10s per yard (£7920 per mile). So tunnelling c20 times more expense than plain digging. Narrow lock with 6ft rise/fall £400. | N-063 | ||
| Roads | 1770-09- | 1 horse can carry 2cwt. 2 horses can pull cart carrying 1 ton. Large team horses can pull wagon carrying 3.5 tons. 1 shilling per ton per mile often quoted for pack-horses. Coal Derbs to Retford 7d per ton per mile (by canal 2.5d). | N-063 | |||
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-08 | Blyth | Went to see Galloway, Lord [landowner]. With Beardshaw, Mr and Fretwell, Mr, and Lambert, Mr | A-110 | |
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-09 | Bawtry | Visits Lister, John | A-110 | |
| Bawtry route | Brooks, Mr | 1770-09-09 | Has been promised that Chesterfield interests will meet with Bawtry interests in the morning | A-110 | ||
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-10 | Chesterfield | Led a party of 20 or so Bawtry, Blyth men to Chesterfield to canvas support for Bawtry route. Discussion with Wilkinson, Mr and Lucas, Mr, who told them Bawtry did not reply to early invitation so Retford are the partners now. Confirmed later by Jebb, Mr (mayor) and Milnes, Dr | A-110 | |
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-11 | Bawtry | Tried to see Lister, John. Cannot, Lister too ill | A-110 | |
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-12 | Bawtry | Sees Lister, John, asks him to write to "gentlemen of weight"...ask them to attend Canal Co committee meeting, Worksop next day. It's decided he's to go to the meeting. Lister, John writes to St.Ledger, Col, and Holderness, Lord, and others, to also attend | A-110 | |
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-12 | Tickhill | Meets Berridge, Mr, and St.Ledger, Colonel, and Gladdin, Colonel, and others. The gentlemen are undecided. | A-110 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1770-09-13 | Worksop | At a Committee meeting | A-038 | |
| Bawtry route | 1770-09-13 | Worksop | Attended Canal Co committee meeting, Atkinson, Mr also Bristow, Mr, Dunston, George, and Jackson, Mr, Wilson, Mr, all from Worksop | A-110 | ||
| Bawtry route | 1770-09-13 | Worksop | Attended Canal Co committee meeting, Brown, Mr, also Gilby, Mr, both from Retford | A-110 | ||
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-13 | Worksop | Attends Canal Co committee where Bill is being read. Not allowed in but shown Bill after and allowed to discuss. Projected Costs listed. Bawtry group query costings but do not have enough data as Grundy, John survey does not include Shireoaks to Chesterfield | A-110 | |
| Bawtry route | 1770-09-13 | Worksop | Attended Canal Co committee meeting, from Bawtry, Judson, Mr (solicitor), Brooks, Mr, Dyson, Mr, also St Ledger, Anthony [Doncaster?] , Knight, Dr (Halifax) | A-110 | ||
| Bawtry route | Grundy, John | 1770-09-19 | Littleborough | Writing his report on recent canal activities | A-110 | |
| Weather | 1770-11-03 | Retford | Continuous snow for the next 14 days | A-038 | ||
| Weather | 1770-11-03 | Violent rains and floods. Trent burst banks at Marton and low ground flooded to Trent Falls | A-183 | |||
| Weather | 1770-11-17 | Retford | End of the snow, now serious flooding | A-038 | ||
| Weather | 1770-11-18 | West Stockwith | River Trent levels 12ins higher than ever known before | A-038 | ||
| Weather | 1770-12- | Retford | By now "wettest [winter] that could be remembered", bad Trent floods | P-013 | ||
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1770-12-11 | Brodsworth | Rode to see Archbishop of York, to see if the church would cause any problems for the canal scheme. Next day went to see Dean of York at Melton for same purpose | A-038 | |
| Parliament | 1770-12-31 | Worksop | A meeting at the George inn, resolved to apply for an Act immediately | A-103 | ||
| General | Acklom, Jonathan | 1771- | Wiseton | Supporter of the canal scheme, but put in the Act restrictions on canal's proximity to his Hall | A-007 | |
| Parliament | Acklom, Jonathan | 1771- | Wiseton | Commissioner named in the canal's Act of Parliament. Also Abson, Samuel and Newton, Robert | A-007 | |
| Water Supply | 1771- | Norwood | Act says there must be a "stop" installed near western end of the tunnel, to prevent water from the western side of the watershed from going through the tunnel | A-007 | ||
| Water Supply | 1771- | Staveley | Act says a weir to be installed on the canal, near the forge, to be 4ins lower than any other west of Norwood | A-007 | ||
| Canal | Grundy, John | 1771- | Bawtry | Comments on canal's proposed route | A-052 | |
| Canal Co | Bromehead, John | 1771- | Eckington | Had a copy of Act of Parliament, listed as Commissioner | A-108 | |
| Bawtry route | Lister, Mr | 1771- | Approx date. Died | A-110 | ||
| Navvies | Fox, Ben | 1771- | Killamarsh | Approx date. Moved from Hathersage, Derbyshire, quarry worker. May have moved to work with the canal building | C-051 | |
| Canal Co | 1771- | Chesterfield | The diamonds in two quarters of the Company seal represent the town - in the 1600s "the pomegranate was discarded, instead "red, on a gold fess a blue lozenge". In 1893 the pomegranate was restored. | P-015 | ||
| Canal Co | 1771- | Retford | The two quarters featuring birds, on the Company seal, represent the town, "two eagles with wings endorsed, respecting each other with their inward feet conjoined | P-042 | ||
| Shareholder | Hagen, Jacob | 1771- | London | Approx date. Two shares. Southwark timber merchant, Quaker. Also had shares in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, and London Lead Company, and other Quaker influenced or controlled enterprises | P-203 | |
| Surveying | Grundy, John | 1771-01-15 | Ballifield | Starting work on report for Norfolk, Duke of, and Leeds, Duke of, and a "number of landowners". Survey of Shireoaks to Chesterfield part of route | A-110 | |
| Surveying | Grundy, John | 1771-01-16 | Sheffield | Went with Stacey, Mr, and Gainsford, Mr, to meet Howard, Henry [Principal Agent] of Norfolk, Duke of. Received directions - check effect the canal will have on water-courses, and water-driven mills, forges, and supplies to Duke's Worksop Manor. | A-110 | |
| Surveying | Grundy, John | 1771-01-17 | Kiveton Park | Starts commission from Norfolk, Duke of. Goes to see Leeds, Duke of. Permission sought to survey his lands. | A-110 | |
| Surveying | Grundy, John | 1771-01-23 | Notes, costings and report on Shireoaks to Chesterfield proposed route. Done for Leeds, Duke of, Norfolk, Duke of, and other interested parties. Full details in Source | A-110 | ||
| Surveying | Grundy, John | 1771-02- | Approx date. Will also attend parliament on behalf of Leeds, Duke of, Norfolk, Duke of, and several other interested parties, to regulate and watch the Bill | A-110 | ||
| Parliament | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1771-02-19 | London | Set out to London, with wife and son. Called to give evidence re the Canal Act | A-038 | |
| Surveying | Grundy, John | 1771-02-24 | List of observations for use in parliament by Leeds, Duke of, Norfolk, Duke of. Details foreseen damages and losses. Full details in Source | A-110 | ||
| Locks | Grundy, John | 1771-02-24 | Thorpe Salvin | Advised Leeds, Duke of, locks through his land should not be "of such heights as to be means of drowning the adjoining lands". [This may be why the locks of the Thorpe flight have such shallow rise/fall levels.] | A-110 | |
| Construction | Grundy, John | 1771-03-01 | Approx date. Gives list of advice for dealing with Canal Co. "Get it in writing" - "gather your own mills data" - "have bridges, locks sites clearly marked out" beforehand, value timber that might be used. Full details in Source | A-110 | ||
| Roads | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1771-03-20 | London | Left London, with family, will reach home on 23 March | A-038 | |
| Parliament | Lax, Anthony | 1771-03-27 | London | House of Lords Committee, with Varley, John gives evidence to, says the canal is a viable concern. Say canal is staked out, £56,000 subscribed, landowners book | A-002 | |
| Parliament | 1771-03-28 | London | Canal Act received the Royal Assent | A-038 | ||
| Parliament | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1771-03-30 | Retford | News of Royal Assent arrived, great rejoicings in town. Dined with Booth, Mr. Paid the bellringers to ring for 4 days | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | Lax, Anthony | 1771-03-30 | Chesterfield | Brings news of Act having been passed. Bells rung, meal at the Angel, firework display in Market Square "by the celebrated" Jordon, Mr. "the utmost joy and satisfaction appeared in every countenance" | P-013 | |
| Boats | 1771-04- | Chesterfield | Crew to be a Man and Boy | A-109 | ||
| Cargoes | 1771-04- | Chesterfield | Written notes re estimated cargoes, charges, income | A-109 | ||
| Canal Co | 1771-04-18 | Worksop | George Inn. First General Meeting after passing of Act | A-038 | ||
| Canal Co | 1771-04-18 | Worksop | As well as local locations, investors money to be held at Messrs Lancaster, Bax & Ellill, merchants, Laurence Poultney Hill, London | A-104 | ||
| Shareholder | Acklom, Jonathan | 1771-04-18 | Wiseton | Of Wiseton Hall | A-104 | |
| Links | 1771-06-19 | Derby | Strong public appeal for opponents of the Chesterfield-Swarkestone link to make their views known at the 27 June meeting. "very prejudicial" to landowners between rivers Trent and Derwent | A-103 | ||
| Canal Co | 1771-06-25 | Worksop | Black Bull. First Committee Meeting | A-038 | ||
| Canal Staff | Brindley, James | 1771-06-25 | His salary set as £300 per annum, for "superintending the Execution of the Works" | A-104 | ||
| Links | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1771-06-26 | Derby | Went with Sutton, Mr, re Lax, Anthony calling a meeting to discuss a link to Swarkstone | A-038 | |
| Links | Brindley, James | 1771-06-27 | Derby | Meeting, the George Inn, 11am. Attended, with plans, link between Chesterfield and Swarkestone. Many there, "great majority" against Chesterfield-Swarkestone link - they have rivers Trent & Derwent, don't need a canal, "pompous accounts" of trade improvements, estates on southern half of [Trent & Mersey] "greatly injured" | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | Brindley, James | 1771-07-11 | Worksop | Committee meeting, White Hart. Subscriptions now £101,600. Ordered to start work on the canal immediately | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | Hornby, Mr | 1771-07-11 | Gainsborough | Start of lengthy discussions re the return of money, invested by the gentlemen there when the route was to the Trent opposite their town. £116.11s. | A-104 | |
| Construction | Brindley, James | 1771-07-11 | First actions, to widen watercourses from Laughton and Brampton Commons, to the dam of Wood Mill in Anston parish. To make a 4ft drain as ordered in the Act | A-104 | ||
| Shareholder | Glover, Phillips | 1771-07-27 | Subscription £5000 | A-106 | ||
| Construction | 1771-08-16 | Letter to Leeds, Duke of, from Worthington, James Jnr, agent of Stamford, Countess of, warning about the 'tricks' of canal builders. Her property, Dunham Massey, is on the line of the Bridgewater Canal | A-190 | |||
| Canal Staff | Lax, Anthony | 1771-09-05 | Chesterfield | Appointed as Clerk and Solicitor, salary £100 per annum, plus travelling expenses, and postage | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Peacock, John | 1771-09-05 | Worksop | Appointed as Paymaster, salary £25 per annum | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Varley, John | 1771-09-05 | Appointed as Clerk of the Works, salary £100 per annum, plus travelling expenses, and postage | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Brindley, James | 1771-09-05 | Chesterfield | Ordered to "procure a proper quantity of Deal plank and Balk, from Messrs Wilkinson. The first order known for the construction of the canal | A-104 | |
| Tunnels | Billam, Mr | 1771-09-05 | Norwood | Of Leeds. His land needed for "a deviation intended to be made in the tunnel". Also, land of Leeds, Duke of | A-104 | |
| Navvies | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1771-10-10 | Paid 2s to workmen at the canal. 2 day visit | A-038 | ||
| Canal Co | Brumby, Thomas | 1771-11-11 | Retford | Writes to advise Porter, John re sale of £500 of shares | A-231 | |
| Construction | Brumby, Thomas | 1771-11-11 | Norwood | Began "about 3 weeks ago". "are certain of plenty of water", "subscribers in high spirits" | A-231 | |
| Shareholder | Porter, John | 1771-11-11 | Hull | Of Swanland Hall. Has £500-worth of shares, wishes to dispose of | A-231 | |
| Construction | 1771-11-14 | Norwood | "Near 300 men at work" digging canal at both ends of tunnel, 2 "strong springs" found, will supply summit level, enough to do treble the business estimated. Canal will be completed in 3 years | A-103 | ||
| Canal Co | Heathcote, Godfrey | 1771-12-25 | Chesterfield | Paid an instalment on his £1,000 investment | A-031 | |
| Canal Co | Wilkinson, Allwood | 1771-12-25 | Chesterfield | Signing receipts for shareholder installments paid | A-031 | |
| Canal Co | 1771-12-25 | Chesterfield | Shareholders payment receipts now in printed form | A-031 | ||
| Canal Staff | Varley, John | 1771-12-26 | Norwood | Has already surveyed and set out the course nearby | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1772- | "Barrow Lime" from Barrow-on-Soar used in wet areas as it will set under water. 'Hydraulic Cement' | P-219 | |||
| Canal | Quincey, Thomas | 1772- | Retford | Some years ago Great North Road turned through the town, "and the canal from the Trent to Chesterfield, being to pass by the ends of two streets, will be another advantage, probably of equal consequence" | P-251 | |
| Construction | Lax, Anthony | 1772-01-04 | Kiveton Park | Writes to McDonald, Eneas [Senior Agent to Leeds, Duke of] - who has complained of a building in front of Kiveton House, also navvies not keeping to roads, too much damage done. Lax writes, building "very unthinkingly done", will remove, and build it where McDonald approves. Navvies dealt with. | A-200 | |
| Weather | 1772-01-07 | Retford | Start of snow falling. Worsened 1-2 February | A-038 | ||
| Surveying | Kirke, William | 1772-01-15 | Swarkestone | Paid £5/5s towards taking the levels between Chesterfield and Swarkestone[?] | A-065 | |
| Construction | Varley, John | 1772-01-18 | Harthill | Hiring makers of 3 million bricks "in the course of next summer" for nearby works, moulds to be 10ins long, 5ins broad, 3ins thick. | A-103 | |
| Construction | 1772-02- | Kiveton Park | Approx date. Lower section of current retaining wall built. Pictures of current wall in Source. | A-232 | ||
| Weather | 1772-02-01 | Retford | 2 days of heavy snow, high winds. Drifts, roads blocked | A-038 | ||
| General | Varley, John | 1772-03-28 | Harthill | Daughter Hannah, baptised. Also Nelly 1774, John 1776, Betty 1778, Thomas 1781, Francis 1784 | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | Henshall, Hugh | 1772-05-13 | Chesterfield | General Meeting. Ordered to visit the canal works, and report back to the Committee, in person or writing | A-038 | |
| Shareholder | 1772-05-14 | Clayworth | Clayworth farmer Brownlow, Francis and Worksop butcher Adney, William have not paid their instalments on 1 share each | A-104 | ||
| Shareholder | Bacon, John | 1772-05-14 | London | Grocer. Has not paid his instalments on 5 shares. 3 of these shares given to Leeds, Duke of. The other 2 to his Agent, MacDonald, Eneas | A-104 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1772-06- | Many said "noble undertaking...increase of trade." But cost "so prodigious...apprehensive...cannot pay the subscribers common interest for their money expended" | P-251 | ||
| Tunnels | Quincey, Thomas | 1772-06- | Norwood | Approx month. Western portal, "the slope of the hill, near the bottom of it, being cut down...to a perpendicular, in the lower part of this is formed the entrance of the tunnel, but it was then closed up, all but a small door-way". Told, at the inn in Eckington, that length to be 1.25 miles, "and that it had not been long begun" | P-251 | |
| Shareholder | Lucas, Bernard | 1772-06-04 | Sold 2 shares to brother Thomas, had been their father's | A-032 | ||
| Construction | Varley, John | 1772-06-12 | Harthill | Calls for brickmakers go out all month, "wanted immediately" | A-103 | |
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1772-06-15 | Retford | Set out with Mr & Mrs Sutton, Miss Lyon, to Nottingham, Derby, Burton, Lichfield, Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Stratford, Warwick, Daventry, Northampton, Leicester | A-038 | |
| Construction | Brindley, James | 1772-06-26 | Harthill | Gave comprehensive plans, and schedules, for the first locations of construction. Details in source | A-104 | |
| Construction | Lax, Anthony | 1772-06-26 | Forest | To contact landowners on the route, Norwood to Forest [on the approach to Retford] | A-104 | |
| Construction | Gillatts, Mr | 1772-06-26 | Harthill | Location for meeting Leeds, Duke of, and Canal Co. Drew up agreements re land damage, natural resources used, bricks paid for, water leakage, lands valued for canal and reservoirs | A-202 | |
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1772-06-30 | Retford | Returned home after tour of waterways towns | A-038 | |
| Construction | Varley, John | 1772-07-25 | Harthill | Timber wanted immediately - "deal, balk and plank", 6 tons of Riga deal balk 50ft long, 10 tons memel 25 to 40ft | A-103 | |
| Warehouses | Dixon, Richard | 1792-08-22 | Norwood | Letter about a proposal for a warehouse. Includes a sketch of layout | A-189 | |
| Construction | Thompson, Blaydes | 1772-09-03 | Hull | Supplier of "long timber" | A-104 | |
| Construction | Sketchley, Mr | 1772-09-03 | Newark | Supplier of "deals" [timber] | A-104 | |
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1772-09-13 | Retford | His horse Jockey died, age 19, bought him in 1759 | A-038 | |
| Construction | Brindley, James | 1772-09-27 | Died. Knew his health "precarious", trained his brother-in-law Henshall, Hugh to carry on his work, he being well known for "sobriety, application, ingenuity" | A-103 | ||
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1772-10-07 | Retford | Received news that his "much respected friend" Brindley, James had died on 27 September | A-038 | |
| Canal Staff | Gillott, Edward | 1772-10-07 | Clerk of the Brickworks. His orders to Lewis, Edward ignored | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Lewis, Edward | 1772-10-07 | Master Brickmaker. Would not dismiss a Clay Temperer as ordered by Gillott, Edward | A-104 | ||
| Tunnels | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1772-10-20 | Norwood | 9-day visit to, with his servant | A-038 | |
| Water Supply | Bartlett, Mr | 1772-10-29 | Pebley | Some of his land needed, to raise "the Head of Pebley Damm one yard higher than it is at present" | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Henshall, Hugh | 1772-11-25 | Wish to have him take the canal into his management, Brindley, James having died | A-104 | ||
| Canal | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1772-12-24 | Visited the canal, spent 2s/4d | A-038 | ||
| General | Howard, Mr | 1773- | Worksop | Senior Agent of Norfolk, Duke of | A-016 | |
| Canal Staff | Nock, family | 1773- | Birmingham | Bricks layers, stone masons, first arrive on the canal. From Tipton, Staffs, on the route of Brindley's Birmingham Canal, completed the year before. | C-040 | |
| Roads | 1773- | Turnerwood | Approx date. When the canal was built, road diverted across the bridge instead of straight to Lindrick Mill | C-048 | ||
| Navvies | Hutchinson, John | 1773-01-14 | Norwood | From Wales village. Canal Co paid £5.5s to his widow, "she being left with a large family of small children". He was killed in an accident, going down a construction shaft in the tunnel | A-104 | |
| Canal | Hewett, Mr | 1773-01-21 | Haggonfield | Start of legal dispute, until Mar 1774, re ownership of Worksop Common - who can sell land to Canal Co? He or Norfolk, Duke of? [Agent for the Duke was Mander, John of Bakewell] | A-015 | |
| Construction | Varley, John | 1773-02-03 | Worksop | Ordered to set out the line of the canal, from Norwood to the town | A-104 | |
| Construction | Varley, John | 1773-02-04 | Shireoaks | Contractors needed for "open cutting" between Harthill and Worksop | A-103 | |
| Navvies | Buntin, Edward | 1773-02-06 | Harthill | Buried at church | A-028 | |
| Canal | Parkin, Jonathan | 1773-02-13 | Worksop Manor | Paid for cutting down trees in navigation cut, with others un-named | A-026 | |
| Warehouses | Dixon, Richard | 1773-02-17 | Worksop | Approx date. Played a lead role in Canal Co pulling down, overnight, warehouse, removing materials. Legal dispute with Norfolk, Duke of, who allowed to build at wharf? | A-016 | |
| Canal Co | 1773-03-02 | Worksop Manor | Manor accouns show Canal Co account paid | A-026 | ||
| Construction | Dixon, Richard | 1773-03-17 | Barrow | Ordered to go there, to "procure six waggon loads of lime" | A-104 | |
| Construction | Walker, Messrs | 1773-03-17 | Rotherham | The ironmasters have supplied items for the work | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1773-03-17 | Shireoaks | The "8 locks" between Shireoaks and Worksop, to be "proceeded on immediately" | A-104 | ||
| Navvies | Bunting, Edward | 1773-03-17 | Norwood | Has died of "bruises he received from a corf falling upon him in the tunnel". Accident. Long illness, looked after in Harthill by Gillot, Samuel | A-104 | |
| Canal Co | Howard, Henry | 1773-04-02 | Worksop Manor | Money from Canal Co to Manor for land purchase | A-026 | |
| Canal Co | Peacock, Mr | 1773-04-02 | Worksop Manor | Paid Canal Co account, recd of Mr Peacock | A-026 | |
| Construction | Hewitt, John | 1773-04-08 | Shireoaks | A side cut to be made to his quarry near the canal, and stone from there to be purchased for making locks, etc | A-104 | |
| Roads | 1773-04-22 | Worksop Manor | Sending 20 hogsheads of ale to London via Stockwith. 2 waggons and 13 horses, out all night | A-026 | ||
| Canal Staff | Dixon, Richard | 1773-05-13 | Retford | Book-keeper. Annual salary increased to £70, from £40 | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Peacock, John | 1773-05-13 | Worksop | Paymaster. Annual salary increased to £40, from £25 | A-104 | |
| Construction | Varley, John | 1773-05-13 | Retford | Ordered to set out the line of the canal, from Worksop to the town | A-104 | |
| Construction | Henshall, Hugh | 1773-05-13 | To make a "complete and survey and inspection of the works, and report back in writing | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Sykes, Thomas | 1773-05-13 | Carpenter. Has supplied wheelbarrows for £15.12.6d | A-104 | ||
| Navvies | 1773-05-13 | If any run away and be brought back, expenses incurred be deducted from their wages | A-104 | |||
| Canal Staff | Blake, George | 1773-06-10 | Appointed, Overlooker of the Brickworks, pay 12s a week | A-104 | ||
| Navvies | Bunting, Edward | 1773-06-10 | Norwood | Canal Co paid £1.4s.2d to Frith, George for "surgery and drugs" applied after Bunting, Edward's accident in the tunnel | A-104 | |
| Navvies | Varley, John | 1773-06-10 | Norwood | To provide "two leathern waistcoats for the use of the workmen in the tunnel at Norwood Hill End" | A-104 | |
| Tunnels | Varley, John | 1773-06-10 | Norwood | To build a house "at the east end of the tunnel", [Pennyholme] for present habitation, himself and family, and afterwards for Company use | A-104 | |
| Canal | Parkin, Jonathan | 1773-06-12 | Worksop Manor | Paid for cutting down trees in navigation cut 16 days, with others un-named | A-026 | |
| General | Hewett, Mr | 1773-06-22 | Osberton House | Owner of Osberton House. His agent Mr Kirkby. House being rented by Newcastle, Duke of, £65 per year | A-014 | |
| Shareholder | Glover, Phillips | 1773-06-25 | Receipt for £400 instalment paid, 8% of £5000 subscription | A-003 | ||
| Locks | 1773-07-05 | Platt, John and Ibbotson, H, agree to be partners to build a stone lock near Worksop. | A-183 | |||
| Navvies | 1773-07-12 | 5 men sent by Platt, John to start work on building a stone lock, near Worksop | A-183 | |||
| Boats | Henshall, Hugh | 1773-08-03 | Shireoaks | On the Common. At his direction, a shed "for the use of the boat-builders" to be erected. "The end towards the canal so that the boats may float into and out of the same". | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1773-08-03 | Norwood | 12 of the 15 brick-kilns over the tunnel to be closed. The remaining 3 to use up the clay already prepared for them | A-104 | ||
| Locks | Platt, John | 1773-08-03 | At Canal Committee meeting with Henshall, Hugh | A-183 | ||
| Water Supply | Varley, John | 1773-09-01 | Pebley | To report on the number of men "employed in boring and searching for water at Pebley Mill" during June | A-104 | |
| Locks | Platt, John | 1773-10-11 | At the stone lock his men are constructing, near Worksop | A-183 | ||
| Construction | 1773-11-26 | Killamarsh | Makers needed, 1 million "common and dressed "bricks, between here and Worksop, 9ins x 4.75ins x 2.75ins when burnt, Company to supply "good clay" and sand, also has "several new erected kilns" and "great variety" of tools | A-103 | ||
| General | Heathcote, Godfrey | 1773-12-12 | Chesterfield | Buried | A-035 | |
| Construction | 1773-12-15 | All bricks to be made from moulds provided by the Company. Moulds 10ins long, 4.75ins broad, 3ins thick | A-104 | |||
| Weather | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1773-12-20 | Retford | Start of severe frost for 6 weeks, 3-4 falls of heavy snow | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | 1774- | Pennyholme | Approx date, receipt from Canal Co to Leeds, Duke of, for damages done to banks at, and paid to Varley, John | A-191 | ||
| Canal Staff | Nock, William | 1774- | Worksop | Approx date. Age 23, joined the Canal Company, would do about 55 years service. Buried at Worksop Priory, with other members of family, from Tipton Staffs. | C-040 | |
| Navvies | Bownes, David | 1774- | Norwood | Approx date. His family came from the Lake District to work on the tunnel, and Staveley Puddlebank | C-088 | |
| Canal | 1774-01- | Worksop | Damages survey. List of packets of land and uses. | A-021 | ||
| General | Cresswell, R | 1774-01- | Worksop | Listed Owner/tennant of Far Holm and Pasture | A-021 | |
| General | Peacock, Mr | 1774-01- | Worksop | Listed Owner/tennant of Crow Wood, on the Common | A-021 | |
| Quarry | 1774-01- | Haggonfields | On the Common. "there will be more stone got" | A-167 | ||
| Construction | 1774-01-24 | Worksop | Special General Meeting, at the George. Work has stopped at "Norwood Hill, the aqueduct at Damm Bottom near Osburton, and the making another reservoir". Another Committee to be appointed. Get the work going again | A-103 | ||
| Water Supply | 1774-01-24 | General Meeting vote - "the making another reservoir be immediately proceeded on. Vote lost, 484 to 407 | A-104 | |||
| Weather | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1774-02-10 | Retford | Last day of 6 weeks of severe frosts | A-038 | |
| Canal Staff | Henshall, Hugh | 1774-03-02 | Appointed Chief Engineer of the Works, salary £250 yearly | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Lawrence, Fortunatus | 1774-03-02 | Pennyholme | Won contract for moving, by boat, stone for the making of 4 locks | A-104 | |
| Construction | Allin, John | 1774-03-02 | Shireoaks | Carpenter. Won contract to "work, saw, frame, set down and hang, the gates for 10 locks "between Sandhill Close and Shireoaks aqueduct, for £12.8s per lock. [In 1759, Bridgewater Canal, paid for unspecified construction work] | A-104 | |
| Construction | Ibbotson, Mr | 1774-03-02 | To take down his defective "Stone Lock". If he does not rebuild it the Company will do so, and sue him for expence | A-104 | ||
| Shareholder | Wright, Captain | 1774-03-24 | Shareholder. Was selling 1 share to Bright, John - not concluded | A-055 | ||
| Canal Co | 1774-04-06 | Worksop Manor | Paid to Canal Co for timber | A-026 | ||
| Construction | Jee, Johnathon | 1774-04-06 | Forest | Contractor. To "cut the line of the canal from Dam Bottom to Shepherds aqueduct", for 2s.4d per yard, during May. Shepherd, Ralph to cut Shepherds aqueduct to the Forest", for 2s.6d per yard. And £3.3s for "making up a valley in the field adjoining the Forest | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1774-04-06 | Retford | The line of the canal and towpath to be set out "over the Forest to Retford" | A-104 | ||
| Tunnels | Ballington, Jonathan | 1774-04-06 | Norwood | Contractor. To do 300 yards, for £3.3s per yard, to supply his own gunpowder | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Tomlinson, Thomas | 1774-05-11 | Worksop | Appointed. Overseer of the Brickworks, between Sandhill Close and Worksop. Salary 20s per week | A-104 | |
| Construction | Godfrey, Peter | 1774-05-11 | Forest | Contractor. Dig "open cutting" 860 yards at the Forest. Seddon, Thomas, dig "open cutting" 1 mile, from the 4th Forest lock to Fulford Beck, at 2s.7d per yard | A-104 | |
| Construction | Noake, William | 1774-05-11 | Retford | Contractor. With Bough, James, to work and set the stone for all the locks from "Worksop River to Retford River". Also stonework for bridge copings, aqueducts, towpaths | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1774-05-11 | Retford | 200,000 bricks to be made at Retford Town End, for building the lock there | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Gillott, Thomas | 1774-05-11 | Contractor. To make all the ironwork needed | A-104 | ||
| Tunnels | Watts, Samuel | 1774-05-11 | Norwood | Made a model of a machine for "drawing boats thro' the tunnel". Given 5s for showing it to the Committee | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Brindley, James | 1774-05-12 | Intestate when he died, had 15 shares, instalments not up to date. 10 passed to Henshall, Hugh, 5 kept in hand | A-104 | ||
| Navvies | Varley, Francis Snr | 1774-05-12 | Norwood | To be immediately discharged from the works, with Varley, Thomas, and Varley, Francis Jnr | A-104 | |
| Navvies | Gillot, Mr | 1774-05-12 | Shireoaks | Allowed to use the smithy and its tools | A-104 | |
| Navvies | Jones, Thomas | 1774-05-12 | Worksop | Contractor. Locks between Worksop River and Retford River, £15 per lock, masonry, carpentry, labouring, hanging gates. Made his mark, X, on contract | A-104 | |
| Navvies | 1774-05-12 | All blacksmiths to be discharged, tools and iron to be collected, stored securely | A-104 | |||
| Tunnels | Fletcher, Samuel | 1774-05-12 | Norwood | Contractor. To finish the length not done by Varley, Thomas, at £2.10s per yard. To supply own gunpowder | A-104 | |
| Tunnels | Handbury, John | 1774-05-12 | Norwood | Contractor. 90 yards of bore at £3.3s per yard. Jones, Charles 170 yards of bore at £3 per yard. Both to supply own gunpowder | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Best, Mr | 1774-06-15 | To collect all the "planks and all other sawed wood" from along the canal, and store securely | A-104 | ||
| Cargoes | Norborne, Mr | 1774-06-15 | Kiveton Park | Colliery owner. The coal, owned by the Canal Co, at his pit to be moved by road, and stacked at Dog Kennels, to be moved by boat to Retford as soon as canal open | A-104 | |
| Construction | Morton, Thomas | 1774-06-15 | Retford | His contract with Stevenson, Seth Ellis, confirmed. For 150,000 bricks. Extended to another 50,000 | A-104 | |
| Construction | Mason, John | 1774-06-15 | Supplier of lamplighting | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Robinson, Mr | 1774-06-15 | Canal Co paid £2.2s for "surgeon's bill for curing his servant's leg". [Presumably an accident on the works] | A-104 | ||
| Navvies | Day, John | 1774-06-15 | Norwood | Contractor. To make 200,000 bricks "upon the tunnel", for 10s.6d max, with Lewis, Edward | A-104 | |
| Navvies | Day, John | 1774-06-15 | Shireoaks | Contractor. To make 1 million bricks on the Common, with Lewis, Edward. To be stacked by the canal 1 year from now, 13s per thousand. Canal Co will build another kiln, and extend two more, for their use | A-104 | |
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1774-06-24 | Clayworth | Went there to dine with Mr Dawson | A-038 | |
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1774-06-29 | Cambridge | Left to take his Master of Arts Degree. Home 8 July | A-038 | |
| Crime | Downes, William | 1774-07- | Shireoaks | Approx month. Has "cut down" the banks, water lost. Tenant of Hewitt, Mr. To pay £3 damages, as it's his first offence | A-104 | |
| Crime | Arthur, Robert | 1774-07- | Approx month. Has done damage to the banks of the canal. Canal Co determined to prosecute...with the greatest severity" | A-104 | ||
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1774-07-05 | Cambridge | Took his Master of Arts degree, back home on 8th July | A-038 | |
| Bridges | 1774-07-13 | All to be - for "capital roads" min 21ft breadth within the walls. The walls or battlements, min 5ft 3ins high from the crown of the arch. For Bye Roads, min 15ft breadth. For "bridges of communication", min 12ft breadth within the walls. The walls or battlements of both, min 4ft 9ins high from the crown of the arch. All already built - the battlements to be raised to the respective heights | A-104 | |||
| Cargoes | Worstenholme, Martin | 1774-07-13 | Kiveton Park | To make a machine to accurately weigh the coal from Mr Norborne's pit, stacked at Dog Kennels | A-104 | |
| Construction | Holmes, Joseph | 1774-07-13 | Haggonfield | To burn lime [often for mortar]. No more than 1 ton of coal to produce 2 chaldrons of lime | A-104 | |
| Construction | Belk, Peter | 1774-07-13 | Worksop | Timber being transported by road, to the Common, from Welbeck. At 7s per ton | A-104 | |
| Crime | 1774-07-13 | People along the canal line, taking away tools, claiming they had lent them to the Canal Co. Will be prosecuted | A-104 | |||
| Navvies | Cope, John | 1774-0803 | Of Birmingham. Undertaker of the Locks. Chased to complete the locks | A-104 | ||
| Canal | Moody, Edward | 1774-08-03 | Molecatcher. One year contract, along the canal, max price 10s.6d per mile | A-104 | ||
| Crime | 1774-08-03 | Handbills to be handed out along the works, those damaging the canal will be prosecuted. £5 rewards offered for information | A-104 | |||
| Bridges | Read, John | 1774-08-31 | Babworth | Bricklayer. To build for Old London Road, £11.11s. | A-104 | |
| Construction | Godfrey, Peter | 1774-08-31 | Retford | Contractor. To cut the canal from Town End, to "the Cross Road called Bishop Gate", 3s.2d per yard. Robinson, John, to cut the canal from "the Cross Road called Bishop Gate" to the aqueduct at Babworth, 3s per yard | A-104 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09 | Retford | West Retford lock "is begun", nearby "a handsome brick bridge", arch large, towpath under. Eastbound, across Idle valley, on mound of earth then aqueduct, when complete will "exhibit a striking appearance" | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09 | Retford | Forest Locks. Built of bricks capped with stone. Canal is 36 feet wide at top, but in some places 28 feet. In other places only 16.5 feet at the bottom "varying according to the depth, regulated by an even or unequal surface" | P-251 | |
| Boats | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Kiveton Park | "common construction of canal boats, being extremely narrow and yet 69 feet long, the impossibility of their turning is remedied by the rudder, which hangs on at either end" | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Kiveton Park | 1.5 miles of canal navigable from east portal of Norwood tunnel | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Norwood | Work delayed by water, stone, but 1300 yards finished and navigable "towards the east end", and a "considerable distance at the west". Shafts sunk as usual, "less than 100 yards" apart, blasting or loosening stone then drawing that up. Lengths finished had arch completed, shafts filled in. Tunnel arched, walled, paved - brick, elsewhere stone | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Norwood | Tunnel will have doors at each portal "to shut up the arch in stormy weather, or when it may be esteemed necessary" | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Norwood | By eastern portal a quarry of fine stone, ready for conveyance. Another above the tunnel with a crane "kept in a perpendicular position by ropes fastened to the sides of the hill", stone lowered down shafts to boats | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Norwood | Bricks for tunnel made from clay "thrown out in sinking the shafts". | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Norwood | Near east portal "a complication of locks; ot these the four upper ones are in great forewardness", 13 more to be added. What a view it will be, boats coming out of a "large oven mouth", down "extensive stairs", almost an illusion | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Norwood | At west portal "a diminutive rill sunk [below canal] near the head of the tunnel locks". | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Retford | "Most of the open canal between Norwood and Retford is completed, together with several locks" | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Retford | West Retford lock - westwards, a valley banked across for 150 yards, canal on top narrower than usual, boats cannot pass, done so water pressure will not break the mound. A large brook under the canal via an arch. | P-251 | |
| Construction | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Road bridges of one brick arch, sometimes stone | P-251 | ||
| General | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | Gainsborough | "A considerable trading town, the streets...all new paved". Has 12 ships of 140 tons each besides sloops and small craft. Vessels lay their sides close to the warehouses | P-251 | |
| Boats | Quincey, Thomas | 1774-09- | West Stockwith | Merchant vessels are built, one of 100 tons recently. Trent spring tides can rise 12 feet, but tides may not reach when river in flood. Tidal bore of 5 feet | P-251 | |
| Canal Co | Griffiths, John | 1774-09-29 | Eckington | Sold/leased his land to Company, for building the canal | A-033 | |
| Shareholder | Bailey, Thomas | 1774-09-29 | Retford | Sadler, his widow Sarah sold his 1 share, for £85 | A-034 | |
| General | Mosman, Sampson | 1774-10-20 | An Alderman of Retford. Laid down a hop ground for Newcastle, Duke of | A-018 | ||
| Construction | Robinson, John | 1774-10-24 | Retford | Contractor. With Robinson, William to do the banking, west side River Idle, 6.5d per cubic yard. Also to cut the canal from York Road to Clayworth, 2s.9d per yard, by 1 May | A-104 | |
| Construction | Hewitt, John | 1774-10-24 | Shireoaks | Ongoing dispute, re damage done getting stone from his quarry for the canal. [See source for details] | A-104 | |
| Boats | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1774-11-01 | Retford | First boat with coal reached Town End, consigned to him | A-038 | |
| Construction | 1774-11-01 | Retford | Norwood to here completed, 16 miles, 19 locks, 24 bridges, 7 aqueducts, 13 culverts, 8 "side trunks", 4 weirs | A-103 | ||
| Canal | Bright, John | 1774-11-02 | Retford | 1st boat to Retford has arrived, with coal. A hogshead of ale, for the town, charged to Newcastle, Duke of account | A-064 | |
| Parliament | Wray, Sir Cecil | 1774-11-02 | Retford | Meeting to discuss who should stand at election. Decided he should stay as member if he wished | A-064 | |
| Navvies | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1774-11-21 | Retford | Paid 5s/6d to men getting clay out of canal for him | A-038 | |
| Aqueducts | 1774-12- | Bracebridge | Valuation and Schematic of Ryton Aqueduct, feeder and lock. Land taken 22, 3, 18, value 1 year £18/3s/3.5d, 40 years purchase £734/11s/8d. Canal Co paid £716/10s | A-022 | ||
| Canal | 1774-12- | Worksop | Post and Rail on outside of towpath | A-022 | ||
| General | Atkinson, F | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Champion, Noble | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Cresswell, R | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Dunston, G esq | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Gill, John | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Kelk, George | 1774-12- | Worksop | Surveyor of land for Newcastle, Duke of, selling to Canal Co. Survey from Post and Rail on outside of towpath to the opposite side of the canal. | A-022 | |
| General | Malley, Dolly | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Outram, Francis | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Parkin, John | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Raines, W | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Smith, J | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| General | Thorpe, M | 1774-12- | Worksop | Occupied packets of land on canal route | A-022 | |
| Water Supply | Cresswell, R | 1774-12- | Worksop | Feeder drain from his Priorswell meadow, crossing mill race to Hop-Yard to continue under canal and then empty into canal in Howards Hill | A-022 | |
| Construction | Levick, John | 1774-12-07 | To finish the job in hand, never again to be employed | A-104 | ||
| Tunnels | Storey, Joseph | 1774-12-07 | Norwood | Supplier of "liquor given to the workmen at the tunnel" [navvies] | A-104 | |
| Tunnels | Varley, John | 1774-12-07 | Norwood | To hasten work at the tunnel, more hands if necessary | A-104 | |
| Navvies | Williams, Mr | 1774-12-28 | Retford | Injured in rioting, "so terribly wounded in the head that he cannot possibly survive", and another had his leg broke | A-103 | |
| Navvies | 1774-12-28 | Retford | Riot, opposing election parties, rowdy mob threw stones at the Crown, windows, glasses, punch-bowl broken. Those inside sent for navvies who drove rioters off, serious fighting. | A-103 | ||
| General | Storrs, Joseph | 1775- | Chesterfield | Approx date. A Quaker | A-035 | |
| Lead Mines | Barker, Alexander | 1775- | Chesterfield | Approx date. Senior lead mine admin, Devonshire, Duke of, mines in Peak District | A-035 | |
| Navvies | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1775-01-06 | Retford | Dinner host to those with canal interests, Robinson, John, Mr/Mrs Blake, Mr/Mrs Nock, Morton, Thomas | A-038 | |
| Canal | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1775-01-10 | Chesterfield | Told Canal Co of wide canal plans Retford-Trent, width 28ft to 31ft, depth 4ft.6ins to 5ft, seven locks 14ft wide, trade via Hull | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1775-01-23 | Retford | He and Kinder, Mr checking accounts with Chesterfield men - Jebb, Mr, and Wilkinson, Isaac. For 2 days | A-038 | |
| Construction | Varley, John | 1775-01-24 | Misterton | Ordered to set out the route over "Misterton Openfields and Commons". The Commissioners of the Inclosure to be informed, Spilsborough, Mr | A-104 | |
| Tunnels | Henshall, Hugh | 1775-01-24 | Norwood | Contracts for work not available at the rates stipulated. Major problem. Full details in source | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Best, John | 1775-01-25 | Retford | To be wharfinger. To "guage and number" the Company's "several boats" | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1775-01-25 | Worksop | The "business at and about...is nearly finished" | A-104 | ||
| Construction | 1775-01-25 | Daily max to be paid. A cart and 3 horses, 7s. Wagon and 4 horses, 10s. Wagon and 5 horses, 11s.6d | A-104 | |||
| Canal Staff | Dukes, James | 1775-01-25 | Superintendant of the Locks, 8s a week. To be discharged if does not attend the works | A-104 | ||
| Navvies | Allen, Robert | 1775-02-22 | Norwood | Broke his thigh in accident in the tunnel. Company to pay him £4.4s max, "he being greatly distressed" | A-104 | |
| Boats | Grant, Francis | 1775-02-22 | Hayton | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 | With Peacock, John to rent 5 Company boats. Also Stanfield, Thomas and Jenkinson, Simeon and Thompson, John to rent 3 boats Company boats, 6,7,8. All eight at 10s each, weekly. All to carry construction items (bricks, stone, lime, gravel). [Rates in source] | A-104 |
| Bridges | Storey, John | 1775-02-22 | Killamarsh | With Holmes, John. To build a stone bridge "near" Mundy, Mr, at 8s per rood | A-104 | |
| Construction | Toft, John | 1775-02-22 | Norbriggs | To make 300,000 bricks, at 8s.6d per thousand. To build a kiln. Also 50,000 at the Hague, and 50,000 at Renishaw, both at 9s per thousand. To build "an oven" at each place | A-104 | |
| Construction | Day, John | 1775-02-22 | Norwood | With Moody, Thomas. Each to make 500,000 bricks, at 10s.3d per 1000 [Moody signs with an X] | A-104 | |
| Water Supply | Henshall, Hugh | 1775-02-22 | Pebley | To report on the state of the reservoir dam | A-104 | |
| Weather | 1775-03 | Retford | Start of 2 months of cold east/north east winds. Also start of very dry period, until middle of June | A-038 | ||
| Navvies | Mackfarland, John | 1775-03- | Clarborough | Married Ann Lee. | C-109 | |
| Surveying | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1775-03-09 | Styrrup | With Varley, John at Banks Carr, doing private work on drainage. Details in source | A-038 | |
| Navvies | Robinson, John | 1775-03-18 | Retford | Rode to Banks Carr with Stevenson, Seth Ellis | A-038 | |
| Sickness | 1775-04- | Retford | This month, fever among the poor, "numbers died" | A-038 | ||
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1775-04-12 | Clayworth | With son, dined with Mr Dawson | A-038 | |
| Navvies | Hallam, Joseph | 1775-04-17 | Harthill | Married Beech, Mary, of Harthill parish | A-028 | |
| Weather | 1775-04-24 | Retford | This week "hotter than was ever known" | A-038 | ||
| Tunnels | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1775-05-07 | Norwood | Passed though in small boat, took 65 minutes. Said to be 2850 yards long | A-038 | |
| Tunnels | Henshall, Hugh | 1775-05-09 | Norwood | Official opening. 300 on boat, with music, through in 1hr 1min, tunnel straight, said to be 2850yds, 12ft high, 9ft 3ins wide | A-103 | |
| Cargoes | 1775-05-10 | Retford | Coal was 15s 6d per ton, now 10s 6d, even though 4 miles carriage by land still necessary until canal extended. Lime was 16s per chaldron, now 9s | A-103 | ||
| Construction | 1775-05-10 | Work towards Chesterfield, from Norwood Hill, "carrying on with the greatest dispatch" Work towards West Stockwith, from Retford, "carrying on with the greatest dispatch"..."on an enlarged scale to admit vessels of 50 or 60 tons burthen" | A-103 | |||
| Boats | 1775-05-11 | All belonging to Company to be taken back from renters, a "proper person" to look after them, check for damages | A-104 | |||
| Bridges | Mettam, Robert | 1775-05-11 | Eckington | To build two stone bridges, and complete within two months | A-104 | |
| Construction | Henshall, Hugh | 1775-05-11 | Killamarsh | To oversee the setting out of a "carriage road" from the canal to Norborne, Mr coal pits | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1775-05-11 | Retford | Wide canal to Trent to go ahead "as now begun". The 9 proposers to ensure £500 is paid to the Company to "defray the additional expense" | A-104 | ||
| Tunnels | Gregory, Joseph | 1775-05-11 | Drakeholes | To create, at £2.2s per yard, to be 16ft wide, 15ft.6ins high. The Company supplying bricks, lime, and all necessary tools. If necessary, a "pit or shaft in the midway" to be done at £7.7s. To be completed in 20 weeks time | A-104 | |
| Construction | Harding, William & Co | 1775-06-22 | Chesterfield | To provide all cast metal for the Company. Racks & rowlers at 14s per 100. Blocks at 10s.6d per 100. Balls, turnalls, tumblers, plates, cramps, thimbles, all at 12s per 100. | A-104 | |
| Construction | Varley, John | 1775-06-22 | Pennyholme | To collect all the "engine wheels" and other implements belonging to the Company and which are now useless. To be sold | A-104 | |
| Boats | Tomlinson, John | 1775-07-13 | May have gauged the boats incorrectly, cargoes overpaid for | A-104 | ||
| Construction | 1775-07-13 | Misterton | The banking over Misterton Carr to be given priority over all other canal digging | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Alsop, Mr & Co | 1775-07-13 | Sheffield | To return to the Company, the models for ironwork | A-104 | |
| Construction | Beardsall, Mr | 1775-07-13 | Has supplied "scoops" totalling 2s.4d | A-104 | ||
| Water Supply | Rhodes, Mr | 1775-07-13 | Pebley | Landowner. To seek an agreement with him, about the raising of the reservoir dam | A-104 | |
| Canal | 1775-07-21 | Welham | First filled with water between Retford Town and Whitsunday Pie locks | A-038 | ||
| Navvies | Platts, Joseph | 1775-07-29 | Retford | Mason. An accident in Retford lock broke his leg. | A-104 | |
| Tunnels | Varley, John | 1775-07-31 | Pennyholme | 11am. Auction of tools/equipment used for construction of Norwood tunnel. [List of items on Wikipedia page "Norwood Tunnel"] | P-013 | |
| Construction | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1775-08-14 | Retford | Agreed with Sugden, Richard & Black, Isaac to make bricks from canal clay. 10ins long, 5ins wide, 2.5ins deep | A-038 | |
| Construction | Ogle, George | 1775-08-21 | Clarborough | A new road to be set out, to his brickyard. To go via Welham Lane, and not through land of Stevenson, Mr | A-104 | |
| Construction | Vallance, Robert | 1775-08-21 | Shireoaks | Together with Peacock, Mr to burn lime for 4s.6d per chaldron. Agree to build 4 kilns, for £1.1s each | A-104 | |
| Canal Co | Rogers, Robert | 1775-09- | Valuer of damages in 1775 | A-021 | ||
| Cargoes | Spittlehouse, Edward | 1775-09-06 | Retford | Canal Co permission given for him have a gate from the towpath to his land. So he can receive lime for his land, but he is to keep the towpath in good order | A-104 | |
| Construction | Henshall, Hugh | 1775-09-07 | He has calculated that an extra £14,000 will be needed to complete the canal. To be raised from the shareholders. | A-104 | ||
| Construction | 1775-10-04 | Norbriggs | A side cut to be made to the turnpike road, between the Doe Lee river and the Toll Bar. To be "begun as soon as the farmers have sown their land" | A-104 | ||
| Navvies | Nock, Joseph | 1775-10-08 | Harthill | Bricklayer. Son, William, baptised. Also Samuel 1777, Joseph 1780, Mary 1783, John 1785, Hannah 1786, George 1788, Elizabeth 1792, Henry 1794, Francis 1800 | A-028 | |
| Navvies | Metcalf, Ann | 1775-10-28 | Retford | With husband John, from 29 July to now, gave lodging to injured navvie Platts, Joseph. Canal Co paid them £2.13s "as a matter of charity". Varley, John to recommend to all navvies that they contribute to a weekly fund for such events | A-104 | |
| Construction | Ward, William | 1775-11-01 | Killamarsh | To be paid £32.8s for damage done to his garden and plantation of trees | A-104 | |
| Navvies | 1775-11-11 | Gringley | Needed between Gringley and West Stockwith. "good hands may earn from 2s to 3s per day", paid every fortnight. Also Canal Co will pay 1s a week to "persons as shall lodge any workmen employed". | P-013 | ||
| Bridges | Parks, William | 1775-11-28 | Clayworth | Built a bridge that failed "owing to the lack of backing". He and Robinson, John and Singleton, William to pay £2.2s each towards the expenses incurred | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Nock, Samuel | 1775-11-28 | Norwood | Had been Surveyor of the Brickworks. Now appointed Overseer of the Locks. To take account of all the boats that pass, charge tonnage, present accounts fortnightly | A-104 | |
| Construction | Allin, John | 1775-11-28 | Hollingwood | To do the wood work on the "six locks" from here to Chesterfield, for £11.11s per lock | A-104 | |
| General | White, John | 1775-12-04 | Chesterfield | Buried. Of London | A-035 | |
| Navvies | Mackfarland, John | 1776- | Retford | Cattle drover who noticed the works, stayed to join. Age 29, single, moderate height, strongley built, unkempt, good use of his fists when provoked, rough in manner, of little education. Became a boatman, and a methodist | P-014 | |
| Ironworks | Smith, John | 1776- | Chesterfield | Acquired furnace and foundry at Brampton ready to catch the trade opened up by the new canal | P-216 | |
| General | 1776- | The Nottinghamshire hop-growing area stretched from Retford to Southwell, where the heavy nature of the soil suited the crop. 35 parishes contained hop-yards. | P-361 | |||
| Weather | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1776-01-07 | Retford | Start of deep snow until the 25th, cannot travel | A-038 | |
| Cargoes | Brown, Mr | 1776-01-09 | Retford | 2 tons of Killamarsh coal delivered to his wharf by boat | A-038 | |
| Shareholder | Lucas, Thomas | 1776-01-12 | Retford | Bought 1 share from Bailey, Sarah for £85 | A-034 | |
| Canal Co | 1776-01-12 | Staveley | Dispute, Rector losing tythes re land taken for canal, no agreement, Canal Co says legally not liable | A-075 | ||
| Weather | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1776-01-14 | Retford | Snow too deep to ride to church. Same a week later | A-038 | |
| Construction | Robinson, Mr | 1776-01-29 | Retford | With Hutchinson, John to make 10,000 bricks | A-038 | |
| Canal Staff | Henshall, Hugh | 1776-01-30 | Has been absent from the works, pressed to attend the next committee meeting | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Acklom, Jonathan | 1776-01-30 | Wiseton | A drain to be improved to prevent flooding of his land, also repair the road leading from "the bridge to Gingley" | A-104 | |
| Shareholder | Bright, John | 1776-02-14 | Starts to pay calls on extra 14% extra subscritions over the original price | A-055 | ||
| Canal Staff | Windle, John | 1776-03-05 | West Stockwith | Appointed as wharfinger, salary to be settled later | A-104 | |
| Construction | Henshall, Hugh | 1776-03-05 | Norbriggs | Side cut still not done. He's to say if it should be a cut or a road, and to do whichever as soon as possible | A-104 | |
| Water Supply | Heathcote-Rodes | 1776-03-26 | Pebley | On his land, Canal Co has "enlarged, deepened, widened, and extended Pebley mill pond, to use as canal reservoir. Turnpike road diverted to do so. Leisure island created in reservoir | A-233 | |
| Boats | Lax, Anthony | 1776-04-02 | Killamarsh | To ascertain the time taken for a boat from here to reach West Stockwith, and return, laden with goods. To advertise thus | A-104 | |
| Bridges | Woodhouse, Robert | 1776-04-02 | Misterton | A swivel-bridge to be made immediately in his land | A-104 | |
| Construction | 1776-04-02 | Newark | 3 acres and 3 roods of land used/damaged by the canal works owned by the Trustees of Newark School | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1776-04-22 | Retford | Agreed with Hind, Joseph for purchase of clay for making bricks during the summer. Usual size | A-038 | |
| Shareholder | Milnes, Richard Dr | 1776-04-22 | Chesterfield | Bought 5 shares from Richard Milnes, Gracechurch Street, London. Ironmonger. Paid £242.10s.0d | A-246 | |
| Warehouses | Henshall, Hugh | 1776-05-08 | West Stockwith | A "convenient shed" to be built as a temporary warehouse on Canal Co land, as specified by him | A-104 | |
| Boats | MacPherling, Mr | 1776-06-04 | Joint owner, with White, Mr of a boat that took a lock-gate off its hinges. Damages to be assessed and charged to them | A-104 | ||
| Canal | Mason, W | 1776-06-18 | West Stockwith | Agent to Newcastle, Duke of, letter, disputed land next to lock and basin. Canal Co has taken it, outside scope of Act? Duke happy to build facilities on his own land | A-062 | |
| Canal Co | 1776-06-24 | Misterton | Agreement for land sale. See 1776-08-10 | A-046 | ||
| General | 1776-06-28 | Clarborough | Start of implementation of the Enclosures Act, including Welham. Commissioners appointed. Will be enacted 21 January 1779. | P-361 | ||
| Cargoes | Brown, Mr | 1776-07-08 | Retford | 1 ton of Killamarsh coal, for him, arrived by boat | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | Lax, Anthony | 1776-07-12 | Ordered to publish extract of Act, clauses of rules, penalties, etc, relevant to the public, and boatmen | A-037 | ||
| Canal Co | Billam, John | 1776-07-12 | Killamarsh | Ordered that a side cut be made, from the canal in Butchers Close (owned by Leeds, Duke of), to Mr Billam's land Holt Close near his colliery. Mr Billam to pay for it | A-104 | |
| Canal Co | Dunning, Counsellor | 1776-07-12 | West Stockwith | His opinion sought on a dispute between the Company and Newcastle, Duke of, about rights to land, under the Act, to create a wharf | A-104 | |
| Locks | Varley, John | 1776-07-12 | West Stockwith | To get materials to the site, by August, "for making the great lock" | A-104 | |
| Side Cuts | Billam, John | 1776-07-12 | Killamarsh | A side-cut to be made at Norwood, to his land, Furnis, Mr also involved. [This will become a dispute with Leeds, Duke of as it goes through his land to reach Billam's] | A-104 | |
| Canal Co | Kelk, Mr | 1776-07-20 | Worksop Manor | Paid, for his extra expenses for survey and drawing up map and copies | A-026 | |
| Weather | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1776-08-02 | Retford | The "hottest day almost ever remembered" | A-038 | |
| Locks | Newcastle, Duke of | 1776-08-02 | West Stockwith | Work on the lock stopped, until dispute with him about land for a wharf be settled | A-104 | |
| Navvies | Allen, Robert | 1776-08-02 | Retford | Paid to him £2.2s towards his doctor's bill for his broken thigh in Retford lock accident | A-104 | |
| Canal Co | Brumby, Martin | 1776-08-10 | Misterton | Living in Gainsborough, formerly of East Retford. Flax Dresser. Selling land/warehouse to Canal Co. Adjacent land owned by Bursall, Robert | A-046 | |
| Canal Co | 1776-08-10 | Misterton | Formal sale agreement confirming deal struck 1776-06-24, for £130. Details location with local references. Receipt included | A-046 | ||
| Canal Staff | Hill, Joseph | 1776-08-16 | Norbriggs | Appointed wharfinger, previously at Norwood | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Whitehead, William | 1776-08-16 | Pennyholme | Lives at Varley, John house, as his Clerk. To note all boats passing, and receive tonnage payments from them | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | 1776-08-16 | If any wharfinger allows a boat to pass without collecting tonnage payment, he will be instantly dismissed | A-104 | |||
| Construction | 1776-08-17 | Norbriggs | Canal navigable between "the turnpike road" here, and West Stockwith. Boats available "and give constant attendance at the several wharfs for conveying goods and merchandizes" | A-103 | ||
| Side Cuts | Billam, John | 1776-09- | Killamarsh | Sketch map of location of Mr Billam's cut, to his colliery. Has a towpath, and a turning-point, off which branched another cut "to limestone". Source contained in A-197 | M-122 | |
| Water Supply | Varley, John | 1776-09-04 | Pebley | To finish reservoir dam as soon as possible, to report on situation regularly | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Henshall, Hugh | 1776-09-05 | Canal Co want to know why he has not been attending the works | A-104 | ||
| Side Cuts | Billam, John | 1776-09-05 | Killamarsh | Work started on creating. Into hillside to reach his colliery. c814yds long. Being done by Varley, John | A-194 | |
| Side Cuts | Leeds, Duke of | 1776-09-26 | Killamarsh | His Agent has seen work underway on side cut to Billam, John colliery , writes to Varley, John. Stop work immediately, ownership of land unclear, will take it to law. | A-195 | |
| Canal Staff | Windle, John | 1776-09-27 | West Stockwith | Appointed wharfinger, £50 annual pay. His wharf and warehouse to be rented by Canal Co, £5.5s annually | A-104 | |
| Cargoes | Cliff, Messrs | 1776-09-27 | West Stockwith | Their parcel of rabbit skins got wet. Received £11 damages | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Best, Mr | 1776-10-18 | Retford | Appointed the Canal Co wharfinger, £20 annually. Also to be the town Corporation's wharfinger | A-104 | |
| Shareholder | Storrs, Joseph | 1776-11-01 | Chesterfield | His uncle, Payne, John of Newall, left him Canal Co shares, and lead mine interests in Derbyshire | A-261 | |
| Cargoes | Windle, Mr | 1776-11-08 | West Stockwith | Had sent Stevenson, Seth Ellis 20 sacks of potatoes | A-038 | |
| Cargoes | Brown, Edward | 1776-11-08 | West Stockwith | Paul Rose | Boat owner, sacks potatoes, landed via the Trent | A-038 |
| Water Supply | Prime, John | 1776-11-09 | Norbriggs | Damages paid to him, for the feeder from the Doe Lee | A-072 | |
| Boats | 1776-11-28 | Boat-building materials all along the canal, to be collected together and sold | A-104 | |||
| Warehouses | 1776-11-28 | Worksop | The disputed warehouse on the Common to be dismantled and the materials taken away. A long running dispute about land rights with Norfolk, Duke of | A-104 | ||
| Boatman | Grafton, Timothy | 1776-11-28 | Boatbuilder, to build a boat for the Canal Co, "at the greatest expedition". One of three ordered. | A-104 | ||
| Railway | Billam, John | 1776-12- | Killamarsh | 83yds of side-cut prepared for "Newcastle Road". [Wooden-railed horse-drawn tramway] | A-193 | |
| Side Cuts | Billam, John | 1776-12- | Killamarsh | Construction details, equipment, costings, methods. Invoice sent to him by Varley, John [Also source A-196] | A-193 | |
| Boats | Bingley, Mr | 1776-12-26 | West Stockwith | Boat owner, via the Trent, landed goods for Stevenson, Seth Ellis | A-038 | |
| Canal Co | 1776-12-31 | Finance. Cumulative Income 1774-11-17 to 1776-12-31. [Limited working as canal sections opened]. Coal £959, Lead £197, Lime £333, corn £39, stone £11, timber £171, sundries £268 Total Freight Income £ 1981 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1776-12-31 | Cumulative tons carried 1774-11-17 to 1776-12-31. Coal 10684, lead 937, lime 8711, corn 420, stone 357, timber 1549, sundries 6696. Total 29356 | A-001 | |||
| Bridges | 1777- | Clayworth | Approx date. Swivel bridge | A-051 | ||
| Canal | Billam, John | 1777- | Killamarsh | Had an interest in packets of land canal went through | A-048 | |
| Canal | Hewitt, John | 1777- | Killamarsh | Had an interest in packets of land canal went through | A-048 | |
| Canal | Pole, Colonel | 1777- | Killamarsh | Had an interest in packets of land canal went through | A-048 | |
| Wharfs | Dixon, Richard | 1777- | Approx date. Published list of all 35 public wharfs, distances from Chesterfield, charge for 1 ton carried for one sixth of a mile was 0.25 pence (one farthing). | A-051 | ||
| Tunnels | 1777- | Hollingwood | 6 ft high, 5 ft 9 ins wide with 2 ft of water. Drainage and coal cargoes. Ran south for 1.75 miles, boats 21 ft long, 7 tubs, which were craned into narrowboats. Deep soft and Black Shale seams. Also I-120 and P-260 | P-127 | ||
| Lead Mines | 1777- | Chesterfield | The lead of the Quaker-formed London Lead Company was sent from Ashover by the canal, and the new turnpike road, during the later years of the Company's work in Derbyshire | P-205 | ||
| Wharfs | Wheldon, Mr | 1777- | Chesterfield | Approx date. Public wharf at his mill, 1.5 miles from Chesterfield. | A-051 | |
| Wharfs | Billam, Mr | 1777- | Approx date. Public wharf at his colliery, between Killamarsh and Norwood. | A-051 | ||
| Wharfs | Gill, Mr | 1777- | Approx date. Public wharf at his lime-works, between Pudding Dyke and Turnerwood. | A-051 | ||
| Wharfs | 1777- | Turnerwood | Approx date. Public wharf at the lime-works. | A-051 | ||
| Wharfs | Norfolk, Duke of | 1777- | Worksop | Approx date. Public wharf at his brickyard, almost 2 miles west of Worksop wharf. | A-051 | |
| Wharfs | Poppleton, Mr | 1777- | Approx date. Public wharf on his land, 1.5 miles west of Chequer House. | A-051 | ||
| Wharfs | Simpson, Lindley | 1777- | Babworth | Approx date. Public wharf on his land. | A-051 | |
| Wharfs | Ogle, Mr | 1777- | Approx date. Public wharf at his brickyard, just over 0.5 mile west of Whitsunday Pie lock. | A-051 | ||
| Canal | Balguy, Mr | 1777-01- | Staveley | Advising Manley, claim re footpath cut by canal | A-054 | |
| Canal Co | Gisborne, General | 1777-01- | Staveley | Staveley complainant, re footpath cut by canal | A-054 | |
| Canal Co | Manley, William | 1777-01- | Staveley | Proceeding started by Staveley residents regarding footpath blocked by canal. Manley is their solicitor. Actually no bridge provided | A-054 | |
| Bridges | 1777-01-16 | Staveley | A footbridge to be made immediately, over the canal on the road to Handley | A-104 | ||
| Canal Co | 1777-01-16 | Staveley | Ordered footbridge to be built, but did not do so | A-104 | ||
| Canal Staff | Coldwell, Timothy | 1777-01-16 | West Stockwith | Appointed wharfinger, and Bookkeeper | A-104 | |
| Side Cuts | Wright, Mr | 1777-01-16 | Anston | The side cut to be made through his land, the Canal Co having purchased the limestone there | A-104 | |
| Canal Co | Nock, Samuel | 1777-01-20 | Harthill | Buried at church | A-028 | |
| Cargoes | 1777-01-28 | Worksop Manor | Paid freight and tonnage for 2 hogshead of wine from Stockwith 6s/3d | A-026 | ||
| Canal Co | Tomlinson, Th | 1777-01-28 | Clerk to Canal Company | A-026 | ||
| Canal | 1777-02- | Renishaw | Depot at? Planks, tressles, barrows brought from here to Killamarsh to create Mr Billam's colliery cut | A-193 | ||
| Canal Co | Mander, Mr | 1777-02-25 | Worksop Manor | Law expenses regarding preparing a case against Canal Co regarding building a warehouse on Worksop Common | A-026 | |
| Warehouses | Hill, Sergeant | 1777-02-25 | Worksop | Building of warehouse dispute to be presented to Hill | A-026 | |
| General | Fletcher, Thomas | 1777-03-07 | Staveley | Staveley land dispute, at site meeting with Barnes, John | A-068 | |
| Canal | 1777-03-08 | Staveley | List of Devonshire, Duke of, tenants with land on route. Names in source | A-067 | ||
| Canal Co | Fletcher, Thomas | 1777-03-08 | Staveley | Signed a list of property on canal route, for Canal Co | A-067 | |
| Canal Co | Riles, Jasper | 1777-03-08 | Staveley | Resident of Staveley Furnace | A-067 | |
| Ironworks | Barlow, Joshua | 1777-03-08 | Staveley | Resident of Staveley Forge | A-067 | |
| Ironworks | Barnes, John | 1777-03-08 | Staveley | Duke of Devonshire agent, signed list of land on route | A-067 | |
| Canal Co | Heaton, John | 1777-03-08 | Staveley | Lawyer at Lincolns Inn, written to by Barnes, John re land problems/dispute | A-068 | |
| General | Barnes, John | 1777-03-08 | Staveley | Writes to Heaton, John re on-site meeting. Devonshire, Duke of, tenants much inconvenienced by the creation of the new canal, and the Canal Co reaction | A-068 | |
| Canal Co | Wright, Robert | 1777-03-25 | Anston | List of deeds. 4 acres approx of limestone quarry | A-059 | |
| Side Cuts | Lax, Anthony | 1777-03-25 | Norbriggs | Land bought for Norbriggs Arm, and feeder from the Doe Lee, from Devonshire, Duke of. £1395 | A-071 | |
| Locks | 1777-04-02 | West Stockwith | The lock into the Trent "be proceeded upon with all proper expedition" | A-104 | ||
| Crime | Baker, Robert | 1777-05-08 | Retford | Taking and carrying away timber of the Canal Co. Also navigated a boat without paying, boat to be seized. To be prosecuted for both | A-104 | |
| Navvies | 1777-05-14 | Chesterfield | Start of last 3 weeks of effort to finish in time for official opening, their labour "almost exceeds belief" | A-103 | ||
| Side Cuts | Billam, John | 1777-05-26 | Killamarsh | Work completed on creating. Done by Varley, John. By c1950s known locally as The Carole, to colliery of Greensmith family | A-194 | |
| Cargoes | Upsdell, Peter | 1777-06-03 | Worksop | Freight, Worksop to West Stockwith 18d (1s/6d) per ton | A-018 | |
| Canal | Upsdell, Peter | 1777-06-03 | Worksop | Crane, Wharf and Warehouse to be built. Could be Haggonfields area | A-018 | |
| Cargoes | Upsdell, Peter | 1777-06-03 | Worksop | Proposal to lease Steetley quarry and Spring Stone Quarry from Newcastle, Duke of, at £150 pa for 21 years. Plan to quarry stone then cart it to canal for onwards to Stockwith, then by sea to London. Costed example | A-018 | |
| Construction | 1777-06-04 | Chesterfield | Official opening of canal. Boat arrives at Tapton lock from West Stockwith, vast crowd, music, firing of guns, flags. Cargo loaded into wagons, pulled into town by navvies, with music. Later, bells, bonfires, fireworks | A-103 | ||
| Locks | 1777-06-04 | Chesterfield | Tapton Lock, scene of official opening of the canal | A-103 | ||
| Navvies | 1777-06-04 | Chesterfield | 300 at official opening of canal, some pull wagon of cargo into town, all rewarded with "handsome treat" [food, street party], called "Sons of Riot and Confusion, but behaved in the most decent and orderly manner", dispersed "without making any disturbance" | A-103 | ||
| Canal Co | Poplewell, George | 1777-06-05 | Mortgage no 118. Canal Co mortgaging tolls to raise funds. £200 from Poplewell at 5% interest. Paid half-yearly June and December, signed by Lax, Anthony | A-041 | ||
| Canal Co | Skynner, William | 1777-06-05 | Witnessed mortgage no 118 | A-041 | ||
| Boats | 1777-06-05 | Chesterfield | Boat at yesterday's official opening of canal, now with streamers and a musical band, took 100 ladies through Tapton Lock | A-103 | ||
| Canal | Dixon, Richard | 1777-06-11 | To measure whole canal, to instal milestones every mile, between each of which oak posts to mark every sixth of a mile | A-104 | ||
| Construction | Leeds, Duke of | 1777-06-24 | Summit level | Land sold by, for canal tunnel east portal to top lock, first Harthill reservoir, and Billam, Mr side cut at Norwood. Received from Canal Co £1175/4s/2d | A-199 | |
| Side Cuts | Billam, John | 1777-06-24 | Killamarsh | Land for, late addition to list of land sold by Leeds, Duke of for the canal and a reservoir | A-199 | |
| Canal Co | Skynner, William | 1777-06-25 | Signed and sealed mortgage agreement | A-070 | ||
| Canal Co | 1777-06-25 | Mortgage no 135. Canal Co mortgaging tolls to raise funds. £1240 from Devonshire, Duke of at 5% interest | A-070 | |||
| Water Supply | 1777-06-25 | Harthill | Land that will be taken for first Harthill reservoir. In source A-199 | M-125 | ||
| Boats | 1777-07-11 | Bye-laws.No master shall navigate a boat with rudder foremost, or without a rudder. Penalty £1. Boats not to pass through any lock before 4am, or after 9pm (summer), not before 6am or after 6pm (winter) [As amended on 27 November] | A-104 | |||
| General | Varley, John | 1777-07-28 | Engineer, on planning of Erewash Canal. Paid £42 expenses for work done and appointed to manage the works at £220 a year. Starting next day. | A-036 | ||
| Boats | Hill, Daniel & Co | 1777-08-01 | Chesterfield | Start of business. Boats will go, twice a week, to and from West Stockwith. Also vessels will "sail twice every week from West Stockwith to Hull and back". | A-103 | |
| Canal Staff | Coldwell, Timothy | 1777-08-01 | West Stockwith | Wharfinger. | A-103 | |
| Cargoes | Hill, Daniel & Co | 1777-08-01 | Chesterfield | Start of business to West Stockwith - grocery, hemp, flax, loose corn, 10s per ton. Iron, deals, raff, corn in bags, stone, slate, plaister, 9s per ton. Pipes, butts, puncheons, and pieces of liquors, at 7s each | A-103 | |
| Wharfs | Jewitt, Joseph | 1777-08-01 | Hull | Wharfinger, handling cargoes on behalf of Hill, Daniel & Co, from the canal | A-103 | |
| Cargoes | Storrs, John & Co | 1777-08-19 | Chesterfield | Start of business - [same terms as Hill, Daniel & Co 18 days before] grocery, hemp, flax, loose corn, 10s per ton. Iron, deals, raff, corn in bags, stone, slate, plaister, 9s per ton. Pipes, butts, puncheons, and pieces of liquors, at 7s each | A-103 | |
| Cargoes | Storrs, John & Co | 1777-08-19 | West Stockwith | Goods will be forwarded to London, Hull, Norfolk, Gainsborough or any part of Lincolnshire. Goods inward will be forwarded to any part of Derbyshire, Cheshire, or Lancashire | A-103 | |
| Cargoes | Storrs, John & Co | 1777-08-19 | White or grey plaister, stone, tiles, "or any other ponderous article lying near the canal" will be delivered to a wharf | A-103 | ||
| Tunnels | 1777-09-03 | Norwood | Tenants of Leeds, Duke of, have removed coal over the tunnel, thereby taken the weight off the arch, damaged 19 yards | A-104 | ||
| Canal Co | Jebb, Samuel | 1777-09-04 | Norbriggs | Signed the lease for the colliery. Also Nall, Richard - Poplewell, George - Simpson, Lindley - Bright, John - Wilkinson, Isaac | A-030 | |
| Canal Co | White, Mr | 1777-09-04 | Worksop | Councillor. Supped with the Canal Co committee, 5 of whom went with him to West Stockwith | A-038 | |
| Boats | 1777-09-04 | 11 to be built immediately, for the Canal Co | A-104 | |||
| Construction | 1777-09-04 | The "works of the navigation being so nearly completed" | A-104 | |||
| Cargoes | 1777-09-04 | Full list of 60 cargo types, charges per weight, in source | A-104 | |||
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1777-09-14 | Retford | At 11am, slight earth tremour, 3-4 seconds, "like a heavy bucket falling rapidly into a deep well". | A-038 | |
| Canal Staff | Whitehead, William | 1777-10-16 | Norwood | A house to be built near the west portal, abode for him as Lock Inspector, also to collect tonnage payments, and to see boats do not use excess water. A stable to be built for horses waiting for their boats passing through the tunnel | A-104 | |
| Side Cuts | Wright, Mr | 1777-10-16 | Anston | Work on the side cut into his land to be stopped, until the quality of the limestone there has been tested | A-104 | |
| Side Cuts | Walker, Thomas | 1777-10-22 | Killamarsh | Legal officer, Lincolns Inn, London. Written response to questions from Leeds, Duke of, re legality of making the cut to Mr Billams colliery. Canal Co could be sued | A-198 | |
| Collieries | Thompson, Francis | 1777-11-27 | Norbriggs | To create, and erect, a "fire engine" [steam-powered pump] to drain the coal workings. To be paid £1201.6s. | A-104 | |
| Roads | 1777-11-27 | Chesterfield | Lockoford Lane [access to Tapton Lock] to be repaired, and made passable for horses, carts, and carriages | A-104 | ||
| Canal Co | 1777-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £1186, lead £918, lime £162, corn £221, stone £244, Iron £119, timber £413, sundries £452. Total Freight Income £3597 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1777-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 12058, lead 3429, lime 4677, corn 1671, stone2133, iron 519, timber 2575, sundries 5560. Total 32624 | A-001 | |||
| General | Hardy, Thomas | 1778- | Chesterfield | Land of his has been "sold to the canal" | A-035 | |
| Water Supply | 1778- | Pebley Pond | Approx date. Names of land taken for increasing its capacity, to serve the canal as a reservoir | A-194 | ||
| Railway | 1778- | To approx 1830s. Various tramways [tramroads] to the canal in Derbyshire. The source has maps/details of 14 - Chesterfield, Staveley (2), Hague Lane, Eckington, Wingerworth, Adelphi ironworks, Glasshouse Common, Inkersall, Norbriggs, Spinkhill, Killamarsh, Ankerbold, Whittington | P-056 | |||
| Lead Mines | Whitfield, Joseph | 1778- | Chesterfield | Ceased his Derbyshire responsibilities for the London Lead Company, returning to the Company's north-east roots | P-205 | |
| Canal Co | Kelk, George | 1778-01-01 | Shireoaks | Meeting with Dixon, Mr, Canal Co agent, to discuss stone quarry. Canal Co will not put it in writing. | A-047 | |
| Side Cuts | 1778-01-20 | Worksop | Lady Lee Arm to be created. For burning of lime, estimated costs/profits based on 1,000 chaldrons each year. 2 boats to be built | A-017 | ||
| Boats | 1778-01-20 | Worksop | Planned to be built for use on Lady Lee arm, 2 boats at £70 each [care - may be a different size to main canal] | A-017 | ||
| Cargoes | Milnes, Dr & Co | 1778-01-22 | Chesterfield | Allowed to make a road, 60 yards long, 4 yards wide, from corner of wharf to "the hedge above the uppermost oak tree". Going to make an iron foundery there. Coals, iron ore, other materials via canal | A-104 | |
| Crime | Cowlishaw, John | 1778-01-22 | Brimmington | Surveyor of the Highways. Prosecuted for "buddling mud and dirt down Brimington Lane and washing the same into the canal" | A-104 | |
| Side Cuts | Gainsford, Mr | 1778-03-24 | Worksop | Allowed to make, from a quarry on his land, through the towpath "at the tail of the lock in the low ground nearest to Worksop". To make a "proper bridge" for the towpath. A stop-gate to be installed across entrance to the cut, controlled by the Canal Co | A-104 | |
| Water Supply | Foster, William | 1778-03-24 | Osberton | Miller. Paid £30 for 3 years damages because water to the mill taken for the canal | A-104 | |
| Water Supply | Dixon, Richard | 1778-03-24 | Thorpe Salvin | To immediately set out the intended feeder from "Thorpe Wood to the summit of the canal" | A-104 | |
| Canal | 1778-05-13 | No one "shall ride, drive, or lead any cattle upon or along" any towpaths | A-104 | |||
| Canal Staff | Lax, Anthony | 1778-05-13 | Chesterfield | His salary ceased, as "the works of the navigation are in great measure completed" | A-104 | |
| Water Supply | 1778-05-13 | Norwood | Only wharfinger or lockkeeper here, allowed to draw any water "from any of the reservoirs" belonging to Canal Co | A-104 | ||
| Water Supply | 1778-05-13 | Boatmen to only use the water necessary to pass through a lock. Only wharfingers or lockkeepers can draw water from one "pond" to increase the water in another. If water insufficient, boat cargo to be lightened onto towpath | A-104 | |||
| Wharfs | 1778-05-13 | Chesterfield | A dwelling house, and accompting house, for the use of the wharfinger to be built immediately | A-104 | ||
| Canal Staff | Hill, Joseph | 1778-07-07 | Chesterfield | Wharfinger. Warned, he will be dismissed if he doesn't "attend his duty and conduct himself with more propriety" | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Mallender, George | 1778-07-07 | Killamarsh | Paid to him, £4.4s for attending as wharfinger | A-104 | |
| Canal Staff | Hodgkinson, Thomas | 1778-09-02 | Norbriggs | Superintendant of the Colliery, 15s per week. A house for him to be built, with land sufficient "for pasturage and hay for a cow" | A-104 | |
| Railway | Waterall, James | 1778-10-09 | Norbriggs | Taking bids to build a "Newcastle Rail Road" [timber-railed horse-drawn tramway] from colliery at Staveley Woodthorpe, to Norbriggs side cut, length 580 yards | A-103 | |
| Water Supply | Wheeldon, Mr | 1778-11-19 | Chesterfield | Miller. Has complained the amount of water, taken for the canal, is damaging his mill's efficiency. Canal Co to investigate water taken since 4 June 1777 | A-104 | |
| Railway | Jenkinson, George | 1778-11-30 | Norbriggs | To complete the Newcastle Rail road [timber-railed horse-drawn tramway] from the colliery to the side cut, "with all convenient expedition" for 2s per yard. To ram the sleepers, rails to be 5ins x 4ins, sleepers at 2ft distance or less if required. | A-104 | |
| General | Varley, Hannah | 1778-12-15 | Harthill | Wife of Varley, John, mother of his children. Daughter of Patters, Benjamin of Dutton | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | 1778-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £1521, lead £914, lime £238, corn £385, stone £244, iron £65, timber £429, sundries £488. Total Freight Income £4286 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1778-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 15823, lead 3263, lime 6842, corn 2743, stone 6129, Iron 327, timber 2620, sundries 4945. Total 42693 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1779- | Clarborough | Approx date. Bone mill, built because of canal, bones ground between stones, worked by horses walking in a circle. Produce loaded into boats, used as fertiliser or added to cattle food. | P-361 | ||
| Boats | Eadon, M | 1779-04-16 | Chesterfield | Near the town. Oak-built for sale or weekly let. Also repairs done. Can be moved via the Trent, to any waterway where 70ft long, near 7ft wide will suit. Eadon based at "Attercliffe Bridge, near Sheffield" | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | 1779-04-21 | Bracebriggs | 2 new culverts and a new shuttle. The mill race to be kept clear and in good order | A-020 | ||
| Canal Co | 1779-04-21 | Osberton | The weir to be made 60 feet longer and 1 inch lower | A-020 | ||
| Water Supply | 1779-04-21 | Bracebriggs | Shuttle to stand as it is now and be opened when the mill is hindered by backwater. Weir to be lengthened as much as may be necessary | A-020 | ||
| Water Supply | Parkin, Mr | 1779-04-21 | Worksop | Canal Co to make proper and effectual methods to take water from the tail of Mr Parkin's mill without injuring the said mill. | A-020 | |
| Side Cuts | 1779-06-03 | West Stockwith | Canal Co management, to view the intended side cut to be made there | A-104 | ||
| Water Supply | 1779-06-03 | West Stockwith | Investigating, would it be proper "to keep the lock into the Trent shut in dry seasons" | A-104 | ||
| Water Supply | 1779-07-23 | Boats going less than 12 miles are common where there is the greatest scarcity of water. So in dry seasons, if carrying less than 20 tons, they will be charged tonnage for a full load. Returning empty, to be charged for 10 tons | A-104 | |||
| Canal Staff | 1779-09-01 | Porters at any wharf are not to demand or receive payments for assisting in loading or unloading goods, they being amply paid. Any doing so will be immediatly discharged | A-103 | |||
| Water Supply | 1779-09-01 | See 1779-07-23. The regulation to apply 15 July to 15 October every year. Will not apply to boats carring lime which will pay tonnage as at other times | A-104 | |||
| Wharfs | 1779-10-10 | Wharfingers will pay a £2 fine if timber or other goods, to be craned into a boat, are attached to "an engine or crane" when not directly under the same | A-104 | |||
| Water Supply | Wheeldon, Mr | 1779-11-25 | Chesterfield | The dispute between him and the Canal Co, re water taken from his mill by the canal, is unresolved. Hartop, John of Brightside, Sheffield, to arbitrate on the damages to be paid | A-104 | |
| Canal Co | 1779-12-06 | Letter from Wray, Sir Cecil, to Bright, Mr snr, regarding mortgage of tolls and an alternative proposal. | A-192 | |||
| Collieries | Curr, George | 1779-12-17 | Killamarsh | Newly opened Norwood Nook colliery, upon the canal, near Gander Lane, has a half share for sale, 2 good beds of coal, both open | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | 1779-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £1677, lead £893, lime £186, corn £449, stone £134, Iron £266, timber £341, sundries £470. Total Freight Income £4419 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1779-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 18153, lead 3180, lime 5732, corn 3101, stone 1978, Iron 1075, timber 1851, sundries 3904. Total 38977 | A-001 | |||
| Boats | Eadon, Mr | 1780-04-14 | Chesterfield | Near the town. Has for sale, a "canal boat of a new construction, being only the second built of this kind. The plan is very much approved of...the very best ever yet in practice". Also available, a new Pleasure-boat | A-103 | |
| Canal Staff | Shingleton, William | 1780-05-10 | Inspector of Locks and Bridges, at £40 a year, plus the "liberty of depasturing his horse on patches of land adjoining, and belonging to" the Canal Co | A-104 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1780-05-10 | Lock keepers to be either carpenters or bricklayers (except Wheeldon, Mr and Dukes, James). Pay 10s.6d a week. To keep locks "in repair within their respective districts" | A-104 | |||
| Canal Co | Hill, Daniel | 1780-06-20 | Chesterfield | Reports to Martin, William that the gentlemen of the Chesterfield Colliery Committee are sure of their error in the scheme, can't find anyone to take it. Committee also tired of Canal and present management. [Martin, William is manager of the Aire & Calder Navigation] | A-237 | |
| Collieries | Hodgkinson, Thomas | 1780-07-08 | Norbriggs | Bailiff at. For sale, newly-erected colliery, "on which a Fire-engine [steam pump] has been lately erected" | A-103 | |
| Shareholder | Inman, John | 1780-07-11 | Chesterfield | Bankrupt grocer. 1 share for sale by auction, at the Falcoln | A-103 | |
| Collieries | Hodgkinson, Thomas | 1780-07-14 | Norbriggs | Bailiff. Newly open for trade, steam-pump. DM, p4 | A-125 | |
| Boatman | Hill, D & Co | 1780-08-29 | Boats every day from Chesterfield and West Stockwith. MM | A-157 | ||
| Canal Co | Rooth, William | 1780-08-29 | Sheffield | Opinion, to Martin, William have been getting better terms for trade now, more could be made of the corn and lead tonnages, the coal not as good as Yorks. [Martin, William is manager of the Aire & Calder Navigation] | A-238 | |
| Canal Co | 1780-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £1511, lead £522, lime £134, corn £134, stone £106, Iron £485, timber £207, sundries £576. Total Freight Income £3844 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1780-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 17065, lead 1852, lime 4093, corn 2227, stone 2667, Iron 1732, timber 1377, sundries 4725. Total 35740 | A-001 | |||
| Roads | 1781- | Chesterfield | Stage coaches | P-027 | ||
| Shareholder | Mason, G | 1781- | Retford | Approx date. Received £120 dividend from canal shares | A-265 | |
| Canal Staff | Hill, Joseph | 1781-01-17 | Chesterfield | Clerk at the wharf, found dead in Counting House, not seen since the 13th, door locked within, "found lying upon his great-coat on the floor, as if asleep" | A-103 | |
| Boatman | Gee, Jonathan | 1781-03-15 | Eckington | Sold his boat to Snibson, John for £39.5s.0d. Boat at Chesterfield | A-029 | |
| Navvies | Rogers, William | 1781-07-11 | Harthill | Carpenter. Married Varley, Rebecca | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | 1781-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £1256, lead £709, lime £131, corn £277, stone £67, Iron £554, timber £238, sundries £539. Total Freight Income £3775 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1781-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 15873, lead 2534, lime 4170, corn 2193, stone 2000, Iron 2046, timber 1243, sundries 4017. Total 34077 | A-001 | |||
| Water Supply | Barnes, J | 1782-03-06 | Staveley | Wants to take over Iron Works, create a Coke Works, but lack of water because of canal makes this untenable | A-082 | |
| Canal Co | 1782-11-19 | Worksop | At George Inn. Whole canal to be offered for let, not exceeding 11 years, also Norbriggs colliery and farm enjoined. | A-103 | ||
| Canal Staff | Dixon, Richard | 1782-11-19 | Retford | Book-keeper, and Clerk of the Works | A-103 | |
| Canal Co | 1782-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £1970, lead £792, lime £121, corn £345, stone £94, Iron £737, timber £252, sundries £495. Total Freight Income £4811 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1782-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 26945, lead 2819, lime 3408, corn 2669, stone 2161, Iron 2654, timber 1254, sundries 3979. Total 45892 | A-001 | |||
| Ironworks | Harper, John | 1783- | Brightside | Arbitrator on dispute at Staveley Forge, also forgemaster Cooke, John | A-111 | |
| Ironworks | Mather, Walter | 1783- | Staveley | Took lease on forge and furnace. Had forges at Bulwell and Makeney | A-111 | |
| Ironworks | 1783- | Staveley | Inventory | A-111 | ||
| Canal Co | 1783-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £2279, lead £651, lime £153, corn £567, stone £88, Iron £183, timber £351, sundries £490. Total Freight Income £4765 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1783-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 27229, lead 2319, lime 3874, corn 3928, stone 2347, Iron 715, timber 1952, sundries 4118. Total 46483 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1784-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £1911, lead £645, lime £132, corn £347, stone £75, Iron £104, timber £478, sundries 512. Total Freight Income £4208 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1784-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 23635, lead 2330, lime 3010, corn 2203, stone 1584, Iron 590, timber 2448, sundries 3997. Total 39798 | A-001 | |||
| Canal | Sitwell, Francis | 1785- | Renishaw | Approx date. Details of land taken and land damaged by canal works. Names of packets of land, size and price. Includes a map. | A-042 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1785- | Approx date. Family lore said he was a boatman on the River Idle as a young man, believe the family was on the canal from the start | C-063 | ||
| Water Supply | Dixon, Richard | 1785-02-08 | Norwood | On behalf of Canal Co to Heaton, John scarcity of water at summit, losing 60% of trade, Mr Glover's scheme will help | A-077 | |
| Water Supply | Staniland, George | 1785-03-18 | Woodall | Tenant on Leeds, Duke of, land, agreement re 2 more reservoirs to be made for summit level | A-078 | |
| Water Supply | Dixon, Mr | 1785-03-18 | Norwood | Agreement for making feeder channel to west end of the tunnel. To plan work with Mawe, Mr | A-203 | |
| Water Supply | Glover, Philips | 1785-03-18 | Woodall | Been to see Leeds, Duke of, in London. Re building of two more reservoirs, and Norwood feeder | A-203 | |
| Water Supply | Heaton, Mr | 1785-03-18 | Woodall | Sollicitor for Devonshire, Duke of. Been to see Leeds, Duke of, in London. Re building of two more reservoirs, and Norwood feeder | A-203 | |
| Water Supply | Mawe, Mr | 1785-03-18 | Woodall | Agent to Leeds, Duke of. London meetings, agreement on land for two new, 17 acres and 27 acres, land of Col Poole and Mr Chapman | A-203 | |
| Canal Co | 1785-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £2483, lead £982, lime £133, corn £377, stone £135, Iron £200, timber £577, sundries £663. Total Freight Income £5553 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1785-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 29307, lead 3780, lime 3360, corn 2638, stone 2417, Iron 1001, timber 3216, sundries 4643. Total 50365 | A-001 | |||
| Shareholder | Taylor, Elizabeth | 1786- | Retford | Approx date. In her will left 6 shares to Taylor, Peter papermaker of Spittlegate, Lincs. Also 2 shares to Collingham, Jas breeches maker of Broadway, Westminster | A-262 | |
| Water Supply | 1786-04-08 | Woodall | Builder wanted, for dam across a valley to form a reservoir. NJ | A-125 | ||
| Cargoes | Clifton, Richard | 1786-05-12 | West Stockwith | Advert, stating intention to trade Chesterfield Canal coals to Lincoln from Stockwith. Covered boat. Looking for return traffic.[No mention of boat type] | A-204 | |
| Boatman | Guest, John | 1786-10-21 | Young man. Fell overboard and was drowned. Verdict Accidental Death | A-103 | ||
| Canal Co | 1786-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £2905, lead £657, lime £149, corn £554, stone £108, Iron £349, timber £515, sundries £683. Total Freight Income £5924 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1786-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 33720, lead 2333, lime 3573, corn 3365, stone 3268, Iron 1543, timber 2708, sundries 4743. Total 55255 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Staff | Warburton, Joseph | 1787- | Retford | Carpenter, later lived at Lock House. Born Grimsby. Baptist | C-106 | |
| Ironworks | Butler, Joseph | 1787- | Chesterfield | Took over a foundry on the banks of the canal at Stonegravels | P-003 | |
| Canal Co | 1787-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £3234, lead £735, lime £176, corn £825, stone £179, Iron £353, timber £841, sundries £895. Total Freight Income £ 7241 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1787-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 36135, lead 2604, lime 2640, corn 4739, stone 4182, Iron 1448, timber 4282, sundries 7365. Total 63395 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | Butler, Mr | 1788- | Killamarsh | Coke from Butler's Lings Colliery by wagon to Chesterfield by tramway [horse drawn railed-way] and road and then onto narrowboats to Killamarsh. Used 1 ton transferable boxes | P-211 | |
| Boatman | Mackfarland, John | 1788- | Retford | In list of Methodists in Retford. | C-109 | |
| Boatman | Simes, James | 1788-04-28 | Chesterfield | Boat owner, grocer, used for "several years", various cargoes. Sold to Taylor, George | A-152 | |
| Boatman | Rose, James | 1788-06- | Clayworth | Methodist. | A-243 | |
| Boatman | Briggs, Thomas | 1788-06- | Gringley | Methodist. | A-243 | |
| Canal Co | 1788-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £2715, lead £790, lime £162, corn £536, stone £256, Iron £279, timber £626, sundries £770. Total Freight Income £6138 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1788-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 31623, lead 3048, lime 3609, corn 3639, stone 5850, Iron 1358, timber 3282, sundries 6362. Total 58773 | A-001 | |||
| Boats | Hill, Daniel & Co | 1789- | Chesterfield | Boat Company, now selling up | A-053 | |
| Boats | Twigg, John | 1789- | Chesterfield | Part owner, with Winchester, Humphrey of a third of Daniel Hill & Co boat company, both now selling up. | A-053 | |
| Boatman | Briggs, Thomas | 1789- | Gringley | Trustee of first Methodist chapel. | P-014 | |
| Boatman | Lake, Wilfray | 1789-05-16 | Worksop | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Accidents | Un-named | 1789-06-06 | Harthill | Drowned in the canal. Buried at church | A-028 | |
| Canal | Varley, Francis | 1789-07-12 | Pennyholme | Buried at Harthill church. | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | 1789-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £3911, lead £1067, lime £176, corn £503, stone £314, Iron £391, timber £723, sundries £856. Total Freight Income £7943 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1789-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 42379, lead 3862, lime 3955, corn 4366, stone 7569, Iron 1554, timber 3444, sundries 7180. Total 74309 | A-001 | |||
| Water Supply | 1790- | Pebley | Neptune shaft, and plug-valve, installed in reservoir dam | A-088 | ||
| Wharfs | 1790- | Renishaw | Approx date. Charges for carts with 1 to 5 horses, narrow and wide wheels. [Wide to prevent road damage] | A-166 | ||
| Lead Mines | 1790- | London Lead Company has sold its Derbyshire interests | P-205 | |||
| Canal Co | 1790-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £4113, lead £900, lime £181, corn £1072, stone £261, Iron £262, timber £489, sundries £954. Total Freight Income £8235 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1790-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 45924, lead 3204, lime 4326, corn 7545, stone 6845, Iron 1383, timber 2422, sundries 13992. Total 85643 | A-001 | |||
| Collieries | Prime, John | 1791-10-04 | Hollingwood | Paid for damages done to his land in Button Croft, by a canal for the use of the colliery. Witnessed by Thomson, Henry | A-097 | |
| Canal Co | 1791-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £4428, lead £786, lime £214, corn £1268, stone £268, Iron £225, timber £578, sundries £970. Total Freight Income £8741 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1791-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 46432, lead 2805, lime 4622, corn 6937, stone 6499, Iron 1271, timber 2763, sundries 8115. Total 79446 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | 1792-03-24 | Gainsborough | Accident. Two canal boats overturned by the wind, near town, 2 men on one boat drowned. NJ 28 Mar, p3 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Co | 1792-10-31 | Norbriggs | Leasing colliery, 15 years, from Devonshire, Duke of, restrictions re coal of Portland, Duke of | A-083 | ||
| General | Dixon, Richard | 1792-12-11 | Retford | List of deeds. Conveyance of land East Retford | A-059 | |
| Canal Co | 1792-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5490, lead £762, lime £162, corn £1266, stone £268, Iron £193, timber £1064, sundries £1008. Total Freight Income £10216 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1792-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 51153, lead 2714, lime 3429, corn 6907, stone 6553, Iron 1148, timber 4863, sundries 8435. Total 85195 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1793- | Chesterfield | Shareholder's book, annual accounts up to 1799 | A-245 | ||
| Boatman | Un-named | 1793-02-05 | Renishaw | Accident. 2 crew died in boat cabin, overnight, stove on, door-vent closed, suffocated. Near wharf. From Great Markham | A-103 | |
| General | Stevenson, Seth Ellis | 1793-07-19 | Retford | Died, aged 69[?] | A-085 | |
| Shareholder | Beswick, Henry | 1793-10-05 | Pilsley | Farmer. In his will, to his daughter Sarah, "£50 as lent by me upon mortgage of the Chesterfield Canal" | C-068 | |
| Canal Co | 1793-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £7952, lead £579, lime £180, corn £1568, stone £278, Iron £213, timber £593, sundries £956. Total Freight Income £12328. Plus wharfage £475 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1793-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 58597, lead 2067, lime 3750, corn 8709, stone 6537, Iron 1346, timber 2920, sundries 7944. Total 91873 | A-001 | |||
| Boats | Smith, William | 1794- | Cost of new 70ft said to be £90 - £100 each | P-019 | ||
| Cargoes | Lowe, Robert | 1794- | Towards Trent - "coal, lead, Steetley stone, lime/limestone, Chirt stone for the glass makers, coarse earthenware, cast metal goods, pig metal, oak timber and bark, sailcloth" | P-047 | ||
| Cargoes | Lowe, Robert | 1794- | Towards Chesterfield - "fir timber and deals, grain, malt anf flour, groceries, bar iron, Cumberland ore, wines, spirits and porter, hemp and flax, cotton-wool and yarn, Westmoreland slate, various sorts of small package" | P-047 | ||
| Cargoes | Lowe, Robert | 1794- | Both directions - "bricks, tiles, hops, candlewicks". | P-047 | ||
| Canal Co | 1794-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5803, lead £670, lime £182, corn £1185, stone £447, Iron £387, timber £566, sundries £966. Total Freight Income £10209. Plus wharfage £429 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1794-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 48560, lead 2390, lime 3934, corn 6607, stone 9944, Iron 1828, timber 2769, sundries 10882. Total 86914 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | Various | 1795- | Listed in first Boat Register | A-058 | ||
| Boatman | Armatage, Richard | 1795- | 16 | One master, one boy. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Bailey, James | 1795- | 1 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Bartholomew, Jones | 1795- | 27 Adventurer | One master, one man, 16 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Booth, Thomas | 1795- | 26 | One master, one man, 17 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Charlesworth, Charles | 1795- | 29 | One master, one man, 19 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Clarke, John | 1795- | 22 | One master, one man, 22 tons. Only navigated between Chesterfield and West Stockwith | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Clarke, John | 1795- | 23 | One master, one man, 22 tons. Only navigated between Chesterfield and West Stockwith | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Clarke, Robert | 1795- | 15 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Cookson, John | 1795- | 4 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Foster, William | 1795- | 10 | One master, one boy. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Gabbitas, Thomas | 1795- | 2 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Gandy, John | 1795- | 8 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Gee, Nathaniel | 1795- | 3 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Heedy, Francis | 1795- | 13 | One master, one boy. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Hodkin, Robert | 1795- | 28 Heart of Oak | One master, one man, 16 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Hurst, John | 1795- | 33 | One master, one man, 20 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Hurst, John | 1795- | 34 | One master, one man, 20 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Jubb, William | 1795- | 11 | One master, one boy. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Marples, James | 1795- | 30 | One master, one man, 19 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Marples, James | 1795- | 32 | One master, one man, 19 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Martin, Richard | 1795- | 25 | One master, one man, 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Mason, Thomas | 1795- | 9 | One master, one boy. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Nettleship, William | 1795- | 24 | One master, one man, 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Newton, John | 1795- | 12 | One master, one boy. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Pashley, Samuel | 1795- | 21 | One master, one man, 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Riley, Joshua | 1795- | 14 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Senior, William | 1795- | 6 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Taylor, John | 1795- | 17 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Taylor, John | 1795- | 18 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Turner, George | 1795- | 31 | One master, one man, 19 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Turner, Joseph | 1795- | 20 | One master, one man, 22 tons. Only navigated between Chesterfield and Staveley | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Watkinson, Samuel | 1795- | 5 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | White, John | 1795- | 7 | One master, one man. 22 tons | A-058 | |
| Boatman | Whitfield, William | 1795- | 19 | One master, one man. 22 tons. Only navigated between Renishaw and West Stockwith | A-058 | |
| Boats | 1795- | Act requiring..all boats, barges..on rivers and canals to be registered by each county | A-058 | |||
| Boatman | Newton, Stephen | 1795- | West Stockwith | Master of boat owned by Godley, William | A-155 | |
| Canal Staff | Oxley, F | 1795-05-23 | Worksop | Wharfinger | A-103 | |
| Cargoes | 1795-05-28 | Worksop | On wharf, 1 barrel pitch, 2 of lipsic alum, 2 sacks trefoil seed. DM p1 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Co | Cross, C & RB | 1795-07-02 | Misterton | List of deeds. Conveyance of land at Misterton Marsh. Plus lease for possession | A-059 | |
| Boatman | Colton, Thomas | 1795-07-16 | Lincoln | Reg No.1 | Owner. Merchant. 2 crew, 16.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries | A-154 |
| Boatman | Jones, William | 1795-07-16 | Lincoln | Barley Corn No.1, Reg No 5 | Owner, and skipper. 2 crew, 16.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries | A-154 |
| Boatman | Strawson, Edward | 1795-07-16 | West Stockwith | Reg No.1 | Skipper, 2 crew, 16.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries | A-154 |
| Boatman | Madin, John | 1795-07-21 | Chesterfield | Betsey, Reg No 9 | Owner and skipper, 2 crew, 16.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield | A-154 |
| Boatman | Bell, Jonathan | 1795-07-21 | Lincoln | Grainery No.2, Reg No 6 | Owner, and skipper. 2 crew, 16.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries | A-154 |
| Boatman | Ledger, Thomas | 1795-07-24 | Clayworth | Reg No 22 | Skipper, crew 1 man 1 boy "common sailor", 17 tons, Stockwith to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Turner, John | 1795-07-24 | Epworth | Reg No 8 | Skipper, 2 crew, 17 tons, West Stockwith to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Thornton, Herbert | 1795-07-24 | Gainsborough | Industry | Owner, 2 crew, 17 tons, Gainsborough to West Stockwith | A-155 |
| Boatman | Winks, George | 1795-07-24 | Gainsborough | Reg No 22 | Owner, painter, crew 1 man 1 boy "common sailor", 17 tons, Stockwith to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Winks, George | 1795-07-24 | Gainsborough | Reg No 23 | Owner, painter, crew 1 man 1 boy "common sailor", 17 tons, Stockwith to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Woolfleet, William | 1795-07-24 | Gainsborough | Reg No 11 | Owner, skipper, 2 crew, 17 tons, West Stockwith to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Cooke, John | 1795-07-24 | Haxey | Reg No 10 | Skipper, 2 crew, 17 tons, West Stockwith to Chesterfield. Owner Snell, Joseph | A-155 |
| Boatman | Townend, William | 1795-07-24 | Haxey | Reg No 8 | Owner, 2 crew, 17 tons, West Stockwith to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Gandy, Thomas | 1795-07-24 | Misterton | Reg No 23 | Skipper, 2 crew, 17 tons, Stockwith to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Bradley, Elias | 1795-07-24 | Morton | Reg No 12 | Owner, skipper, 2 crew, 17 tons, Gainsborough to Chesterfield | A-155 |
| Boatman | Gandy, Richard | 1795-07-24 | Walkeringham | Industry | Skipper, 2 crew, 17 tons, Gainsborough to West Stockwith | A-155 |
| Boatman | Ledger, Thomas | 1795-07-24 | West Stockwith | Reg No 6 | Skipper, 2 crew, 20 tons, Morton to West Stockwith to Chesterfield. Owner Godley, William | A-155 |
| Boatman | Jones, Bart | 1795-08-01 | Lincoln | Thomas & Charles, Reg No 12 | Owner and skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield | A-154 |
| Boatman | Simpson, John | 1795-08-05 | Lincoln | Industrious, Reg No 16 | Skipper, 2 crew, 16 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield. Owners Lowe & Co | A-154 |
| Boatman | Clark, John | 1795-08-06 | West Stockwith | Endeavour, Reg No 24 | Joint owner, skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. Other owner Northin, Thomas | A-154 |
| Boatman | Simpson, Francis | 1795-08-10 | Lincoln | Chesterfield, Reg No 30 | Skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. Owners Messrs Nell & Pilley, merchants | A-154 |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1795-08-17 | Gringley | Tryall, Reg No 27 | Skipper, a lighter, 1 crew, 20 tons, Chesterfield to Gainsborough. Owner Moorhouse, John | A-155 |
| Boatman | Henny, Joseph | 1795-08-17 | Tryall, Reg No 27 | Crewman, a lighter, 1 crew, 20 tons, Chesterfield to Gainsborough | A-155 | |
| Boatman | Fillingham, Samuel | 1795-08-19 | East Stockwith | Reg No.35 | Skipper, 2 crew, 20 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield. Owner Hickson, Joseph | A-155 |
| Boatman | Bradley, Elias | 1795-08-19 | Morton | No 1, Reg No 22 | Skipper, 2 crew, 20 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield. Owner Ashley, William | A-155 |
| Boatman | Bradley, Elias | 1795-08-19 | Morton | No 2, Reg No 33 | Skipper, 2 crew, 20 tons, Gainsborough to Chesterfield. Owner Ashley, William | A-155 |
| Boatman | Smith, Luke | 1795-08-20 | Clayworth | No.1, Reg No 67 | Skipper, 2 crew, 17 tons, Chesterfield to Lincoln. Owner Martin, Samuel S | A-154 |
| Boatman | Pearson, Jonathan | 1795-08-29 | Brimmington | Collier, Reg No 83 | Skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. | A-154 |
| Boatman | Greensmith, Beard, Messrs | 1795-08-29 | Lincoln | Polly, Reg No 80 | Owners, merchants, 2 crew, 16 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield Collieries, | A-154 |
| Boatman | Greensmith, Beard, Messrs | 1795-08-29 | Lincoln | Supply, Reg No 81 | Owners, merchants, 2 crew "person hiring or using", 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. | A-154 |
| Boatman | Greensmith, Beard, Messrs | 1795-08-29 | Lincoln | Speedwell, Reg No 82 | Owners, merchants, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. | A-154 |
| Boatman | Greensmith, Beard, Messrs | 1795-08-29 | Lincoln | Collier, Reg No 83 | Owners, merchants, 2 crew "person hiring or using", 16 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. | A-154 |
| Boatman | Holt, Joseph | 1795-09-01 | Chesterfield | Heighington, Reg No 36 | Skipper, 2 crew, 16 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield. Owner Perry, John victualler of Lincoln | A-154 |
| Boatman | Ingham, Matthew | 1795-09-01 | West Stockwith | No 2, Reg No 99 | Skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. Owner Turner, William of Lincoln | A-154 |
| Boatman | Fox, Francis | 1795-09-01 | Worksop | No 4, Reg No 100 | Skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. Owner Turner, William of Lincoln | A-154 |
| Boatman | Nettleship, John | 1795-09-01 | Worksop | Noah's Ark, Reg No 98 | Skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. Owner Turner, William of Lincoln | A-154 |
| Boatman | Durant, William | 1795-09-22 | Lincoln | Meanwell, Reg No 107 | Joint owner, skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield collieries. Other owner Jones, Joshua | A-154 |
| Shareholder | Waller, William | 1795-12-21 | Chesterfield | Inherited 5 shares from estate of late Milnes, Richard Dr | A-247 | |
| Canal Co | 1795-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6471, lead £578, lime £170, corn £1143, stone £344, Iron £607, timber £573, sundries £994. Total Freight Income £10884. Plus wharfage £457 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1795-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 54830, lead 2015, lime 3226, corn 6311, stone 8507, Iron 2667, timber 2709, sundries 9233. Total 89438 | A-001 | |||
| Water Supply | 1796- | Harthill | Reservoir lowest dam has date in valve tunnel | A-089 | ||
| Water Supply | 1796-04-28 | Harthill | Builder wanted. DM, p1 | A-125 | ||
| Water Supply | Dixon, Richard | 1796-05-04 | Harthill | Interviewed contractors for making an extra reservoir | A-103 | |
| Shareholder | Dickonson, Peter | 1796-06-04 | Retford | Has died, executors sell 1 share to Holmes, John, £107. | A-248 | |
| Canal Co | 1796-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5139, lead £563, lime £190, corn £1328, stone £278, Iron £591, timber £616, sundries £1032. Total Freight Income £9671. Plus wharfage £564 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1796-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 46699, lead 1960, lime 4118, corn 7454, stone 7484, Iron 2523, timber 3129, sundries 10132. Total 83499 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1797- | Gross income for the year, £10883 | A-151 | |||
| Collieries | Butler, Joseph | 1797- | Norbriggs | Took it over from the Canal Co | P-003 | |
| Boats | 1797-02-04 | Leeds | One boat a week from, goods for Gainsborough, all places along Trent and Chesterfield Canal. NJ p1 | A-125 | ||
| Shareholder | Hill, Daniel | 1797-02-18 | Retford | Has died, executors sell 1 share to Holmes, John, £112. | A-249 | |
| Canal Staff | Miller, Mr | 1797-04-06 | Chesterfield | At the wharf. DM, p1 | A-125 | |
| Cargoes | 1797-04-06 | Chesterfield | On wharf, 18 sacks of grass seed from Stockwith. DM,p1 | A-125 | ||
| Boatman | Pacey, John | 1797-11-14 | Lincoln | Thomas & Charles, Reg No 124 | Skipper, 2 crew, 15.5 tons, Lincoln to Chesterfield. Owner Bird, John farmer of Skellingthorpe | A-154 |
| Canal Co | 1797-12-04 | Norbriggs | Special committee at Worksop to fix dividend - 3% and deal with the letting of Norbriggs Colliery. A farm annexed to colliery at £48 per annum and Let to Butler Mr | A-001 | ||
| Shareholder | Brown, John | 1797-12-04 | Retford | Has died, daughter Ann sells 1 share to Holmes, John, £100. | A-250 | |
| Canal Co | 1797-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5491, lead £597, lime £167, corn £1547, stone £311, Iron £564, timber £623, sundries £1037. Total Freight Income £10339. Plus wharfage £543 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1797-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 44455, lead 2097, lime 3657, corn 9206, stone 7742, Iron 2671, timber 3295, sundries 9345. Total 82450 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1798- | Gross income for the year, £10361 | A-151 | |||
| Boatman | Turner, George | 1798-04-20 | Worksop | Fined £1, no assistant on board, to operate locks | A-125 | |
| Cargoes | Turner, George | 1798-04-20 | Worksop | Fined £1, loaded heavy timber in a lock | A-125 | |
| Canal Co | 1798-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5417, lead £336, lime £159, corn £1445, stone £261, Iron £574, timber £670, sundries £972. Total Freight Income £9778. Plus wharfage £547 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1798-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 42732, lead 1175, lime 3397, corn 8344, stone 6861, Iron 2525, timber 3684, sundries 10078. Total Income 78796 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1799- | Gross income for the year, £10117 | A-151 | |||
| Boatman | Not known | 1799-04-05 | Chesterfield | Accident. In the basin. Boat on fire, both crewmen died | A-156 | |
| Shareholder | Moody, Mary | 1799-05-21 | West Stockwith | Widow, has died, daughter Bird, Mary sells 1 share to Holmes, John, £82. | A-252 | |
| Boats | Brumby, Martin | 1799-07-12 | Retford | 2 wide-beam keels for sale, trade between Retford and Gainsborough, 40 tons capacity, rigging included. [Smaller than true keels. "Upper Trent" boats? P-239] | CCT-A-0006 | |
| Boats | Brumby, Martin | 1799-07-12 | Retford | Selling - 5 narrowboats | CCT-A-0006 | |
| Warehouses | Brumby, Martin | 1799-07-12 | Retford | Selling - has 3-floor warehouse, 24ft wide, 49ft long, office and chamber over it. Weighing machine and crane | CCT-A-0006 | |
| Canal Co | 1799-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5561, lead £379, lime £138, corn £1134, stone £265, Iron £459, timber £577, sundries £1078. Total Freight Income £9596. Plus wharfage £497 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1799-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 44571, lead 1324, lime 2708, corn 6768, stone 7849, Iron 2752, timber 3297, sundries 10494. Total 79763 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1800- | Gross income for the year, £11988 | A-151 | |||
| Railway | 1800- | Norbriggs | Private tramway [horse-drawn railed-way] to canal side business or to canal. Norbriggs Railway, Norbriggs Colliery to Norbriggs canal wharf | P-211 | ||
| Railway | 1800- | Renishaw | Private tramway [horse-drawn railed-way] to canal side business or to canal. Spinkhill Railway, Spinkhill Common to Renishaw Furnaces [ironworks] | P-211 | ||
| Railway | 1800- | Staveley | Private tramway [horse-drawn railed-way] to canal side business or to canal. Spinkhill Railway, Inkersall Collieries to Staveley | P-211 | ||
| Railway | 1800- | Private tramway [horse-drawn railed-way] to canal side business or to canal. Glasshouse Common Railway. From Glasshouse Common colliery and glassworks to the canal | P-211 | |||
| Canal Co | 1800-10-15 | Retford | Interviewing for a contract to maintain "all the locks, bridges, and other works" | A-103 | ||
| Canal Co | 1800-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6349, lead £389, lime £205, corn £1527, stone £418, Iron £438, timber £790, sundries £1250. Total Freight Income £11369. Plus wharfage £581 Rents and Dockage £36 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1800-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 52325, lead 1367, lime 3867, corn 8426, stone 10929, Iron 2622, timber 4376, sundries 11966. Total 95878 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1801- | Gross income for the year, £12874 | A-151 | |||
| General | 1801-06- | Staveley | Various letters in source, re land disputes, damages, MSLR, re Puddlebank, Norbriggs feeder | A-076 | ||
| Surveying | Dickens, George | 1801-06-04 | Staveley | Surveyed Puddlebank. Map, source M-003 | A-069 | |
| Shareholder | Johnson, Richard | 1801-07-14 | Retford | Sells 1 share to Holmes, John, £90. From estate of late Johnson, Thomas | A-257 | |
| Canal Co | Dixon, Richard | 1801-08-25 | List of deeds. Conveyance of land East Retford | A-059 | ||
| Canal Co | 1801-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6197, lead £303, lime £265, corn £2218, stone £368, Iron £672, timber £575, sundries £1371. Total Freight Income £11971. Plus wharfage £876 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1801-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 44975, lead 1058, lime 5121, corn 11400, stone 10143, Iron 3214, timber 2951, sundries 10760. Total 89622 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1802- | Gross income for the year, £12329 | A-151 | |||
| Canal Co | Dixon, Richard | 1802-03-24 | List of deeds. Conveyance of land East Retford | A-059 | ||
| Canal Co | Dixon, Richard | 1802-03-28 | List of deeds. Conveyance of land East Retford | A-059 | ||
| Links | 1802-09-09 | Ashover | A "canal, railway or stone-road" to Chesterfield Canal | A-125 | ||
| Shareholder | Waller, Robert | 1802-11-11 | Chesterfield | Buys 5 shares from Holmes, John, £615. | A-254 | |
| Shareholder | Holmes, John | 1802-11-11 | Retford | Sold 5 shares to Waller, Robert, £615 | A-254 | |
| Canal Co | 1802-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6176, lead £277, lime £335, corn £2016, stone £323, Iron £424, timber £778, sundries £1261. Total Freight Income £11592. Plus wharfage £702 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1802-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 48225, lead 672, lime 6481, corn 11045, stone 10473, Iron 2178, timber 4109, sundries 11858. Total 95641 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1803- | Gross income for the year, £9967 | A-151 | |||
| Canal Co | 1803-01-01 | Chesterfield | Income & Expenditure for 1802 | A-255 | ||
| Canal Co | Jebb, Joshua | 1803-01-01 | Chesterfield | Select Committee (accounts) member | A-255 | |
| Canal Co | Waller, William | 1803-01-01 | Chesterfield | Select Committee (accounts) member | A-255 | |
| Canal Co | Radley, Jarvis | 1803-01-01 | Chesterfield | Select Committee (accounts) member | A-255 | |
| Canal Co | Rooth, John | 1803-01-01 | Chesterfield | Select Committee (accounts) member | A-255 | |
| Canal Co | Kinder, Charles | 1803-01-01 | Chesterfield | Treasurer | A-255 | |
| Canal Co | Dowland, James | 1803-11-09 | Worksop | Land bought in Colesmoor with Godfrey, Mr, some given by Godfrey to Canal Co at cost price. | A-044 | |
| Canal Co | Skynner, Mr | 1803-11-17 | Colemoor | Letter cautions about Canal Co intentions in the land purchase. Position of culvert. Fears that they want canal frontage to build a wharf. | A-045 | |
| Canal Co | Dowland, James | 1803-11-17 | Cuckney | Letter sent by him from Cuckney | A-045 | |
| General | Roe, Mr | 1803-11-17 | Colemoor | To be consulted on the culvert. | A-045 | |
| General | Godfrey, Mr | 1803-11-17 | Newark | Letter sent to him at Newark | A-045 | |
| Canal Staff | Coldwell, Timothy | 1803-11-24 | West Stockwith | New wharfinger, previously Head Clerk | A-125 | |
| Canal Staff | Dales, Thomas | 1803-11-24 | West Stockwith | Has quit as wharfinger | A-125 | |
| Canal Co | 1803-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £4709, lead £227, lime £223, corn £1600, stone £288, Iron £487, timber £585, sundries £1231. Total Freight Income £9354. Plus wharfage £545 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1803-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 37742, lead 794, lime 4208, corn 9859, stone 10029, Iron 2740, timber 3492, sundries 11844. Total 80708 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1804- | Gross income for the year, £13200 | A-151 | |||
| General | 1804- | Retford | Situated "among large plantations of hops, in which, and barley for malting, it carries on a great trade" | P-012 | ||
| General | 1804- | Worksop | "a small but neat town, pleasantly situated in a valley" | P-012 | ||
| Canal Co | 1804-01-01 | Chesterfield | Income & Expenditure for 1803 | A-256 | ||
| Canal Co | Wilkinson, Isaac | 1804-01-01 | Chesterfield | Treasurer | A-256 | |
| Boatman | Benson, George | 1804-09-17 | Lincoln | Adventure, Reg No 157 | Skipper, 2 crew, 21 tons, Boston to Chesterfield. Owner Turner, William of Lincoln | A-154 |
| Canal Co | 1804-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6946, lead £478, lime £187, corn £1816, stone £366, Iron £541, timber £538, sundries £1576. Total Freight Income £12473. Plus wharfage £700 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1804-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 54665, lead 1671, lime 3553, corn 10748, stone 9888, Iron 2412, timber 3047, sundries 18086. Total 104070 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1805- | Gross income for the year, £12453 | A-151 | |||
| Water Supply | 1805- | Retford | Approx date. Feeder and mills | C-034 | ||
| Water Supply | Holland, W | 1805-08- | Retford | A lawyer?. Feeder dispute, long running to 1814 | A-039 | |
| Water Supply | Nelson, William | 1805-08- | Retford | Miller at Ordsall. Started Feeder dispute, to 1814 | A-039 | |
| Boatman | Guest, William | 1805-11-03 | Harthill | Married Nixon, Sarah, both of Harthill parish | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | 1805-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6050, lead £383, lime £201, corn £1761, stone £405, Iron £911, timber £774, sundries £348. Total Freight Income £11836. Plus wharfage £616 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1805-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 52458, lead 1346, lime 3519, corn 10694, stone 9673, Iron 3994, timber 4200, sundries 15154. Total 101038 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1806- | Gross income for the year, £13683 | A-151 | |||
| General | Farey, John | 1806- | Description of route | P-019 | ||
| Cargoes | Cowley, Robert | 1806-03-04 | Worksop | Lease granted to him, for 14 years, for a coal wharf, with Oxley, Francis. | A-260 | |
| Canal | Mackfarland, John | 1806-03-08 | Clarborough | Bankrupt, sale. 2 cottages, stables, warehouse, wharf, one rood land "on the bank of the Chesterfield Canal in the parish of Clarborough, near to the Turnpike Road leading from Retford to Gainsborough". | A-242 | |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1806-04- | Clarborough | Of Gringley. Approx date. Bought land of bankrupt Mackfarland, John. Included a wharf and warehouse. See ref A-242. | A-244 | |
| Boatman | Teal, Robert | 1806-04- | Clarborough | Approx date. Occupied cottage and wharf, property of bankrupt Mackfarland, John. Sold to Smith, John. | A-244 | |
| Canal | Marshall, B | 1806-05-17 | Retford | Canal Co lawyer, Retford?. Feeder dispute, to 1814 | A-039 | |
| Water Supply | Donston, Mr | 1806-06- | Retford | Owner of land where shuttle is. | A-039 | |
| Water Supply | Heaton, John | 1806-06- | Retford | Lawyer, Lincolns Inn, asked opinion on dispute by Holland | A-039 | |
| Canal Co | 1806-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6548, lead £568, lime £206, corn £2009, stone £406, Iron £977, timber £704, sundries £1412. Total Freight Income £12833. Plus wharfage £849 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1806-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 56788, lead 1979, lime 3702, corn 11886, stone 10312, Iron 4333, timber 3923, sundries 17017. Total 109940 | A-001 | |||
| Water Supply | Lax, Anthony | 1807- | Retford | Confirmed that feeder was to enable large craft to get to Retford, land and water rights agreed by borough and Canal Co, no written evidence. | A-039 | |
| Water Supply | Simpson, Lindley | 1807- | Retford | Owner of land where feeder is. | A-039 | |
| Canal Co | 1807- | Gross income for the year, £12169 | A-149 | |||
| Canal Co | Gratton, Mr | 1807-01-16 | Retford | Canal Co engineer | A-039 | |
| Canal Co | 1807-02-16 | Chesterfield | Five shares for sale, £115 each wanted | A-151 | ||
| Canal Co | 1808- | Gross income for the year, £12044 | A-149 | |||
| Canal Co | 1808-10-23 | Norbriggs | Canal Co's lease on Norbriggs Colliery due to expire, Butler, John sub-lease expires in August | A-001 | ||
| Canal Co | 1808-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6164, lead £385, lime £220, corn £1227, stone £438, Iron £1201, timber £476, sundries £1232. Total Freight Income £11347. Plus wharfage £696 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1808-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 54446, lead 1351, lime 3853, corn 7976, stone 10246, Iron 5600, timber 3034, sundries 15493. Total 101999 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1809- | Gross income for the year, £12291 | A-149 | |||
| Surveying | Varley, John | 1809-02-16 | Pennyholme | Buried at Harthill church, aged 69 | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | Wilkinson, Isaac | 1809-05-10 | Finishes as treasurer. Agrees £60 compensation for interest [on his lending to Canal Co account ?] whilst acting as treasurer. | A-001 | ||
| Cargoes | 1809-05-10 | General meeting decides that Lime and Limestone will be gauged at 120lbs to the cwt on the canal and be charged at 1d per mile. | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1809-06-19 | Canal Co survey of canal | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1809-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6181, lead £262, lime £208, corn £1537, stone £459, Iron £1190, timber £473, sundries £1222. Total Freight Income £11535. Plus wharfage £596. Dividend 6% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1809-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 53284, lead 918, lime 3849, corn 11086, stone 11018, Iron 5766, timber 3204, sundries 18579. Total 107044 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1810- | Gross income for the year, £12820 | A-149 | |||
| Boats | 1810- | Hollingwood | Are 21ft long, 3ft 6ins wide, hold 7 corves, total weight carried 20-22cwt | P-019 | ||
| Cargoes | 1810- | Source, p472-75, has many details of the variations of weights and measures in the Derbyshire region | P-019 | |||
| Crime | Butler, Joseph | 1810- | Approx date. Regarded canalside pubs as "useless, and a great nuisance", a source of great delays by boatmen. At Norwood, pillaging when crew not with boat, especially coal | P-019 | ||
| Tunnels | Devonshire, Duke of | 1810- | Hollingwood | 1.75 miles long, water level 1ft lower than canal's, portal 300 yards from canal, used for drainage and working three coal seams, tunnel 6ft high, 5ft 9ins wide. A crane lifts corves of coal up into canal's boats | P-019 | |
| Tunnels | 1810- | Norwood | When water short, boats to carry 16 tons max, and go east and west on alternate days, a "serious evil" in loss of time for horses and goods | P-019 | ||
| Water Supply | 1810- | Harthill | There are 3 reservoirs below Pebley Mill, containing together 44 acres. | P-019 | ||
| Water Supply | 1810- | Pebley | Although dam heightened Canal Co could not purchase Pebley mill, so miller can lower the levels down in dry seasons, so rendered nearly useless to Canal Co as a reservoir | P-019 | ||
| Links | 1810-11-02 | Rotherham | Proposed North Eastern Canal - Rotherham, via canal, Erewash Canal, Cromford Canal. "Very thinly attended". Adjourned "to some time in March" in London | A-103 | ||
| Canal Co | 1810-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6033, lead £295, lime £223, corn £1738, stone £542, Iron £1256, timber £639, sundries £1307. Total Freight Income £12035. Plus wharfage £643. Dividend 6.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1810-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 52886, lead 1034, lime 4287, corn 12158, stone 12595, Iron 5965, timber 4054, sundries 18924. Total 111903 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1810-12-31 | For the year - Income, Expenditure, Treasurer's Report | A-095 | |||
| Canal | 1811-05-22 | Canal stopped for repairs, 8 days allowed, and at Osberton po[u]nd for about 2 days | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1811-05-13 | Lime to be carried for 1d per ton (gauge be 21cwt and 112lbs to the cwt), stone (other than for limestone) to be 1.5d per ton per mile (gauge to be 20 cwt to the ton and 112lbs to the cwt). | A-001 | |||
| General | Hewitt, John | 1811-12-30 | Shireoaks | Died on this date, aged 89. Lived at Shireoaks Hall. | N-012 | |
| Canal Co | 1811-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5939, lead £191, lime £265, corn £1674, stone £511, Iron £1123, timber £862, sundries £1586. Total Freight Income £12205. Plus wharfage £602. Dividend 6.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1811-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 58182, lead 702, lime 5173, corn 11622, stone 12760, Iron 5426, timber 5228, sundries 20473. Total 119568 | A-001 | |||
| Boats | 1812- | Worksop | Boats built. Later recorded on the Calder & Hebble Navigation in 1818-9. [Evidence of shorter boats being built there, so possibly a specific order for the C&H. Ref C-101] | C-100 | ||
| Canal | 1812-05- | Closed for repairs, for 8 days | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1812-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5578, lead £177, lime £302, corn £1612, stone £611, Iron £997, timber £614, sundries £1435. Total Freight Income £11330. Plus wharfage £589. Dividend 6% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1812-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 44296, lead 643, lime 5961, corn 11515, stone 13614, Iron 4119, timber 4301, sundries 19673. Total 104122 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1813- | Norwood | Source has tonnages charged at the locks | A-105 | ||
| Canal Co | Gascoigne, Richard | 1813-01-15 | Norwood | Paid twice a month, £3.5s for "attending" the locks | A-105 | |
| Boatman | Briggs, Thomas | 1813-02-18 | Gringley | His will "not proved". PR/GW/3/23 | A-241 | |
| Canal Co | Gascoigne, Richard | 1813-03-31 | Harthill | Paid £1.1s for "attending reservoirs" | A-105 | |
| Boatman | Allsop, Thomas | 1813-04-15 | Fined £1 for "flashing a boat out of a lock" | A-105 | ||
| Canal Co | Hutchinson, Robert | 1813-04-15 | Killamarsh | His land has been taken for reservoirs in Killamarsh valley | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | Walker, George | 1813-04-15 | Pebley | His land damaged by a road to Pebley reservoir | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | Cook, George | 1813-04-15 | Worksop | Fined £3 for letting water out of the canal | A-105 | |
| Cargoes | 1813-05-13 | Ordered that cinders may be carried at 1d per ton tonnage in the months of January, February & March only. Ordered that manure when bought and sold to be charged tonnage, however short the distance | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1813-05-13 | 1d per ton to be charged on all limestone intended to be burnt into lime to be gauged at 22 cwt to the ton of 112 lbs per cwt | A-001 | |||
| Wharfs | 1813-05-13 | Retford | ½ d per ton additional wharfage at Retford to be charged on all coals and stone until the new Machine expenses are reimbursed (to take place quickly). [weighing machine?] | A-001 | ||
| Boatman | Widowson, Robert | 1813-08-31 | Osberton | Fined £1, leaving the lock full, and only 1 person with boat | A-105 | |
| Boatman | Carter, Charles | 1813-10-15 | Norwood | Fined £1, improper use of "slides" on 8th lock | A-105 | |
| Boatman | Fox, David | 1813-11-15 | Fined £1, not having an able assistant with his boat | A-105 | ||
| Boatman | Turner, Thomas | 1813-11-15 | Fined 10s, leaving his horse loose on the towpath | A-105 | ||
| Canal Co | 1813-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6312, lead £214, lime £331, corn £1852, stone £631, Iron £1188, timber £836, sundries £1535. Total Freight Income £12902. Plus wharfage £651. Dividend 6.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1813-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 53087, lead 761, lime 6364, corn 12492, stone 13088, Iron 4593, timber 5298, sundries 21374. Total 117057 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1814- | Chesterfield | Approx date. Said to have been cannon balls "to fight Bonaparte". Rumours of small calibre cannon balls found in the canal when it was drained "when they pulled the plug" | C-037 | ||
| Side Cuts | Dethic & Co | 1814-03-24 | Worksop | Selling - house, warehouse, outbuildings, wharf, navigable cut, malt kiln. | A-103 | |
| Water Supply | Simpson, John | 1814-05-12 | Retford | Compromise on dispute reached | A-039 | |
| Boatman | Fox, Thomas | 1814-05-15 | Worksop | Fined £1, "flashing his boat out of Town Lock" | A-105 | |
| Water Supply | Simpson, John | 1814-08-01 | Retford | Agreement to inspect the solution works and settle dispute | A-039 | |
| Canal Co | 1814-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6429, lead £124, lime £298, corn £2217, stone £595, Iron £1115, timber £793, sundries £1422. Total Freight Income £12996. Plus wharfage £741. Dividend 7.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1814-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 50055, lead 447, lime 5527, corn 13682, stone 11130, Iron 4286, timber 4570, sundries 20094. Total x109791 | A-001 | |||
| Water Supply | Rennie, John | 1815- | Staveley | Arbitrator, on the ironworks water diversion payment as authorised by the Act. Said £26.5s, half yearly, should be in lieu to all claims for water diverted, onwards | A-114 | |
| Boatman | Meredith, | 1815-04-15 | Spinkhill | Fined £2, unloading ash timber onto fence and towpath | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | Widowson, J | 1815-06-30 | 3 months salary, £25 | A-105 | ||
| Canal Co | 1815-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5824, lead £92, lime £276, corn £2201, stone £667, Iron £799, timber £838, sundries £1355. Total Freight Income £12056. Plus wharfage £915. Dividend 6% | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1815-12-31 | Finance dividend would have been 7% but for purchase of land at Stockwith. | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1815-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 43512, lead 334, lime 4752, corn 13627, stone 13352, Iron 3458, timber 5092, sundries 19469. Total 103596 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1816-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6404, lead £46, lime £208, corn £2260, stone £524, Iron £716, timber £605, sundries £1266. Total Freight Income £12033. Plus wharfage £816. Dividend 5% | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1816-12-31 | Finance. Dividend reduced to 5% ..unclaimed dividends paid out.. The purchase of Wheeldon's Mill Land...balance of Stockwith land purchase and damages at Staveley Forge. Est £1300 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1816-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 48005, lead 168, lime 3599, corn 13481, stone 10172, Iron 2753, timber 3494, sundries 16799. Total 98471 | A-001 | |||
| Ironworks | Ward, Mr | 1816-12-31 | Staveley | Received £250 damages from Canal Co | A-117 | |
| Boatman | Fox, David | 1817-05-31 | Retford | Fined £5/3s, passed wharf without paying 12s/7.75d tonnage on "50 loads of malt". | A-105 | |
| Canal Staff | Welch, Mr | 1817-05-31 | Retford | Wharfinger | A-105 | |
| Navvies | Nock & Co | 1817-05-31 | Babworth | Mason. Paid £11/8s, for building a bridge at wharf | A-105 | |
| Wharfs | Simpson, Lindley | 1817-05-31 | Babworth | Has a wharf on his land | A-105 | |
| Navvies | Clark, H | 1817-06-31 | Retford | Carpenter. Paid £2/9s for mending West Retford lock's gates | A-105 | |
| Boatman | Wright, George | 1817-10-31 | Peck Mill | Fined 5s, put timber in the towpath hedge | A-105 | |
| Locks | Robinson, William | 1817-11-14 | Norwood | Buried at Harthill church, aged 70, Yeoman | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | 1817-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6096, lead £32, lime £227, corn £1935, stone £396, Iron £502, timber £685, sundries £1223. Total Freight Income £11100. Plus wharfage £785. Dividend 6% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1817-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 41636, lead 130, lime 4022, corn 11924, stone 7954, Iron 2039, timber 4055, sundries 17403. Total 89163 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | Turner, Samuel | 1818-06-15 | Fined £1, not closing paddles on a lock "with his key" | A-105 | ||
| Boatman | Shaw, William | 1818-10-31 | Osberton | A "mitigated penalty" of £1 for delivery of cargo of manure, but "made good the Towing Path fence" | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | 1818-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6317, lead £106, lime £251, corn £2820, stone £581, Iron £597, timber £733, sundries £1533. Total Freight Income £12941. Plus wharfage £887. Dividend 8% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1818-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 44136, lead 468, lime 4628, corn 17969, stone 12420, Iron 2424, timber 4069, sundries 20902. Total 107016 | A-001 | |||
| Warehouses | 1818-12-31 | Worksop | New gravel road to the warehouse has been installed | A-105 | ||
| Boatman | Johnson, George | 1819-06-30 | Fined £1, navigating his boat "with the rudder foremost" | A-105 | ||
| Navvies | Marsh, Thomas | 1819-08-15 | Clayworth | Mason. Paid £23/9s/8d for work on the bridge | A-105 | |
| Navvies | Marsh, Thomas | 1819-08-15 | Hayton | Mason. Paid £23/9s/8d for work on the bridge | A-105 | |
| Bridges | Smith, Luke | 1819-09-30 | Clayworth | Supplied "ale and bread" at rebuilding of the bridge | A-105 | |
| Bridges | Smith, Luke | 1819-09-30 | Hayton | Supplied "ale and bread" at rebuilding of the bridge | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | 1819-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5453, lead £77, lime £337, corn £2115, stone £661, Iron £729, timber £507, sundries £1529. Total Freight Income £11412. Plus wharfage £924. Dividend 7% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1819-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 38892, lead 285, lime 6278, corn 13928, stone 14523, Iron 2839, timber 3038, sundries 21361. Total 101144 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | Hall, Joseph | 1820-09- | Brimington | Carrying cargo of iron ore, Brimington to Staveley Forge 1819, 1820, 1821 | A-165 | |
| Boatman | Turner, | 1820-02-15 | Renishaw | Fined 8s/3d, didn't pay tonnage on 5 cargoes of beans, from Retford, should have paid 1s/2.5d | A-105 | |
| Cargoes | Barrow, Mr | 1820-02-29 | Brimington | Letter Barrow to Bagshawe, J who is acting for Bagshawe, Sir W C, land owner. About digging iron ore at Brimington. Discusses gauging the canal boats | A-165 | |
| Boats | 1820-08-19 | Brimington | Letter Barrow to Bagshawe, a servant of Barrow gauged the boats...do not worry boatmen charge by the ton so Bagshawe's interests will be protected by them | A-165 | ||
| Boatman | Turner, John | 1820-08-19 | Worksop | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Boatman | Richardson, Thomas | 1820-11-30 | Worksop | Fined £2, unloading stone by Stret Lock | A-105 | |
| General | Nock, William | 1820-12- | Pebley | Builder of a boat-house at the reservoir | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | 1820-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5919, lead £12, lime £256, corn £1815, stone £571, Iron £834, timber £482, sundries £1493. Total Freight Income £11387. Plus wharfage £813. Dividend 7% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1820-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 43494, lead 58, lime 4654, corn 11764, stone 12094, Iron 3296, timber 2621, sundries 18352. Total 96333 | A-001 | |||
| Boats | 1821-02-10 | Chesterfield | Person needed to "build several canal boats" | A-125 | ||
| Canal Staff | Gratton, Joseph | 1821-02-10 | Chesterfield | At the wharf | A-125 | |
| Cargoes | 1821-10-27 | Brimington | Listing produced by Staveley Furnace of iron ore delivered from Brimington to Staveley for 1819, 1820, 1821. Total 1220 tons | A-165 | ||
| Locks | Widdison, John | 1821-12-26 | Norwood | Buried at Harthill church, aged 62 | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | 1821-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5298, lead £7, lime £229, corn £1881, stone £469, Iron £920, timber £372, sundries £1366. Total Freight Income £10546. Plus wharfage £715. Dividend 6% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1821-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 37878, lead 47, lime 3979, corn 12789, stone 9947, Iron 3646, timber 2142, sundries 17854. Total 88282 | A-001 | |||
| Crime | 1822-09-22 | West Stockwith | Counting house broken into. LSM, p3 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Co | 1822-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £4783, lead £21, lime £116, corn £2435, stone £376, Iron £857, timber £552, sundries £1427. Total Freight Income £10571. Plus wharfage £711. Dividend 5.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1822-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 34589, lead 90, lime 2269, corn 15999, stone 8885, Iron 3429, timber 2758, sundries 17182. Total 85201 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1823-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £4954, lead £20, lime £124, corn £2182, stone £668, Iron £1078, timber £511, sundries £1384. Total Freight Income £10924. Plus wharfage £704. Dividend 6.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1823-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 36864, lead 87, lime 2238, corn 15334, stone 18110, Iron 4277, timber 2883, sundries 15810. Total 95603 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | Mackfarland, John | 1824- | Obituary in Doncaster Gazette 4 Jun 1824 | C-109 | ||
| Links | Haslehurst, Mr | 1824-07-15 | Buxton | Public meeting. Engineer for proposal to link four existing canal - Peak Forest, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Cromford | A-186 | |
| Cargoes | 1824-08-14 | Limestone for road repairs. NJ, p1 | A-125 | |||
| Canal Co | Gascoigne, Ann | 1824-09-30 | Killamarsh | Rented a dwelling house at Belk Lane | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | 1824-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5221, lead £21, lime £198, corn £2620, stone £600, Iron £1265, timber £570, sundries £1538. Total Freight Income £12036. Plus wharfage £973. Dividend 7% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1824-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 42678, lead 102, lime 3154, corn 17998, stone 11065, Iron 5011, timber 3130, sundries 18142. Total 101280 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | Teal, Robert | 1825-05-24 | Retford | Has land/property at Misterton, adjacent to Wharf Bridge | C-054 | |
| Canal Co | 1825-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5409, lead £54, lime £157, corn £2759, stone £717, Iron £1425, timber £690, sundries £1811. Total Freight Income £13026. Plus wharfage £1090 Dividend 8% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1825-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 41154, lead 212, lime 2720, corn 18153, stone 14784, Iron 5603, timber 3794, sundries 22118. Total 108538 | A-001 | |||
| Locks | Parnell, Elizabeth | 1826-03-12 | Sandhill | Buried at Harthill church, age 15. | A-028 | |
| Locks | Parnell, Mary | 1826-03-12 | Sandhill | Mother of Elizabeth, wife of Robert | A-028 | |
| Locks | Parnell, Robert | 1826-03-12 | Sandhill | Father of Elizabeth, husband of Mary | A-028 | |
| Canal Co | Gascoigne, Sarah | 1826-08-31 | Killamarsh | Rented a dwelling house at Belk Lane | A-105 | |
| Canal Co | 1826-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5369, lead £21, lime £216, corn £2805, stone £672, Iron £1064, timber £751, sundries £1604. Total Freight Income £12506. Plus wharfage £976 Dividend 8% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1826-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 38134, lead 105, lime 3549, corn 18107, stone 14174, Iron 4296, timber 4258, sundries 20397. Total 103020 | A-001 | |||
| Bridges | Boucher, Cyril | 1827- | West Stockwith | He's been told that "bridge-hole was narrowed by building two towpaths through it" | A-209 | |
| Bridges | Owen, H | 1827-07-06 | Haggonfield | Letter to Charge, John, clerk to the Canal Company, requesting changes to bridge height or approaches to facilitate use by Lord Surrey's carriages. States 3 bridges in Worksop area, in the Act, have not been built | A-019 | |
| Canal Co | Charge, John | 1827-07-06 | Clerk to Canal Company | A-019 | ||
| Canal Co | 1827-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5400, lead £23, lime £167, corn £2844, stone £839, Iron £1224, timber £619, sundries £1522. Total Freight Income £12641. Plus wharfage £931 Dividend 8% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1827-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 38545, lead 95, lime 2966, corn 18377, stone 14416, Iron 4948, timber 3414, sundries 18604. Total 101365 | A-001 | |||
| Locks | Widdison, Fanny | 1828-07-01 | Norwood | Buried at Harthill church, widow of John | A-028 | |
| Pubs | Futtit, William | 1828-10-06 | Clarborough | The Gate pub auctioned, including the wharf alongside. [Poster at Bassetlaw Museum]. | P-361 | |
| Boats | Carter, William | 1828-11-28 | Misterton | Misterton Packet | Owner. For sale. Plies to/from Gainsborough and Retford, carries 16 tons. | A-157 |
| Pubs | 1828-11-28 | Misterton | Packet Inn for sale, stabling 16 horses, orchard, dining for 200 persons. Doncaster, Nottingham & Lincoln Gazette | A-157 | ||
| Canal Co | 1828-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6207, lead £4, lime £221, corn £2691, stone £657, Iron £1362, timber £572, sundries £1619. Total Freight Income £13338. Plus wharfage £1307 Dividend 9% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1828-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 43028, lead 41, lime 3678, corn 17197, stone 12438, Iron 5460, timber 3319, sundries 21081. Total 106242 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | Cartwright, John | 1829-07-02 | Worksop | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Canal Co | 1829-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6021, lead £15, lime £193, corn £2365, stone £982, Iron £1197, timber £493, sundries £1285. Total Freight Income £12555. Plus wharfage £1273 Dividend 8% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1829-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 40937, lead 79, lime 3210, corn 15800, stone 12802, Iron 4856, timber 2905, sundries 16794. Total 97383 | A-001 | |||
| Shareholder | Nicholson, Mr | 1830-02-06 | Chesterfield | Sold 10 shares at auction | A-157 | |
| Accidents | Widdison, Ann | 1830-04-29 | Harthill | Drowned in the canal. Buried at church, age 1 | A-028 | |
| Boatman | Dobson, William | 1830-09-23 | Clayworth | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Boatman | Teal, Robert | 1830-10-12 | Retford | Buried, address The Wharf | C-054 | |
| Canal Co | 1830-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5758, lead £3, lime £178, corn £2378, stone £663, Iron £1202, timber £468, sundries £1374. Total Freight Income £12029. Plus wharfage £1045 Dividend 7.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1830-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 39737, lead 28, lime 2804, corn 15145, stone 13915, Iron 4962, timber 2594, sundries 17023. Total 96208 | A-001 | |||
| General | Wilkinson, Isaac | 1831- | Chesterfield | Lived Tapton House (later home of Stephenson, George) | A-035 | |
| Boatman | Teal, Robert | 1831-04-14 | Retford | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Canal Co | 1831-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £5688, lead £6, lime £266, corn £2568, stone £633, Iron £1279, timber £547, sundries £1543. Total Freight Income £12534. Plus wharfage £1117 Dividend 7.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1831-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 40409, lead 42, lime 3011, corn 16562, stone 12189, Iron 5137, timber 3003, sundries 18717. Total 99070 | A-001 | |||
| Boatman | Taylor, William | 1832- | Clayworth | Boat owner. From White's Nottinghamshire trade directory | P-121 | |
| Boatman | Palmer, John | 1832- | Clayworth | Boat owner. From White's Nottinghamshire trade directory | P-121 | |
| Boatman | Grafton, John | 1832- | Worksop | Boatbuilder at Bridge Place. Also timber merchant at Canal Side. Source citing White's trade Directory | C-110 | |
| Boatman | Grafton, William | 1832- | Worksop | Boatbuilder at Bridge Place. Also timber merchant at Canal Side. Source citing White's trade Directory | C-110 | |
| Links | Burke, Mr | 1832-09-27 | Sheffield | Appointed to survey route, proposed link to Sheffield Canal | A-116 | |
| Links | Leather, George | 1832-10-22 | Sheffield | Route, to near milestone 10, details, costs, inc Cromford | A-116 | |
| Canal Co | 1832-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £6804, lead £4, lime £306, corn £2433, stone £565, Iron £1033, timber £348, sundries £1492. Total Freight Income £12989. Plus wharfage £1166 Dividend 8% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1832-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 46348, lead 34, lime 4779, corn 16268, stone 12759, Iron 4292, timber 1765, sundries 17874. Total 104119 | A-001 | |||
| Canal Co | 1833-12-31 | Finance. Annual Income. Coal £7040, lead £3, lime £274, corn £2246, stone £682, Iron £974, timber £388, sundries £1495. Total Freight Income £13107. Plus wharfage £1057 Dividend 7.5% | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | 1833-12-31 | Annual Tons Carried. Coal 46831, lead 28, lime 4272, corn 14997, stone 9323, Iron 4087, timber 1963, sundries 17534. Total 99035 | A-001 | |||
| Cargoes | Rutherford, Mr | 1835-02-04 | Wingerworth | Owns quarry at Stonedge. Primrose Hill railway tunnel (London) being built entirely of stone from. Contract 5,000 tons, by canal, Chesterfield to Stockwith, then by sea. Source citing Derby Mercury | N-025 | |
| Boatman | Sayles, Joseph | 1836-09-05 | Misson | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Boatman | Turner, John | 1836-12-29 | Worksop | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Canal Staff | Hoult, Henry | 1838- | Norwood | Canal book-keeper | P-220 | |
| Canal Staff | Robinson, William | 1838- | Norwood | Lock-keeper | P-220 | |
| Cargoes | Widdowson, Robert | 1839- | Killamarsh | Approx date. With wife Ann, "they ran barges selling salt and flagstones" | C-096 | |
| Boatman | Gill, Joshua | 1839-02-28 | West Stockwith | Deals [timber], 35 x 21ft, 10 x 20ft, 5 x 16ft, 60 x 6ft. Weight 4 tons 1cwt 3qts. | A-153 | |
| Canal Staff | Gratton, Joseph | 1839-02-28 | West Stockwith | Senior official on-site | A-153 | |
| Cargoes | 1839-02-28 | West Stockwith | Deals [timber], 35 x 21ft, 10 x 20ft, 5 x 16ft, 60 x 6ft. Weight 4 tons 1cwt 3qts. | A-153 | ||
| General | Wilson, Matthew | 1839-10-01 | Gringley | Granted right of way across canalside land, Little Gringley, sold for £999, for malting offices, kiln, warehouse, 8 houses | A-263 | |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1839-12-29 | Gringley | His will "not proved". PR/GW/5/4 | A-241 | |
| Tunnels | 1840- | Kiveton Park | Approx date. Cut later into 1772 section of retaining wall, now blocked 2-3 meters in, anecdotal evidence says it went directly to a quarry so a loading point for stone. Pictures in Source | A-232 | ||
| Canal | Fogg, William | 1840- | Retford | Baptist minister 1835-53. Did baptisms in the canal, close to Town Lock. Attracted large Sunday crowds, singing could be heard considerable distance away | C-106 | |
| Canal Staff | Cartwright, A | 1840-02-07 | West Stockwith | Agent at wharf. Organising transhipping of HofP stone | A-125 | |
| HofP | Grindle, Captain | 1840-02-07 | West Stockwith | Spring Rice | Sloop, 130 tons burthen, first stone to London, several other vessels on this contract. LSM, p3 | A-125 |
| Boatman | Newton, Ellis (Elias) | 1840-06-08 | May be from the village of Wales | C-041 | ||
| Bridges | 1841- | Kiveton Park | Dog Kennels. Built. Nearby railway completed 1849 | A-232 | ||
| Canal | 1841- | Kiveton Park | Approx date. Upper section of current retaining wall built. Pictures of current wall in Source | A-232 | ||
| Boatman | Whitfield, William | 1841- | Killamarsh | Age 35, wife Jane, 4 children | C-050 | |
| Canal Staff | Widdowson, Robert | 1841- | Shireoaks | Lockkeeper. Born Killamarsh 1769. Died Worksop 1850 | C-097 | |
| Boatman | Ellis, George | 1841- | Misterton | Crime. At Bottom Lock, left his crew Ellis, Thomas and Bell, William, came back with Fox, Richard the local "fence". Went into hold with 2 bottles, a gimlet, syphon, funnel, left with 2 gallons rum and 1 gallon brandy. Crew bribed to keep quiet. 1 year hard labour | P-095 | |
| Boatman | Ellis, Thomas | 1841- | Misterton | [See entry, same date, for boatman Ellis, George] | P-095 | |
| Boatman | Bell, William | 1841- | Misterton | [See entry, same date, for boatman Ellis, George] | P-095 | |
| Cargoes | Taylor, William | 1841-03-12 | West Stockwith | Agent for Heddon & Derbyshire Stone Company. Source citing Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury | N-025 | |
| HofP | 1842-03- | London | Cargoes.The stone from North Anston "continues to be supplied in great abundance and of excellent quality" | A-225 | ||
| HofP | 1844-01- | London | Cargoes.The stone from North Anston "continues to be supplied in great abundance and of excellent quality" | A-225 | ||
| Boatman | Moat, George | 1844-05-15 | Clarborough | Friends | Coal merchant. Owner, sloop for sale, 53ft long, 12ft 7ins wide, bowsprit, 1 deck, 1 mast, built Burton Stather | A-160 |
| Boatman | Riches, Isaac | 1844-05-15 | Friends | Skipper | A-160 | |
| Railway | 1844-09-20 | Gringley Carrs | Reported that 4 surveys done for various proposed railways across the Carrs. Suggestion that a low-cost way would be to drain the canal and use its route. | A-181 | ||
| Railway | 1844-09-20 | Gringley Carrs | Reported suggested route to be rails in canal Chesterfield to Walkeringham Carr Bridge then new route to Gainsborough | A-181 | ||
| Cargoes | Fitzwilliam, Earl of | 1845- | Bourne | Comparisons of delivery costs, by water, of coal from Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Newcastle | A-096 | |
| HofP | 1845-11-01 | London | Cargoes. Work delayed, "difficulties in obtaining the requisite supply of stone from the quarries" | A-225 | ||
| Railway | 1845-11-12 | Announcement of merger of rail and canal ownership, Paxton, Joseph Dep Chair, Robertson, John Secretary. Office, The Square. Solicitors Mee, Bigsby, Mee | A-113 | |||
| Boatman | Bellamy, Robert | 1845-12-30 | Bawtry | His will proved. PR/NW | A-241 | |
| Railway | 1846-07-03 | Notes re amalgamation of Canal Co and a railway co | A-112 | |||
| Railway | Fowler, Mr | 1846-09-19 | To be Engineer for canal/railway company | A-112 | ||
| Railway | Maynard, A G | 1846-09-19 | On committee of joint venture, to represent canal interests | A-112 | ||
| Railway | Meadows, Mr | 1846-09-24 | Chesterfield | To visit canal, report on accounts and system of working | A-112 | |
| Railway | Morley, Isaac Sir | 1846-12-09 | Took over joint venture committee role from Maynard, AG | A-112 | ||
| Canal Co | 1847- | Company books moved to Sheffield | A-114 | |||
| Canal Staff | 1847- | Not to trade on canal in their own right | A-114 | |||
| Railway | 1847- | MSLR, management of the canal | A-114 | |||
| Railway | 1847- | Overall state of, MSLR report | A-114 | |||
| Railway | 1847- | MSLR, management of the canal | A-114 | |||
| Railway | 1847- | Canal Company books moved to Sheffield | A-114 | |||
| Boats | Huddlestone, Thos | 1847- | Newark | Newark trader, carrier on the Trent. Mentioned "cuckoo boats" in evidence to a House of Commons committee [HC/CL/PB/2/14/76] | A-234 | |
| Canal | 1847-03-05 | Staveley | Memoranda on land purchases Canal Co/Devonshire, Duke of. Dispute re ownership of embankments | A-069 | ||
| Construction | 1847-03-05 | Staveley | Puddlebank. Dispute, land for embankments, ownership unclear | A-076 | ||
| Canal Co | 1847-07-19 | List of shareholders sent to Sheffield solicitors Bramley & Gainsford, by J Charige, J? Chesterfield to enable payout following purchase of canal for £100,000 [MSLR?]. List not in source | A-228 | |||
| Railway | Meadows, James | 1847-08-31 | Sheffield | MSLR. Reported that a Superintendent be appointed, to contact the canal's staff, and centralise management in Sheffield | A-114 | |
| Railway | Meadows, James | 1847-08-31 | MSLR. He had found that payment of tolls, by boatmen, is tardy. Decided that if not paid promptly, a boat must pay on passing through, instead of having an account running | A-114 | ||
| Canal Staff | Hodkin, Christopher | 1847-09-23 | Chesterfield | MSLR. He has said he is "unable to do the duty at his advanced age" | A-114 | |
| Ironworks | Barrow, Richard | 1847-09-23 | Staveley | MSLR. It's been noticed that a regular annual payment has been paid to him for "damages to Staveley Forge by diverting the water therefrom". To be investigated | A-114 | |
| Railway | Meadows, James | 1847-09-23 | Chesterfield | MSLR. Decided that only a "common wharfinger" to be at the wharf, to "take charge of the goods, and grant a permit" | A-114 | |
| Railway | Rooks, John | 1847-09-23 | Misterton | MSLR. Investigating "the Accommodation required" [regular payment] by him for his milling business | A-114 | |
| Railway | Meadows, James | 1847-09-23 | Sheffield | MSLR. Decided that all account books, and clerks, to be moved from Chesterfield to Sheffield | A-114 | |
| Railway | Smith, Robert | 1847-09-23 | Sheffield | MSLR. Of Gresham St, London. To be appointed "Bookkeeper and Superintendent of the Canal" | A-114 | |
| Railway | Meadows, James | 1847-09-23 | MSLR. Decided that all returns from various locations to be sent weekly to Sheffield | A-114 | ||
| Canal Co | 1847-09-23 | Chesterfield | Accounts, clerks to be moved to Sheffield. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Staff | Hodkin, Christopher | 1847-09-27 | Chesterfield | MSLR. Has been told to take account books to Sheffield, and to pay into bank all the cash in hand | A-114 | |
| Canal | 1847-09-28 | West Stockwith | A new chain required for a crane | A-114 | ||
| Canal Staff | Hodkin, Christopher | 1847-09-28 | Chesterfield | MSLR. Given a months notice, "his services not required" | A-114 | |
| Ironworks | Barrow, Richard | 1847-09-28 | Staveley | MSLR. Payment, in accordance with Act, had always been paid by Canal Co. Since 1815 agreed to be £26.5s.0d half yearly to him in lieu of all claims for water diverted | A-114 | |
| Canal Co | Hodkin, Christopher | 1847-09-28 | Book-keeper, old, notice given. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | ||
| Railway | Smith, Robert | 1847-09-28 | Made Superintendent of canal | A-125 | ||
| Canal | Smith, Robert | 1847-10-26 | MSLR. Accumulations of mud, in various places, need removing without delay | A-114 | ||
| Canal Staff | Smith, Robert | 1847-10-26 | MSLR. Has found the accounts are "very ill kept" | A-114 | ||
| Construction | 1847-10-26 | MSLR. Brick-maker has made a culvert into the canal, and uses the towpath to load bricks onto boats | A-114 | |||
| Railway | Smith, Robert | 1847-10-26 | West Stockwith | MSLR. Lock gates need immediate repairs | A-114 | |
| Canal | Woods, Mr | 1847-11- | MSLR. Ashton Canal's repairman, to visit and report on what needs to be done | A-114 | ||
| Railway | Gainsford, Mr | 1847-11-09 | Chesterfield | MSLR. To inform Tapton miller that lease will now be £25 instead of £20 | A-114 | |
| Railway | 1847-11-09 | Kiveton Park | MSLR. Railway contractor has diverted waste water course, will endanger the banks in time of flood | A-114 | ||
| Canal | 1847-11-30 | MSLR. The "flags and rushes" in the canal to be removed | A-114 | |||
| Canal Staff | 1847-11-30 | West Stockwith | MSLR. Staff who collect money to give security, Ordinary Collectors £50, Collector at Stockwith £200 [a normal requirement at that time, and before] | A-114 | ||
| Canal Staff | Smith, Robert | 1847-11-30 | MSLR. 6 "aged persons" to be discharged. He to enquire of their circumstances afterwards, and report back | A-114 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1847-11-30 | MSLR. 2 Inspecting Labourers to be employed, to be responsible for towpaths and fences | A-114 | |||
| Cargoes | 1847-11-30 | Worksop | MSLR. Deem it "undesirable, at present, to meddle with the Lincoln flour traffic" | A-114 | ||
| Locks | Antcliffe, William | 1847-11-30 | Gringley | Lock-keeper, to be asked about MSLR buying his lock house | A-114 | |
| Locks | Gascoigne, widow | 1847-11-30 | Killamarsh | MSLR. To be given notice to quit possession at Belk Lane | A-114 | |
| Locks | 1847-11-30 | Staveley | MSLR. Works Lock, house to be altered to include an office, current resident to be removed, keeper to reside, to keep a check on all the boats passing through | A-114 | ||
| Locks | 1847-11-30 | Worksop | MSLR. The tool-house at Moss [Morse] lock to be enlarged, for a dwelling for lock-keeper | A-114 | ||
| Railway | 1847-11-30 | MSLR. Doubtful if power to make bye-laws remains. To be investigated | A-114 | |||
| Warehouses | 1847-11-30 | Worksop | MSLR. The old warehouse to be advertised, to let | A-114 | ||
| Wharfs | Wright, Mr | 1847-11-30 | Kiveton Park | MSLR. He has encroached upon the wharf, to admit to, and pay an acknowledgement | A-114 | |
| Wharfs | Smith, Robert | 1847-11-30 | Retford | MSLR. To apply to local Corporation, for permission to install gates at the wharf | A-114 | |
| Canal | 1847-11-30 | Irises and rushes to be removed from. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | |||
| Canal Staff | Antcliffe, William | 1847-11-30 | Gringley | Lock Keeper, to be asked re purchase of his house. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | |
| Locks | Gascoigne, widow | 1847-11-30 | Killamarsh | Notice to quit Belk Lane lock-house. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | |
| Locks | 1847-11-30 | Staveley | Lock-house, occupier moved, change to office, man to check boats going through lock. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | ||
| Locks | 1847-11-30 | Worksop | Morse (Moss), tool-house, enlarge for keeper's house. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | ||
| Warehouses | 1847-11-30 | Worksop | Old one to be let. NA MSLR 1/61 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Staff | Cartwright, Mr | 1847-12-14 | West Stockwith | MSLR. Other boaters complaining he's favouring his own business in allocating boats. New rule - no staff to trade in their own right | A-114 | |
| Canal Staff | Smith, Robert | 1847-12-14 | MSLR. To appoint extra "Workmen" to carry out the most essential repairs | A-114 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1847-12-14 | MSLR. The 6 aged staff discharged, to receive pensions of 5s or 4s, per week, depending on work rank | A-114 | |||
| HofP | Grizzell, Mr | 1848-09-19 | Kiveton Park | Wharf "for shipping the parliamentary stone" | C-072 | |
| Railway | 1848-09-19 | Kiveton Park | MSLR decided to have a siding and an adjacent canal wharf. Cost £120. Shed, small crane £235. Work let to Messrs Wright | C-072 | ||
| Railway | 1849-07-16 | Kiveton Park | MSLR line opened to traffic | C-072 | ||
| Railway | 1849-07-30 | Kiveton Park | MSLR siding/wharf, crane pit completed, but wharf only half done. Wharf for unloading of grain and goods onto the canal to Chesterfield | C-072 | ||
| Weather | 1850- | Harthill | The reservoirs were this year dry. A wonderfully mild winter; neither snow nor frost. | A-176 | ||
| Weather | 1851- | Harthill | The reservoirs were dry again..not having filled during the winter.. Traffic on the canal stopped for several weeks on October, November and December | A-176 | ||
| Boatman | Whitfield, Edward | 1851- | Killamarsh | Age 19 | C-050 | |
| Boatman | Whitfield, James | 1851- | Killamarsh | Age 35 | C-050 | |
| Boatman | Grafton, John | 1851- | Worksop | Boatbuilder, age 61. Source citing census | C-110 | |
| Wharfs | 1851-01-10 | Retford | To be provided, the one rented from the Corporation now given up. NA MSLR 1/1 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Staff | Hoult, Henry | 1852- | Canal Co book-keeper | C-045 | ||
| Pubs | Selby, Joseph | 1852- | Norwood | Victualler at the Boatman Inn | C-045 | |
| Ironworks | Haslehurst, George | 1852-01-11 | Staveley | Checked accounts, re damages paid. For Chatsworth | A-117 | |
| Canal | 1852-11-05 | Retford | Walk from market to rail station, via canal, with details | A-124 | ||
| Weather | 1853-02-18 | Retford | Canal closed by frost, town no longer depends on it, groceries, other goods, come by rail. NJ Feb18, p5 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Co | 1853-12-16 | Account Books in various locations, no one certain where | A-117 | |||
| Ironworks | Barrow, Mr | 1853-12-16 | Staveley | Hasn't been paid damages by Canal Co | A-117 | |
| Canal | 1854-09-08 | Haggonfields | New weed, spread rapidly, brittle, smallest bit implants, masses under bridge, impedes boats. NJ, p5 | A-125 | ||
| Canal | Durdy, Ken | 1854-09-09 | Osberton | Bad weed between Worksop and Retford, especially at Osberton where 2-3 horses needed, rolls into heaps as big as haycocks. Date of quote from Illustrated London News | P-092 | |
| Water Supply | 1855-12-07 | Harthill | Changes to, increased storage of reservoir. NA MSLR 1/3 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Staff | Warburton, Joseph | 1856-03-01 | Retford | Died, age 84. Lockkeeper, probably oldest employee | C-106 | |
| Water Supply | 1856-08-29 | Harthill | Leeds, Duke of, wants exhorbitant £200 per acre for extra land, for increased reservoir storage changes. NA MSLR 1/3 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Staff | Warburton, John | 1857- | Retford | Son of Joseph, took over at the Lock House | C-106 | |
| Canal | Steele, Mr | 1858-08-27 | Staveley | He's been paid £100 not to work his minerals under the canal. NA MSLR 1/4 | A-125 | |
| Canal | 1860- | Gringley | MSLR. Raising canal banks, for Gringley & Everton drainage | A-123 | ||
| Locks | 1860- | MSLR. No 63, bottom gates renewed | A-123 | |||
| Wharfs | 1860- | West Stockwith | MSLR. Smithy rebuilt | A-123 | ||
| Boats | 1860-04- | MSLR. Additional work boats | A-123 | |||
| Canal | 1861- | Renishaw | MSLR. Raising canal banks, bridge repairs, "coal sinking" | A-123 | ||
| Canal | 1861- | West Stockwith | MSLR. New wharf wall and other work. River Trent | A-123 | ||
| Wharfs | 1861- | Worksop | MSLR. New sewer to, and other works, by order of the Board of Health | A-123 | ||
| Boatman | Whitfield, William | 1861- | Killamarsh | Age 56. has 3 sons, all boatmen, Edward, John, William. Living in the Churchtown area of the town | C-050 | |
| Aqueducts | 1861-07- | Retford | MSLR. Restoring the arches over River Idle | A-123 | ||
| Aqueducts | 1861-07- | Retford | Restored arches, over the Idle, cost £75. NA MSLR 1/62 | A-125 | ||
| Locks | 1861-09- | MSLR. No 57, bottom gates renewed | A-123 | |||
| Locks | 1861-10- | MSLR. No 39, bottom gates renewed | A-123 | |||
| Railway | Smith, Robert | 1861-10-11 | Staveley | Wrote a report - Rail Co have built new road to near towpath, for new station, great injury to towpath, costs to us will increase, must be stopped. NA MSLR 1/6 | A-125 | |
| Canal | 1861-10-11 | Shireoaks | Agreement between MSLR and Newcastle, Duke of, for basin and connection to canal at Shireoaks colliery. Terms regarding maintenance, provision of towpath bridge, no extraction without permission | A-168 | ||
| Canal Staff | Smith, Robert | 1861-10-11 | Agent for MSLR | A-168 | ||
| Canal | 1862- | Killamarsh | MSLR. Raising canal banks, towpath and roads, coal sinkings. Also Hague, Staveley, Lockoford | A-123 | ||
| Stables | 1862- | West Stockwith | MSLR. Rebuilding stables and outbuildings, and roof of warehouse | A-123 | ||
| Stables | 1862- | Norwood | MSLR. Renewing stable buildings, and fence wall | A-123 | ||
| Wharfs | 1862- | West Stockwith | MSLR. New 5-ton crane | A-123 | ||
| Bridges | 1862-05- | Chesterfield | MSLR. Bridge over the River Rother renewed | A-123 | ||
| Locks | 1862-05- | MSLR. Nos 25 and 26, bottom gates renewed | A-123 | |||
| Stables | 1862-05- | Whittington | MSLR. Building shed [stables] for boat horses | A-123 | ||
| Boats | 1862-11- | MSLR. New boats | A-123 | |||
| Locks | 1862-11- | MSLR. No 27, bottom gates renewed | A-123 | |||
| Bridges | Newcastle, Duke of | 1862-12-12 | Shireoaks | Near station, wants it widened/improved. Canal Co say he should pay the £560 cost, offers half, wants "a garden bridge...replace unsightly dangerous one". NA MSLR 1/6 | A-125 | |
| Railway | 1863-03-06 | MSLR. All canals, repairs, lock gates, reservoirs, general supervision, all under the Engineer of the Company. The management of all canals under control of General Manager of the Company | A-123 | |||
| Aqueducts | 1863-03-20 | Worksop | MSLR. Over the river Ryton, has 3 arches, 1 of which is bad at both ends, needs attention as soon as weather allows. Other 2 also in need of repair. Full details in source. | A-123 | ||
| Boatman | Various | 1863-03-20 | MSLR. Paid by the tow, the rates are low "and in almost all cases leave a profit over and above the tolls" | A-123 | ||
| Bridges | 1863-03-20 | Killamarsh | MSLR. Boiley bridge, "in a very bad state", "but little traffic over it", cannot be repaired again, kept well covered to "shoot off the wet", "if boats keep clear of it, it may stand a few years". Keep 30,000 bricks on site, just in case. | A-123 | ||
| Canal | 1863-03-20 | MSLR. Very old, "much of the original work is very much decayed". | A-123 | |||
| Cargoes | 1863-03-20 | MSLR. Coal. Was very profitable for the canal, now being lost to railway. Recently lost a customer (Beighton to Retford/Lincoln) very much cheaper by rail. | A-123 | |||
| Locks | 1863-03-20 | Chesterfield | MSLR. Tapton. Needs "considerable repairs", don't do anything now, wait until ground "becomes solid". The coal working has stopped, pit closed, in another year ground may stop sinking | A-123 | ||
| Wharfs | 1863-03-20 | West Stockwith | MSLR. Staithing at the Capstan Crane, Trentside, will not get any worse at present, needs "considerable labour to work it". | A-123 | ||
| Boats | Clifton, John | 1863-03-24 | Clarborough | Leviathan | At the wharf, boat cut in two by him - to settle a probate dispute between 2 sons on death of owner | A-180 |
| Railway | Smith, Robert | 1863-04-25 | MSLR. Services no longer required as Company reorganises canal management, merges with railways | A-123 | ||
| Bridges | Hemming, Mr | 1863-06-09 | Shireoaks | Newcastle, Duke of, wants £85 towards widening, £50 offered. NA MSLR 1/7 | A-125 | |
| Bridges | Underdown, Mr | 1863-07-03 | Shireoaks | Newcastle, Duke of, to give 350 tons coal towards costs of improving, Canal Co to pay £50. Agreed. NA MSLR 1/7 | A-125 | |
| Accidents | Cousins, John | 1863-11-09 | Harthill | Drowned in the canal. Buried at church | A-028 | |
| Boatman | Various | 1868- | Staveley | In the basin, crew's babies, on a rope, dunked in the canal to wash them, howled, rubbed down, re-dressed | A-094 | |
| Cargoes | 1868- | Staveley | Brought fresh vegetables from Nottinghamshire, including sticks of celery, sold them to locals, 4 for a penny. | A-094 | ||
| Boatman | Whitfield, William | 1871- | Killamarsh | Died | C-050 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, William | 1871- | Welham | Died on his boat | C-064 | |
| Tunnels | 1871-01- | Norwood | Start of 21 years work by MSLR, raising the roof because of rising water levels due to subsidence caused by the Barnsley Bed coal extraction workings. | A-122 | ||
| Tunnels | Carrington, Mr | 1871-10-03 | Norwood | Complaint letter from Coal Co to MSLR re excavations to roof of Norwood Tunnel impinging on Coal Co land. | A-060 | |
| Railway | Leeds, Duke of | 1873-01-22 | Kiveton Park | MSLR board wish to purchase 10 acres land for sidings and station enlargement | C-072 | |
| Boats | Mason, James | 1873-04- | Walkerith | Invoice to Cooper's Boatyard, for repairs and painting to House Boat | A-177 | |
| Canal | 1874-07-18 | Chesterfield | Water pollution. Bill of Complaint, MSLR v Corporation of Chesterfield. Rother seriously polluted, of no use to the canal | A-092 | ||
| Canal | 1874-07-18 | Chesterfield | Water pollution. Bill of Complaint, MSLR v Corporation of Chesterfield. Answer by defendants to charge. | A-093 | ||
| Canal | Mackintosh, Dr | 1874-05-26 | Chesterfield | Typhoid reported in brickworks on bank of canal, 7 die | A-093 | |
| Water Supply | 1874-07-18 | Chesterfield | River Rother, from which the "canal has always taken...its first supply of water...and still does" | A-092 | ||
| Water Supply | 1874-09-22 | Pebley | Renegotiation re annual payment for water usage, and land originally for increasing the reservoir | A-233 | ||
| Water Supply | 1874-09-22 | Pebley | Reservoir, a pond formerly for Pebley mill, which "still exists" | A-233 | ||
| Canal | 1874-12-05 | Chesterfield | Canal should have crossed the Rother at a place still called Rickett's Mill | A-093 | ||
| Water Supply | 1874-12-05 | Chesterfield | Rother is "a public navigable river in both directions from Rickett's Mill", injured by the canal taking water from it | A-093 | ||
| Water Supply | 1874-12-05 | Chesterfield | Bill of Complaint, Burgesses reply to MSLR. Act says cross the River Rother, not meet it, so no taking of water allowed - but have still built a basin and its lock | A-093 | ||
| Tunnels | 1875-12- | Norwood | Cost of last 5 years of raising the roof, £4430. | A-122 | ||
| Water Supply | 1876- | Pebley | Reservoir extended and deepened | A-088 | ||
| Bridges | 1876- | Worksop | Bridge built over canal at Bridge Place by local authority | P-209 | ||
| General | Cooper, John | 1877- | Approx date. Owner of boatyard | A-177 | ||
| Boatman | Various | 1878- | Listed in Chesterfield Boat Register. Nov 1878-Sep 1879 | A-090 | ||
| Boats | 1878- | Chesterfield | Chesterfield Sanitary Authority appointed as the Registration Authority for Canal Boats on the Chesterfield Canal, under the Canal Boats Act 1877 [sole place] | A-100 | ||
| Boats | 1878- | Act requires inspection, numbering and registration of boats. Specifies size of living space, sex/age mix, ventilation, access, bed-space health requirements etc | A-100 | |||
| Boats | Fox, Charles | 1878-10-23 | Walkerith | Bought a new canal boat from Cooper's Boatyard. £130 paid | A-177 | |
| Boatman | Hindley, William | 1878-12-08 | MSLR 8 | Stockwith, Worksop. Cargo grain, stone, lime, coal, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hurst, John | 1878-12-10 | Chesterfield | 3 | Stockwith, Worksop, Chesterfield. Cargo grain, stone, lime, coal, etc | A-090 |
| Boatman | Farr, Henry | 1878-12-11 | Chesterfield | MSLR 11 | Stockwith, Retford, Chesterfield. Cargoes coal, grain, stone, phosphate of lime | A-090 |
| Boatman | Clarke, George | 1879-04-09 | MSLR 6 | Stockwith and Chesterfield. Cargo grain, lime, stone, coal, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, Joseph | 1879-04-09 | 4 | Misterton. Cargoes general | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hewett, William | 1879-04-09 | 5 | Misterton to Chesterfield. Cargo grain, stone, coal, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hindley, William | 1879-05-07 | MSLR 10 | Stockwith and Chesterfield. Grain, potatoes, general cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Pottinger, George | 1879-05-13 | 12 | Stockwith and Chesterfield. Owned by MSLR. General cargo, corn cake, sand, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Elliott, Frederick | 1879-05-14 | 7 | Clayworth. Cargo sand, coal, lime, bricks, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Elliott, Thomas | 1879-05-14 | 9 | Owner and Master. Hayton and Chesterfield. Cargo grain, coal, sand, bricks, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Fox, Charles | 1879-05-14 | 8 | Misterton. Cargo stone, bricks, grain, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hackett, Pearce | 1879-05-14 | 11 | Stockwith and Chesterfield. General cargo, grain, stone, slates, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hewett, George | 1879-05-28 | MSLR 10 | Stockwith to Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boats | 1879-06- | Retford | Canal Boats Act 1877, Registration Authority changed to East Retford from Chesterfield. More central location to monitor more boats | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Pettinger, James | 1879-06-04 | Rose | Owner and master. Retford to Chesterfield. General cargo, "sometimes manure" | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Beeston, George | 1879-06-11 | 18 | Owner and Master. Worksop to Chesterfield. General cargo. [Care. Census 1851, 1861 name is Beesting] | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Beeston, George | 1879-06-11 | Annie | Owner and Master. Retford to Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, Billy | 1879-06-11 | 15 | Owner | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, George H | 1879-06-11 | 15 | Clarborough to Chesterfield. General cargo, grain, stone, sand, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1879-06-11 | 16 | Clarborough to Chesterfield. General cargo, minerals | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Ellis, Thomas | 1879-06-11 | Thomas & Mary | Morton to Chesterfield. General cargo, sand, stone, coal, grain, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hewett, William | 1879-06-11 | 14 | Misterton. General cargo, grain, sand, coal | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hird, John | 1879-06-11 | 17 | Worksop and Chesterfield. General cargo, sand, stone, coal, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Kilsey, Samuel | 1879-06-11 | Thomas & Mary | Owner | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Pettenger, Henry | 1879-06-11 | 26 | Hayton to Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, Luke | 1879-06-11 | 24 | Drakeholes to Chesterfield. Cargo "sometimes manure" | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Smith, Charles | 1879-06-11 | 27 | Stockwith to Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1879-06-11 | 19 | Owner | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Smith, John Jnr | 1879-06-11 | 19 | Stockwith and Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Smith, Robert | 1879-06-11 | Diving Bell | Clayworth and Chesterfield. Cargo corn, stone, coal, bricks, sand, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Crossland, William | 1879-07-09 | 29 | Retford to Chesterfield. General cargo, and nightsoil | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Smith, Edward | 1879-07-09 | 28 | Clayworth to Chesterfield. General cargo, "sometimes nightsoil" | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Taylor, Francis | 1879-07-09 | 30 | Clayworth to Chesterfield. General cargo, sand, bricks | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Oldfield, George | 1879-09-10 | Misson | [Was his family originally boatmen on the River Idle?] | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Garside, B and son | 1879-09-10 | Worksop | 40 | Owners | A-090 |
| Boatman | Bell, John | 1879-09-10 | 40 | Worksop and Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Cordall, Charles | 1879-09-10 | 38 | Retford to Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Cordall, James | 1879-09-10 | 34 | Shireoaks and Retford. Cargo stone, bricks, coal, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Cordall, William | 1879-09-10 | 34 | Owner | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Cordall, William | 1879-09-10 | 39 | Retford to Chesterfield. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Farr, William | 1879-09-10 | 36 | Owned by MSLR. Stockwith. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Oldfield, George | 1879-09-10 | Dart | Owner and master. Retford. Cargo coal, stone, bricks, sand, etc | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, Luke | 1879-09-10 | John & James | Drakeholes. General cargo | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Wingfield Hall, John | 1879-09-10 | 37 House boat | Owner. Dwelling with 4 cabins, does not ply | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Garside, Benjamin | 1879-11-13 | Worksop | 2 | Reg No 19. Owner | A-091 |
| Boatman | Bell, John | 1879-11-13 | 2 | Master. Chesterfield and Stockwith, Timber and Coal. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Cordall, William | 1880- | Lydian Monarch | Approx date. Former owner | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Various | 1880- | Listed in Retford Boat Register. Mar 1880-Dec 1930 | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Smith, Joseph | 1880-01-08 | Gringley | Industry | Reg No 4. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1880-01-09 | Misson | Reg No 8 | Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Smith, William | 1880-01-09 | Misson | Reg No 9 | Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Fox, Richard | 1880-01-09 | Misterton | Reg No 11 | Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Meggit, Thomas | 1880-01-20 | Misterton | Brave Hero | Reg No 5. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. Coal and Bricks. Sold on. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Cocking, George E | 1880-01-22 | Walkeringham | Reg No 12 | Owner | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hurst, William | 1880-01-22 | Reg No 12 | Chesterfield to Stockwith. Bricks and coal. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Hindley, Charles | 1880-02-03 | Retford | MSLR 7 | Reg No2. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, William | 1880-02-07 | Enterprise | Reg No 7. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, John | 1880-02-11 | Misterton | Paul Pry | Reg No 6. Owner/Master. General Cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Johnson, John | 1880-02-14 | Misterton | Providence | Master for Cocking, Thomas, Chesterfield to Stockwith. Bricks and coal. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Cocking, Thomas | 1880-02-14 | Walkeringham | Providence | Reg No 10. Owner | A-091 |
| Boatman | Elliott, Fred | 1880-03-10 | Clayworth | Rhasply | Reg No 17. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Clark, George | 1880-03-12 | MSLR 5 | Reg No 1. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Hindley, Pearce | 1880-03-13 | Retford | Reg No 3 | Owner, Canal Row, Retford | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hindley, Joseph | 1880-03-13 | Reg No 3 | Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, Edward | 1880-03-27 | Misterton | Reg No 13 | Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Clifton, Edward | 1880-04-26 | Misterton | Reg No 18 | Chesterfield to Stockwith. Cargo bricks and coal. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Cooper, John | 1880-04-26 | Misterton | Reg No 18 | Owner | A-091 |
| Boatman | Crossland, William | 1880-07-01 | Retford | Industry | Reg No 15. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Pettinger, James | 1880-09-06 | Retford | Reg No 16 | Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1880-09-14 | Walkeringham | 1 | Reg No 14. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Tunnels | Pettinger, Luke | 1880-11- | Norwood | Boatman. Stuck fast in tunnel for 36hrs, cargo two boatloads of lime, he was "in considerable danger" | A-218 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, Luke | 1881- | Drakeholes | Approx date. Owned houses there. A drunk, pub could "sell him water for gin and he didn't know" | P-098 | |
| Canal Staff | Hill, Joseph | 1881-01-17 | Chesterfield | Clerk, found dead in wharf Counting House, on his great-coat on the floor, door locked. DM 26 Jan, p4 | A-125 | |
| Railway | 1881-03- | Kiveton Park | MSLR hours of operation for the siding/wharf, in source | C-072 | ||
| Boatman | Chambers, George H | 1881-04-03 | Clarborough | At Gate Inn. Born Hayton, age 21 [Census] | A-185 | |
| Boatman | Clark, Henry | 1881-04-03 | Clarborough | At Gate Inn pub. Born Houghton, age 70 [Census] | A-185 | |
| Boatman | Clark, Susannah | 1881-04-03 | Clarborough | Wife of boatman. At Gate Inn pub. Born Market Staton, age 73. [Census] | A-185 | |
| Boatman | Newton, James | 1881-04-03 | Hollingwood | Age 25, born Bawtry, living at Sycamore Cottage with Tissington family | Census | |
| Boatman | Newton, William | 1881-04-03 | West Stockwith | Perseverance | Master bargeman, age 49 | Census |
| Canal Staff | Cartwright, Mr | 1881-12-16 | Superintendent, about to retire, 53 years service, pension £125 a year. NA MSLR 1/17 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Co | 1884- | New MSLR bye-law, boats need a "permit". Nad, p5 | A-125 | |||
| Pubs | Hurt, J | 1884- | Norwood | Victualler at the Boatman Inn | C-045 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1884-06-20 | Approx date, Sued by MSLR 10s for trespass, unloading slag on towpath side of canal, opposite a proper wharf. Found guilty, damages 6d. [Hayton or Clarborough] | A-179 | ||
| Cargoes | 1884-06-20 | Approx date. Slag. [foundry slag used as a fertiliser?] | A-179 | |||
| Boatman | Gillott, Henry | 1885- | Clayworth | MSLR 7 | Approx date. Took over from Hindley, Charles. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Fox, John H | 1885-11-20 | MSLR 8 | Took over from Hindley, William | A-090 | |
| Tunnels | 1885-12 | Norwood | Cost of last 5 years of raising the roof, £4532 | A-122 | ||
| Boatman | Hurst, Joseph | 1885-12-10 | Chesterfield | 3 | Took over from Hurst, John | A-090 |
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1886-02-17 | Retford | Owner, charged with not having a permit. Nad, p5 | A-125 | |
| Tunnels | Boatmen, various | 1886-04- | Norwood | Boatman. Numbers of them allege the "repairs are not progressing so fast as desirable" | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Smith, Joseph | 1886-04-06 | Norwood | Boatman. With Smith, Robert, stuck in tunnel for 7 hours | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Smith, John | 1886-04-07 | Norwood | Boatman. Stuck in tunnel for 8 hours | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Foljambe, Mr FJS | 1886-04-15 | Norwood | Writes to MSLR, complaining of state of the tunnel | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Richardson, A | 1886-04-19 | Norwood | Boatman. Owned a boat stuck for 12 hours, crew "nearly starved to death, not able to get to the cabin" | A-218 | |
| Boatman | Hird, John | 1886-05-07 | Clayworth | Pioneer | Reg No 20. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo and coal. | A-091 |
| Tunnels | Hird, J | 1886-05-22 | Norwood | Boatman, roof low, in tunnel 7 hours with two boats, had to run 2ins water into cabins to weigh down boats | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Foljambe, Mr FJS | 1886-06-25 | Norwood | Has written to Board of Trade, reply, has told MSLR to repair the tunnel. He fears they will not do it | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Hird, J, and Smith J | 1886-06-28 | Norwood | Boatman, tells Foljambe "in a wet time the water pours down on us in a stream" | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Foljambe, Mr FJS | 1886-07-01 | Norwood | Writes to MSLR, asking that their Inspector go through | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Ross, EF | 1886-07-20 | Norwood | MSLR, to Board of Trade. Repairs underway "as rapidly as possible", without stopping boat traffic | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Foljambe, Mr FJS | 1886-07-26 | Norwood | To Hird, J - open out tunnel would be better, but Board of Trade not taking that suggestion on | A-218 | |
| Tunnels | Morris Brothers | 1886-08-04 | Norwood | "some months ago" lost an order, costs too high, boatmen cannot carry full load because of the tunnel | A-218 | |
| Boatman | Teal, John | 1887-04-10 | Described as "boatman deceased" | C-054 | ||
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1888-08-15 | Walkeringham | 2 | Reg No 22. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. Inspection states "Boat is perfectly new and properly constructed, the dwelling cabin is every way fit for occupation, and all regulations complied with". | A-091 |
| Boatman | Newton, William | 1889- | East Stockwith | Reg No 11 | New owner. Took over from Fox, Richard. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Richardson, John R | 1889-04-29 | Clayworth | Maiden in the Dew | Reg No 21. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo such as coal and stone. Inspection states "general condition is very good it having recently been repaired and altered on latest principles". | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hockney, George | 1889-10-03 | Clayworth | Rhasply | New Owner, boat has been sold by Elliott, Fred. New master employed | A-091 |
| Boatman | Smith, Edward | 1889-10-03 | Clayworth | Rhasply | New master for Hockney, George | A-091 |
| Boatman | Smith, John H | 1889-10-21 | Gringley | 1 | Reg No 23. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith. General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Chambers, Bilby | 1889-10-24 | Clarborough | Reg No 24 | Owner | A-091 |
| Boatman | Chambers, J | 1889-10-24 | Clarborough | Reg No 24 | Master. Chesterfield and Stockwith, General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Pettinger, James | 1889-11-06 | Retford | Lydian Monarch | Reg No 25. Owner/Master. Chesterfield and Stockwith, General cargo. Bought boat from Cordall, William | A-091 |
| Railway | 1890- | Kiveton Park | Approx date. Land sale between MSLR and Kiveton Park Coal Co. The land title "very complicated" | A-060 | ||
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1890- | Gringley | Enterprise | Approx date. Bought vessel from Hewitt, William and became owner/master. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Clifton, Joseph | 1890- | Misterton | Reg No 13 | Approx date. Purchased boat from Clifton, Edward and is now Owner/Master | A-091 |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1890- | MSLR 7 | Approx Date. Took over from Gillott, Henry | A-091 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, Matilda M A | 1890- | Misterton | William & Ada | Approx date. Reg No 6. Owner change and renamed. | A-091 |
| Boats | 1890- | Lucks All | Approx date. Reg No 5. Passed through a series of sales. Name changed. | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1890-01-23 | Industry | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Cocking, John | 1890-04-20 | Walkeringham | 1 | Purchased boat from Smith, John and is now Owner/Master. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hurst, George | 1890-09-22 | Retford | Lady Milton | Master. Chesterfield and Stockwith, General cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Cocking, John | 1890-09-22 | Walkeringham | Lady Milton | Reg No 26. Owner | A-091 |
| Boats | 1890-11-27 | Gainsborough | Narrowboat "sunk in the Trent" | A-090 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, George | 1890-12-19 | Rose | Took over as owner and master from Pettinger, James | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, James | 1891-06-16 | West Stockwith | MSLR 10 | Took over from Hewitt, George. Boat awaiting repairs | A-090 |
| Boatman | Clifton, John William | 1891-06-16 | MSLR 8 | Took over from Fox, John H | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Cordall, George snr | 1891-06-16 | 27 | Took over from Smith, Charles | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Elliott, Frederick | 1891-06-16 | MSLR 10 | Took over from Hindley, William | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Smith, George | 1891-06-16 | 12 | Took over from Pottinger, George | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, William | 1891-07-07 | West Stockwith | Reg No 27 | Master for Shireoaks Colliery Co. Worksop to Shireoaks, cargo coal. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hindley, William | 1891-10-06 | No1 Dredger | Reg No 29. Stockwith to Chesterfield. MSLR Dredger | A-091 | |
| Tunnels | 1891-12 | Norwood | Cost of last 5 years of raising the roof, £8026. The total since work commenced Jan 1871, £16988 | A-122 | ||
| Boatman | Newton, James W | 1892- | West Stockwith | Bijo | Approx date. Took over from Smith, John | A-091 |
| Boatman | Newton, James | 1892- | Bijo | Approx date. Reg No 2. Owner. Bought MSLR 7 from rail co. Listed a Newton, James [not noted as James William] and renamed Bijo. | A-091 | |
| Collieries | 1892-01-08 | Kiveton Park | Coal Co start legal case to buy coal under canal, counter claim by MSLR for damage done to Norwood Tunnel. NA MSLR 1/25 | A-125 | ||
| Tunnels | 1892-01-08 | Norwood | Coal Co start legal case to buy coal under canal, counter claim by MSLR for damage done to tunnel. NA MSLR 1/25 | A-125 | ||
| Boats | 1892-02-02 | MSLR cease trading in own boats. NA MSLR 1/25 | A-125 | |||
| Cargoes | 1892-02-02 | Declining, MSLR cease trading in own boats. NA MSLR 1/25 | A-125 | |||
| Tunnels | 1892-02-06 | Norwood | Cost of extra roof raising work since start of year, £54. Making the total since 1871 commencement, £17043. | A-122 | ||
| Boatman | Hackett, John | 1892-03-17 | 12 | Took over from Smith, George | A-090 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, William | 1892-05-11 | West Stockwith | Prince George | Reg No 30. Owner/Master. Stockwith to Shireoaks, general cargo | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, William | 1892-05-11 | West Stockwith | Lady Gertrude | Reg No 31. Owner/Master. Stockwith to Shireoaks, general cargo | A-091 |
| Boatman | Taylor, Frank | 1892-06-28 | Wiseton | Lucks All | Reg No 28. Owner/Master. Stockwith to Shireoaks, general cargo | A-091 |
| Tunnels | 1892-07-08 | Norwood | Letter re Coal Co drain for Kiveton Park land | A-060 | ||
| General | Dallas, Mr | 1892-08-24 | Letter regarding land dispute. No change since 1790 | A-060 | ||
| Boats | 1893- | MSLR No1 | Dredger, with a steam-powered crane to deploy the dredging bucket. The boat was not powered. | A-173 | ||
| Boats | Teal, Robert | 1893-03-10 | West Stockwith | Providence | Owner, moved boat to Nottingham, registered there this date | C-017 |
| Boatman | Teal, Robert | 1893-05-19 | West Stockwith | Reg No 18 | New owner. | A-091 |
| Tunnels | 1893-06-06 | Norwood | MSLR have agreed to pay £3650 to Colliery Co for a 6-acre pillar of coal under the tunnel. | A-122 | ||
| Water Supply | 1893-06-06 | Harthill | MSLR have agreed to pay £6720 to Colliery Co for 17 acres of coal to be left under the reservoir's embankment. | A-122 | ||
| Tunnels | 1894- | Norwood | Another 2 years roof-raising has been done. Since 1871 such work under "practically the whole length of the tunnel roof". | A-122 | ||
| Tunnels | 1894- | Norwood | Roof raising since 1871 done by "prolonging the side walls and rebuilding the semi-circular arch". | A-122 | ||
| Boatman | Gagg, J W | 1894- | MSLR No1 | Dredgerman from now until 1946 | A-173 | |
| Boats | 1894-06- | MSLR No1 | Steam-dredger. First entry in dredgerman's log books | A-173 | ||
| Warehouses | 1894-11-30 | Chesterfield | Tadcaster Brewery, to rent old one, £20 yearly, storage, stables. NA MSLR 1/27 | A-125 | ||
| Canal Co | 1895- | Kiveton Park | Correspondence re land sale from Canal Co to MSLR for "canal purposes". Adjacent to 'Open Shaft' plantation. 2 roods, 24 perches | A-060 | ||
| Boatman | Cooper, G C | 1895- | Walkeringham | Lady Milton | Reg No 14. Approx date. New owner, [inherited? 1925 note] boat from Cocking, John. Named boat Lady Milton. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hurst, George | 1895- | Lady Milton | Approx date. Now master for Cooper, G C | A-091 | |
| Tunnels | 1895- | Norwood | Approx date. In 1957, an 86-year-old miner, spoke of occassionally legging boats through, for some cash, spoke of foot-holes in the sides, probably made by years of boots | C-037 | ||
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Thomas | 1895- | Kiveton Park | Approx date. Stone to the Boston area, return load was manure for farmers in Clayworth area | P-100 | |
| Boatman | Crossland, William | 1895-05-07 | Retford | Elizabeth and Mary | Reg No 13. Purchased boat from Clifton, Joseph and renamed. | A-091 |
| Boats | 1895-11-25 | Industry | Boat recorded as still in existence. Seen by Inspector. | A-091 | ||
| Water Supply | 1895-12-03 | Renishaw | Perpetual right granted at 3 mile 68 chains, water for Renishaw Lake. Pipes provided to supply | A-119 | ||
| Boatman | Smith, William | 1896-02-14 | Reg No 9 | Grandson Smith, J W, reports Smith, William is dead and he has no knowledge of the boat. | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1896-02-14 | Reg No 8 | "Sold to man in Lincoln. Not heard of since". | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Teal, R | 1896-02-15 | West Stockwith | Providence | Sold to Teal, R. Later moved to Nottingham and moved onto Nottingham Register as No 21. (see C-017) | A-091 |
| Boatman | Garside, B & Sons | 1896-02-15 | Worksop | 2 | Changed to company name B Garside & Sons. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Pettinger, Luke | 1896-02-15 | Lydian Monarch | New owner, bought from Pettinger, James | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1896-02-15 | Maiden in the Dew | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1896-02-18 | MSLR 5 | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1896-02-21 | Gringley | Lydian Monarch | New owner, bought from Pettinger, Luke [also recorded as Pettinger, James] | A-091 |
| Boats | 1896-02-23 | Rhasply | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Newton, James W | 1896-02-26 | West Stockwith | Bijo | MSLR interest in boat sold to Newton, James William who is now sole owner | A-091 |
| Boats | 1896-02-28 | William & Ada | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Crossland, James | 1896-03-13 | Retford | Leading Star | Reg No 32. Owner/Master. Stockwith to Worksop, general cargo. Inspection states " The boat is comparatively new and is clean and in good condition". | A-091 |
| Boatman | Elliott, Mr | 1896-06-09 | Clayworth | Tata | Reg No 16. New owner. Took over from Pettinger, James, and renamed. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Teal, Robert | 1896-06-18 | Reg no.18 | Boat still in existence | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1896-06-18 | Reg No 18 | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1896-06-18 | Lady Milton | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1896-06-19 | Reg No 24 | Boat recorded as still in existence. Seen by Inspector. | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Hackett, John | 1896-09-30 | Industry | Reg No 33. Master for Hill & Co of Misterton. Routes Stockwith to Chesterfield, and Gainsborough to Lincoln. General cargo, chiefly bricks. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Dutson, B J W | 1897-03-08 | Killamarsh | 1 | Reg No 23. New owner boat having passed through the ownership of Crossland, James (undated). Retford recommend a change of registration authority | A-091 |
| Boatman | Chubb, Mr | 1898- | MSLR No1 | Dredger crewman, "badly burnt lighting stove fire" | A-173 | |
| Boatman | Crossland, John | 1898-02-10 | Pollie Hopkins | Reg No 34. Owner/Master. Stockwith to Worksop, general cargo, chiefly lime. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, John | 1898-07-19 | Misterton | Three Brothers | Reg No 35. Owner. Address The Packet Inn, Misterton | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, William J | 1898-07-19 | Misterton | Three Brothers | Master. Stockwith to Chesterfield, general cargo, chiefly bricks. | A-091 |
| Tunnels | 1898-08-26 | Norwood | MSLR No1 | Steam-dredger went through, east to west | A-173 | |
| Canal | 1898-12-31 | Included in report with summary details of railway owned canals at this date. (1906 Royal Commission report) | A-184 | |||
| Boats | 1899-05- | Pioneer | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1899-05-16 | Renishaw | MSLR No1 | Been dredging in the area, now off to Staveley Works | A-173 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, W | 1899-09- | MSLR No1 | Crewman of dredger, "learnt to fire boiler" | A-173 | |
| Boatman | Gettings, James | 1899-09-01 | Lucks All | New Owner/Master. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, Mary | 1900- | Gringley | Lydian Monarch | Approx date. Inherited boat | A-091 |
| Boats | 1900- | Pollie Hopkins | Approx date. Sold and gone to the Trent | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1900- | Cargoes were delivered to bankside, skippers responsible for stacking on board, so boat would handle correctly. Was probably always so on the canal | P-082 | |||
| General | 1900- | Clayworth | Approx date, mid time span. A stone coping slab at Otter's Bridge was used by the village to sharpen knives. Still there in late 1970s | P-124-5 | ||
| Boatman | Beeston, George | 1900-03-30 | Worksop | Annie | Retford, legal proceedings for a breach of the Canal Boat Regulations. His address 43 Eastgate, Worksop | A-090 |
| Tunnels | 1900-04-10 | Norwood | MSLR No1 | Steam-dredger went through, west to east | A-173 | |
| Bridges | 1900-06- | Clarborough | Parish council - the Canal Co had always repaired the frontage of Bonemill Bridge, the Parish, for over 50 years, had repaired the lane. | P-361 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, & Sons | 1900-06-12 | Ladysmith | Reg No 36. Company listed as Owner/Master. Stockwith to Chesterfield, general cargo, chiefly grain. Inspector notes "The boat is new and clean". | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1900-10-30 | West Stockwith | MSLR No1 | Finished dredging the basin, started 29 August | A-173 | |
| Canal Staff | Barlow, Mr | 1900-10-31 | Worksop | MSLR No1 | Inspector at the depot | A-173 |
| Boats | 1901- | 2 | Reg No 22. Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Thomas | 1901- | Shireoaks | Pre this date skippers sometimes bought coal, took it to Torksey, Lincoln, Boston. Returned with manure for farmers in Clayworth area | P-082 | |
| Boatman | Clarke, Mr | 1901-01-04 | Misterton | MSLR No1 | Dredger crewman. Sent to help on railway because of fog | A-173 |
| Boatman | Wordsworth, Mr | 1901-01-04 | Misterton | MSLR No1 | Dredger crewman. Sent to help on railway because of fog | A-173 |
| Weather | 1901-01-04 | Misterton | MSLR No1 | Very foggy | A-173 | |
| Weather | 1901-01-25 | Gringley | MSLR No1 | Log book, "very rough weather" | A-173 | |
| Weather | 1901-02-14 | Gringley | MSLR No1 | Freezing | A-173 | |
| Boatman | Elliott, Henry | 1901-02-18 | King Edward | Reg No 37. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith to Chesterfield, general cargo. Inspector notes " This boat has recently been thoroughly repaired and painted". | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Elliott, Fred | 1901-02-19 | British Queen | Reg No 38. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith to Chesterfield, general cargo. Inspector notes " This boat has recently been thoroughly repaired and painted". | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Farr, Henry | 1901-02-19 | Blue Jacket | Reg No 39. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith to Chesterfield, general cargo. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Farr, W | 1901-02-28 | Invincible | Reg No 40. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith to Chesterfield, general cargo. " Recently painted" | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, James | 1901-03-02 | Morning Star | Reg No 41. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith to Chesterfield, general cargo. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, William | 1901-04-28 | The Rose | Reg No 42. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith, general cargo | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Handley, J | 1901-05-15 | Retford | Perseverence | Reg No 43. Owner/Master. Chesterfield to Stockwith, general cargo | A-091 |
| Tunnels | 1901-07-31 | Norwood | MSLR No1 | Steam-dredger went through, east to west | A-173 | |
| Tunnels | 1901-11-08 | Norwood | Cost of purchasing coal in the High Hazel seam to support the tunnel would be £28770 or £10 per linear yard. Cost of raising roof again £7 per yard. MSLR Board declined to purchase the coal. | A-122 | ||
| Boats | 1902-01-08 | MSLR No1 | Dredger. Passed through Dixon's lock | A-173 | ||
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1902-03-21 | Gringley | Enterprise | New certificate issued | A-091 |
| Weather | Hargreaves, James | 1903- | Shireoaks | Remembers thick ice on the canal, square holes were cut in it every 30 yards in an effort to get the boats moving | P-091 | |
| Boats | 1903-03- | Tapton | MSLR No1 | Has dredged canal along to the River Rother | A-173 | |
| Tunnels | 1903-04-27 | Norwood | MSLR No1 | Steam-dredger went through, west to east | A-173 | |
| Boats | 1903-05-04 | Lydian Monarch | Boat recorded as still in existence. Seen by Inspector. | A-091 | ||
| Boats | Fox, Marshall | 1903-05-18 | West Stockwith | Shamrock | Owner and master. Registered at Newark. Built by Rathbone, Henry, at Longford Bridge, Stretford, Manchester in 1901 for Fox, Marshall. Employed gravel traffic, Trent, Lincoln. Narrowboat, mast, sails | C-070 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, William | 1903-07-30 | Pride | Reg No 44. Master for The Steetley Lime Co. Woodend to Retford. Cargo lime and limestone. | A-091 | |
| Locks | Chambers, James | 1904- | Norwood | Approx date. Son of Chambers, Billy of the Gate Inn Clarborough. Moved to Norwood Lock house. Boat used to move his furniture see (I-144) | N-014 | |
| Boats | 1905- | Evelyn | Reg No 27. Approx date. New owner Milner, Lazenby & Co Ltd. Working Retford to Worksop. Name changed. | A-091 | ||
| General | Otter, Bishop | 1905- | Clayworth | Approx date. Otter, Bishop, memories of the village | P-124-1 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1905-04-17 | Norah | Reg No 45. Master for Hill Brothers of Misterton. Route Stockwith to Shireoaks, cargo, coal and bricks. "New boat perfect condition" | A-091 | |
| Boats | Whitehead, William | 1906- | West Stockwith | Perseverance | Built by Tomlinsons, cost £150, extra for "mast and sails" | P-097 |
| Canal | 1906-05-15 | Chesterfield | 2m 7f, town to No4 lock, "impassable for any boat under any circumstances". RCCIN | A-125 | ||
| Canal | 1906-05-22 | Chesterfield | Silted up near the town. RCCIN | A-125 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, William | 1906-06-13 | West Stockwith | Coronation | Reg no 46. Owner | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, George | 1906-06-13 | Coronation | Master for Hewitt, William. Stockwith to Shireoaks, general cargo and coal. " a new boat in good condition" Sold on in 1921 | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1906-10-02 | Ladysmith | Now a Furley boat working Stockwith and Shireoaks. | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1906-11-14 | About "40 barges" on the canal. RCCIN | A-125 | |||
| Canal | 1906-11-14 | Staveley | Coal subsidence, lock to Chesterfield, un-usable, can be restored but no prospect of traffic. RCCIN | A-125 | ||
| Tunnels | 1906-11-14 | Norwood | At water level 8ft10ins wide, headroom 9ft | A-125 | ||
| Boats | 1907- | West Stockwith | Lady Gertrude | Boat recorded as still in existence. Seen by Inspector at Stockwith. | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1907- | 1 | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | Whitehead, William | 1907- | Approx date. Canal only 4-5ft deep, so average boat load 23 tons | P-097 | ||
| Cargoes | Whitehead, William | 1907- | Misterton | Perseverance | Boatman. Took "hundreds of tons" of coal from Shireoaks to the brickyards at Misterton. 22 miles, took 16 hours | P-097 |
| Boatman | Smith, John | 1907-01-04 | Industry | New Owner/Master. | A-091 | |
| Tunnels | Fat Jack | 1907-10- | Norwood | Lena | It was said his boat was the last through the tunnel before it was blocked | P-100 |
| Tunnels | 1907-10-18 | Norwood | Final collapse, 12-14 yards completely subsided | A-079 | ||
| Weather | 1907-10-18 | Norwood | Heavy rain for the last few days | A-079 | ||
| Tunnels | 1907-10-21 | Norwood | MSLR officials inspect the collapse - see source M-074 | A-079 | ||
| Boats | 1907-11- | Norwood | Those on eastern side of the tunnel when it collapsed, some were taken by road to Kiveton Park | C-029 | ||
| Tunnels | 1908- | Norwood | Plan C2, Damage / Closure of tunnel (A-170) | M-107 | ||
| Tunnels | 1908- | Norwood | Plan C4, Composite plan of known problems (A-170) | M-108 | ||
| Cargoes | Whitehead, William | 1908- | Trent | Perseverance | Had to know the channel when heavily loaded with gravel dredged from river bed at Sutton-on-Trent. Took it to Lincoln for use on the railway | P-097 |
| Cargoes | Whitehead, William | 1908- | Perseverance | Barley to maltkilns in Retford, at Claters bridge, and Gas House bridge in Grove Street. Wooden props to Worksop woodyards, for all kinds of brush heads. Coke from the Retford gasworks to the Laycock estate at Wiseton | P-097 | |
| Tunnels | Perkin, Mr | 1908-09-11 | Norwood | Mining Engineer. Re collapse. Canal Act, "difficulty in interpreting" re who should bear responsibility. He believes MSLR would lose. | A-122 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, J | 1909- | Prince George | Master for Beckett & Cutts. Stockwith to Retford. Cargo "Junk boat to carry gas water" | A-091 | |
| Boatman | 1909- | Prince George | Approx date. New owner Beckett & Cutts of Retford. | A-091 | ||
| Canal | 1909- | West Stockwith | MSLR No1 | 2,800 tons dredged from the basin | A-173 | |
| Boats | 1910- | Clayworth Market boat. Left 0430 to be at Retford by 0630. Returned from Retford 1830. Not much seating for passengers because of goods loaded. | N-007 | |||
| Boats | Cooke, Sydney | 1910- | Shireoaks | Village blacksmith, re-shod numbers of boat horses, said they were well looked after | P-091 | |
| Boats | 1910- | From this date the source is full of information about boats, cargoes, horses, boat-handling, Trent passages | P-100 | |||
| Boatman | Cocking, G E | 1910-03-21 | Lord Milton | Reg No 47. Owner. "Quite a new boat and fit for registration as a dwelling" | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, J | 1910-03-21 | Lord Milton | Master for Cocking, G E, Stockwith to Shireoaks, general cargo and bricks. | A-091 | |
| Boats | Fox, Marshall | 1910-07- | Lincoln | Shamrock | May have just sold this boat, having just taken possession of his new iron sailing keel Viking | C-070 |
| Cargoes | Pettinger, John | 1912- | Shireoaks | Approx date. His granddad used to carry coal to the Lincolnshire fens, "sold it by the ton weight" | P-098 | |
| Boatman | Farr, Henry | 1912-08-30 | No 7 Lene | Reg No 48. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith and Shireoaks, Grain and coal. " cross bed, shelf over, locker under. Fold up cross bed" | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1913-01-26 | Walkeringham | Born, 51 Station Road | P-100 | |
| Boatman | Hackett, Charles | 1913-03-04 | West Stockwith | Nellie | Reg No 49. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith and Shireoaks, Grain. " A new boat 2 cross beds, shelf over, locker under". | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Chris | 1914- | West Stockwith | Invincible | Eldest son of Thomas, aged 8 joined him as crew | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Thomas | 1914- | West Stockwith | Invincible | Master. Boat owned by Furleys. A violent man towards his sons | P-082 |
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1914- | West Stockwith | Jessie | His granddad had the boat built, named after one of his daughters | P-098 |
| Canal | Pettinger, John | 1914- | Canal's boats could carry 25 tons | P-098 | ||
| Bridges | 1914- | Clayworth | Approx date. Sharpening knives at Otters bridge | P-124-5 | ||
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1914-04-08 | Jessie | Reg No 50. Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith and Shireoaks, Grain. | A-091 | |
| Canal | 1914-09-07 | West Stockwith | MSLR No1 | By 31 Oct, 2,100 tons dredged from the basin | A-173 | |
| Boatman | 1914-12-21 | Drakeholes | Pride | Seen at Drakeholes, " a new boat" | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, George | 1915- | Gringley | Perseverence | Master for Furley & Co - new owners. | A-091 |
| Boats | 1915- | The Rose | Approx date. Sold to Furley & Co. | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1915-11-16 | West Stockwith | MSLR No1 | Dredger, leaving, going to Thorne, then on to Aire & Calder Nav | A-173 | |
| Navvies | Smith, Marjorie | 1916- | Norwood | Born 1912. Her great-great-grandparents ran the Duke of Leeds pub in Wales village, had navvies at lodgers | C-029 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Thomas | 1916- | Forest | Invincible | Threw his son Chris, 10 years old, into icy canal, at Forest Top Lock as "punishment for losing control of the horse". The fight between him and ice-breaker crewman, who complained about his cruelty, was talked about for years | P-082 |
| Boats | 1916-06-26 | West Stockwith | MSLR No1 | Returns to canal, pulled by tug-boat from Keadby | A-173 | |
| Boatman | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1917-01-13 | Worksop | Born. Father and grandfather boat owners and skippers | P-099 | |
| Tunnels | 1917-10-12 | Norwood | Plan C6, Railway plan to open out half of tunnel (A-170) | M-109 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, Thomas | 1918- | Retford | Invincible | Regular cargoes of beer to Gainsborough. | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Thomas | 1919- | Invincible | Rarely went home, fed on hares, rabbits caught by his lurcher, variety of vegetables from canalside fields | P-082 | |
| Tunnels | Perkin, Mr | 1919-01-15 | Norwood | Mining Engineer. "to make the tunnel navigable would... practically entail its reconstruction". "The most practical course would be to open out" some lengths, rest reconstructed with headroom for future subsidence. | A-122 | |
| Boatman | 1919-08-12 | Mavis | Reg No 48a, Owned by Furley & Co. Stockwith, general goods. | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1919-08-12 | Invincible | Taken off canal | A-091 | ||
| Canal Breach | 1919-08-13 | Clayworth | MSLR No1 | Burst its banks, dredger with crane sent, built a dam, put piles in, clay | A-173 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Ernest | 1920- | Gringley | Edna Hilda | Reg No 32. Approx Date. New owner. Name changed to Edna Hilda. Re-registered as no 52 (Hilda) in 1920 | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Ernest | 1920- | Retford | Hilda | Reg No37. Approx Date. New owner. Name changed. | A-091 |
| Canal Staff | Chambers, family | 1920- | Norwood | Approx date. Lived at the locks, kept goats by towpath, the smell was terrible | C-029 | |
| Canal Staff | Gumby, Mr | 1920- | Norwood | Approx date. With family lived in cottage at west portal, local children called it the Witches Cottage because his wife wore black, she never spoke to them, extremely tall and thin | C-029 | |
| Boatman | Gagg, Joseph | 1920- | Retford | Approx date. Lived in Retford, brother of Gagg, Colton | C-066 | |
| Canal Staff | Gagg, Colton | 1920- | Retford | Approx date. Lockkeeper at Town Lock [grandfather of canal author Gagg, John]. | C-066 | |
| Canal | 1920- | Killamarsh | Approx date. Near the side-arm (the Carole) there was an overflow weir, water into a dyke, ran down Nethermoor Lane and Tommy Lane, into the river | P-034 | ||
| Side Cuts | 1920- | Killamarsh | Approx date. Called "the Carole". Top wharf at junction of High Street and Bridge Street, goods sold outside the Navigation Inn pub | P-034 | ||
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Thomas | 1920- | Retford | Invincible | Lorries took over the beer boat cargoes to Gainborough | P-082 |
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Thomas | 1920- | Shireoaks | Invincible | Approx date. Boatman. He, and other boats, regularly carried coal from here to pumping stations on the Trent, at Ravensfleet, Butterwick, and Jenny Hurn | P-082 |
| Boats | Smith, C | 1920-06-30 | Clayworth | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | Smith, E | 1920-06-30 | Clayworth | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | 1920-06-30 | Gainsborough | Carrier, Furley & Co Ltd | A-235 | ||
| Boats | Hewitt, JW | 1920-06-30 | Gringley | Carrier, Top Bridge | A-235 | |
| Boats | 1920-06-30 | Misterton | Carrier. Hill Brothers | A-235 | ||
| Boats | Crossland, James | 1920-06-30 | Retford | Carrier, Dock House | A-235 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, J | 1920-06-30 | Retford | Carrier, Pennington Walk | A-235 | |
| Boats | Pettinger, JW | 1920-06-30 | Retford | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | 1920-06-30 | Retford | Carrier, Birkett & Co Ltd | A-235 | ||
| Boats | 1920-06-30 | Shireoaks | Carrier, Shireoaks Colliery Company | A-235 | ||
| Boats | Cooper, GC | 1920-06-30 | Walkeringham | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, Charles | 1920-06-30 | West Stockwith | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, George | 1920-06-30 | West Stockwith | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, James | 1920-06-30 | West Stockwith | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, JG | 1920-06-30 | West Stockwith | Carrier | A-235 | |
| Boats | 1920-06-30 | West Stockwith | Carrier. Morris Brothers | A-235 | ||
| Boats | Chambers, GH | 1920-06-30 | Worksop | Carrier, Trent Street | A-235 | |
| Boats | Clark, H | 1920-06-30 | Worksop | Carrier, Cemetary Road | A-235 | |
| Boats | 1920-06-30 | Last 12 months, 1,660 boat movements in total | A-235 | |||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Chesterfield | Last 12 months, lockkeeper=1 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Killamarsh | Last 12 months, lockkeeper=1, banksman=2 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Kiveton Park | Banksman=1, reservoir keeper=1, mason=1, labourer=1 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Retford | Last 12 months, lockkeeper=2, engine man=1, fireman=1, banksman=5, labourer=1 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Retford | Checker=1. Warehouse duties, deliveries/receipt of goods. Covers for Agents, permit/declarations duties. Really in charge when Agent not present | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Shireoaks | Last 12 months, lockkeeper=2, carpenter=1 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Staveley Works | Last 12 months, lockkeeper=1, banksman=3 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | Griffith, TJ | 1920-06-30 | West Stockwith | Agent | A-235 | |
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | West Stockwith | Last 12 months, agent=1, lockkeeper=2, lockkeeper/porter=1 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | Patteson, J | 1920-06-30 | Worksop | And Retford. Agent | A-235 | |
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Worksop | Last 12 months, agent=1, lockkeeper=3, banksman=1, labourer=1 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Worksop | Last 12 months, lockkeeper=3, carpenter=2, bricklayer=1, mason=1, blacksmith=1, labourer=1 | A-235 | ||
| Canal Staff | 1920-06-30 | Worksop | Checker=1. Warehouse duties, plus deliveries and receipt of goods. Office cover for Agent | A-235 | ||
| Boats | 1920-07-15 | Pride | Sold to Furley & Co | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, John William | 1920-10-14 | Gringley | Empress | Reg No 51. Owner. Sold to Clark of Worksop and renamed. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Ernest | 1920-11-16 | Gringley | Edna | Reg No 52 (formerly Retford 32). Stockwith and Worksop, general cargo. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Elliott, T W | 1921-01-04 | Blue Jacket | New master for Furley & Co. | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1921-02-04 | Retford | Thomas and Mary | Reg No 53. Owner Buckey & Co. Stockwith and Worksop, grain and general cargo. | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1921-02-04 | Lene | Reg No 48. Furley & Co boat. Grain and Coal. | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Clark, Harry | 1921-03-14 | May Queen | Ex Coronation (46), new owner/master. Sold on in 1933 | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1921-07-20 | Blue Jacket | Sold by Furleys, still in existence, working Fossdyke, Torksey to Lincoln. | A-091 | ||
| Canal | Markham, C P | 1921-10-28 | Chesterfield | Says the canal from the town to Norwood, 11 miles, has been "more or less derelict" since 1907. Proposes filling it in, creating a fairly level road in a hilly area. Interests say reasonable idea but definitely not to be done from Kiveton Park to West Stockwith | P-348 | |
| Canal Breach | 1922-08-07 | Manton | Canal bank breach | A-173 | ||
| Bridges | 1922-09-15 | Kiveton Park | List of deeds. Agreement re widening of Hard Lane Bridge over canal feeder from Harthill reservoir | A-059 | ||
| Canal Breach | 1922-12-20 | Babworth | MSLR No1 | Burst its banks, dredger with crane sent to deal with it | A-173 | |
| Boats | Hills & Co | 1923- | Misterton | Kathleen | Approx date. Brickmakers. Owners of. Also had a yard at Gringley | P-082 |
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Wilf | 1923- | Retford | He and his father had the "brewery boat", took beer to Gainsborough | P-100 | |
| Railway | 1923-01-01 | LNER takes over ownership of the canal, from the GCR | A-173 | |||
| Railway | 1923-07- | Kiveton Park | LNER hours of operation for the siding/wharf, in source | C-072 | ||
| Boatman | Shostell, John | 1923-11-07 | West Stockwith | Ivy | Reg No 54. Owner. | A-091 |
| Boatman | Wolfenden, George | 1923-11-07 | Ivy | Reg No 54. Master, General cargo, grain, coal. | A-091 | |
| Water Supply | 1923-12-18 | Harthill | LNER agree to sell to Colliery Co, for £1400, the 17 acres of coal left under reservoir's embankment. Purchased in 1893 for £6720. | A-122 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1924- | West Stockwith | Middle son of Thomas, took over as crew with him. Chris has run away to get clear of his violent father | P-082 | |
| Locks | 1924-07-24 | Cinderhill | MSLR No1 | Steam-dredger stuck in One-Slide Lock | A-173 | |
| Canal | 1924-10-23 | Thorpe Salvin | MSLR No1 | Has dredged up to Top Lock, now going back down | A-173 | |
| Boats | 1925- | West Stockwith | Joan | Built by Tomlinson's | N-022 | |
| Boats | 1925- | West Stockwith | Elsie | Built by Tomlinson's | N-022 | |
| Boats | 1925- | Gerald | Built by Tomlinson's at West Stockwith. A "wide" boat that used to get stuck in Stret Lock, so no good on the coal trade | N-022 | ||
| Boats | Coopers & Co | 1925- | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | Brickmakers. Owners of, and Lady Milton | P-082 |
| Accidents | Wallace, James | 1925-01-09 | Staveley | Found drowned in canal "floating partly under Dyson Bridge". Address Ralph Road, age 57. | C-108 | |
| Boatman | 1925-07 | Mavis | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Evelyn | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | No1 Dredger | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | British Queen | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Perseverence | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Pride | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Norah | Still owned by Hill Brothers | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Nellie | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Jessie | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Lene | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boats | 1925-07 | Thomas and Mary | Boat recorded as still in existence | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Wolfenden, G | 1925-07-01 | Elsie | Reg No 55, Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith, Worksop Gainsborough, goods. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Lelyton, G | 1925-07-03 | Joan | Reg No 56, Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith and Chesterfield [ not possible, Norwood Tunnel closed in 1907], General goods. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Cooper, G C | 1925-07-04 | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | Change of ownership on death of Cocking, G E | A-091 |
| Boats | 1925-07-07 | Ivy | Reg No 54 working on the Trent. | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, James | 1925-07-09 | Gerald | Reg No 57, Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith, Worksop, general goods. | A-091 | |
| Boats | 1925-07-20 | The Rose | Sold by Furleys, believed still in existence, working Fossdyke, Torksey to Lincoln. | A-091 | ||
| Boatman | Clark, Henry | 1927-05-20 | Worksop | Clarice | Reg No 58, Owner, Stockwith, general cargo | A-091 |
| Boats | Teal, Robert | 1928- | Newark | Elizabeth | Bought from Fellows Morton Clayton, to carry gravel dredged from Kelham Cut, together with 3 sister boats | C-053 |
| Boats | Hill, Miss | 1929- | Misterton | Approx date. Saw a narrowboat under sail approaching the family brickworks | C-092 | |
| Canal | Hill, Miss | 1929- | Misterton | Approx date. Remembered that on Mondays men pushed "a galvanised dustbin on big iron wheels" full of clean, clear canal-water for wives to do weekly wash | C-092 | |
| Cargoes | Hill, Miss | 1929- | Misterton | Approx date. The coal, brought to the brickwork kilns by the canal boats, was a special hard type, in great shiny lumps, as much as a man could lift. Boats reloaded with bricks | C-092 | |
| Canal Staff | Tomlinson, Ernest | 1929- | West Stockwith | Ex keel skipper, came ashore due to family illness, to be Furley's Wharfinger at West Stockwith. Remained as a keel owner. Had a house in Misterton | N-008 | |
| General | 1929- | Misterton | Approx date. No mains water in village. In dry seasons householders used to collect canal water and filter it into their water barrel | N-008 | ||
| Boats | 1929-04-29 | Worksop | Joan | Work underway on building new steam-crane dredger | A-173 | |
| Boats | 1929-09-02 | West Stockwith | Joan | Taking new and old dredgers to, from Worksop. Kit transfered to new boat | A-173 | |
| Boats | 1929-12-02 | Worksop | Joan | Dredger. Used for first time, in Worksop | A-173 | |
| Boatman | Gagg, Joseph, W | 1929-12-30 | Joan | Reg No 59, Master for LNER (canal owners), Stockwith and Worksop. Dredger and Repair boat. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Clark | 1930- | Worksop | Lillian | Approx date. Reg No 51. Ex Empress. New owner. | A-091 |
| Buildings | 1930- | West Stockwith | Furley office was a wooden building on west side of basin between LNER office (boat club) and road bridge. | N-008 | ||
| Canal Staff | Mott, Mr | 1930- | West Stockwith | Canal owner's manager at West Stockwith. | N-008 | |
| General | Tomlinson | 1930- | West Stockwith | Boat builder on east side of basin. NOT Earnest but his cousin. Lived in a big tarred house-boat in the basin | N-008 | |
| Locks | 1930- | West Stockwith | Lock users threw a tip to lock-keeper in a match box. Though to be 3d piece | N-008 | ||
| Wharfs | 1930- | West Stockwith | Keels unloaded in the bay near the warehouse. Used a hand-turned crane | N-008 | ||
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Wilf | 1930- | Approx date 1920s and 30s. Wheat to Worksop 20 tons max, then coal from Shireoaks back. Wife as mate. 2.5 days loaded each way. Overnight at Clayworth or Retford | N-022 | ||
| Boats | Hewitt | 1930- | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | On the warp trade for Coopers. £10 for a 30 ton load | N-022 |
| Boats | Hewitt, Wilf | 1930- | Walkeringham | Lady Milton | On the warp trade for Coopers. £10 for a 30 ton load | N-022 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Chris | 1930- | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | Approx date. Became master, with brother Frank as crew | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Frank | 1930- | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | Approx date. Youngest son of Thomas, joined brother Chris as crew | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1930- | Walkeringham | Lady Milton | Approx date. Became master. | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Thomas | 1930- | West Stockwith | Invincible | Died. [Sons, Chris, Wilf, Frank, in that order. All boatmen] | P-082 |
| Canal | 1930- | Ranby | Approx date, fishermen came on the 'Railway' bus [Sheffield, Worksop, Retford, Gainsborough]. Easier than walking from Chequer House Rail Station previously | P-275 | ||
| Canal | 1930- | Ranby | Children used to offer "Any tea mashing mister?", fisherman supplied tea, sugar in a twist of paper, mum mashed tea, children took it back to fisherman. 2d per service, 2s or 3s made on a good day. | P-275 | ||
| Tunnels | 1930-09 | Kiveton | Settlement of Norwood tunnel under Hard Lane, temporary road repair using timbers under road [section] Tunnel now in LNER ownership | A-230 | ||
| Boatman | Pettinger, A | 1930-12-23 | Ruth | Reg No 59, Master for Furley & Co. Stockwith, Worksop, grain and coal. | A-091 | |
| Boatman | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1930-12-27 | Worksop | Started work on the boats | P-099 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, Wilf | 1931- | West Stockwith | Shamrock | Approx date. Remembers boat in basin. Owned by Fox, M. He has no memory of her fate. She did not normally venture up the canal | N-022 |
| Boats | Clark, Ernest "Boatie" | 1931- | From this date the source is full of information about boats, cargoes, horses, boat-handling, Trent passages | P-102 | ||
| Cargoes | Clark, Ernest "Boatie" | 1931- | "Trade on the canal was deteriorating rapidly..." | P-102 | ||
| Tunnels | 1931-03-03 | Norwood | Permanent repair agreed LNER/WRCC, dig down, fill in with pipes inserted for flow. LNER works committee agree to proceed [was this done or changed?] | A-230 | ||
| Boats | 1932- | Walkeringham | Joan | Approx date. Dredger. Details in source | C-055 | |
| Boats | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1932- | Trent | The river was wild and untamed without the banks built up, willow trees on banks to stop them eroding. He and his father mainly used the stretch between the grain warehouse at Owston Ferry and Gainsborough | P-099 | |
| Wharfs | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1932- | Retford | Approx date. Still in use, just below West Retford Lock, took goods there as a young lad | P-099 | |
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Chris | 1933- | Drakeholes | Approx date. A "few loads of stone" arrived from beyond Shireoaks basin | P-082 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, Alfred | 1933-08-12 | Worksop | Ida | Ex May Queen (46) . New owner/master | A-091 |
| Tunnels | Wragg, A H | 1934- | Norwood | Remembers the hole (1871 collapse), known locally as Tunnel Top. "At each end was a handsome brick-built portal surmounted by a parapet to stop earth falling into the canal". Slowly filled with water, and about 100 x 50 yards in size. | C-073 | |
| Boats | 1934- | Approx date. Ice-breaker had hull part-sheathed in railway lines, many boatmen on board rocked it side to side, boat pulled by team of horses hired from stranded boats | P-082 | |||
| Cargoes | 1934- | Retford | Approx date. One boat was reserved for delivery of "gas water" and animal bones, to a fertiliser factory at East Stockwith | P-082 | ||
| Cargoes | 1934- | West Stockwith | Keels brought to the basin, wheat, timber, flour, cement, pit props, for further up the canal | P-082 | ||
| Cargoes | 1935- | Worksop | For next 5 years, tonnage carried averaged 20,000 tons | A-164 | ||
| Buildings | Hunt, J W | 1935- | Hollingwood | Approx date. Lived in Lees Buildings for more than 20 years. Fell in the canal from an early age. See I-001 | C-013 | |
| Boats | Clark, Henry | 1935- | West Stockwith | Clarice, Ark | Approx date. Possibly the boat converted into a pleasure boat, owners name on side reduced to Ark. Last seen sunk in basin | C-101 |
| Boatman | Smith, Charlie | 1935- | Clayworth | Three Sisters | Of the White Hart pub. Bought the boat from the Chambers brothers, it needed a lot of repair work doing | C-107 |
| Boatman | Chambers, Alf | 1935- | Worksop | Three Sisters | Known as David. With his brother Chambers, Jack lost the coal contract for Bracebridge Pumping Station | C-107 |
| Boatman | Chambers, James | 1935- | Worksop | Evelyn | Took over the contract for taking coal to Bracebridge Pumping Station, only lasted a short while as steam pumps soon replaced by electrict ones | C-107 |
| Boats | Chambers, Jack | 1935- | Worksop | Ida | Left empty, tied up at Shireoaks Colliery Company Wharf. Vandalised and Chambers, Jack sank her deliberately. Removed 1977. Last cuckoo boat | N-062 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Chris | 1935- | Ceased to be full time boatman. Not enough work. | P-082 | ||
| Boats | 1935- | Trent | By now, sails were not used on the river, instead "massive oars", facing direction of travel. One on foredeck, another at stern by the skipper, using his backside to move the tiller at the same time | P-082 | ||
| Boats | 1935- | Trent | Each had a heavy chain, thrown out from bows, dragged along river bed, gave steerage in a fast flowing tide, vessel moved stern-first facing the flow | P-082 | ||
| Boatman | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1935- | Shireoaks | The small world of the crews was the 27 usable miles to West Stockwith, the fields either side, and the horses, lockkeepers, lengthsmen, farmers, and bankside trades | P-099 | |
| Boats | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1935- | Approx date. Horses. Not too small (couldn't do the work). Had a Clydesdale for a while, its plod too slow, the line dropped in the water and gathered vast amounts of weed, he couldn't get under bridges. Any size between OK, if it had strong shoulders | P-099 | ||
| Locks | 1935- | Worksop | Deep Lock. Water gushed from gate edges, they put a bucket over the boat cabin chimney otherwise water got into stove and exploded with steam. Out of lock, took bucket off, cleared smoke from cabin | P-099 | ||
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Wilf | 1935- | Walkeringham | Approx date. Bricks to Worksop, Retford, Osberton estate, Gainsborough. Land drainage pipes to Owston Ferry, on the Trent | P-100 | |
| Boats | Teal, Robert | 1936- | Worksop | Elizabeth | Approx date. First visit to canal, said to have visited every summer until 1939 [may be the the earliest engine-powered vessel on the canal] | C-052 |
| Boats | Teal, Mr | 1936- | Elizabeth | Family pleasure boat, converted from a FMC working narrowboat by Warren's shipyard at New Holland. For tidal rivers now had a bulwark round the bow, also reduced to 62 feet so dinghy could be towed into locks | C-053 | |
| Boats | 1936- | Approx date. Owners provided boat, water can, coal box, cabin fitments. Skipper provided ropes, boat poles, horse, horse gear and food (kept in the cabin at bows). Probably also so on the canal | P-082 | |||
| Cargoes | 1936- | Walkeringham | Approx date. Bricks taken to Retford and Worksop, a considerable number to the Osberton estate | P-082 | ||
| Canal | 1938- | ARP Memo C.7 - all canals to have stop-planks at strategic sites, to prevent flooding after enemy action | A-164 | |||
| Cargoes | Stubbins, Harold | 1939- | From now until 1943, working wheat 'upgate' to Smith's of Worksop, then coal 'downgate' to brickworks at Walkeringham and Misterton | A-182 | ||
| General | Travis, Edward | 1939- | Walkeringham | Brickyard closed "due to concern that the glow from the kilns would be a navigational aid for German bombers" | C-092 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Frank | 1939- | Morning Star | Boat infested with bugs. Despite fumigation, only cleared when the deck was replaced | P-082 | |
| Locks | Shipp, William | 1939- | Norwood | Approx date. Worked for London & North Eastern Water Way Company. Moved, with wife and 3 daughters, to 12 Lock House. Was toll-house, safe still there, room with metal floors. Orchard, apple, plum, damson. The water-wheel at the back was gone | P-093 | |
| Boats | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1939- | Approx date. Boatmen always had a home ashore. Sometimes wives were on board as crew, no room for passengers. Some men were drunkards but most were not. Hard working. | P-099 | ||
| Boatman | Smith, Mr | 1939-02-20 | Shireoaks | His horse has drowned in the canal, tow-line snagged trying to negotiate the works under the new road bridge below the bottom lock | C-036 | |
| Boatman | Stubbins, Harold | 1939-07- | Started on canal as 'lad' to skipper Hewitt, Bob snr, of West Stockwith. Until called up in 1943. Furley & Co of Hull owned boat. No boat work after war | A-182 | ||
| Accidents | Allsopp, Mr | 1939-12-19 | Worksop | In the wartime blackout, 14 people have fallen into canal during past fortnight along Canal Road, although a white line along edge. Fencing was requested of LNER. Road was lower than now without a defined towpath | C-036 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Bob snr | 1940- | West Stockwith | Approx date. Skipper for Furley's | A-182 | |
| Boats | Teal, Robert | 1940- | Retford | Elizabeth | Laid up at Forest Locks because of war time fuel shortages, after the war left the canal | C-052 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Frank | 1940- | Trent | Pride | Working for Coopers brickmakers at weekends, boat on loan from Furleys. Leaked too badly for cargoes, on warp jobs water poured in. Worried him when a tug passed on the Trent, boat needed vigorous pumping afterwards | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Frank | 1940- | Morning Star | Working for Furleys during the week | P-082 | |
| Cargoes | Thomas, Chris | 1940- | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | In the 1930-40s. Also boat Lady Milton. At the mouth of River Idle, abundant fine sandy silt. Known as warp. Dug up, loaded into boats, taken to bricks-works kilns, dried into powder, for Sheffield silversmiths to polish wares | P-082 |
| Boats | Clark, Ernie "Boatie" | 1940- | Many of the canal men called up for the War, other young men went to the Scunthorpe steel works when they expanded. Both were the death knell of the Chesterfield as a working canal | P-099 | ||
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1941- | West Stockwith | The keels, of the type seen in the basin, could carry 112 tons. They had a derrick to handle cargoes. He served as mate on one, when his father tired of narrowboats | P-098 | |
| Canal | Pettinger, John | 1941- | Canal's boats can now carry only 16 tons because of the state of the waterway | P-098 | ||
| Bridges | 1941-11-05 | Stop-plank grooves at - Manton, Turnerhouse, Osberton Hall, Adams, Checker House, Lady, Babworth railway, Hayton, Clayworth (2 sets), Drakeholes, Wiseton | A-164 | |||
| Canal | 1941-11-05 | Shireoaks | Colliery basin is head of trade navigation | A-164 | ||
| Canal | 1941-11-05 | Shireoaks | Between here and West Stockwith, 11 sites with grooves for stop-planks [dating from building of canal?] | A-164 | ||
| Canal | 1941-11-05 | Re 1938 ARP memo - 11 sets stop-planks deployed daily, starting at 4.30pm. Removed daily, done by 8.30am. Other work by staff hindered, boats restricted | A-164 | |||
| Canal | 1941-11-05 | Suggested, only 3 stop-plank sites be used instead of 11 - Manton, Lady, of Babworth, reason near railways | A-164 | |||
| Cargoes | 1941-11-05 | Worksop | From Stockwith, charged at 1.33 pennies per ton per mile for flour. For gravel, 0.78 pennies per ton per mile | A-164 | ||
| Boats | 1945- | Dredger | Steam-powered crane, boat un-powered, worked until this date | A-163 | ||
| General | Woodhead, Bill | 1945- | Walkeringham | Approx date. Worked at brickworks and signed for loads | N-062 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1945- | Approx date. Used to sleep on board with his dad. Got eggs and butter at Grindley Top Lock, potatoes and cabbages from the canalside fields | P-098 | ||
| Cargoes | Pettinger, John | 1945- | Shireoaks | Approx date. Carried coal to Walkeringham bricks works, and a power station on the Trent at Gainsborough, where there was a steam-crane to unload the boats. Back to canal, at West Stockwith loaded flour for Smiths, Worksop | P-098 | |
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Wilf | 1945- | Trent | Detailed description of digging, and loading, warp in source | P-100 | |
| Cargoes | Clark, Ernest "Boatie" | 1945- | West Stockwith | Approx date. A standard load of grain from the keels was 100 quarters. A quarter was 2x18 stone bags | P-102 | |
| Boats | Travis, Edward | 1953- | Misterton | Lord Milton | Approx date. Annual Sunday School outing, warp-carrying boat swept out, trestles with planks for seats laid across the hold, children aboard at Wharf bridge, to Drakeholes for picnic, going through tunnel was an adventure. Return in evening | C-092 |
| Cargoes | 1946- | Local trade in coal from Shireoaks to Walkeringham brickworks, Smith's flour Mill in Worksop and the sewage pumping station at Bracebridge | N-062 | |||
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1946- | Worksop | Mavis | Young son Hedley left in cabin, alone for first time. Load of coal, boat descending, water went down chimney, cabin filled with steam, smoke, noise. Frightened lad pulled out very quickly by his father | P-082 |
| Boats | Pettinger, John | 1946- | Approx date. The two types of towing-masts were known as "long neddy" and "short neddy" | P-098 | ||
| Boatman | Gagg, J W | 1946-07-06 | Retired from work | A-173 | ||
| Tunnels | 1946-10-06 | Norwood | Legal opinion on liability for damage by mining | A-121 | ||
| Boatman | Clifton, George | 1947- | Approx date. The last of the Clifton family to leave the canal | C-063 | ||
| Canal Staff | Montegue, Mr | 1947- | Misterton | Approx date. Lockkeeper/Lengthsman. Would drop the level of water in the canal to try to break the ice. | C-092 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1947- | Drakeholes | Mavis | Wife Carrie led Dinah, their horse, over the tunnel while he poled the boat through | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1947- | Walkeringham | Mavis | His family lived on boat in the week. Monday, him, wife Carrie, son Hedley, leave home with wicker basket containing the basis of the week's meals | P-082 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1947- | Mavis | Could take a piece of coal, from the coal-box, throw it to land on horse Dinah's back when she stopped to pick at a hedge. In the summer it helped the horse, if rope trailed in the water it collected weed and made her job harder | P-082 | |
| Boats | 1947- | Furleys, owners of a fleet of boats on the canal, ceased to trade on the waterway | P-082 | |||
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1947- | Worksop | Morning Star, Pride | Approx date. Both slightly wider, made of different wood, both "used to jam like hell" in Deep Lock when fully loaded with Shireoaks coal. Saw "the horses almost stand on their noses trying to get them out" | P-098 |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1947- | Mavis | His last boat, he and wife Carrie. Built West Stockwith. In the war used to take scout troops and school children out for boat trips | P-100 | |
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Wilf | 1947- | West Stockwith | Approx date. Loaded from keels in the basin, flour to Smiths Mill in Worksop, tinned goods and flour to Retford | P-100 | |
| Cargoes | 1947-01 | Grain trade finished because of severe frosts and bad winter weather. Ice breaker boat only made it to Drakeholes. This also finished the return coal trade | N-062 | |||
| Boats | Travis, Edward | 1947-02 | Misterton | Approx date. Can just remember seeing a horse-drawn ice-breaker boat forcing its way along the canal | C-092 | |
| Boatman | Various | 1948- | Furley & Co switched to road from canal cargoes, skippers used to be on trip-rates, wanted time-rates when number of trips lessened | A-208 | ||
| Boats | 1949- | Approx date. Max 72ft x 6ft 10.5 ins | A-119 | |||
| Bridges | 1949- | Approx date. No 62 known as Smeathe's or Smeeth's | A-119 | |||
| Canal | 1949- | Approx date. Legal situation | A-119 | |||
| Canal | 1949- | Minimum depth 3ft 3ins | A-119 | |||
| Canal Co | 1949- | Approx date. Supervision, staff numbers, locations | A-119 | |||
| Cargoes | 1949- | Approx date. Types, tonnages | A-119 | |||
| Locks | 1949- | Approx date. Names, sizes, depths | A-119 | |||
| Water Supply | 1949- | Reservoir sizes, condition. Feeders, drainage water | A-119 | |||
| Boatman | Hindley, Pierce | 1949-03- | Ruth | Worked the last load of coal from Shireoaks to brickworks at Walkeringham. Boat in bad condition, no paint, barrel-bottomed, only 16 ton load, had been laid up | N-062 | |
| Canal | Pryce, W H | 1949-09-27 | Report Worksop - West Stockwith, by boat, future of | A-120 | ||
| Canal | Jesperson, H S | 1949-09-30 | Responding to source A-120. Thinks Trent will deter pleasure use. On canal commercial craft need engines, set at 10hp max. Narrowboats working in pairs. | A-207 | ||
| General | Jesperson, H S | 1949-09-30 | District Engineer, Docks & Inland Waterways Executive | A-207 | ||
| Tunnels | 1949-10-25 | Norwood | Summary of past legal cases re mining damage to | A-122 | ||
| Tunnels | 1949-10-25 | Norwood | Report, 1871-92 total cost of raising tunnel roof £17,043 | A-122 | ||
| Canal Staff | Walker, Albert | 1950- | Worksop | Approx date. Carpenter, at Maintenance Yard, BW. Had been a shipwright for Tomlinson, William. Taught Bownes, David to make "calico" (tar and horse dung) to make seams watertight on wooden boats | C-088 | |
| Boats | Hewitt, Frank | 1950- | Trent | Approx date. Asked to do the warp trade, using a midland's narrowboat bought for the purpose. He said no, the raised cabin blocked free movement about the deck, essential when moving on the river. | P-082 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1950- | Trent | Ruth | Approx date. Built at West Stockwith. "finished her days holding up the bank of the Trent at Ratcliffe Corner, she's still there" | P-098 |
| Boats | Cooper, John | 1952- | Walkerith | Approx date. End of his family's shipyard, making and repairing boats, been there over 200 years | C-064 | |
| Cargoes | Travis, Edward | 1953- | West Stockwith | Keels in the basin mostly came with brown sugar, unloaded into the upper storey of the warehouse | C-093 | |
| Locks | Mitchell, Charles | 1953- | Forest | Moved to cottage by Forest Top Lock, with wife Freda. Used to claim to be employee of BWB | C-102 | |
| Canal | Bunker, Bessie | 1953- | Very active member of the Inland Waterways Association. From 1958 Secretary of the new Inland Waterways Protection Society. Avid campaigner in the district | W-Wikipedia | ||
| Boats | Cooper, Mr G C | 1953-01- | Walkeringham | Owner of two carrying warp up from the Trent | A-208 | |
| Canal | 1953-01- | Shireoaks | From here to the Trent, "is a nominal depth of 3ft, and definitely a comfortable 2ft 6ins" | A-208 | ||
| Canal | 1953-01- | Walkeringham | From here to the Trent, "dredged to a depth of 4ft 6ins" | A-208 | ||
| Canal | Bunker, Bessie | 1953-01- | Towpath throughout, "this is usable and in the main in good condition" | A-208 | ||
| Canal Staff | Bagshaw, Mr | 1953-01- | Worksop | Superintendent. "most keen on his job" | A-208 | |
| Canal Staff | 1953-01- | 30 maintenance staff, pre-war it was 40 | A-208 | |||
| Cargoes | Cooper, Mr G C | 1953-01- | Walkeringham | Owner of two boats carrying warp up from the Trent | A-208 | |
| Locks | Bunker, Bessie | 1953-01- | Shireoaks | From here to the Trent, "locks are in good order, well maintained" | A-208 | |
| Canal | Bunker, Bessie | 1953-01- | Produced a map of the canal [went with source A-208] | M-127 | ||
| Canal | 1955- | Chesterfield | New basin sold [probably to Trebors] | A-210 | ||
| Boatman | Clark, Harry | 1955- | Worksop | Approx date. Gave advice to Bownes, David re boat and horse handling, and ropes etc. As also did Hindley, Joe - Blagg, Cecil - Chambers, Jack | C-088 | |
| General | Hill, Robert | 1955- | Misterton | Died. [Born 1874] Ran the family brickworks with his brother Hill, Thomas | C-092 | |
| Canal | Travis, Edward | 1955- | West Stockwith | Basin partially drained for repairs to the lock | C-093 | |
| Boats | Clark, Henry | 1955- | Clayworth | Valour | Approx date. Owner. Last seen lying sunk, but no rotting hulks found in the 1960s so must have been refloated | C-101 |
| Boats | Clark, Henry | 1955- | Worksop | Lillian, May Queen | Buried when the turning point at Smith's mill filled in | C-101 |
| General | 1955- | Clarborough | Approx date. Fishermen from Sheffield, with families, arrived by coach. Often 10-12 of them, parked down Smeath Lane. They had tea and sugar, farm wife made the tea and supplied milk for 6d, 2s deposit for crockery. | P-361 | ||
| Wharfs | 1955-10-04 | Chesterfield | Clearance Order for "Canal Wharf (No.2)". Terrace of 10 houses, owners listed. 5 water closets | A-099 | ||
| Cargoes | Hewitt, Frank | 1956- | Walkeringham | Commercial boating ceased on the canal. Warp trade switched to road transport until ceasing in 1981 | C-093 | |
| Boatman | Spencer, George | 1956-06- | Lord Milton | Approx date. Last load of warp cargoes to Walkeringham from West Stockwith, 22 tons. | N-062 | |
| Cargoes | Travis, Mr | 1956-06-26 | Misterton | Owner. Start of Trent Buffing Sand business, moving warp by road, cash-book has no mention of disposal of boats which may have been just before November | C-092 | |
| Boats | 1956-09- | Only "a company's boat, a steam dredger, and a small weed-cutter afloat on the canal" | A-209 | |||
| Canal | 1956-09- | Chesterfield | Newer basin "is in good order" | A-209 | ||
| Canal | Boucher, Cyril | 1956-09- | Chartered Engineer. Walked whole length of canal, the source is his report | A-209 | ||
| Cargoes | 1956-09- | West Stockwith | In the basin, 700 tons timber pulp [?] landed from Humber keels, onto road transport, for Robinsons paper mills in Chesterfield | A-209 | ||
| Locks | Boucher, Cyril | 1956-09- | Norwood | Judged the derelict flight to be a 3,3,1,3,3 configuration | A-209 | |
| Locks | Boucher, Cyril | 1956-09- | Thorpe Salvin | Thorpe top lock. Said he saw stables, wharf, lock-keepers house | A-209 | |
| Tunnels | Boucher, Cyril | 1956-09- | Norwood | Filling of construction shafts not bonded in, so a deadweight on tunnel lining, so most collapsed in [there may be a relevance to Victorian raising of tunnel roof?] | A-209 | |
| Cargoes | Travis, Mr | 1956-11- | West Stockwith | Panurgic | Dredger of the Trent River Board. His first payment to the TRB for landing warp on the bank, for road transport to Walkeringham instead of by canal boat | C-092 |
| Cargoes | Revill, Ernest | 1957- | Misterton | Approx date. Spoke of digging warp from the Trent banks at the mouth of the River Idle, barrowed aboard boats | C-092 | |
| Cargoes | Travis, Edward | 1957- | Walkeringham | Canoed from Misterton with weekly wages for warp-producing men at the ex-brickworks | C-092 | |
| General | Travis, Edward | 1957- | Misterton | Approx date. His father owned the brickworks as well as those at Walkeringham. His mother was of the previously owning Hill family | C-092 | |
| Boats | Travis, Edward | 1957- | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | Approx date. Also Lady Milton. Both at brickyard "in a sad and leaky state requiring regular pumping out to stay afloat" | C-093 |
| Boats | Travis, Edward | 1957- | Walkeringham | Lord Milton | Also Lady Milton. Scrapped, the sweeps [oars] were kept. About 20 feet long, made of pine. Used to keep a boat straight when on the Trent. In 1967 taken to Norfolk, used as a rose trellis | C-093 |
| Canal | 1958-04-29 | Chesterfield | Legal situation re the old and new basins, sale of, etc | A-210 | ||
| Boats | 1958-09- | Brimington | No name | "sunken narrowboat under the right bank" | A-101 | |
| Boats | 1958-09- | Gringley | No name | Sunken narrowboat in "basin" by Top Lock | A-101 | |
| Boats | 1958-09- | Gringley | No name | Sunken narrowboat by Middle Bridge | A-101 | |
| Boats | 1958-09- | Osberton | Joan | Derelict narrowboat, near Osberton Lock | A-101 | |
| Boats | 1958-09- | Staveley | No name | Wharf Lane "sunken narrowboat in basin" | A-101 | |
| Boats | 1958-09- | West Stockwith | No name | 8 narrowboats "rotting" on bank, non-towpath side | A-101 | |
| Boats | 1958-09- | Worksop | No name | Sunken narrowboat near malthouse | A-101 | |
| Boats | 1958-09- | Worksop | Norah | Sunken narrowboat downstream of Priorswell Bridge, by non-towpath bank | A-101 | |
| Canal | 1958-09- | Killamarsh | Nr Spink Hill, several boundary stones marked CCC | A-101 | ||
| Canal Co | Bagshawe, Mr | 1958-09- | Worksop | Retired Canal Inspector | A-101 | |
| Canal Co | Ledger, Mr | 1958-09- | Worksop | Current Canal Inspector | A-101 | |
| Stables | 1958-09- | Worksop | Ruins of a stone-built stable Bracebridge Lock | A-101 | ||
| Canal | 1959- | Clayworth | Wharf, basin | A-101 | ||
| Restoration | 1959-05- | Campaign cruise by IWPS. 30+ small boats. Stop planks fitted to raise water levels | N-016 | |||
| Restoration | 1960-02- | Report by the Inland Waterways Protection Society, for the restoration of the canal | A-211 | |||
| Links | 1960-04- | IWPS proposal for Leeds-London inland waterways route, 205 miles, included Killamarsh to Chesterfield, and the now-called Rother Link. Maps in source | A-213 | |||
| Restoration | Bunker, Bessie | 1960-04-13 | Rivalry between the IWA and IWPS, re saving canal | A-212 | ||
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-04-13 | Planning the "assault" cruise, West Stockwith to Worksop, timetable included, two days, starting 30 April | A-212 | ||
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-04-30 | Organiser of. Start of planned two day "assault" cruise, to see if boats can get from West Stockwith to Worksop. Schedule in source | A-212 | ||
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-04-30 | Clayworth | Pleiades | "Assault cruise" day 1, now v weedy, bow-hauled boat to Clayworth, then thinned. BW inspector joined at Hayton bridge. Bad shoal at Whitsunday Pie Lock - six people needed to bow-haul. Overnight at Barnby Moor Road Bridge | P-359 |
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-04-30 | Pleiades | "Assault cruise" day 1, Lock keeper helped at Misterton then good progress to Walkeringham. Then weed, shoals and bad locks to Drakeholes. IWPS then assist | P-359 | |
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-05-01 | Worksop | Pleiades | "Assault cruise" day 2, IWPS arrive, boat had better going to Worksop. Advised to pass Town Lock as difficult to turn above lock. They walk to Morse Lock. Boat left at Worksop | P-359 |
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-05-14 | Retford | Pleiades | "Assault cruise" day 3, return trip, lunch at Barnby Road, problem with bottom gates leaking at Retford Top (West Retford) Lock. More trouble with gates at Whitsunday Pie Lock. Overnight at White Hart pub in Clayworth | P-359 |
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-05-15 | Misterton | Pleiades | "Assault cruise" day 4, bow-hauled to Drakeholes, lunch at Misterton and back at West Stockwith mid-afternoon | P-359 |
| Restoration | Lovell, Oliver | 1960-05-15 | Pleiades | He considered that despite many new gates being fitted in the 1940s, BTW had not done any maintenance, led to loose collars and awkward paddles on the locks | P-359 | |
| Canal | 1960-07-20 | Chesterfield to Spinkhill Bridge, save for industrial water supply. Eckington to Kiveton Park should be eliminated. DCC claims all towpath in the county is a right of way | A-214 | |||
| Canal | 1960-08-20 | Peck Mill | An old quarry with access to the canal | A-157 | ||
| Locks | 1960-08-20 | Killamarsh | In ruins, no water, lock house "poshed up" and lived in | A-157 | ||
| Tunnels | 1960-08-20 | Norwood | Construction shafts, have pallisades of old sleepers, along whole line of the tunnel | A-157 | ||
| Tunnels | 1960-08-20 | Norwood | Ruins of buildings at east portal, use not clear | A-157 | ||
| Wharfs | 1960-08-20 | Norwood | For Norwood colliery, stone corbel supports for a chute still there, jutting out from the wharf wall | A-157 | ||
| Water Supply | 1961- | Harthill | Top and middle reservoirs combined, when damaged wall removed | A-089 | ||
| Restoration | 1961-11- | Chesterfield Council and Chesterfield Rural District Council both decide not to oppose the British Transport Commission Bill, which would abandon the canal | N-016 | |||
| Canal | 1962- | Clayworth | Retford and Worksop Boat Club formed | P-359 | ||
| Canal Co | 1962-02 | Worksop | At BW Maintenance Yard - forge and carpenters shop (with electric circular saw), warehouse, stores, a Thames van, 2 mechanical barrows for bank work, dumper truck, Rushton caterpillar drag-line | A-163 | ||
| Canal Staff | Bowles, Tom | 1962-02 | Worksop | Mason, at Maintenance Yard, BW | A-163 | |
| Canal Staff | Caudwell, Noel | 1962-02 | Worksop | Foreman, at Maintenance Yard, BW | A-163 | |
| Canal Staff | Stocken, Arthur | 1962-02 | Worksop | Lorry driver, at Maintenance Yard, BW | A-163 | |
| Canal Staff | Walker, Albert | 1962-02 | Worksop | Carpenter, at Maintenance Yard, BW | A-163 | |
| Canal Staff | 1962-02 | Worksop | At BW Maintenance Yard - 24 men, inc 2 x carpenters, bricklayer, mason, driver. Repairs to locks, banks, bridges, tenanted houses, etc | A-163 | ||
| Canal Staff | Ledger, W E | 1962-02 | Section Inspector, North Eastern Division, Chesterfield Canal, BW | A-163 | ||
| Canal | 1962-07-18 | Derbyshire County Council, discussing proposals by British Transport Commission to close canal, except Stockwith basin. Keep as water channel between Chesterfield and Eckington | A-162 | |||
| Locks | 1962-10- | Norwood | Permanent concrete weirs installed by BW, locks 7 to 19 | A-144 | ||
| Tunnels | 1962-10- | Norwood | Portals sealed by BW | A-144 | ||
| Boats | Bownes, David | 1963- | Drakeholes | Approx date. Running boat trips from the wharf | C-088 | |
| Canal | White, J | 1963-07- | Thorpe Salvin | Plan for new embankment downstream of Pudding Dyke Bridge. Water to flow via 2x pipes through embankment. White, J - Manor Farm. | A-061 | |
| Canal | 1964- | Approx date. Worksop-Chesterfield, 24.8km, BWB options to retain, change, eliminate, and costs of each | A-143 | |||
| Bridges | 1964- | Rhodesia | Hump-backed canal bridge has been removed and a new low-level canal crossing built | N-016 | ||
| Boats | Bownes, David | 1966-04 | Worksop | Approx month. His wife burnt the boats he had made | C-088 | |
| Boats | Wilson, Alan | 1966-05 | Drakeholes | RWBC rally to celebrate BW removing 3 of the 4 narrows, 7 feet 10 ins, so larger craft could use the canal. His boat was first through. Picture exit of the tunnel | C-038 | |
| Canal | Atherton, Richard | 1966-05- | Drakeholes | RWBC Chairman, club based in the basin, membership now 200, has acquired a clubroom there | C-038 | |
| Canal | 1966-10- | BWB[?] report on the Worksop-West Stockwith section | C-022 | |||
| Water Supply | 1966-10- | Retford | Feeder, current state. "Recent" deprivation of River Idle water for the feeder | C-022 | ||
| Boats | MacDonald, Jim | 1966-12-25 | Elizabeth | Together with wife Mig, bought the boat, cruised extensively, installed a Lister Freedom twin diesel engine | C-053 | |
| Buildings | 1967-02-01 | Drakeholes | Listed Status, date of first listing. White Swan pub ( Griff Inn). Grade II. Entry no. 1302662. | P-117 | ||
| Canal | 1968- | Designated as a Cruiseway from West Stockwith to Worksop in 1968 Transport Act | P-359 | |||
| Locks | Shipp, family | 1968-04- | Norwood | Lived in lock-house, received news from BWB that house and land has been sold to Robinson, Mr of Killamarsh, 2 Ellison Cottages. Sale completed July 1969 | P-093 | |
| Accidents | Ryan, Thomas | 1969-01-02 | Misterton. | 4 year old slipped into lock and drowned despite rescue effort by brother. Inquest reports in Sheffield Star and Doncaster Evening News 1969-01-18 | A-170 | |
| Bridges | 1969-10-14 | Shireoaks | Weight restriction on canal bridge has curtailed bus services and is affecting lorries from Steetley company | N-016 | ||
| Locks | 1970-03- | Thorpe Salvin | At Thorpe Middle lock, stables for 12 horses now stand empty | P-091 | ||
| Canal Breach | 1971-07-26 | Osberton | Details of, emergency actions, recovery plan, actual work, resources used, cost, consequent damage to local watercourses. 10 days | A-170 | ||
| Water Supply | 1972- | Pebley | Refit of 1790 plug-valve in reservoir dam | A-088 | ||
| Boats | MacDonald, Jim | 1972- | Elizabeth | Approx date. Again visited the canal | C-052 | |
| Locks | Shipp, family | 1972-04-10 | Norwood | Received news from Robinson, Mr that house and land has been sold to Richardson, Mr of Sheffield, Manor Lane | P-093 | |
| Tunnels | Wragg, A H | 1975- | Norwood | Remembers the hole (1871 collapse), known locally as Tunnel Top. "the water was almost up to the top" | C-073 | |
| Bridges | 1975- | At least 20 [of those in Notts] "are partly original" | P-088 | |||
| Canal | 1975- | Clayworth | Stop-plank rests, only ones in Notts | P-088 | ||
| Locks | 1975- | At least 8 "possible lock-keepers cottages survive. Originally all were of red brick", except that at Osberton which is of pale brick | P-088 | |||
| Canal | Oxley, Michael | 1976-06-13 | Killamarsh | Between Belk Lane lock and Norwood, the canal "contains a little water" | P-083 | |
| CCS | 1976-09- | Chesterfield Canal Society formed. [Later Trust.] | P-124-2 | |||
| Buildings | 1976-11-05 | Retford | Listed Status, date of first listing. Grove Mill, Raglan Road. Grade II. Entry no. 1045161 | W-001 | ||
| Buildings | 1977-04-13 | Drakeholes | Listed Status, date of first listing. Gatehouses above tunnel portal. Grade II. Entry no. 1045046. | P-117 | ||
| CCS | 1977-05- | Worksop | Bicentenary commemoration stone and plaque installed at Town Lock by CCS. 2 ton block. To be unveiled by Devonshire, Duke of on 1977-06-04. Also I-130 | P-113 | ||
| CCS | 1977-06 | Worksop | 4 day Boat rally at Worksop. Expecting 200 boats from far and wide. Rice, John chairman of steering committee. | P-113 | ||
| Canal Staff | Robinson, Stuart | 1978- | Worksop | Approx date. 1970s and 1980s. BWB section Inspector for Chesterfield Canal. Based at Worksop Yard | N-015 | |
| Canal Staff | Bagshawe, Mr K | 1978-07-20 | BWB Reservoir Keeper/attendant. Pebley and Harthill | A-088 | ||
| Canal Staff | Firth, Mr A | 1978-07-20 | BWB Senior Assistant Engineer (reservoirs) | A-088 | ||
| Water Supply | 1978-07-20 | Pebley | Inspected under Section 2 of Reservoirs Act 1930. Safe, with recommendations for improvements. Includes geology and mining details | A-088 | ||
| Water Supply | 1978-07-20 | Pebley | Inspector of Dams report, reservoir has "earthfill embankment with reputed puddle clay core". 23.15 Acres, 48.4 million gallons. | A-088 | ||
| Water Supply | 1978-07-20 | Pebley | Inspector of Dams report, reservoir fed from 2 streams. From south-east the stream is uncontrolled, south-west stream comes from another "pond" and then in a culvert under road | A-088 | ||
| Water Supply | 1978-07-20 | Pebley | Partly in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Part of reservoir dam (right side) leased to BWB, rest owned by Sitwell Estates | A-088 | ||
| Canal | 1978-08- | Retford | "Pulled the plug" 1. Outside Grove Mill. Dredger working on offside. Another team on towpath find a chain and want to remove it. Consult with engineers. Advised to remove it | N-015 | ||
| Canal | 1978-08- | Retford | "Pulled the plug" 2. Late afternoon. Try with a van and fail so dredger brought across and its jib used to pull. Chain come up with a wooden door attached 2 ft 6 ins square. Shift finished and men go home | N-015 | ||
| Canal | 1978-08- | Retford | "Pulled the plug" 3. Later that night policeman spots and reports a whirlpool in canal and BWB called out. Stop planks fitted but canal section drains away | N-015 | ||
| Canal | 1978-08- | Retford | "Pulled the plug" 4. a family on a boating holiday are held up at Retford Town lock as the water below the lock has drained away. | N-015 | ||
| Canal | 1978-08- | Retford | "Pulled the plug" 5. British Waterways knew of a culvert under canal and checked that it had not flooded property near its outfall into the River Idle | N-015 | ||
| Canal | 1978-08- | Retford | "Pulled the plug" 6. Door/plug was in a depression in bottom of canal, possibly a drain-off feature. Replacement oak plug made new timber seating made and fitted. All cemented into place. | N-015 | ||
| Canal | 1978-08- | Retford | "Pulled the plug" 7. The story is covered by local newspapers and syndicated to the news agencies. August being the "silly season" it is picked up by national newspapers and also gets world-wide coverage | N-015 | ||
| Boats | 1978-12-11 | Kiveton | Dredger D5 | Spud leg dredger, burnt out on remainder section. Accidental - caused by Severn Trent Water whilst burning off an oil spill on canal, flames jumped boom | A-171 | |
| Canal Staff | Butt, Mr JA | 1979-05-10 | Harthill | BWB Senior Assistant Engineer (Water) | A-089 | |
| Canal Staff | Firth, Mr A | 1979-05-10 | Harthill | Now Senior Engineer (Planning and Works) | A-089 | |
| Canal Staff | Smith, Mr M | 1979-05-10 | Harthill | BWB Area Engineer | A-089 | |
| Water Supply | 1979-05-10 | Harthill | Top reservoir, Inspected under Section 2 of Reservoirs Act 1930. Safe, with recommendations for improvements. Includes geology, mining and hydrology details | A-089 | ||
| Water Supply | 1979-05-10 | Harthill | Reservoir has suffered much settlement and cracking due to mining activity and close proximity to "30 foot" fault, in the Clowne seam. | A-089 | ||
| Canal | 1981-01 | BWB dredging summit pound | P-124-1 | |||
| CCS | 1981-02 | 1st CCS trip boat Norwood Packet launched on summit pound, near Top Lock Farm. Then motored to Kiveton Park | P-124-1 | |||
| CCS | 1981-04- | Chesterfield | "Rothernav 81" held by River Rother, first campaign in Chesterfield. Hospitality, trip boats and sales stand. 450 visitors | P-124-1 | ||
| CCS | 1981-04-25 | Worksop | 1st in the series of information panels by Brian Pearson erected by Town Lock | P-124-1 | ||
| CCS | 1981-07 | CCS membership over 190 | P-124-2 | |||
| Canal | 1981-08- | Chesterfield | BWB repairs to Tapton weir - raised 5ins to old height. Repairs/stabilisation to bank between River Rother and canal. Dredging from weir to Lockoford Lane Lock | P-124-3 | ||
| CCS | 1981-08-01 | Retford | Canal Rally at Kings Park. 25 exhibitors, 35 boats attended | P-124-1 | ||
| Boats | Bailey, Alf | 1981-09- | Spitfire | Approx date. 40-seat trip-boat working on the canal 1970s and 1980s | P-124-1 | |
| Restoration | 1981-11-17 | Worksop | "Route to Rhodesia" plan discussed and adopted at CCS AGM | P-124-3 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, Chris | 1981-12-30 | Gainsborough | Older brother of Wilf. Lives at 85 Stanley Street | P-100 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Hedley | 1981-12-30 | Retford | Aged 42, son of Wilf. Has the Ship Inn pub | P-100 | |
| CCS | 1984-05-27 | Worksop | Rally over spring bank holiday weekend at Morse Lock. | P-125 | ||
| Bridges | 1984-11-23 | Misterton | Listed Status, date of first listing. Wharf Bridge (81), Grove Road. Grade II. Entry no. 1370381 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1984-11-23 | Wiseton | Listed Status, date of first listing. Lady's Bridge (72) [also known as Man Face Bridge]. Grade II. Entry no. 1156858 | W-001 | ||
| Water Supply | Lower, John | 1985- | Norbriggs | Approx date. Inspected, under garden Norbriggs House [large house across road from canal side cut] a stream from collieries, in brick culvert, large chamber where water could be diverted, by stop-planks, to either the canal or to River Doe Lee. Chamber under either the garden or bus stop layby | C-056 | |
| Bridges | 1985- | Worksop | Sandy Lane link road to Worksop by-pass built over canal on a bridge. Piers planned not to obstruct navigation by 70 ft boats | N-016 | ||
| Bridges | 1985-04-01 | Osberton | Listed Status, date of first listing. The Green Bridge / Long Bridge (47). Grade II. Entry no. 1302698 | W-001 | ||
| Buildings | 1985-04-01 | Worksop | Listed Status, date of first listing. Depository. Grade II*. Entry no. 1045059 | W-001 | ||
| Buildings | 1985-04-01 | Worksop | Listed Status, date of first listing. Canal Cottage & Boundary Wall, Bridge Place. Grade II. Entry no. 1303029 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1985-04-01 | Worksop | Listed Status, date of first listing. Boundary Wall & Gate Piers at Canal Wharf, Church Walk. Grade II. Entry no. 1045030 | W-001 | ||
| Locks | 1985-04-01 | Worksop | Listed Status, date of first listing. Canal Lock (Town Lock) (50). Grade II. Entry no. 1156183 | W-001 | ||
| Buildings | 1985-12-04 | Clayworth | Listed Status, date of first listing. Canal warehouse & Field Farm House. Grade II. Entry no. 1212377 | W-001 | ||
| Aqueducts | 1986-10-15 | Cinderhill | Listed Status, date of first listing. Ryton Aqueduct. Grade II. Entry no. 1286426 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1986-10-15 | Cinderhill | Listed Status, date of first listing. Bridge 37 & Turnerwood [sic] Lock (41) with associated overflow structure at Cinderhill. Grade II. Entry no. 1314642 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1986-10-15 | Kiveton Park | Listed Status, date of first listing. Dog Kennels Bridge. Grade II. Entry no. 1314646 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1986-10-15 | Norwood | Listed Status, date of first listing. Norwood Bridge. Grade II. Entry no. 1132708 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1986-10-15 | Thorpe Salvin | Listed Status, date of first listing. Devil's Hole Bridge (33). Grade II. Entry no. 1132685 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1986-10-15 | Thorpe Salvin | Listed Status, date of first listing. Thorpe Bridge (35). Grade II. Entry no. 1192846 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1986-10-15 | Thorpe Salvin | Listed Status, date of first listing. Pudding Dike [sic] Bridge (34). Grade II. Entry no. 1192847 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1986-10-15 | Thorpe Salvin | Listed Status, date of first listing. Bridge 35 and Top treble Lock (20/21/22). Grade II. Entry no. 1132686 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1986-10-15 | Thorpe Salvin | Listed Status, date of first listing. Milestone /milepost (17), immediately to the west of Milestone Lock (29). Grade II. Entry no. 131648 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1986-10-15 | Thorpe Salvin | Listed Status, date of first listing. Milestone/Milepost (16), 260 metre south east of Devil's Hole Bridge (34). Grade II. Entry no. 1314647 | W-001 | ||
| Locks | 1986-10-15 | Thorpe Salvin | Listed Status, date of first listing. Flight of Locks (23 to 34) between Bridge 35 and Turnerwood Bridge (36), [ Thorpe Flight excluding Top Treble). Grade II. Entry no. 1192850 | W-001 | ||
| Locks | 1986-10-15 | Turnerwood | Listed Status, date of first listing. Turnerwood Flight of Locks between Turnerwood Bridge (36) and Turnerwood [sic] Lock (41)at Cinderhill. Grade II. Entry no. 1192731 | W-001 | ||
| Canal Staff | Frogatt, Trevor | 1987- | Dredger driver | N-015 | ||
| Restoration | 1993-06-25 | Chesterfield | Professional contractor recreating the canal between Tapton Lock and the River Rother. 10,000 tons estimated to be moved, 1,100 "wagon-worths", mud dries out in yard for 2 weeks, then moved to licenced site | C-021 | ||
| Restoration | 1993-09-03 | Planning application NED/893/568 by CCS for restoration- Boiley Lane Bridge, Killamarsh, to White Bridge, Renishaw, includes 2 new bridges | A-221 | |||
| Water Supply | Jackson, Michael | 1995-07-19 | Worksop | He thinks the Canch, feeder, is probably the original course of the River Ryton, and is an ancient diversion | C-039 | |
| Canal | 1995-10-22 | Eckington | Renishaw loop. Part can be walked. Evidence of stone lining, possible wharf, winding hole. Some natural rock used as banking, embankment over Park Brook | N-009 | ||
| Railway | 1995-10-22 | Eckington | Tramway/Railed-way. Walked the route looking at artefacts. Slight embankment across golf course, brick & stone culverts, stone rail shoes indicate about 2 ft 6 ins gauge. | N-009 | ||
| Railway | 1995-10-22 | Eckington | Tramway/Railed-way. Walked the route looking at artefacts. Abutments of river bridge now support a footbridge, then line another embankment across a field, eventually bends right to meet Midland Railway line | N-009 | ||
| Restoration | 1996- | Morse lock re-opened | N-016 | |||
| Bridges | 1996-04-22 | Clayworth | Listed Status, date of first listing. Otter's Bridge (68). Grade II. Entry no. 1268481 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1996-04-22 | Hayton | Listed Status, date of first listing. Lecture Room Bridge (64). Grade II. Entry no. 1268482 | W-001 | ||
| Bridges | 1996-04-22 | Welham | Listed Status, date of first listing. Whitsunday Pie (Lock) Bridge (60). Grade II. Entry no. 1268483 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1996-04-22 | Clayworth | Listed Status, date of first listing. Milepost (36), South East of Field Farm, SK-7368-8733. Grade II. Entry no. 1268510 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1996-04-22 | Clayworth | Listed Status, date of first listing. Milepost (37), South east of Otter's Bridge (68), SK-7258-8793. Grade II. Entry no. 1268511 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1996-04-22 | Gringley | Listed Status, date of first listing. Milepost (42) at Shaw Lock (no 62), SK-7381-9298. Grade II. Entry no. 1269075 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1996-04-22 | Misterton | Listed Status, date of first listing. Boundary Marker at SK-7700-9455. Grade II. Entry no. 1269073 | W-001 | ||
| General | 1996-05-11 | Retford | Listed Status, date of first listing. Crane at Wharf south side, SK-7058-8074 [boat club yard]. Grade II. Entry no. 1268509 | W-001 | ||
| Boats | Clifton, Brian | 1996-07- | Remembered his father saying the family used to boat across The Wash, with two narrowboats tied together | C-063 | ||
| Restoration | 2000-01-07 | Shireoaks | Pebley, Tranquil | First boats up to Shireoaks. | N-016 | |
| Surveying | Schofield, Prof RB | 2002-05-20 | Norwood | His thoughts on the accuracy, or otherwise, of using a Gunters chain for lengths of the tunnel. It may be greater than 2% error | C-082 | |
| Surveying | Bower M E | 2003-11-13 | Norwood | Information on measuring of tunnels on Grand Union Canal, and accuracy or otherwise | C-086 | |
| Restoration | 2004-07- | Killamarsh | Canal Partnership/Babtie, proposals for Killamarsh restoration. 5 routes proposed including original line or various ways through Rother Valley Country Park | P-326 | ||
| Canal | 2009- | Kiveton Park | CRT work, and inspection of, retaining wall adjacent to Dog Kennels bridge. | A-232 | ||
| Bridges | 2014-07-03 | Clarborough | Listed Status, date of first listing. Top Bridge (62), Smeath Lane. Grade II. Entry no. 1417409 | W-001 | ||
| Water Supply | 2015-12- | Pebley | Reservoir oldest in UK still in canal use. Impounds 280,000 cubic metres, dam 160m long. Recent inspection, within 4 years repair/replace a timber & stone box culvert | A-239 | ||
| Parliament | Leeds, Duke of | 1770-12-08 | 66 signatures of canal promoters on petition to, seeking support at Westminster for forthcoming Act. Signed first by Retford men, followed by Chesterfield interests | A-266 | ||
| Accidents | 1915-11-13 | Killamarsh | [Care date may be 28 Nov]. Drowned, Northridge, Fred (17), Milner, Harry (18), Sedgewick, Annie (12), Watson, Mary Elizabeth (6), Read, Alice (21), Ramskill, Mary Ann (18). Ice broke while skating | A-267 | ||
| Railway | 1890-10- | Eckington | MSLR cutting across canal loops, new canal route is "heaviest work they have on the whole route". "Three steam navvies ripping out the earth". 30 feet deep | A-268 | ||
| Railway | 1890-10- | Staveley | MSLR "steam navvy" working, straightening canal line at a number of sites in the area | A-268 | ||
| Canal Staff | Gratton, Joseph | 1802- | Chesterfield | Appointed as agent to the Canal Company, served for 37 years | A-269 | |
| Canal Staff | Gratton, Joseph | 1839-05-09 | Chesterfield | Retired. Awarded a silver tea service, cost 100 guineas, "in testimony of the high sense entertained by them of his zeal, fidelity and unremitting attention, as their agent, for upwards of of thirty years". [Derb Courier 11 May 1839] | A-269 | |
| Canal Staff | Gratton, Joseph | 1842-10- | Chesterfield | Died. Had a copy of William Smith's pioneering geological map [first published 1815], 6ft by 8ft on a roller. [Possibly used by Gratton during his 37 years with the Canal Company]. | A-269 | |
| Tunnels | 1999-11-29 | Norwood | Length as 2880 yards is now accepted by the Chesterfield Canal Trust. Based on the findings of Institution of Civil Engineers, Panel for Historical Engineering Works, 1999. "A realistic figure that does not pretend to an accuracy that cannot be achieved". | C-071 | ||
| Boatman | Ellis, George | 1853-01-10 | Retford | Age 37. Sentenced, at East Retford Quarter Sessions, to 7 years transportation. Licence 4926. Early release licence granted 8 Feb 1856. | A-270 | |
| Boatman | Marples, George | 1825-08-12 | Chesterfield | Buried. Age 58, of the Wharf. | A-271 | |
| Accidents | Miller, George Robert | 1901-05-18 | Staveley | Drowned, age 3 years, 2 months. Had been looking into the canal and fell in. His 5 year old brother could not help. Bank shallow, water very deep. | A-272 | |
| Accidents | 1901-08-21 | Chesterfield | Tapton. Bradshaw, Ethel (15) and Madin, Mary Ann. Drowned about 2.30pm. Passers-by tried to save them. Report of Coroner's Court. | A-273 | ||
| Warehouses | Hutchinson, Mr J | 1786- | Retford | Owned wharf and warehouse. Continued to at least 1799. | A-274 | |
| Warehouses | Brumby, Mr | 1790- | Retford | With others (Mackfarland, Parker, Wheelwright) ownership of Corporation warehouse. Did so until at least 1799. | A-274 | |
| Tunnels | 1917-11-01 | Norwood | Cost of opening out or rebuilding, £75,000, estimate by Board of Trade. [National needs during World War 1 caused transport routes to be examined]. | A-275 | ||
| Restoration | 1917-11-01 | Cost of restoring to Chesterfield £50,000, plus opening out or rebuilding Norwood tunnel £75,000. Estimates by Board of Trade. [National needs during World War 1 caused transport routes to be examined]. | A-275 | |||
| Restoration | Clarke, Cliff | 1958- | Pacemaker | Approx date. A Thorne business man, at the forefront of campaign to halt abandonment of the canal. | P-364 | |
| Restoration | Clarke, Cliff | 1962- | Babworth | Leading campaigner at the foundation of the Retford & Worksop Boat Club (RWBC). Initial club moorings at Babworth. | P-364 | |
| Restoration | Nicholson, Sir Charles | 1917-11-01 | Doncaster | MP. Received extract from Board of Trade report on making whole canal navigable. Estimate £125,000, plus "large annual outlay" maintenance. (Report on national transport options available to aid War effort). | A-275 | |
| Restoration | Wood, Bennett | 1917-11-08 | Wales | Clerk to Wales Parish Council. Reply to Nicholson, Sir Charles. Will put before Council, but agrees with Sir Charles that scheme "too expensive and risky to permit of anything being done". | A-275 | |
| Restoration | Wood, Bennett | 1917-11-20 | Wales | Instructed by Wales Parish Council, ask Nicholson, Sir Charles to inform Board of Trade, "this…waterway would pay for such expense as would be necessary to put it into a working condition". | A-275 | |
| Restoration | Nicholson, Sir Charles | 1917-11-21 | Wales | Reply, to Wales Parish Council - "where is the money to come from?" Those sources will "decide if it would be profitable or not". Going to talk to Stanley, Sir Albert (President of the Board of Trade). | A-275 | |
| Restoration | Wood, Bennett | 1918-07-12 | Wales | Wales Parish Council clerk - asked by Worksop Urban District Council, what is the situation with the Railway Company, re the on-going discussions about the proposed re-opening of the whole canal? | A-275 | |
| Tunnels | 1917-11-01 | Norwood | Board of Trade report on restoration of whole canal, puts the cost of the "opening out or rebuilding of Norwood Tunnel" at £75,000. Colliery workings still causing subsidence. | A-275 | ||
| RWBC | Clarke, Cliff | 1962-02-23 | Worksop | Chairman at inaugural meeting of Retford & Worksop Boat Club, outline of hopes and ambitions. | A-276 | |
| RWBC | 1962-04-01 | Retford | First club cruise, afternoon, Retford Basin to Forest Bottom Lock, and return. | A-276 | ||
| RWBC | 1962-03-18 | Worksop | First club working party. Manton Bridge (45). Removed pile of bricks, 2 tons stone and cast iron. Depth of water increased from 9 inches to 2 feet. Completed following Sunday (25th), depth made 3 feet. | A-276 | ||
| RWBC | 1962-04-08 | Retford | Working party, below Town Lock to West Retford Lock, removed from canal, 9 bikes, 1 motorbike, 6 100-gallon drums, 2 prams, 2 kiddicars, 12 sheets asbestos roofing, 2 tons scrap iron, assorted other junk. | A-276 | ||
| RWBC | 1962-10-14 | Forest | 1st of 6 weekend working parties. Below Forest Top Lock, hand dredging - large bins operated by ropes, dragged across, each time collecting 2 cwt of silt. Helpers in flat-bottomed boats. | A-276 | ||
| RWBC | 1963-03- | Nelson | 70ft engine-less boat, bought to be club house. £400. Already fitted out as sleeping area for hotel-boat pair. At Braunston, Grand Union Canal. | A-276 | ||
| RWBC | 1963-04-04 | Nelson | Start of 158 mile trip Braunston to Retford. Outboard fitted. [Will become an incredible voyage of intense activity, major problems, tiredness and rufusal to be beaten. Details in Club newsletter, 1963, 20 April.] | A-276 | ||
| RWBC | 1963-04-14 | Babworth | Nelson | Boat arrived 12 noon, at end of 158 mile trip. 4 days later than planned. Club currently based at wharf. To be floating clubhouse instead of a caravan. | A-276 | |
| Canal | 1964-06-14 | Kiveton Park | Canoes cruise on the summit level, tunnel to Thorpe Top Lock, then portage down the un-navigable locks, and paddling to Worksop. The first boats to have done so for many years. | A-276 | ||
| RWBC | 1964-09- | Drakeholes | Nelson | First Drakeholes Rally. Floating club-house Nelson there. 16 boats in a line cruised to Drakeholes through Wiseton. Weather perfect, large crowds. New slipway made. | A-276 | |
| Pubs | Holmes, Hy | 1838- | Turnerwood | Victualler at the "Bug Trap". [This may have been The Gate at Turnerwood, or another place at Top Locks near Thorpe Salvin.] | P-220 | |
| Pubs | Holmes, Sarah | 1838- | Turnerwood | Brick-maker, and victualler at the "Bug Trap". [This may have been The Gate at Turnerwood, or another place at Top Locks near Thorpe Salvin.] | P-220 | |
| Pubs | 1892- | Turnerwood | Shows a building, just back from the canal, marked "Late Gate Inn". | M-019 | ||
| Railway | 1892- | Turnerwood | Map shows railed-ways down from the quarry to the Basin, and to near Lock 37. | M-019 | ||
| Boatman | Ancliff, Mr | 1915-04-30 | Mattersey | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 3 tons of oats | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Atkinson, H | 1921-04-28 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Barrowchip, Mr | 1901-04-23 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Bee, Mr | 1904-05-16 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Bee, Mr | 1926-04-29 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Bland | 1923-05-05 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo One load of manure. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Brown, G | 1903-05-11 | Drakeholes | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1903-05-11 to 1914-03-16.[Wiseton Wharf?] Cargo 5 x loads of Wood | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Brown, Mr | 1926-07-29 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1926-07-29 to 1928-10-01. Cargo 1 ton of timber then 1 ton of oak boards x 2 | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers | 1905-05-25 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-05-25 to 1912-11-11. Cargo 8 Loads of slag (3 Clarborough, 5 Retford) 1 load coal Stockwith. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, A | 1916-03-16 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1916-03-16 to 1916-04-18. Cargo 5 loads of stone to wharf, 100 tons. [Could be to Wiseton Wharf for use on house] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, B | 1916-12-11 | Clarborough | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo One load of stone 24 tons. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, Bilby | 1897-06-26 | Clarborough | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1897-06-26 to 1897-07-09. Cargo 3 loads of slag 48 tons. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, E | 1916-02-07 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load stone. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, H | 1899-05-25 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1899-05-25 to 1916-08-16. Cargo 98 loads, mainly slag and stone plus some ashes. Some noted as to Wiseton.[fertiliser?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, H | 1899-05-28 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1899-05-28 to 1916-08-16. Cargo 98 loads bricks, slag, stone, limestone, ashes and manure. Some entries marked as Wiseton Wharf. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, J H | 1900-06-22 | Clarborough | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1900-06-22 to 1900-11-01. Cargo 6 loads of slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chambers, W | 1901-04-27 | Clarborough | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1901-04-27 to 1901-09-14. Cargo 2 loads of stone plus 2 loads of slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Charles, H | 1899-04-21 | Clarborough | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1899-04-21 to 1899-05-08. Cargo 3 loads of slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Charlton, Mr | 1927-01-17 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1927-01-17 to 1929-04-06. Cargo 3 small loads, tillage and oats [Everton assumed] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Charton, Mr | 1921-04-13 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo Oat Meal Bran 2 tons | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Chattin | 1923-10-01 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1923-10-01 to 1924-09-30. Cargo 3 small loads of corn 2 tons, corn maize 2 tons and Cake meal 2 tons [cattle feed?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clark | 1913-03-20 | Worksop | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load stone 24 tons | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clark, C | 1912-05-10 | Worksop | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of stone 20 tons. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clark, H | 1912-03-05 | Worksop | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 24 tons of stone | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton | 1900-09-01 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1900-09-01 to 1908-06-06. Cargo 9 loads, coal, wood and tillage. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, G | 1905-03-28 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-03-28 to 1922-10-02. Cargo 22 loads mainly bricks plus manure, slag, tillage and wood. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, J | 1898-09-23 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-09-10 to 1913-12-23. Cargo 31 loads of mainly coal plus bricks, tiles and drain pipes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, J Jnr | 1897-11-13 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1897-11-13 to 1913-12-16. Cargo maize 1 ton then wood 4 tons | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, Jo | 1899-05-19 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, John | 1913-11-26 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 5 tons of drain pipes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, John Jnr | 1897-06-28 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 loads of stone. 1 on this date and 1 on 1897-07-12. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Clifton, John Snr | 1897-06-28 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1897-07-30 to 1898-06-21. Cargo 8 loads, coal and slag. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Cocking, Mr | 1904-10-24 | Walkeringham | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of bricks and tiles | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Cockings | 1903-03-28 | Walkeringham | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1903-03-28 to 1906-06-30. Cargo 18 loads of bricks. [Wiseton?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Cook, E | 1898-12-13 | Hull | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-12-13 to 1898-12-19. Cargo 3 loads of slag. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Cottinge, R | 1916-04-23 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Crossland | 1901-11-22 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load gas lime plus 1 ton of coal on 1923-12-06 | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Crossland, J | 1898-07-16 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-07-16 to 1911-07-24. Cargo 4 loads stone, red ash, slag and 2 tons of wheat | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Crossland, W | 1900-11-06 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1900-11-06 to 1903-09-28. Cargo 4 loads. Tiles, coal, manure and potatoes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Crossland,J W | 1905-09-20 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Cully | 1903-04-02 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1903-04-02 to 1905-02-22. Cargo 2 tons potatoes, 2 tons tillage and 2 tons tillage and 4 tons of tillage. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Curtis, Mr | 1904-05-02 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Day, W | 1902-06-24 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1902-06-24 to 1919-05-09. Cargo 17 loads. Tillage, grain and cake | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Elliot | 1906-04-26 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1906-04-26 to 1919-03-06. Cargo 12 loads in period manure, coal, tillage, pipes, slag, bricks and cake. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Elliot, F | 1918-06-26 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 small load gates and wood | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Elliot, J | 1899-06-03 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1899-06-03 to 1916-01-07. Cargo 8 loads, coal, tillage, bricks, cake | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Elliot, J | 1902-03-06 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Ellis, H | 1906-01-06 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of cake | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Falgrove, C | 1909-03-31 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of bricks 18 tons | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Farr, H | 1898-08-28 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-08-28 to 1899-06-03. Cargo 2 tons of cake, 4 tons of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Farr, William | 1897-07-07 | West Stockwith | Approx date. Period 1897-07-07 to 1915-12-14. 27 loads, mainly coal plus stone cake maize and meal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Fenwick, B | 1913-11-12 | Drakeholes | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1913-11-12 to 1914-03-16. Cargo 5 tons corn and 3 tons barley, only two loads | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Fenwick, J | 1912-10-17 | Drakeholes | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 3 tons of corn | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Fielding | 1897-01-16 | Lound | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1897-01-16 to 1897-02-16. Cargo 3 loads of potatoes [outbound?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Foster, Mr | 1908-11-04 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of corn | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Furley | 1916-02-01 | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1916-02-04 to 1917-05-24. Cargo 3 loads of feed products. Meal Maize Bran, Sharp Bran and Meal Maize Flour. potatoes [outbound?] | A-227 | ||
| Boatman | Gettings, J | 1899-05-29 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Gibbson, Mr | 1901-04-22 | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2.5 tons of bricks. (Location given as Pasty Farm) | A-227 | ||
| Boatman | Grant | 1907-04-16 | Misson | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 16 tons of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hacket | 1912-12-05 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1912-12-05 to 1913-03-15. Cargo 4 loads of drainage pipes and 1 load of coal. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hacket | 1902-11-20 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1902-11-20 to 1912-03-16. Cargo 7 loads of bricks and 1 load slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hacket, C | 1899-05-31 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1899-05-31 to 1913-09-02. Cargo 76 tons of slag ( for manure/fertiliser), 74 tons of bricks and 2 loads of pipes. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hacket, J | 1913-03-19 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 8 tons of drain pipes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hackett, J | 1899-04-10 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1899-04-10 to 1899-04-20. Cargo 2 loads of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hancliff, Mr | 1901-05-27 | Blacktoft | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1901-05-27 to 1904-11-01. Cargo 6 small loads. Pipes, Manure, Tillage. 1 full load soft tillage. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt | 1902-03-12 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1902-03-12 to 1919-02-26. Cargo 25 loads. Bricks, slag, coal, tillage, feed grains | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, B | 1900-07-27 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1900-07-27 to 1925-05-27. Cargo 11 loads in period including: 7 loads of bricks (mainly in 1919), | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, C | 1912-03-18 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1912-03-18 to 1921-03-10. Cargo 78 tons of slag, 96 tons of stone plus 250 tons of stone in 1921. [stone to Wiseton?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, C L | 1923-12-06 | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of small stone 20 tons | A-227 | ||
| Boatman | Hewitt, D | 1909-03-18 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1909-03-18 to 1911-04-15. Cargo 4 loads of slag and 1 ton of cake | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, E | 1922-05-13 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1922-05-13 to 1929-03-15. Cargo 105 tons of slag. Also 4 tons beetroot [outbound?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, George | 1899-05-30 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1899-05-30 to 1921-03-02. Cargo 35 loads mainly coal and slag plus bricks, corn, tillage, cake, pipes and mangolds. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, H | 1922-05-15 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 loads of small gravel 1922-05-15, 1 load of gravel 1922-05-30 [New drive/roads?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, J | 1898-04-16 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-04-16 to 1926-10-04. Cargo 21 loads mainly of slag plus bricks, pipes and timber | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, J A | 1913-09-25 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1913-09-25 to 1920-08-05. Cargo 7 loads. Bricks, Stone and Tiles | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, R | 1910-11-17 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 loads stone plus 1 load slag 17th, 21st and 28th | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, W | 1901-02-08 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1901-02-08 to 1921-02-09. Cargo 18 loads, mainly coal plus manure and tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, W | 1911-08-07 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 loads . 24 tons of slag plus 2 tons of wood | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hiley, Mr | 1927-04-08 | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of tillage | A-227 | ||
| Boatman | Hill | 1906-08-02 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hill | 1918-02-08 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hill | 1921-10-25 | Walkeringham | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of bricks and tiles | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hill, Mr | 1905-04-14 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-04-14 to 1919-06-19. Cargo 32 loads of bricks. Hill Bros/Hill & Co boats | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hill, Mssr | 1905-04-12 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-04-12 to 1906-06-11. Cargo 28 loads of bricks. Hill Bros/Hill & Co boats | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hills | 1914-05-04 | Misterton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1914-05-04 to 1923-01-15. Cargo 3 small loads of pipes, tiles and bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hindley | 1907-03-21 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hindly, G | 1905-09-11 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 3 tons of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hird, John | 1897-06-26 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1897-06-26 to 1897-12-02. Cargo 15 loads of slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Howell, Mr | 1927-04-27 | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of tillage | A-227 | ||
| Boatman | Hunt | 1900-08-01 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1.5 tons of sulphate | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hunt, Mr | 1917-11-10 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1917-11-10 to 1929-03-06. Cargo 8 loads. Cake, Tillage and meal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hurst | 1906-08-01 | Walkeringham | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1906-08-01 to 1916-02-07. Cargo 4 loads of bricks and drain pipes and 1 ton of cake | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hurst, G | 1898-08-25 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-08-25 to 1899-04-06. Cargo 6 loads of bricks. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hurst, W | 1918-12-14 | Walkeringham | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Hurst, Wm | 1898-10-20 | Eaton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 22.5 tons of barley | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Isaacs | 1922-07-10 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of bones | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Kendal, Mr | 1927-04-15 | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of tillage | A-227 | ||
| Boatman | Lidget | 1914-07-07 | Mattersey | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 4 tons of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Longbottom, Mr | 1902-06-23 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1902-06-23 to 1903-03-13. Cargo 5 small loads. Maize and Bran. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Malden, G | 1898-10-19 | Mattersey | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 3 tons of corn. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Mallender | 1902-03-30 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1902-03-30 to 1905-04-04. Cargo 4 small loads. 1 ton bone manure. 2 single tons of tillage and 1 ton of potatoes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Mallender, G | 1910-04-29 | Mattersey | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 4 tons of wheat. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Marrison | 1898-09-26 | Torworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-09-26 to 1900-09-14. Cargo 6 loads. Bricks and some tiles | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Marrison, W | 1901-02-03 | Ranskill | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1901-02-03 to 1901-10-22. Cargo 3 loads of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Metcalf, Mr | 1916-01-18 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 7 tons of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Musgrave | 1904-04-08 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1904-04-08 to 1904-04-12. Cargo 2 small loads. 2 tons marl and 1 ton tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Notley | 1922-05-30 | Lowgate | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of drain pipes. [probably a street name] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger | 1907-05-24 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1907-05-24 to 1912-09-13. Cargo 3 small loads. Bricks and corn tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger | 1922-05-16 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1922-05-16 to 1924-10-01. Cargo 13 loads. Tillage, feed, wood and coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, A | 1916-05-01 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo One load of tillage 3 tons. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, B | 1900-03-12 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. [Wiseton Wharf?] Approx date. Period 1900-03-12 to 1913-09-17. Cargo 12 loads including 8 of bricks and 2 of drain pipes [clay land drains?] | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, J | 1898-07-23 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-07-23 to 1914-11-07. Cargo 49 loads. Bricks, Tillage and feed stuffs | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, J | 1912-02-28 | Retford | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1912 02-28 to 1925-04-12. Cargo 16 loads. Tillage and feed stuff | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, Ja | 1913-05-03 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1913-05-03 to 1920-07-24. Cargo 70 loads. Tillage, feed stuff, Fertiliser | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, Jas | 1898-04-30 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1898-04-30 to 1898-11-26. Cargo 2 tons tillage then 1 load stone | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, Jo | 1914-03-18 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1914-03-18 to 1920-02-21. Cargo 2 loads. Mainly coal plus stone and feed stuff | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pettinger, John | 1898-12-04 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 5 tons of drain pipes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pie, G | 1898-10-19 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 5.5 tons corn. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Pye, Mr | 1901-04-12 | Mattersey | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of maize | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Radish, Mr | 1904-04-26 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Richardson, G | 1897-07-13 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 16 tons of red ash | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith | 1903-09-14 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1903-09-14 to 1917-11-26. Cargo 4 loads of manure plus 2 loads of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith | 1901-06-10 | Lound | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1901-06-10 to 1903-05-23. Cargo 3 loads of coal plus potatoes and red ash | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith | 1905-07-17 | Walkeringham | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-07-17 to 1907-06-14. Cargo 6 loads of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith, C | 1920-11-19 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo only worked 2 loads. This date was 8 tons potatoes . Then 24 tons of manure on 1922-03-10. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith, C H | 1921-05-21 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 loads manure, 50 tons. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith, F | 1904-05-11 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1904-05-11 to 1918-02-05. Cargo 13 loads in period manure, ashes and tillage. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith, J | 1905-05-11 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-05-11 to 1905-11-09. Cargo 2 loads coal, 4 tons each | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith, R | 1899-02-23 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 5 tons of potatoes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith, R | 1897-07-03 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smith. Mr | 1914-10-02 | Drakeholes | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1914-10-02 to 1915-12-29. Cargo 2 small loads. 2 tons of corn then 1 ton of corn. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Smithson | 1904-05-07 | Mattersey | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1904-05-07 to 1913-04-22. Cargo 5 loads of corn and tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Stansfield | 1921-08-17 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1921-08-17 to 1924-03-28. Cargo Tillage 3 tons and corn 3 tons | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Stansfield, Mr | 1926-04-28 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1926-04-28 to 1928-06-13. Cargo 5 small loads. Tillage and cake. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Stenson, J | 1900-03-22 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 7 tons of tiles | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Stevenson | 1923-11-10 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 loads of bricks 10th and 12th | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Stevenson, H | 1921-08-06 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1921-08-06 to 1923-08-06. Cargo 4 loads of bricks, tiles and pipes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Stevenson, J | 1921-11-03 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 9 tons of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Stevenson, W | 1917-11-22 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Swaby, Mr | 1903-11-06 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 24 tons of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Taler, J | 1899-07-24 | Wiseton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Taylor | 1905-11-10 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-11-10 to 1907-04-05. Cargo 5 loads mainly bricks plus some red ash | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Taylor, C | 1906-10-18 | Clayworth | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load red ash, 20 tons | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Teal, R | 1898-12-16 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 loads of slag | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Tibenham, Mr | 1927-03-18 | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1927-03-18 to 1927-11-29. Cargo 2 small loads. 1 ton peas and 2 tons rye | A-227 | ||
| Boatman | Tomlinson, G H | 1901-12-03 | Drakeholes | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Tomlinson, Mr | 1901-11-12 | Gringley | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1901-11-12 to 1904-05-05. Cargo 14 loads of bricks plus 2 loads of pipes | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Travis, Mr | 1919-10-31 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1919-10-31 to 1926-07-20. Cargo 5 loads. Manure, bones, tillage and meal. | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Tye, Mr | 1905-01-31 | Sutton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1905-01-31 to 1905-05-08. Cargo 1 load bricks 6 tons and 1 load of bricks and tiles | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Waddington | 1908-07-08 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Waddington, G | 1905-04-29 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 15 tons of bricks | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Warriner | 1908-08-29 | Drakeholes | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 load of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Willey, W | 1919-05-08 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 4 tons of corn | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Windle, Mr | 1904-05-28 | Everton | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 1 ton of tillage | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Wolfenden | 1908-11-30 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1908-11-30 to 1914-10-01. Cargo 6 loads of coal, 1 small load wood | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Wolfenden, Cpt | 1909-05-11 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Approx date. Period 1909-05-11 to 1909-07-19. Cargo 3 loads of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Wolfenden, G | 1907-07-20 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 24 tons of coal | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Wolfenden, G | 1913-08-02 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 3 tons of cake | A-227 | |
| Boatman | Wolfenden, J | 1918-04-21 | West Stockwith | Named in Drakeholes Wharf Book. Cargo 2 tons of cake oats | A-227 | |
| Wharfs | 1897-01-16 | Drakeholes | Private wharf owned by Laycock estate at Wiseton. Part-time wharfinger, overseen by Wiseton Land Agent. Paid on commission 20% of revenue | A-227 | ||
| Wharfs | 1897-01-16 | Wiseton | For deliveries to Wiseton estate. Managed by Drakeholes wharfinger | A-227 | ||
| Wharfs | 1900-06-21 | Drakeholes | Commission increased to 50% from last account rendered in May 1900 | A-227 | ||
| Boats | Teal, R | 1898-09-02 | Gainsborough | Two "canal boats", owned by Teal, R of Stockwith, sunk on the Trent by 8-10ft high aegre (tidal wave), crews saved. Boats under water near Trentholme Brick Works | C-112 | |
| Boatman | Bomforth, Thomas | 1841-06-06 | Misterton | Ship Builder. Ropery Lane. Age 30.. Census | C-113 | |
| Canal Staff | Cartwright, William A | 1841-06-06 | Misterton | Canal Company Agent. Ropery Lane. Age 30.. Census | C-113 | |
| Buildings | 1851-03-30 | Retford | Living at the wharf - Woodsuffe, Elizabeth; Clark, George; Clark, Sarah. Census | C-113 | ||
| Boatman | Clarke, George | 1855- | Retford | Boat builder, East Retford. [Pages109 & 151, Kelly's Directory of Derbs and Notts]. Also in 1861, 1862, 1865. In 1871 census of Carr Houses, East Retford | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Elvidge, Thomas | 1841-06-06 | West Stockwith | Shipwright. Age 65. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Grafton, Timothy | 1815-06-29 | Worksop | Built a narrowboat for Eaton, John, of Trowell. Used on the Nottingham and Cromford canals | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Petrie, Henry | 1841-06-06 | West Stockwith | Block-maker [very likely for ship rigging]. Age 45. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Petrie, Henry | 1851-04-07 | Misterton | Trent Side. Ship Carpenter (Master). Age 67. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Petrie, Henry | 1871-04-02 | Misterton | Bradley's Row, Trent Side. Ship's Carpenter. Age 77. Born in Hull. Census | C-113 | |
| Boats | Shatliff, William | 1802- | Retford | Number 497 | Had a wide-beam boat built in Newark, to carry coal and bone between Retford and Gainsborough. Length 61ft 3ins, beam 13ft 1in. Sold in 1807 to Hird, John. Source; Trent Navigation Gauging Book | C-113 |
| Boats | Hird, John | 1807- | Retford | Number 1 | Bought a wide-beam boat from Shatliff, William, had been used to carry coal and bone between Retford and Gainsborough. Length 61ft 3ins, beam 13ft 1in. Source; Trent Navigation Gauging Book | C-113 |
| Boatman | Simpson, George | 1851-03-30 | Worksop | Boat-builder. Low Town Street. Age 62. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Simpson, George | 1861-04-07 | Worksop | Former boat-builder. 77 Low Town Street. Age 72. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Teal, Robert | 1891-04-05 | West Stockwith | Boat owner & general carrier. Age 42. Census | C-113 | |
| Buildings | Teal, Elizabeth | 1891-04-05 | Misterton | Keeper of the Anchor of Hope Coffee Tavern (employee). Lived in West Stockwith. Daughter Teal, Alice is waitress. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Tomlinson, William | 1901-03-21 | West Stockwith | Wood shipwright. Canal Lane, Tomlinson's Row. Age 46. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Tomlinson, William | 1911-04-02 | Misterton | Wood shipwright. Age 46. Census | C-113 | |
| Boats | Holland, Stephen | 1790- | Chesterfield | Number 994 | Owner of a narrowboat, built for him in Retford. Later used on the Cromford Canal. Source; Trent Navigation Gauging Book 17 Aug 1816 | C-113 |
| Boatman | Ward, Joseph | 1841-06-06 | West Stockwith | Shipwright. Age 45. Census | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Woodruff, William | 1832- | Retford | Boatbuilder, New Street. Source; White's Gazetteer of Notts, p322 | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Woodruff, William | 1832-09-04 | Retford | Boatbuilder, age 32. Died of consumption. Member of Oddfellows. | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Woodruff, Thomas | 1835- | Retford | Boatbuilder, Corporation Lock. Source; Pigot & Co Notts Directory, p329 | C-113 | |
| Boatman | Woodruff, Thomas | 1841-06-06 | Retford | Boatbuilder, age 30. Census | C-113 | |
| Boats | Kelk, Charles | 1844-10-01 | West Stockwith | Borrowed £15 from Cartwright, W for "getting up my Canal Boat now sunk in the Trent". Paid back in 3 payments, totalling £15.2s.6d. | A-277 | |
| Canal Staff | 1920-05-10 | All staff on canal, "with the exception of the Artisan Staff", have been paid 5 shillings War Bonus. (Great Central Railway and National Union of Railways). | A-235 | |||
| Cargoes | Cowling, William | 1863- | Walkeringham | Owner of brickworks, both banks of the Canal - the Old Works, and the New Works. | W-002 | |
| Cargoes | Cocking, Thomas | 1876- | Walkeringham | Took over ownership of the brickworks. | W-002 | |
| Cargoes | 1890- | Walkeringham | Approx date. The yellow and white bricks made here went via canal and Trent for buildings in Hull and other industrial cities. Coal to heat the kilns brought by canal boats, and the lime needed for light coloured bricks. | W-002 | ||
| Cargoes | 1853- | Walkeringham | See source for extensive history of the canalside brickworks, the output of which, the bricks and tiles, were carried on the canal. Also carried were the raw materials not found locally, that is coal and lime. | W-002 | ||
| Wharfs | Phillips, William | 1887- | Retford | Marked on OS map, a brickyard between Leverton Road and the canal. Had a wharf at the western end. Phillips was at the yard in1853. | ||
| Cargoes | 1875- | Worksop | Low Ground brickworks, on the canal, non-towpath side between Stret Lock and Deep Lock. | W-002 | ||
| Cargoes | Tomlinson, George | 1881-04 | Gringley | Owner of Lock Brick Works, on the canal, towpath side below Gringley Top Lock. Employed 10 men and 1 boy. Still there in 1904. | W-002 | |
| Cargoes | Hill Brothers | 1875- | Gringley | Owners of Shaw Brick Works, on the canal, towpath side above Shaw Lock. Brickworks still there in 1946, not known when closed. | W-002 | |
| Cargoes | Hill Brothers | 1875- | Misterton | Owners of Highfields Brick Works, both sides of the canal, immediately on the western side of Coopers Bridge. First mapped at this date, went on until c1946. | W-002 | |
| Cargoes | Cooper, John | 1876- | Misterton | Owner of Misterton Brick Works, on the non-towpath side of the canal, immediately west of Wharf Bridge. | W-002 | |
| Wharfs | 1892- | Gringley | Earliest date documented, probably started earlier. Boats delivered coal, stored at wharf, loaded onto horse-drawn carts pulled up to Gringley-on-the-Hill. Stable with brick walls and floor. 1950s end of the traffic. Now picnic site. | N-064 | ||
| Water Supply | 1772- | Kiveton Park | Location of two water mills on River Ryton, relevant to the canal's permitted use of water as defined in the Act. | M-133 | ||
| Pubs | 1772- | Ranby | Chequers Inn, marked on a map surveyed c1772. Shown as on the Nottingham/Doncaster turnpike road, to the north of the current location (which is between the turnpike and the canal). | M-133 | ||
| Wharfs | 1772- | Drakeholes | Marked on a map, although the canal not built here for another two years. A toll-bar marked on the main road. | M-133 | ||
| General | 1772- | Misterton | River Idle, location of Misterton Soss marked on a map surveyed c1772. (River named as Bycar Dyke between Idle Stop and the Trent). | M-133 | ||
| Boats | 1813- | Wiseton | p304. The Acklom family, at Wiseton Hall, "have a boat, which in fine weather carries the whole family to their parish church". | P-365 | ||
| Pubs | 1813- | Drakeholes | p302. White Swan [name at this date may differ]. "comfortable and commodious, but forms a good object in the scenery both from its style of building and situation, being erected with that intention by Mr Acklom…" | P-365 | ||
| Surveying | Chapman, John | 1774- | Nottinghamshire | Published first accurate map of the county, triangulation surveyed c1772. [Result of 1759 Royal Society "premium" for accurate county maps of the nation.] Unbuilt canal is shown, route taken from Canal Co maps | M-133 | |
| Boatman | Mellars, Thomas | 1841-06-06 | Worksop | Church Road, with family. Age 40 [Census] | C-025 | |
| Tunnels | Foljambe, FJS | 1886-06-05 | Norwood | Forwarded a petition to the Board of Trade, from 67 boatmen and traders, asking for repairs be made to the tunnel. It was unfit for navigation, and hindering trade. | P-343 | |
| Tunnels | 1886-04-14 | Norwood | Petition sent to the MSLR, signed by 17 boat owners, saying the tunnel was in a dangerous state, asking for repairs to be made to make it fit for navigation. | P-343 | ||
| Tunnels | Foljambe, FJS | 1886-06-07 | Norwood | Board of Trade, Mr Mundella, sent a reply to him re the petition he recently forwarded regarding the bad state of Norwood Tunnel, "…it shall be carefully considered". | P-343 | |
| Boats | 1803- | Misterton | Work completed on the lock at Misterton Soss, on the River Idle. Led to an increase of trade on the river for the next 40 years. Prior to this regular usage of the river by canal narrowboats would have been difficult. | N-013 | ||
| Boats | 1824- | Misterton | Misterton Soss lock, River Idle, downstream end replaced. Meanwhile, boats allowed to pass through the triple sluice, but only if less than 10 feet wide. This offer could only have been made for the canal's narrowboats. | N-013 | ||
| Canal | Short, Thomas | 1777-06-03 | Chesterfield | Probably the Mayor at the ceremonies for the official opening of the canal. Had been elected to that post the previous July. | N-023 | |
| Canal | 1900- | Previous and on-going date. Practicalities of using lime/lime mortar for canal maintenance. Lime heaps along length of canal, lime-houses where large volumes always needed. Lime House lock on Thorpe flight. | N-024 | |||
| Boats | 1906- | Retford | Norah | Wesleyans treat outing | I-087 | |
| Boats | Holden, Willoughby | 1901- | Killamarsh | Approx date? Photograph of his hire boats yard | I-116 | |
| Canal Staff | Spencer, Sam | 1901- | Killamarsh | Approx date? Working with a maintenance barge, together with fellow workman Mr Kemp. | I-083 | |
| Canal Staff | Kemp, Mr | 1901- | Killamarsh | Approx date? Working with a maintenance barge, together with fellow workman Spencer, Sam. | I-083 | |
| Boats | Milner, Mr | 1925-07-08 | Retford | A boat "recently transferred" from Shireoaks Colliery Co to "Messrs Milner, Lazenby & Co, Exchange Street. | A-278 | |
| Canal Staff | Elliott, Charles | 1872- | Chesterfield | Wharfinger, Canal Wharf, Sheffield Road | P-366 | |
| Boats | 1872- | Chesterfield | "There are flyboats to Gainsborough, Stockwith, and all parts coastwise." | P-366 | ||
| Cargoes | Newberry, Charles | 1910-06-03 | Kiveton Park | [boatman name not sure] "going to Kiveton again, we have lots of cinders to fetch, and don't know when we will be back home...". | C-114 | |
| General | 1712- | Kiveton Park | Bricks made for building of Kiveton Hall, cost for new bricks was 9 shillings per thousand. Used bricks, 7 shillings per thousand. | P-078 | ||
| Canal Staff | Batty, John | 1916- | Bracebridge | Lock Keeper, lived in lock house | C-116 | |
| Canal Staff | Batty, John Walter | 1916- | Misterton | Lock Keeper, lived in lock house, married, 6 children | C-116 | |
| Canal Staff | Batty, John Walter | 1932-11- | Osberton | Lock Keeper, moved from Misterton with family, by boat, with livestock and hen sheds. | C-116 | |
| Boats | Hindley, Pierce | 1949-03-25 | Osberton | Ruth | Last working boat through lock, on way to Stockwith. | C-116 |
| Locks | 1954- | Osberton | Electricity installed in lock house. | C-116 | ||
| Locks | 1961-11- | Osberton | New lock gates fitted. | C-116 | ||
| Boats | 1961-12-10 | Osberton | Public boats went through lock. Man fell overboard, dried his clothes in lock house. | C-116 | ||
| Locks | 1962-07-19 | Osberton | Water supply installed in lock house. | C-116 | ||
| Locks | 1964-10-12 | Osberton | Work started on installing an extension for a bathroom at lock house. | C-116 | ||
| Boats | 1965-06-07 | Osberton | Eight public boats went through the lock. | C-116 | ||
| Bridges | 1967-01-31 | Osberton | Bridge collapsed at Osberton Hall, nearest to lock. | C-116 | ||
| Bridges | 1968-03-03 | Osberton | Lock bridge condemed as unsafe. | C-116 | ||
| Bridges | 1970-03-14 | Osberton | At 13.05 replacement bridge collapsed. | C-116 | ||
| Accidents | Allison, Julia | 1890-10-31 | Whittington | Drowned, age 68, widow, of New Bridge Street. Verdict suicide. Bad health since fall 3 years before. | C-117 | |
| Pubs | Wright, W H | 1963-04-04 | Staveley | The Canal Tavern, last pints, demolished soon after | P-367 | |
| Locks | Lower, John | 1986-09-10 | Brimington | Dixon Lock, initial on-site meeting, opencast mining | CCT-A-0008 | |
| Water Supply | Cook, Mr | 1989-02-15 | Staveley | Engineer at Staveley Works, water supply from canal | CCT-A-0009 | |
| Water Supply | 1989-02-15 | Staveley | Change of canal ownership, effect on Staveley Works | CCT-A-0009 | ||
| General | Bowie, John | 1989-02-15 | Staveley | Head Ranger, newly appointed to the canal, by Derbyshire County Council | CCT-A-0009 | |
| Locks | 1989-02-15 | Tapton | St Helena Lock. Title used by British Waterways for floodgate and sluice at Tapton Mill Bridge (1). | CCT-A-0009 | ||
| Canal | 1968-12- | Navigation facilities for boats - water, moorings, slipways, fuel, licences, etc | CCT-A-0002 | |||
| Boatman | Makings, Ernest | 1910- | Gerald | Approx date. Mate. 5 shillings a week, food, bed. | CCT-A-0003 | |
| Boatman | Tango | 1910- | Gerald | Approx date. Skipper. Liked his beer,and trading horses | CCT-A-0003 | |
| Boats | 1910- | Wiseton | Gerald | Approx date. Stopped by Boat Inspector, horse unfit to work. Small piebald pony offered by horse dealer. | CCT-A-0003 | |
| Cargoes | 1910- | Gerald | Approx date. 20 tons wheat, Stockwith to Worksop. Return load, coal to Clayworth | CCT-A-0003 | ||
| Boatman | Tango | 1910- | Gerald | Approx date. His wife would crew as Mate, if no other. | CCT-A-0003 | |
| Boatman | Hewitt, Wilf | 1944- | Walkeringham | Went back to the boats after war service. Further details of his boat and brickworks life in source | CCT-A-0003 | |
| Locks | 1998-10-10 | Thorpe Flight | Findings of original construction found during restoration, contains illustrations. Browns lock featured | CCT-A-0010 |