Part 5: Sources from Essex Record Office

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D/DRu/F10
Diary of a young girl recording frequent social calls in Canterbury and St Albans areas, 1769-1776

D/DRh/F26
Diary of Miss Caswall, sister of George Caswall of Sacombe and Aunt of Susan Round, 1825-1830

D/DJg/Z23
Journals of Caroline Wilkinson, daughter of John Walter Wilkinson, recording travels in Hampshire, Sussex, Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and events at Portsmouth, 1817-1840

D/DCd/Z6
Commonplace Book of Susanna Tabor, 1821-1867

D/Dby/Z17
Account of the life of Lady Katharine Aubigny, ne Lady Katharine Howard, daughter of Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, 1851

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D/DRu/F12/1-6
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1822, 1826, 1828-1829, 1831

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D/DRu/F12/7-12
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1832-1837

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D/DRu/F12/13-18
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1838-1839, 1841-1844

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D/DRu/F12/19-24
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1845-1848, 1851-1852

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D/DRu/F12/25-30
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1853-1858

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D/DRu/F12/31-36
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1859-1864

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D/DRu/F12/37-41
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1865-1869

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D/DRu/F12/42-45
Diaries of Ann Eliza Branfill with references to family and social life in Upminster and Romford, 1870-1872, 1851

D/Du/758/6/1-2
Journals of Katharine Maud Pearson ne Hutchinson of Harewood Hill, Darlington, Co Durham, 1870-1872 and 1880-1887

D/DCc/F17
Diary of Lady Smith of Stapleford Tawney, 1829

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D/DCc/F18-21
Diaries of Lady Smith of Stapleford Tawney, 1830, 1832, 1833, 1839

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D/DCc/F22-23
Diaries of Lady Smith of Stapleford Tawney, 1840-1841

D/DLu/13/1-2
Engagement diaries of Clarissa Sandford Trant (later Clarissa Bramston), 1821-1841

D/DLu/14/1-3
Diaries of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant, including a description of a Grand Tour, references to books read and a description of Paris, 1824, 1826-1827

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D/DLu/14/4-8
Diaries of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant, including medicinal recipes, notes on the failure of the Reform Bill, illness, bridal visits, birth of her daughter, 1829, 1831-1834

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D/DLu/14/9-14
Diaries of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant, including illness in the family, note on the eclipse of the sun, parlour games played, 1835-1840

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D/DLu/14/15-18
Diaries of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant, including sketch of Chipping Hill showing houses and names of inhabitants, birth of daughter, 1841-1844

D/DLu/15/1
Journal of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant compiled c1832 with marginal annotations by Sir Nicholas Trant

D/DLu/15/2
Journal of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant compiled later in c1836 including descriptions of Portugal, Marseilles, Italy and France, 1814-1816

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D/DLu/15/3-7
Journals of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant including travels to France, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, meetings with Hannah More, weddings and deaths in the family, birth of her daughter, the dissolution of Parliament and the Queens first speech, 1816-1836

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D/DLu/15/8-11
Journals of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant including illness and death of Sir Nicholas Trant, birth of daughter, appointment of Miss Schroeder as governess at 45 guineas per annum, account by John Bramston of the death of Clarissa Bramston in April 1844, 1837-1844

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D/DLu/16/1-2
Holiday journals of Clarissa Bramston ne Trant including travels to France, Italy and Germany, 1815 and 1825

D/DU/1545/1-5
Diaries of Mrs Susannah Gilbert ne Green, wife of Josiah Gilbert of Mardley Ash, portrait painter and son of Mrs Ann Gilbert neTaylor, 1841-1845

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D/DU/1545/6-17
Diaries of Mrs Susannah Gilbert ne Green, wife of Josiah Gilbert of Mardley Ash, portrait painter and son of Mrs Ann Gilbert neTaylor, 1846, 1851-1852, 1857-1865

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D/DU/1545/18
Diaries of Mrs Susannah Gilbert ne Green, wife of Josiah Gilbert of Mardley Ash, portrait painter and son of Mrs Ann Gilbert neTaylor, 1866

D/DU/758/9/1-6
Journals of Lucy Marion Heath Pearson including a description of her illness in 1892, birthday and Christmas celebrations, schoolwork, schoolgirl crushes, news on the Boer War, her time in Germany as a teacher of English, 1892, 1894-1903

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D/DU/758/9/7-9
Journals of Lucy Marion Heath Pearson kept in Germany as a teacher of English, 1901-1902

D/DBa/A15
My Ladies Booke - disbursements of Lady Joan Barrington,
1628-1638