Catalogue description Hollis Hospital Trust, Sheffield, records

This record is held by Sheffield City Archives

Details of LD 1156-1178
Reference: LD 1156-1178
Title: Hollis Hospital Trust, Sheffield, records
Description:

Declarations of trust, property deeds (Creswick family), miscellaneous accounts 1700-1870s and some earlier deeds. Trustees' correspondence 1735-1790 (information about dissenting congregations in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and districts during the period). Also personal records of trustees Dr. Isaac Watts, Nathaniel Neal, Dr. Benjamin Grosvenor including catalogue of his library, Isaac Solly (including hop-growing at Sandwich, Kent) 1746-1783.

Date: 1700-c1879
Held by: Sheffield City Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hollis Hospital Trust, Sheffield

Subjects:
  • Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
  • Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire
  • Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The Hollis Hospital Trust was founded by a dissenting family and maintained a strongly dissenting complexion.

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