Launton | Oxfordshire | SP 6022
Subject
Subject Source: Ncarules
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Monumental brasses II, c. 1896-c. 1917
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 196
Notes on monumental brasses in Oxfordshire, arranged alphabetically by placename [i+455 leaves].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1896-c. 1917
Notes by the antiquarian Charles Richardson (volume I), c. 1800-c. 1827
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 171
First of three volumes of topographical and historical collections on Oxfordshire made by Charles Richardson (d. 1827). Arranged by the county subdivision of the 'hundred', excluding Wootton Hundred [iii + 380 leaves].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1800-c. 1827
Notes on Oxfordshire folklore (volume I), c. 1907-c. 1909
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 190
Folk-lore (General) I. A volume containing collections on Oxfordshire folklore, arranged alphabetically. Includes a list of contents at fol. 1, newspaper and journal clippings, and letters from individuals including (fol. 20) Diamond Jenness, (fol. 115) Thomas Davenport, (fol. 167) William Reginald Halliday, (fols. 299, 327) J.E. Field, (fols. 301, 315, 323, 325) Charlotte Sophia Burne, (fol. 317) G. Busby, (fol. 319) C.E. Prior [i+336 leaves]. Covers...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1907-c. 1909
Notes on Oxfordshire folklore (volume III), c. 1904-c. 1912
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 191a
Collections on Oxfordshire folklore arranged alphabetically, with letters from (fol. 1) H.E. Abrams, (fol. 129a) V. Louise Wrench [i+217 leaves]:
Animals
Birth
Christening
Charms against disease
Divination charms
Death
Games
Ghosts
Gipsies [Romany]
...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1904-c. 1912
Notes on seasonal celebrations I, c. 1897-c. 1914
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 199
Chronologically arranged collections on (fols. 1-278) the celebration of seasonal feasts in Oxford University, City, and County including including (fol. 194) photographs of May Day 1901 in Cuddesdon, and (fols. 196-7) Watford, n.d. and (fols. 279-373) on mumming, with (fols. 353-365) 13 photographs of mummers. Includes letters from people including (fol. 284) Oscar Montelius, (fols. 286, 288, 295) Thomas Fairman Ordish, (fol. 299) Edward Hibbert Binney [i+373 leaves].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1897-c. 1914
Oxford Architectural Society papers, 1840-1845, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 168
Papers read to the Oxford Architectural Society, 1840-1844, and notes for contributions to the society's publication A Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (Oxford, 1842) [148 leaves]. Includes:
(Fol. 2) Extracts translated from an essay on the study of architecture by C. Rathgeber, 1840.
(Fol. 8) 'Cumnor church' by William...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1840-1845, n.d.
Oxfordshire places - notes and ephemera, c. 1874-c. 1919
File
Shelfmark: G.A. Oxon. c. 317/10 [2]
Alphabetically arranged loose manuscript notes, ephemera, cuttings and prints on Oxfordshire towns, villages and houses from Littlemore to Lachford.
Extents: 1 box (1 folder)
Dates:
c. 1874-c. 1919
Sources for Oxfordshire topography, c. 1900-c. 1910
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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. e. 175
Manuscript notebook (with some tipped in printed and typescript material) listing sources for Oxfordshire topography [277 leaves, fol. 158 appears twice]. Includes:
(fols. i-66) A list of monumental inscriptions in Oxfordshire and Berkshire recorded in certain manuscripts in the Wood and Rawlinson collections, and the Harleian and Additional manuscripts in the British Museum (British Library).
...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1900-c. 1910
Transcript by members of the Launton Historical Society of the Launton parish registers
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 824
Transcript by members of the Launton Historical Society of the Launton parish registers.
Extents: 142 Leaves
Dates:
1979
Transcript by Mrs. Donette Stringham Smith of Launton parish registers
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 751
Transcript by Mrs. Donette Stringham Smith of Launton parish registers
Extents: 110 Leaves
Dates:
1978