Papers of the Hatfield Family

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 Eng MS 1051
  • Dates of Creation
      18th century
  • Language of Material
      English and Italian
  • Physical Description
      various sizes. 3 items; Binding: loosely enclosed within the covers from a 1904 mercantile desk diary.

Scope and Content

The material comprises:

  • (a) Copy of the last Will and Testament of Jonathan Hatfield (d. 1784) of Leeds, Yorkshire, corn factor, 18 August 1784 (12 pp.);
  • (b) Inventory, in Italian, of the effects of Jonathan Hatfield, who died at Naples on 25 February 1840; taken on 12 March 1840 by Antonio Mellone, public notary, at the instance of Edward Cotterel, banker of Naples, executor (66 folios);
  • (c) English translation of the said Inventory (18 folios). See Axon, 1928, op. cit., under 'Hatfield';

Bibliography

See  Francis Nicholson and Ernest Axon, 'The Hatfield family, of Manchester, and the food riots of 1757 and 1812', Transaction of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. 28 (1910), pp. 82-114 , for information regarding the Hatfield family.