Pledge Book entry for Eliz Brooks

Scope and Content

Page number: 133

Entry number: 76

Day of the week: Friday

Address: Peaseholm Green (now known as Peasholme Green)

Brought by: unknown

Items deposited: 1 pair of Buckskinn Breeches

Recorded value of items: £0 12s 0d

Administrative / Biographical History

The business was started by George Fettes in Lady Peckitt's Yard c. 1770. He was succeeded by J/ Wood and later by Henry Hardcastle, who extended the business and moved it to a site in Stonegate. Fettes was Sheriff of York in 1802.

Access Information

Open

Material is available subject to the usual terms and conditions of access to Archives and Local History collections.

Custodial History

The volume was deposited in York Reference Library 4 Apr 1949 by Henry Hardcastle, Stonegate, York, successor to the business. It was transferred to the City Archive in 1964.

Bibliography

"The Worm- Eaten Waistcoat" ISBN 0-9544800-0-7