This list includes both my own collection and papers and correspondence passed to me by my uncle Bob James before his death, as well as references from my own research. They relate to my maternal grandmother's family, the Clabburn family. Some material specifically related to my grandmother Ethel de Pearsall Clabburn (1879-1960) is catalogued under LJ with material related to her husband Lionel James.
Blue-shaded boxes in the first column have links to images or transcripts of the original documents.
John Barnard
Updated 10 September 2023
Number & Link |
Description | Location |
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CLA-1 | Michael
Clabburn correspondence with Bob James, and enclosures
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Passed to John Barnard by Bob James |
CLA-1-8 |
Photos from St
Augustine, Norwich
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Enclosures sent by Michael Clabburn to Bob James, and later passed to John Barnard |
CLA-1-9 |
Photos of
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Enclosures sent by Michael Clabburn to Bob James, and later passed to John Barnard |
CLA-1-10 |
MS pedigree of
descendants of John Clabburn, prepared by Michael Clabburn, late 1980s
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Enclosure sent by Michael Clabburn to Bob James, and later passed to John Barnard |
CLA-2 | Miscellaneous notes on Clabburn family of Norwich assembled by Bob James, 1990s | |
CLA-2-1 |
"Clabburns of
Norwich - A Family Resumé" by Bob James, early 1990s (4pp
typescript)
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-2 |
Typed notes from
various sources (probably compiled by Bob James, early 1990s) (19pp):
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-3 |
Typed notes of
entries in Norwich Directories 1783-1889 (3pp)
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-4 |
Typed copy of
inscriptions in churchyard at Buxton Lamas (1p)
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-5 |
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-6 |
Will of John
Clabburn, dated 1771, probate granted 1774
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-7 |
Will of William
Clabburn, dated 1792, died 1793, probate 1808
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-8 |
Will of John
Clabburn dated 1773
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-9 |
Will of John
Clabburn, confectioner and baker, dated 1792, proved 1809
|
Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-10 |
Will of Ann
Clabburn, spinster dated 1795, proved 1804
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-11 |
Photocopy of 1851
Norwich census entries
|
Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-12 |
Indenture for
apprenticeship of John Grint to John Clabburn, baker and confectioner,
dated 1791
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-13 |
Photocopy of The Times notice (2
Jul 1886) for mariage of T. George Clabburn MRCS to Charlotte Ellen
Spagnoletti on 30 jun 1886
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-2-14 |
Transcript of 1768
note relating to payment of two bills of J. Claiborne's
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-3 | Documents relating to the Clabburns of Norwich collected by Bob James, early 1990s. | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-3-1 |
Photocopies of
letters from Pamela Clabburn to Noël Crosse 1988-89
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CLA-3-2 |
Photocopy of letter
from Betty Elzea (expert on Frederick Sandys's art) to Noël
Crosse, 21 Apr 1989, concerning Sandys portraits of members of
the Clabburn family and their various sales at auction. [See also CLA/54 for anotgher letter from Betty
Elzea to Noel Crosse]
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CLA-3-3 |
Copies of
correspondence between Noël Crosse and Bob James and John
Barnard, 1989-90
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CLA-3-4 |
Enclosures (with
list) send by Noël Crosse to Bob James with letter of 21 Feb
1990 [CLA/3/3/3]
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CLA-3-5 |
Correspondence
between Margaret Langley (of Walpole House, Thorpe, Norwich NR7 0EF)
and John Barnard and Bob James (1993-94)
|
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CLA-3-6 |
Material
relating to Henry James Catling Clabburn (alias James Blyth) sent to
Bob James by Margaret Langley with letter of 17 Feb 1994 [CLA/3/5/6]
|
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CLA-4 | Material on Claiborne, Cliburn etc., compiled by Michael Clabburn, with comments by Bob James, early 1990s. | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-5 | Crosse family tree showing connection to Clabburns. Compiled by Noël Crosse and sent to Bob James with letter of 21 Feb 1990 [see CLA/3/4]. | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-6 | Miscellaneous notes on Pamela Clabburn MBE and her ancestors, compiled by John Barnard | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-7 | Miscellaneous Clabburn pedigrees, drawn by Lionel James, Bob James and Antonya Cooper. N.B. These pedigrees incorporate a number of errors and mis-transcriptions. | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-8 | Miscellaneous manuscript notes on the Clabburn family, by John Barnard | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-9 | Photocopy of Will of Thomas Clabburn II (1788-1858) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-10 | Will of William Houghton Clabburn I (c.1820-1889), dated 9 Nov 1888 and proved 17 Aug 1889, with transcript and notes by John Barnard, Feb 2020 | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-11 | Photocopy of Will of Thomas Clabburn III (1823-1880), dated 13 Jun 1877, proved 15 Oct 1880 | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-12 | Photocopy of Will of Lucy Clabburn (1856-1914), dated 28 May 1914, proved 13 Aug 1914 | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-13-1 | Marriage certificate for William Houghton Clabburn and Hannah Louisa Blyth (1847) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-13-2 | Birth certificate for Arthur Edward Clabburn (1849) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-13-3 | Marriage certificate for Arthur Edward Clabburn and Rosey de Pearsall (1877) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-13-4 | Death certificate for Arthur Edward Clabburn (1901) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-13-5 | Marriage certificate for Adèle Vandeleur Clabburn and James Bertram Roberton (1907) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-13-6 | Death certificate for Rosey Clabburn (1922) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-14 | Baptism certificate for Charles Edward Stuart Clabburn (Canterbury Cathedral. 4 Jan 1882) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-15 | Letter from Philippa Hughes to Rosey de Pearsall (6 Dec 1877) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-16 | Letters (1869-1871) between Arthur Edward Clabburn and Robert Louis Roumieu concerning his daughter Emilie Isabella | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-17 | Letters (c. 1879) to Rosey Clabburn following birth of
her eldest daughter Ethel
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-18 | Letter (circa late 1890s) from Arthur Edward Clabburn to his daughter Ethel | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-19 | Letter published in The Times by Ethel
James, and following correspondence, concerning Frederick Sandys'
portraits of members of the Clabburn family
|
Held by John Barnard |
CLA-20 | Frederick Sandys Exhibition Catalogue, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 7 May - 14 Jul 1974 | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-21 | Reproduction of oil portrait of Ellen Bertha Tufnell by A.E. Clabburn, identified on front in hand of Ethel James (née Clabburn) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-22 | Photographs of Sunny Hill, Thorpe Norwich (4 colour photos of interior, 1 B/W of exterior) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-23 | 2 original visiting cards for Mr & Mrs Arthur E Clabburn | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-24 | Photopies of various census entries:
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-25 | Certificate appointing W.H. Clabburn as Juror at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. Signed (top left) by Albert Edward (Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII) as President of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 | Original held by John Barnard |
CLA-26 | Certificate thanking W.H. Clabburn for his services in connection with the International Exhibition in London in 1871. Signed by Albert Edward (Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII) as President of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 | Original held by John Barnard |
CLA-27 | Helen Hoyte, The Story of the Norwich Shawl, Norwich: Nick Williams, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9559320-2-1. [History of Norwich shawl manufactuing, with many references to the Clabburn family] | Copy purchased and held by John Barnard |
CLA-28 | Newspaper cuttings concerning Robert George Clabburn (c. 1828-1863, youngest brother of William Houghton Clabburn) and his son Robert William Clabburn (1850-1868). [The cuttings are mainly concerned with Robert George's various appearances in the insolvency courts in Launceston, Tasmania, and with the death by drowning of Robert William.] | Collected by John Barnard, Feb 2020 |
CLA-29 | Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904 - A Catalogue Raisonné. Woodwrdge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club (2001) | Copy purchased and held by Jill Trew (née Adamson) |
CLA-30 | Australian newspaper reports on the death of Walter Thomas Clabburn (1851-1908) | Collected by John Barnard, Feb 2020 |
CLA-31 | Collection of photographs of Patricia Lawrence (b. 9
Oct 1931),
daughter of Viva née Clabburn (1897-1931), mostly probably
sent by her
father Charles Edward Lawrence (c. 1895-1953) to Patricia's aunt Ethel
James.
|
Held by John Barnard |
CLA-32 | Photographs of or related to children of Arthur and
Rosey Clabburn
|
Held by John Barnard |
CLA-33 | Postcard from Ethel Clabburn to her brother Walter Clabburn, dated 12 Nov [1911]. Postmarked Monmouth 12 Nov [19]11. Addressed c/o J.B. Roberton Esq., Cheverton, Nr. Dalby, Queensland, Australia [crossed out and replaced by] Le Chatel, 15 George Street, Lavender Bay, Sydney. Picture shows Monmouth school choir picnic. No Australian or other postmarks, so possibly never delivered. The card is dated the year before Ethel married Lionel James. | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-34 | Published Notices relating to Messrs. Clabburn, Sons
and Crisp:
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CLA-35 | Obituary for W.H. Clabburn (The Norfolk News, No. 2326, 20 July 1889, p. 4, col F) | |
CLA-36 | Photographs of grave for Hannah Louisa Clabburn (née Blyth) and William Houghton Clabburn, Earlham Cemetery, Norwich | Images provided to John Barnard by Robert Webb |
CLA-37 | Henry James Catling Clabburn, "Some Relics of Rossetti", Pall Mall Gazette Vol. 52 (No. 8058), 16 Jan 1891, pp. 1-2. Discusses the correspondence between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Houghton Clabburn; these letters are now at Yale University (http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0031) | |
CLA-38 | Robert Wenn [aka Robert Webb] "William Houghton Clabburn", The Golden Guide (Norwich), Oct/Nov 2021, pp. 48-49 [Short biographical article in local advertising magazine] | Downloaded from www.thegoldenguide.net Oct 2021 |
CLA-39 | Entry relating to Barnard, Bishop and Barnards Ltd. (Norwich Ironworks) from Norfolk 1890: the story of 365 Norfolk businesses in Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn, Downham Market, Swaffham, Fakenham, North Walsham & Aylsham, edited and images processed by Philip Tolley. Norwich: Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society, 2016. [Bishop was John Bishop (1821-1887) the husband of Ann Frances Clabburn (1826-1894); the Barnards involved in the firm were not related to me.] | Copy at British Library, photographed 15 Oct 2021 |
CLA-40 | E. & W.E. Burgess, Men Who Have Made Norwich (1904). 2nd Ed., text reset and images reprocessed by Philip Tolley, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society (2014). [Contains entry for Norwich Crape Company on p. 57] | Available from Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society |
CLA-41 | Pamela Clabburn, The Norwich Shawl: Its History and a Catalogue of the Collection at Strangers Hall Museum, Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service: London, HMSO (1995). [Chapter 3 contains frequent mentions of Clabburn, Sons and Crisp, and their shawls in the museum are catalogued pp. 86-97 (nos. 45-68, 71-73); they and other Clabburn manufacturers are also noted in the Appendix] | Copy purchased by John Barnard, Oct 2021 |
CLA-42 | References to Clabburn from Norfolk Annals: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteenth Century, compiled from the files of the “Norfolk Chronicle”, by Charles Mackie. Vol I. 1801–1850 (Published 1901) [Annotations by John Barnard] | Project Gutenberg #34439 |
CLA-43 | Black
and white reproductions of Frederick Sandys portraits of members of the
Clabburn family (catalogue numbers for originals refer to Betty Elzea's
2001 Catalogue Raisonné of Sandys' work [CLA-29]):
|
Held by John Barnard |
CLA-44 | Reproductions
of portraits of members of the Clabburn family painted by Charles Croft
in 1862. Images provided by Tom Rivière (great-grandson of
Blanch Elizabeth Clabburn). The sitters are:
|
Original paintings held by Tom Rivière |
CLA-45 | Studio photograph of William Houghton Clabburn I (1820-1889) taken by Speaight Limited, 157 New Bond Street. Inscribed on reverse in hand of Ethel James (née Clabburn) "William Haughton [sic] Clabburn, Sunny Hill, Norwich. Father of A.E. Clabburn" | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-46 | Late 19th-century (?) photograph of a formal group of men in uniform outside a building. Inscribed on reverse "Miss Clabbard" [sic]. Unidentified. Found among collection of Clabburn family papers and photographs. Uniform appears to be the same as that worn by A.E. Clabburn in portrait photograph from 75th Regiment records, so he may be one of the figures (possibly front standing row, to the left of centre) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-47 | Miscellaneous correspondence between Noel Crosse,
Robert James and John Barnard, 1989-90:
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-48 | Photograph of memorial plaque in memory of Thomas Clabburn II (1788-1858) on wall of St Augustine's Church, Norwich (see also CLA/1/8) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-49 | Manuscript notes on Clabburn family history made by John Barnard in 1975. Includes material copied from copy of Norfolk Families by Walter Rye (Norwich, 1913) made at the Society of Genealogists Library 6 Jun 1975 | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-50 | Notes and photographs concerning Clabburn connection in
Norwich, compiled by Ethel James
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Held by John Barnard |
CLA-51 | Photo of Dante Gabriel Rossetti given to Arthur Edward Clabburn (unsigned; identified on reverse in hand of Lionel James) | Held by John Barnard |
CLA-52 | Photocopied page 63 from catalogue of Royal Academy
Exhibitors listing 3 paintings by Arthur Edward Clabburn:
|
Held by John Barnard |
CLA-53 | Two colour photographic prints showing portraits of
members of the Clabburn family held by Noël Crosse:
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Photographs held by John Barnard; original pictures held by Noël Crosse |
CLA-54 | Letter from Betty Elzea to Noel Crosse (22 Jun 1989) concerning Emma Sandys portrait of Mary Louisa Clabburn (later Crosse) [CLA/53/2] - see also CLA/3/2 for another letter from Betty Elzea to Noël Crosse | Original letter held by Noël Crosse |
CLA-55 | Baptism record for William Houghton Clabburn, 20 Feb 1820 (born 17 Feb 1820) Norwich St Paul (Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts) | Downloaded from https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NDTX-TF7 [Image 308, No. 456] |
CLA-56 | Miscellaneous articles discussing the writings of James
Blyth (HJC Clabburn)
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Downloaded from the Internet |
CLA-57 | Letter from Arthur Conan Doyle to James Blyth (HJC Clabburn) at London School of Journalism, circa 1918-1925. Concerns spirit mediums and recommends Blyth to Mrs Wriedt at 69 Clarence Gate Gardens. | Offered for sale by Boston antiquarian bookseller Peter L. Stern [www.sternrarebooks.com/pdfs/0409a.pdf , No. 56] [visited 27 May 2022] |
CLA-58 | Miscellaneous items relating to James Blyth (Henry James Catling Clabburn)
| |
CLA-59 | Census entries for James Blyth (Henry James Catling Clabburn)
| Downloaded from FindMyPast |
CLA-60 | Census entries etc. for Margaret Rebecca Clabburn (née Rance), who married HJC Clabburn in Q2 1891 (Hampstead 1a 1143)
| Downloaded from FindMyPast and probate registry |
CLA-61 | List of published novels by James Blyth (Henry James Catling Clabburn) [Compiled from British Library catalogue and notes by Margaret Langley [CLA/3/6/2]] | |
CLA-62 | Census and GRO Records for Ray Blyth (née Rachel Elizabeth Ockelford) and family members [see also CLA/59]. Her family name is variously spelled Ockleford or Ockelford.
| |
CLA-63 | Press
reports of divorce proceedings between Henry James Catling Clabburn and
Margaret Rebecca Clabburn (née Rance), March 1896
| Downloaded from British Newspaper Archive, Aug/Sep 2022 |
CLA-64 | Nigel Jeffries, Lyn Blackmore and David Sorapure, Crosse and Blackwell 1830-1921: A British Food Manufacturer in London's West End. Crossrail Archaeology Series, Museum of London Archaeology (2016) [Describes the excavation of former Cross & Blackwell warehouses between Soho Square and Charing Cross Road, some of which were designed by R.L. Roumieu.] | Given to John Barnard by Noël Crosse, January 2023 |
CLA-65 | Material related to Clara Eliza Shardelow (life partner of Lucy Clabburn)
| |
CLA-66 | Material
related to bibliophile Ron Fiske, who collected novels by James Blyth
(HJC Clabburn) and made a study of them (see also CLA/3/6/1)
| |
CLA-67 | T. Farrell, "A Tinned History of Crosse and Blackwell 1706-1907". Blog post on Let's Look Again: A History of Branded Britain, 20 Oct 2014 [http://letslookagain.com/2014/10/crosse-blackwell/] | |
CLA-68 | Death certificate for Lucy Clabburn, 5 June 1914 at Linden House, London Road, Beccles. Cause of death given as (i) congestion of liver (ii) syncope. Informant Frank A. Blunderfield [nephew of Clara Shardelow] at same address. | Copy provided to John Barnard by GRO |
CLA-69 | Will (dated 1 Dec 1920) and Probate (dated 22 Aug 1932 at Norwich) for Clara Eliza Shardelow (died 28 Jun 1932) | Copies provided to John Barnard by Probate Office |
CLA-70 | Two
oil paintings by Walter Lionel Clabburn (1889-1951). Given or sold to
his niece Pascha James during her visit to Australia 1949-51.
| Held by John Barnard |
CLA-71 | Betty Elzea, A Singular Man. A Documented Life of the Artist Frederick Sandys: 1829-1904. Norwich: Unicorn Press (2023). [Comprehensive biography of the artist, with frequent references to his patron W.H. Clabburn] | Purchased by John Barnard |
CLA-72 | Lin Bensley, "A Touch of the Marsh Fever", Chapter 2 of The Book of Haddiscoe: Remarkable People and Momentous Events, Wellington: Halsgrove (2012), pp. 21-54. [Discussion of the novels of James Blyth (Henry James Catling Clabburn) with extended plot summaries and extracts. The novels covered are Juicy Joe, Celibate Sarah, Deborah's Life, The Same Clay (its sequel), Rubina (suggested as the best of Blyth's novels) and the non-fiction Edward Fitzgerald and Posh. There is also some discussion of Amazement (with the suggestion that this is based on the author's own experience of marriage), A View to Matrimony (short stories), Thora's Conversion ("fulminating against the independence of women"), The Member for Easterby, and Ichabod (both antisemitic). Bensley identifies many of the locations in the novels with real places, notes that several characters are thinly disguised versions of real people and suggests that the character Harry Lyndon (who features in Celibate Sarah and some other stories) is based on Blyth's collaborator Barry Pain. | Purchased by John Barnard at The City Bookshop, Norwich, Sep 2023 |