As requested by Petra.Mitchinson@doctors.org.uk I am forwarding this to the Westmorland List, in hopes that someone could add to her document transcribing. Barb Baker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I recently noticed that a seller on eBay has many documents on sale from the archives of the MUSGRAVE family of Edenhall. This family's estates were both in Cumberland and in Westmorland. Most of these documents are bills and receipts, which contain at the very least then name of the person being paid and the name of the agent working for the MUSGRAVEs who paid them. Sometimes there are whole lists of labourers being paid. A few documents are Court Baron lists of fines or lists of tenants. It makes me sad that such an archives is being irretrievably dispersed, and so much information that is potentially of value to family and social historians will no longer be accessible. I therefore decided to transcribe the documents from the excellent photos the seller put up on eBay. Unfortunately I started far too late. The documents have been on sale since at least March 2009, and I only started transcribing in mid-July. Any sold documents, even if the eBay page is still available, have had their photos removed. I have managed to transcribe about 180 documents, including all the ones currently for sale, but I must have missed hundreds! I have contacted the sellers, but unfortunately they have not kept photos of the sold documents. My plan is to transcribe as many documents as possible, put them into a Word document in chronological order, and make an index of all names. I would give a copy to the Record Office (if they are interested), and Chris is happy to put the transcription on his Rumbutter site. My plea is this: Has anyone saved any images of any of these documents, or even bought some and could scan them, and would send me the images so I can transcribe them? Any help would be appreciated! And could someone who is on the Westmorland mailing list forward this appeal to that list? Sorry about cross-posting this to several lists. Many thanks, Petra Petra.Mitchinson@doctors.org.uk