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1840 Bulmers Directory Market place Driffield
Edward Creaser and Jas. Elgey Druggist.



1861 census
Source          RG9/3608 folio4 enu1, Gt Driffield
                North side of Market Place

James           Elgey  age 45  Head   Druggist     born Wetwang
Ann             Elgey  age 40  wife                Kingston upon Hull
John thornhill  Elgey  age 12  son    scholar      Gt. Driffield
Charles arthur  Elgey  age  4  son    scholar      Gt. Driffield
Harry           Elgey  age  2  son    scolar       Gt  Driffield

William    Southwick   age 20 apprentice           Gt. Driffield
Henry      Scaif       age 19 apprentice           Pocklington
George     Calvert     age 17 apprentice           Howden
Alice      Walker      age 17 housemaid            Gt. Driffield
Mary       Wharram     age 13 nurse maid           Fridaythorpe

1881 Cencus
Place      Chemist 27-28 Market Place Driffield
James      Elgey    age 65, Head,   born Wetwang
Ann E.     Elgey    age 63, Wife,   born Gt Driffield   (2nd wife)
James W.   Elgey    age 26, son     born Gt Driffield
Mary E.    Elgey    age 16, dau     born Gt Driffield

1891 cencus
Place      28 Market place, Driffield
James      Elgey    age 75 Widower
James Wm.  Elgey    age 36 son
Mary Eliz  Elgey    age 35 son's wife
William J. Elgey    age  5 grandson
Edith Mary Elgey    age  3 grand daughter

1892 Baines Directory
Elgey and son Chemist 27-28 Market Place

1913
Elgy Ltd (JW Elgy, W Parkinson, CJ Southall)
Chemist and druggist,
wholesale and retail grocer, provisions merchants.
Market Place TN 0189


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Collection GREAT DRIFFIELD DEEDS 

Level Item FindingNo DDX330/6 Title Agreement for the sale of property at Great Driffield Date 19 Oct 1886 Description Parties: 1) James Elgey, druggist, Charles Forbes Sharp, bank manager, William Scotchburn, draper and John Frank Sherperdson, builder all of Great Driffield 2) London and Yorkshire Bank Limited Property: dwellinghouse, bank, outbuildings and yard in the Market Place, Driffield Consideration: £850 Witnesses: George B Tong of Great Driffield, solicitor
Extent 1 item, Collection GREAT DRIFFIELD DEEDS
Level Item FindingNo DDX330/7 Title Agreement relating to a soil pipe at Great Driffield Date 30 Nov 1886 Description Parties: 1) Reverend Henry Ford of Foxholes, clerk in Holy Orders, John Milner of Kilham, gentleman, Botlerill Johnson of North Frodingham, gentleman, Simpson Staveley of Tibthorpe, gentleman, Richard Holby of Nafferton, gentleman 2) James Elgey of Great Driffield, druggist and London and Yorkshire Bank Limited Refers to a soil pipe between the properties of the Driffield Savings Bank Limited and London and Yorkshire Bank Limited on the west side of the Market PLace or Midddle Street, Driffield Witnesses: John Robert Bullock, Boythorpe, farmer, George B Tonge of Driffield, solicitor and Henry Botterill, solictor
Extent 1 item, Collection GREAT DRIFFIELD DEEDS

Level Item 
Finding No DDX330/9 
Title Conveyance for land and property at Great Driffield 
Date 30 Nov 1886 
Description Parties:
1) York Union Banking Company Limited, James Elgey, Charles Forbes Sharp, William Scotchburn, 
   John Frank Sheperdson and Henry Ward all of Great Driffield
2) London and Yokshire Bank Limited
   Property: land on the west side of Market Place or Middle Street, Great Driffield, 
   with the dwellinghouse then used as a bank and the workshop and stables erected thereon
   Consideration: £850

  Witnesses: William R Braithwaite, clerk to Foster, Tonge and Botlerill, solicitors, Driffield, 
  Henry Botlerill and George B Tonge, solicitor, Great Driffield
Includes: plan 
Extent 1 item 

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