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Barnsley, Godfrey, 1805-1873. Godfrey Barnsley family papers, 1806-1903 (bulk 1828-1873).

Title: Godfrey Barnsley family papers, 1806-1903 (bulk 1828-1873).

The collection consists of papers of Godfrey Barnsley and the Barnsley family from 1806-1903. The papers consist mainly of correspondence, letter books, and financial records. The correspondence (bulk 1828-1873) and letter books (1837-1873, with gaps) pertain to personal and business matters relating to Barnsley's occupation as a cotton factor and merchant. Correspondents include Barnsley's business partners John Day, William D. Duncan, John R. Gardner, Edmund M. Sager, and James Sager and family members including his wife Julia Scarborough Barnsley, his uncle George Barnsley of Liverpool, and his children. Many of the family letters were written from Woodlands Plantation in Bartow County, Georgia to Barnsley while he attended to business in Savannah (Ga.), Mobile (Ala.), and New Orleans (La.) and discuss family and plantation matters. Some of the correspondence relates to his position with the Port of Savannah as vice consul and interim of the Netherlands and vice consul for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The collection also contains transcripts of much of the correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477229 View

Godfrey Barnsley Papers, Bulk, 1840-1861, 1824-1873

Title: Godfrey Barnsley Papers Bulk, 1840-1861 1824-1873

Godfrey Barnsley (1805-1873), of Savannah, Ga., was an agent for general import and export brokers of Liverpool, England. Collection includes letters to Barnsley from his children, correspondence among his children, accounts with physicians, accounts for building expenses of Barnsley's estate, "Woodlands," near Kingston, Ga., and records of sales and imports of cotton. Letters from children concern school life while his sons attended a New England preparatory school and daughters were at the Montpelier Female Institute, near Macon, Ga. There are also letters from son Harold describing his voyage around Cape Horn and travels to the North, and in China, where he eventually settled. Civil War material includes letters from Godfrey's sons and information on the depredations suffered by the family. Beginning in 1867 there are letters from two Barnsley sons who emigrated to South America: George, a physician, and Lucien, who at different times operated a rice mill, apothecary's shop, brick manufactory, and Brazilian gold mine. Their letters describe the inhabitants, the countryside, and political, social, and economic conditions in Brazil. Throughout much of the collection there are references to spiritualism, seances, and mediums.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet; (6 boxes; 3,668 items)

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Barnsley, Godfrey, 1805-1873. Godfrey Barnsley papers, 1822-1980.

Title: Godfrey Barnsley papers, 1822-1980.

The Godfrey Barnsley papers, dating from 1822 to 1980 but falling mostly in the period 1826-1873, include correspondence, financial records, legal and estate papers, writings, photographs, and collected materials that document the business career and family life of a Savannah cotton merchant. Correspondence (1826-1955), writings (1868-1915), financial and legal records (1829-1954), photos, and other papers document the cotton economy in the pre-Civil War South, Barnsley's business affairs as cotton factor and merchant in Savannah, Ga., and New Orleans, La., business negotiations with British merchants, his plantation in northern Georgia, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Confederate expatriates in Brazil.

ArchivalResource: 3.25 linear ft. (7 boxes, 1 MF, 2 BV, 11 OP)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123380333 View

Barnsley, Godfrey, 1805-1873. Godfrey Barnsley papers, 1834-1870.

Title: Godfrey Barnsley papers, 1834-1870.

The collection consists of papers of Godfrey Barnsley of Savannah, Georgia from 1834-1870. The papers include printed bulletins pertaining to shipping and the import and export of commodities, especially cotton, in Augusta and Savannah (Ga.), Mobile (Ala.), Charleston (S.C.), and New Orleans (La.). Several of the bulletins contain letters to Godfrey Barnsley regarding crop production, cotton trade, and local news of Savannah or Macon.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476984 View

Barnsley, George Scarborough, 1837-1918. George Scarborough Barnsley papers, 1837-1918 (bulk 1846-1873) [manuscript].

Title: George Scarborough Barnsley papers, 1837-1918 (bulk 1846-1873) [manuscript].

The collection includes correspondence, reminiscences, scrapbooks, printed pamphlets, and other materials, chiefly 1846-1873, relating to George Barnsley's years at school and at Oglethorpe University, his service during the Civil War, and his emigration to Brazil. Included are letters from Godfrey and Lucien Barnsley and reflections on life in Brazil in the late nineteenth century.

ArchivalResource: About 350 items (1.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22377285 View

Duncan, D. G. D. G. Duncan and William Duncan letters to Godfrey Barnsley, 1850-1851.

Title: D. G. Duncan and William Duncan letters to Godfrey Barnsley, 1850-1851.

This collection contains two letters to Godfrey Barnsley from D. G. Duncan and William Duncan. Letter topics include Woodlands, the cotton crop, and an impending trip to Liverpool, England. The collection also includes transcripts of the letters created by the donor of the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175305300 View

Day, John. John Day letter, 1848 Apr. 15.

Title: John Day letter, 1848 Apr. 15.

John Day of Liverpool, England, writes Godfrey Barnsley in New Orleans, La., describing the economic effects of the Revolutions of 1848 in France, especially on the cotton trade.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761307626 View

Barnsley, Godfrey, 1805-1873. Barnsley family papers, 1825-1904.

Title: Barnsley family papers, 1825-1904.

Correspondence (1834-1898), accounts (1825-1894), and other papers, primarily of Godfrey Barnsley, but also including papers of his children. The letters contain much information on economic conditions in the South after the Civil War and on the fate of Barnsley's sons, George and Lucien, who joined an ex-Confederate group who emigrated to Brazil. Documents also relate to the family's plantation, "Woodlands," in Bartow County, Georgia, which was managed after the war by daughter Julia Barnsley Baltzelle von Schwartz. Letters of son Harold Barnsley relate to his travels in the northern United States, the Philippines, and China (1846-1858); there are also letters of Barnsley's two older daughters, Anna Barnsley Gilmour and Adelaide Barnsley Reid. Also included are account books (1825-1838) of William Scarborough, a Savannah merchant and father of Julia Scarborough Barnsley, wife of Godfrey Barnsley; Civil War documents and letters of Peter Baltzelle, provost marshal of the Confederate Army; letters and papers of Baron Charles Henry von Schwartz; and genealogical data for the Barnsley, Cotton, and Scarborough families.

ArchivalResource: ca. 850 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35132877 View

Hartridge, Walter Charlton, 1914-1974. Walter Charlton Hartridge, Jr. collection. Series VII : genealogies ; Barnsley family, 1700s-1900s / Walter Charlton Hartridge.

Title: Walter Charlton Hartridge, Jr. collection. Series VII : genealogies ; Barnsley family, 1700s-1900s / Walter Charlton Hartridge.

There is an astonishing volume of research here on hundreds of families, notably emigre families from Santo Domingo, families from Minorca (one of the Spanish Balearic Islands), families with Catholic roots, and families decended from Georgia's colonial settlers. His research encompassed collateral lines and families of other denominations, as well. Included are: detailed genealogical charts; correspondence; legal documents; Bible, church and public record abstracts; memoirs; articles and clippings; invitations; cards; photographs, etc. (cont.) The Barnsley family papers consist of; genealogical charts, notes, some of which are in French, and transcribed family letters.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44468347 View

Barnsley, Godfrey, 1805-1873. Family papers, 1822-1980 (bulk 1826-1873).

Title: Family papers, 1822-1980 (bulk 1826-1873).

Correspondence (1826-1955), writings (1868-1915), financial and legal records (1829-1954), photos, and other papers, relating to cotton economy in the pre-Civil War South, Barnsley's business affairs as cotton factor and merchant in Savannah, Ga., and New Orleans, La., business negotiations with British merchants; his plantation in northern Georgia, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Confederate expatriates in Brazil.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28419038 View

Barnsley, Godfrey, 1805-1873. Godfrey Barnsley ledgers, photographs, and other materials, 1817-1890.

Title: Godfrey Barnsley ledgers, photographs, and other materials, 1817-1890.

This collection consists of one folder with 2 items and twelve account books of business, household and personal accounts of Godfrey Barnsley and Company from 1817-1890. Also included are three photographs of Preston Saylor, A.A. Saylor, and Harry Saylor. The folder containing the photographs is noted as "VM" (visual materials) in the collection inventory.

ArchivalResource: 12 volumes, 2 folders (3.10 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477580 View