Glyn’s Local & Family History Documents Part 1: GD 1 to...

Glyn’s Local & Family History Documents

Part 1: GD 1 to 353 01 May 2006

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Ref. Date Description Names Places

1 1674 Joseph Margaret Endon of Bosley's receipt for legacy etc. under the will of

Thomas Endon of Dunwood. Gives useful family history information.

Endon, Rossell Endon, Leek, Staffs; Bosley, Cheshire;

2 1677 Joseph & Marie Endon of Bosley's receipt for legacy etc.under the will of

Thomas Endon of Dunwood. Gives useful family history information..

Endon, Broadhurst, Broadhurst, Endon, Leek, Staffs; Bosley, Cheshire;

3 1678 Samuel Endon of Macclesfield's receipt. for legacy etc.under the will of

Thomas Endon of Dunwood. Gives useful family history information.

Endon, Warrin, Broadhurst, Endon, Leek, Staffs; Macclesfield,

Cheshire;

4 1672 Henry & Ellen Booth of Bosely's receipt. for legacy etc.under the will of

Thomas Endon of Dunwood. Gives useful family history information

Endon, Booth, Plant, Endon, Leek, Staffs; Macclesfield,

Cheshire;

5 1681 Agreement between Benjamin Endon, senior, and Ben Endon junior.

Agreement concerning the taking down of a barn and its removal to another

site belonging to Sir Thomas Bellott of Moreton in Cheshire, following

agreement that Endon junior should have a barn of Bellotts which stood on

Endon junior's land.

Endon, Hammersley; Hulme;

Bellott;

Longsdon, Staffs. Moreton, Cheshire,

6 1709 Bond from Ben Endon of Dairyhouse, Horton to John Oldham senior of

Tytherington.

Endon; Oldham, Tytherington, Cheshire; Norton, Staffs.

7 1712 Lease of premises in Horton, Staffs by Benjamin Endon of Dunwood to

Samuel Yardley of Stilehouse, Horton.

Endon, Yardley, Dunwood, Horton, Staffordshire;

8 1712 Bond between Thomas Endon of Dairyhouse, Horton, Staffs and William

Gravenour of Leek, Staffs, and Richard Sherwin of Hahouse, Ipstons,

Staffs.

Endon; Gravenour; Ridgway;

Sherwin,

Ipstones, Horton, Leek, Staffs.

9 1664 Indenture re exchange of tithes between William Wedgwood of Harracles

and Thomas Endon of Longsdon and Samuel Endon of Rudyard.

Endon, Wedgwoode Longsdon, Rudyard, Harracles, Staffs.

10 1797 Ryle & Daintry of Macclesfield application for the bankruptcy of Messrs

Mellor & Pratt, Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturers. Signed by

Loughborough to let a commission of bankruptcy be issued. Commission to

be Thomas Sparrow, Alexander Bosley; William Challinor, Peter Walthall

and Isaac Cope the younger -dated 11 November 1797.. A copy of the

Commission's appointment

Daintry; Ryle; Mellor; Pratt; Macclesfield, Cheshire; Leek,

Staffordshire;


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11 1647 Agreement re the tenancy and tithes of Bradnop Mill near Leek, between

John Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst and Thomas Shaw of Middlecliff, Bradnop.

Water mill formerly tenanted by John Brandley of Wildgoose House.

Ashenhurst; Shaw;Bandley; Cowp;

Goodwyn;

Bradnop, Staffordshire

12 Account of money received in the Offlow & Totmanslow Hundreds by

Benjamin Endon. Undated ut stated to be "Accounted to Mr Stoddart

Endon; Stoddard; Clowes;

Bannister; Button; Parkes; Miles;

Mainwaring;Phillips; Coneley;

Nubio; Peat; Smith; Shaw;

Paddington; Green; Stone;

Wagstaff; Roper; Stokes; Collier;

Foston; Wright; Leese; Peeters;

Barbour; Baxter; Turner; Wall;

Challongwood; Langham;

Woodward; Nicolls; Woolleyson;

Hooton; Tonkes; Egerton;

13 1715 Bill of account for £364 signed as having been received by Thomas Endon.

Mentions " brother Sutton".

Endon; Sutton; Yardley; Dresser;

Barnett;

14 1751 Agreement between Joseph, John & Joseph junior, Warburton of Burslem,

potters, Thomas & Richard David of Burslem, potters, John & William

Taylor of Burslem, potters, John Shrigley; John Adams, Sampson Daniel of

Burslem, potters, Thomas & George Broom of Stoke-on- Trent, potters and

partners, John Broom, Anthony Keeling, James Payne; Humphrey Palmer,

John Simpson, Thomas Whieldon and Joseph Farmer of Stoke, potters,

concerning shares of Potters clay. Agreement of 1750 between Waye and

Mortimer, two Devonshire men, and John Taylor, Lewis, William &

Thomas Heath and John Mare of Stoke, potters and all the other Staffs

potters mentioned. Waye & Mortimer were to deliver 500 tons (at the rate

of 120 lbs to the hundred and 2100 to the ton) of pipe-clay to Liverpool

every year for 7 years, at rates of upto 250 tons per month. The potters also

agreed not to buy clay from any other pits etc within 20 miles of the port of

Teignmouth in Devon. The potters shared the clay in agreed portions.

Signed by most if not all the potters.

Waye; Mortimer; Heath; etc. Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire;

Kingstone, Devon; Liverpool


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15 1662 A copy of William Jolly's lease to Mr Henry Harper and his wide

Drusibilla.. Indenture between William Jollife of London, merchant, Henry

Harper & his wife of Chester a property in Chester of a property, granted to

William Jolly by the Dean & Chapter of Chester Cathedral, in North Street,

Chester. Jolly's lease was for the lives of Thomas son of Thomas Jolly and

Thomas son of Thomas Foley and Edwaard son of Edward Ash.

Ash; Jolly; Harper; Foley; London; Chester;

16 1671 Indenture of demise between George Morte of Stonie Slack, Leek and

Ralph Hall and Anthony his son bothe of Hills Dale, Grindon of the cottage

leased by Morte from Walter Aston and others In 1660.

Aston; Weston; Crompton; Morte;

Hall;

Grindon; Leek; Stone, Staffordshire.

17 1689 Part of the settlement made on Mrs Bowyer's marriage to Ralph Sneyd

October 1689

Sneyd; Baker; Hayward; Gent;

Parrott; Piggott; Boycott; Bowyer;

Edge and others; Wedgwood;

Broad; Booth; Whitehall; Barlow;

Lowndes;

Milton, Bradnop, Leek, Keele,

Staffordshire; Wenlock, Chetwyn, Salop;

18 1626 Lease by Thomas Rudyard of Rudyard to Ralphe Downinge of Leek,

Staffordshire, blacksmith, of a plot in Leek lying between tenements of

Andrew Tofte and John Johnson . The lease was for 8o years or for the lives

of Downing, his wife Dorothy and their son William.

Downing; Thorley; Jolley; Clowes;

Johnson; Tofte;

Rudyard, Leek, Staffordshire;

19 1671 Marriage settlement made on the marriage of John Bowyer of Biddulph

Grange to Mary daughter of Richard Baker of Bishto.

Baker; Bowyer; Biddulph, Bishton, Staffordshire;

20 1727 Sneyd's copy of the settlement dated 1717 made on the marriage of John

White of Edgmont, Salop. Concerns the Manor of Ellerton in Cheswardine,

Salop, and the mansion Ellerton Hall occupied by John Talbot, Ellerton

Mills etc.

Sneyd; White; Swinnerton;

Mountford; Moreton; Gower;

Talbot; BoydenYate; Seweall;

Howell; Turner; Taylor; Fenton;

Claxton;

London; Draycot in Hales, Edgmont,

Cheswardine, Salop; Trentham, Staffs;

21 1655 Counterpart of Thomas Bentley of Rownall's settlement on his marriage to

Elizabeth daughter of John Sneyd of Woodhead, Burslem 19 Sept 1655.

Sneyd; Bentley, Finney; Smith; Burslem, Rownall, Staffordshire.

22 1655 Part of 21


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23 1689 William Sneyd the elder of Keele, Staffs' settlement on the marriage of

William Sneyd his son to Elizabeth Bowyer of Bishton granddaughter and

heiress of Richard Baker of Bishton. Manor of Norton.

Sneyd; Bowyer; Baker; Gent;

Piggott; Hayward; Boycott;

Whitehall;

Keele, Norton in the Moors, Bradnop,

Mixon etc Staffs.Wenlock, Uppington,

Chetwyn, Salop;

24 1701 Counterpart lease by Rowland Okeover of Okeover, trustee of Thomas

Rudyard, to Thomas Turnock of Rudyard of the house in which Turnock

and his wife lived plusanother called the Ashes Farm in Rudyard and other

property.

Rudyard; Okeover; Turnock;

25 1754 Daniel Nickson's surrender in Horton Court Baron of John Wedgwood of

his customary tenement in Endon, Staffordshire occupied by Joseph

Tomlinson.

Nickson; Wedgwood; Tomlinson; Horton, Endon, Staffordshire;

26 1663 Lease by Peter Venables of Kinderton, Cheshire, Baron Kinderton, to John

Oldham of Butley, Cheshire, of Martens Tenement in Moston, Cheshire for

99 years on the lives of Oldham his wife Katherine and Thomas son of John

Hough of Macclesfield.

Venables; Ouldham; Hough;

27 1701 Copy of the will of Sir Nicholas Vanacker of London Vanacker; Sambrook; Hedges;

Price; Jones; Wood; Wakeman;

Roper; Butler; Webb; Bateman;

Noxon; Evans; Watson; Beavons;

Deleau; Wood; Roberts;

28 1726 Abstract of William Sneyd's settlement of his wife Susan's estate. Sneyd

settled £50000 when he married Miss Edmonds who was under 21.

Edmonds; Heges; Bateman;

Wakeman;Wolseley; Trevor;

Hendon, Finchley, Middlesex;

Wndlesham, Surrey;

29 1701 Copy of Sir Nicholas and John Vanacker's settlement. Concerns the Manor

of Erith in Kent. Etc.

Vanacker; Hedges; Roberts;

Bateman, Wakeman, Wood,

Sambrook, Deleau;Thompson;

London; Erith, Kent etc.

30 1701 Sir Nicholas and John Vanacker's deed of settlement. Concerns the Manor

of Erith in Kent. Etc.

Vanacker; Hedges; Roberts;

Bateman, Wakeman, Wood,

Sambrook, Deleau;Thompson;

London; Erith, Kent etc.


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31 1774 Copy, dated 1904, of a document relating to Diamonds given by Mrs

Kinnersley to William Sneyd of Ashcombe bought by Lady Viscountess

Dudley & Ward.

Kinnersley; sneyd; Carver;

32 1765 Probate copy of the will of William Hancock of Spooner's Lane, Leek,

yeoman,

Hancock; Clowes; Delves;

Crompton; Boston; Mills; Lucas;

Corbett; Rhodes; Bradshawe;

Smith; Condlyffe; Moore;

Robinson;

Leek, Staffordshire;

33 1688 Counterpart indenture of lease for 99 years and lives, by Thomas Jolliffe of

Coston, Worcestershire and John Jolliffe, merchant of London son of

Thomas, to Andrew Davidson of Leek, milliner, of a shop etc in Derby

Street, Leek, formerly held by William Mellor and Thomas Smith.

Jolliffe; Davison; Mellor; Smith;

34 Bond by Hugh Bentley of Longsdon, Staffs to Hugh Sherratt, William

Massey, & John Collyer

Bentley; Fynney; Ford; Massey;

Sherratt; Colley; Welles;

Adderley; Stapleton;

35 1688 Permission given by Timothy Locket and James Knight to John Locket son

of Timothy to let or sell property covered by a settlement on the Locket and

Knight families made in 1676-77.

Lockett; Knight; Lowe;; Endon;

Hulme; Bagnald;

Leek, Wolstanton; Woodhouse Green,

Rowley Gate, Staffordshire.

36 1732 Assignment by Roger Bradbury of Hilderstone to arthur Godwin of

Dunwood, Leek, Staffs, a lease of lands called Shepton or Shipton in

Hilderstone, Staffs.

Foden; Bradbury; Godwin; Mills;

Reade;

Stafford; Hilderstone, Leek, Staffordshire;

37 1698 Mortgage by Andrew Withnall of Ladygreen, Cheddleton, Staffs, of tithes

of lands called Ladys Field in Cheddleton, to Benjamin Jolliffe of Coston,

Worcestershire.

Withnall; Endon;

38 1691 Lease for three lives by Sir Thomas Bellott of Moreton, Cheshire to

Benjamin Endon of Nether Longwood, Dunwood, Leek, Staffs. The three

lives were those of Benjamin Endon of Dunwood, Benjamin son of Thomas

Endon of the Dairyhouse,Horton, Staffs and Elizabeth daughter of Timothy

Lockett of Leek, Staffs.

Endon; Lockett; Bellott; Simpson; Dunwood, Leek, Staffordshire; Moreton,

Cheshire;


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39 1744 Lease by Thomas Jolliffe of Coston, Worcestershire to Ralph Birtles of

Longshaw, Leek, staffs and John Birtles of Hall Lane, Cheddleton, Staffs.

Of Longshaw, and Hillside and other property.

Jolliffe; Birtles; Goostry; Rowley;

Mills; Cartwright;

Bradnop, Cheddleton, Rowley, Longshaw,

Leek, Staffordshire; Coston,

Worcestershire;

40 1743 Conveyance by Thomas Jolliffe of Coston, Worcestershire to William

Hancock of Leek, of Draper's House & Croft and the tithes of the

Heathcroft in Leek, Staffordshire. The house was in Spooner's Lane, Leek

and was where Hannah Dresser had once lived but Thomas Smith then did

and the croft at the back of the house that Hannah Dresser had formerly

held but David Davenport then did.

Hancock; Jolliffe; Mills; Dresser;

Davenport; Turnock; Cartwright;

Hollins; Lowe;


Worcestershire;

41 1676 Counterpart conveyance from Thomas Endon of Leek, Staffordshire to

Thomas Rudyard and Thomas son and heir of Thomas Rudyard of Rudyard

of property in Rudyard including the house where Samuel Endon the father

of Thomas Endon lived

Rudyard; Endon; Parker; Mills;

42 1705 Deed of the purchase by Benjamin Jolliffe of Coston, Worcestershire from

Andrew Davidson of Leek, Staffordshire, chapman, of Davison's house and

adjacent building in Derby Street, Leek, Staffordshire. The house is said to

be that held by Davison of by John Sutton. Date of 1795 is not that of the

document.

Davison; Jolliffe; Smith; Mayfield;

Hollins;


Worcestershire.

43 1660 Articles of agreement between Richard Coyney of Weston Coyney,

Staffordshire , his wife Mary and Humphrey Grove of Hallclose, Salop (of

the first part) and Humphrey Elliotts of Boobridge, salop (on the second

part) and William Child of Linlett, Salop and Edward Lacon of Aston

Clifton, Staffordshire brother of Mary Coyney (of the third part). Lacon,

Elliots, Coyney family relationships.

Coyney; Lacon; Elliotts; Child;

Grove; Grey; Barreley;

Aston Clifton, Weston Coyney,

Staffordshire; Brocton, Boobridge, Linlett,

Linley, Salop;

44 1731 Articles of agreement between Roger Bradbury of Hilderstone, Staffs, and

Arthur Godwin of Dunwood, Leek, Staffordshire concerning the Bradbury's

farm and malthouse aand other property in Hilderstone called Shepton

leased from Foden. The agreement relates to the conveyance of the property

to Godwin for £1000. On the reverse are lister properties called Bank End,

Thorntree; Banktop;Lanehead threap lands, and the acreages are given

Bradbury; Godwin; Foden; Sutton;

Horsley; Gough;

Dunwood, Leek, Hilderstone,

Staffordshire;


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45 1669 Indenture between Peter Worth of Tytherington, Prestbury, Cheshire, and

Samuel Worth his son and heir by which Worth senior grants to his son

property in Tytherington where John Watson, Charles Yarwood and

William Normansell lived together with the cottage of Elizabeth and

Catherine Bower and other land.

Worth; Normansell; Watson;

Bower; Yarwood; Bradburn; Lunt;

Pott; Cherry; Smallwood;

Tytherington, Prestbury, Cheshire;

46 1669 Conveyance by Edward Johnson of Macclesfield, alderman, and Elizabeth

Barber of Tytherington, widow, (of the one part) to Samuel Worth of

Tytherington, Prestbury, Cheshire; of the house which was formerly that of

Jasper Barbour, Elizabeth;s husband.

Barber; Johnson; Worth; Bardsley;

Yardley; Cherry; Smallwood;

47 1669 Indenture between John Barber of Titherington, Cheshire, and his wife

Margaret (on bthe one part) and Edward Johnson of Macclesfield, alderman

(of the other part) granting the house they had leased from Peter Worth of

Tytherington to Johnson..

worth; Johnson; Barber;Bardsley;

smallwood; Yarwood; Cherry;

Macclesfield, Titherington, Prestbury,

Cheshire;

48 1711 Probate copy of the will of Sarah Harrison of Stoke, Staffordshire Harrison; Burn; Marton; Smith;

Godwin; Bayley; Heath; Monford;

Hullin; Hanley; Reade;

Stoke, Staffordshire;

49 1673 Indenture between Thomas Rawlins of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, cordwainer,

and John Moore of Brailsford and John Bagshawe of Narrow Dale,

Staffordshire, of the Myry Lath in Underwood Fenton, Sturson and Bradley,

Derbyshire by way of a settlement for the benefit of himself, his wife and

their children in due succession.

Rawlins; Moore; Bagshawe;

Eaton;Hill; Tomlinson;

Ashbourne, Bradley, Derbyshire; Narrow

Dale, Staffordshire;

50 1658 Indenture between Richard Barnes of Blurton and Margaret his wife,

Richard Barnes of Dilhorne, Staffordshire, and Mary his wife, and Ralph

Taylor, webster and Thomas James, husbandman both of Dilhorne

conveying property to Taylor and James

Barnes; Taylor; James; Parker;

Bayley; Whitehurst; Haslam;

Hollines;

Dilhorne, Blurton, staffordshire;

51 1660 Articles of agreement between Leicester Barber of Tamworth, Thomas

Foden of Fulford, Roger Bradbury of Hilderstone, Thomas Wootton of

Millemesse and Richard Mayott of the Ashes, Staffordshire, concerning the

partition of Oxleasow in Hilderstone.

Bradbury; Barber; Foden;

Wootten; Mayott;Fernyhough;

Griffin; Smith; Assheton; Pooter?;

Tamworth; Hilderstone, Fulford,

Millemesse;Staffordshire;


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52 1699 Mortgage by Thomas Daintry of Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire,

ironmonger, of four cottages in Newcastle to Philip Egerton of Astbury,

Cheshire for £100.

Daintry; Egerton; Jones; Ambury;

Johnson; Wetwood; Shaw; Smith;

Worrall; Oates;

Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire;

Astbury, Cheshire;

53 1675 Copy indenture of leaase for 500 years between Thomas Bayley of Bradnop

to John Meare of Blurton, Staffordshire, of lands in Keele hamlet, Burselm,

Staffordshire. It carries a later footnote that this property was leased by

Thomas Parker to Edward Normansall of Titherington, Cheshire and others

in 1687-88,

Bayley; Meare; Normansall;

Parker; Oldham; Cobbe;

Bradnop, Blurton, Burselm, Newcastle-

under-Lyme, Staffordshire; Titherington,

Macclesfield,Cheshire;

54 1675 Final concord in the Court at Westminster between Samuel Wil…on and

John Sherratt and William Sherratt deforciants of a messuage, 20 acres of

land, 6 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, and turbage etc, in Dunwood

or Longsdon, Leek, Staffordshire;

W…; Sherratt; Dunwood, Longsdon, Staffordshire;

55 1687 Final concord in the Court at Westminster between Thomas Endon &

Samuel Buxstone, and James son of Thomas Knight John Lees, Timothy

Locket, John Locket and his wife Elizabeth and Ralph Tomkinson and his

wife re houses and land in Horton, Leek and heaton, Staffordshire.

Endon; Knight; Lees; Lockett;

Tomkninson;

Horton, Heaton, Leek, Staffordshire;

56 1731 Recovery in the King's Court at Westminster by John Wood re a house,

cottage and 100 acres land, 300 acres meadow, 100 acres pasture in

Leekfirth, Heaton and the parish of Leek, Staffordshire---

Wood; Stubbs; Mills; Horton, Heaton, Leek, Staffordshire.

57 1731 Recovery in the King's Court at Westminster by John Wood of two houses,

two cottages, 10 acres land, 10 acres meadow, 10 acres pasture in Leekf,

Staffordshire against Peter Stubbs of Woodhouse, Elizabeth & William

Mills.

Wood; Stubbs; Mills; Leek, Staffordshire.

58 1906 Statement showing the devolution of the Whitehough Estate, Ipstones,

Staffordshire from the death of Robert Mellor in 1737 to 1880.

This gives names and dates in the form of a tree.

Mellor; Clark Toft; Freeth;

England; Chorley;

Atkinson;Argles;

Ipstones, Staffordshire


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59 1846 Declaration of merger of tithes from a property called Brown Edge,

occupied by William Tatton, a farm called Bradshaw, occupied by Sarah

Austin in Ipstones, Staffordshire by Miss S. L. Rawlinson. Signed, sealed

and confirmed by the signatures and seal of the tithe commissioners.

Rawlinson;Tatton; Austin; Gould;

Sawkins; Blamire; Jones.

Ipstones, Staffordshire.

60 1852 Transfer of a mortgage by Joshua Knowles of Flash, Staffs, Thomas Staden

of Buxton, Treasure of a Friendly Society, and Samuel Franceys Gosling of

Biddulph, surgeon on the one hand and Miss Sarah Francey Gosling of

Biddulph, on a property at the foot of Morridge, in Ipstones, Staffordshire

to secure £350 and interest.

It mentions an indenture of 1831 between George Crichlow of Flash,

ironfounder, Joshua Knowles of Flash who was the treasurer of the a

Friendly Society that met in the Travellers Rest in Flash. Signed and

sealed.

Knowles; Gosling; Staden;

Shirley; Harrison;

Flash, Ipstones, Biddulph, Staffordshire;

Buxton, Derbyshire

61 1754 Lease for possession Henry Kington of Oakermoor, grocer, to George

Critchlow of Pethills, blacksmith, of premises at the "Bottom of Morridge".

Signed, sealed and stamped.

Critchlow; Kington; Shirley; Oakmoor, Pethills, Staffordshire;

62 1754 Release by Henry Kington of Oakermoor, grocer, to George Critchlow of

Pethills, blacksmith, of premises at the "Bottom of Morridge", for £340.

Signed, sealed and stamped.

Critchlow; Kington; Shirley; Oakmoor, Pethills, Staffordshire;

63 1772 Mortgage by George Critchlow of Pethills, yeoman, of premises at the

"Bottom of Morridge" to Thomas Evans of Derby. Signed, sealed and

stamped. A discharge, given by Evans in 1793, is written on the back.

Crichlow; Evans; Shirley; Pethills, Staffordshire;Derby;Brough;

64 1741 Mortgage in fee by Henry Knivington of Oakmoor to Elizabeth Wagstaff

of Derby, widow, who paid of a debt that Knivington owed to William

Bowyer of Roston, Derbyshire on the security of premises at the Bottom of

Morridge.

Knivington, Bowyer; Wagstaff;

Phillips;

Roston, Derby, Derbyshire; Oakmoor,

Staffordshire;

65 1741 Lease by Henry Knivington of Oakmoor to Elizabeth Wagstaff of Derby,

widow, of premises at the Bottom of Morridge.

Knivington; Wagstaff; Rushton; Derby, Derbyshire; Oakmoor,

Staffordshire;


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66 1741 Release of rights by Dorothy Parker of St Batholomew the Great,

Middlesex, widow of William Parker, to Henry Knivington of Oakmoor,

Staffordshire on an estate at the Bottom of Morridge.

Parker; Knivington; Rushton; Oakmoor, Staffordshire; Middlesex;

67 1741 An indenture in three parts between Ralph Vicerstaff of Winkle, Ipstones,

Staffs, blacksmith and his wife Mary, Charles Baldwyn of London, Robert

Pardoe of London, Andrew Knivington of Oakmoor, Ipstones, Staffs,

yeoman and his wife Sarah and Henry son and heir of Andrew Knivington

concerning property at the Bottom of Morridge occupied by Joseph

Rushton. Deed is signed sealed and stamped and has a heading

incorporating the Royal Coat of Arms.

Victerstaff; Knivington; Rushton;

Baldwyn; Pardoe;

Ipstones, Staffordsshire;

68 1729 Indenture of bargain and release by William Parker of Middlesex

(grandchild and heir of John Moore late of Derby, cordwainer, and William

Parker of London, bookseller, son and heir of said William Parker to Ralph

Vickerstaff of Mellor Barn, Ipstones, Staffordshire, yeoman, and James

Ferne of Leek, Staffs., ironmonger, of a messuage and lands at the foot of

Morridge, Ipstones, Staffordshire, occupied byWilliam Prime. Signed,

sealed, stamped. The heading incorporates the Royal Coat of Arms.

Vickerstaff; Parker; Moore; Prime;

Ferne;

London; Derby; Ipstones, Leek,

Staffordshire;

69 1735 Mortgage by Ralph Vickerstaff of Cotton, Alveton Staffordshireblacksmith

to William Bowyerof Roston, Derbyshire, of a messuage and lands at the

foot of Morridge, Ipstones, Staffordshire occupied by John Bennitt, for

£120.Dated 29 Spet 1735. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading

incorporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Vickerstaff; Bowyer;Bennitt; Alveton, Staffordshire; Roston,

Derbyshire;

70 1741 Assignment of Ralph Vickerstaff of Winkl, Ipstones, mortgage of a

property at the foot of Morridge formerly occupied by John Bennitt butthen

by Joseph Rushton, from William Bowyer of Roston, Derbyshire to Samuel

Fox of Derby, soapboiler, in trust for the benefit nof Elizabeth Wagstaff of

Derby, widow, 12 June 1741. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading


Vickerstaff; Bowyer; Wagstaff;

Bennitt; Rushton;

Knivington;Phillips; Hulme;

Derby, Roston, Derbyshire; Alveton,

Ipstones, Staffordshire;


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71 1757 Indenture between Elizabeth Fox of Derby, widow and John Whillock of

Grindon, Derbyshire, by which Elizabeth Fox demised her property at the

fott of Morridge, Ipstones, Staffordshire occupied formerly by John Bennitt

and later by Joseph Rushton but then by Joseph Shirley, to John Whillock

upon trusts specified in an indenture of lease, release and transfer between

Henry Knifton, Elizabeth Fox, Gilbert Fox,Samuel Fox, George Chritchlow

and John Whillock. Dated 29 November 1757. Signed sealed and stamped.

Heading incorporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Fox; Whillock; Knifton or

Knivington; Bennitt; Rushton;

Shirley;Chritchlow;

Derby, Grindon, Derbyshire; Ipstones,

Staffordshire;

72 1722 Indenture of assignment, dated 17 November 1722, between John Taylor

late of Harracles but now of Wall Grange, Leek, Staffordshire,Richard Plant

of Whithurst, Dilhorne, Staffs, and his wife Ann, Matthew Plant and Sarah

his wife, William Stodard of Ladymeadows, Staffordshire and his wife

Mary, Millicent and Ruth Best of Ladymeadows, spinsters, mortgage (all

the women were sisters and were coheirs of Almond Best of Ladymeadows,

Ipstones) Ruth Best the elder, widow of Almond Best, John Kent

of…Staffs, and Thomas Birch of Mixon, Leek, Staffs., of a messuage called

Newfield House and lands in Ladymeadows, Ipstones mortgaged by

Almond Best's heirs in 1718 to John Taylor for £50. Taylor assigned the

mortgage to Kent. Signed (by all), sealed, stamped. Heading incorporates

Royal Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Plant; Best

Stodard;Kent;Stonhewer;

Ridgway;

Harracles, Leek, Ipstones, Dilhorne,

Staffordshire;

73 1744 Mortgage in Fee by lease and release from John Taylor of Birchall, Leek

and his son Henry of Newfield House and all their lands in Ipstones,

Staffordshire including a property called Brown Edge, to Walter Chetwynd

of Brocton, Staffordshire, as security for a loan of £500 and interest. Dated

11 September 1744. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates

Royal Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Best; Chetwynd; Leek, Ipstones, Brocton, Staffordshire;

74 1744 Indenture of lease for possession between John Taylor of Birchall, Leek

and his son Henry and Walter Chetwynd of Brocton, Staffordshire of

Newfield House and all their lands in Ipstones, Staffordshire including a

property called Brown Edge, to Walter Chetwynd of Brocton. Dated 10

September 1744. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates Royal

Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Best; Chetwynd; Leek, Ipstones, Brocton, Staffordshire;


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75 1806 Indenture of release of Whitehough, Staffordshire and other land and

premises (Bradshaw and Brown Edge included) in Ipstones and Cheddleton,

Staffordshire by Samuel Freeth of Tamworth, Staffordshire, son and heir of

Mary Freeth nee England, deceased, widow of Samuel Freeth, deceased

and grand daughter, heir and devisee of John Toft, late of Haregate, Leek,

Staffordshire to Toft Chorley of Leek, Staffordshire, dated 21 June 1806.

Signed, sealed and stamped. Plain heading. The parties ar Quakers.

Toft; Chorley; Freeth; England;

Plant; Pedley; Wardle; Carnell;

Woolley; Gent; Cruso; Jones;

Leek, Ipstones, Cheddleton, Tamworth,

Staffordshire;

76 1806 Final concord between Toft Chorley of Leek and Samuel Freeth of

Tamworth re six messuages, ten gardens, 200 acres of lands and 150 acres

of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 30 acres of furze and

heath, 30 acres of moor, 30 acres of rush common of pasture etc., re an

estate granted by Freeth to Toft in return for £600. [Standard final concord -

no signatures, stamps etc. This goes with document number 75]]

Chorley; Freeth; Staffordshire;

77 1806 ANOTHER COPY OF DOCUMENT 76.

Final concord between Toft Chorley of Leek and Samuel Freeth of

Tamworth re six messuages, ten gardens, 200 acres of lands etc.,

Chorley; Freeth; Staffordshire;

78 1806 Indenture of lease for a year Samuel Freeth of Tamworth to Toft Chorley

of Leek,of Whitehough, Staffordshire and other land and premises

(Bradshaw and Brown Edge included) in Ipstones and Cheddleton,

Staffordshire. Dated 21 June 1806. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading

incorporates Royla Coat of Arms.

Freeth; Chorley; Leek, Ipstones, Cheddleton, Tamworth,

Staffordshire;

79 Draft indenture of transfer, dated 25 April 1767, between John Toft of

Haregate, Leek, Staffordshire, Joshua Wardle of Brown Edge,Ipstones,

Staffs and Thomas Hulme of Hollins, Alstonefield, prior to the conveyance

of Brown Edge, Ipstones, Staffs. [Wrapped in a letter from William

Condlyffe of Leek]

Toft; Wardle; Hulme; Smith;

Clowes; Whitehall; Chadwick;

Alstonefield, Ipstones, Leek, Staffordshire;


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80 1723 Indenture, dated 4 December 1723, between Ruth Best widow of Almond

Best of Ladymeadows, Ipstones, Staffordshire and others and John Taylor

of Barnefield, Leek, Staffordshire by which the the widow and coheirs of

Almond Best sold Newfield House in Ladymeadows and other lands to

John Taylor for £150. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates

the Royal Coat of Arms.

Plant; Best;Stodard; Taylor; Ipstones, Leek, Dilhorne, Staffordshire;

81 1723 Indenture, dated 3 December 1723, between Ruth Best widow of Almond

Best of Ladymeadows, Ipstones, Staffordshire and others and John Taylor

of Barnefield, Leek, Staffordshire by which the the widow and coheirs of

Almond Best sold Newfield House in Ladymeadows and other lands to

John Taylor for £150. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates

the Royal Coat of Arms.

Plant; Best; Stodard; Taylor; Dilhorne, Ipstones, Leek, Staffordshire;

82 1722 Mortgage by Ruth Best widow of Almond Best late of Ladymeadows,

Staffordshire and her daughters to John Kent of Redway.ich in

Staffordshire, of Newfield House and associated lands for £100. Dated 18

December 1722.

Best; Kent; Plant; Stodard; Dilhorne, Ipstones, Staffordshire,

83 Bond by Ruth Best widow of Almond Best late of Ladymeadows,

Staffordshire and her daughters to John Kent of Redway.ich in

Staffordshire, re mortgage of Newfield House and associated lands for

£100. Dated 18 December 1722. Signed and sealed.

Best; Plant; Stodard; Kent;

Ridgway; Stonehewer;

Dilhorne, Ipstones, Staffordshire;

84 1739 Conveyance by lease and release,from Henry Clark of Chipping Norton,

Oxfordshire, mercer to John Toft and Joshua Toft of Haregate, Leek,

Staffordshire, of all the estates of Mary Mellor late of

Whitehough,Staffordshire and widow of R obert Mellor, for £1000. Dated 3

August 1739. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat

of Arms.[ Foxed]

Toft; Mellor; Clark; Massey;

Fernyhough; Waring; Mills;

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire; Shipton,

Worcestershire; Leek, Staffordshire;


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85 1768 Demise by Joshua Toft of Haregate, Leek, Staffordshire only brother and

devisee of John Toft of Haregate, deceased to Joseph England of Aldercar,

Tamworth and William Key of Leek, Sstaffordshire, button merchant, of

Toft's life estate in Whitehough and other premises in trust for Mrs Mary

Freeth wife of Samuel Freeth of Birmingham, merchant and manufacturer,

and daughter of Joseph England of Aldercar, Tamworth by his wife Ruth

who was the daughter of John Toft of Haregate, Leek, Staffordshire. The

estate included Whitehough, Ladymeadows, Brown Edge, Sextons Edge,

The Rocks, Blakelow and Mellors Barn, Ipstones, Staffordshire. Dated 30

March 1768. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates not only

the Royal Coat of Arms but also the King's head and a herald angel.

Toft; Freeth; England; Key;

Lucas;Whieldon; Carnell; Wardle;

Plant; Massey; Smith; Lovatt;

Strangman;

Ipstones, Leek,Tamworth, Staffordshire;

Birmingham;

86 1723 Indenture of assignment by Ruth Best widow of Almond Best late of

Ladymeadows, Staffordshire and her daughters of the Newfield House and

Ladymeadows farms of John Kent of Redway Sich and Thomas Birche of

Mixon, Leek, Staffordshire, to Richard Bowman of Basford, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire, in trust for John Taylor of Barnefield, Leek, Staffordshire.

Dated 23 November 1723. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading carries

Royal Coat of Arms.

Best; Plant; Stoddard; Bowman;

Birch; Kent; Taylor;

Ipstones, Leek, Dilhorne, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire;

87 1718 Mortgage by Ruth Best widow of Almond Best of Ladymeadows, Ipstones,

Staffordshire and her daughters the coheirs of Almond Best, to John Taylor

of Harracles, Leek, Staffordshire of Newfield House in Ladymeadows and

other lands to John Taylor for £50. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading

incorporates the Royal Coat of Arms.

Best; Plant; Stoddard; Bowman;

Birch; Kent; Taylor; Bostock;

Yates;

Ipstones, Leek, Dilhorne, Cheadle,

Staffordshire;

88 1714 "Turner's Writings". Indenture of bargain and sale, dated 25 August 1714,

from William Turner of Basford, Cheddleton, Staffordshire to Lydia Sutton

of Leek, widow, of lands known as Morridge and Brown Edge, for £30.

Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Pratt; Sutton; Hall; Turner; Ipstones, Cheddleton, Staffordshire;

89 1698 Indenture, dated 30 August 1698, of bargain and sale (conveyance) from

Almond Best of Ladymeadows, Ipstones, Staffordshire, and his wife Ruth

to Phillip Turner of Basford, Cheddleton, Staffordshire of lands called

Morridge and Brown Edge in Ipstones, Staffordshire for £60. Signed, sealed

and stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of arms.

Wood; Wardle; Best; Ipstones, Cheddleton, Staffordshire;


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90 Bond dated 30 August 1698, Almond Best of Ladymeadows, Ipstones,

Staffordshire, and his wife Ruth to Phillip Turner of Basford, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire re the conveyance of lands called Morridge and Brown Edge

in Ipstones, Staffordshire.[Belongs with 89]

Best; Wood; Turner; Ipstones; Cheddleton;

91 1717 Indenture of lease, dated 27 September 1717, by William Turner of

Basford, Cheddleton, Staffordshire to John Taylor of Harracles, Leek,

Staffordshire of land at Brown Edge.Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading


Best, Plant, Hurd, Turner; Taylor;

Sutton; Milner; Bowman;

Ipstones, Cheddleton, Harracles,

Staffordshire;

92 1717 Indenture of release, dated 28 September 1717, between William Turner of

Basford, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, Ruth Best widow of Almond Best of

Ladymeadows, Ipstones, Staffordshire and her daughters, to John Taylor of

Harracles, Leek, Staffordshire of land at Brown Edge.Signed, sealed and

stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Best, Plant, Hurd, Turner; Taylor;

Sutton; Milner; Bowman;

Ipstones, Dilhorne, Cheddleton, Stanton

(Ellison?), Harracles, Staffordshire;

93 1717 Bond dated 28 September 1717,William Turner of Basford, Cheddleton,

Ruth Best of Whitehurst, Dilhorne, Staffordshire, Richard Plant of

whitehurst and Ruth Best of Stanton, Staffordshire to John Taylor of

harracles, Leek, Staffordshire re the conveyance of lands at Brown Edge in

Ipstones, Staffordshire.[Belongs with 92]

Best; Turner; Plant; Taylot; Sutton;

Bowman;

Ipstones, Leek, Dilhorne, stanton,

Staffordshire;

94 Indenture, dated 28 December 1753, by Thomas Mills of Leek,

Staffordshire, Edward Walker formerly of Uttoxeter Highwood but now of

Dodsleigh, Leigh, Staffordshire, and his wife Rebecca, Mary Taylor late of

Highwood but now of Dodsleigh, spinster, John Walker of Walton,

Berkswich, Staffs., and Esther his wife, John Birtles of Leek, Staffs., and

Thomas Gent of Leek. Concerns the transfer of the remainder of 100 and

500 year leases on the Brown Edge Estate (including Brown Edge;

Ladyemeadows, ) by Thomas Mills to John Birtles, a trustee for Thomas

Gent.Signed, sealed and stamped. No heading. Taylor etc. genealogy.

Mills; Birtles; Gent; Taylor;

Walker; Bowman; Buxton;

Hawkins; Goostrey; Mellor;Toft;

Challinor;

Bakewell, Derbyshire; Ipstones, Leek,

Leigh, Walton, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire


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95 1753 Indenture, dated 28 December 1753, of release of the Newfield House estate

etc, by Edward Walker of Dodsleigh, Staffordshire and his wife Rebecca

and her sisters who were heirs at law to Henry Taylor of Birchall, Leek

deceased son and heir of John Taylor of Birchall deceased to Thomas Gent

of Leek, Staffordshire. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates

Royal Coat of Arms. Taylor genealogy.

Taylor; Walker; Gent;Mills; Best;

Turner; Chetwynd; Challinor;

Atkinson; Muir;

Leek, Dodsleigh, Brocton, Ipstones,

Staffordshire;

96 1753 Lease for possession, dated 27 December 1753, between Mary Chetwynd of

Rugeley, Staffs., widow and executor of Walter Chetwynd late of Brocton,

Staffs., and William Chetwynd of Brocton, son and heir of Walter

Chetwynd to Thomas Gent of Leek, Staffordshire. Relates to the

Ladymeadows and Brown Edge estate, Ipstones, Staffordshire. Signed,

sealed and stamped. Simple heading.

Chetwynd; Gent; Best; Taylor;

Wardle;

Brocton, Ipstones, Leek, Rugeley,

Staffordshire;

97 1715 Wills and inventories of the Mellor Family of Whitehough, Ipstones,

Staffordshire including:

John Mellor of Whitehough 20 January 1715; Mentions his nephew Hugh

Ford of Ford Green and also Quaker Meeting House in Leek.

Mellor; Ford; Millwar; Cornell; Ipstones, Staffordshire;

98 1715 Wills and inventories of the Mellor Family of Whitehough, Ipstones,

Staffordshire including:

Probate of the will ofJohn Mellor of Whitehough 20 January 1715;

Mentions his nephew Hugh Ford of Ford Green and also Quaker Meeting

House in Leek

Mellor; Ford; Millward; Carnell; Ipstones, Staffordshire;

99 1738 Probate of the will of Robert Mellor of Whitehough 9 December 1728

(probate March 1738); Mentions his nephew Hugh Ford of Ford Green and

also Quaker Meeting House in Leek

Mellor; Toft; Davenport;

Crompton;

Ipstones, Leek, Staffordshire;

100 1736 Probate of Mrs Mary Woodhead of Hinckley, Leicestershire, will dated 12

November 1728. (probate 1 June 1736) Mrs Woodhead was the mother of

Mary the wife of Robert Mellor of Whitehough, Ipstones, Staffs.Mary

Woodhead's brother was Thomas Potter.

Mellor; Woodhead; Dawson;

Baggott; Marson; Potter;

Hinckley, Leicestershire; Ipstones,

Staffordshire;


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101 1737 Copy of Mary Mellor of Whitehough, Ipstones, Stafforshire,widow's will

and codicill dated 29 October 1737. All her property s listed giving the

names of tenants. One property was the Cock Inn, Leek.

Mellor; Toft; Crompton;

Davenport; Oakes; Hough; Smith;

Massey; Stubbs; Willson; Lovatt;

Meakin; Ward; Bradshaw;

Statham; Fern; Clark; Hollins;

Davison; Forster; Hawkesworth;

Massey; Fernyhough; Waring;

Hornby; Lamby; Page;

Alstonefield, Leek, Ipstones,Stanshope,

Staffordshire; Shipson or Shipton,

Worcestershire;

102 Probate of Mary Mellor of Whitehough, Ipstones, Stafforshire, widow,'s

will and codicill dated 29 October 1737 -codicil 2 February 1737/38

(probate . All her property s listed giving the names of tenants. One

property was the Cock Inn, Leek.








Hornby; Lamby; Page;



Worcestershire;

103 1740 Copy of Mary Mellor of Whitehough, Ipstones, Stafforshire,widow's will

and codicill dated 29 October 1737. All her property i s listed giving the

names of tenants. One property was the Cock Inn, Leek. The document

seems to have been produced for the case of Joshua and John Toft v John

Hough, Phoebe Hollins, Henry Clark and Joseph Waring 26 December

1740.








Hornby; Lamby; Page;Mills;



Worcestershire;

104 Bundle of deeds (13 items) described as "Leek Moorside Title -Mr Toft"

1745 to 1845.It includes Clough House Farm, Blackshaw but also other

properties including "Golden Hills, Wolstanton., Asurvey of Leek

Moorside is attached to one..

Toft; Atkinson; Deakin; Bowyer;

Plant; Rawlinson; Edensor; Lowe;

Heathcote; Lucas; Taylor;

Chorley;Mytton;Titterton;

Holland; Daintry; Davenport;

Devon; Fothergill; Moore; Dale;

Cock; Downing; Morris; Henshaw;

Sutton; Greaves; Weston; Nixon;

Cripps; Elkin; Tunstall; Goodwin;

Leek, Tittesworth, Kingsley, Leigh,

Wolstanton, Staffordshire; Cleobury

North, Shropshire; London;


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105 1829 Deed of covenant from the Revd. Josiah Hinckes of Tettonhall, and John

Davenportof Wetwood Hall, Leek, Staffs., to William Grindon of

Warslow, Staffordshire re the production of title deeds to the Horsecroft

Farm, Tittesworth, Leek, Staffordshire. Dated 19 June 1829. Short schedule

of deeds. Signed sealed etc.

Davenport; Hinckes; Grindon;

Daintry; Welles; Harrell; Wright;

Furnival; Wilkinson; Touchet;

Bailie;

Leek, Tettonhall, Warslow, Staffordshire

106 1842 Deed of conveyance of Horsecroft Farm, Tittesworth, Leek, Staffordshire

by William Grindon of Warslow, Staffordshire to John Davenportof

Wetwood Hall, Leek, Staffs., Dated 24 March 1842. Signed sealed etc.

Grindon; Davenport; Cruso;

Challinor; Killmister; Daintry;

Bowyer; Bailey; Keates;

Leek, Warslow, Staffordshire;

107 1829 Deed of conveyance by appointment and release of Horsecroft Farm,

Tittesworth, Leek, Staffordshire by John Smith Daintry of Foden Bank,

Cheshire, and trustee to William Grindon of Warslow, Staffordshire Dated

25 April 1829.. Signed sealed etc.

108 1859 Deed of conveyance of Horsecroft Farm, Tittesworth, Leek, Staffordshire

by John Davenport of Wetwood Hall, Leek, Staffs., to Mrs Elizabeth

Atkinson of Kendal, Westmorland. Dated 16 November 1869.Coloured

map of the estate on the vellum. Signed sealed etc.

Davenport; Atkinson; Grindon;

Birch; Brough;

Leek, Staffordshire; Kendal, Westmorland;

109 1859 Abstract of the title of John Davenport of Westwood Hall, Leek,

Staffordshire to the Horsecroft Farm, Tittesworth, Staffordshire. 1859. Blue

paper document 25 pages and cover.

Davenport; Hinckes; Grindon;

Daintry; Welles; Harrell; Wright;

Furnival; Wilkinson; Touchet;

Bailie; Lyon; Worby; Davies;

Boultbee; Gould; Rowley;

Bentley; Mills;

Sandbach, Partington, Bourton, Cheshire;

London; Leek, Staffordshire; Bunny,

Nottinghamshire; Chesterfield, Derbyshire;

Manchester; West Meon, Southampton,

Hampshire;

110 1767 Copy of the will of Francis Welles of St. Clements Danes, Middlesex, 31

July 1767. Re title to Horsecroft, Leek, Staffs. Mentions the Manor of

Wremisley, Hertfordshire.

Also Certified copy of Welles' and furnivall families of Sanbach, Cheshire;

Copy certificate of the baptism of John Welles.

Affidavit of Miss Furnivall of Lichfield, Staffs re the Welles family of

Sandbach, Cheshire

Welles; Frewen; Kilpin;

Davenport; Cawley; Cartwright;

Hillditch; Wright; Spateman;

Tomlinson; Gosling;

Middlesex; Wremisley,

Hertfordshire;Calvaley,

Capesthorn,Kingsley,Sandbach, Cheshire;


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111 1859 Statutory declaration by John Leech of Leek, Staffordshire re Horsecroft

Farm, Leek. 1859. For conveyance by Davenport to Atkinson.

Leech; Walmsley; Rider; Hill;

Furnivall; Stubbs; Davenport;

Atkinson; Birch;


112 1842 Four items relating to Horsecroft farm, Leek, Staffordshire and aggreement

with Mr Grindon of Warslow in 1841-1842.

2. Signed articles of agreement between John Cruso of Leek on behalf of

John Davenport of Westwood, Leek, Staffs., and William Grindon of

Warslow, Staffs., dated 30 September 1841.

3. Horsecroft title -list of documents received from Mr Grindon.

4.Horsecroft title -a copy of Willkinson burial certificates relating to the

people who were parties to Wilkinson's mortgage. For Mr Grindon.

5. A note from William Grindon of Warslow, Staffs., to John Cruso of

Leek, Staffs re conveyance to Davenport 17 January 1842.

Grindon; Davenport; Wilkinson;

Cruso; Croft; Daintry; Furnivall;

Welles; Bailey;

Warslow, Leek, Staffordshire;

Chesterfield, Derbyshire;

113 1759 Attested copies of the last will and codicils of John Toft of Haregate, Leek,

Staffs, dated 6 April 1759. Mentions property called Whitehough, Brown

Edge and Mellors Barn in Ipstones, Staffs. Family relationships between

Tofts, Strangman, Chorley, Davusion and other Quaker families included.

Simpson; Ireland; Endon;

Heathcote; Turnock; Brown;

Wardle; Mellor; Fowler; Hough;

Toft; Chalinor; Condlyffe;

Howard; Plant; Carnell; Smith;

Turnock; Strangman; Lucas;

England; Charles; Davison;

Whitehead; Juson; Titterton;

Ipstones, Leek, Ford, Tamworth,

Staffordshire; Bosley, Cheshire; Warwick;


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114 1806 Bond, dated 21 June 1806, by Samuel Freeth of Tamworth, Staffordshire to

Toft Chorley of Leek, Staffs., for £13000 re the Whitehough and other

estates in Ipstones and Cheddleton, Staffordshire

Freeth; Chorley; Toft; Plant;

Wardle; Carnell.

Cheddleton, Ipstones, Leek, Staffordshire;

115 1805 Opinion, dated September 1805, of Mr Atherton of Lincolns Inn, London,

re Toft's mortgage on Whitehough and various farms in Ipstones and others

called Hills Dale and Hurslow in Grindon , Staffordshire, that formerly

belonged to the Shaw family and afterwards to the Mellor family. Some

Mellor genealogy

Mellor; Tofft; Shaw;

Atherton;Freeth;

Ipstones, Grindon, Leek, Staffordshire;

London;

116 1800 Plea of recovery of land before Lord Eldon in the King's Court at

Westminster, dated 26 May 1800, by Thomas Bradley Paget against

Thomas Willington concerninf 10 mesuages, ten gardens, 200 acres of land,

150 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 30 acres of

furze and heath, 30 acres of moor, 30 acres of rush and all common of

pasture etc., in Ipstones and Cheddleton, Staffordshire. Paget complained

of the unjust deseisin made by Hugh Hunt against Thomas Bradley with

the previous 30 years. John Willington brought Samuel Freeth to warrant

and so on. Handwritten note states "amended …1805).

Full width, highly decorated heading incorporating a large head and

shouldres of the King, the Royal Coat of Arms, Britannia, Justice, etc. Fully

decorated left and right hand borders. Royal seal inn a can.

Freeth; Paget; Hunt; Bradley;

Willington; Byard; Jenkins;

Martin;

Ipstones, Cheddleton, Staffordshire.

117 1769 Assignment, dated 18 February 1769) by Joshua Strangman of Leek,

Staffs, button merchant, to Joshua Toft of Haregate, Leek, Staffs., of

Whitehough estate, Ipstones, Staffordshire, for the remainder of a term of a

lease for 500 years created by the will of John Toft of Haregate, Leek,

Staffordshire, to secure £350 and interest. Signed, sealed and stamped.

Heading incoporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Strangman; Lucas; Toft;

Davison;Carnell; Meakin; Plant,

Wardle, Lovatt; Chorley; Freeth;

Juson;

Ipstones, Cheddleton, Leek, Staffordshire;

118 1800 Indenture of release, dated 22 March 1800, by Samuel Freeth of Tamworth

to Mr John Willington to "make a tenant to the Precipe for suffering a

recovery of estates in the parishes of Ipstones and Cheddleton,

Staffordshire" The estate includedWhitehough, Brown Edge etc. Signed,

sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Freeth; England; Willington;

Bradley; Plant, Carnell, Lovatt;

Bradley; Toft;

Ipstones, Cheddleton, Leek, Tamworth,

Staffordshire; Warwick.


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119 1800 Indenture of release, dated 21 March 1800, by Samuel Freeth of Tamworth

to Mr John Willington to give possession of estates in the parishes of

Ipstones and Cheddleton, Staffordshire" The estate includedWhitehough,

Brown Edge etc. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates Royal

Coat of Arms.

Freeth; England; Willington;

Plant, Carnell, Lovatt; Toft;

Ipstones, Cheddleton, Leek, Tamworth,

Staffordshire;

120 1805 Mortgage, dated 26 March 1805, by Samuel Freeth of Tamworth,

Staffordshire to Mrs Mary Chorley of "messuages, farms, lands and

premises in the parishes of Ipstones and Cheddleton, Sttaffordshire "

(includes Whitehough, Brown Edge, Mellors Barn, the Rocks or Roaches

and Bradshaw farms) for 2000 years as security for a oloan of £500 and

interest. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates the Royal Coat

of Arms.

Freeth; England; Pedley; Plant,

Carnell,Gent; Chorley; Massey;

Woolley; Lovatt; Toft;Sillitoe;

121 1713 Settlement, dated 25 April 1713, of Ladymeadows, Ipstones, Staffordshire

in John Taylor and his wife Esther. This is an indenture between(1)John

Taylor of Birchall, Leek, Staffordshire and his wife Mary and John Taylor

the younger his heir, and (2) Henry Bowman of Youlgrave, Derbyshire

and Hester, one of his daughters, (3) John Mellor of Whitehough, Ipstones,

Staffs and Richard Bowman of Basford, Cheddleton, and (4) Cornelius

Bowman of Bakewell, Derbyshire and Matthew Buxton of Teane,

Checkley, Staffordshire. The forthcoming marriage of John Taylor the

younger and Hester Bowman was the reason for the settlement of Brown

Edge and Ladymeadows estate on the couple. Signed and sealed by all -

stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Bowman; Buxton, Mellor;

Davison; Radford; Brooks;

Bakewell, Youlgrave, Derbyshire;


122 1713 Indenture of bargain and sale, dated 24 April 1713, byJohn Taylor the elder

of Birchall, Leek, Staffordshire, John Taylor the younger his heir, John

Mellor of Whitehough, Staffs., and Richard Bowman of Basford,

Cheddleton, Staffordshire of the Brown Edge farm, Ipstones purchased by

Taylor the elder from Isaac Hawkins and lately occupied by Samuel

Goostry. Signed, sealed and stamped -No heading.

Taylor; Bowman; Goostrey;

Mellor; Hawkins;

Ipstoines, Basford, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire;

123 1754 Indenture of release, dated 10 January 1754, conveying the Brown Edge and

Ladymeadows estate from Thomas Gent of Leek, Staffordshire to John Toft

of Haregate, Leek, Staffordshire for the sum of £850.

Toft; Gent; Best; Taylor; Hawkins;

Wardle; Challinor;

Ipstones, Cheddleton, Leek, Staffordshire.


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124 1740 Indenture of assignment, dated 4 December 1740, by John Leek of Consall,

Cheddleton, Staffordshire, executor under the will of William Hammersley

of Basford, Cheddleton, and George Bowers of Dalehouse, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire executor of the will of his father Henry who was also an

executor of the will of William Hammersley, to John Taylor of Burchall,

Leek, Staffs, Daniel Nickson of Park Lane, Staffs and John Oakes of Leek,

Staffordshire. The assignment was of Newfield House estate, Ipstones,

Staffordshire

Hammersley; Taylor; Bowers;

Nickson; Leek; Smith;Oakes;

Basford, Consall, Cheddleton, Ipstones,

Leek, Stafforddshire;

125 1740 Final Concord in the King's Court at Westminster, dated , between

Thomas Gent of Leek, Staffordshire, plaintiff and Edward Walker and his

wife Rebecca, John Walker and his wife Esther, and Mary Taylor

deforciants of 2 messuages, one cottage, two barns, 2 stables, two gardens,

30 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, 10 acres of furze

and heath, common of pasture etc.,

Gent; Taylor;Walker; Staffordshire;

126 1740 Final Concord in the King's Court at Westminster, dated , between

Thomas Gent of Leek, Staffordshire, plaintiff and Edward Walker and his

wife Rebecca, John Walker and his wife Esther, and Mary Taylor

deforciants of 2 messuages, one cottage, two barns, 2 stables, two gardens,

30 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, 10 acres of furze

and heath, common of pasture etc.,

Gent; Taylor; Walker; Staffordshire

127 1741 Indenture, dated 5 December 1741, ofan assignement of a mortgage on

Newfield House, Ipstones, Staffs from Daniel Nickson of Parkhall, Leek,

Staffordshire and John Oakes of Leek, Staffordshire and John Taylor of

Birchall, Leek, Staffs., to Miss Anne Boughey of Leek, Staffs. Signed

sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Nickson; Oakes; Boughey; Taylor;

Bowers; Leek;Wood; Marsh;

Cheddleton,Ipstones, Leek, Staffordshire;

Middlesex;


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128 1744 Deed of release (the lease that goes with it is 129) dated 10 April 1744 to

"make a tenant for precipe for John & Henry Taylor's recovery". The

indenture is between

ohn Taylor of Birchall, Leek, Staffordshire, Henry Taylor his son and heir,

(2) Francis Welles of St. Clements Danes, Middlesex, (3) Thomas Mills of

Leek, Staffs. The purpose of this was to cut and destroy and estate tail

affecting the Brown Edge estate in Ipstones, Staffordshire. Signed sealed

and stamped. Heading incorporates the Royal Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Welles; Mills; Wardle;

Bowman;Mellor; Buxton;Gent;

Cartwright;


129 1744 Indenture of lease, dated 9 April 1744 The indenture is between John Taylor

of Birchall, Leek, Staffordshire, Henry Taylor his son and heir, Henry

Bowman of… Grange, Derbyshire nephew and heir of Richard Bowman of

Basford, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, Francis Welles of St. Clements Danes,

Middlesex, Signed sealed and stamped. Heading incorporates the Royal

Coat of Arms. [This goes with 128]

Taylor; Welles; Mills; Wardle;

Bowman;Mellor; Buxton;Gent;

Cartwright;

Ipstones, Leek, Staffordshire; Derbyshire;

Middlesex;

130 1744 Indenture of assignment, dated 11 September 1744, of John Taylor of

Birchall, Leek, Staffordshire's mortgage of Ladymeadows and Brown Edge,

Ipstones, Staffordshire for £500, from Miss Anne Boughey of Leek,

Staffordshire to Walter Chetwynd of Brocton, Staffordshire. Signed, sealed

and stamped. Heading incoporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Boughey; Chetwynd;

Brocton; Mills; Bowers; Leek;

Nickson; Oakes;

Brocton, Cheddleton, Ipstones, Leek,

Staffordshire;

131 1744 Indenture of release, dated 12 September 1744, of Ladymeadows and

Broad Edge, Ipstones, Staffordshire between John Taylor of Birchall, Leek,

Staffordshire and John Taylor the younger his heir, and Henry Bowman

of Smirrell Grange, Derbyshire. The release and the associated lease (132)

were for the purpose of making a settlement on the forthcoming marriage of

John Taylor the younger and Hester Bowman daughter of Henry Bowman.

Signed and sealed by all -stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of

Arms.

Taylor; Bowman; Wardle; Bowers;

Leek; Mills;


Smirrells Grange, Derbyshire;


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132 1744 Indenture of lease, dated 11 September 1744, of Ladymeadows and Broad

Edge, Ipstones, Staffordshire between John Taylor of Birchall, Leek,

Staffordshire and John Taylor the younger his heir, and Henry Bowman

of Smirrell Grange, Derbyshire. The lease and the associated release (131)

were for the purpose of making a settlement on the forthcoming marriage of

John Taylor the younger and Hester Bowman daughter of Henry Bowman.

Signed and sealed by all -stamped. Heading incorporates Royal Coat of

Arms.

Taylor; Bowman; Wardle;Mills;

Cartwright;


Smirrells Grange, Derbyshire;

133 1735 Copy of the will of Cornelius Bowman of Basford, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire dated12 December 1735. He was a Quaker.

Bowman; Salt; Davison;

Tunnicliffe;Condlyffe; Wolf;

Basford, Cheddleton, Leek, Staffordshire;

134 1748 Outline of the case of Henry Taylor son of John Taylor of Birchall, Leek,

Staffordshire re settled estates in Ipstones, Staffs.,(including Brown Edge

lands) and comments by Mr John Ford of The Temple, London dated 23

June 1744.

Includes an outline of principal deeds.

Taylor; Ford; Bowman;Walker;

Chetwynd;


London;

135 1728 Indenture of mortgage, dated 26 February 1728, by John Taylor of

Barnfield, Leek, Staffordshire to Henry Bowers and John Leek, both of

Cheddleton and executors of William Hammersley of Basford, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire deceased. Taylor mortgaged Newfield House and lands at

Brown Edge, Ipstones, Staffs., for £250. Signed, sealed and stamped.

Heading incoporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Bowers; Leek; Smith;

Brooks; Milner; Hulme;


136 1728 Indenture of lease, dated 26 February 1728, byJohn Taylor of Barnfield,

Leek, Staffordshire to Henry Bowers and John Leek, both of Cheddleton

and executors of William Hammersley of Basford, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire deceased. Taylor leased Newfield House and lands at Brown

Edge, Ipstones, Staffs., for £250. Signed, sealed and stamped. Heading

incoporates Royal Coat of Arms.

Taylor; Bowers; Leek; Smith;

Brooks; Hulme;


137 1754 Indenture of lease for possession, dated 9 January 1754, of the

Ladymeadows estate and Brown Edge in Ipstones, Staffordshire by

Thomas Gent of Leek, Staffordshire to John Toft of Harracles, Leek,

Staffordshire. Signed, sealed and stamped. Simple heading.

Gent; Toft; Best; Turner, Taylor;

Wardle; Challinor;

Ipstones, Leek, Staffordshire


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138 Recovery of the Manor of Callow in the King's Court at Westminsterby

George Sacheverall. Easter Term william the Third. Large decorated

heading incoporating a half portrait of the King.

Sacheverall; Rawlins; Byrch;

Homer;

139 1715 The will of George Sacheverall of New Hall, Sutton Coldfield,

Warwickshire, dated 5 May 1715. New Hall and watermill etc., in Sutton

Coldfield; the Manor of Callow in Derbyshire and the Manor of New

Shipton. Doctor Henry Sacheverall, Rector of St. Andrews, London was

one of his trustees.

Sacheverall; Floyer; Buller;

Swanley; Leake; Martin; Butler;

Chadwick;Holloway; Rogers;

Wicks; Leigh; Duncombe; Allott;

Allen; Spooner; Wright; Jessop;

Greatorex; White; Mousley;

Tarratt; Jordan; Topleys; Tranter;

Flavell; Devereaux; Smith;

Ryland; Cowley;

Boothhouse?;Pirks; Howard;

Aldridge, Hints, Lichfield, Staffordshire;

Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire;

Ashbourne, Callow,Derby, Kirk Ireton,

Derbyshire; West Bromwich; London;

140 1723 Probate of the will of Docctor Henry Sacheverall, Rector of St. Andrews,

Holborn, London, dated 10 February 1723,

Sacheverall; London;

141 1723 Copy of the will of Doctor Henry Sacheverall, Rector of St. Andrews,

Holborn, London, dated 10 February 1723. Mentions his estate at Wildon,

Bedfordshire, his Manor of Callow, Derbyshire, Abbott; Sayer; Burnettt;

Sacheverall; Lambert; Bayley;

Banner; Chambers; Trapp;

Callow, Derbyshire; Holborn, London;

142 1726 Indenture of conveyance, dated 20 June 1726, between Thomas Girdler

D.D, Mrs Mary Sacheverall of Highgate, London, widow and executor of

Henry Sacheverall D.D, and Elizabeth Elliot of London. The property

conveyed was a half of lands in Willden, Bedfordshire and also of the

Manor of Callow in Derbyshire;

Sacheverall; Elliot; Girdler; Hart;

Haywood; Linwood;Hartley;

Chambers; Cotton; Richardson;

Willlden, Bedfordshire; Callow,

Derbyshire; Highgate, London;

143 Indenture of release, dated 20 March 1775, of a half the Manor of Callow,

Deryshire by John Mackenzie, Colin Mackenzie, Jane Mackenzie, Thomas

Robinson and his wife Mary, Richard Ripley, Stephen Wright and William

Robinson to Baynes Garforth in trust for Thomas Robinson. See also 144

Mackenzie; Garforth;Ripley;

Kirkby; Wright; Robinson;

Plumtree;Sacheverall; Eyles;

Tomlinson; Titterton; Johnson;

Greatorex; Brougham; Wauchope;

Barnes; Parke;

Carsington, Callow, Hopton, Derbyshire;

Trumpington, Cambridge,

Cambridgeshire; Sutton Coldfield,

Warwickshire; Nottingham; Edinburgh;

Delvin, Balyminduthie, Scotland;

Kensington, Marylebone, London;


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144 1775 Lease for a year by John Mackenzie and others to B. Garforth of a moiety

of the Manor of Callow, Derbyshire, dated 24 March 1774. This goes

together with 143. Scotland is called "North Britain".

Mackenzie; Robinson Garforth;

Wright;

Callow, Derbyshire; London; Delvin,

Scotland;

145 1874 Probate, dated 20 May 1879, of the will, dated 25 April 1874, of William

Mellor of Ipstones Park, Ipstones, Staffordshire

Mellor; Ipstones, Staffordshire;

146 1868 Probate, dated 22 August 1873, of the will, dated 8 April 1868, of John

Keates of Leek, Staffordshire.

Keates; Leek, Staffordshire;

147 1845 Probate and will of Benjamin Mellor of Longshaw, Farley, Staffordshire,

farmer dated 14 October 1836. Probate 30 June 1845.

Mellor; Fower; Farley, Staffordshire

148 1876 Indenture of release, dated 17 November 1876, from the children of Martha

Scott deceased who was one of the legatees under the will of Benjamin

Mellor of Longshaw, Farley, Staffordshire. Scott family relationships etc.

Mellor; Scott; Manifold; Farley, Staffordshire; Manchester; Ashton

under Lyme, Lancashire;

149 1859 Release, dated 18 August 1859, to William Mellor of Caldon Low,

Staffordshire from the trusteeship under the will of Benjamin Mellor, dated

14 October 1836. Ben Mellor's will is cited. Mentions property in

Doveridge, Derbyshire;

Mellor;Mountney; Scott;Fower;

Statham; Baker;

Farley, Staffordshire; Doveridge ,

Derbyshire;

150 1867 Declaration of trust, dated 1 November 1867, under the will of Benjamin

Mellor of Farley, Staffordshire, between William Mellor of Cotton,

Staffordshire and Joseph Scott of Farley, Staffordshire;

Mellor; Scott; Cotton, Farley, Staffordshire;

151 1823 Deed of exchange between the Earl of Macclesfield and John Sleigh of

Leek, Staffordshire, dated 31 December 1823.The lands exchanged were a

close near Pool End, Leek, close to the Leek-Macclesfield road that was

occupied by Robert Emerson,which was given by John Sleigh to the Earl of

Macclesfield in exchange for John Birch's farm at Low Hill, Leek,

Staffordshire plus a sheep walk in Needham's wood, Waterfall..

Sleigh; Parker; Emerson; Fynney; Leek, Waterfall, Staffordshire;

152 1817 Conveyuance of common land on Leekmoor, Leek, Staffordshire by Miss

Sarah Bagnall of the Ring, Cheddleton, Staffs., to William Whieldon of

Lowe, Leek, Staffordshire, farmer, dated 25 March 1817.

Bagnall; Whieldon; Cheddleton, Leek, Staffordshire;


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153 1817 Lease for possession of common land on Leekmoor, Leek, Staffordshire by

Miss Sarah Bagnall of the Ring, Cheddleton, Staffs., to William Whieldon

of Lowe, Leek, Staffordshire, farmer, dated 25 March 1817. Goes with 152.

Bagnall; Whieldon; Cheddleton, Leek, Staffordshire;

154 1821 Release, dated 27 March 1821, of two fields on Leek Moor, Leek,

Staffordshire, by John Edge of wetley Ford, Leek, Staffordshire and Joseph

Milward of Bradnop, Staffordshire, the executors under the will of Joseph

Wheeldon of Ipstones, deceased. One party to the deed was John Mare of

Shelton, Staff.s, earthenware manufacturer and nephew and heir nof John

Bagnall of the Ring, Cheddleton.

Bagnall; Whieldon; Mare; Edge;

Millward; Smith; Sleigh;

Ipstones, Leek, Kingsley, Cheddleton,

Staffordshire;

155 1820 Deed of partition of lands on Leek Moor, dated 13 December 1820,

between William Wheeldon of Lowe, Leek, Staffordshire, Joseph Edge of

Wetley Ford and Joseph Millward of Bradnop, Staffs., to Charles Coupland

of Leek, Staffs. Includes a coloured plan.

Wheeldon; Edge; Millward;

Coupland; Sleigh; Bagnall;

Bradnop, Cheddleton, Leek,Staffordshire;

156 1818 Deed of release, dated 29 September 1818, of Lowe Hill Farm, Leek,

Staffordshire by Philip Gell of Wirksworth, Derbyshire to John Sleigh of

Leek, Staffordahire, silk manufacturer,

Gell; Sleigh; Cheney; Cheshire;

Wright; Bainbridge;

Lightwood;Birch; Charlesworth;

Hurt;

Leek, Yoxall, Rocester,

Staffordshire;Langley, Wirksworth,

Derbyshire; Nottingham;


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157 Bundle of bastardyagreements dating between 1861 and 1921. Harrison, Wood; Simcock, Gell;

Baddeley, Hall; Bull, Goodwin;

Gibson, Lounds; Oliver, Bonsall;

Barker, Gibbs; Coates, Bestwick;

Ward, Warbrick; Carter, Jackson;

Cook, Clulow; Plumbley, Burton;

Hulme, Hann; Bramwell,

Goodwin; Bradley, Lowe;

Bourne, Moss; Murfin, Redfern;

Tomkinson, Kirk; Bailey, Fisher;

Tipper, Walwyn; Peach, Wilson;

Lilley, Pott; Dawson, Holcroft;

Simpson, Hulme; Hilditch, Beech;

Johnson, Elks; Pyatt, Myatt;

Grindy, Berrisford; Wardle, Ball;

Dawson, Holdcroft; Brentnal,

Sanders; Cooper, Buxton; Blevin,

Mellor; Tatton, Wain; Gagin,

Wardle;

Leek and districts surrounding.

158 1895 Certificate of death for Harriet Sherwin of Whitmore, Staffordshire who

died in 1877.

Sherwin; Whitmore, Newcastle u.L., Staffs;

159 1878 Death certificate for Edward Ashby who died at \Woodford 1867. Ashby; Woodford, Walthamstow, Essex;

160 1715 Lease for a year Dr Henry Sacheverall of St Andrews, Holborn, London, to

Mr Charles Chambers of Lincoln's Inn, London 1715. The lease was of half

the Manor of Callow or Cawley, Derbyshire.

Sacheverall; Chambers;


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161 Five documents relating to property in Hognaston, Derbyshire.

[1] Lease for a year of lands in Hognaston, Derbyshire by William Gore of

Tring, Hereforshire, Jonh Gore of London and William Wrightson of

Answorth, Yorks to Edward Mellish of Blyth, Nottinghamshire. Dated

1734.

[2] As above but an indenture of release Dated 1734.

[3] Fine dated 15th year of George II ( ) between Thomas Gisborne &

Richard Goodwin and Edward Robinson & Thomas Wagstaff and their

wives re land in Hognaston, Derbyshire.

[4] Lease for a year from Anthoney Bradleyof Hallfield, Derby,

cheesemonger, to Mrs Elizabeth Hammond Tuddington, Middlesex widow,

of lands in Hognaston, Derbyshire. Dated 1741.

[5] Mr Richard Goodwin of Ashbourne Derbyshire's assignment of the term

of 500 years by special trust to attend upon the inheriitance of five beast

gates in Hognaston, Derbyshire. Dated 1743.

Gore; Wrightson; Mellish;

Goodwin; Robinson; Wagstaff;

Gisborne; Bradley; Hammond;

Kirke;Blackwall; Deane; Booth;

Hognaston, Derbyshire; Blyth, Notts;

Answorth, Yorks; Tring, Herefordshire;

London

162 1873 Small bundle of 3 documents relating to the Searight family and in

particular to the appointment of trustees under the settlement made on the

marriage of William Chambre with Miss Mary Searight

Searight; Ford; Chambre;Cruso;

Bacon; Hulme; Catlow; Prince;

Badnall;

Castleton, Derbyshire; Leek, Staffordshire;

London;

163 Inscriptions on the tombstones of the late Mr William Challinor (died

1800)and Mr John Fynney (died 1828) in Leek churchyard.

Fynney; Challinor; Leek, Staffordshire;

164 164 Challinor famil partition -abstract of a deed of partition for purposes of

stamp duty 1885.

Challinor; Lewthwaite; Brealey;

Shaw;

Burslem, Leek, Tunstall, Fenton,

Staffordshire; Manchester;


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165 1863 [3 items] Agreement between William Britton of Uttoxeter, hosier and shoe

manufacturer and Thomas Potter senior, of Nottingham, lace manufacturer

re the transfer of a shoe manufactury carried on by Potter at a shop in the

Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire.

Potter; Britton; Leek, Staffordshire; Nottingham;

166 1875 Probate of the will and codicils of Georeg Rogers of Ball Hayee, Leek,

Staffordshire.Will dared 16 April 1870.

Rogers; Read; Charlesworth;

Smith; Keastes; Milner; Dishley;

Shaw; Challinor; Brough;

Leek, Rushton, Staffordshire;

Macclesfield;

167 1857 Agreement for sale and purchase between Josiah Astles of Leek,

Staffordshire and Reverend Henry Sneyd of Woodlands, Staffordshire re

land in Compton, Leek, purchased by Astles from Mr Fynney Johnson.

Dated 9 Nov. 1857. Signed and stamped.

Astles; Johnson; Sneyd; Brough; Leek, Woodlands, Staffordshire;

168 1859 Copy certificates of title to land in Compton, Leek, Staffordshire to be sold

by William Deabank Sneyd of Leek to The Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

The various lands, which was to form the site for a new church and

parsonage at Compton, had been previously purchased from Josiah Astles,

Joseph Hambleton, Wreeford and others.Dated 1859

Astles; Sneyd;Wreeford;

Hambleton; Ward;


169 1859 Draft conveyance of land and South Bank House, in Compton, Leek,

Staffordshire by William Deabank Sneyd of Leek to The Ecclesiastical

Commissioners.The land was to form the site for a new church and

parsonage at Compton. Dated 1859.

Sneyd; Ward; Leek, Staffordshire;

170 1848 Plan of Mr Johnson's piece of land in Compton Field, Leek, Staffordshire,

bought by W. F. Johnson from Mr Rogers. . 1848. Coloured, scale, plan by

Edward Heaton.

Johnson; Heaton; Astles;

Hammbleton;


171 1849 Agreement to produce deeds relating to land in Compton Field, Leek,

Staffordshire, between the Reverend George Bourdien Rogers & George

Rogers and William Fynney Johnson and others purchasers of the land.

Document dated 24 March 1849, signed, witnessed and stamped.

Rogers; Johnson; Astles;

O'Donnell; Woolliscroft;

Hambleton;

Cheadle; Leek, Staffordshire; Manchester;

Market Lavington, Wiltshire;


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172 1857 Requisitions on title to land in Compton, Leek, Staffordshire and the

answers given in re Johnson's Trustees to Astle, Cooper & Sons,

Manchester. 1857. This mentions the will of Mr Crompton and his

executors Messrs Royle & Crompton.

Johnson; Astles;Crompton; Royle;

Rider; Locketts; Needham;

Brocklehurst; Birch;Wilson;

Challinor.

Leek, Staffordshire.

173 1848 Printed sale catalogue with plan for the sale by auction of lots of freehold

building land in Compton Field, Leek, Staffordshire at the Red Lion, Leek,

on 6th Spetember 1848.

Hilliard; Leech; Wreford;

Fernyhough; Crompton; Lowndes;

Johnson;

174 1849 Conveyance of a plot of land in Compton near Leek, Staffordshire from by

Thomas Vaudrey of Congleton, Georeg Rogers of Bradnop, Staffordshire

and Sampson Kidd of Onecote, Staffordshire, blacksmith to William

Fynney Johnson of Manchester and William Challinor of Leek, of a pice

of land in Far Compton Field, Leek. Dated 19 March 1849. On vellum,

signed, sealed and stamped.

Vaudrey; Rogers; Kidd;

Johnson;Gaunt; Bloore; Goode;

Cruso; Jackson; Barnes;

Crompton; Wreford; Watson;

Stonehewer;

Congleton, Cheshire; Bradnop, Leek,

Onecote, Staffordshire; Manchester;

175 1857 Conveyance of land in Compton, Leek, Staffordshire, by Messrs William

Fynney Johnson of Leek, Stafforshire and Charles Cooper of Manchester to

Josiah Astles of Leek, Staffordshire, Dated 14 November 1857. On vellum,


Johnson; Cooper; Astles; Bowers;

Hambleton;

Leek, Staffordshire; Macclesfield,

Cheshire; Manchester;

176 1858 Conveyance of a plot of land in Compton, Leek, Staffordshire by Josiah

Astles of Leek, Staffordshire and the Reverend Henry Sneyd of Perige,

Kent, to William Debank Sneyd of Perige, Kent. Dated 4 August 1858. On

vellum, signed and stamped. Includes a small coloured plan on rear.

Astles; Sneyd; Johnson; Cooper;

Hambleton;

Leek, Staffordshire; Perige, Kent;

177 1873 Conveyance of Counterflatt Field in Compton, Leek, Staffordshire by

William Fynney Johnson oof Leek, Staffordshire, sadler, to Joseph

Challinor of Leek,Staffordshire, dated 13 November 1873. Vellum signed

and stamped (£7 revenue) and includes a full sized map.

Johnson; Challinor;Tharme;

Bowers; Critchlow; Stubbs;Cruso;

Smith;Bowers;


Chershire; Manchester;

178 1873 Copy conveyance by William Fynney Johnson, of Leek, Staffordshire,

sadler, trustee under the will of late William Fynney Johnson of

Manchester, to John Ward of Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer of land

near Albion Street and Compton, Leek, Staffordshire

Johnson; Ward; Challinor;

Bowers; Cooper;

Brocklehurst;Smith; Daintry;

Sawkins; Cruso; Killmister;

Sutton;


Cheshire; Manchester; n


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179 1880 Draft lease by John Ward of Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer to

Joseph Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire of two plots of land near Alsop

Street and Albion Street, Leek, Stafrfordshire. Dated 9 March 1880.

Includes plan.

Ward; Challinor; Bermingham; Leek, Staffordshire;

180 1880 Lease by John Ward of Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer to Joseph

Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire of two plots of land near Alsop Street and

Albion Street, Leek, Stafrfordshire. Dated 9 March 1880.Signed, sealed and

stamped ( 1/- revenue). Includes plan.

Ward; Challiner;

181 1880 Lease by John Ward of Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer to Joseph

Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire of two plots of land near Alsop Street and

Albion Street, Leek, Stafrfordshire. Dated 9 March 1880. Unsigned.

Includes plan.

Ward; Challinor; Leek, Staffordshire

182 1880 Copy lease by John Ward of Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer to

Joseph Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire of two plots of land near Alsop

Street and Albion Street, Leek, Stafrfordshire. Dated 9 March 1880.

Unsigned. Includes plan.

Ward; Challinor; Leek, Staffordshire;

183 1873 Agreement for the sale and purchase of Compton House and Counterflatt

Field, Leek, Staffordshire between William Fynney Johnson and Joseph

Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire. Dated 15 February 1873. Signed, and

stamped (6d embossed revenue). Includes plan.

Johnson; Challinor; Smith;

Robinson;


184 1873 Copy memorandum of agreement for the sale and purchase betweenJohn

Ward of Leek, Staffordshire silk manufacturer and William Fynney Johnson

of Leek Edge near Leek, Staffordshire, farmer, of two plots of land near

Alsop Street and Albion Street, Leek, Staffordshire. Dated 11 February

1873.

Johnson; Ward; Brealey;

Challinor;


185 1887 21 letters (between Anthony Ward and Joseph Challinor both of Leek,

Staffordshire) and other items relating to the development of the area

around Compton, Leek, Staffordshire.1887 to 1894

Ward; Challinor; Brealey; Smith;

Myatt; Shaw;

Leek, Staffordshire; Burnley, Lancashire;


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186 1878 to

1898

Bundle of title deeds to Barnefield Farm, Leek, Staffordshire sold to the

Leek Urban District Council 1878 to 1897.

[1]Draft conveyance by Joseph Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire to the Leek

Urban District Council, of Barnefields Farm, Leek, Staffordshire for sewage

disposal and other purposes. Dated 25 March 1898.

[2] Conveyance by The Reverend Georeg Horatio Davenport of Foxley,

Hereford to Joseph Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire of Barnefield Farm

near the Railway Station in Leek, Staffordshire, dated 24 March 1892. On

vellum, signed sealed and stamped (2 £12 and a 5/- red revenues). Includes

large plan showing Leek railway station and Leek Canal wharf in addition

to the farm. Schedule of deeds.

[3] Agreement between Joseph Challinor of nLeek, Staffordshire and the

Leek Urban District Council for sale and purchase of the Barnefield Farm

lands in Leek, Staffordshire. Signed and stamped (10/- red revenue) with

seal of Leek UDC appended and a large plan attached showingsome detail

of railway station layout.

[4] Abstract of the title of the Rev. Geo. Horatio Davenport to the use of

sewage water for the purposes of irrigation. Dated 1892. Small plan.

[5]Abstract of the title of the Rev. Geo. Horatio Davenport to the land

forming part of Barnfield Farm, Leek, Staffordshire 1841 to 1867. Includes

a large plan. Contains genealogical information.

Ward; Challinor; Davenport;

Hanbury; Longley; Shoobridge;

Wilkinson; Wright; Brealey;

Hawkesworth; Haywood;

Wilkinson; Poole; Swann;

Ricketts; Tomes; Collier;Leech;

Cruso; Morris; Bent; Gardener;

Wallbridge; Wright; Parnell;

Arkwright;

Leek, Staffordshire; Foxley, Hereford;

187 1843 Will and codicil of Mrs Catherine Whillock nee Sleigh, of Leek,

Staffordshire, widow. The will is dated 7 January 1830 and mentions her

brother John Sleigh,her sisters and her old servant John Meakin of

Onecote etc. Grant of probate with PCC seal and two £4 blue revenue

stamps.

Whillocl; Sleigh; Meakin;

Davenport; Challinor;Whittles;

Prince; Flint.

Leek, Onecote, Staffordshire;


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188 1827 Supplemetal abstract of the title(1813-1827) of Thomas Smith of Knivedon,

Leek, Staffordshire & John Sleigh of Leek, trustees of Ann Davenport

deceased re property at the bottom of Derby Street, Leek, Staffordshire,

Coupland, Leek, 1827. Note states: Mrs Whillock purchaser of Lots 10, 11

and 12. The property was in the hands of Samuel Pedley in 1782 and

included Houses and a barn by the turnpike sidefields called Dragon Fields

Davenport; Sleigh Whillock;

Smith;Pedley;

Park Hall, Cheshire; Ashbourne,

Derbyshire; Leek, Staffordshire;

189 1872 Small bundle of 4 documents including

[1]draft conveyance by Sarah Jane Bailey of Liverpool & others to Thomas

Hambleton of property in Alsop Street, Leek, Staffordshire dated 15 March

1872. Contains Bailey family history information.

[2] two "bankbooks" held by Challinor & Co in connection with the

transaction. These are inside blue card wrappers with interesting printed

interior and contain Leek Savings Bank documents.

Hambleton; Bailey;Dickson;

Taylor;Alsop; Challinor;Ford;

Salt;Getliffe; Critchlow;

Leek, Staffordshire;Liverpool; Hoole,

Cheshire; Merthyr Tydavill, Glamorgan;

Holywell, Flintshire; Hawarden,

190 1862 Appointment of premises in Mill Street and Kiln Lane, Leek, Staffordshire

by Daniel Cartwright of Leek, assignee in bankruptcy of Samuel Fynney of

Leek, blacksmith to William Howard of Leek. Dated 25 August 1862.

Signed.

Cartwright; Howard; Cruso;

Challinor;Bennett; Finney; Collins;

Kidd; Pyatt; Knivedon;

Tatton;Nicols; Trafford;

Stonehewer; Daniels; Mottershead;


191 1861 Probate of the will of the Reverend Harling Richardson of Bradnop,

Staffordshire, deceased dated 4 June 1861. Grant of probate in PCC with

PCC seal and £8 blue revenue stamp.

Richardson; Barnes; Heaton; Leek, Staffordshire;

192 1845 -

1861.

Re Probate of the will of the Reverend Harling Richardson of Bradnop,

Staffordshire,1862.Certificates of the birth and death of Harriet wife of

Harling Richardson curate of Butterton, the death of Harling Richardson,

incumbent of Onecote and baptism of John son of Eadward and Jane

Martindale of Scalltherwaitrigg near Kendal, Westmorland

Richardson; Booth; Martindale; Bradnop, Butterton, Onecote, Leek,

Stafforshire; Scaltherwaitrigg, Kendal,

Westmorland;

193 1862 Residuary Inland Revenue accout re the estate of the Reverend Harling

Richardson of Bradnop, Staffordshire, deceased.

Richardson; Barnes; Heaton; Bradnop, Leek, Staffordshire;


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194 1876 Marriage settlement re marriage of Adam Johnson of Whiston, Kingsley,

Staffordshire and Miss Mary Beardmore formerly of Heaton Chapel,

Cheshire but then of Whiston, Kingsley, dated 22 February 1876. Signed

Includes loose notes one of which gives details of the couple including the

fact the Johnson was 69 years of age and his bride 21 and had been in

service at his home for two years in 1869. Her various employers and years

of employment are given.

Johnson; Beardmore; Cooper;

Massey;

Bollington, Heaton Chapel, Cheshire;

Leek, Whiston, Staffordshire; Manchester;

195 1855 Probate copy of the will of William Williams of Leek, Staffordshire, grocer

dated 3 May 1855. Grant of probate at Lichfield with seal and £15 blue

revenue stamp.

Williams; Lghtfoot; Salt; Wardle;

Nall; Godard; Fergyson;

Leek, Staffordshire; Birmingham;

196 1870 Probate of the will of Miss Anne Williams of Leek, Staffordshire, dated 20

December 1869. Grant of probate at Lichfield 1870, with seal.

Williams; Goddard; Stevenson;

Sutton;


197 1894 Grant of probate with will of Humphrey Williams of Emporia, Lyon

County, Kansas, USA dated 22 December 1887. Principle Registry

(England) grant of probate 1894, with seal, to Mis Mary Ann Catherine

Williams attorney for the executors. He had property (Lot 57) on Market

Street, Emporia, Kansas.

Williams; Jones; Peyton; Combs;

Hughes;Richards; Lewis;

Emporia, Kansas, USA; Dola, South

Wales;

198 1886 Grant of probate with will of Mary Goddardwife of Joseph Goddard of

Leek, Staffordshire, grocer, dated 19 March 1870. Her trustees were her

husband and her niece Mary Anne Catherine Williams (see 197). She

mentions her brothers Rees, Ellis, Humphrey and Edward Williams.

Principle Registry grant of probate 1886, with seal

Williams; Goddard; Lighfoot; Leek, Staffordshire

199 1882 Dupilcate articles of agreement between Joseph and Mary Goddard of Leek,

and John Needham Platt, wine & spirits merchant of Market Street, Leek &

John Henry Platt, licensed victualler of St. Edwards Street, Leek,

Staffordshire, on the tenancy of property near St. Edward Street, Leek,

Staffordshire. Dated 24 March 1882. On vellum signed, sealed, and

stamped with duplicates of the stamps on the original plus on 5/' red

revenue. Incoporates large coloured plan in the text. The subject of the

agreement was a cellar, formerly a chandler's warehouse, which was wanted

by the Platts in connection with John Henry Platts' "The Grapes Vaults"

Goddard; Platt; Sutton; Cantrell;

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200 1889 Conveyance of land on Black Acres Lane, Leek, Staffordshire from the Earl

of Macclesfield to Esther Goodwin of Leek, widow, Stephen Hall Goodwin

of Leek, silk manufacturer and Arthur william Goodwin of Leek, silk

manufacturer. Dated 3rd May 1889. Vellum Signed by the Earl of

Macclesfield and the Duke of Westminster amongst others, sealed and

stamped, with coloured plan of thhe land in the text. Contains quotes a

Parker marriage settlement.

Goodwin; Henley; Bayley; Foulis;

Heathcote; Kinderley; Seymour;

Turner;Parker; Grosvenor;

Lawrence; Dorien; Hope;

Hamilton; Fuller; Drake;

Leek, Staffordshire; Waterferry,

Oxfordshire;

201 1889 Agreement for the sale by the Earl of Macclesfield and purchase by the

Trustees of Stephen Goodwin deceased of Land and arrangements as to a

new street near Westwood Lane, Lee, Staffordshire dated 16 Febraury 1889.

Signed, sealed and stamped. Includes a coloured plan of the land.

Parker; Goodwin; Allen; Leek, Staffordshire;

202 1889 Copy of questions about title and replies to them relating to an agreement

between the Earl of Macclesfield and the Trusteesn of Stephen Goodwin

and Stephen Hall Goodwin concerning land in Leek, Staffordshire.Mentions

other charges on the Macclesfield estate.

Goodwin; Parker; Leek, Staffordshire.

203 Further questions about title and replies to them relating to an agreement

between the Earl of Macclesfield and the Trustees of Stephen Goodwin and

Stephen Hall Goodwin concerning land in Leek, Staffordshire.

Parker; Goodwin;


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204 1889 Abstract of title of the Earl of Macclesfield t5o freehold lands in Leek,

Staffordshire. Amongst other things this cites an indenture of settlement

dated 1780 on the marriage of George (Parker) Earl of Macclesfield to

Mary Frances Drake. It gives details of thethe settlement, Earl of

Macclesfield's family's genealogy and also of his estates and monors

including the manors of Leek and Rudyard. It lists the lands in Staffordhire

and gives the names of tenants, acreages, and locations.

Parker; Drake; Faller;Heathfield;

Heathcote; Dorien; Fane; Talbot;

Kinderley; Turner; Foulis;

Seymour; Earl of Haddington; Earl

of Antrim;Bold; Abbott; Brindley;

Brassington; Brentnall;

Cumberledge; Fernyhough;Fisher;

Graham; Gaunt; Gratton; Goostry;

Nunnes;Osborne; Perkin & Carr;

Pointon; Pilsbury; Plant; Peacock'

Poulteney; Smith; Weaver;

Anson; Davis; Edwards; Fuller;

Dobben; Mackay; Henley;

Wyndham; Dundas; Earl of

Hopetown;

Leek, Staffordshire; Wincanton, Somerset;

Shardelos, Buckinghamshire;

205 1889

Supplemental abstract of title of the Earl of Macclesfield to freehold lands

in Leek, Staffordshire. 1842-1889.Sites a marriage settlement between Lord

Parker and Lady Mary Frances Grosvenor. It also cites a marriage

settlement of 1839 remarriage of Viscount Parker and Henrietta Turner.

More genealogy of the Earl of Macclesfield's family It also lists the tenants

of property forming the Earl's manor of Leek & Fryth as comprised in the

marriage settlement of 1839.

Parker; Grosvenor; Howard;

Seymour; Earl of Macclesfield;

Earl of Antrim; Duke of

Westminster;Lawrence;

Turner;Magnier; Cruso; Abbott;

Brassington; Carr; Cumberledge;

Eaton; Wooley; Fowler; Lovatt;

Rogers; Simpson; Smith; Mellor;

Plants; Potts; Fisher; Goostry;

Hammersley; Maddock; Osbourne;

Mycock; Peacock; Poulteney;

Sherratt; Tabbenor; Gaunt;

Fynney; Ridout;


206 1902 Hand wrritten lists of the goods of George Josiah Bermingham of

Maryville,, Broad Street, Leek indicating which rooms they were in.

Bermingham; Walker; Leek, Stafofrdshire;


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207 1912 Application to the Leek & Moorlands Building Society for an advance by

Messrs FJ & C. H. Bermingham of Leek, Staffordshire, dated 29 January

1912.

It lists all their property including the Compton Mills and Lady Dale

House.It also includes Heaton's valuation.

Bermingham; Heaton;

208 1910 Royal Insurance Company Ltd. Insurance policy on Miss Alice Earls'

house 16 Westwood Road, Leek, Staffordshire for 1910. Decorative

heading and revenue stamp.

Earls; Leek, Staffordshire;

209 1913 Royal Insurance Company Ltd. Insurance policy on Miss Alice Earls'

house 16 Westwood Road, Leek, Staffordshire for 1913. Decorative

heading and revenue stamp.

Earls; Leek, Staffordshire

210 1932 Printed Directors' report for the Netherseal Colliery Compay Ltd of Burton

on Trent, Staffordshire dated March 1932. Good condition.

Jackson; Binns; Cheattle; Burton on Trent, Staffordshire; Derby;

211 1890 Articles of agreement between Messrs Henry Bermingham & son, silk

manufacturers, Leek, Staffordshire and John Edwin Chapman of Wielton

near Pickering, Yorkshire re Chapman's employment as a traveller for the

firm. Dated 22 April 1890. Signed and sealed and stamped.

Bermingham; Chapman; Massey; Leek, Staffordshire; Pickering, Yorkshire;

212 1911 Two printed sales catalogues with coloured plans of the site drawn by

William Sugden, advertising sale of building land in Junction Road and

Barnfields Road, Leek, Staffordshire. 1911. One copy has auction prices on

the front

Fergyson; Challinor;

Shaw;Sugden; Morris;


213 1935 Inland Revenue estate duty fordm re the estate of Eliza Joyce Shaw of Leek,

Staffordshire who died 18 June 1935. Signed. Revenue stamp.

Shaw; Arundel; Jones; Leek; Staffordshire

214 1913 Agreement between Messrs Joseph Francis Bermingam and Cyril Henry

Bermingham, cabinet makers, of Leek, Staffordshire,, and Richard Massey

of Leek, mineral water manufacturer on the lease of a lock up shop at No. 4

Broad Street, Leek (Victoria Buildings) by Bermingham & Co to Massey

Document is signed and carries the revenue stamp.

Bermingham; Massey; Astbury; Leek, Staffordshire;


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215 1906 Sale plan on paper by William Sugden and Son of Leek showing plots of

land on Hartington Street, Leek that were to be sold for building purposes

on 28 June 1906.

Also the conditions of sale for this land with an attached copy of the printed

details of the property including some occupiers and rents.

Sugden; Bermingham; Fergyson;

Hewitt; Bamford; Dale; Robinson;

Cumberlidge; Brew; Eaton;

Turner;


216 1900 Draft will of Henry Bermingham of Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer,

dated 2 January 1900.

Bermingham; Arkcoll; Massey;

Magnier; Mottershead; Shaw;


217 217 Two draft codicils to the will of mr Henry Bermingham, silk manufacturer,

Leek, Staffordshire dated 12 March 1902 and 24 January 1903.

Bermingham; Arkcoll; Blades;

Shaw; Massey;


218 1909 Two copies of a codicil to the will of Henry James Bermingham ofHillside,

Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer, dated 1909 and 21 january 1909

respectively.

Bermingham;Shaw; Rendall; Leek, Staffordshire;

219 1778 Will of John Lewthwaite, esquire, of Dominica dated 2 December 1778. In

addition to estates called Broadgate and Swineshead near Millom, and

Netherhall in Cumbria he owned an extensive sugar plantation in the parish

of St. James on the Isle of Dominica. In his will bequeaths named slaves

and their children, existing orfuture, togther with his cattle and other

chattels.Probate was granted in Dominica on5 July 1791 (this is in several

pieces).

Lewthwaite; Somerville; Atkinson;

Lagroyzeture; Brayshaw;

Eccleston; Sandford; Grice;Hunter;

Dominica; Millom, Whitehaven, Cumbria;

220 1839 Copy of the will of William Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom,

Cumberland dated 1st January 1839. Proved 26 November 1845.

Lewthwaite; Postlethwaite; Cragg;

Blackburn; Blendall;

Millom, Cumberland;

221 1876 Abstract of the Title of William Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom, to

Cragg Hall, Millom, Cumberland.Cites deeds dating from 1830.

Lewthwaite; Postlethwaite;

Richthall; Cragg; Sandham;

Picthall;

Thwaites, Millom, Cumberland;

222 1878 Draft transfer of mortgage by George Lewthwaite and the Revd Joseph

Lewthwaite to william Lewthwaite all of Broadgate, Millom, Cumberland.

1878.

Lewthwaite; Millom, Cumberland;


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223 1876 General release in the trust of William Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom,

Cumberland, deceased by William Lewthwaite to George Lewthwaite of

Broadgate, Millom nand the Reverend John Stackhouse formerly of

Thwaites Vicarage, Millom but now of Stainforth parsonage near Settle,

Cumberland 1876. It gives details of the trusts and the property with

accounts of Lewthwaite's estates.

Local interest (Millom-Keswick district) in addition to Lewthwaite family

information.

Lewthwaite; Stackhouse; Many

names of Cumbrian people

including Cason; Bell; Dodgson;

Garnett; Atkinson; Brockbank;

Steel; Brownrigg;

Lawrence;Tyson; Bond; Kendall;

Lammin; Byers; Dickinson; Crank;

Helling; Jackson; Martyn; Barnes;

Garner; Teasdale; Buchanan;

Allbutt; Gaitskill; Croasdale;

Ormandy; Cousins; Simpson;

Bowes; Gelderd; Barr;

Millom, Keswick, Cumberland; Rugby;

224 1876 Agreement for the sale of land and building in Monmouth Street, Lancaster

known as Winder's Court (12 houses) by John Stackhouse of Stainforth,

Giggleswick, Yorkshire and George Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom,

Cumberland to Robert Curwen, dated 25 January 1876. Gives names of

occupants of property, annual income.epitome of title etc. and a sale notice.

Small bundle with drafts and some letters.

Lewthwaite; Stackhouse;

Curwen;Richardson; Goodwin;

Weston; Green; Bonney; Houson;

Dobson; Nixon; Wilcocks;

Winstanley; Conner; Butterlsy;

Brockholes;Welch;

Millom, Lancatser; Giggleswick,

Yorkshire; Lancaster;

225 1929 Dedee of appointment of two trustees under the will of Wiiliam Lewthwaite

of Broadgate, Millom Cumberland and the Mrs Mary Cross' fund under the

will, 9 December 1929. The document is between William Lewthwaite,

baronet, of Broadgate, Cumberland, Violet M.M. Eyton of Newport, Salop,

the Right Honourable Richard Assheton Viscount Cross of Eccel Riggs,

Broughton in Furness and William Lewthwaite and Colonel Hamlet

Lewthaites Riley of Penrith.

Signed sealed and stamped. (Revenue).

Cross; Lewthwaite; Riley; Millom; Penrith, Cumberland; Broughton

in Furness, Lancaster; Newport, Salop;

226 1898 Appointment of William Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom Cumberland as

trustee under the will of William Lewthwaite deceased together will Hamlet

Lewthwaite Riley esquire, dated 25 May 1898. Signed, sealed and (revenue)

stamped.

Cross; Stackhouse; Lewthwaite,

Riley; Challinor; Cooper;

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227 1891 Appointment by the Reverend John Stackhouse, of Stainforth Parsonage,

Giggleswick, Yorkshire and George Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom,

Cumberland of the Honourable William Henry Cross and Hamlet

Lewthwaite Riley of Penrith, as trustees under the will of William

Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom, deceased, dated 25 March 1891.Signed,

sealed and (revenue) stamped.

Lewthwaite; Cross; Stackhouse;

Riley;

Millom; Penrith, Cumberland; Broughton


228 1827 Abstract of the assignment from the Commissioners in the bankruptcy of

Thomas Winder of Lancaster, Licensed Post Master and Coal Dealer,

Dealer and Chapman to the assignees and Henry Bell of Lancaster,

blacksmith and john Harper of Lancaster, saddler 14th September 1827.

This gives brief details of Winder's business

Winder; Bell; Hodgson; Greene;

Bradley; Hudson; Bateman;

Jackson;

Lancaster;

229 1826 Assignment of policy of assurance by Thomas Winder of Lancaster, livery

stable keeper, to William Lewthwaite of Broadgate, Millom, Cumberland,

17 July 1826. The property assured was Winder's Court (12 houses in

Monmouth Street, Lancaster in mortgage to William Lewthwaite.

Document is signed and stamped. It gives the names of occupiers of the

property.

Winder; Lewthwaite; Gardner;

Hindle;n Tyson; Richardson;

Nimmo; Hewetson; Nowell;

Parker; Greening;

Lancaster; Millom, Cumberland;

230 1824 Mr Thomas Winder of Lancaster, butcher and Mary Anne Taylor of Bolton

by the Sands, Lancaster and Elizabeth Curwen, widow of the same place re

a further charge on Thomas Winder's property in Monmouth Street,

Lancaster. Dated 27 November 1827. Signed, sealed and stamped.w

Winder; Taylor; Curwen;

Maychell; Hall;

231 1824 Assignment of a lot of ground at No. 7 Monmouth street in the Fryerage of

Lancaster for a term of 1000 years, by Thomas Dewhurst of Lancaster, soap

boiler, and to Thomas Winder of Lancaster, butcher, dated 31 January

1824. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Dewhurst; Winder; Hall; Dalton;

Westby; Gerrard; Brockholes;

Smith; Barrom; Bolton; Hutton;

Shaw; Smith; Barrow;

Lancaster;

232 1824 Assignment by Thomas Winder of Lancaster, butcher to Mary Taylor and

Elizabeth Craven of Bolton in the Sands, Lancaster of two lots of ground in

Monmouth Street, Lancaster for a term of 1000 years to secure £200. Dated

2nd February 1824. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. It cites other

documents and gives names and occupations including flaxman, soap

boiler, whitesmith.

Winder; Taylor; Craven; Dalton;

Brockholes; Gerrard; whewell;

Westby; Hall; Bolton; Smith;

Hutton; Shaw; Dewhurst; Bell;

Lancaster; Preston;


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233 1824 Further charge by Thomas Winder of Lancaster, butcher on his mortgager

to Mary Taylor and Elizabeth Craven of Bolton in the Sands, Lancaster of

ground in Monmouth Street, Lancaster. Dated 27th February 1824. Vellum,


Winder; Taylor; Craven; bell;

Dewhurst;

Lancaster;

234 1824 Further charge by Thomas Winder of Lancaster, butcher on his mortgager

to Mary Taylor and Elizabeth Craven of Bolton in the Sands, Lancaster of

ground in Monmouth Street, Lancaster. Dated 14th April 1824. Vellum,


Winder; Taylor; Curwen; bell;

Dewhurst;

Lancaster;

235 1824 Assignment by mortgage by Thomas Winder of Lancaster, butcher, to

Richard Jackson of Lancaster of building land with a house on it in

Lancaster. Document dated 19 August 1824. Paper, signed. Cites other

documents and gives names and occupations including a sailcloth

manufacturer, wollen draper, flower merchant and a chairmaker.

Winder; Jackson; Dewhurst;

Whewell; Bell; Dalton;Westby;

Gerrard; Brockholes; Smith; Shaw;

Barrow; Bolton; Hutton; Shaw;

Dilworth;

Lancaster; Preston;Thurnham; Claughton;

Cumberland;

236 1824 Assignment of land (No. 6) Monmouth Street, Lancaster for remainder of

1000 years by Thomas Whewell, whitesmith, of Lancaster, to Thomas

Winder of Lancaster, butcher, dated 5 January 1824. Vellum, signed, sealed

and stamped. Cites other documents and gives names and occupations.

Winder; Jackson; Dewhurst;

Whewell; Bell; Dalton;Westby;

Gerrard; Brockholes; Smith; Shaw;

Barrow; Bolton; Hutton; Shaw;

Dilworth;


Cumberland;

237 1806 Assignment of land at No. 7 in the Fryerage, Lancaster by William Hall of

of lancaster aand Thomas Dewhurst of Lancaster, flax man, dated 14

February 1806. It cites an earlier indenture of assignment giving names,

occupations, and relating to a trust of which John Dalton and John Westby

esquires, had, together with John Gerrard, esquire, been trustees. The deed

carries a simple plan of the site showing adjacent streets and imposes limits

on the buildings to be erected there. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Hall; Dewhurst; Dalton; Westby;

Gerrard; Brockholes; Smith;

Barrow; Hall; Hutton; Bolton;

Shaw; Salisbury;


Cumberland;


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238 1804 Assignment of land at No. 6 in the Fryerage, Lancaster by William Hall of

of Lancaster aand Thomas Whewell of Lancaster, whitesmith, dated 10

October 1804. It cites an earlier indenture of assignment relating to a trust

of which John Dalton and John Westby esquires, had, together with John

Gerrard, esquire, been trustees. The deed carries a large plan on the reverse

showing the layout of properties on Moor Lane, Rose Street, Plumb Street

and Monmouth Street, Lancaster. Simple sketch of a cottage is shown.

Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Hall; Whewell; Dalton; Westby;

Brockholes;Smith; Hutton; shaw;

Barrow; Salisbury; Bolton; Sharp;

Rawsthorne;


Cumberland;

239 1825 Transfer of mortgage on two lots of land with 12 buildings on them in the

Fryerage, Lancaster, between Mary Ann Taylor and Elizabeth Craven of

Bolton in the Sands, Lancaster, (2) Thomas Winder OF Lancaster, butcher,

(3) Richard Jackson of Lancaster and (4) William Lewthwaite of Broadgate,

Millom, Cumberland. Dated 21 February 1825. Vellum, signed, sealed and

stamped (4 pages).

Winder; Taylor; Craven;

Lewthwaite; Hall; Bell; Moore;

Brockholes; Maychell; Harrison;

Lancaster; Millom, Cumberland;

240 1909 Draft lease by the trustees of the will of Henry Bermingham of Leek,

Staffordshire, silk manufacturer, to John Hall of Rudyard near Leek,

Staffordshire, boat proprietor, of the Victoria Café and No. 72 St. Edward

Street, Leek, for 5 years. Dated 29 January 1909.

Bermingham; Massey; Hall;

Blades;

Leek, Rudyard, Staffordshire;

241 1909 Draft lease by the trustees of the will of Henry Bermingham of Leek,

Staffordshire, silk manufacturer, to John Hall of Rudyard near Leek,

Staffordshire, boat proprietor, of the Victoria Café and No. 72 St. Edward

Street, Leek, for 5 years. Dated 29 January 1909.

Bermingham; Massey; Hall;

Blades;

Leek, Rudyard, Staffordshire;

242 1911 Draft agreement between Messrs H. Bermingham & Sons of Leek,

Staffordshire, silk manufacturers, to employ Mr Raymond D. Downing of

Queen Street, Leek, as the manager of the knitting department (or as a

warehouseman or traveller) in their Compton Mills, Leek. Dated 1911.

Bermingham; Downing; Leek, Staffordshire;


Staffordshire, silk manufacturers, to employ Mr John Edwin Chapman of 2

Kent Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire as their traveller. Dated 1905..

Bermingham; Chapman; Leek, Staffordshire; Harrogate, Yorkshire;


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Staffordshire, silk manufacturers, to employ Mr William John Garvon of 7

Camden Quay, Cork, Ireland, as their agent. Dated 1911

Bermingham; Garvon; Leek, Staffordshire; Cork, Ireland;

245 1946 Draft lease by Lieut. Colonel W. F. Challinor D.S.O of Upper House,

Loosley Row near Aylesbury, Bucks, to Neville Orchard Lindsay Manchip

of Cedarville, Egerton, Kent of No. 35 Queensborough Terrace,

Paddington, London at £250 p.a.. Challinor & Shaw, solicitors, Leek,

Staffordshire 28 September 1946.

Challinor; Manchip; Pack; Aylesbury, Bucks; Egerton, Kent; Leek,

Staffordshire;

246 1900-

1920s

A bundle of letters and miscellaneous tax documents relating to the

Bermingham family of Leek, Staffordshire 1900 to 1920s.

Bermingham; Astles; Massey;

Blades; Speakmen; Shaw;


247 1905 Draft security for £500 by George J. Bermingham to Messrs H. J.

Bermingham, G. H. Massey and J. Blades of Leek, Staffordshire dated 4

January 1905.

Bermingham; Massey; Blades; Leek, Staffordshire;

248 1905 Draft memorandum of agreement between Messr H. J. Bermingham, G. H.

Massey and J. Blades and Mr H. J. Bermingham of Leek, Staffordshire re a

sum of £400 and a declaration of trust, dated 4 the January 1905.

Bermingham; Massey; Blades; Leek, Staffordshire;

249 1925 Draft further charge on a house in West End Avenue, Leek, Staffordshire by

Joseph Francis Bermingham of Leek and the Leek & Moorlands Building

Society dated 16 January 1925.

Bermingham; Shaw; Leek, Staffordshire;

250 1709 Copy of the will of James Rudyard, esquire, of Abbey Deuleucress, Leek,

Staffordshire, dated 24 June 1709, proved at Cheadle, Staffordshire by

Thomas Welles and Ralph Wood on 29 October 1714. Init he bequeaths his

capital messuage (Abbey Deuleucress) and various farms, e.g Hillswood,

also a bequest to the Vicar of Leek for the benefit of Leek Poor (to buy

loaves of bread).

Rudyard; Welles; Wood; Walthall;

Drinkwater; Shallcross; Dailey;

Ravenscross; Lea; Kent; Beech;

Hardey; Gibbons; Parker;

Fallowfield; Sutton; Gravenour;

Parker;

Cheadle, Leek, Staffordshire; Knutsford,

Sandbach, Cheshire;

251 1803 Copy of the probate copy of the will of John Welles of Sandbach, Cheshire,

26 February 1798, proved at Chester 20 June 1803. Amongst his estates he

mentions his lands at the Abbey, Leek, Staffordshire.

Welles; Furnivall; Davies; Leek, Staffordshire; Kingsley, Frodsham,

Weaversham, Cheshire; Middlesex;


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252 1767 Office copy of the will of Francis Welles of Boswell Court, St. Clement

Danes, Middlesex dated 31 July 1767 nd proved 5 February 1771. Some

genealogical information including marriage of his daughters and mentions

the Davenports of Calveley and Capesthorne, Cheshire.

Welles; Frewen; Davenport;

Kilpin; Cawley; Spateman;

Tomlinson;Steel; Hilditch; Wright;

Cartwright; Davenport; Goostry;

Middlesex; Wremisley, Hertfordshire;

Northiam, Sussex; Capesthorne, Cheshire;

253 1785 Copy of the will of John Davenport of Ball Haye, Leek, Staffordshire

dated14 March 1785. He leaves his estate in trust for the benefit of his

nephew James Hulme who he wishes to be educated at Oxford or

Cambridge and to assume his name and arms.

Davenport; Cope; Mellor; Hulme;

Challinor; Phillips;

Oxford; Cambridge; Leek, Staffordshire;

254 1806 Copy of the probate copy of the will and codicil of Henry West of Abbey

Green Farm, Leek, Staffordshire, farmer, dated 8 November 1806 and 14

April 1807. Proved at Lichfield 7 September 1807. It mentions the sale of

Old Basford Farm to George Sayer.

West; Bowman; Mills; Wilson;

Jones; Sayer; Buxton; Porter;

Emerson;

Leek, Newcastle under Lyme,

Staffordshire;

255 1825 Office copy of the will of Miss Anne Wilkinson of Chesterfield, Derbyshire

dated 16 June 1825. And codicil dated 27 October 1827. Proved Doctors

Commons 28 June 1828. Genealogy of tetstators family. Bequests to

servants and others including the School of Industry, Holliwell Street,

Chesterfield and the Unitarian Sunday School, Chesterfield.

Wilkinson; Johnson; Woodhead;

Allison; Touchet; Astley; Poole;

Croft; Walthall; Swan; Ballie;

Redfern; Cutts;

Chesterfield, Derbyshire; Manchester;

256 1819 Office copy of the will of Miss Elizabeth Wilkinson of Chesterfield,

Derbyshire dated 17 December 1819. Proved Lichfield 10 October 1821.

Genealogy of tetstators family. Bequests to servants and others including

the Unitarian Chapel, Chesterfield..

Birtles; Wilkinson; Johnson;

Woodhead; Allison; Touchet;

Astley; Poole; Croft; Swan; Ballie;

Redfern; Cutts;

Chesterfield, Derbyshire; Manchester;

257 1829 Letters of administration of the effects of John Davenport the younger of

Ball Haye, Leek, Staffordshire, deceased,,, limited to the assigning a term of

lease of 500 years 26 May 1829. Granted at Lichfield 26 May 1829. The

property concerned was a house in Leekfrith and land including parts of

what was Abel White's farm e.g. the Sprink

Davenport; Mills; Law; Cruso;

Plant; Ash; White; Cope; Mellor;

Daintry; White; Mott; Haworth;

Leek, Staffordshire; Hampshire;

258 1801 Copy of an official copy of the will of William Barlow of Newcastle under

Lyme, Staffordshire, gentleman, dated 10 March 1801. Proved Lichfield 23

December 1802.

Barlow; Ward; Johnson; Massey;

Glen; Henshall; Mandley; Eardley;

Plant;

Newcastle under Lyme, Stoke, Hanley,

Staffordshire;


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259 1709-

1829

Schedule of the deeds to North Hillswood Farm, Leekfrith, Staffordshire

belonging to the trustees of the marriage settlement of Mr & Mrs F.A.

Argyles.

Argyles; Challinor; Beech; Plant;

Mills; Welles; Thorneycroft;

Mainwaring; Hatroll; Davenport;

Lyon; Hand; Wilson;Barlow;

West; Daintry; Cruso; Furnivall;

Wilkinson;


260 1812 Attested copy of a lease for one year and deed of exchange between John

Smith Daintry of Foden Bank, Sutton, Prestbury, Cheshire and John Cruso

of Leek, Staffordshire dated 24 and 25th March 1812 respectively.

Concerns property on Spout Street and Market Street, Leek,

Staffordshire.Details all the Daintry property in Leek, Staffordshire and

Macclesfield, Cheshire including Byron's which was purchased from Lord

Lucan. Occupier and field names given. 21 pages.

Daintry, Cruso; Lucan; Robinson;

Dresser; Sutton; Smith; Rowley;

Brough; Stubbs; Jones; Biddulph;

Pratt; Shirley; Leigh; Tharme;

Sherratt; Carr; Tatton; Beard;

Youg; Ridout; Hargraves; Cope;

Mellor; Davenport; Key;

Brassington; Shrigley; Hulme;

Hunt;Bratt; Williamson; Piggot;

Sykes; Heath; Corbishley;

Simpson; Godwin; Hodgson;

Wardle; Ryle; Nixon; Drever;

Nicholson; Barber; Harper;

Whittaker; Allin; Greaves;

Hodgknson; Rushton;

Higginbotham; Brocklehurdt;

Pownall; Day; Bosley; Keates;


Prestbury, Cheshire;

261 1711 Conveyance by lease and release of lands (Hillswood Farm?) in Leekfrith,

Staffordshire from Anthony and Thomas Beech of Haughton, Staffordshire

to Samuel Plant of Abbey Green, Leek, Staffordshire dated 18 March 1711.

On vellum, signed, stamped and sealed. Decorated heading.

Beech; Plant; Ash; Addams; Haughton, Leek, Staffordshire;

262 1742 Mortgage by Joseph Plant (son of Samuel Plant) of Abbey Green, Leek to

Thomas Mills of Leek, Staffordshire, to secure £70 and interest at 4%.

Dated 20 November 1742. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.Decorated

heading.

Plant; Mills; White; Cartwright;

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263 1751 Final agreement in the King's Court at Westminster between Benjamin

Plant and Joseph & Mary Plant re a farm in Leekfrith, Staffordshire, dated

25 year of the reign of King George II.

Plant; Leek, Staffordshire;

264 1751 Conveyance by lease and release of a farm in Leekfrith, Staffordshire

between Joseph & Mary Plant of Baddeley Green, Norton, Staffordshire

and Benjamin Plant of Abbey Green, Leek, Staffordshire, innholder, dated

24th and 25 th June 1751respectively. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Decorated heading.

Plant; Hulme; Mills; Norton, Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire;

265 1766 Bargin and sale of messuages and lands in Leek Frith and Tittesworth,

Staffordshire by Frances Welles of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex to Henry

Hatroll of London top bar and cut off an estate tail on property known as

Deuleurcress Abbey and Abbey Gate House, Leek, Staffordshire. Dated 24

January 1766. Vellum, signed sealed and stamped. Decorated heading.

Welles; Hatroll; Rider; Walmsley;

Spateman; Barnard;

Leek, Staffordshire; London;

266 1775 Mortgage by Benjamin and Mary Plant of Haywood, Staffordshire to

Edward Mainwaring of Whitmore, Staffordshire and Henshawe Thornycroft

of Thornycroft, Cheshire, and Simon Debank of Leek, on property the form

formerly Abel White's in Leekfrith, Staffordshire. Dated 7th December

1771. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Decorated heading.

Plant; Thornycroft; Debank;

Mainwaring; White; Mills;

Davenport;

Haywood, Leek, Leekfrith, Whitmore,

Staffordshire; Thornycroft, Cheshire;

267 1775 Lease to invest possession by Benjamin and Mary Plant of Haywood,

Staffordshire to Edward Mainwaring of Whitmore, Staffordshire and

Henshawe Thornycroft of Thornycroft, Cheshire, and Simon Debank of

Leek, on property the form formerly Abel White's in Leekfrith,

Staffordshire. Dated 6th December 1771. Vellum, signed, sealed and

stamped. Decorated heading.

Plant; Thornycroft; Mainwaring; Haywood, Leek, Leekfrith, Whitmore,

Staffordshire; Thornycroft, Cheshire;

268 1775 Final agreement in the King's Court at Westminster between Simon Debank

and Benjamin and Mary Plant of a messuage and lands in Leekfrith, Leek,

Staffordshire. Dated 16 year of the reign of King George III (1775).

Vellum.

Debank; Plant; Leek, Staffordshire;


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269 1775 Final agreement in the King's Court at Westminster between Simon Debank

and Benjamin and Mary Plant of a messuage and lands in Leekfrith, Leek,

Staffordshire. Dated 16 year of the reign of King George III (1775).

Vellum.

Debank; Plant; Leek, Staffordshire;

270 1765 Exemplification of Recovery in the King's Court at Westminsterm by John

welles against Henry Hatrell for four messuages 150 acres of land, 30 acres

of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 50 acres of wood and 150 acres of furze

and heath and all rights etc, in Leek, Leek frith, Tittesworth and Lowe.

Dated 12th Day of February in the 6th year of the reign of King George III

(1765). Vellum, large seal in can, stamped.. Decorative heading extending

full width of document and carrying a half-length portrait of the King.

Welles; Hatrell; Hodgetts; Wilson; Leek, Leekfrith, Staffordshire.

271 1804 Agreement for sale and particulars between Alexander Wilson of

Newcastle under Lyme, staffordshire, wine merchant to Henry West of

Abbey Green, Leek, Staffordshire, farmer, of a farm know as the Shury for

£650. Dated23 May 1804. Paper, signed and stamped.

Wilson; West; Mills; Leek, Staffordshire;

272 1791 Transfer of a mortgage in an estate (formerly Abel White's farm) in

Leekfrith by Miss Anne Hand of Lichfield, Staffordshire and Benjamin and

Mary Plant formerly of Great Haywood but now of Newcastle under Lyme,

Staffordshire to Alexander Wilson of Newcastel under Lyme, innholder.

Dated 11 june 1791. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Plant; Wilson; Thornycroft;

Mainwaring; White; Debank;

Barlow; Oakes; Oakey; Secole;

Haywood, Lichfield, Leek, Newcastle

under Lyme, Staffordshire; Thorneycroft,

Cheshire;

273 1791 Lease for possession of an estate (formerly Abel White's farm) in Leekfrith

by Miss Anne Hand of Lichfield, Staffordshire and Benjamin and Mary

Plant formerly of Great Haywood but now of Newcastle under Lyme,

Staffordshire to Alexander Wilson of Newcastel under Lyme, innholder.

Dated 10 June 1791. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Plant; Wilson; Hand; Haywood, Leek, Newcastle under Lyme,

Lichfield, Staffordshire;

274 1800 Lease for a year of an estate (formerly Abel White's farm) in Leekfrith by

Alexander Wilson of Newcastle under Lyme, Stafforshire, wine merchat,

and Benjamin and Mary Plant formerly of Great Haywood but now of

Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire to William Barlow of of Newcastle

under Lyme. Dated 31 December 1800. Vellum, signed, sealed and

stamped.

Wilson; Plant; Barlow; White; Newcastle under Lyme, Leek,

Staffordshire;v


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275 1779 Transfer of Plant's mortgage for 500 years and interest by Edward

Mainwaring of Whitmore, Staffordshire, Henshaw Thornycroft of

Thornycroft, Cheshire and Eusebins Horton of Catton, Derbyshire and his

wife Phoebe formerly Phoebe Davenport of Davenport, Cheshire to Miss

Anne Hand of Lichfield, Staffordshire. Dated 10 December 1779. The farm

and lands mortgaged were formerly Abel White's farm in Leekfrith,

Staffordshire. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Horton; Mainwaring; Hand; Plant;

Thornycroft; Debank; White;

Davenport, Thornycroft, Cheshire; Catton,

Derbyshire; Great Haywood, Leek,

Lichfield, Whitmore, Staffordshire;

276 1779 Lease for a year by Edward Mainwaring of Whitmore, Staffordshire,

Henshaw Thornycroft of Thornycroft, Cheshire and Eusebins Horton of

Catton, Derbyshire and his wife Phoebe formerly Phoebe Davenport of

Davenport, Cheshire to Miss Anne Hand of Lichfield, Staffordshire of

Benjamin Plant's estate in Leekfrith, Staffordshire . Dated 9 December

1779. The farm and lands were formerly Abel White's farm in Leekfrith,

Staffordshire. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Mainwaring; Hand; Plant;

Thornycroft; Debank; White;

Taylor; Horton; Perks; Boyer;

Heath; Hall; Plant;

Davenport, Thornycroft, Cheshire; Catton,

Derbyshire; Great Haywood, Leek,

Lichfield, Whitmore, Staffordshire;

277 1778 Release and settlement made by John Welles of Sandbach, Cheshire, son

and heir of Francis Welles late of Sandbach to John Lyon of Partington,

Bowden, Cheshire and John Furnivall of St. Clements Danes, Middlesex,

previous to the marriage of Mr John Welles with Miss Anne Wright

daughter of Thomas Wright of Sanbach, Cheshire. Relates to the

Deulacress Abbey Estate, Leek, Staffordshire Dated 30 January 1778.


Welles; Wright; Furnivall; Lyon;

Rider; Wilson; Hill; Walmsley;

Sherratt; Bostock;

Leek, Staffordshire; Bowden, Sandbach,

Cheshire; Middlesex;

278 1778 Lease for a year made by John Welles of Sandbach, Cheshire to John Lyon

of Partington, Bowden, Cheshire and John Furnivall of St. Clements Danes,

Middlesex, previous to the marriage of Mr John Welles with Miss Anne

Wright daughter of Thomas Wright of Sanbach, Cheshire. Relates to the

Deulacress Abbey Estate, Leek, Staffordshire Dated 29 January 1778.


Welles; Wright; Furnivall; Lyon;

Rider; Wilson; Hill; Walmsley;

Sherratt; Bostock;

Leek, Staffordshire; Bowden, Sandbach,

Cheshire; Middlesex;

279 1775 Assignment by Thomas Mills of Barlaston, Staffordshire to John Davenport

the younger of Ball Haye, Leek, Staffordshire of a mortgage term in

Benjamin Plant's estate in Leekfrith. Dated 7 December 1774. Signed,

sealed and stamped. Decorative heading.

Plant; Mills; Davenport; Barlaston, Leek, Staffordshire;


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280 1808 Release of the Shury Farm, Leek, Staffordshire by John Barlow of Parkhall,

Stoke, Staffordshire to Alexander Wilson of Newcastle under Lyme,

Staffordshire, wine merchant and Hannah his wife only daughter and heir of

Benjamin Plant formerly of Abbey Green, Leek, Staffordshire.The

indenture was made between John Fallowes of Snarestone Hall,

Leicestershire and his wife Jane formerly Jane Barlow, widow), Edward

Eardley of Apedale, Audley, Staffordshire, Thomas Plant of Newcastle

under Lyme and John Barlow of Penkhullm Stoke, Staffordshire, only son

and heir of Stephen Barlo who was the brother and heir of William Barlow

deceased. Genealogical interest. Dated 29 September 1808. Vellum,


Barlow; Wilson; Plant; Fallowes;

Eardley; Debank; Thorneycroft;

Mainwaring; Hand; Horton;

Wilson; Hulme;

Thorneycroft, Cheshire; Catton,

Derbyshire; Leek, Newcastle under Lyme,

Penkhull, Whitmore, Staffordshire;

281 1808 Lease for a year of the Shury Farm, Leek, Staffordshire by John Barlow of

Parkhall, Stoke, Staffordshire to Alexander Wilson of Newcastle under

Lyme, Staffordshire, wine merchant and Hannah his wife only daughter and

heir of Benjamin Plant formerly of Abbey Green, Leek, Staffordshire.

Dated 28 September 1808. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Barlow; Wilson; Plant; West; Leek, Newcastle under Lyme, Penkhull,

Staffordshire;

282 1816 Release of the Surey lands in Leekfrith, Staffordshire by Samuel Wilson of

Inner Temple, London to Mrs Namcy West late of Abbey Farm, Leek but

now of Little Birchall, Leek, Stafforshire, widow. Dated 9 October 1816.


Wilson; West; Cruso; Leek, Staffordshire; London;

283 1818 Release or conveyance by Miss Frances Dorothy Furnivall of Lichfirld,

Staffordshire only daughter and heir of John Furnivall formerly of Inner

Temple, London by his wife Francis sister and heir of John Welles of

Sandbach, Cheshire to John Smith Daintry of Foden Bank, Macclesfield,

Cheshire of the Abbey Estate (Deuleucress Abbey) Leek, Staffordshire, for

£15127-10s. Dated 25 March 1818. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Includes the farms Horsecroft and Hillswood.

Furnivall; Daintry; Cruso;

Welles;Fletcher;

Leek, Staffordshire; Inner Temple, St.

Clement Danes, London; Macclesfield,

Sandbach, Cheshire;


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284 1818 Appointment by John Smith Daintry of Foden Bank, Macclesfield,

Cheshire to the Misses Anne and Elizabeth Wilkinson of Chesterfield,

Derbyshire, of the Abbey Estate (Deuleucress Abbey) Leek, Staffordshire,to

secure in mortgage the sum of £12000 and interest. Dated 26 March 1818.

Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Includes the farms Horsecroft and

Hillswood.

Wilkinson; Furnivall; Daintry;

Cruso; Welles;

Chesterfield, Derbyshire; Leek,

Staffordshire; Inner Temple, St. Clement

Danes, London; Macclesfield, Sandbach,

Cheshire;

285 1818 Release of the Shurey Estate, Leek, Staffordshire by Mrs Nancy West of

Little Birchall, Leek, Staffordshire,(widow of Henry West) Francis West of

Stockport, butcher and Ebenezer Bowman of Monyash, Derbyshire, farmer,

and Joseph West of Abbey Green Farm, Leek, Staffordshire, farmer to John

Smith Daintry of Foden Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire, dated 28 and 29th

September 1818.

West; Daintry; Cruso; Bowman;

Wilson;

Monyash, Derbyshire; Leek, Staffordshire;

Inner Temple, London; Macclesfield,

Sandbach, Cheshire;

286 1829 Assignment and surrender of the Abbey Estate, Leek, Staffordshire for the

remainder of a term of 1000 years on paying off £12000 and interest, by

Isaac Wilkinson of Tapton House, Chesterfield and Leamington,

Warwickshire and others the executors and legatee of Misses Anne and

Elizabeth Wilkinson of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, deceased, to John Smith

Daintry of Foden Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire. Dated 26 March 1829.

Wilkinson; Daintry; Touchet;

Bailie; Daintry; Cruso; Furnivall;

Wibberley; Lewis; Allen; Cutts;

Bayley;

Chesterfield, Derbyshire; Leamington,

Warwickshire; Leek, Staffordshire;

Macclesfield, Cheshire;

287 1829 Lease of the Abbey De la Cresse Estate for a year, by John Smith Daintry of

Kingsbridge House near Southhampton, Hampshire, to The Revd Josiah

Hinckes of Tettonhall, Staffordshire and John Davenport the younger of

Westwood, Leek, Staffordshire. Dated 27 May 1829. Vellum, signed,

sealed and stamped. Lists the lands and occupiers etc.

Daintry; Davenport; Hulme,

Cruso; Rudyard; Pimlett;

Thorneycroft; Salt; Collins'

Williamson; Pigot; Mounfort;

Mills; Rawlinson; Sykes;

Southampton, Hampshire; Leek,

Staffordshire;

288 1829 Appointment and release of the Abbey De la Cresse Estate by John Smith

Daintry of Kingsbridge House near Southampton, Hampshire and John

Davenport the elder of Westwood Hall, Leek, Staffordshire to The Revd

Josiah Hinckes of Tettonhall, Staffordshire, John Davenport the younger of

Westwood, Leek, Staffordshire and George Holyoake of Wolverhampton.

Dated 28 May 1829. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Coloured plan on

back of one of the sheets. Lists the lands and occupiers etc. Includes farms

such as Hillswood, Shurey, and Foker.

Daintry; Davenport; Hulme,

Cruso; Rudyard; Pimlett;

Thorneycroft; Salt; Collins'

Williamson; Pigot; Mounfort;

Mills; Rawlinson; Sykes;

Holyoake;Cave;

Chorley;Cruso;Brandon; Keates;


Staffordshire;


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289 1829 Deed of covenant by the Revd Josiah Hinckes of Tettonhall, Staffordshire

to John Davenport junior of Westwood, Leek, Staffordshire re the Abbey de

la Cresse Estate in Leekfrith, Staffordshire. Dated 22 June 1829. Vellum,

signed, sealed and stamped. Schedules of deeds dating between 1709 and

1829 relating to the estate.

Daintry; Davenport; Cruso;

Rudyard; Thorneycroft; Salt;

Collins' Williamson; Pigot;

Mounfort; Mills; Rawlinson;

Sykes; Holyoake;Cave; Chorley;

Plant; Beech; Mills; Mainwaring;

Horton; Hand; Wilson; West;

Fallowes; Eardley; Bowman;

Barlow; Rudyard; Welles; Hatrell;

Wright; Furnivall; Wilkinson;

Touchet; Bayley;

Chesterfield, Derbyshire; London;


Staffordshire; Macclessfield, Sandbach,

Cheshire; Manchester;

290 1843 Conveyance by Miss Theodosia Hinckes of Tettonhall, Staffordshire to

John Davenport junior of Westwood, Leek, Staffordshire, of the Abbey de

la Cresse Estate in Leekfrith, Staffordshire. Dated 31 July 1843. Vellum,

signed, sealed and stamped. Scedules of deeds dating between 1709 and

1829 relating to the estate.

Hinckes; Davenport; Mills; Cruso;

Rudyard; Pigot; Cave; Rawlinson;

Mountfort; Daintry; Johnson;

Thorneycroft;

Leek, Tettonhall, Staffordshire;

291 1860 Mortgage by John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire, to William

Davenport of Maer Hall, Staffordshire, William Henry West of Gly Faes,

Brecon and Thomas Salt of Stafford, of the Abbey de la Cresse Estate in

Leek Frith, Staffordshire to secure £10434-12s-2d and interest at 4%. Dated

18 August 1860. The document includes a coloured plan. Vellum, signed,

sealed and stamped.

Davenport; West; Salt; Cruso;

Daintry; Thorneycroft; Rawlinson;

Cave; Chorley; Mountford; Mills;

Foxley, Herefordshire; Leek, Maer,

Staffordshire;

292 1867 Mortgage by the Revd George Horatio Davenport of Foxley Herefordshire

and other to Henry Tichborne Davenport of Middle Temple, London, of the

freehold property (the Hillswood Farm) in Leek, Staffordshire as security

for £4950 and interest. Dated 18 June 1867. This includes a coloured plan,

a detailed schedule of the fields, acreages, occupiers etc, and a schedule of

deeds dating from 1778 to 1860. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Davenport; Lennox; Rudyard;

Rawlinson; Atkinson; Brough;

Mountford; Cruso; Critchlow;

Nixon; Bailey; Hinckes; West;

Salt;

Foxley, Herefordshire; London;


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293 1867 Reconveyance by William Davenport of Maer, Staffordshire and other to

the Revd. George Horatio Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire, of part of

the Dieulacresse Estate, Leek, Staffordshire. Dated 17 June 1867. This

includes a coloured pland and a detailed schedule of the lands concerned

giving occupiers' names, field names and acreages. Vellum, signed, sealed

and stamped. Includes the Abbey Farm, North Hillswood, The Bowling

Green Inn, Fould Farm, Sheephouse Farm and Gun Gate.

Davenport; Bailey; Critchlow;

Searight; Massey; Johnson; West;

Salt; Hulme, Cruso; Atkinson;

Rawlinson; Mountford; Holmes;

Rider; Needham;

Foxley, Herefordshire; London; Glas Faes,

Brecon; Leek, Staffordshire;

294 1871 Conveyance of the North Hillswood Farm, Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire by

the Revd George Horatio Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire to John

Brough of Leek, Dated 22 December 1871. Vellum, signed, sealed and

stamped. It includes a plan giving adjacent landowners, occupiers' names,

field names and acreages. There is also a schedule of deeds from 1862. It

mentions amongst other things the marriage of John Brough in the

Independent Chapel, Grosvenor Street, Manchester and the will of John

Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire. The owner of the farm had the right to

fish in and use a boat on Tittesworth Reservoir.

Davenport; Brough; Bailey; Pace;

Nixon;Argyles; Searight; Carter;

Mountford; Riley; Hulme; Pimlott;

Daintry; Rudyard; Badnall;

Foxley, Herefordshire; Leek, Staffordshire;

295 1871 Conditions of sale of the Dieulacresse Abbey Estate offered for sale by

Messrs Edward & Son on 12 January 1871.

Holyoake; Hinckes; Davenport;

Cruso; Mills; Moore; Cave;

Kynnersley; Adderley; Burgh;

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296 1871 Abstract of title of the Revd. George Horatio Davenport to the North

Hillswood Farm, Leek, Staffordshire 1829-1871. Includes several schedules

of deeds relating to various former parts of the Dieulecresse Abbey Estate

and for some gives lists of field names, acreages and occupiers; Dated

1871. (51 pages)

Holyoake; Hinckes; Davenport;

Cruso; Mills; Moore; Cave;

Kynnersley; Adderley; Burgh;

Brough; Daintry; West; Furnival;

Bowman; Thornycroft; Rawlinson;

Williamson; Pigot; Lankford;

Collins; Hollins; Stafford; Kenyon;

Glover; Tatton; Austin; Parr;

Ridgway; Fenton; Parker;

Hodgetts; Gnosall; Stephenson;

Lee; Birtles; Rider; Norris; Sykes;

Johnson;Beech; Haughton; Plant;

Mainwaring; Salt;

Lennox;Thornicroft; Debank;

Hand; Wilson; Barlow; Fallowes;

Eardley; Rudyard; Welles; Hatrell;

Wright; Furnivall; Wilkinson;

Touchet; Bayley;

Sandbach, Thornicroft, Cheshire; Leek,

Newcastle under Lyme, Maer, Tattenhall,

Whitmore, Staffordshire; Southampton,

Hampshire; Foxley, Herefordshire;

297 1871 Abstract of title of the Revd. George Horatio Davenport to the North

Hillswood Farm, Leek, Staffordshire 1856.Dated 1871. It relates to the sale

of land to the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company and the

agreement with regard to who could fish or have a boat on the Tittesworth

Reservoir.

Davenport; Badnall; Riley; Moore;

Torr; Rawlinson;


298 1871 Abstract of the settlement made on the marriage of the Hon. And Revd A.A.

B. Hanbury, Rector of Shebdon, Herefordshire & Mis Mary Ward

Davenport daughter of John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire. Cites deed

dated 30 January 1858.

Davenport; Hanbury; Foxley, Shebdon, Herefordshire;

299 1871 Abstract of the settlement made on the marriage of the Henry Longley,

eldest son of His Grace Charles Thomas Longley, D.D, Archbishop of York

& Diana Elizabeth Davenport daughter of John Davenport of Foxley,

Herefordshire. Cites deed dated 16 September 1861.

Davenport;Longley; Foxley, Herefordshire; York;


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300 1871 Abstract of the settlement made on the marriage of the John Hungerford

Arkwright of Hampton Court, Herefordshire & Charlotte Lucy Davenport

daughter of John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire. Cites deed dated 11

June 1866.Davenport genealogical interest.

Davenport Arkwright; Foxley, Pencombe; Herefordshire; York;

301 1871 Copy declaration by John Leech of Leek, Staffordshire, land agent and

surveyor, re the identity of the Westwood Estate Dated 20 October 1871.

Includes large coloured plan giving names of owners of adjacent lands.

Leech; Challinor; Cruso; Johnson;

Atkinson; Brough; Hammersley;

Phillips; Condlyffe; Clowes;

Walmsley; Nixon; Watts; Cave;

Daintry; Grey;


302 1871 Requisitions as to title and answers re the sale of the North Hillswood Farm,

Leek, Staffordshire by Davenport to John Brough. Dated October-

November 1871.

Davenport; Brough; Challinor; Leek, Staffordshire;

303 1871 Further requisitions as to title re the sale of the North Hillswood Farm,

Leek, Staffordshire by Davenport to John Brough. Dated October-

November 1871.

Davenport; Brough; Challinor; Leek, Staffordshire;

304 1871 Acknowledgement by Revd, George Horatio Davenport the executor of his

mother, that her legacy and annuity under her husband's will had been paid.

Dated 21 December 1871.

Davenport; Brough; Foxley, Herefordshire; Leek, Staffordshire;

305 1871 Extract from a conveyance to James Searight of Dieulacresse Abbey Farm

concerning rights of way. Dated 16 August 1871.

Davenport; Searight; Leek, Staffordshire;

306 1897 Abstract of the title of the trustee of the will of John Brough to the North

Hillswood Farm, Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire 1897. The document starts

with a deed dated 1871. It includes a large plan with a schedule of field

names, acreages, occupiers etc.

Brough; Davenport; Longley;

Parnell; Hanbury; Arkwright;

Wigram; Shaw; Pace; Daintry;

Riley; Hulme; Pimlott; Rudyard;

Nixon; Bailey;

Leek, Staffordshire; Foxley, Herefordshire;

York;

307 1897 Schedule of title deeds relating to the North Hillswood Farm, Leek,

Staffordshire belonging to the marraiage settlement of F. A. Argyles and his

wife Susanna 1829 to. 1897.

Argyles; Daintry; Davenport;

Hinckes; Longley; Arkwright;

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308 1897 Conveyance of North Hillswood Farm, Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire by the

Trustees of the late John Brough of Leek, Staffordshire to the trustees of the

settlement made by the late Frank Atkinson Argyles and his wife Mrs

Susanna Argyles. Dated 30 December 1897. Vellum, signed, sealed and

stamped. Document was enrolled in the Supreme Court in 1898 and carries

the supreme Court stamp.

Argyles; Brough; Davenport;

Shaw; Challinor; Badnall; Fuller;

Newall; Carrie; Dawson;

Germain; Richardson;

Derby; Leek, Staffordshire; St. Clements,

York, Scarborough, Yorkshire;

Milnthorpe, Westmorland;

309 1871 Davenport to Brough. Requistions on title with answers re North Hillswood

Farm, Leek, Staffordshire.Dated 30 August 1871.

Davenport; Brough; Leech;

Hinckes; Challinor;


310 Davenport to Argyles. Copy legacy discharges and receipts for money paid

under settlements. Challinor & Co, Leek, Staffordshire.NB The Longley

family mentioned here is that of the Archbishop of York who later became

Archbishop of Canterbury, Charels Thomas Longley D.D.

Davenport; Longley; Hanbury;

Parnell; Lennox; Arkwright;

Wigram;

Foxley, Herefordshire; Leek, Staffordshire;

311 Copy of the plan attached to the declaration by John Leech of Leek,

Staffordshire, surveyor and land agent of 20 October 1865. The plan is in

colour with numbered fields and gives names of the owners of adjacent

lands. The lands shown include Westwood Hall, Hillswood, North

Hillswood, Dieulacresse, Abbey Green, Harracles and Rowley Gate.

Leech; Challinor; Nixon; Clowes;

Condlyffe; Watts; Phillips; Gaunt;

Walmsley; Cruso; Johnson; Carter;

Atkinson, Brough; Hammersley;


312 1862 Copy probate of the will of Mrs Charlotte Davenport of Foxley, Hereford,

widow, dated 24 May 1862. It cites and indenture of settlement (

marriage?) dated 30 November 1843. The will mentions her diamonds and a

"set of Carbuncles". Testatrix died 7 October 1864 and the will was proved

in the Principal Registry on 18 March 1865 by George Horatio Davenport.

Davenport; Foster; Gregson;

Coltman; Newbold; West; Salt;

Walker; Moffit; Ward; Coller;

Foxley, Herefordshire; Liverpool;

313 1871 Sales plan and particulars of the Dieulacresse Abbey vEstate, Leek,

Staffordshire to be sold by auction at the North Staffs Railway Hotel, Stoke

on Trent, 12 January 1871. Coloured plan showing names of owners of

adjacent lands. There are pencil notes of the bids.

Edwards; Blondeville; Bull;

Critchlow; Bailey; Nixon;

Johnson; Massey; Cope; Brunt;

Pace; Argyles; Brough;

Hammersley; Wood; Mountford;

Hine;

Leek, Stoke-on-Trent, staffordshire;


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314 1829 Deed of covenant to produce deeds between John Smith Daintry of

Kingsbridge House, Southampton and the Revd. J. Hinckes of Tettenhall,

Staffordshire and John Davenport the younger of Westwood Hall, Leek,

Staffordshiren re the Abbey de la Cresse Estate, Leekfrith, Leek. Dated 28

May 1829. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Document includes a

schedule of deeds from 1703-1812 re Hillswood End and Franklins parts of

the estate.

Davenport; Hinckes; Daintry;

Lankford; Mills; Kenyon; Tatton;

Ridgway; Greenwollers; Austin;

Fenton; Parr; Stephenson; Sands;

Rider; Birtles; Norris; Sykes; Dale;

Johnson; Cruso; Dale; Popplewell;

Sykes; Collins; Pigot; Holyoake;

Leek, Tettenhall, Staffordshire;

Southampton;

315 1829 Indenture between John Cruso the younger of Leek, Staffordshire,

adminstrator of the late John Davenport of Ball Haye, Leek, John Smith

Daintry, the Revd Josiah Hinckes of Tettenhall, Staffs and John Davenport

of Westwood Hall, Leek and Henry Davenport of Longport, Staffs, re the

assignment of a term of 500 years on part of and Estate released by John

Smith Daintry to Josiah Hinckes and others, called the Shury, in Leekfrith,

Leek, Staffordshire; Dated 28 May 1829. Vellum, signed, sealed and

stamped. The lands were formerly those occupied by Abel White.

Davenport; Cruso; Hinckes;

Daintry; White; Wilson; Plant;

Mills, Debank; Thornycroft;

Mainwaring; Horton; Hand;

Barlow; Fallowes; Eardley; West;

Bowman;

Leek, Newcstle under Lyme, Longport,

Tettenhall, Staffordshire; Southampton;

Snareston, Leicestershire;

316 1870 Copy agreement between the Staffs Potteries Waterworks Co and the Revd

George H. Davenport re the sale of stone from North Hillswood quarry to

the Company, dated 16 November 1870. Includes original.

Davenport; Leek, Staffordshire;

317 1855 Agreement(with plan) between John Davenport of Westwood Hall, Leek,

Staffordshire and the Staffs. Potteries Waterworks Co, re land on the North

Hillswood Farm and Tittesworth Farm required by the Company for a

compensation reservoir dated 1 December 1855. Paper document signed,

sealed and stamped. Document limits use of reservoir by others.

Davenort; Critchlow; Bayley;

Riley; Rawlinson; Weston;


318 1856 Copy conveyance from John Davenport of Westwood Hall, Leek, Staffs to

the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company of lands on the Hillswood,

North Hillswood farms in Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire, dated 24 June

1856. Land was wanted for the construction of a reservoir.Conveyance

restricts use of reservoir and permits Davenport rights on the reservoir -use

of a boat and fishing.

Davenport; Hinckes; Rawlinson;

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319 1856 Conveyance from John Davenport of Westwood Hall, Leek, Staffs to the

Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company of land in Tittesworth part of

Tittesworth Farm in Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire, dated 24 June 1856.

Land was wanted for the construction of a reservoir. Vellum, signed, sealed

and stamped with a small coloured plan

Davenport; Riley; Badnall;

Rawlinson; Sneyd; Weston;


320 1870 Tittesworth Compensation Reservoir. Duplicate conveyance of lands on

Hillswood and North Hillswood Farms, Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire by

the Reverend George Horatio Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire to the

Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company, 1st January 1870. Vellum,

signed, sealed and stamped. Waterworks Co. seal. Schedule of land and

includes loose plan at 2 chains to an inch signed by R.C.Hill and John

Elliot.

Davenport; Lennox; Longley;

Hanbury; Piercy; Cooper; Butter;


321 1865 Copy declaration by John Leech of Leek, Staffordshire, land agent, re the

identity of the Westwood Estate, Leek, Staffs, dated 20 October 1865.

Davenport; Leech; Cave; Daintry;

Grey; Egerton; Williamson;

Sneyd; Alcock; Atkinson;

Challinor;


322 1871 Requisitions as to title and answers re the sale of the Hillswood Farm, Leek,

Staffordshire by Davenport to Argyles. Dated 18 April 1871

Davenport; Argyles; Challinor; Leek, Staffordshire;

323 1871 Further requisitions as to title and answers re the sale of the Hillswood

Farm, Leek, Staffordshire by Davenport to Argyles. Dated 18 April 1871

Davenport; Argyles; Challinor;

Leech; Cooper;


324 1871 Conditions for the sale of Dieulacress Abbey Estate, Leek, Staffordshire on

12 January 1871 by Messrs Edwards & Son, at the Railway Hotel, stoke-

on-Trent. Includes a printed sales catalogue with plan. Includes pencil notes

showing that one of the purchasers was Brealey acting as agent for Frank

Atkinson Argyles.

Bailey; Critchley; Cope; Martin;

Bull; Nixon; Brunt; Mountford;

Brough; Carter; Hammersley;

Challinor; Burgh; Davenport;

Brealey; Argyles;


325 1867 Hillswood Farm, Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire. Davenport to Argyles.

Copy of the "Parcels2 [of land} in the reconveyance of 17 June 1867. Gives

details of Hillswood End and other lands, describing there location, size and

from whom purchased. Includes a loose copy of the plan on the

reconveyance of 1867.

Davenport; Argyles; Hulme;

Pimlot; Thornycroft; Chorley;

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326 1860 Office copy of the order of exchange of lands in Leekfrith and Tittesworth,

Leek, Staffordshire between John Davenport of Westwood Hall, Leek,

Staffordshire and Mrs Elizabeth Atkinson of of Haregate, Leek, widow,

dated 23 February 1860. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Single sheet

carrying the Inclosure Commissioners' stamp and incorporating a coloured

plan and a schedule of lands.

Davenport; Atkinson; Critchlow;

Birch;


327 1871 Conveyance of the Hillswood Farm, Leek, Staffordshire by the Reverend

George Horaatio Devnport of Foxley, Herefordshire to Frank Atkinson

Argyles of Eversley, Milnthorpe, Westmorland, dated 15 July 1871.

Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Includes coloured and indexed plan of

the farm.


Critchlow; Searight;


Milnthorpe, Westmorland.

328 1871 Deed of covenant for the production of deeds relating to Hills Wood Farm,

Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire, between the Reverend George Horatio

Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire and Frank Atkinson Argyles of

Milnthorpe, Westmorland, dated 15 Jule 1871. Vellum, signed, sealed and

stamped. This includes a schedule of deeds 1829-1871.


Critchlow; Searight; Hinckes;

Daintry; Salt; Lennox; Arkwright;

Wigram; Longley; Parnell; Leech;



329 1871 Deed of covenant for the production of deeds between the Frank Atkinson

Argyles of Milnthorpe, Westmorland and John Brough of Leek, Stafforshire

dated 22 December 1871. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. This

includes a schedule of deeds 1829-1871.

Brough; Davenport; Argyles;

Hulme; Critchlow; Searight;

Hinckes; Daintry; Salt; Lennox;

Arkwright; Wigram; Longley;

Parnell; Leech;




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330 1871 Abstract of the title of the Reverend George Horatio Davenport of Foxley,

Herefordshire to Hillswood Farm, Leekfrith, Leek, Staffordshire -lot 2 in

the particulars annexed to the contract for sale to Frank Argyles. Title runs

from the 1722. Gives detailed descriptions of the lands (including Franklins

and Upper Foker Farm), outlines the wills of Davenport and Hinckes

families etc. Genealogical and local history interest. 35 pages.

Davenport; Daintry; Hinckes;

Holyoake; Cruso; West; Salt;

Mills; Heaton; Williamson;

Collins; Stephenson; Pigot;

Hollins; Lankford; Mills; Stafford;

Kenyon; Greenwoolers; Tatton;

Glover; Austin; Parr; Fenton;

Ridgway; Parker; Hodgetts;

Gnosall; Lee; Birtles; Rider;

Norris; Sykes; Tomlinson;

Johnson; Bowman; Salt; Chorley;

Lennox; Critchlow; Welles;

Wright; Furnivall; Lyon;

Wilkinson; Touchett; Bailie;


331 Copy of the plan on the order for exchange [Davenport} Davenport; Leek, Staffordshire;

332 1855 Copy plan on the agreement of 1 December 1855 with the Staffordshire

Potteries Waterworks Company.

Davenport; Atkinson; Leek, Staffordshire;

333 1871 Copy reconveyance by Henry Tichborne Davenport and Charles Hanbury

Lennox to the Reverend George Henry Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire,

dated 14 July 1871.

Davenport; Lennox; Shaw;

Cooper; Butler;


334 1865 Copy of the Reverend George Horatio Davenport's succession account

1865. This gives brief description of the Westwood Hall Estate, Leek,

Staffordshire inherited and the annual rental and repair cost.

Davenport; Leek, Staffordshire;

335 1795 The Pickwood Estate. Indenture of lease dated 5 March 1795 between John

Shaw Reade of Congleton, mercer and cotton manufacturer and Thomas

Fenton Grosvenor of Leek, Staffordshire. The lease was for 99 years at a

yearly rent of £26 plus £3 for every 5 days work of land Grosvenor

ploughed and sowed with corn, grain, potatoes or other roots. Paper, signed,

sealed and stamped.

Reade; Hall; Grosvenor; Congleton, wilmslow, Cheshire; Leek,

Staffordshire;


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336 1886 Draft conveyance of parts of the Cliffe Park Estate, Rudyard, Horton,

Staffordshire by Sir William John Walker Baynes, Bart., and others to

William Challinor and Thomas Shaw both of Leek, Staffordshire, dated 18

May 1886. Includes a plan of the lands. Conveyance gave rights to use boat

on and fish in Rudyard Lake (reservoir).

Baynes; Prescott; Chapman;

Greene; Hansen; Challinor; Shaw;

Boothman; Bostock;Allcard;

Marsh; Cutliffe; Mowbray;

Pinchard; Lydekker; Munro;

Chrimes; Holdsworth;

Rudyard, Horton, Leek, Shelton,

Staffordshire; London;

337 1885 Abstract of the title of the trustees of the will of Miss F. Bostock to the

Cliffe Park Estate, Rudyard, Horton, Staffordshire in the case of Bostock v

Chrimes in the High Court of Chancery 1824 -1874-. Gives details of the

fields with acreages, the state of the land in 1832, names of fields and

tenants. Farms mentioned include Dairy Haouse Farm, Cony Green Farm;

Rea Cliffe Farm, Cliffe Park and Birch Tree Farm.

Bostock; Haworth; Edmundstone;

Bowyer; Harvey; Harrop; Dixon;

Melville;

Rudyard, Horton, Leek, Shelton,


338 1877 Press copy abstract of proceedings in the case of Bostock v Chrimes in the

High Court of Chancery 1877. B. 349. Re a claim for partition and sale of

the Cliffe Park Estate, Rudyard, Horton, Staffordshire.

Bostock; Chrimes; Holdsworth; Rudyard, Horton, Leek, Shelton,


339 Plan (from sales catalogue) of the Cliffe Park Estate, Horton, Staffordshire

Lots 12 to 38 -shows Rea Cliffe Farm and gives owners of adjacent lands.

Bostock; Gaunt; Rudyard, Horton, Leek, Shelton,


340 1885 Two copy documents relating to Bostock v Chrimes in the High Court of

Chancery 1877.B.349 dated 3rd and 18th November 1885 respectively. One

is an order to pay in purchase money the other the receipt for £385 paid by

William Challinor.

Bostock; Chrimes; Challinor;

Chitty; Holdsworth; Smith; Shaw;

Leek, Horton, Staffordshire;

341 1886 Draft conveyance of two pieces of land formerly part of the Cliffe Park

Estate, Rudyard Lake, Horton, Staffordshire by William Challinor and

Thomas Shaw of Leek, Staffordshire, solicitors, to the North Staffordshire

Railway Company, dated 26 May 1886. Includes a plan showing owners of

adjacent lands. Restrictions on the use of the lands, one piece of which is

described as "building allotment".

Bostock; Challinor; Shaw; Munro;

Gaunt; Baynes; Hanson;

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342 1885 Printed sale particulars and plans for the sale of the Cliffe Park Estate,

Rudyard Lake, Horton, Staffordshire, for sale on 13 August 1885. It shows

various farmes including the Coney Greave Farm, Barnes Lee Farm, Birch

Trees Farm, Rea Cliffe Farm, Dairy House Farm, and gives the names of

fields, occupiers, owners of adjacent property, etc. Pencilled notes on the

bidding and (successful?) bidders.

Bostock; Antrobus;

Shufflebotham; Munro; Watt;

Poole; Brassington; Locket;

Gaunt;Hulme; Heath; Corbishley;

Robinson; Walker; Goodwin;

Brealey; Boothman; Bowyer;

Shaw; Tatton;


343 Leek Townlands Account Book 1846 to 1913. Contains a printed list of the

schedule of lands and property belonging to the Leek Town Lands Trustees

dated 1902. A note on the front pages states that the book was produced and

and shown to Thomas Brealey in connection with his affidavit in a Leek

Town Lands case in Chancery in 1853. Rents, repairs, proposals for new

Town Hall, rental of rooms for use as a barracks (1842); purchase of new

fire engine; public meeting re new engine house in Cattle Market; use of

money from North Staffs Railway to be invested; Brook Street and other

improvements; acquisition of Debank Farm and other lands; donations

towards "technical instruction in the Town of Leek";

Tatton; Sillitoe; Simpson; Day;

Pegg; Rushton; Smith; Thompson;

Benson; Searight; Barlow; Cruso;

Rider; Brookes; Gaunt; Davenport;

Brunt; Gorman; Hammersley;

Gould; Challinor; Ward; Brough;

Wain; Nall; Alsop; Slack; Sleigh;

Many other names.


344 1662 Counterpart of a settlement on William son of William Plant of

Stoneycliffe, Leek, Staffs, between William Plant of Stoneycliffe, Leek,

Staffordshire to John Hulme of Thornecliffe, Leek and Thomas Mellor of

Worslowe, Alstonefield, dated 16 April 1662. Vellum, signed and sealed.

The settlement of Stoneycliffe was on William Plant the elder for life, then

half for the benefit of his wife Alice for life and half for the benefit of

Plant's son William. The entail of the estate passed to the heirs male of

William and if there were none, then to William Plant the elder's second son

James and then to James's first son and so on. Plant family genealogical

interest.

Plant; Hulme; Mellor; Billinge;

Weston; Fowall;

Alstonefield, Leek, Staffordshire;

345 1848 Township of Leek & Lowe, merger of rent charge by Nathan Davenport of

Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer and Isaac Hammond of Leek,

devisees of the late Samuel Milward dated March 1848. Vellum, signed

and sealed.

Davenport; Hammond; Milward;

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346 1748 Assignment of severall mortgage terms in trust to "attend the inheritance of

Waterslacks Estate, Butterton, Staffordshire, between John Gibbs of

Wetton, Staffordshire and Anthony Wright of Tideswell, Derbyshire,

(executors of the will of William Mellor of The Gate, Butterton,deceased,

and Anthony Hall of Grindon, Staffs and William & Richard Fallowes of

Broadhay, Cheadle, Staffordshire, dated 28 May 1748. Velllum, signed,

sealed and stamped-decorative part heading.This outlines the various

mortgages listing the lands etc.

Fallowes; Mellor; Berreford;

Cantrell; Chadwick; Hall; Gibbs;

Wright;

Tideswell, Derbyshire;Wetton, Butterton,

Alstonefield, Grindon, Staffordshire;

347 1748 Conveyance of Waterslacks Estate, Butterton, Staffordshire by Richard

Fallowes of bRoston, Derbyshire, butcher, son and heir of Richard

Fallowes of Waterslacks, Butterton, Staffordshire, Margaret his wife to

William Fallowes of Broadhay, Cheadle, Staffordshire, dated 28 May

1748. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Decorated part heading.

Fallowes; Roston, Derbyshire; Butterton, Cheadle,

Staffordshire.

348 1748 Conveyance of an interest in the Waterslacks Estate, Butterton,

Staffordshire by the sisters and co-heiresses of John Chadwick of

Townhead, Grindon, Staffordshire, deceased and others to William

Fallowes of Broadhay, Cheadle, Staffordshire, dated 28 May 1748.

Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped. Decorated part heading. The heiresses

were Mary wife of Christopher Tomlinson of Sturston, Derbyshire, Martha

Taylor, widow, Ellen wife of Anthony Hall of Grindon, Staffordshire.

Fallowes; Chadwick; Tomlinson;

Taylor; Hall;

Roston, Sturston, Derbyshire; Butterton,

Cheadle, Grindon, Woolstanton,

Staffordshire.

349 1898 Conveyance of Waterslacks Farm, Butteron, Stafforshire from Arthur

Fitzherbert Wright of Aldercar Hall, Langley Mill, Nottinghamshire and

Alfred Ernest Dickinson of Wetton-under-Edeg, Gloucestershire, to

William Henry Rider of Basford Hurst, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, silk

manufacturer, dated 6 May 1898. Vellum, signed, sealed and stamped.

Includes a plan and schedules of lands and deeds. Lands part of a

Fitzherbert marriage settlement.

Fallowes; Fitzherbert; Castle;

Wright; Dickinson; Trinder;

Williams; Sillito;

Butterton, Cheddleton, Staffordshire;

Langley Mill, Nottinghamshire; Wetton-

under-Edge, Gloucestershire;


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350 1912 Conveyance of Waterslacks Farm, Butteron, Stafforshire from Arthur

Charles Bunting of Uttocxeter, brewer, Charles Henry Cowlishaw of

Uttoxeter and Thomas Smith Myatt of Leek, Staffordshire, silk

manufacturer, trustees of William Henry Rider of Basford Hurst,

Cheddleton, Staffordshire, silk manufacturer, to Arthur John Hambleton of

Butterton, Staffordshire, dated 23 December 1898. Vellum, signed, sealed

and stamped. Includes a schedule of lands.

Rider; Bunting; Cowlishaw;

Hambleton; Myatt;

Butterton, Leek, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire;

351 1912 Abstract of the title of W. H. Rider to the Waterslacks Farm, Butterton,

Staffordshire, dated 1912. Contains schedule of lands.

Rider; Wright; Dickinson;

Fitzherbert; Castle; Salt;


Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire;

Langley Mill, Nottinghamshire.

352 1961 Abstract of the title of trustees of the will of Arthur John Hambleton to the

Waterslacks Farm, Butterton, Staffordshire, dated 1961. Contains plan and

schedule of lands.

Rider; Wright; Dickinson; Salt;

Hambleton; Bunting; Myatt;

Cowlishaw; Edwards;


Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire;

Langley Mill, Nottinghamshire.

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