Catalogue

26 March 1802 (1) William Tarn of Bishop Wearmouth, painter and glazier (2) Thomas Scarth, late of Flatts but now of Hendon-House in the parish of Bishop Wearmouth, esq., and Thomas Thompson of Bishop Wearmouth, gent. (3) Thomas Usher of Sunderland near the Sea, mason (4) William Maude Ogden of Millfield in the parish of Bishop Wearmouth, gent., and Ralph Weatherburn of Numbers Garth in the parish of Bishop Wearmouth, plumber Deed of covenant to surrender from (1) and (2), with the assent of (3), to (4) a piece of copyhold land called Sunniside in Bishop Wearmouth [boundaries specified] with messuage in trust to raise rent and £240 with interest, and then in trust for (3) Consideration: £240 Rent: £2 9s.

27 March 1802 (1) William Tarn of Bishop Wearmouth, painter and glazier, Thomas Scarth, late of Flats, but now of Hendon House in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, esq., and Thomas Thompson of Bishop Wearmouth, gent. (2) William Maude Ogden of Millfield in the parish of Bishop Wearmouth, gent., and Ralph Weatherburn of Numbers Garth in the parish of Bishop Wearmouth, plumber Copy surrender of a piece of copyhold land at Bishop Wearmouth called Sunniside [boundaries specified] with messuage upon trust to raise rent and £240 with interest Fine: 3d. Rent: £2 9s.

4 February 1803 (1) Thomas Usher of Sunderland near the Sea, mason (2) Michael Wiseman of Sunderland near the Sea, gent., and Roger Nixon of Hylton Ferry, mason Agreement that the messuage in Norfolk Street, Bishop Wearmouth [boundaries specified] and personal effects was surrendered from (1) to (2) upon trust to pay the debts of (1) Consideration: 10s.

27 January 1804 (1) Michael Wiseman of Sunderland near the Sea, gent., and Roger Nixon of Hylton Ferry, mason (2) William Maude Ogden of Millfield in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, gent., and William Purvis of Chester-le-Street, tallow chandler (3) Ralph Weatherburn of Numbers Garth in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, plumber Deed of covenant between (1) and (3) that (1) will surrender to (2), upon trust to raise rent, in trust for (3), a piece of copyhold land in Bishopwearmouth called Sunniside [boundaries specified] and messuage Consideration: £275 3s. 11d. and £17 16s. 1d. Rent: £2 9s.

Abstract of surrender and deed of covenant, dated 4 February 1803, of a piece of land in Bishop Wearmouth called Sunniside, 1804

10 February 1806 (1) Ralph Weatherburn of Bishopwearmouth, plumber (2) Lewis Handey of Bishopwearmouth, gent. Deed leading the uses of a surrender from (2) to (1) of a piece of copyhold land in Bishopwearmouth called Sunniside [boundaries specified] and messuage Consideration: £120 with interest

28 January 1815 (1) Lewis Handey of Bishop Wearmouth, gent. (2) William Purvis of Chester-le-Street, tallow chandler Surrender of a piece of copyhold land at Bishop Wearmouth called Sunniside [boundaries specified] in trust for Ralph Weatherburn of Bishop Wearmouth, plumber Fine: 3d. Rent: £2 9s.

3 March 1818 (1) Ralph Weatherburn of Bishop Wearmouth, plumber, and William Purvis of Chester-le-Street, tallow chandler (2) Henry Blyth of Bishop Wearmouth, gent. Copy of a mortgage by surrender of a piece of copyhold land in Bishop Wearmouth called Sunniside [boundaries specified] and messuage Consideration: £200 Fine: 3d. Rent: £2 9s.

7 November 1827 (1) Henry Blyth late of Bishopwearmouth, gent., deceased (2) Andrew Blyth of Houghton-le-Spring, yeoman Copy admittance to a piece of copyhold land in Bishopwearmouth called Sunniside [boundaries specified] and messuage Fine: 3d. Rent: £2 9s.

Declaration of Benjamin Collenette of Plaidene Place in the Island of Guernsey, surgeon, that William Kight, formerly of Norwich, mercer and draper, afterwards of the City of London and late of Guernsey, deceased, received an annuity of £70 from James Dannatt of Sunderland, plumber, 5 November 1853 Includes: extract from the Register of Burials of the parish of St. Peter-Port, Guernsey, concerning the burial of William Kight, October 1853

15 May 1856 (1) James Dannatt of Bishop Wearmouth, plumber (2) Nicholas Appleby Spoor, Captain of Her Majesty's 25th Regiment of Foot Mortgage of No. 3 Norfolk Street, Bishop Wearmouth [boundaries specified] Consideration: £300 Rent: £2 9s.

12 June 1857 (1) James Dannatt of Bishop Wearmouth, plumber (2) Margaret Turnbull of Bishop Wearmouth, widow (3) Nicholas Appleby Spoor, Captain of Her Majesty's 25th Regiment of Foot Conveyance from (1) to (2) of a copyhold messuage called No. 3, Norfolk Street, Bishop Wearmouth [boundaries specified] subject to a mortgage debt of £300 due to (3) Consideration: £140 Rent: £2 9s.

14 May 1866 (1) Margaret Turnbull of Sunderland, widow (2) Francis Boulton of Sunderland, master mariner Conveyance of a copyhold messuage called No. 3 Norfolk Street, Bishopwearmouth [boundaries specified] subject to the payment of a mortgage debt of £300 and interest Consideration: £220 Rent: £2 9s.

Abstract of title, from 7 November 1827 to 30 August 1854, to a piece of copyhold land in Norfolk Street, Bishop Wearmouth, called Sunniside,1866

31 August 1883 (1) Francis Boulton of Sunderland, master mariner (2) George Woodman of Sunderland, optician (3) Thomas Chilton of Seaham Harbour, brewer and spirit merchant, and William Laws of Newcastle upon Tyne, gent. Mortgage by (1) to (3) at the request of (2) of a piece of land formerly called Sunniside and now called Norfolk Street in Bishopwearmouth [boundaries specified] and messuage formerly known as No. 3 and now known as No. 13 Consideration: £285 and £400 Rent: £2 9s. and £2 5s. 10d.

13 September 1886 (1) George Woodman of Sunderland, optician (2) Cuthbert Hutchinson of Rock Lodge, Roker, Sunderland, shipowner, and John Jackson of Sunderland, optician Conveyance of a piece of copyhold land with messuage in Bishopwearmouth called No. 13 Norfolk Street [boundaries specified] subject to the equity of redemption of £400 Consideration: £410

8 June 1888 (1) Cuthbert Hutchinson of Rock Lodge, Roker, near Sunderland, shipowner, and John Jackson of Sunderland, optician (2) Thomas Stockdale, shipbroker, and Charles Wright, solicitor, both of Sunderland Mortgage of a piece of land with messuage called No. 13 Norfolk Street, Sunderland [boundaries specified] Consideration: £337 8s.

Copy of will of John Jackson of No. 13 Norfolk Street, Sunderland, optician, dated 31 October 1888, devising his real and personal estate in trust for his wife Dorothy Jackson and his children, Thomas Preston Jackson, Elizabeth Jane Jackson Mary Ann Jackson and 'C.H.' Jackson, [post 1892]

23 June 1914 (1) Thomas Stockdale of Sunderland, gent. (2) Caroline Anne Hutchinson of Rock Lodge, Roker, near Sunderland, widow; Cuthbert Hutchinson of Golder's Green, London, engineer; William Gylby Hutchinson, naval architect; Ernest Hutchinson, shipowner, and Ralph Preston Jackson, cashier, all of Rock Lodge, Roker, near Sunderland (3) Dorothy Jackson, widow, and Thomas Preston Jackson, compass maker and adjuster, both of Sunderland, and Ralph Preston Jackson, aforesaid Conveyance by (1) to (2) and (3) of a messuage called No. 13, Norfolk Street, Sunderland, upon trusts specified in the wills of Cuthbert Hutchinson 'the Father' and John Jackson Consideration: £337 8s. Rent: £2 9s. and £2 5s.10d.

1 January 1807 (1) Arthur Mowbray of Durham, esq.; Joseph Bulmer of South Shields, esq.; Christopher Blackett of Newcastle upon Tyne, esq.; John Chapman of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant; Matthew Atkinson of Newcastle upon Tyne, insurance broker; James Forster of Carlisle, Cumberland, banker; John Molineux of Newcastle upon Tyne, spirit merchant; George Riddell of Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, merchant; and Robert Dick of Coldstream, Scotland, gent. (2) John Forster of Medomsley, gent. Lease and release (lease missing) of a messuage and garth at Medomsley Consideration: £20 and £62

Copy of will, dated 18 March 1845, of Richard Forster of Medomsley, stone mason, devising his land and houses at Medomsley to his wife, Ann Forster, and to his children William, Jane, James, Hannaugh and Elizabeth, n.d.

Declaration of William Forster of Medomsley, mason, concerning his title to a tenement and garth in Medomsley which he intends to mortgage, 18 August 1857

27 August 1857 (1) William Forster of Medomsley, mason (2) Francis Donnison, merchant; Robert Ward, printer; and George Arthur Crow, engineer, all of Newcastle upon Tyne, trustees of the Newcastle and Gateshead Permanent Benefit Building Society Mortgage of two messuages with yard and gardens on the front street in Medomsley Consideration: £100

20 July 1863 (1) William Forster of Medomsley, mason (2) Francis Blueitt of Annfield Plain, china merchant Mortgage of four tenements with yard and garden at the high end of Medomsley [boundaries specified] Consideration: £100

12 April 1864 (1) William Forster of Medomsley, mason (2) Francis Blueitt of Annfield Plain, china merchant (3) William Walton of Medomsley, overman Conveyance by (1) and (2) to (3) of four tenements with yard and plot of ground at the high end of Medomsley [boundaries specified] Consideration: £100 by (3) to (2) and £165 by (3) to (1)

14 April 1864 (1) William Walton of Medomsley, overman (2) Robert Marshall of Highgate, watchmaker; Thomas Patterson of Shotley Bridge, engineman; Matthew Hetherington of Blackhill, draper; and Edward Spencer of Blackhill, draper; (Trustees of the Derwent Benefit Building Society) Mortgage of four tenements with yard and plot of ground at the high end of Medomsley [boundaries specified] Consideration: £240

21 September 1866 (1) John Rawson Smith of Delves Lane in the parish of Lanchester, plumber, and Elizabeth, his wife (2) William Walton of Medomsley, overman (3) William Taylor of Medomsley, builder Conveyance of a messuage at the high end of Medomsley [boundaries specified] Consideration: £150 by (3) to (1) and 5s. by (3) to (2)

Certificate that Elizabeth, wife of John Rawson Smith, freely consented to the deed made the 21 September 1866 to which she was a party, 22 September 1866

29 September 1866 (1) William Taylor of Medomsley, builder (2) John Fewster of Newlands, Northumberland, farmer Mortgage of messuage and outoffices at the high end of Medomsley [boundaries specified] Consideration: £100

7 December 1872 (1) William Walton of Medomsley, overman (2) Rev. Edward James Midgley of Medomsley Hall, Medomsley, vicar of Medomsley, a widower Conveyance of four tenements with yard and plot of ground at the high end of Medomsley [boundaries specified] Consideration: £400

Genealogical notes concerning the Taylor family, especially Mary Elizabeth Taylor (née Midgley), d. 1855, post 1873

13 February 1875 (1) John Taylor, formerly of Westminster, Middlesex, now of Surbiton, Surrey, civil engineer (2) William Moore of Blackhill, gent. (3) Ann Robson of Medomsley, widow Conveyance by (1) at the request of (2) to (3) of messuages and yards at the high end of Medomsley in the parish of Lanchester [boundaries specified] Consideration: £415 by (2) to (1) and £60 by (3) to (2)

13 February 1875 (1) Ann Robson of Medomsley, widow (2) John Clayton of Newcastle upon Tyne, esq. Mortgage of two freehold messuages with yards at the high end of Medomsley in the parish of Lanchester [boundaries specified] Consideration: £300 Rent: £20 p.a.

10 December 1875 (1) Anthony Fewster of Newlands, Northumberland, yeoman, and John Fewster of Newlands, yeoman (2) William Taylor of Medomsley, builder (3) Rev. Edward James Midgley of Medomsley Hall, Medomsley, vicar of Medomsley, a widower Conveyance by (1) and (2) to (3) of messuage and outoffices at the high end of Medomsley [boundaries specified] Consideration: £100 by (3) to (1), at the request of (2), and £170 by (3) to (1)

Abstract of title, from 1 January 1807 to 10 December '1872', to a messuage and garth at Medomsley, 1875

Conditions of sale of two houses and shops at Medomsley by Ann Robson to William Robinson of Medomsley, innkeeper, for £480, to be completed on 13 February 1878

Abstract of title, dated 13 February 1875, to two freehold messuages at Medomsley in the parish of Lanchester belonging to Ann Robson and in mortgage to John Clayton to secure £300 and interest, 1878

14 November 1818 (1) John Ainsley of Hexham, Northumberland, butcher (2) William Ainsley Admittance to 2a. in the Westfields of Hexham called the Reans [boundaries specified] Fine: 10d. Rent: 10d.

19 May 1830 (1) David King of Hexham, Northumberland, draper (2) John Todd of the Tofts in the chapelry of Haydonbridge in the parish of Warden, Northumberland, gent. Lease and release (release missing) of an inn with stable, outhouses and garden at Quatre Bras near Hexham [boundaries specified]

8 February 1848 (1) Smith Stobart of Hexham, Northumberland, tanner (2) William Waters of Quatre Bras near Hexham, gent. (3) William Stainthorpe of Hexham, sheriff's officer Release from (1) to (2) for life and after the determination of that estate to (3) for the life of (2) of a freehold close of 2a. 2r. in the West Fields of Hexham (or 'Gilligate Fields') called the Reins [boundaries specified] and covenant that (1) will surrender to (2) 1a. of copyhold land in the Reins [boundaries specified] Consideration: £275 and £45 by (2) to (1) Rent (for copyhold): 6d. p.a.

8 February 1848 (1) Smith Stobart of Hexham, Northumberland, tanner, and Jane, his wife (2) William Waters of Quatre Bras, near Hexham, gent. Copy surrender and admittance to 1a. in the West Fields of Hexham (or Gilligate Fields') called the Reins [boundaries specified] for life Consideration: £45 Rent: 6d. p.a. Enfranchised: 7 July 1894

29 December1852 (1) John Peter Featherston of Cornhill in the City of London, esq. (2) John Young of Hexham, Northumberland, yeoman Mortgage of 3a. 25p. of land in the Westfields of Hexham called the Wineswell Reins [boundaries specified] Consideration: £200

Particulars and conditions of sale concerning a freehold farm called Windy Hill in the parish of Hexham, Northumberland, and a copyhold close called the Reins near Hexham, to be sold by auction on 21 September 1858

Copy purchase agreement concerning the sale by John Peter Featherston, gent., to Thomas Stainthorpe, surgeon, of copyhold land near Hexham, Northumberland, called the Reins (93a. 25p.) [boundaries specified] for £375, 23 September 1858

Abstract of title, from 10 and 11 November 1805 to 29 December 1852, of John Peter Featherston, esq., to the Reins in the Townfields of Hexham, Northumberland, 1858

Notes comprising answers to requisitions and observations on the abstract of title concerning the sale by John Peter Featherstone, gent., to Thomas Stainthorpe, surgeon, of copyhold land near Hexham, Northumberland, called the Reins, 3 December 1858

Letter from Bell, Bradwell and Bell of Bow Church Yards, London, to Isaac Baty, concerning the title of copyhold land near Hexham, Northumberland, called the Reins, to be sold by John Peter Featherston, gent., to Thomas Stainthorpe, surgeon, 15 December 1858

1 March 1859 (1) John Young of Hexham, Northumberland, yeoman (2) John Peter Featherston of Ottawa, Canada West, gent. (3) Thomas Stainthorpe of Hexham, surgeon Quitclaim by (1) at the request of (2) and conveyance by (2) to (3) of 3a. 25p. of land in the West Fields of Hexham called the Wineswell Reins [boundaries specified] Consideration: £200 by (3) to (1) at the request of (2) and £175 by (3) to (2)

15 March 1869 (1) William Rochester, the younger, of The Linnels, husbandman, deceased (2) Ann Hedley of Quatre Bras near Hexham, Northumberland, gent. Copy admission to 2a. of copyhold land in the West Fields of Hexham called the Reins [boundaries specified] Fine: 10d. Rent: 10d. p.a.

15 March 1860 (1) Ann Hedley of Quatre Bras near Hexham, Northumberland, wife of William Hedley, gent., and Henry William Ornsby of Darlington, gent. (2) Thomas Stainthorpe of Hexham, doctor of medicine Surrender and admittance of 2a.1r.14p. of copyhold land called the Reins near Hexham [boundaries specified] Consideration: £289 10s. Fine: 10d. Rent: 19d. p.a. Enfranchised: 7 July 1894

Abstract of title, from 29 December 1852 to 21 March 1863, to land in the Westfields of Hexham, Northumberland, mortgaged by Thomas Stainthorpe of Hexham, doctor of medicine, to the Hexham Benefit Building Society, 21 March 1863

21 March 1863 (1) Stainthorpe of Hexham, Northumberland, doctor of medicine (2) George Robinson, gent., William Ellis, painter and glazier, and William Cooke, stationer, all of Hexham, trustees of the Hexham Benefit Building Society Mortgage of 3a.25p. of land in the Westfields of Hexham called the Wineswell Reins [boundaries specified] Consideration: £300

Rules of the Hexham Benefit Building Society, 1869

4-5 March 1833 (1) James Kirsopp of Hexham Spital, Northumberland, esq., and Thomas Leadbitter, late of Hexham, Northumberland, and now of Staples Inn, Middlesex, gent. (2) William Potts of Hexham, glover, and Ann, his wife, Thomas Potts of Hexham, glover, and Arnold Potts of Hexham, joiner (3) Margaret Carr of Hexham, widow, and Thomas Carr of Hexham, tailor (4) William Waters of Hexham, gent. (5) William Carr of Hexham, gent. Lease and release by (1), with the consent of (2) and (3), to (4) for life (and after the determination of the estate to (5) for the life of (4) of a freehold close in the West Fields of Hexham called the Reins Consideration: £405 by (4) to (1) and 5s. by (4) to (2) and (3)

Two notes concerning the title of copyhold land near Hexham, Northumberland, called the Reins, to be sold by John Peter Featherston, gent., to Thomas Stainthorpe, surgeon, 27 December 1858 and c.1858-59