Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1790 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Byers Green property of William Wright of Whitworth
Covering Dates: 1777-1838
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Catalogue Description
Records deposited:22 November 2010 Acc: 7693
Records relating to William Wright , Byers Green
The depositor of these documents believed that there may have been a connection with Thomas Wright of Byers Green, astronomer and mathematician (1711-1786)
Catalogue Contents
Ref: D/X 1790/1/1
7 May 1777
(1) Benjamin March of Durham, tallow chandler
(2) John Gordon, archdeacon of Lincoln
(3) William Wright of Whitworth, butcher
Conditional surrender of (2) to (1) of an estate and land in Byers Green to the sum of £150 by way of mortgage (3) to (1)
Witnessed by John Bradley, gent., deputy of Henry Wilkinson, esq., steward at the city of Durham, and William Hugall, gent., deputy of Henry Wilkinson
(parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref: D/X 1790/1/2Abstract of title, 17 December 1783, to an estate and land in Byers Green belonging to William Wright of Whitworth, to secure £170, n.d. [c. 1783]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1790/1/3Abstract of title, 5 August 1792- 25 July 1811, to premises in Byers Green in connection with a mortgage of Matthias Yates of Heworth to Thomas Coultherd of Newcastle upon Tyne, brewer to secure £300, n.d. [early 19th C.]
(2 papers)
John Maxey and Elizabeth Wright (Ref: D/X 1790/2-3)Ref: D/X 1790/2Letter from John Maxey, Bury to Elizabeth Wright, Elm Hill, Norwich, in which he describes his affection for her, 2 January 1813
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1790/3Excerpt from a marriage register of St Martin's church in Norwich, confirming that John Maxey married Martha Lincoln on 24 December 1838, n.d. [c. 1838]
(1 paper)
