Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 2316 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Deeds re 6 and 8 Church View, Heighington
Covering Dates: 1845-1964
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Deeds re 6 and 8 Church View, Heighington (Ref: D/X 2316/1/1-8)Ref: D/X 2316/1/1
9 August 1845
(1) Thomas Sowerby of Heighington, saddler
(2) John Sowerby of Primrose, farmer
(3) Robert Berkley of Bishop Auckland, yeoman
Mortgage for £140.00 by (1) to (3) of two cottages and an adjoining shop on the Town Street in Heighington now or formerly in the possession of Mary Taylor and John Cooper
Recites a surrender of 13 May 1841 of one cottage to the Lord of the Manor of Bondgate to the use of (2) in trust for (1)
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 2316/1/223 November 1868
(1) John Hutchinson of Heighington, grocer draper etc
(2) The Ministers and Trustees of the Primitive Methodist Body of Heighington and the surrounding district
Draft articles of agreement to open and convert a place of worship in the upper floors of two houses in Heighington
Consideration: £120 by (2) to (1)
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 2316/1/329 April 1869
(1) Robert Berkley of Bishop Auckland, yeoman
(2) John Hutchinson of Heighington, grocer
(3) Thomas Sowerby of Heighington, saddler
(4) Samuel Dresser of Heighington, labourer, Richard Moore of Heighington, shoemaker, Joseph Graham of Middridge, joiner, William Hull of Middridge, blacksmith, Henry Brown of Old Shildon, storekeeper, James Dodds of New Shildon, engine driver, Joseph Hodgson of New Shildon, engine overman, Joseph Martindale of New Shildon, engine driver, Robert Bolton of New Shildon, labourer, William Heslop of New Shildon, boiler smith, James Bendelow of New Shildon, overlooker, Watson Taylor of Eldon Lane, engine driver and Stephen Gladwin of Darlington, missionary (the Trustees)
(5) Adam Dodds of North Road, New Shildon, superintendent preacher of the Shildon Primitive Methodist Connexion circuit
Conveyance by (1) and (2), and with the permission of (3) who had previously contracted to purchase the premises from (2), of two cottages on the Town Street in Heighington formerly in the occupation of Mary Taylor and John Cooper and now of Ann Belwood and Mary Thompson, and a shop formerly used as a saddler's shop but now as a grocer's shop adjoining the cottages formerly in the occupation of (2) but now (3),
Consideration: £106 by (4) to (1) to redeem mortgage by (2) to (1), and £14 by (4) to (2)
Recites D/X 2316/1/1-2 and that the premises are to be used as a Primitive Methodist Chapel
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 2316/1/4Resignations by William Heslop, Choral House, Greenbank, Darlington and R Bolton as trustees of the Primitive Methodist Chapel and trust property at Heighington, 22-27 August 1914
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 2316/1/55 September 1914
Memorandum of appointment of new Trustees of the Primitive Methodist Chapel and house at Heighington
Includes lists of original trustees 29 April 1869: see D/X 2316/1/3 and new trustees: George Stabler of New Shildon, assurance agent; Thomas Alderson Martindale of New Shildon, clerk; William Watson Rutherford of New Shildon, gentleman; John George Whittaker of Shildon, assistant overseer; Frederick Stabler of New Shildon, clerk; James Biott Angus of Shildon, hardware salesman; Thomas Cree of New Shildon, clerk; Charles Douglas of New Shildon, builder and contractor; George Robson of New Shildon, engine driver; William Cree of New Shildon, machinist; Thomas Robinson of New Shildon, coal miner; John Lewis of New Shildon, boot and shoe dealer; Thomas William MacDonald of Shildon, coal miner; Charles Henry W Brown of New Shildon, salesman; Thomas William Pletts of Shildon, yeast merchant; Charles Henry Douglas of New Shildon, mason; William James Manners of New Shildon, boot and shoe dealer; and George Thomas Murray of New Shildon, boiler minder
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 2316/1/6Letters re the purchase and extinguishment of fee farm rents chargeable on the Primitive Methodist Church at Heighington by the Trustees of Heighington Primitive Methodist Church from George Stabler, 28 November 1916 - 4 October 1920
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 2316/1/7Papers re the sale of the cottage and chapel at Heighington by the Shildon Methodist Circuit to T W Theakston, who owns the adjoining property, 21 January - May 1932
(7 papers)
Ref: D/X 2316/1/8Abstract of title, 1932-1964 of numbers 6 and 8 Church View, Heighington, re the sale of the properties to John Henry Davison, 1964
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