Catalogue

Grant of an annuity of £2 for life of Thomas Richardson, 1807

Residuary statement of effects of Jane Piper of Allonby, 1826

Account of the trusts under the will of John Elliot, 1830

Bond from Isaac Hailes and others to Sir Walter Farquahar, 1842

Marriage Settlement (copy) of John Hodgkin and Ann Backhouse, 1843

Particulars of property comprised in and subject to the settlement made on the marriage of John Hodgkin and Ann Backhouse, 1843

Probate of Will of John Hodgkin, snr., 1845

Correspondence re Backhouse Trust, 1853

Correspondence etc. between John and Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin re will, marriage settlement, division of funds, 1873

Insurance policy for property formerly belonging to Thomas Hodgkin, 1875

Will of John Hodgkin, jnr., 1875

List of securities received from John Hodgkin, 1875

Papers re estate of John Hodgkin, 1876

Papers re Jonathan Edward Hodgkin's Trust arising out of John Hodgkin's estate, 1876

Release of the Trustees of the settlement made on the marriage of Thomas Hodgkin (1850), 1876

List of documents held by trustees of Edmund Backhouse, 1906

Papers re probate of will of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, 1926

Papers etc. re Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin's life interest under the will of Hannah C. Backhouse, 1926

Papers re funeral and estate of Mrs. Sarah Charlotte Hodgkin, 1929

Journal of Trustees, 1868-1881

Deed of settlement of trust by John Pease, 1865 and appointment of new trustees etc., 1897, 1911

List of deeds and documents connected with the trust (see documents relating to Great Ayton, D/Ho/F 70-91), n.d.

Succession and legacy receipts for real and personal property under will of John Pease, 1869-1870

Papers, etc. re legacy under will of Grace Jowitt, 1870-1871

Marriage settlement etc. of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin and Mary Anna Pease, 1873

Mary Anna and Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin's indemnities to trustees for renouncing shares in their favour, 1870-1895

Statement of receipts and payments on real estate by trustees, 1868-1898

Papers re a mortgage on 'Shelly's' Darlington,1903

Papers re a legacy under the will of Robert Arthington, 1910

Notes for drawing up will, 1924-1926

Draft will, n.d., former will, 1923., will (copy)of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, 1926

Will (copy), 1926

Papers re estate and will, 1926

Corrected affidavit of estate, 1929

Certificate of indemnity from press-gang for Henry Piper of Whitehaven signed by Lord Anson, 1755

Marriage certificate of John Hodgkin and Ann Backhouse, 1843

Letter (copy) from John Hodgkin to Sir George Grey re the (Ireland) Encumbered Estates Bill and other relief measures, 1848

The Case of the Baron de Bode by John Hodgkin, 1860

Sundry bills of Mary Anna Pease, 1860-1861

Annual reports, regulations etc. of the Darlington British Workmen's Public House (President, Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin); includes an abstract of information re Cabman's Shelters, 1873-1877

Sotheby's catalogues for the sale of Jonathan Edward Hodgkin's collections of letters, medals, books, works of art etc., 1914

Personal account book, 1919-1928

Berkshire Chronicle (containing report of the wedding of Marabel Hodgkin and A. R. Gardiner), 1932

Copy letter books of John Hodgkin, 1847-1868

Copy letter books of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin (many written from Australia), 1866-1868

Various papers, n.d.

British Telegraph Co., circulars and correspondence, 1853

Overend and Gurney Ltd., correspondence and other papers re liquidation, 1866-1867

Friends Public School Co., share certificates and receipts, 1889-1893

Tees Conservancy Commission, papers relating to a loan of £600, 1898

Island Mutual Development Co. Wading River, Long Island, correspondence, plan, share certificate 1913-1914

Gribdale Mining Co. Ltd., notice to Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Hodgkin determining certain rights referred to in deed dated 30 December 1911, 1926

Deeds etc. relating to a messuage, cottages and closes of land formerly belonging to Mr. Robert Pybus, 1735-1855

Deeds etc. relating to one messuage (the site of Well Cottage and part of Almshouse land), 1738-1859

Deeds etc. relating to two messuages on the Green formerly belonging to Mr. Phillip Heselton, 1859

Memorandum of sundry things belonging to Wm. Flounders in the garden at Ayton, 1874

Plans showing proposed line of water-pipes to Cleveland Lodge and Ayton School and part of Great Ayton as copied into the minute book of the Agricultural School General Meeting, 1874

Estate journal, 1879-1882

Account book for Undercliffe and Southbrook estates, 1897-1899

Cleveland Lodge Estate, correspondence with the Post Office re use of certain easements and copy of plan, 1903

Agreement for water supply to Primitive Methodist Chapel, 1908

Leases of Southbrook, Little Ayton, 1905, 1910

Agreement, correspondence and plans re retention of telegraph poles at Ayton Banks, 1914

Conditions on land at Little Ayton sold to Mr. Thomas Dixon Brown, 1922

Grant of water supply, 1922

Correspondence, plan and report by William Lyall of Darlington re compensation due for Whinstone workings at Great Ayton, 1926

Estate ledgers, 1926-1931

List of deeds relating to Ayton Estate (Mary Anna Pease's Trustees), n.d.

Property tax payable by Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin at Great Ayton, n.d.

Plan of Woodburn and Elmridge estates, Darlington, 1873

Extracts from diaries (made by John Pease),1841-1857

Various papers including: Testimonial (printed), 1856; address (printed) from Darlington and Stockton Times, 1857; obituary notice from Darlington and Stockton Times, 1858; address (copy) by Edward Pease and Josiah Forster to the Minister of Marine and Colonies of France respecting the slave trade, n.d.

Extracts and copies of letters made by or for Edward and John Pease, 1793-1858

Notebooks and diaries, 1817-1845

Railway and Colliery Memo Book formerly belonging to Edward Pease jnr., used by John Pease as rough book in Thomas Richardson's Trust, 1836-1851

Passport and visiting card, 1858, and notes for letters, 1833-1864

Reports, memoranda, addresses to Meetings, etc. 1838-1858

Notes for letters, 1846-1866

Prints of East Mount, Darlington, 1849

Correspondence and other papers relating to the establishment of Darlington Cottage hospital, 1863

Various papers including: Maria Arthingtons's address on John and Sophia Pease's wedding, 1823; drawings of John Pease's fractured leg, 1842; invitation to funerals, 1845; poem to John Pease written by E. Cox, 1845; sundry accounts, 1833-1867; promissory note to Elizabeth Shildon, 1856; list of names and addresses of Friends in America, n.d.

Ireland; John and Sophia Pease; certificate, journal and correspondence, 1833-1834

France and Germany; Edward and John Pease; certificates, correspondence, letters of introduction, accounts and addresses to Meetings, 1842

America; John Pease; notice of Meetings in Salem, journal (2 copies) 1843-1845

America and Greenland; John Pease; list of expenditure in Greenland, 1864

Blackboy Colliery; correspondence, drafts of letters, reports, memoranda etc., 1840-1842

Derwent Iron Co.; correspondence and drafts of letters, 1857-1858. Letters to John Pease from: William Backhouse, 1857; Charles Bragg, 1858; David Dale, 1857-1858; Joseph Pease, 1857; Jonathan Priestman, 1857; J. Priestman jnr., 1857-1858; John Richardson, 1857-1858; R. Thompson, 1857

Henry Pease and Co.. Combers and Worsted Spinners, Darlington, Woolcombers wages, October to November, 1829; Report from Darlington and Stockton Times of a Tea-meeting at Henry Pease's Mill, 1857; Handbook for the bi-centenary of Henry Pease and Co., 1752-1952

Tees Coal Co., Statement of the claims of the Tees Coal Co. v Jonathan and Edward Backhouse by Joseph Taylor, 1838

Various papers including Poem written by Mary Richardson (later Pease), 1758; promissory note, 1801; dinner list at wedding of Edward Robson (d. 1819) and Jane Backhouse (1787-1873), 1815; memorial to Mary Pease, 1818-1820; poem to Edward Pease jnr., 1827; testimony to Rachel Pease, 1833; examination papers and results; Sophia and Mary Pease, 1846-1851; newspaper cutting re funeral of Mrs. Anna Pease, 1855; newspaper cutting re wedding of Henry Pease and Mary Lloyd, 1859; poem to Sophia Pease, 1861; memorial to Elizabeth Gibson (daughter of Edward Pease), 1866

Estates in or near Darlington belonging to the Pease family, 1829-1868

Engraving (copy) of illustration of George Stephenson at the house of Edward Pease, instructing Pease's daughters, Rachel and Elizabeth, in the art of embroidery (with accompanying explanatory note taken from the Life of George Stephenson by Samuel Smiles, n.d., c.1825-1830

List of annals and records connected with the town of Darlington and its near vicinity (1180-1773) compiled by Edward Pease, n.d., c.1850

Telegraph from Elizabeth Hodgkin, Great Malvern, to John Robinson, Horley, re health of Johnathan Hodgkin, 1857 (sent by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company - on the reverse, list of stations on the railway at which messages could be received and forwarded)

Historical outline (copy) of the Association of Edward Pease (1767-1858), Joseph Pease (1799-1872) and Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease (b. 1828), with the Industrial Development of South Durham and North Yorkshire and with the creation of the railway system, n.d., c.1903