Durham Record Office

Durham County Record Office: the official archive service for County Durham and Darlington

You are here: Home / Search options / Search the catalogue / Catalogue search results / Catalogue

Catalogue

Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 490 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Elwick, Middleton House Farm

Covering Dates: 1813-1922

Return to your search results

Catalogue Index

Use Expand image and Expanded image to reveal/hide the structure of the catalogue index (requires Javascript to be enabled in your internet browser options). Click to jump directly to information at a specific level of the catalogue.

Catalogue Description

7 December 1976
(Acc. 943 (D))

Catalogue Contents


Printed circular letter of the Land Tax Commissioners to Robert Smith concerning the rights of landowners to apply for a redemption in land tax under the Act of 53 Geo. III Cap. 123. n.d., c. 1813
(Paper, 4 folios)


Certificate of the contract for the redemption of the land tax on a messuage in Elwick containing 70 acres, belonging to Robert Smith, farmer. Attached: Certificate of assessment of the land tax on the same premises and the application of Robert Smith for a redemption. 20 December 1813 (Paper, 1 file) Letters to Mr. Robert Smith of Elwick, to farmer, concerning the payment of land tax on his land and his application for a contract with the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes for a redemption of his land tax, 1813 - 1814:


N. Winter, Secretary to the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, 30 December 1813
(Paper, 2 folios)


Nathaniel Plews of Darlington, 23 February 1814
(Paper, 1 folio)


As in D/X 490/4 above. 17 March 1814
(Paper, 1 folio)


N. Winter, Secretary for the Affairs of Taxes, 28 July 1814
(Paper, 1 folio)


Robert Willimitt (?), Land Tax Register Office, enclosing a certificate of exoneration. 8 July 1814
(Paper, 2 folios)


Letters of R. Williams and C. Oliver H.M. Inspectors of Taxes, to Messrs Archer, Parkin and Townsend of Stockton, concerning the payment of land tax on Middleton House Farm, owned by Mr. Fenton Smith, 26 May and 11 July 1922.
(Paper, 2 folios)


Copy of the "Durham County Advertiser", 8 October 1869
(paper, 1 file)