Catalogue

2 February 1747 (1) William Atkinson of Bogmoor House, Houghton-le-Spring, gent. (2) George Colpitts of Newcastle, hostman (3) Elizabeth Cornforth of New Elvet, Durham, widow and Mary Atkinson of New Elvet, Durham, spinster (4) Thomas White of Old Burne Hall, gent. Assignment by (1), (2) and (3) to (4) of a tenement with appurtenances at Shadforth; and of a moiety of a tenement called Moorhouse in the parish of Houghton-le-Spring Consideration: £1,218

12 April 1756 (1) Robert Ord of Sands in the parish of Sedgefield, gent.; Philidelphia Lambton of South Biddick, spinster; Francis Mascall of Eppleton, gent., and his wife, Elizabeth; Jane Bowes of South Bailey, Durham, spinster; and Thomas Forster of Ryhope, gent. (2) Catherine Russell of Durham, widow Lease for a year by (1) to (2) of lands of Thomas Forster known as the two Barn field closes and the three closes called the Dean edges in Hetton-le-Hole Consideration: £1 10s.

6 March 1762 (1) Thomas Forster of Ryhope, gent. (2) Peter Bowlby of Durham, gent. (3) Henry Rowe of Bloomsbury Square, Middlesex, esq., and Thomas Marsden of Bolton, Yorkshire North [?] Riding, gent. (4) Thomas Hogg of Durham, gent. Release by (1) and (3) to (4) of a moiety of a messuage in Shadforth; and a messuage and freehold lands called two Barn Field closes and three closes called the Dean edges in Hetton-le-Hole Consideration: £700

18 June 1794 (1) William Kelly of Hetton-le-Hole, yeoman, and his wife, Mary Robinson Kelly (2) William Kirton of Durham, merchant (3) Ann Hogg of Norton, spinster (4) John Hogg of Norton, esq. (5) Thomas Greeve of Stockton, gent., and Michael Rayne of Norton, gent. Conveyance by (1) to (5) of two Barn Field closes and three closes called the Dean Edges in Hetton-le-Hole; and North Moor Farm, Shadforth, for securing £225 plus interest to (3) as administrator of the will of Thomas Hogg and an annuity of £8 8s. to Mrs. Mary Robinson Kelly

12 May 1778 (1) Anthony Arrowsmith of Trimdon East House, gent. (2) William Stephenson of Throston, gent. Assignment by (l) to (2) of a leasehold messuage of 12a. called the Cowfold Heads or North Field in Trimdon Consideration: £300

29 May 1839 (1) James Trenholm of Darlington, gent. (2) James Crow of Haughton-le-Skerne, esq., and William Ridsdale the elder of Darlington, heckletooth maker, trustees of the will of the late Joseph Porter of Darlington, heckletooth maker (3) Mary Forster of Darlington, widow (4) Rev. Robert Hopper Williamson, rector of Hurworth Conveyance by (2) and (3) to surrender to (4) a field called Hundens, containing 4a. lr. 9p., in Hundens Lane in the manor of Bondgate in Darlington Consideration: £450

30 October 1846 (1) Henry Blanshard of Great Ormond Street, Middlesex, esq. (2) George Rippon of Tynemouth, Northumberland, esq., Thomas Fox of Beaminster, Dorset, gent., Christopher Akenhead Wawn of South Shields, gent., and William Lishman of Coxhoe, colliery viewer Lease by (1) to (2) of coalmines in Cornforth [incomplete]

1 May 1860 (1) Jane Todd of Halnaby Hall, Yorkshire, North Riding, widow (2) George Frederick D'Arcy, Earl of Durham (3) Henry Thomas Morton of Biddick, esq. (4) Robert Spencer Shield of Dresden, Saxony, surgeon, and George Barrass Reed of Newcastle upon Tyne, gent. (5) James Dolman of Acomb, Northumberland, gent. (6) Elizabeth Robinson of Houghton-le-Spring, widow (7) Thomas William Usherwood Robinson of Houghton-le-Spring, esq. (8) William Crighton of Newcastle, gent. Appointment by (1) - (6) of (8) as receiver for the collection of the rents and profits of the estates of (7) in Newbottle, Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth [schedules of properties, tenants, acreages, rentals and details of incumbrances]

31 January 1852 (1) Charles Heneage Elsley, Recorder of the City of York (2) George Frederick D'Arcy, Earl of Durham Lease by (1) to (2) of coalmines and lands in Sherburn and Shadforth comprising 1626a. 2r. 6p., with liberty of outstrokes and instrokes between mines and seams in the Pittington, Hallgarth and Littletown estates Consideration: £2,200 p.a. with tentale rents of 18s. for every Ten of round coals and 9s. for every Ten of small coals in excess of yearly drawings of 2,4444/9 Tens plus 2s. 6d. per Ten for parts of a Ten and for coals drawn from outlying collieries

15 December 1873 (1) Rev. Charles Lloyd of Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, Henry Hale of Acomb near York, esq., and Bernard Hale of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, esq. (2) George Frederick D'Arcy, Earl of Durham Sub-lease by (1) to (2) of collieries, seams of coal, ironstone and fireclay comprising 1,626a. 2r. 6p. at Sherburn and Shadforth, with liberty of outstrokes and instrokes between mines and seams in the Pittington Hallgarth and Littletown estates Consideration: £2,000

11 June 1894 (1) Rev. Samuel Hopper of Ripon, Yorkshire, West Riding (2) John George, Earl of Durham Lease by (1) to (2) of mines and seams of coal in or under 76a. of land on the north-west and south-east of Sherburn village [Plans of sites shown on dorse of middle membrane, scale: 1:2500] Consideration: £150 p.a.

Counterpart of D/X 691/11, 11 June 1894