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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 785 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Chester-le-Street halmote court and Bainbridge Fife family records

Covering Dates: 1813-c.1945

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Catalogue Description

Material given, 7 August 1985

(Acc: 1610(D))

County Record Office,
County Hall,
DURHAM.
DHl 5UL

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 785/1

Copy admittances, out of court of William Willson of Picktree, Esquire and Thomas Nelson of Chester-le-Street, surgeon to one undivided fourth part of two cottages, two houses and garths and appurtenances, and closes of land as specified, all in Chester-le-Street, on the surrender of Charles Roper of Chester-le-Street, gentleman and Mary, his wife (formerly Mary Wilson, a sister and coheiress of Robert Wilson of Newcastle upon Tyne, gentleman). Halmote Court, 2 November 1813
(parchment, 1 file)

Ref: D/X 785/2

Letter from A. Thompson, 33 Prudhoe Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, estate agent to Messrs. J.G. Brown and Son, 103 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, solicitors (Miss Bainbridge's executors) concerning the upkeep of house property in Routhwell Road, Gosforth, 1 December 1902
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 785/3

Letter from Aubone [Fife], 42 Jermyn Street, London SW to Herbert concerning lease of property, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 785/4

Notes on investments and shares of beneficiaries, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 785/5-12

Letters from G.W. West, Langton Hall, Northallerton, Yorkshire to H.L. Fife, Estate Offices, Staindrop concerning the J.B. Fife trust, the Langton Hall estate and the Cooksons, 17 June - 28 October 1912
(6 papers, 2 files)

Ref: D/X 785/13

Letter from H.L. Fife, Estates Office, Staindrop to F.J. Brown, 1 Park Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne concerning Fife heirlooms at Langton, 12 November 1924
(1 paper, typescript)

Ref: D/X 785/14

Balance sheet of the executors of Joseph Bainbridge Fife as at 31 October 1892, 18 February 1893
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 785/15

Valuation of the estate of J.B. Fife for Estate Duty on the death of the late Col. Sir A.G. Fife, [1920]
(1 paper, typescript)

Ref: D/X 785/16

Insurance certificate for the household goods and personal effects of Col. Ronald D'Arcy Fife of Nunnington Hall, Yorks., [c.1945]
(1 paper, typescript)

Ref: D/X 785/17-26

Bills of costs (August 1900 - January 1919) of J.G. Brown and Son to the trustees: of the late Joseph Bainbridge Fife, of Major W.H. and Mrs. Fife Cookson's marriage settlement and of Miss Jane Bainbridge, deceased, with related papers and receipts, 31 January 1902 - 23 January 1919
(7 papers, 3 files)

Ref: D/X 785/27

Bill of costs of Clarke, Sons and Press to the trustees of the will of the late F.C. Hare, July 1920 - January 1921
(1 file, typescript)

Ref: D/X 785/28

Bill of costs of Guscotte, Wadham, Tickell and Thurland to the trustees of the will of F.C. Hare, February 1920 - 28 January 1921
(1 file, typescript)

Ref: D/X 785/29

Bill of costs of J.G. Brown and Son to the executors of Col. Sir A.G. Fife, February 1920 - 1 April 1921
(1 file, typescript)

Ref: D/X 785/30-31

Bills of costs of J.G. Brown and Son to the trustees of J.B. Fife deceased, September 1919 - September 1925
(1 paper, 1 file)

Ref: D/X 785/32

Bill of costs of Keenlyside and Forster to the trustees of J.B. Fife deceased, December 1937 - June 1938
(1 file, typescript)



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