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`Plan of Hetton Estate', showing coal royalties, 1824 Scale: 12 chains to 1 inch [1:9504]

An Act for enlarging the power to grant leases contained in the will of Alexander Lyon Emerson, Doctor of Medicine, deceased, and for other Purposes, 1841, 4 and 5 Victoria, c.44

17 October 1872 (1) Thomas Birch Wolfe of Woodhall, Essex (previous Thomas Birch of Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex), solicitor (2) George Lyon Tupman of Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, [Hampshire], captain in Royal Marine Artillery (3) Alexander Tupman, commander R.N. (4) Arthur Tupman of 3 Sandbank Place, Partick, Glasgow (5) Elizabeth Tupman of Fishbourne near Chichester, Sussex, spinster (6) Robert George Clarke of 40 Craven Street, Strand, Middlesex, gentleman (7) (4) and Horace William Smith of 40 Craven Street, Strand, Middlesex, gentlemen Conveyance from (1) to (6) to the use of (7) by the direction of (2), (3), (4) and (5) of 1/36 share of collieries in Hetton, Moorsley, Houghton-le-Spring, Great Lumley, Chester-le-Street, Willington, Tudhoe, Billy Hall, Helmington Row, Byers Green, Bitchburn, Blakeley Hill, Blakely Haswell, Easington and Durham, St. Nicholas

8 and 9 April 1823 (1) Alexander Lyon Emerson of Brompton, Co. Middlesex, Esquire and Elizabeth, his wife (2) Henry Donkin of Durham, gentleman (3) Richard Birch of Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Bargain and sale from (1) to (2) of 1/4 of Waltons Close (5a. 2r. 27p.) in parish of Brancepeth; 1/4 of mineral rights in land in Hetton formerly belonging to Isabell Ann & Phillis Spearman and Robert Coates; 1/6 of mineral rights in Hetton and Moorsley formerly belonging to Francis Steele and John Spearman. (3) to levy fine on (2)