Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 939 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Pickering family of Hedley Hill
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Catalogue Description
Records given on 15 January 1991(Acc: 1975(D))
Catalogue Contents
Papers of the Pickering Family (Ref: D/X 939/1-11)Ref: D/X 939/1
Pedigree and various details of the Pickering family of Hedley Hill from 1665-1924, n.d. [c. 1925-30]
(5 papers)
Ref: D/X 939/2Latin transcript of a deed relating to Hedley Hill dated 10 July 1693, transcribed c. 1860s
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 939/3A licence to keep a horse or mule issued to William Henry Pickering of Wolsingham, 14 January 1871
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 939/4A list of water rates paid on Hedley Hill Farm, May 1918 - 31 March 1928
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 939/5A letter to Ralph Pickering (son of William Henry Pickering and Mary Ann Brownless) from H.F. Scott of 72 Rothbury Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne enclosing miscellaneous records and pedigrees of the Pickering family and the Taylors of Satley, Colpike and Aldin Grange, n.d.
(6 papers)
Ref: D/X 939/6Receipt for rent of West House Farm paid by Henry Pickering to Jane Smith, 2 April 1796
(1 paper)
Jane Smith, born 1752, was the daughter of Mr. Smith of Herrington and his wife Jane (she was born Jane Taylor of Satley, sister of Mary Taylor who married Ralph Pickering). Jane Smith married Sir Robert Peat who died in 1837 aged 66. She died on 26 November 1842 aged 90. In 1842 her cousin Edward Taylor of Colpike added the name Smith to his own surname by Royal Licence.
Ref: D/X 939/7An account of the Greenwell family of West Stobbilee (subsequently of the Ford, Lanchester) and their link with the Taylor family of Cornsay Row and Satley, 1585 - 1680
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 939/8Correspondence from Arthur I'Anson & Co. Ltd. of Bloomsbury Mansions, 26 Hart Street, London, WC1 to Miss A.J. Pickering, Redgate Head, Wolsingham, concerning her family pedigree and enclosing a leaflet concerning their publication records of the Pickering family, 24 and 30 May 1928
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 939/9A letter to Miss A.J. Pickering from J.W. Fawcett, Templeton House, Consett, concerning the Pickering family records 1669 - 1803 with particular reference to places of residence, n.d. [c.1930]
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 939/10A letter to Miss A.J. Pickering from J.W. Fawcett of Satley telling her of two inquiries he has received from London claiming descent from the Pickering family and proposing an exchange of any further information abut the Pickering family, 2 March 1938
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 939/11A letter from Wilson & Co., 5 North Bailey, Durham City to Miss A.J. Pickering, 35 Pierremont Crescent, Darlington, concerning copies of wills of the Pickering family, 29 October 1942
(1 paper)
