• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • collections@thestorydurham.org
DRO logo

Durham Record Office

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

  • About us
    • Projects
    • What we do
    • News
    • Friends of Durham County Record Office (FODCRO)
    • Governance
    • Policies
  • Our records
    • Coal mining and Durham collieries
    • Durham Light Infantry Archives
    • Information guides
    • Maps
    • Picture Gallery
  • Ask us
  • Family history
    • Birth, marriage and death records
    • Census records
    • Parish registers
    • Place names index
    • Nonconformist Church Registers
    • Wills
    • A to Z of other family history sources
  • Learning Zone
    • The Story of Jimmy Durham
    • Crook
    • Durham Market Place
    • Arts Award
  • Exhibitions
    • ‘Almost too horrible for words’ – the liberation of Belsen concentration camp, 1945
    • ‘Marvellous Diggers’ – The 1st Battalion DLI in Korea, 1952-53
    • ‘Adventurers and Pirates’ – Hetton Coal Company, 1820
    • Looking back at Consett Steel Works
  • Shop
    • Apply for quick search
    • Apply for research service
    • Order and pay for copies
    • Fees and charges
    • Publications
  • Search Options
    • Search the catalogue
    • Search Church Registers
    • Search Durham Collieries
    • Search Durham’s Hidden Depths
    • Search place names
    • Search interactive maps
You are here: Home / Search options / Search the catalogue / Catalogue search results / Catalogue

Catalogue

Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 845 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth land and ships

Covering Dates: 1766-1825

Return to your search results
Related Information
  • Get help understanding and using this data

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.

  • Miscellaneous documents

Catalogue Description

Documents deposited on 12 January 1988

(Acc: 1774(D))

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

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 845/1

11 November 1766 (1) Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, bt. (2) Rev. Thomas Goodday of Monkwearmouth, clerk, and Ann, his wife (3) Rev. Cooper Abbs of Monkwearmouth, clerk (4) Thomas Collin of Bishopwearmouth Panns, gent. Lease for three lives (Jane, Susannah and Ann Taylor, daughters of Edward Taylor of Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland, yeo.) by (1), at request of (2) to (3), in trust for Ann Goodday, of waste ground at Monkwearmouth Shore abutting on Church Street on east, waste ground belonging to (1) on west and north, and messuage of James Punton on south (dimensions given) Consideration 7s. p.a. Plan of property endorsed
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 845/2

12 May 1778 (1) Ann Goodday of Monkwearmouth Shore, widow (2) William Wilkinson of Billingham, bread-baker Sale by lease and release (lease for a year missing) by (1) to (2) of land at Monkwearmouth Shore with houses built thereon Consideration: £140 Recites D/X 845/1 and that Thomas Goodday erected a house on the property soon after the lease
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 845/3

l May 1786 (1) Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, bt. (2) William Wilkinson of Monkwearmouth Shore, baker (3) Cresswell Bell of Monkwearmouth Shore Lease for three lives (Jane Wilkinson, Ann Newby and Robert Crowe) by (1) to (2) of land at Monkwearmouth Shore (dimensions and abbuttals given) Consideration: 8s. p.a.
(Parchment, 1 membrane, printed)

Ref: D/X 845/4-5

14/15 September 1787 (1) Hannah Ord of Monkwearmouth Shore, widow (2) William Woodifield of Monkwearmouth Shore, cordwainer (3) John Watson of Whitburn, innkeeper Assignment and marriage settlement by lease and release by (1), with agreement of (2), to (3), of messuage at Ballast Hills near Monkwearmouth Shore now in occupation of George Armstrong and others (abbuttals given) Recites: (a) the property is held by (1) on lease from Sir Hedworth Williamson for the lives of (1), James Ord and William Ord, sons of (1) (b) the marriage of (1) and (2) is to take place and the property is to be conveyed to (3) in trust for (1)
(Parchment, 2 membranes)

Ref: D/X 845/6

2 February 1788 (1) Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, bt. (2) Mary Young of Monkwearmouth Shore, widow of Thomas Young, mason (3) Cresswell Bell of Monkwearmouth Shore Lease for three lives ((2), Mary Young and John Summervill) by (1) to (2) of land at Monkwearmouth Shore abutting on waste ground on east and north, Straw Street on west, and premises of Henry Rudd on south (dimensions given) Consideration: 8s. p.a. With plan of property endorsed
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 845/7

10 January 1805 (1) James Myers of Monkwearmouth Shore, shipowner (2) James Ord of Monkwearmouth Shore, ship's carpenter Sale by (1) to (2) of brigantine Minor of Sunderland (115 64/94 tons) Consideration: £1095
(parchment)

Ref: D/X 845/8

2 May 1820 (1) Edward Lumsdon and Roger Lumsdon, both of Monkwearmouth Shore, anchor smiths (2) James Ord of Monkwearmouth Shore, ship owner Sale by (1) to (2) of 1/3 of brigantine Apollo of Sunderland (133 tons) Consideration: £298 6s. 8d.
(parchment)

Ref: D/X 845/9

3 October 1823 (1) John Storey of Monkwearmouth Shore, ship builder (2) James Ord of Monkwearmouth Shore, ship owner Sale by (1) to (2) of 1/3 of ship Isabellas of Sunderland (166 13/94 tons) Consideration: £590
(parchment)

Ref: D/X 845/10

3 March 1825 (1) John Storey of Monkwearmouth Shore, ship builder (2) James Ord of Monkwearmouth Shore, ship owner Sale by (1) to (2) of 21/64 of ship Isabellas of Sunderland (166 13/94 tons) Consideration: £620 Endorsed with memorandum of assignment by (1) to (2) of 1/3 of 1/64 share in vessel Attached: note of sale by Jane Tinmouth to (2) of 3/4 of 1/64 share in vessel, 27 April 1825
(Parchment, 1 membrane, and 1 paper)



Durham County Council logo Accredited Archive Service logo

The Story
Mount Oswald
South Road
Durham
DH1 3TQ
collections@thestorydurham.org

  • Top of Page |
  • Legal Information | 
  • Accessibility Statement | 
  • Contact Us |

Copyright © 2025 · Developed by Durham County Council