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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1321 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Stanhope, St. John's Chapel market charter and Town Hall charity

Covering Dates: 1846-1954

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Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan

7 August 2001 Acc: 2772 (D)

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 1321/1

20 January 1846 (1) Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (2) George Crawhall of Newhouse in the parish of Stanhope, esq., and Joseph Beck of Cows Hill in the parish of Stanhope, miller Letters Patent granting a weekly market and a biannual fair at St. John's Chapel in the parish of Stanhope
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 1321/2

8 November 1872 (1) William Muschamp of Cotfield House near Gateshead, colliery owner (2) Joseph Cowper Cain of Weardale House in the parish of Stanhope, mining agent; Joseph Harrison of West Blackdean in the parish of Stanhope, clerk; George Emerson Muschamp of Brotherlee in the parish of Stanhope, farmer; John Joseph Roddam of Stanhope, land agent; and Vickers Hodgson of Westgate House in the parish of Stanhope, contractor Conveyance in fee of the Chapel House in St. John's Chapel in the parish of Stanhope, the property belonging to it, and the property of the related trust Consideration: 10 s.
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 1321/3

3 December 1921 (1) The Official Trustee of Charity Lands (2) The trustees of the trust property (3) Edward Rowell of Huntshieldford in the parish of Stanhope, farmer Memorandum of the conveyance from [unspecified] to (3) of trust property, including the Temperance Hotel in the market place of St. John's Chapel, with the adjoining cottage and buildings (except the Hearse House)
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 1321/4

Charity Commission scheme concerning the Town Hall and other property in the chapelry of Weardale, St. John the Baptist, in the parish of Stanhope, 27 May 1898
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 1321/5

Charity Commission scheme concerning the Town Hall Charity in the chapelry of Weardale, St. John the Baptist, in the parish of Stanhope, 16 February 1954
(1 paper)



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