Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1071 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Bishop Auckland and the manor of Newsham
Covering Dates: 1756-1950s
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Records deposited on long-term loan5 September 1994 Acc: 2229(D)
Records given
10 September 1996 Acc: 2393(D)
County Record Office,
County Hall,
DURHAM.
DHl 5UL
Telephone (091) 383 3253
Catalogue Contents
Ref: D/X 1071/1
Catalogue of Enamelstone Sanitary fireclay ware produced by Shaw, Knight and Company Limited, Enamelstone Works, Bishop Auckland, 1950s
(1 booklet)
Second Deposit
(Acc: 2393(D))
Records relating to the manor of Newsham (Ref: D/X 1071/2-8)Ref: D/X 1071/2An Act to impower Elizabeth the wife of Henry Thomas Carr, Esquire, a Lunatick, to make an Appointment of a Sum of Three Thousand Pounds towards the Payment of the said Lunatick's Debts; and for other Purposes therein mentioned, 30 Geo.II [1756-7]
Included: schedule of debts
(1 file, printed)
Ref: D/X 1071/3An Act for Sale of the Estate of Elizabeth Smart, an Infant, in the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, 1775
Property includes lands, quarries and collieries in Gateshead, and the manor of Newsham
(1 file, printed)
Ref: D/X 1071/44 April 1778
(1) Nicholas Halhead of Durham, St. Mary le Bow, esq.
(2) Christopher Fawcett of Newcastle upon Tyne, esq.
(3) Rev. Ralph Carr, late of the Hermitage near Hexham, Northumberland, now of Great Cumberland Street, Middlesex, clerk
(4) John Andrews of Hallgarth Street, city of Durham, esq.
(5) Thomas Hugall of Durham, St. Mary le Bow, gent.
Counterpart release by way of mortgage by (1) and (2), by the direction of (3), to (4) of two thirds of a moiety of the manor of Newsham, and two thirds of all the following: a house and garth formerly in the occupation of Marmaduke Middleton; the northmost part or moiety of Banks Close [divided from the south part as specified]; the northmost part or moiety of Lamb Close, bordering on Banks Close, and divided from the south part by an old hedge; closes called Lowfields, the Hither Intacks, Thorney Gill, Upper Fish Garth Closes, the 2 Seymour Closes, Cuthbert Gibson's Farm, George Taylor's North Flash Myers alias Slash Myres; Water Swang and the closes thereunto belonging; the Little Fish Garth Closes; Calf Close; and the Little Flash Myres alias Slash Myres; and the eastmost part or moiety of Richardson's Farm and the house and barn thereon, formerly in the occupation of Jackson and Emmerson, all part of the manor of Newsham, to the following uses: three eighths of the property to the use of (1) subject to a proviso for redemption by (3), and five eighths to the use of (4) subject to a proviso for redemption by (3)
Consideration: £1500 from (3) to (1)
£2500 from (4) to (3)
(Parchment, 3 membranes)
Ref: D/X 1071/53 June 1783
(1) Nicholas Halhead of Durham, St. Mary le Bow, esq.
(2) Rev. Ralph Carr late of the Hermitage near Hexham, Northumberland, now of Great Cumberland Street, Middlesex, clerk
(3) John Andrews of Hallgarth Street, city of Durham, esq.
(4) Rev. Henry Egerton of the College, Durham, M.A., and prebendary of Durham Cathedral
(5) William Hugall of South Bailey, city of Durham, gent. (administrator
of Thomas Hugall, his late brother, deceased)
(6) Hendry Hopper of the city of Durham, gent.
Counterpart release by way of mortgage, for the residue of a term of 300 years, by (1) and (2) to (4) of three eighths of the two thirds of the property conveyed in D/X 1071/4 [the manor of Newsham], and assignment by (5) to (6) of three eighths of the premises, in trust for (4) then in trust for (2)
Consideration: £1500 from (4) to (1)
Includes: schedule of deeds, 6 April 1763 - 2 June 1783
(Parchment, 5 membranes)
Ref: D/X 1071/627 August 1787
(1) Rev. Ralph Carr of Alderley, Cheshire, clerk (only brother and heir of Robert Carr, late Lt. Col. of H.M. 35th Regiment of Foot, deceased); Philip Joseph Clairville of Wintershoar in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, gent., and Isabella, his wife, formerly Isabella Carr (the said Robert Carr, Ralph Carr and Isabella Clairville being 3 of the children and devisees of Elizabeth Carr deceased, who was sister and coheir of Robert Cotesworth of Gateshead Park, deceased)
(2) John Andrews of Hallgarth Street, city of Durham, esq.
(3) Rev. Henry Egerton of the College, city of Durham, clerk and prebendary of Durham Cathedral
(4) William Wilkinson of Stockton, gent.
(5) William Skinner of Ruswarp, Whitby, Yorkshire, esq.
(6) William Hugall, late of South Bailey, Durham, now of Scarborough, Yorkshire, gent. (administrator of the estate of Thomas Hugall, deceased)
(7) William Danby of Guisbrough, Yorkshire, merchant
Assignment of mortgage for the residue of a term of 300 years by (6) at the request of (1), (2) and (3), and at the nomination of (4) and (5), to (7) of 3 farms at Newsham and a moiety of the manor of Newsham, upon trust for (4) and (5) as limited by deed of 25 August 1787
(Parchment, 9 membranes)
Ref: D/X 1071/723 September 1787
(1) Rev. Ralph Carr of Alderley, Cheshire, clerk
(2) William Skinner of Ruswarp, Whitby, Yorkshire, esq.
Bond of (1) to (2) in the sum of £500 to indemnify (2) from payment of an annuity of £20 to James Richards, charged on estates at Newsham by the will of Elizabeth Carr, deceased
(Parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref: D/X 1071/823 September 1787
(1) Rev. Ralph Carr of Alderley, Cheshire, clerk
(2) William Wilkinson of Stockton, gent.
Bond of (1) to (2) in the sum of £500 to indemnify (2) from the payment of an annuity of £20 to James Richards, charged on estates at Newsham by the will of Elizabeth Carr, deceased
(Parchment, 1 membrane)