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Hodgkin family of Darlington - Family Papers

Reference: D/Ho/F Catalogue Title: Hodgkin family of Darlington - Family Papers Area: Catalogue Category: Estate and Family Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1735-1952

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Wills, Trusts and Settlements (Ref: D/Ho/F 1-19)

Grant of an annuity of £2 for life of Thomas Richardson, 1807
(1 parchment)


Residuary statement of effects of Jane Piper of Allonby, 1826
(1 paper)


Account of the trusts under the will of John Elliot, 1830
(1 paper)


Bond from Isaac Hailes and others to Sir Walter Farquahar, 1842
(1 paper)


Marriage Settlement (copy) of John Hodgkin and Ann Backhouse, 1843
(1 file)


Particulars of property comprised in and subject to the settlement made on the marriage of John Hodgkin and Ann Backhouse, 1843
(1 volume)


Probate of Will of John Hodgkin, snr., 1845
(1 parchment)


Correspondence re Backhouse Trust, 1853
(1 bundle)


Correspondence etc. between John and Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin re will, marriage settlement, division of funds, 1873
(1 bundle)


Insurance policy for property formerly belonging to Thomas Hodgkin, 1875
(1 paper)


Will of John Hodgkin, jnr., 1875
(1 file)


List of securities received from John Hodgkin, 1875
(1 placard)


Papers re estate of John Hodgkin, 1876
(1 bundle)


Papers re Jonathan Edward Hodgkin's Trust arising out of John Hodgkin's estate, 1876
(1 bundle)


Release of the Trustees of the settlement made on the marriage of Thomas Hodgkin (1850), 1876
(1 parchment)


List of documents held by trustees of Edmund Backhouse, 1906
(1 paper)


Papers re probate of will of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, 1926
(1 bundle)


Papers etc. re Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin's life interest under the will of Hannah C. Backhouse, 1926
(1 bundle)


Papers re funeral and estate of Mrs. Sarah Charlotte Hodgkin, 1929
(1 bundle)

Mary Anna Hodgkin (nee Pease) and John Pease's Trust (Ref: D/Ho/F 20-34)

Journal of Trustees, 1868-1881
(1 volume)


Deed of settlement of trust by John Pease, 1865 and appointment of new trustees etc., 1897, 1911
(5 parchments and papers)


List of deeds and documents connected with the trust (see documents relating to Great Ayton, D/Ho/F 70-91), n.d.
(1 paper)


Succession and legacy receipts for real and personal property under will of John Pease, 1869-1870
(1 bundle)


Papers, etc. re legacy under will of Grace Jowitt, 1870-1871
(1 bundle)


Marriage settlement etc. of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin and Mary Anna Pease, 1873
(3 parchments and papers)


Mary Anna and Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin's indemnities to trustees for renouncing shares in their favour, 1870-1895
(1 bundle)


Statement of receipts and payments on real estate by trustees, 1868-1898
(1 bundle)


Papers re a mortgage on 'Shelly's' Darlington,1903
(1 bundle)


Papers re a legacy under the will of Robert Arthington, 1910
(1 bundle)


Notes for drawing up will, 1924-1926
(1 bundle)


Draft will, n.d., former will, 1923., will (copy)of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, 1926
(1 bundle)


Will (copy), 1926
(1 file)


Papers re estate and will, 1926
(1 bundle)


Corrected affidavit of estate, 1929
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/Ho/F 35-63)

Certificate of indemnity from press-gang for Henry Piper of Whitehaven signed by Lord Anson, 1755
(1 paper)


Marriage certificate of John Hodgkin and Ann Backhouse, 1843
(1 parchment)


Letter (copy) from John Hodgkin to Sir George Grey re the (Ireland) Encumbered Estates Bill and other relief measures, 1848
(1 paper)


The Case of the Baron de Bode by John Hodgkin, 1860
(1 booklet)


Sundry bills of Mary Anna Pease, 1860-1861
(1 bundle)


Annual reports, regulations etc. of the Darlington British Workmen's Public House (President, Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin); includes an abstract of information re Cabman's Shelters, 1873-1877
(1 bundle)


Sotheby's catalogues for the sale of Jonathan Edward Hodgkin's collections of letters, medals, books, works of art etc., 1914
(1 volumes)


Personal account book, 1919-1928
(1 volume)


Berkshire Chronicle (containing report of the wedding of Marabel Hodgkin and A. R. Gardiner), 1932
(1 newspaper)


Copy letter books of John Hodgkin, 1847-1868
(11 volumes)


Copy letter books of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin (many written from Australia), 1866-1868
(3 volumes)


Various papers, n.d.
(1 bundle)

Business Papers (Ref: D/Ho/F 64-69)

British Telegraph Co., circulars and correspondence, 1853
(1 bundle)


Overend and Gurney Ltd., correspondence and other papers re liquidation, 1866-1867
(1 bundle)


Friends Public School Co., share certificates and receipts, 1889-1893
(1 bundle)


Tees Conservancy Commission, papers relating to a loan of £600, 1898
(1 bundle)


Island Mutual Development Co. Wading River, Long Island, correspondence, plan, share certificate 1913-1914
(1 bundle)


Gribdale Mining Co. Ltd., notice to Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Hodgkin determining certain rights referred to in deed dated 30 December 1911, 1926
(1 paper)

 (Ref: D/Ho/F 70-92)

Estate

Mainly relating to Great Ayton, North Yorkshire see D/Ho/C 76 for correspondence relating to this estate


Deeds etc. relating to a messuage, cottages and closes of land formerly belonging to Mr. Robert Pybus, 1735-1855
(2 bundles)


Deeds etc. relating to one messuage (the site of Well Cottage and part of Almshouse land), 1738-1859
(2 bundles)


Deeds etc. relating to two messuages on the Green formerly belonging to Mr. Phillip Heselton, 1859
(1 bundle)


Memorandum of sundry things belonging to Wm. Flounders in the garden at Ayton, 1874
(1 paper)


Plans showing proposed line of water-pipes to Cleveland Lodge and Ayton School and part of Great Ayton as copied into the minute book of the Agricultural School General Meeting, 1874
(2 plans)


Estate journal, 1879-1882
(1 volume)


Account book for Undercliffe and Southbrook estates, 1897-1899
(1 volume)


Cleveland Lodge Estate, correspondence with the Post Office re use of certain easements and copy of plan, 1903
(1 bundle)


Agreement for water supply to Primitive Methodist Chapel, 1908
(1 paper)


Leases of Southbrook, Little Ayton, 1905, 1910
(2 deeds)


Agreement, correspondence and plans re retention of telegraph poles at Ayton Banks, 1914
(1 bundle)


Conditions on land at Little Ayton sold to Mr. Thomas Dixon Brown, 1922
(1 bundle)


Grant of water supply, 1922
(1 deed)


Correspondence, plan and report by William Lyall of Darlington re compensation due for Whinstone workings at Great Ayton, 1926
(1 bundle)


Estate ledgers, 1926-1931
(2 volumes)


List of deeds relating to Ayton Estate (Mary Anna Pease's Trustees), n.d.
(1 volume)


Property tax payable by Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin at Great Ayton, n.d.
(1 paper)


Plan of Woodburn and Elmridge estates, Darlington, 1873
(1 plan)

 (Ref: D/Ho/F 93-95)

PEASE FAMILY PAPERS

Edward Pease (1767-1858)


Extracts from diaries (made by John Pease),1841-1857
(1 bundle)


Various papers including: Testimonial (printed), 1856; address (printed) from Darlington and Stockton Times, 1857; obituary notice from Darlington and Stockton Times, 1858; address (copy) by Edward Pease and Josiah Forster to the Minister of Marine and Colonies of France respecting the slave trade, n.d.
(1 bundle)


Extracts and copies of letters made by or for Edward and John Pease, 1793-1858
(1 bundle)

John Pease (1798-1868) (Ref: D/Ho/F 96-113)

Notebooks and diaries, 1817-1845
(11 volumes)


Railway and Colliery Memo Book formerly belonging to Edward Pease jnr., used by John Pease as rough book in Thomas Richardson's Trust, 1836-1851
(1 volume)


Passport and visiting card, 1858, and notes for letters, 1833-1864
(1 wallet and 1 bundle)


Reports, memoranda, addresses to Meetings, etc. 1838-1858
(1 bundle)


Notes for letters, 1846-1866
(1 bundle)


Prints of East Mount, Darlington, 1849
(3 prints, 1 bundle)


Correspondence and other papers relating to the establishment of Darlington Cottage hospital, 1863
(1 bundle)


Various papers including: Maria Arthingtons's address on John and Sophia Pease's wedding, 1823; drawings of John Pease's fractured leg, 1842; invitation to funerals, 1845; poem to John Pease written by E. Cox, 1845; sundry accounts, 1833-1867; promissory note to Elizabeth Shildon, 1856; list of names and addresses of Friends in America, n.d.
(1 bundle)

Religious Journeys (Ref: D/Ho/F 114-117)

Ireland; John and Sophia Pease; certificate, journal and correspondence, 1833-1834
(1 bundle)


France and Germany; Edward and John Pease; certificates, correspondence, letters of introduction, accounts and addresses to Meetings, 1842
(1 bundle)


America; John Pease; notice of Meetings in Salem, journal (2 copies) 1843-1845
(1 bundle)


America and Greenland; John Pease; list of expenditure in Greenland, 1864
(1 paper)

 (Ref: D/Ho/F 118-121)

Business Papers
See also section on Stockton - Darlington Railway D/Ho/X 10-34


Blackboy Colliery; correspondence, drafts of letters, reports, memoranda etc., 1840-1842
(1 bundle)


Derwent Iron Co.; correspondence and drafts of letters, 1857-1858. Letters to John Pease from: William Backhouse, 1857; Charles Bragg, 1858; David Dale, 1857-1858; Joseph Pease, 1857; Jonathan Priestman, 1857; J. Priestman jnr., 1857-1858; John Richardson, 1857-1858; R. Thompson, 1857
(1 bundle)


Henry Pease and Co.. Combers and Worsted Spinners, Darlington, Woolcombers wages, October to November, 1829; Report from Darlington and Stockton Times of a Tea-meeting at Henry Pease's Mill, 1857; Handbook for the bi-centenary of Henry Pease and Co., 1752-1952
(1 notebook, 1 paper and 1 booklet)


Tees Coal Co., Statement of the claims of the Tees Coal Co. v Jonathan and Edward Backhouse by Joseph Taylor, 1838
(1 volume)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/Ho/F 122)

Various papers including Poem written by Mary Richardson (later Pease), 1758; promissory note, 1801; dinner list at wedding of Edward Robson (d. 1819) and Jane Backhouse (1787-1873), 1815; memorial to Mary Pease, 1818-1820; poem to Edward Pease jnr., 1827; testimony to Rachel Pease, 1833; examination papers and results; Sophia and Mary Pease, 1846-1851; newspaper cutting re funeral of Mrs. Anna Pease, 1855; newspaper cutting re wedding of Henry Pease and Mary Lloyd, 1859; poem to Sophia Pease, 1861; memorial to Elizabeth Gibson (daughter of Edward Pease), 1866
(1 bundle)

Plans (Ref: D/Ho/F 123)

Estates in or near Darlington belonging to the Pease family, 1829-1868
(16 plans)

Family Papers (Ref: D/Ho/F 124)

Engraving (copy) of illustration of George Stephenson at the house of Edward Pease, instructing Pease's daughters, Rachel and Elizabeth, in the art of embroidery (with accompanying explanatory note taken from the Life of George Stephenson by Samuel Smiles, n.d., c.1825-1830
(1 paper)

Darlington (Ref: D/Ho/F 125-127)

List of annals and records connected with the town of Darlington and its near vicinity (1180-1773) compiled by Edward Pease, n.d., c.1850
(1 paper)


Telegraph from Elizabeth Hodgkin, Great Malvern, to John Robinson, Horley, re health of Johnathan Hodgkin, 1857 (sent by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company - on the reverse, list of stations on the railway at which messages could be received and forwarded)
(1 paper)


Historical outline (copy) of the Association of Edward Pease (1767-1858), Joseph Pease (1799-1872) and Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease (b. 1828), with the Industrial Development of South Durham and North Yorkshire and with the creation of the railway system, n.d., c.1903
(1 booklet)