• 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 777 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Lanchester, Wolsingham, Durham City and manor of Consett or Conside deeds

Covering Dates: 1690-1825

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 purchased, 3 June 1985

(Acc: 1597(D))

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

Telephone (0191) 3833253

Deeds of the Wilkinson family and others, to lands at Holmside (Lanchester), Newlands (Wolsingham), Framwelgate (Durham City) and the manor of Consett or Conside, 1690 - 1825

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 777/1

11 November 1690 (1) Ralph Widdrington of the Grainge, Northumberland (2) Elizabeth Rickaby of Holmside, Lanchester Lease for 999 years by (1) to (2) of the great and small tithes, excepting the corn tithe, for land called the ware lands and the ware land green in the lordship of Holmside and the parish of Lanchester Consideration: £150
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/2

1 February 1711 (1) John Stephenson of Newcastle, merchant (2) William, Lord Molineux, Viscount Marybourgh and William Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange, Northumberland (3) Robert Spearman of Durham, gent. Assignment by (1) and (2) to (3) of residue of lease for 999 years of tithes in D/X 777/1 Consideration: £150
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/3

13 June 1717 (1) Thomas Wilkinson of Crossgate, Durham (2) John Wilkinson of Crossgate, Durham, merchant Lease [release missing] by (1) to (2) of a messuage and land called Newlands in the parish of Wolsingham; and messuages on the west side of Framwellgate in the City of Durham [boundaries specified]; also a messuage called the Guildhall, and another on the east side of Framwelgate; also two closes called the Sheriffe Meadowes and Tenterhills, in Framwelgate in the City of Durham Consideration: 5s.
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/4

2 April 1719 (1) Anthony Wilkinson of Crossgate, Durham, gent.and John Wilkinson of Crossgate, gent.,demandants (2) Thomas Taylerson of Milburngate, Durham, gent.tenant (3) Richard Wilkinson of Framwelgate, Durham, gent., vouchee Conveyance to make a tenant to the precipe and deed to lead the uses of a recovery of the manor of Consett, together with the premises recited in D/X 777/3 Consideration: 10s.
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/5

Counterpart of D/X 777/4, 2 April 1719
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/6

15 May 1719 (1) Richard Wilkinson, gent., demandant (2) Thomas Taylerson, gent., tenant Exemplification of a common recovery, property as in D/X 777/4
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/7

12 January 1749 (1) Thomas Wharton, esq., demandant (2) John Hutton, gent., tenant (3) Anthony Wilkinson and William Wilkinson, vouchees Exemplification of a common recovery, property as in D/X 777/3 and D/X 777/4
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/8

14 May 1764 (1) William Wasey of Soho Square, Middlesex, esq., and John Cuthbert of the Inner Temple, London, esq., trustees of the late George Spearman of Bishop Middleham (2) Gilbert Wilkinson of New Elvet, Durham Lease for a year by (1) to (2) of cottages, lands and tenements in Whitton Consideration: 5s.
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/9

30 April 1785 Release by Philadelphia Wilkinson of Durham, spinster, to Calverley Bewicke of Closehouse, Northumberland, esq., of the manor of Clennell, Northumberland Consideration: £3,012 15s. 9d.
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/10

1 January 1807 (1) Thomas Wilkinson of Houghton-le-Spring, esq. (2) Percival Wilkinson of North Cray, Kent, esq. Deed of covenants to produce title deeds to a moiety of messuages and lands called Shield Field in the manor of Byker, Northumberland, 17 February 1749 - 16 November 1784
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/11

3 June 1825 (1) Henry Blanshard, plaintiff (2) Jonathan Walton and his wife, Jane, deforceants Two cottages, 200a. of land, 100a. of meadow and 100a. of pasture in Hett Consideration: £50
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 777/12

Counterpart of D/X 777/11, 3 June 1825
(parchment, 1 membrane)



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