• 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 846 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Sedgefield, West End, deeds

Covering Dates: 1758-1935

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
    • Deeds to property in Sedgefield, West End (Ref: D/X 846/1-32)

Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan

25 January 1988 Acc: 1776(D)

County Record Office,
County Hall,
DURHAM
DH1 5UL

Catalogue Contents

Deeds to property in Sedgefield, West End (Ref: D/X 846/1-32)Ref: D/X 846/1

Abstract of title of William Wrightson, deceased, to property in the West End of Sedgefield, 1758 - 1808
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 846/2

13 May 1814 (1) John Chilton of Fishburn, gent., and William Wrightson of Nesham, gent., devisees in trust of the will of William Wrightson, late of Sedgefield, gent., deceased (2) William Jeckell of Sedgefield, schoolmaster Bargain and sale from (1) to (2) of freehold messuage and garden in Sedgefield, now in the occupation of (2), and bounded on the south by the townstreet of Sedgefield, on the west by the house and garden of Thomas Robson, on the north by lands of William Wrightson, deceased, on the east by house of Robert Newton Consideration: £70
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/3

16 February 1815 (1) John Chilton of Fishburn, gent., and William Wrightson of Nesham, gent., devisees in trust of William Wrightson, late of Sedgefield, gent., deceased (2) Thomas Hutchinson of Sedgefield, weaver Bargain and sale from (1) to (2) of a messuage and garden in Sedgefield in the occupation of Robert Newton, bounded on the south by the townfield of Sedgefield, on the west by a house previously owned by William Wrightson, deceased, on the north by land previously owned by William Wrightson, deceased, and on the east by a house and garden used as a Methodist meeting house Consideration: £60
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/4-5

11 & 12 October 1832 (1) William Jeckell, late of Sedgefield, now of the township of Hamilton in the county of Northumberland, district of Newcastle and province of Upper Canada, gent. (2) Robert Walker of Sedgefield, forgeman (3) George Best of Sedgefield, gent. Bargain and sale from (1) to (2) of property as in D/X 846/2 Consideration: £60 Attached: power of attorney from (1) to James Jekell of Broadway in the parish of Sedgefield, gent., 5 July 1832
(Parchment, 2 membranes)

Ref: D/X 846/6-7

7 May 1836 (1) Robert Walker of Sedgefield, forgeman (2) George Best of Sedgefield, gent. (3) John Robinson of Darlington, gent. Mortgage, by lease and release, in £40 from (3) to (1) with consent of (2) of property as D/X 846/2 [now 2 messuages rather than 1]
(Parchment, 2 membranes)

Ref: D/X 846/8-9

13 May 1846 (1) Thomas Hutchinson of Sedgefield, weaver (2) Joseph Stokell of Sedgefield, chymist (3) Robert Walker of Sedgefield, forgeman Lease and release from (1) to (2) of property as in D/X 846/3 Consideration: £48
(Parchment, 2 membranes)

Ref: D/X 846/10

13 November 1841 (1) Robert Walker of Sedgefield, forgeman (2) John Robinson, formerly of Darlington, now of Faverdale in the parish of Darlington, gent. (3) Ann Peacock of Sedgefield, spinster Bargain and sale from (1) to (3) with the consent of (2) of property as in D/X 846/2 Consideration: £80
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/11

4 July 1849 (1) Joseph Stokell of Sedgefield, chemist (2) George Pigdon of Stockton-on-Tees, draper, and Ann Pigdon, his wife (3) George Wilson of Sedgefield, draper Bargain and sale from (1) to (3), in trust for Ann Pigdon, of property as in D/X 846/3 Consideration: £45
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/12

22 May 1876 (1) John Dale of Stockton-on-Tees, surgeon, and John Rollin of Stockton-on-Tees, tax collector, executors of the will of Ann Pigdon, widow, deceased (2) William Walker Robinson of Sedgefield, builder Conveyance from (1) to (2) of property as in D/X 846/2 and in D/X 846/3 Consideration: £180
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/13

10 March 1879 (1) Thomas Mitchelson Reay of Whitworth House, colliery owner, and Charles Barrett Lockwood of 91 Dean Street, Soho, City of London, medical student (2) Richard Sheraton Johnson of Sherburn Hall, colliery owner, and Thomas Mitchelson Reay (3) Jane Johnson of Sedgefield, widow (4) William Snowdon of Sedgefield, sanitary inspector Conveyance from (1) to (4) with the consent of (2) and (3) of a barn at the west end of the town of Sedgefield on the north of the principal street called the West End and garth to the north of the barn (1a) [plan in margin]; agreement to surrender into the hands of the Lord of the Manor of Middleham one copyhold house and garden on the north side of West End [plan in margin] Consideration: £450 for freehold; £75 for copyhold
(Parchment, 3 membranes)

Ref: D/X 846/14

14 March 1879 (1) William Snowdon of Sedgefield, sanitary inspector (2) Thomas Mitchelson Reay of Whitworth House, colliery owner (3) Charles Barrett Lockwood of Dean Street, Soho , City of London, medical student, executors of George Johnson, late of Sedgefield, timber merchant Mortgage from (2) to (1) in £275, of barn and garth on the north side of West End in Sedgefield
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/15

8 December 1887 (1) Thomas Mitchelson Reay of Whitworth House, colliery owner and Charles Barrett Lockwood of Sergeants Inn, City of London, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (2) William Snowdon of Sedgefield, sanitary inspector (3) Adam Birkett of Beanley Carr, near Trimdon, farmer Assignment of mortgage in £250 from (1) to (3) at the request of (2) on property as in D/X 846/14
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/16

23 November 1895 (1) Annie Louisa Robinson of Sedgefield, spinster, and Sarah Jane Newton, wife of Ernest Robert Newton of Shincliffe, bookkeeper (2) Annie Louisa Robinson (3) James Willan of Western Hill, City of Durham, merchant (4) William Snowdon of Sedgefield, sanitary inspector Conveyance from (1) and (2) to (4) with the consent of (3) of property as in D/X 846/3 with 5 messuages thereon Consideration: £410
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/17

12 August 1840 (1) James Barron of Sedgefield, merchant tailor (2) John Hutchinson Wood of Stockton, merchant, and Henry Walker, of Stockton, grocer Mortgage in £250 from (1) to (2) of copyhold two houses with shop, outbuildings, yard in Bakehouse Row, Sedgefield, bounded by a house belonging to James Walker on the west, by premises belonging to Thomas Smith on the north and townstreet to the south
(Parchment, 2 membranes)

Ref: D/X 846/18

9 March 1848 (1) James Barron of Sedgefield, merchant tailor (2) Robinson Watson of Stockton, merchant Further mortgage in £195 from (2) to (1) on premises as in D/X 846/17
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/19

28 October 1851 (1) James Barron of Sedgefield, merchant tailor (2) Robinson Watson of Stockton, merchant Conveyance from (1) to (2) of the equity of redemption on premises as in D/X 846/17 Consideration: £395 [£200 to be repaid to (2) in D/X 846/17]
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/20

21 October 1856 (1) Robinson Watson of Stockton, merchant (2) John Hutchinson Wood of Stockton, merchant, and Henry Walker of Seaton Carew, grocer (3) John Button of Sedgefield, grocer Conveyance from (1) to (3) with the consent of (2) of freehold house in Sedgefield, formerly in the occupation of Thomas Hornsby and built by Tobias Oswald; a copyhold house and garden in the occupation of James Barron and a copyhold house in Bake House Row, Sedgefield Consideration: £43 for freehold; £200 to redeem mortgage on copyhold; £130 to (1)
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/21

22 October1856 (1) John Button of Sedgefield, tailor (2) Robinson Watson of Stockton, merchant Mortgage from (2) to (1) in £222 of property as in D/X 846/20
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/22

21 July 1857 (1) John Button of Sedgefield, tailor (2) William Weldon of Stockton, merchant Mortgage in £250 from (1) to (2) of five cottages in Cross Hill in Sedgefield
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 846/23

Statutory declaration of Elizabeth Fagg, formerly the wife of William Weldon, concerning her ownership of copyhold house and shop, three adjoining copyhold buildings on Cross Hill, Sedgefield, 7 July 1896
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 846/24

Admittance of Elizabeth Fagg to copyhold property as in D/X 846/23, 9 July 1896
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/25

Admittance of Alice Snowdon, wife of William Snowdon of Sedgefield, sanitary inspector, to property as in D/X 846/23, 8 July 1896
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 846/26

Acknowledgement by Elizabeth Fagg, of Stockton-on-Tees, widow of Thomas William Fagg, physician and surgeon, of the right of Alice Snowdon, wife of William Snowdon, to demand production of indenture of 18 October 1894 relating to property as in D/X 846/23, 18 October 1904
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 846/27

Abstract of indenture of 18 October 1894, abstract made 1904
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 846/28

Abstract of title to premises at Sedgefield belonging to the respresentatives of the late Joseph Bewick and in mortgage to the representatives of the late Adam Birkett, 6 April 1866 - 7 April 1906
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 846/29

Abstract of title to premises as in D/X 846/23, 7 July 1896 - 8 July 1896, abstract made 1913
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 846/30

28 April 1934 (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, Lords of the Manor of Middleham (2) Alice Maud Stones, wife of James Stones of Parkside, Durham Road, Sedgefield, Surveyor to the Sedgefield Rural District Council Agreement for compensation from (2) to (1) for the extinguishment of manorial incidents on property as in D/X 846/23 Consideration: £8 3s 2d Endorsed: memorandum of the conveyance from (2) to Desmond Priestman Winn, of 13 The Square, Sedgefield, (part of the property in D/X 846/23), 30 May 1956 : memorandum of the conveyance from (2) to Caroline Siddall of 14 The Square, Sedgefield, (part of the property in D/X 846/23), 22 November 1956 : memorandum of the conveyance from (2) to Dennis Squires of 16 The Square, Sedgefield, (part of the property in D/X 846/23), 14 January 1957
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 846/31

Abstract of the will of Alice Snowdon, whereby she bequeathed all her real and personal estate to her daughter Alice Maud Snowdon, will dated 20 January 1915, proved 1920, copy made c.1956
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 846/32

30 July 1935 (1) Alice Maud Stones of Parkside, Durham Road, Sedgefield, married woman (2) Martins Bank Limited Mortgage from (2) to (1) of property as in D/X 846/23
(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