Catalogue

31 January 1857 (1) William Craggs of Mount Pleasant near Crook, husbandman (2) George Spence, butcher; John Emmerson, blacksmith, and Thomas Thompson, farmer, all of Crook; Thomas Hall of Mown Meadows near Crook, farmer, and Christopher Hall of Pease's West Colliery, coke manufacturer, trustees of the Crook and Neighbourhood Independent Benefit Building Society Mortgage by (1) to (2) of a plot of land, containing 917/9 square yards, with a house erected on it (part of an allotment made on the enclosure of Billy Row Common and part of a close conveyed by a deed dated 20 October 1851) bounded on the east and north by the ancient enclosed lands of Farrer Wren, deceased; on the west by other parts of the allotment and on the south by the road leading from Billy Row to Durham Consideration: £60

16 April 1863 (1) William Craggs of Mount Pleasant near Crook, husbandman (2) William Denham Hope of Billy Hill, labourer (3) George Spence, butcher; John Emmerson, blacksmith, and Thomas Thompson, farmer, all of Crook; Thomas Hall of Mown Meadows near Crook, farmer, and Christopher Hall of Pease's West Colliery, coke manufacturer, trustees of the Crook and Neighbourhood Independent Benefit Building Society Conveyance by (1) to (3) of the property as in D/X 1595/1, subject to the mortgage to (2) Consideration: £50

22 August 1865 (1) William Denham Hope of Billy Hill, labourer (2) Thomas Elliot, grocer, and John Kellett, builder, both of Crook; Joseph Vaughan of Witton Park Iron Works, agent, and George Calvert of Job's Hill near Crook, yeoman, trustees of the Crook and Neighbourhood Independent Benefit Building Society Mortgage by (1) to (2) of the property as in D/X 1595/1 Consideration: £25 Endorsed: acknowledgement by (2) that (1) has redeemed the mortgage, 15 October 1874

17 May 1866 (1) William Denham Hope of Billy Hill, labourer (2) Thomas Elliot, grocer, and John Kellett, builder, both of Crook; Joseph Vaughan of Witton Park Iron Works, agent, and George Calvert of Job's Hill near Crook, yeoman, trustees of the Crook and Neighbourhood Independent Benefit Building Society Further charge by (1) to (2) on the property as described in D/X 1595/1 Consideration: £75 Endorsed: acknowledgement by (2) that (1) has redeemed the mortgage, 15 October 1874

16 February 1875 (1) William Denham Hope of Billy Hill, labourer (2) Henry Fell Pease, William Russell the younger and Arthur Pease; Henry Maddison and Charles Rutter Fry all of Darlington trustees of the Darlington and District Permanent Benefit Building Society Mortgage by (1) to (2) of the property as described in D/X 1595/1 Consideration: £100 Endorsed: acknowledgement by (2) that (1) has redeemed the mortgage, 4 February 1894

20 April 1888 (1) John Martin Hope of Billy Row, labourer (2) Moses Bell of Billy Row, labourer Conveyance by (1) to (2) of the property as described in D/X 1595/1 Consideration: £65 12s

Abstract of the title of the representatives of the late Miss Ethel Maud Bell of Rose Cottage, Billy Row to a freehold house called 'Rose Cottage', Billy Row, reciting deeds, 5 May 1920 - 15 December 1924, n.d. [1924]

6 January 1925 (1) William Henry Bell of 9 Edmund Street, North Road, Darlington, furnaceman (2) Isaac Pinkney, miner and his wife, Ann Lax Pinkney, both of 44 Stanley Pit, Crook Conveyance by (1) to (2) of Rose Cottage, Billy Row, containing 917 /9 square yards, bounded on the north and east by land formerly belonging to Farrer Wren but now belonging to Viscount Boyne; on the west by other land formerly belonging to Farrer Wren but now belonging to Cooper Young and on the south by the road from Billy Row to Durham, now called Billy Row Bank Consideration: £225

27 April 1932 (1) Isaac Pinkney, miner, and his wife, Ann Lax Pinkney, both of 44 Stanley Pit, Crook (2) John Barron Hood of 18 Arthur Terrace, Stanley near Crook, farmer Conveyance by (1) to (2) of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row, formerly known as 'Rose Cottage' Consideration: £52 10s

2 July 1932 (1) John Barron Hood of 18 Arthur Terrace, Stanley near Crook, farmer (2) Frances Jane Gourlay of High Street, Yarm-on-Tees, Yorkshire, widow Mortgage by (1) to (2) of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row. Consideration: £50 Endorsed: acknowledgement by (2) that (1) has redeemed the mortgage, 30 April 1933

Abstract of the title of J B Hood to 18 Well Bank, Billy Row, reciting deeds, 6 January 1925 - 1933, 1933

14 February 1964 (1) John Barron Hood of The Folly, High Road, Wooley P.O. near Crook, retired farmer (2) John Hodgson, lorry driver and his wife, Dorothy Hodgson, both of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row Conveyance by (1) to (2) of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row. Consideration: £500

14 February 1964 (1) John Barron Hood of The Folly, High Road, Wooley P.O. near Crook, retired farmer (2) John Hodgson, lorry driver and his wife, Dorothy Hodgson, both of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row Mortgage by (2) to (1) of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row. Consideration: £500

1965 (1) John Barron Hood of The Folly, High Road, Wooley Terrace near Crook (2) John George Wade and his wife, Margaret Wade, both of 19 Lilac Gardens, Low Main, Meadows Estate, Crook Particulars, conditions and agreement for the sale by (1) to (2) of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row. Consideration: £500

9 March 1981 (1) James Tate of Gilesgate Post Office, Gilesgate, Durham (2) John George Wade and his wife, Margaret Wade, both of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row Conveyance by (1) to (2) of 18 Well Bank, Billy Row. Consideration: £500