Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1181 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Records of the estate of the Jolliffe family, barons Hylton, at Chester le Street and elsewhere
Covering Dates: 1730 - 1969
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- Miscellaneous documents
- Chester Deanery (Ref: D/X 1181/3-5)
- Mains Farm and Cottages in Hermon Street (Ref: D/X 1181/8-10)
- Chester Deanery and Mains Farm (Ref: D/X 1181/11)
- Mains Farm (Ref: D/X 1181/12)
- Mains Park Road (Ref: D/X 1181/13-22)
- Ropery Lane (Ref: D/X 1181/23-30)
- Flares Farm (Ref: D/X 1181/31-32)
- Land south of Red Rose Hall (Ref: D/X 1181/33)
- Oaks House, High Chare (Ref: D/X 1181/34)
- Garden House Farm (Ref: D/X 1181/35)
- Holm Hill House (Ref: D/X 1181/36)
- Land in High Chare conveyed to Chester-le-Street Parochial Church Council (Ref: D/X 1181/37-38)
- Pelaw Hill Farm (Ref: D/X 1181/39)
- Hylton Terrace (Ref: D/X 1181/70-83)
- Cottage, stables and coach house (Ref: D/X 1181/84)
- Perkinsville : parts of the former Brackenbeds Farm (Ref: D/X 1181/85-89)
- Ouston and Birtley (Ref: D/X 1181/90-91)
- Ouston and Pelaw Main (Ref: D/X 1181/102-109)
- Manor Of Chester (Ref: D/X 1181/115-118)
- Neasham, In The Parish Of Hurworth (Ref: D/X 1181/119)
- Worcestershire : Alderminster (Ref: D/X 1181/120-124)
- SETTLEMENTSDerbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex (Ref: D/X 1181/125-126)
- SETTLEMENTS (Ref: D/X 1181 125-141)
- Hampshire (Ref: D/X 1181/127)
- Surrey : Merstham Estate (Ref: D/X 1181/128)
Catalogue Description
Records deposited on long-term loan10 October 1997 Acc: 2477(D)
Catalogue Contents
Chester-le-Street
Partition of Chester Deanery estates, 1825
Freehold reversion of a leasehold estate formerly in the tenure of John Hedworth, acquired from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1861
This portion of the Jolliffe estate included Mains Farm, Flares Farm, land south of Red Rose Hall, and land north of Holm Hill. Parts of the Mains Farm property were later sold for building development on Mains Park Road and Ropery Lane.
/40 19 May 1874
(1) John Lyon and Thomas Campbell
(2) William Wilson
Lease for 12 years of 6a. 3r. 15p. of land, part of Pelaw Hill Farm, Chester-le-Street, with liberty to work brick clay
Rent: £50 p.a.
Includes: plan of property
Endorsed: surrender of clay lease, 30 April 1880
(Parchment, 2 membranes)
Chester-le-Street and Pelton
Brackenbeds Farm, later known as Pelton East House Farm
See also D/X 1181/85 - 89
Pelton
Pelton Farm
Three public houses, The Ship, The Crown and The Engine, and adjoining land
See also D/X 1181/92
Collieries
Chester Deanery, Waldridge and Pelton
Beamish Wagon Way
in Harraton, Pelaw and Pelton, in the parishes of Chester-le-Street and Pelton
JOLLIFFE DURHAM ESTATE
The Jolliffe Durham estate in Chester-le-Street, to which the bulk of these records relate, was derived from the Chester Deanery estate of John Hedworth who died in 1747. Hedworth's estate included the freehold manor or deanery of Chester; and mines at Chester-le-Street and Waldridge Common; staithes at Fatfield; land in Ouston, Birtley, Pelaw and Fatfield; a copyhold estate in the manor of Chester Deanery; and a leasehold estate held from the Bishop of Durham and the Lambton family.
This property was inherited by Hedworth's two daughters, Eleanor, wife of Sir Richard Hylton, and Elizabeth, wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke. It was Eleanor's moiety of the property which formed the basis of the Jolliffe Durham estate when her only daughter, also Eleanor, married William Jolliffe of Petersfield, Hampshire in 1769.
In 1801 the Jolliffe family commenced a lengthy process to separate their moiety of the Deanery estate from that inherited by the Milbanke/Noel family, by requesting a commission to separate the manor of Chester. The first commission expired, and a further commission of partition was issued on 4 June 1821. The commissioners made an award dividing the Chester estate in October of that year, and the partition was ratified by a deed of 1825, whereby the freehold coal mines were awarded to Jolliffe and Noel as tenants in common, and freehold land at Ouston, Birtley, Pelaw and Fatfield, with a moiety of the Fatfield coal staithes, was awarded to Sir Ralph Noel. All remaining freehold, leasehold and copyhold estate was awarded to Hylton Jolliffe of Merstham, Surrey.
For a valuation of the Chester estate of Sir Ralph Milbanke and William Jolliffe, dated 27 October 1798, see EP/CS 14/66; and for plans of the estate see D/BO/G 10 (xxii - xxiii).
Hylton Jolliffe devised the Durham estate to his son, Charles, who purchased the freehold reversion in the leasehold portion of the estate from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1861. The estate passed to Charles' son, Charles Hylton Jolliffe, in 1869.
Until the later nineteenth century, much of the Jolliffe Durham estate was leased out on short term leases. Thereafter, the estate was gradually sold off by Jolliffe, and by the estate trustees, under the provisions of the Jolliffe Will Trust, 1869, and the Jolliffe Resettlement Trust, 1920.
JOLLIFFE ESTATE OUTSIDE COUNTY DURHAM
When John Hedworth's granddaughter married William Jolliffe of Petersfield in 1769, the Chester Deanery estate was added to Jolliffe family estates in Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex. The eldest son of this marriage, Hylton Jolliffe (1773 - 1843) had only a life interest in the principal estates outside County Durham for want of a legitimate heir. The main estates in Hampshire and Surrey passed to Hylton's nephew, William George Hylton Jolliffe, and only the Durham estate at Chester-le-Street, together with Hylton family property in Cumberland, descended to Hylton Jolliffe's eldest son, Charles.
This collection includes family settlements of the principal Jolliffe estates outside County Durham in the period 1769 to 1850
It also includes a few deeds and papers relating to the residence of Charles Hylton Jolliffe (d. 1925) at Alderminster, Worcestershire.
Arrangement
TITLE DEEDS
1 - 46 Chester-le-Street
47 - 62 Chester-le-Street and Pelton
63 - 89 Pelton
90 - 91 Ouston and Birtley
92 - 109 Collieries
Durham, Cumberland And Huntingdonshire
The Jolliffe Resettlement Trust (Durham Estate), 1920, replaced the Jolliffe Will Trust of the Durham estate. Beneficiaries were the four daughters of C. H. Jolliffe
Charles Hylton Jolliffe (d. 26 October 1925)
Jolliffe's estate at death comprised his Durham estate at Chester-le-Street, which was subject to the Jolliffe Resettlement Trust, and further estate in Cumberland and at Hemingford Park, Huntingdonshire
ESTATE ADMINISTRATION
including surveys and plans
Chester-Le-Street And Pelton