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Strathmore Estate

Reference: D/St/E 09 Catalogue Title: Strathmore Estate Area: Catalogue Category: Estate and Family Records Description: Estate Administration: Lands inherited from the Nicholson family

Covering Dates: 1757-1807

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  • Strathmore Estate
    • Strathmore Estate (Ref: D/St)
    • Estate Administration (Ref: D/St/E)
    • Lands Inherited from the Nicholson Family (County Durham and Yorkshire), 1757-1807 (Ref: D/St/E9/1-8)

Catalogue Contents

Strathmore Estate (Ref: D/St)Estate Administration (Ref: D/St/E)Lands Inherited from the Nicholson Family (County Durham and Yorkshire), 1757-1807 (Ref: D/St/E9/1-8)Ref: D/St/E9/1

Account of Lord and Lady Strathmore's and Mr. and Mrs. Lyon's allotments on Willington Common, n.d. [mid-18th c.]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/St/E9/2

18 June 1757 (1) Thomas Reed Ward of Over Dinsdale, Yorkshire (2) John Dixon of Durham, on behalf of John, Earl of Strathmore, Jane, Countess of Strathmore and Patrick Lyon, and Ann, his wife Agreement to prosecute John Wrightson for stopping up the highways at Over Dinsdale to Girsby
(1 paper)

Ref: D/St/E9/3

Writ and inquisition of Jeremiah Dixon, Sheriff of York, enquiring as to whether it will be to the prejudice and damage of the King to grant John Wrightson of Over Dinsdale, Yorkshire, licence to enclose two roads through his lands at Over Dinsdale and to make a new highroad, 18 February - 7 March 1758
(Parchment, 2 membranes)

Ref: D/St/E9/4

Rental of lands at Tudhoe, Lumley, Willington, Byers Green, Haswell, Bitchburn, Durham City, Helmedon, etc., in the possession of John, Earl of Strathmore, and in reversion on the death of Jane, Countess of Strathmore, March 1759
(2 papers)

Ref: D/St/E9/5

A schedule of wood at Willington belonging to Lord Strathmore, n.d. [1770s]
(1 file)

Ref: D/St/E9/6

Valuation of tithes paid by farms at Willington, Stonechester, Billy Hall, Bitchburn, Tudhoe and Haswell, 1798
(1 file)

Ref: D/St/E9/7

Abstract accounts of William Hutchinson's receipts and expenditure for Tudhoe, Willington, Haswell, Billey Hall, Bitchburn, Blakeley Hill, Stonechester and Durham City ('English estate'), Martinmas 1798 - Mayday 1807
(9 files and 1 paper)

Ref: D/St/E9/8

Schedule of acreages of the Haswell-on-the-Hill estate, n.d. (watermark 1800)
(1 paper)



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