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Reference: D/X 1498 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: James Middleton and John Lawson of Witton Gilbert

Covering Dates: 1688-1773

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Miscellaneous documents
- Records concerning James Middleton and John Lawson (Ref: D/X 1498/1-3)

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3 August 2005 Acc: 3164(D)

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Records concerning James Middleton and John Lawson (Ref: D/X 1498/1-3)

Several generations of the Middleton family resided at Witton Gilbert. The parish register of Witton Gilbert, St. Michael and All Angels, records the burials of James Middleton on 4 March 1693/4 and James Middleton on 20 February 1739.

John Lawson, baptised at Witton Gilbert on 11 November 1716 and buried on 10 December 1794, served as a parish officer. His notebook, D/X 1498/3, indicates that he was overseer of the poor and a surveyor of the highways of Witton Gilbert in the 1760s.

Lawson was connected to the Middleton family through the rental of land in Witton Gilbert. The James Middleton, a minor, from whom Lawson rented land from 1740 to 1746, was presumably the heir to the estate of the James Middleton who died in 1739.

The Hornsby family was also associated with Witton Gilbert. See D/Gr 458 for a poor rate schedule of Witton Gilbert, 1768.

Ref: D/X 1498/1

26 January 1688 (1) John Hornesby of Tynemouth, Northumberland, sailor (2) James Middleton of Witton Gilbert, yeoman Bond in the sum of £80 for the performance of covenants in indentures of even date

(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Ref: D/X 1498/2

Probate inventory of James Midleton [Middleton], sen., of Witton Gilbert, appraised by William Foggon and Robert Smith, 8 September 1694

(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 1498/3

Notebook of John Lawson, 21 June 1740 - 1773 Includes: receipts for rent paid by John Lawson to Thomas Wears, trustee for James Middleton, a minor, for lands [unspecified] in Witton Gilbert, 1740 - 1746; disbursements of John Lawson, overseer of the poor of Witton Gilbert, 1766; disbursements of the surveyor of highways of Witton Gilbert, 1766; sundry disbursements of the churchwardens of Witton Gilbert, 1764 - 1768; receipts and disbursements of George Paddison [Pattinson] and John Lawson, surveyors of highways, 1768 - 1769; assessment list of compounders' names [for payment in lieu of work on the highways], 24 March 1768; and receipts for Lumley rent paid by Thomas Hudson to John Lawson, 1771 - 1773

(1 volume, vellum bound)