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Collapse D2575 - Needham family of Peak Forest - 1614-1904

D2575 - Needham family of Peak Forest - 1614-1904

Collapse E - Estate - 17th-20th cent

E - Estate - 17th-20th cent

1 - Copy lease for 42 years by Robert Needham, yeoman of Perryfoot, Peak Forest to Peter Kirk, blacksmith of Townend, Chapel en le Frith of a piece of land in Townend on which to erect a forge of the value of £150, including the waterwheel. Annual rent of £12.12s. 5 Apr 1794 - [18th cent]

2 - Legal opinion concerning ownership of the blacksmith's shop at T44. 20 Dec - 1807

3 - Lease for 21 years by Robert Needham, gentleman of Peak Forest to Benjamin Froggatt, blacksmith of Chapel en le Frith and his wife Betty of a blacksmith's shop and dwellinghouse over at Chapel en le Frith. Annual rent of £3.3s, 4 Jan - 1808

4 - Receipt for £60 from Robert Needham to Benjamin and Betty Froggatt for the expenses of the late Samuel Holdgate in building the Smithy. 4 Jan - 1808

5 - Bill of Dewhurst and Braddockl for legal fees to Robert Needham. Dec - 1807

6 - Lease for 12 years by Elias Needham yeoman of Perryfoot to James Wylde, farmer of Fernilee of Lydgate Farm in Chapel en le Frith and all the lands leased by Lady Massareen, under certain specified conditions. Annual rent of £95. 20 Jan - 1775

7 - Lease for 21 years by William Lord Marquis of Hartington to Mathew Hall, miner of Perry, Peak Forest of a messuage, barn, Martin Meadow, Taylor Meadow, two closes of Elden end and a rickstead upon Perry (11 acres). Annual rent of £4. 3 Nov - 1726

8 - Assignment of the residue of a lease for 21 years by Samuel Shirt, innkeeper of Sheffield, son and surviving executor of the late William Shirt, husbandman of Peak Forest (surviving lessee of the late Alice Wright, widow of Perry Houses, Peak Forest) to Robert Needham, husbandman of Peak Forest of the messuage and barn; the closes called the Meadow Divided and the two Elder end closes (17 acres) in Peak Forest. Recites a lease (3 Nov 1726) by the Duke of Devonshire to Alice Wright and William Shirt. Annual rent of £6. 15 Aug - 1744

9 - Assignment of the residue of a lease for 60 years by Raph Wild, cloth worker of the Bank, Stockport, Cheshire to Edward Bower, cloth worker of Tor Top, Glossop. The original lease for 60 years (2 Nov 1630) was of the decayed cottage called 'Scarriett' in Whitle Hamlet (New Mills) with 4a of land by the Earl and Countess of Arundell and Surrey to John Wild of Whitle for an annual rent of 4s and a heriot or 40s on the demise of the tenant. Consideration of £12 18 May - 1670

10 - Lease for 21 years by Thomas Bower, yeoman of Tor Top, Whitle, p. Glossop to Thomas Hadfield and his son George Hadfield, husbandmen of Brookhouses, Great Hamlet, p. Glossop of a messuage house (excepting the kitchen and chamber over); other buildings and two meadows bought from the lane head at Brookhouses and the adjoining closes with buildings called Dand Heys and common of pasture on the King's part of the moors above Brookhouses. Annual rent of £30 and in lieu of heriot on the death of either of the lessees. Right of way for the occupiers of Tom: Heys and 30 sheepgates on the King's part are reserved to Thomas Bower. Various other conditions of the lease are given 21 May - 1715

11 - Lease for 21 years by Catherin Bagshaw, widow of Ford Hall, Chapel en le Frith to Robert Needham farmer of Perryfoot, Peak Forest of Slake Bank, Edale (83 acres 3 roods 18 perches); common right of 59 acres 6 perches on Edale Moss and 39 acres of land in Rushop and Bowden Edge, p. Chapel en le Frith. Annual rent of £50 and £10 per annum for each acre bought under tillage and for each load of produce sold without the landowner's consent. Various conditions for the lessee. 25 Mar - 1812

12 - Lease for 20 years by Elizabeth Davenport, spinster only daughter and heir of Sir Peter Davenport, late of Macclesfield, co Cheshire to Robert Needham, yeoman of Perryfoot, Peak Forest of an encroachment and ruined cottage at Jack Bank near Bradwell. Annual rent of 2s 6d 27 Sep - 1750

13 - Memorandum by R Needham concerning the letting of the lands at Elmhills with a survey of the property and the fences at Upper Shatton, March - 1809

14 - Letter from ?M Charge of Chesterfield to Messrs, ?W and J Needham, Rushop concerning the lease of the Spital factory from Mr Morewood, 31 Aug - 1833

15 - Memorandum of receipts and payments, including rents received and paid and land tax and poor rate paid - 1721-1724

16 - Account book of Jasper Needham of Perryfoot for payments and receipts, including cloth, wages and bills. There are three cloth samples loose in the book: D2575/E/16/1; List of taxes and rates disbursed and the sum remaining, 1784. D2575/E/16/2; Solicitor's account to Mrs Needham concerning a conveyance of land at Fairfield, settled 21 Apr 1791. - 1792-1795

17 - Final account to Mr S Needham for building work on the proposed new farmhouse at Brough, near Hope, Oct - 1904

18-20 - Certificates of exoneration from land tax to Samuel Needham, 3 Jun - 1799

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F - Family - 18th-20th cent

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L - Legal records

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M - Manorial records - 17th-18th cent

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T - Title Deeds

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Z - Miscellaneous - 19th cent

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Local Studies Periodicals

Local Studies Periodicals

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

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