| Administrative History | John Sutton purchased the Heanor Hall estate from E G Fletcher c1784 and continued to build it up until his death in 1803. John Ray of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, married Elizabeth Sutton Inman, niece of John and Elizabeth Sutton, in 1810, and Elizabeth Sutton Ray inherited the estate on the death of her aunt in 1839.
John Ray made further additions to the estate but his son, Rev George Henry Ray, rarely lived at Heanor and there were no substantial acquisitions of property after John Ray's death in 1867. Both John Sutton and John Ray were very much involved in the coal trade, Sutton at Pinxton, Leicester and elsewhere, and Ray at Kilburn and Horsley where he developed the Kilburn Colliery Company. |
| Custodial History | These documents were transferred to the Record Office in 1964 |
| Arrangement | John Sutton's Heanor Hall Estate
Heanor Hall
Two cottages in Heanor
Messuage, tenement, croft and common allotment in Heanor
Scarsdale property in Heanor
Windmill House and land
Two messuages in Heanor
Spendlove property
Small parcel
Toplis property on West Hill
Land on Ray Street
Coal at Heanor
Disposal of property
Allins Fields, Heanor
Blacksmith's shop, Middleton by Wirksworth
Middlesex and Hertford
Estate
Heanor Hall Estate
Abstracts of title
Legal papers
Surveys, valuation and rentals
Plans
Leases
Correspondence and related papers
Roads
Fletcher's sale
Chief rents
Boundaries with Toplis property
The Marlpool
Toplis purchase
Marshall's sale
Hunt's purchase
Accounts
Coal leases
Other coal papers
Partition of coal at Heanor, 1852
Miscellaneous papers re coal
Miscellaneous papers re Heanor Hall estate
Shipley Wharf, Leicester
Wood Street, Cheapside, London
Correspondence
Receipts
Personal Estate
Succession accounts
Sills Executors
Other papers
Miscellaneous
Family
Settlement
Wills
Correspondence
Business
John Sutton's Pinxton Collieries
Title deeds
Other papers
Correspondence
John Ray's Kilburn Colliery
Title deeds
Leases and agreements
Other papers
Correspondence
Office
Miscellaneous |