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Collapse D2181 - Knifton and Newbold families of Melbourne area - 19th cent

D2181 - Knifton and Newbold families of Melbourne area - 19th cent

1 - Volume labelled 'Day Book Jan 6' 18 [Very little used]: A sum lent to the Melbourne Committee, followed by miscellaneous payments for levies, land tax, purchases of farm animals, wages, clothing 1801-1809 and receipts, often on balancing the account, 1804-1810; Later entries on the inside of the front cover, interspersed with, the accounts of 1801-1810 relate to sales of grains, receipt of rents and entries relating to Blackfordby [Leicestershire] which are perhaps also rent receipts, 1822-1826; Miscellaneous memoranda eg "first newspaper" brought, servants hired with wages, price of cheese, 1840-1842, entry to land and rent 1843, money spent 1840, money lent to servants and potatoes and thatch sheaves sold 1841, and note 'James Newbold His Book Apr 21st 18?40'; At Rear - cash paid for building new house, wages paid, hair purchased, payments to Godfrey Barton by measure, received by Mr Knifton for work done, sales of grain, etc 1813. Receipt for ?loan from William Knifton to John Robinson, 1817, receipts 1814, sales of sheep 1809, money sent to London to brother W Knifton. - 1801-1843

2 - Small volume, containing notes of births, marriages, deaths, burials, interspersed with a few local and national events, notes of texts for funeral sermons, 1809, 1816-1834 other 1816. - 1809-1834

3 - Surrrender and admission by copy of court roll of the manor of Melbourne; surrender by attorney of commissioners in bankruptcy against Thomas Ince late of King's Newton victualler, dealer and chapman and Thomas Fielding of Castle Donington baker, mortgagee of the premises, of parcel of copyhold land in Shaw Field, to Joseph Earp junior, fine £ 8. 15 Oct. - 1831

4 - Copy of deed of partition of the property of William Knifton late of King's Newton, farmer, deceased in Melbourne and Blackfordby and Castle Donington, Leicestershire. Refers to will of Knifton proved 11 Oct 1825, daughter Hannah Newbold and her children and gives detail of properties involved |(26 Nov 1860). Endorsed with memorandum of conveyance by James Newbold of Melbourne farmer, to the uses of the Melbourne family settlement of the March Close (3 acres) in Melbourne (18 Jan 1864) - 1860

5 - Land tax assessment for Melbourne and King's Newton. - 1777

6 - Duplicate of "the Windows" in Melbourne and King's Newton [window tax] listing names of occupiers with number of lights and sum of money, and houses upon the waste and paupers with number of lights. - 1777

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