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D303 - Fox family of Derby, later of Thurlston Grange and Osmaston Hall - [14th-19th cent]

1 - Deeds relating to Church Gresley, Twyford and Stenson - [14th cent]-1556

2 - Deeds relating to property in Warwickshire - [14th cent]-1556

3 - Deeds relating to a messuage in Church Gresley (Ward) - 1561-1703

4 - Deeds relating to property in the parish of St Peter in Derby - 1619-1681

5 - Fine between William Laxton and Henry Spencer and his wife Barbara (plaintiffs) and William Bradshawe and his wife Ann (defendants) of two messuages in Derby - 1614

6 - Deeds relating to a meeting house at Burton upon Trent - 1658-1722

7 - Deeds relating to a messuage in Church Gresley (Ward-Fox) - 1661-1789

8 - Deeds relating to a messuage called the Cross House in Repton (Ward-Fox) - 1665-1737

9 - Deeds relating to Windmill Pit Field in the parish of St Werburgh in Derby (Radforth-Mills-Hogkinson-Fox-Richardson) - 1677-1807

10 - Lease for 99 years of a messuage called Parke Head in the manor of Okeover (Staffs) by Sir Rowland Okeover of Okeover to Philip Moreton the elder of Okeover Woodhouses - 27 May 1668

11 - Deeds relating to a messuage in Waldwick [Wardwick] Street in Derby and land in Parkefeild (Cranwell-Greenwood-Fox) - 1671-1720

12 - Deeds relating to the Derby Boat Company (of which Samuel Fox was a partner) - 1679-1786

13 - Deeds relating to a shop in the Shambles in Derby (Wagstaffe) - 1687-1707

14 - Deeds relating to a messuage in Waldwick [Wardwick] Street in Derby and another messuage in Babington Lane (Mugge-Gisbourne-Wagstaffe) - 1698-1722

15 - Transfer of mortgage (from Elizabeth Wagstaffe to Benjamin Ashton) of lands in Wormhill, Tideswell and Stoney Middleton, owned by Alexander and Francis Sharpe - 6 May 1713

16 - Schedule of deeds relating to the mortgage of Middleton manor by Samuel Fox to Hugh Bateman - 27 Apr 1727

17 - Lease for 1000 years by John Parr and John Stamford, churchwardens of the parish of All Saints in Derby, to Samuel Fox of a close in the parish of St Peter near Babbinton [Babington] Lane, to raise money to build a workhouse - 31 Jan 1728 [1729]

18 - Undertaking by Robert Holden of Foremark to defend Thomas Jackson and Samuel Fox against any charges or costs arising from his purchase of lands at Sawley and Wilne - 5 Jan 1732

19 - Deeds relating to messuages and lands in Aston upon Trent (Gisbourne-Fox, Burton and Greaves) - 1743

20 - Deeds relating to the estate of Samuel Fox deceased, including a messuage in the parish of St Peter in Derby, and the guardianship of Samuel Fox junior - 1747-1818

21 - Deeds relating to Babington Lane Close and the Windmill Pit Field in the parish of St Peter and St Werburgh in Derby (Fox) - 1747-1754

22 - Deeds relating to a messuage on a street called the Wardwick in Derby, parcels of land in the Windmill Pit Field and the Gallows Intack and closes in Trusley (Fox) - 1754-1840

23 - Settlement for the forthcoming marriage between Samuel Fox and Ann Darwin (6 Mar 1799), and appointment of Edward Strutt, William Leaper Newton, Samuel Fox junior and William Forbes as trustees of the marriage settlement (7 Apr 1834) - 1799-1836

24 - Deeds for land in Trusley and Thulston - 1812-1820

25 - Probate - 18th cent-19th cent

26 - Estate records - 1714-1781

27 - Correspondence - 1752-1841

28 - Personal documents - 1660-1804

29 - Geneological notes relating to Derbyshire families - 1730-1880

1 - Drawing and explanation of the Fox coat of arms with pedigree copied from the visitation of Shropshire 1623 and from Edmundson's Baronagium Genealogicum - [18th cent]

2 - Copy of the pedigree of the Fox family descended from William Fox of Grete (Worcs) 1253 (in which is compared one copy drawn by William Booth of Witton 1646, another in the hands of Charles Beighton and a third made for Thomas Fox at the Exchequer by Lawrence Crump, York Herald c1703, and is brought down to 1730 by Samuel Marriott (2 copies) - 1730

3 - Copy of pedigree as in D303/29/2, continued to 1809 - 1809

4 - Volume of notes on the birth and baptism of six of the children of Samuel Fox by his wife Mary (Bristowe), 1756-1766 - 1766

5 - Pedigree of Every of Egginton from John Every (in the 17th cent) down to the death of Edward Every in 1785 - c1785

6 - Pedigree and notes on the Bristowe family - [19th cent]

7 - Pedigree of the Fox family showing descendants of William Fox of Grete - [19th cent]

8 - Pedigree of the descendants of Timothy Fox and his second wife Frances Ward - [19th cent]

9 - Note on the death of Mrs Mary Bromfield (formerly wife of Samuel Fox) - [19th cent]

10 - Note on the descendants of Samuel Crompton (d 1757) - [19th cent]

11 - Drawing of the memorial stone of Erasmus Darwin FRS (d 1802) - [19th cent]

12 - Stories about Dr D [Erasmus Darwin] at dinner with Mr Corbett - 1 Jun 1853

13 - Pedigree of the Darwin family - 8 Jun 1835

14 - Note on the funeral for Uncle Bromfield, with a list of attendees and the length of mourning - 16 Feb 1837

15 - Copy of the memorial stone for Samuel Fox (d 1851) and his widow Ann (d 1859) - 1851-1859

16 - Notes on the Bristow and Darwin families, 1799-1856 - 1856

17 - Note on the Bristowe family - Dec 1857

18 - Note on the Darwin pedigree - Jan 1880

19 - Newspaper cutting concerning the marriage of Emily Mary Chance and Robert Gerald Fox (son of William Darwin Fox) - 7 Oct 1880

30 - Miscellaneous - [19th cent]

31 - Deeds relating to property in the parish of St Werburgh, Derby - 1853

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