| Description | The documents in this box concern a number of property transactions by members of the Curzon family 1863-1911: in particular sales of property following the death of John Curzon (1777-1864): his executors being his sons Nathaniel Charles Curzon, William Curzon and Robert Curzon
Documents about property at Gawsworth, Cheshire:
Letters: 1864: between William Whiston, solicitor, Joseph Wood, (Harrington Bone & Glue Works, Gawsworth, Cheshire), and J C Needham, Manchester: about a Curzon mortgage
Copy deed: 1864: Trustees of John Curzon to Joseph Wood
Draft Abstract of Assignment: 1864
Draft Abstract of Lease: 1864: Leicester Fitzgerald Charles, Earl of Harrington; John Chadwick, Harrington Bone Works
Letters: 1864 and Declaration: undated: mortgage: property at Crich owned by Herbert Goodall
Bond and copy draft bond: 1863: Dudley Oliver and others to John Curzon
Draft Deeds: 1863: John Curzon, Robert Curzon: and 1868: Robert Curzon to trustees of the late John Curzon: property at Alvaston and Boulton
Draft mortgage: 1863: William Wilson Osborne, Mary Osborne and John Curzon: property at Alvaston and Boulton
Documents: 1851 and 1863-1866: [James] Poyser v [John] Curzon: case in High Court Chancery Division: relating to property in Dock Street, Sculcoates, Kingston upon Hull: notice by James Poyser; affidavit of John Curzon; correspondence; draft powers of attorney for F C Greenfield & C R Fox, (London agents), and account for their work; financial details
Documents: 1847-1865: relating to property in Crown Court, Dock Street, George Street, Sculcoates, Kingston upon Hull:
receipted accounts, payable by Thomas Hobson Hill, for supplies and maintenance/repair work: including: Richardson & Co, plumbers; Charles Miller, bricklayer; George
Andrew, ironmonger; Siger & Townend, painters; George Smedley, nail maker; G Melbourn, stone mason
Receipts for payment of property tax (Matthew Beet; M D Hudson; John Wharam; Thomas Reed; Mr Stretton's executors); water charges (Hull Water Works); fire insurance premium; Lamp Rate, Poor Rate, Highway Rate
draft mortgage transfer, (N C Curzon and others to Thomas Hobson)
Extract from conveyance: Thomas Radford; Charles Meakin; Elizabeth Bowmer; John Curzon; William Ford Sadler; Joseph Wilson; William Ware, Robert Wells
Abstract of mortgage: original dated 1839; with associated declaration by J Curzon
Account entries 1847-1862: "Mr Ford Sadler's interest account"
Letter from S R Radford, Alvaston, to John Curzon: rent payments
Letter from Thomas H Hill to John Curzon
Copy of will: original made 1809: William Stretton, Sculcoates
Documents about sale of property at Long Eaton: 1883: lists of sale lots and purchasers; receipts: Derby Old Bank & Timms & Walker; correspondence (purchasers Robert Fletcher, William Wallis, Jacob Taylor, Robert Purdy) including letter from D Holwell, assistant overseer, Long Eaton, needing details for preparation of Poor Rate; observations on title and replies: draft sales particulars and conditions of sale; sales particulars (8 copies); list of unsold lots with notes about later purchasers: Smith, Purdy, Gabriel, Newbery, Hurd; draft plan (Curzon Street and Breedon Street, Long Eaton)
Documents about sale of property at Long Eaton: 1894-1903: by William Curzon and Charles Edmund Newton:
Copy deed: 1903: John Patrick Newton: with associated correspondence, contract, receipt, plan and sale particulars 1899
Draft deed: 1899: Alfred Chester, George Longden, John Patrick Newton and Edwin Williams
Sales Particulars: one copy dated 1883, amended to 1894: two copies dated 1899; one with plans
Draft deed: 1898: E H Fletcher
Draft deed: 1899: Edgar Havelock Claye: with associated correspondence
Draft deed: 1894: Louisa Ann Perks
Correspondence: 1915: sale of Horsfall Farm, Belton: W Curzon to M T Woolley, A L Beardsley and A Moore: plus letter from C Harman, Shepshed, about overdue rent payment
Draft deed: 1874: William Curzon, Charles Edmund Newton, N C Curzon and John William Philips: property at Nobut, Leigh, Staffordshire
Copy deed: 1877: Rev J A Dawkins and John Grundy: property at Overseal
Draft deed: 1877: Rev J A Dawkins and George T Mowbray: property at Overseal
Draft deed: 1880: William Curzon, Charles Edmund Newton and John Cooke: property at Netherseal
Draft case for legal opinion: 1864: Curzon inheritance
Documents relating to sale of property at Belton: 1879-1880:
Draft deed: William Curzon, Charles Edmund Newton, John Emerson: plus draft particulars of sale; conditions of sale; related correspondence; requisitions on title and replies; receipted account; draft abstract of title
Documents relating to sale of property at Belton and Shepshed: 1879-1880: Draft deed: William Curzon, Charles Edmund Newton and Samuel Harriman: plus draft particulars of sale; conditions of sale; related correspondence; requisitions on title and replies; receipted account; draft abstract of title; authorisation by Samuel Peach to sell solely to Samuel Harriman
Documents relating to sale of property at Long Eaton: 1899-1901: Draft deed: William Curzon, Charles Edmund Newton and Agabus Raynor Towson; correspondence, including references to use of/access to a road near Trent station, [one of the letters is dated 1912], and to an interest of the Midland Railway Company: draft declaration by J Timms about land ownership; extract from Long Eaton Inclosure Award of 1766, (plus similarly headed document in shorthand); particulars of sale and agreement to purchase by John Moss Towson as agent
Sale poster: 1868: property at Gelsmoor in Worthington and Newbold, Leicestershire
Documents about property sale: 1864-1866: Sir Henry William Des Voeux to Nathaniel Charles Curzon: property at Coton in the Elms; (with part-exchange of property at Netherseal): correspondence; draft deeds; notice to quit to tenant John Skermer
Documents about sale of property at Worthington: 1865-1868: N C Curzon and trustees of the late John Gilbert: correspondence; draft deeds; sales particulars
Documents about sale of property at Belton: 1877-1878: Nathaniel Charles Curzon, William Curzon and Edward Finch Dawson: draft deeds; correspondence; case for, and legal opinion by H Cadman-Jones; draft declaration by Elizabeth Jones, (Torquay), former servant to Edward Finch Dawson, giving biographical information; draft declaration by Samuel Bate, agent to Edward Finch Dawson; receipted account for work done by Miles, Bouskell & Place, solicitors; requisitions on title and replies; receipt for payment of interest on purchase money; sales particulars
Draft deeds: 1864: Nathaniel Charles Curzon, William Curzon & Robert Curzon, as trustees of the late John Curzon:
Alice Cotter: land at Crich
Edward Mortimer Green: property at Hugglescote; plus related correspondence
Thomas Angrave, Thomas Woodcock, William Aslett, Joseph Chester, Henry Toone, William Freestone, Francis Hames (devisees under wills of Elizabeth Angrave, Hannah Whittle and Lucy Whittle): property at Barrow upon Trent; plus associated correspondence
Mary Anne Titterton: property at North Parade, Derby
Documents relating to sale of land at Breedon on the Hill and Worthington for new railway construction: 1868-1881: Nathaniel Charles Curzon and The Rev. James Annesley Dawkins to Midland Railway Company: draft deeds; correspondence; requisitions on title and replies; receipts (payment to Whiston & Cooper, solicitors): plans (3), (one marked "Mr Hodson's survey"), showing route of proposed railways; draft declaration by John Shaw in relation to title; memoranda of agreement
Particulars of sale and abstract of title: 1911: property at Overseal, Netherseal and Coton in the Elms
Sale particulars: 1905: William Curzon to George Francis Earp: cottage at Gelsmoor
Copy certificate: 1900: payment of estate duty: N C Curzon
Abstract of title: undated: two cottages at Worthington
Documents relating to property at Netherseal: 1880-1882:
Epitome of deeds
Draft case for, and legal opinion by H Cadman Jones
Correspondence, with references to Chaplains of Wigston/Wyggeston Hospital
Documents relating to purchase of three meadows at Lockington: 1878-1881: trustees of Richard William Penn (Lord Howe) and devisees of John Curzon: draft deeds; correspondence; copy of declarations (relating to title) by Frederick George Thynne, and by George Lewis Parkin: two draft declarations, one by Couchman and one unnamed: draft agreement (includes recognition of the interest of the Soar Navigation Company); agreement about allocation of rent and outgoings; receipted accounts: payment to Parkin & Pagden, solicitors, and Couchman, Willmot and Couchman, valuers; two copies each of three cases for and legal opinions by H Cadman Jones; requisitions on title and replies; draft memorandum and agreement
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