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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D231/M/F/26
TitleAssignment pursuant to Marriage settlement on the marriage of Katherine Leeke to Thomas Okeover, reciting that by this marriage settlement land in Staffs., and Derbyshire, to the value of £400 15s 0d were limited to the use of Thomas Okeover for the life with remainder to trustees to preserve contingenet reminders with the proviso that should Rowland Okeover wish during the joint lives of him and Thomas to hold any of the lands so limited, then he would, in recompense, lease to Thomas lands and tenements in Norfolk, by which Rowland Okeover has assigned to Thomas Okeover, his won, a messuage or tenement and farm in Hardwick, Norfolk, now or late in the tenure of Jeremy Wade, 147 acres, and the Sheepwalk in Hardwick and North Runton let with the farm, a messuage or tenement and farm in the occupation of Nicholas Righthouse in Hardwick, 90 acres, all that ground in Hardwick 4 acres in the occupation of John Dan, all that ground in Middleton, Norfolk, 11 acres, lying intermixed with the land of the heirs of Richard Berney, all those pieces or parcels of ground in Ashley Fields, Hardwick, 11 acres, now or late in the tenure of Harry Towers, a messuage or tenement in West Winch now or late in the tenure of Mr Bagg, 45 acres, also several pieces of ground in Sechee alias Sech 25 acres lying in three parts of the marsh by West Winch Common in the tenure of John Williamson, two parcels of ground next the brook in the occupation of John Hull 4½ acres, a parcel of ground 1 acres butting the Common now or late in the tenure of Edward Woodhouse, a messuage or tenement and farm in Tilney, 149 acres, in the occupation of John Wantland, a messuage or tenement and farm in Tilney in the occupation of Edward Brook, a tenement at Poynfield, 15½ acres in Tilney in the tenure of Mr Clarke and all that ground near Bury Manor, Tilney, 15 acres, in the occupation of Henry Woods : for 99 years at a peppercorn rental : schedule attached for all the lands originally limited in the marriage settlement to Thomas Okeover - Atlow, Mapleton, Okeover and Okeover Woodhouse, 11 Jan
Date1699/1700
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorOkeover family of Okeover
Related MaterialD231M/F23
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