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D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]
M - Deeds and estate records - [12th-20th cent]
F - Family - 14th cent-c1950
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D231/M/F/310
Title
Copy release reciting that the trustees (Leeke, William and Rowland Oakeover and Gilbert Adderley) shall dispose and pay £60 yearly of the profits of the Atlow property for the support of an able, fit and discreet man to be organist in Okeover parish church, and also 12 fit boys and girls to be the sons and daughters of residents of Okeover, Woodhouses, Swincoe, Mapleton and Atlow, and, if not enough from these villages, then residents of Church, Over and Middle Mayfield also : also, out of the remaining income of the property, immediately after the death of Rowland Okeover the elder the trustees are to erect, build and finish at the place where the messuage or dwelling - house in the possession of Widow Ryley now stands, one neat, convenient house divided into three dwellings or apartments from three widows of clergymen of the Church of England as the trustees shall think to be most proper for such charity; each apartment to have a garden and an annuity £10 to be provided for each widow
24 Oct
Date
1727
Level
file
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Okeover family of Okeover
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