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D769 - Taylor Simpson and Mosley, solicitors of Derby - [16th-20th cent]
- B - Box Listed Records - 18th-20th cent
  - 8A - Taylor, Simpson and Mosley, Solicitors: Eighth Deposit (additional)
    - 168 - Curzon of Lockington

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D769/B/8A/168/2
Former Reference	1827/1
Title	Personal correspondence received between 1874 and 1880 by Charles Sprengel Greaves (1802-1881), barrister and antiquarian; Legal and financial documents relating to estates at Bradley and Yeldersley, Derbyshire, which following the deaths in 1881 and 1880 respectively of Charles Sprengel Greaves and of his wife Emma Frances Greaves passed into the ownership of the Curzon family
Date	19th cent
Description	Letters to Charles Sprengel Greaves: 1874-1880: from S[amuel] Riley of Bradley, understood to be agent in respect of C S Greaves's property in Bradley. These letters, one written every few days, give substantial and detailed information about day to day matters in Bradley, including local farms and their tenants; local social life; the impact of the weather; the contents of game hampers sent to C S Greaves; and the well-being or otherwise of local inhabitants. Some letters bear draft replies: a few letters bear what appear to be draft replies written in shorthand. Letters to Charles Sprengel Greaves: 1874-1880: from various individuals: letters relating to tenancies/property in Bradley: from Anne Gamble; John Coleman; George Oakden; George Fowler; Robert Copestake; G Sims; Charles Weston; Alfred Bunting; John Lovatt; George Woolley; J N Fowler; William Taylor; Anne Harrison; John Parkin; James Miller; William Yeomans; Richard White; Charles Robinson; Herbert Lamb; John Harrison letters relating to Bradley School: from Benjamin Howard (schoolmaster); C W Richards (rector of Bradley) and T Fernyhough concerning the need for financial support in order to pay teachers salaries (1874); the good report of the school by inspectors (1876); an appeal for a donation for a proposed school visit to Dovedale (1876); and a summary of school accounts (1877) letters concerning liturgical and/or scriptural matters: from Joseph Napier; Alice Greaves; W H Spilsbury; H R Droop letters concerning antiquarian matters: from Joseph Burtt; Hannah Jackson Gwilt; Geoffrey Meynell; Anne H Dodsley-Flamstead and Charlotte Flamstead: (Flamstead and Dodsley genealogy); Sibbald Scott; George Bacon, (Sussex Archaelogical Society) Letters concerning family/social matters: from Anne L Huyshe; Talbot Greaves; M Tichard (Baden Baden): Elizabeth Greaves; Lydia Lillingstone; Thomas Greenish; Geoffrey Meynell letters concerning specific subjects: from: Octavius Morgan: recommends a watchmaker; W H Freemantle: donation request for an unnamed school; Francis K Robinson: etymology of Yorkshire word "ghant"; Thomas Henry: a prosecution under the Gunpowder Act; William Royle (Middlewich): lease of Railway Hotel; J Bradshaw: South Derbyshire Election 1874: L[uke] Sampson: repairs at Mayfield, Staffordshire Invoices and receipts: 1866-1871: building and repair work at various farms at Bradley Memorandum: 1874: from Continental Daily Parcels Express: declaration needs to be signed and duty needs to be paid for an imported package of cigars Letter: 1874: from Twining & Co: consols sold for the benefit of William Thorley of Ellastone Letter: 1874: from Locket & Judkins: supply of coal Legal and financial documents relating to Bradley and Yeldersley Estates: Duplicate order appointing trustees: 1914: High Court Chancery Division: application by Lord Scarsdale to appoint F N Curzon and Hardress J Waller: will of Emma Frances Greaves: property at Bradley and Yeldersley Deed: 1873: appointment of new trustees: marriage settlement of C S Greaves and wife E F Greaves Abstract of will: 1892: Anne Lydia Huyshe Special case, 1882, and Court Order, 1883: High Court Chancery Division: A L Huyshe; Lord Scarsdale; The Rev Talbot Greaves and The Hon G N Curzon: Donisthorpe, Bradley and Yeldersley Estates Certified burial register entry: 1869: parish of Ashbourne: Peter Bainbrigge Le Hunt: burial in 1866 Duplicate release, rent charge: 1860: C S Greaves, E F Greaves, Frances Sgambella [sic] Harriet Harwood, Francis Wright, Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole: Bradley Estate Bond: 1892: Lord Scarsdale and Walter Evans: related to mortgage, estates at Bradley Declarations of Trust: 1869 and 1870: the Rev John Tetley Smith, (as Trustee of Greaves Marriage Settlement) Declaration of Trust: 1856: Peter Bainbrigge Le Hunt and the Rev John Tetley Smith: with amendments, 1869-1870, as though used as a draft for a new document Declaration of Trust and Release: 1845: C S Greaves, E F Tyson; Peter Bainbrigge Le Hunt and the Rev John Tetley Smith: Property in Bradley, Yeldersley and Donisthorpe Marriage Settlement: 1754: Hugo Meynell and Anne Gell Reconveyance (2): 1914: Ada Evans; Charles Hugh Babbington Elliott; Matthew Allwoood; Lord Scarsdale; F N Curzon; Hardress J Waller: Bradley and Yeldersley estates Mortgage transfers; Bradley and Yeldersley: 1873: CS Greaves, E F Greaves; Lord Scarsdale and The Rev Talbot Greaves 1884: Lord Scarsdale and The Rev Talbot Greaves to Anne L Huyshe 1884: Gilbert Gould to Anne L Huyshe 1892: personal representatives of Anne L Huyshe to Walter Evans Mortgage: 1869: C S Greaves and E F Greaves to the Rev John Tetley Smith: Bradley and Yeldersley Abstract of Title: 1892: mortgage debt; Bradley and Yeldersley Estate Mortgage: 1865: C S Greaves and E F Greaves to Gilbert Gould and William Fidler Mason: Bradley and Yeldersley Estate Statutory Declaration: 1892: by Joseph Henry Cooke: relates to mortgage advance: Gilbert Gould and William Fidler Mason Certified copy will (1866), codicil (1874) and probate (1881): Emma Frances Greaves Inland Revenue correspondence: 1918: return, assessment and receipt: Succession Duty: F N Curzon upon death of Lord Scarsdale: and application and certificate: payment of Estate Duty, Bradley and Yeldersley
Extent	1 box
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Taylor Simpson and Mosley, solicitors of Derby
Term	Elections

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