| Description | The documents in this box (1813-1911) principally concern a number of property transactions by members of the Curzon family: 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 (and later Charles Edmund Newton, husband of John Curzon's daughter Ann Rosamund). A few documents relate to the estate of The Hon and Rev Frederick Emmanuel Curzon.
Bundle 1:
Documents relating to sale of property at Belton: 1911: William Curzon to Albert Moore: draft deed; conditions of and agreement for sale; requisitions and observations on title and replies; associated correspondence.
Bundle 2:
Documents relating to sale of property in parish of St Werburgh's, Derby: 1888: N C and W Curzon to Anne Ward, Edwin Joseph Ward and Lawrence Chapman: draft deed; declaration, (and draft) by Anne Ward about Ward family genealogy; abstract of title; associated correspondence.
Draft agreements (2) and associated correspondence: 1902: William Curzon and Lutterworth Rural District Council: sewers at Sutton in the Elms.
Documents relating to sale of property at Netherseal: 1895-1896: William Curzon and C E Newton to William G Cooper: draft deed; sales particulars and conditions; contract and associated correspondence.
Documents relating to sale of property at Breedon Street, Long Eaton: 1898: William Curzon and C E Newton to R W Fletcher: draft deed; sales particulars, plan and conditions; and associated correspondence.
Sales particulars, conditions and plans: 1856: estate of the late William Eaton Mousley; (Court of Chancery; Gregory v Mousley): property at Derby, Hartington, Castle Gresley
Draft deed: 1866: Robert Pegg; John Humphreys; N C Curzon, W Curzon and R Curzon: property in the parish of All Saints, Derby.
Documents relating to sale of property at Burghley Street, All Saints, Derby: 1898-1900: trustee of will of J Curzon to David Anderson: draft deed; draft abstracts (2) of title: (one refers to land at Long Eaton: with pencil alterations adding Burghley Street); particulars and conditions of sale; observations and requisitions on title; draft contact; associated correspondence.
Bankers receipts: 1874: W & S Evans.
Documents relating to sale of property in parish of All Saints, Derby: 1880-1881: Walter Randall to Henry Chandos Pole-Gell and N C Curzon: draft deeds (2); plans; draft declaration by Frank Earp; and associated correspondence.
Bundle 3:
Documents relating to the estate of the Fifth Earl of Harrington: 1888-1889: income and capital account; deed (and draft): appointment of new trustee; related correspondence
Draft deed: 1867: trustees of will of J Curzon and William Cash: property at Ockbrook.
Particulars of land taken for Ashby & Breedon railway (Midland Railway Company): 1876.
Agreement and plan: 1872: sale/purchase of land at Ashby de la Zouch: N C Curzon and Ashby and Nuneaton Railway Joint Committee.
Documents relating to sale of property at Scounslow Green Uttoxeter: 1874: W Curzon and N C Curzon to Andrew Harris: draft deed and covenants (2) for production of deeds
Documents relating to sale of property at Roman Terrace, Derby: 1876-1877: W Curzon and C E Newton to Thomas H Harrison: draft declaration (about mortgage history) by N C Curzon: receipted accounts for sales advertisements and for work by Oliver, Newbould & Oliver; requisitions on title and replies; draft deeds.
Documents relating to sale of property at Siddals Road, Derby: 1872-1879: Curzon to Thomas Roe and Charles Fox Roe: schedules of title deeds (draft and substantive): draft mortgage deed and correspondence referring to William Allen Francis Saunders.
Bankers receipt: 1873: W & S Evans.
Documents relating to sale of property in Kegworth: 1879-1880: N C Curzon, W Curzon, Joseph Johnson and Thomas Osborne: draft deeds; associated correspondence; requisitions on title; copy of court order: High Court Chancery Division (Thomas Osborne, Joseph Johnson and Alfred Rowlett): sales notice: original copy The Times newspaper February 2nd 1880 (contains a court report: Osborne v Rowlett).
Bundle 4:
Draft deeds (2): 1878: N C Curzon, W Curzon and R Curzon to Matilda Octavia Davenport: property in the parish of St Peter's, Derby: with associated receipt (1860) and letter (1867)
Court summons: 1872: Court of Common Pleas to William Aulton, Derby: suit of William Stratford Dugdale.
Bundle 5:
Draft deeds (2): 1880: N C Curzon and W Curzon to N C Curzon: property at Melbourne.
Draft deed: 1875: executors of J Curzon and Richard Bennett: property at Spondon.
Documents relating to sale of property in Breaston: 1875: Henry Eden, William Walker, N C Curzon: draft deed; plan; associated correspondence and account; and agreement to purchase.
Requisitions on title; replies and associated correspondence: 1874: Curzon trustees and Astle; Curzon trustees and Whitaker.
List of property and tenants: undated: Draycott, Sawley, Borrowash, Breaston: with correspondence about possible sale.
Accounts: entries 1849-1861: Curzon trustees and Francis Grundy.
Letter: undated: from John Skermer, to Mr Garratt: need for a deed following [unidentified] property purchase.
Documents relating to sale (by Curzon trustees) of property in Sawley, Draycott and Borrowash:
1873-1875: list of property and tenants; sales particulars, plans, extracts from title deeds; working notes; draft declaration by Thomas Cooper; various receipted accounts; associated correspondence; requisitions on title and replies; declarations in relation to title by N C Curzon; draft deeds: (purchasers Finney, Street, Harrison, Winfield, Towle)
survey: 1839: land at Draycott taken by Midland Counties Railway Company and land purchased by W Curzon: marked "Mr Lamb's Survey"; and valuation: 1838: by Lamb
document: undated: "Thomas Eaton's Estate": list of deeds/transactions, 1813, and what appears to be an excerpt from Manorial Court ruling, 1818.
Sales poster: 1837: property at Draycott.
List of tenants and sketch plan: 1833: Eaton's property, Draycott.
Draft deed: 1860: for production of deeds: Charles Autill and John Curzon.
Draft receipt: 1875: payment by N C Curzon to Robert Wakefield: property at Sheepshead.
Draft deed: undated: mortgage General District Rates, Borough of Nottingham: Ann Bromley, Samuel Bennett and N C Curzon.
Bundle 6:
Sales particulars and plan: 1883: property at Wilsthorpe Road, Long Eaton.
Abstract of title: 1890: Trustees of J Curzon: property at Long Eaton.
Draft deed: 1877: N C Curzon & W Curzon and James Oldershaw: property at Sawley.
Documents relating to sale of property in Curzon Street, Long Eaton: W Curzon and C E Newton to Robert Purdy: draft deed, sales particulars and agreement to purchase.
Bundle 7:
Documents relating to sale of property in Diseworth: 1887: devisees of the will of Frederick Hepworth and trustees of J Curzon: draft deeds; sales particulars and conditions; requisitions on title; and associated correspondence.
Documents relating to sale of property in Moira Road, Overseal: 1911: W Curzon to John George Bowley: draft deed; conditions of and agreement for sale; and associated correspondence.
Copy will and probate: will made 1867: probate 1872: The Hon and Rev. Frederick Emmanuel Curzon.
Documents relating to sale of property in Mickleover: 1872: purchase by C E Newton from Executors of F E Curzon: receipts; accounts; conditions of sale; sales advertisement (draft and final versions); agreements to sale/purchase; case for and legal opinion by H Cadmnan Jones; draft deeds; working notes.
Account: 1857-1858: legal/financial work undertaken by [unidentified] individual for The Hon and Rev. F E Curzon: includes references to a possible approach to "Admiral Curzon" for help with a pressing debt.
Draft deeds (2): 1872: N C Curzon, Herbert Fallowes Porter: property at Alvaston and Boulton.
Draft deed: 1872: executors of J Curzon and Rt Hon Charles Wyndham, Earl of Harrington: property at Elvaston.
Draft deeds (2): 1872: N C Curzon, and Rt Hon Earl Ferrers: exchange of sites for pinfold at Worthington.
Documents relating to property in Alvaston and Boulton:
1863: schedule of deeds: owners Mary Osborne and William Willson Osborne.
1872: draft deed: N C Curzon, W Curzon, R Curzon, Mary Osborne, William Willson Osborne, William Joseph Smith.
Documents relating to property in Litchurch: 1854; 1856; 1861; 1864; 1865; 1871; 1872:
names of parties: John Curzon; Josiah Winfield, William Booth; William Henry Barlow; John Charles Burton Brough; Midland Railway Company
Abstracts of title; draft deeds; associated correspondence; agreements to purchase; sale particulars; schedule of deeds; fire policies (North of England Fire & Life Insurance Co): solicitor's account. |