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D1492 - Whitehall Cotton Mill and Whitehough Paper Mill, Chinley - 1648-1920

E - Estate - 1648-1920

T - Title Deeds - 1704-1910

1 - Bargain and sale with feoffment by George Gee of Chinley to William Bennett of Whitehaugh in Chapel-en-le-Frith, of a close in Chinley called Meanstonefield at Chinley-end Green containing 1 acre. Consideration £10. Dated 1 May - 1704

2 - Will of William Bennett of Chinley yeoman, to nephew William Bennett leaves house and land at Lee-end in Chinley, to daughter Sarah Carrington, leaves a close called the Intake at Bottom of Chinley Green for her natural life, and on her death to nephew Robert Bennett to same Sarah, leaves two cottages standing on the Warth near the Whitehough in Chapel for life, and then to the same Robert, leaves to the same Sarah a half-share in his coal mining enterprises, leaves to nephew John Carrington, the other half-share. Dated 4 Feb Copy. Proved at Lichfield 11 Oct 1766 - 1763

3 - Lease during natural life of lessor by Sarah Carrington of Chinley widow to Robert Bennett of Chinley tradesman of 605 yards of land in close called the Intack at the bottom of Chinley Green, i.e. 34 yards in length from the corner at the bridge called Whitehough Bridge and 9 yards in breadth from the Brook, and then 23 yards forward in length and 13 yards in breadth; rent 10s 6d. Lessee to fence the land within 4 weeks. Dated 15 Apr - 1782

4 - Feoffment by Robert Bennett of Chinley-end, distiller, to George Taylor of Chinley, gent, of a reversionary interest in a third part of a close called the Intake (see T 2-3) Pepper corn rent. Dated 23 Dec - 1782

5 - Feoffment by Robert Bennett of Chinley-end distiller, to George Goodman of Eccles in Chapel-en-le-Frith, esq of a reversionary interest in a third part of the Intake as in T4. Dated 23 Dec - 1782

6 - Articles of agreement between Robert Bennett and George Goodman (see T5) and George Taylor (see T2), concerning a partnership for erecting and running a water mill for cotton manufactory; Bennett’s interest is to be in strict accordance with the amount he has invested; any partner withdrawing to give the others first refusal of his interest. Dated 8 Jan - 1783

7-8 - Lease and release by George Goodman of Eccles in Chapel-en-le-Frith to John Taylor of Lane-ends in Chinley, gent, of two undivided fifth-parts of a building newly erected on the Intake at the bottom of Chinley-Green used as a cotton-cording mill. Pepper-corn rent payable to Robert Bennett, late of Chinley, now of Liverpool, distiller. Consideration £143. Dated 10/11 Feb - 1784

9 - Gift by George Taylor of Chinley gent to his brother John Taylor of a share in a cotton mill lately erected on the Intake at the bottom of Chinley-Green. Dated 6 May - 1784

10 - Feoffment by Robert Bennett of Liverpool, distiller, to John Taylor of Lane-ends in Chinley, gent, of fifth-part of a cotton mill (as in T7-8); consideration £74 10s. Dated 11 Jun - 1785

11-12 - Lease and release by Charles Bowles of Radcliffe (co Middx) esq and John Hughes of Lambeth (co Surrey), esq trustee of Charles Bowles, to John Taylor jun of Mainstonefield in Chinley, cotton manufacturer, of a close and barn in Mainstonefield, commonly called the Green Field (3 acres 1 rood 10 perches), subject to an annual fee farm to the crown of 1s 2½d, consideration £220; together with an assignment of two separate terms of 500 years and 99 years affecting the close. Brief schedule of title deeds. Dated 4/5 Apr - 1792

13 - Gift by John Taylor sen of Chinley, gent, to his son, John Taylor jun of the same place, cotton manufacturer, of three undivided fifth parts of cotton mill (as in (T 7-8). Dated 1 Oct - 1792

14 - Bargain and sale with feoffment by Robert Bennett of Liverpool, gent, to John Taylor of Chinley, gent, of all reversionary interest in the Intake in the bottom of Chinley-Green. Consideration £42. Dated 5 Jul - 1797

15 - Attested copy of conveyance by mortgage by Rachel Broadhurst of Mainstonefield in Chinley, spinster, to James Goddard of the same place, stonemason, to two messuages in Mainstonefield and the following parcels of land. Calf Croft otherwise Olivers Croft, the Plow Field, the Little and Great Intakes, the little Meadow the Slacks Meadow, and the Scow Field, in Chinley, in consideration of £500 paid by James Goddard and £150 paid by Joseph Goddard of Mainstonefield, Stonemason, proviso for Joseph to pay James £500 with interest on or before 14 November next; Rachel undertakes to produce an abstract of title to the premises, to include a conveyance of 5 April 1792 (T 10-11). Dated 14 May - 1804

16-17 - Lease and release by John Booth of Whitehough in Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, John Thomason of Cadster in the same parish, tanner and trustee of Booth when he purchased a part of the land mentioned below, and Richard Harrison of Tideswell, gent, and trustee of Booth when he purchased a second part of the land mentioned below, to John Ibbotson of Whitehough aforesaid, of land in Bradshaw Edge, part of theWhitehough estate, commonly called the Little Meadow, the Gorse, and the Little Barn Meadow, together with a small piece of land below the railway adjoining the Barn Meadow (part of the Little Meadow now being a reservoir); which land was purchased by Booth from Richard Popplewell Johnson by lease and release 29/30 December 1806; and of a paper mill and land adjoining, also part of the Whitehough, which Booth bought from Thomas Goodman by lease and release 27/28 January 1819. Consideration £1800. The residue of a term of 1000 years in the first property vested in James Carrington by a deed of 21 April 1769 is now assigned to Thomas Brodrick of Macclesfield, gent, in trust for Ibbotson. Reference schedule and plan endorsed. Dated 1/2 Jun - 1820

18-19 - Mortgage by lease and release by John Ibbotsonof the Whitehough, paper manufacturer, to Edmund Hamer of Manchester, merchant, of land etc as in T15-16. Consideration £1950 with proviso for repayment by 1 May next. Assignment of fire insurance policy in £5300 with the Sun Insurance Co of London by Ibbotson to Hamer. Dated 1/2 May - 1821

20 - Attested copy of lease and release by James Goddard of Chinley, Stonemason, to Joseph Goddard of Chinley, stonemason, of two messuages in Mainstonefield in Chinley, and land as in T14: recital of terms of T14 and of the will of James Goddard (3 April 1805); the land to be held in trust by James Braddock of Marple, yeoman, to prevent any claim of dower assignment of the residue of a term of 500 years to Charles Walmsley of Marple, gent, in trust for Josephine Goddard. Dated 1/2 Jan - 1822

21-22 - Lease and release by Joseph Goddard of Chinley, stonemason, to John Ibbotson of Chapel-en-le-Frith, paper manufacturer, of Oliver’s Croft and the Holebottom in Mainstonefield in Chinley, containing together 3 acres 38 perches: the land to be held in trust by Thomas Goodman of Chapel-en-le-Frith to prevent any claim of dower, assignment of residue of a term in trust by Charles Walmsley to William Hilton Lonsdale of Manchester, gent (see T14, T19). Consideration of £162 10s. Dated 30/31 Oct - 1822

23 - Assignment of two several terms of 500 years and 1000 years in trust to attend the inheritance, reciting terms of an indenture of 4 April 1818 whereby John Booth of Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, appointed and limited to Adam Fox of Chapel, gent, a mortgage on lands in the parish of Chapel, including those hereinafter to be assigned, for a term of 500 years in consideration of £600, and further reciting an assignment under the same indenture of the residue of a term of 1000 years to Thomas Bagshaw of Tideswell in trust for Adam Fox, and reciting the will of John Booth, now deceased, which appointed George Booth of Chapel, farmer, and Adam Fox, executors; and receipting the terms of T15-16 by which Booth conveyed the land in question to John Ibbotson in which conveyance neither Fox nor Bagshaw joined, now, the mortgage and interest having been fully paid, Fox and Bagshaw assign the residue of the terms, at Ibbotson’s request, to Thomas Goodman of Eccles House in Chapel-en-le-Frith, to attend the inheritance. Dated 12 Jun - 1823

24 - Lease and release by William Barker of Bakewell, yeoman, the commissioner appointed under an act of parliament for enclosing land in Chinley, to John Ibbotson of Whitehall Mills in the parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith, paper maker, of an encroachment called Hunter’s Sitch, now in the tenure of Ibbotson, together with thirteen messuages lately erected thereon, containing in all 1 acre 16 perches. Consideration £30. Dated 7/8 Sep - 1825

25-26 - Assignment and transfer of a mortgage in £1950 on lands in the parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith (see T15-16, 17-18) by Edmund Hamer of Manchester, merchant, to William Allen of Manchester, merchant, and John Nussey of Batley (co W R York), merchant. Dated 4/5 Jan - 1826

27-28 - Lease and release by Joseph Goddard of Chinley, Stonemason, to John Ibbotson of Whitehall Mills in Chapel-en-le-Frith, paper maker, of the Great Intake in Chinley in exchange for Chinley Green, lately enclosed and the property of Ibbotson, together with a consideration of £200 paid by Ibbotson; plan of the Great Intake (5 acres 1 rood 26 perches) endorsed. Dated 24/25 Mar - 1828

29 - Memorandum of an agreement between John Handforth of Charlesworth, yeoman, and John Ibbotson, whereby Handforth agrees to lease to Ibbotson for a term of 999 years the easement for Ibbotson to erect a weir or weirs in the Blackbrook in Chinley, property of Handforth, abutting on Ibbotsons land - 5 Mar 1833

30-31 - Reconveyance by lese and release of a paper mill and land at the Whitehough in Chapel-en-le-Frith by William Allen and John Nussey, at the direction of Edmund Hamer, to John Ibbotson (see T24-25). Consideration £1950. Date 29/30 Oct - 1835

32-33 - Lease and release by Thomas Jackson of Manchester, calico printer, devisee in trust and executor of the will of John Ibbotson of Whitehall Mills in Chapel-en-le-Frith, deceased, to Samuel Walker of Pendleton co Lancashire), esq, of all the freehold and leasehold lands of the late John Ibbotson in consideration of£10,732 18s 4d, paid by Walker to Sir Salisbury Davenport of Bramhall Hall (co Chester), and James Newton of Cheadle Heath (co Chester), esq, trustees of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking co. to which Ibbotson’s estates were mortgaged under the terms of a lease and release 18/19 December 1835. The land included in the conveyance is as follows: in Mainstonefield, Oliver’s Croft and the Hole Bottom, formerly part of the Great Intake, containing together 3 acres 38 perches; Hunter’s Sitch with the buildings erected thereon (see T23), and the Great Intake (5 acres 1 rood 26 perches; see T 26, 27); in Bradshaw Edge in the parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith: the Little Meadow, the Gorse, the Little Barn Meadow, and a small plot of land below the railway; a paper mill erected on a part of the Little Meadow, lately acquired from Thomas Goodman, the Bothams (8 acres), the Lime Field (8 acres); the Old Piece (3 acres); the Black Ground; and all that building, late an iron foundry, now a bleach works; erected on the whole part of the last four named closes, now in the occupation of Messrs Hughes, Barnes, and Ingham. Dated 1/2 Jan - 1841

34 - Release by John Wych of Macclesfield, gent, and others to Joseph Barnes of Chinley, paper maker, of lands at Bradshaw Edge in Chapel-en-le-Frith: the Bottom, the New Piece, Harper Meadow, Calf Croft, Flax Meadow, and of lands in Buxworth, Lower Meadow, and the End of the Wood, all of which adjoin and contain 20 acres 35 perches; plan endorsed. Consideration 31050. Dated 5 June - 1847

35 - Acknowledgement to support T33

36 - Memorandum found attached to T33 that by an indenture of – May 1829 Joseph Barnes conveyed to John Slack of Hayfield, paper maker, a piece of land adjoining the Whitehall paper mill containing 900 square yards, plan annexed - 1870

37 - Deed of covenant for production of title deeds (with T33) - 1847

38 - Mortgage by Joseph Barnes of Daisy Bank in Buxworth, gent, to Charles Bostock of Cheadle, gent, of lands in T33, together with two messuages lately erected on the said closes. Consideration £600. Dated 22 Mar - 1850

39 - Re-conveyance by Bostock to Barnes, see T37. Dated 22 Mar - 1853

40 - Covenant on sale of part of a rent-charge issuing from the Hunters Sitch in Chinley, part of the White Hall estate, by John Devonport Goodman of Chapel-en-le-Frith (vendor) to John Slack of Hayfield, paper maker. Dated 11 Oct - 1872

41 - Conveyance by the trustees of the will of Joseph Barnes to the trustees of the will of John Slack of two farms in Buxworth and Chapel-en-le-Frith, one called Daisy Bank, the others called Harpers Cottage, consideration £2025. Dated 10 Mar - 1893

42-43 - Conveyance of White Hall and other hereditanents at Chinley, Buxworth, and Chapel-en-le-Frith, by Arthur William Slack, Henry Barber and Thomas Reginald Slack, Henry Barber and Thomas Reginald Slack to Mr John Welch, consideration £8000. Dated 29 Jul - 1904

44 - Probate copy of the will of John Welch esq. Dated 12/29 Dec - 1906

45 - Family settlement of the White Hall estate between the residuary legatees of the will of John Welch and Henry Welch, plan of the estate attached - 1910

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