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D2148 - Breaston Copyhold Lands of Bonsall and family and others, 19th cent - 1814-1925

ZT - Documents of title to copyhold lands and other papers - 1814-1925

1 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Surrender by ThomasWood and his wife Edith, to John Walker, tailor of Breaston, of a messuage and parcel of land, previously occupied by Francis Carrington and then by Edward Winrow, itself part of a larger messuage which was the estate of the late Thomas Lakin and devised to Thomas Wood, in Breaston. Consideration £60 2 Nov - 1814

2 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Surrender by Thomas Wood and his wife, Elizabeth, to Samuel Bonsall, farmer of Breaston of the ancient messuage and 3 small gardens, in Breaston, divided into 3 separate dwellings occupied by Joseph Poxon, Richard Reeves and John Kirk; with an adjoining old orchard (the property formerly occupied by the late Thomas Lakin) - 23 Dec 1815

3 - Lease and release (/a and /b) by Alexander Harrington Foxcroft, esq of Breaston to Richard Thompson, yeoman, of Draycott in Wilne and his trustee, William Wheatcroft, writing clerk of Derby. Recites: mortgages to George Berry, lace manufacturer of Nottingham of 8/9 Jan 1827 (£1000), 17 Aug 1827 (£200), 7 Apr 1828 (£400), 15 May 1828 (£400); transfer of these mortgages to Gervase Bourne, coal master, late of Bramcote and now Babbington (Nottingham-shire), William Willis Bailey, engineer of Swadlincote and Hugh Bruce Campbell, with a further charge on 13-14 Mar 1829 of £500. The consideration of £1050 7s 9d is to be paid to the creditors of Alexander Harrington Foxcroft. The property concerned is several parcels of land in Breaston occupied in succession by James Snow, the late Benjamin Harrington, Samuel Cooke and now William Clarke: 5 acres 3 roods 5 perches of Walker Field, 3 acres 2 roods 27 perches in Little Walker Field [these were originally Walker Close, 9 acres 2 roods 8 perches and the Nether Field Close (8 acres 9 perches)]. Also annuities to be paid to Elizabeth Woodward (£10), to Charlotte Holme, wife of Revd James Holme (£20), the Minister of Sawley (£5) and annual rent of 5s to Pembroke College, Oxford. With a schedule of deeds. 17-18 Sept - 1829

4 - Mortgage by Richard Thompson of the property at D2148 Z/T3 to Frances Harriet Bakewell, spinster, of Derby, to secure £700. 19 Sept - 1829

5 - Lease and release (/a and /b) of freehold and copyhold for mortgage with powers of sale by Richard Thompson as at D2148 Z/T3 to Nathaniel Curzon, gent, of Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire. Recites: lease and release of property in Draycott by Richard Thompson to Thomas Jowett in trust for Richard Thompson (subject to a mortgage of £800 owed to Ann Severn, widow of Elvaston); mortgage as at D2148 Z/T4; conditional surrender (16 Mar 1826) to raise £500, and further charge (13 Mar 1829) to raise £220 of the Breaston property to Nathaniel Curzon. This present mortgage to secure £500. The property: at Draycott, a messuage formerly occupied by John Jowell, the late Antony Gretton, his son Antony Gretton and now by Richard Thompson with "the Homestead" comprising 7 acres. (formerly of Thomas Boswath), except 2 acres 3 roods 23 perches bought by Edward Thompson called Little Bottom Piece, an inclosure plot in Asthill Field (7 acres 3 roods 29 perches) (boundaries given); the property at D2148 Z/T3; copyhold property from Sawley Manor comprising Ten Acre (9 acres 1 rood 36 perches); Willow Spinney (35 perches); Near Pasture Close (3 acres 1 rood 27 perches) and Far Pasture Close (3 acres 3 roods 20 perches) 21-22 Sept - 1829

6 - Abstract of title of A H Foxcroft to an estate at Breaston - 1829

7 - Continuation abstract of title as above - 1829

8 - Abstract of release by A N Foxcroft to Thomas Slater, Alexander Foxcroft and Francis Jessopp to secure payment of an annuities at T3 - 1829

9 - Assignment of mortgage at D2148 Z/T 4 by Frances Harriett Bakewell as at D2148 Z/T 4 to John Curzon, esq of Derby 10 Aug - 1833

10 - Abstract of title of John Walker to a copyhold cottage at Breaston, for Mr J E Hall, the purchaser - 1834

11 - Abstract of the title of the devisees in trust of the late Samuel Bonsall to copyhold messuages in Breaston - 1834

12 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Surrender by John Walker, tailor, of Breaston to John Edmund Hall, gent, of Nottingham of the property at D2148 Z/T 1 for £54, 26 Jan - 1835

13 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Admission of Thomas Sheldon of Wilsthorpe, farmer, and Samuel Cook, farmer, of Breaston as surviving trustees of the late Samuel Bonsall to the property as in D2148 Z/ T 2 and their surrender of the property to John Edmund Hall as above, for £219 - 26 Jan 1835

14 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Surrender by John Edmund Hall as at now of Breaston, of the properties at D2148 Z/T1-2, to Francis Talbott, victualler, of Nottingham for £300 31 Mar - 1841

15 - Solicitor's bill and receipt to Mr Talbot for the above conveyance Nov - 1842

16 - Lease and release (/a and /b) by Thomas Newton, gent of Kettering, (Northamptonshire) eldest son of the late John Newton, Thomas Wolstenholme, farmer and maltster of Arnold, (Nottinghamshire) and Thomas Richardson, baker of Belper, the devisees in trust for sale under the will of the late John Newton, farmer of Draycott, to Isaac Attenborough, farmer of West Hallam and his brother and trustee, Mark Attenborough, victualler of Ilkeston. The property is Walker's Close, previously Middlestead Close (11 acres 1 rood) and part of Nether Field Close (1 acre 3 roods 15 perches). Consideration £1270 17-18 Aug - 1841

17 - Covenant to produce the deeds by the parties as in D2148/ZT/16, 18 Aug - 1841

18 - Mortgage by Francis Talbot as at to Jonathan Warren Keetley, gentleman of Wilsthorpe of the properties at D2148 Z/T1-2 , to secure £200, 20 Jun - 1843

19 - Abstract of title of the late Richard Thompson to freehold lands at Breaston - 1877

20 - Conveyance by Nathaniel Charles Curzon esq of Lockington Hall, William Curzon, esq of Alvaston, Richard Thompson, farmer, of Chellaston and Edward Horrobin, farmer, of Draycott, devisees of the late Richard Thompson and Nathaniel Curzon; to Lemuel Macdonald, gent of Breaston. Recites: D2148 Z/T 4, T 9, T 5, the will of Richard Thompson (prob 8 May 1876) and Nathaniel Curzon (prob 28 Sept 1848). Property in Breaston: Walker's Close (5 acres 1 rood 14 perches) and Nether Field (2 acres 1 rood 32 perches) and the Far Nether Field (8 acres 1 rood 38 perches) £700 paid to N C C and W C, a further £500 to NCC, £747 9s 6d to R.T. Land boundaries given. Endorsed with a memorandum of a conveyance by Thomas Eaton and John Harry Macdonald (trustees of the late Samuel Macdonald) to Charles Pegg of Boyer Grange, Stanton by Dale, (Nottinghamshire) third of Far Netherfield (8 acres 1 rood 38 perches), with a grant of a moiety of a watercourse (course given). (30 August 1901) 26 Mar - 1877

21 - Conveyance by Alfred Harry Evans, surgeon, of Sutton Coldfield, (Warwickshire) to William Watson, gentleman of Breaston, of the property at D2148 Z/T 16 (Bounds given) £1600 25 Mar - 1882

22 - Abstract of title of Alfred Harry Evans to the property at D2148 Z/T 16 - 1882

23 - Mortgage by Walter Kent of Breaston, John Barrett, blacksmith, of Breaston and his wife Elizabeth to Enoch Harriman, farmer, of Breaston to secure £160 - 11 Nov 1893

24 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Recites admission of Francis Talbot, victualler of Nottingham, on the surrender of John Edmund Hall to a messuage at Breaston occupied by John Fallows, an adjoining messuage occupied by Mary Burton (as at D2148 Z/T2), the property at D2148 Z/T 1 and a messuage adjoining the property at D2148 Z/T 2 erected by John Edmund Hall, Francis Talbot died intestate on 4 Jun. 1850 and his heir Francis Talbot, junior died on 4 Oct 1896. His will (probate 19 Dec 1896) appointed Frank Watson Talbot, George Shelton Talbot and Harry Watson Talbot as trustees for D2148 Z/T 24 sale of the property and their admission is recorded. 29 Sept - 1897

25 - Sawley Prebedal Manor: Admission of Frank Watson Taylor, esq of Aslockton (Nottingham-shire) to the property above on the surrender of the trustees. Consideration of £270 29 Sep - 1897

26 - Abstract of title of the trustees of the late Francis Talbot to property at Breaston - 1897

27 - Conveyance by Walter Kent, machinist of Breaston to Frank Walker Talbot, corn merchant of Aslockton (Nottinghamshire) of a cottage occupied by John Barrett. £105 7 May - 1898

28 - Conveyance by John Barrett, striker of Breaston and his wife Elizabeth to Frank Watson Talbot as above, of two messuages (formerly three) in Breaston (See D2148 Z/T 23) £100 7 May - 1898

29 - Conveyance by William John Watson, solicitor of Nottingham and Edmund Tateham, gent, of Mill Houses near Sheffield (trustees for sale by the will of the late William Watson, probate 23 Jan 1891) to William Mills, gent of West Bridgford, (Nottinghamshire), of the property at D2148 Z/T 16, £1600. 21 Mar - 1902

30 - Mortgage by William Mills, as above, to Gwynedd Clara Branston, widow, of the Friary, Newark-on-Trent, (Nottinghamshire) and Henry Eyton Branston, gent, of the same place to secure £1000 22 Mar - 1902

31 - Re-conveyance by Gwynedd Clara Branston as above and Henry Eyton Branston as above, with John Mills, hotel keeper, of the Rose and Crown Inn, Derby Road, Old Lenton, Nottingham and Arthur Chawner Wheatley, butcher of Cossall, Nottinghamshire (as representatives of William Mills) to Edmund Tateham, gent of Laura Place, Aberystwyth and Mary Goodrich Watson, spinster of Breaston (trustees of the late William Mills, of the property at D2148 Z/T 16). Recites the will of William Watson (probate 23 Jan 1891) deeds D2148 Z/T 29 and D2148 Z/T 30 and the will of William Mills (probate 14 Aug 1903); an Order of the High Court of Justice that William John Watson be removed from being a trustee (6 Aug 1904) the conviction of William John Watson at Nottingham Assize for forgery of D2148 Z/T29 (28 Nov 1904) and the re-conveyance ordered by the High Court of Justice (28 Feb 1905) 13 Jul - 1905

32 - Supplemental abstracts of title of Ernest E Stevens to land in Breaston - 1920

33 - Solicitor's bill to Mrs Brentnall for preparation of the above, with receipt Apr-May - 1920

34 - Abstract of title of the trustees of the late F W Talbot to property in Breaston - 1924

35 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Admission of Albert Ernest Hawkesley, estate agent of Gill Street, Nottingham (trustee of the late Frank Watson Talbot) to the property at D2148 Z/T 24. Also a messuage formerly occupied by James Reeves, with garden and adjoining narrow strip of land, surrendered to Frank Watson Talbot by Sarah Ann Curzon on 9 Dec 1897 12 Jun - 1925

36 - Deed of enfranchisement by the Earl of Harrington to Albert Ernest Hawkesley of the property as at D2148 Z/T 35. Consideration £18 23 Jul - 1925

37 - Inland Revenue claim account for succession to real property by Walter Kent, wagon-repairer of Breaston on the death of Eliza Berrisford (see D2148 Z/T 23) 2 Nov - 1891

38 - Acknowledgement by William Berrisford of the right of Walter Kent to production of title deeds. With a schedule of deeds 28 Nov - 1891

39 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Admission of Walter Kent of Breaston to a cottage devised to him by the late Robert Berrisford [see D2148 Z/T 23] 25 Jan - 1892

40 - Notice concerning enfranchisement of the above 19 Feb - 1892

41 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Deed of enfranchisement by the Earl of Harrington, acting with Henry James Lubbock esq of Upper Belgrave Street, London and Arthur Robert Peat, esq of Grosvenor Square, London (as Co-trustees under the will of the late Earl of Harrington, probate 27 Jul 1881) to Walter Kent of the property at D2148 Z/T 39. £9 5s 30 Dec - 1892

42 - Inland Revenue Claim account for succession to real property by Elizabeth, wife of John Barratt, blacksmith, of Breaston on the death of Eliza Berrisford. [See D2148 Z/T 23] 2 Nov - 1891

43 - Acknowledgement by William Berrisford of the right of Elizabeth Barratt to production of title deeds. With a schedule of deeds 28 Nov - 1891

44 - Notice concerning enfranchisement of the above 19 Feb - 1892

45 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Admission of Elizabeth Barratt of Breaston to three cottages devised to her by the will of the late Robert Berrisford, to the east of, and adjoining, a newly erected messuage devised to Walter Kent. Recites admission of Robert Berrisford to the property (23 Jan 1861) and details at D2148 Z/T 23, 25 Jan - 1892

46 - Sawley Prebendal Manor: Deed of enfranchisement of the property above by the parties at D2148 Z/T41 to Elizabeth Barratt 30 Dec - 1892

47 - Opinion of the case by John H Mathew, 24 Jan - 1856

48 - Copy of receipt for fee of £87 5s 3d paid to Chancery by Francis Talbot 5 May - 1856

49 - Copy of receipt for fee of £210 paid to Chancery by Francis Talbot 28 Jan - 1856

50 - Copy of Chancery Order that Francis Talbot be at liberty to purchase real estate 21 Nov - 1855

51 - Abstract of title of Mr J W Keetley to property in the Prebendal Manor of Sawley - 19th cent

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