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Collapse D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]
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Expand 10 - Estate papers regarding H C Okeover and the Blore Park estate - 1844-186910 - Estate papers regarding H C Okeover and the Blore Park estate - 1844-1869
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458 - Abstract of title of H F Okeover to manors, messuages and lands in Derbyshire and Staffordshire beginning with lease and release of 19/20 November 1691 between Rowland Okeover, Thomas Okeover, his son and heir apparent, Dame Katherine Yorke (formerly wife of William Leeke of Wyneswold and mother of Katherine Leeke), Katherine Leeke, John Thornhagh, William Cook, Sir Thomas Parkyns, John Wilkins, John Bainbrigge and Charles Farnham, being the settlement on the marriage of Thomas Okeover to Katherine Leeke. - circa 1840
459 - Okeover estate rental - Calton, Schene (Sheen), Snellesdale [Snelsdale], Coldwell, Mapulton [Mapleton], Okeover and Snelleston [Snelston]. - [early 15th cent]
460 - Rent roll of Ralph Okeover, knight, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern, Yeldersley and Okeover 9 Jan - 1488/1489
461 - Rent roll of Ralph Okeover, knight, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern, Yeldersley and Okeover 19 Jan - 1488/1489
462 - Rent roll of Ralph Okeover, knight, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern, Yeldersley and Okeover - 1488/1489
463 - Rent roll of Humphry Okeover and his son Philip Okeover : Snelston, Atlow, Ashbourne, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Okeover (Humphry), Castern, Snelston, Ilam, Yeldersley (Philip). - [early 16th cent]
464 - Rent roll of Humphry Okeover, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : rents for farms and chief rents : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Yeldersley, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern and Okeover. 10 November - 1514
465 - Rent roll of Humphry Okeover, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : rents for farms and chief rents : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Yeldersley, Wodhouse, Ilam, Castern and Okeover. 19 Nov - 1514
466 - Rental of Philip Okeover : Okeover, Mapleton, Yeldersley, Woodhouse, Findern, Potlock, Ilam and Swinscoe - 1579
467 - Okeover estate rental - Okeover, Mapleton and Mayfield. - 1744-1747
468-469 - Particular of the estate of Humphry Okeover : Okeover, Okeover Woodhouse, Swinscoe, Woodhouse, Mapleton, Atlow and Snelston : brief description of property, rental and some comments. [Two copies] 3 Feb - 1639/1640
470 - Survey of Okeover estates in Okeover, Mapleton, Atlow Mayfield and Fenny Bentley giving tenants' names, field names, acreage and value per acre. - circa 1810
471 - Lease by John Pole of Hartington and John Okeover, senior, to Thomas Okeover, junior of the manor of Okeover with all appurtenances and the manors of Atlow and Snelston and all other lands, tenements, rents and services in Derbyshire and Staffordshire which they hold by feoffment of Thomas Okeover, senior : to hold for the lives of Thomas Okeover senior and junior at an annual rent of £36 4s. 4d. - 2 Feb 1434
472 - Collective tenancy agreement between Morton Walhouse of Hatherton, esq., and several other persons in the occupation of several plots and parcels of real estate late of Leak Okeover in Okeover, Mayfield, Mapleton, Atlow, Bentley, Swinscoe and elsewhere, from 30 Jun 1793, to 5 Apr 1795 only : rents and names scheduled : not to leave in tillage any of the meadow or pasture landnot now in tillage; to summer fallow such tillage land that has borne two crops without being fallowed, to lay down and seed in a proper and husbandlike manner such tillage lands as shall be in the third year of tillage. 25 Mar - 1794
473 - Abstracts of tenancy agreements on Derbyshire and Staffordshire estates - Okeover, Woodhouse, Snelston, Atlow and Mapleton. - [c1590-1620]
474 - Extracts from tenancy agreements 1776-1794 [see under each estate for original agreements] : Okeover, Mapleton, Bradbourne, Atlow, Fenny Bentley, Mayfield and Blore. - circa 1800
475 - Power of attorney by Philip de Okeover, knight, to Thomas de Marchington, knight, John Crecy, rector of Longford, John Wade, rector of Leigh and Thomas de Sheen to receive seisin of certain lands in Callow,Atlow, Snelston, Mapleton, Parwich and Okeover, with all goods and chattels in the same. - 2 Feb 1382
476 - Power of attorney by John Poole of Hartington and John Okeover, feoffees to Thomas Okeover, to Geoffrey Walker to enter and deliver seisin to William Hondford, senior, Robert Hondford and Thomas Alvynton, chaplain, of all manors lands, houses, rents, services, meadows, pastures, pasturage, woods, fish-ponds and water in the counties of Stafford and Derby which they held by feoffment of Thomas Okeover. 1 Nov - 1428
477 - Power of attorney by John de la Pole of Hartington and John de Okeover, brother of Thomas de Okeover, to Geoffrey Walker to deliver seisin to Thomas de Okeover of the manor of Okeover and the vills of Castern, Ilam, Woodhouse and Coldwall in Staffordshire, and Atlow and Snelston in Derbyshire, which they held by feoffment of Thomas de Okeover. - [2 Feb 1429]
478 - Power of attorney by Thomas de Okeover, senior to William del Rowe to deliver seisin to John de la Pole of Hartinngton and John de Okeover his brother of the manor of Okeover and the vills of Castern, Ilam, Woodhouse and Coldwall in Staffordshire, and the manors of Atlow and Snelston in Derbyshire. Wednesday next after the feast of St Agatha (10 Feb) 7 Henry VI - 1429
479 - Power of attorney by John Pole of Hartinngton senior to John Pole of Hartington junior to deliver seisin to Thomas Okeover of Okeover of the manor of Okeover, with all his messuages, lands, tenements, rents and services in the vills of Castern, Ilam, Woodhouse and Coldwall in Staffordshire and the manors of Atlow and Snelston in Derbyshire 25 July - 1439
480 - Power of attorney by Thomas Lockwood to William Sonde, rector of Blore, to deliver seisin to Philip Okeover of Okeover esq., and Thomasin his wife, of all his lands, tenements, rents and reversions in Coldwell, a close called Brendwode, a parcel of land in Woodhouse next Blore, lately in the tenure of Thomas Serle and Robert Lont and 20s. rent arising annually from diverse lands and tenements in Woodhouse and a parcel of land adjacent in Hyllemedowe next to the vill of Woodhouse, also a pasture called Cokshuthill in the vill of Snelston which Henry Smyth, Abbot of Rocester and Richard Falkehurst rector of Kingsley now deceased held by gift and feoffment of Thomas Okeover of Okeover. Witnesses: John Curzon of Kedleston, Nicholas Kniveton of Mercaston, William Basset of Blore esq., Humphry Walker of Castern, gent., and William Taylor of Meynell Langley and others. 20 Dec - 1455
481 - Power of attorney by Philip Okeover of Okeover and Thomasin his wife, of all his lands, tenements, rents and reversions in Coldwell, a close called Brendwode, a parcel of land in Woodhouse next Blore, lately in the tenure of Thomas Serle and Robert Lont and 20s. rent arising annually from diverse lands and tenements in Woodhouse and a parcel of land adjacent in Hyllemedowe next to the vill of Woodhouse, also a pasture called Cokshuthill in the vill of Snelston which Henry Smyth, Abbot of Rocester and Richard Falkehurst rector of Kingsley now deceased held by gift and feoffment of Thomas Okeover of Okeover. Witnesses: John Curzon of Kedleston, Nicholas Kniveton of Mercaston, William Basset of Blore esq., Humphry Walker of Castern, gent., and William Tayllor of Meynell Langley and others. 20 Dec - 1455
482 - Power of attorney by Thomas Okeover, esq to Thomas Duffield to deliver seisin to John Gresley, knight, Walter Blount, Thomas Curzon, John Curzon, Henry de la Pole and Richard Kniveton, esquires, of his manors of Okeover, Atlow and Snelston and his other lands etc. in these places. 6 Oct - 1457
483 - King's writ directed to J Tyndall, knight, Magistrate of the Court of Chancery, Richard Harpur, John Bentley, John Stanhope, and George Fulwood, knights, and Francis Fitzherbert, Lodovic Rowd and Thomas Richardson, esq., justices, regarding a suit pending at Westminster between Anthony Asheley knight, and Rowland Okeover relating to property in Mapleton, Yeldersley and Ilam : since Rowland is incapable of travelling to Westminster without great bodily risk, the justices are authorised to go to them in person to settle the case; reciting final concords between Anthony Asheley plaintiff, and Rowland Okeover and Anne his wife, John Harpur, knight, Walter Bagott and Anthony Bagott deforciants of 4 messuages, 3 cottages, 4 gardens, 4 orchards, 80 acres of land, 150 acres of meadow, 300 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 300 acres of heath and moorland and common of pasture for all manner of cattle with appurtenances in Mapleton and Yeldersley, and 2 messuages, 2 gardens, 2 orchards, 40 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 200 acres of heath and moorland with common of pasture for all manner of cattle in Ilam. 22 Mar - 1609/1610
484 - Arbitration by William, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in a dispute between William the Prior and the convent of the monastery of Our Lady of Tutbury and Humphry Okeover esq., concerning the following claims of the Prior denied by Humphry: (a) 22s. chief rent claimed by the Prior for all lands which Humphry has in Okeover on the side of the brook there towards Mayfield (b) 12d. rent for the "attachment of the weir" of Humphry's at Snelston Mill. (c) Possession of a parcel of ground near Mathefeld Ryse {Mayfield Rise], enclosed by Humphry's ancestors and called by him Okeover Smith and a parcel of the manor of Okeover and called by the Prior, Mayfield Smith and a parcel of the manor of Mayfield The Bishop awards the rents of the Prior and the parcel of land (Okeover Smeth) to Humphry with an annual rent of 2d payable to the Prior and requires the executors of Rauff Okeover, father of Humphry, to pay to the Prior 23s 4d arrears of rent on 29 Sep following 13 Oct - 1494
485-498 - Correspondence relating to repairs to buildings on the Okeover estate in Derbyshire and Staffordshire including farmhouses and the alms houses in Mapleton - 1724-1743
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Expand F - Other Okeover Family Estate PapersF - Other Okeover Family Estate Papers
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