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D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]

M - Deeds and estate records - [12th-20th cent]

B - Business

E - Estate Papers

A - Derbyshire and Staffordshire Estate

1 - Okeover estate

2 - Swinscoe and Woodhouse Estate

179-180 - Abstract of title and supplemental abstract of title of Messrs. Waterfall and Mellors to a messuage and lands at Swinscoe beginning with release of 20 Jan 1719/1720 between Rt Hon [Right Honourable] Edward Lord Harley and Rt Hon Henrietta Cavendish Hollis Harley his wife, William Lord Vincent Cheyne, Peter Walter, esq., John Morley esq., and Peniston Lamb, gent., reciting that Lamb has agreed with Cheyne, Walter and Morley for the absolute purchase of certain manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments (including the Manor of Swinscoe) for £16400, and ending with the will of William Waterfall 30 Oct 1805 - circa 1811

181 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Hodgkinson to lands in Swinscoe in the parishes of Blore and Mayfield beginning with an extract from the will of Richard Lisett of Wirksworth by which he devised all his messuages, lands tenements and hereditaments, freehold and copyhold to Richard Bagshaw the elder and Richard Bagshaw, the younger, John Machin and John Odingsells Leek of Wirksworth, for 99 years in trust for his kinsman Richard Bruckshaw, Elizabeth Lowe and Dorothy Beighton, and ending with mortgage by Thomas Hodgkinson to John Goodwin Johnson, 17 Jul 1813, of all that messuage or tenement formerly converted into two tenements with appurtenances called the Woodhouses in Swinscoe Woodhouse formerly in the tenure of Philip Peach - 32 acres 3 roods 33 perches by survey - with closes called Croft Hill Meadow, Big Nether, Nether Pingle, Pools, Barn Flatt, barn Flatt Pingle, Little Nether, Wett Close, Wett Close Pingle, and Pool Pingle - 1815

182 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Hodgkinson to lands in Swinscoe in the parishes of Blore and Mayfield beginning with an extract from the will of Richard Lisett of Wirksworth by which he devised all his messuages, lands tenements and hereditaments, freehold and copyhold to Richard Bagshaw the elder and Richard Bagshaw, the younger, John Machin and John Odingsells Leek of Wirksworth, for 99 years in trust for his kinsman Richard Bruckshaw, Elizabeth Lowe and Dorothy Beighton, and ending with mortgage by Thomas Hodgkinson to John Goodwin Johnson, 17 Jul 1813, of all that messuage or tenement formerly converted into two tenements with appurtenances called the Woodhouses in Swinscoe Woodhouse formerly in the tenure of Philip Peach - 32 acres 3 roods 33 perches by survey - with closes called Croft Hill Meadow, Big Nether, Nether Pingle, Pools, Barn Flatt, barn Flatt Pingle, Little Nether, Wett Close, Wett Close Pingle, and Pool Pingle but not including the mortage of 17 Jul, 1813 - 1815

183 - Abstract of title of Richard Gould of Ridge in the parish of Sheen, Staffordshire, to land in Offcote and Underwood in the parish of Ashbourne and at Swinscoe Woodhouse, beginning with a mortgage by Thomas Hodgkinson of Ashbourne innkeeper to Richard Gould of Pilsbury, gent., and Richard Buxton of Macclesfield, grocer, dated 3/4 Sep, 1815, of a close in Offcote and Underwood known as Windowfield, 2 acres 2 roods 07 perches, and two closes in Swinscoe Woodhouse called the Croft and Hill Meadow (in Mayfield parish) and a closein Swinscoe called Meadow Pingle (in Blore Parish), together 3 acres 3 roods 02 perches - 1824

184 - Abstract of title of John Gallimore to a close of land called the Netlows in Swinscoe, beginning with a mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes of Swinscoe, Staff., yeoman, to Ralph Adams of Narrow Dale in the parish of Alstonefield, yeoman, for £200, of a messuage, closes called Blackshaw Field, Home Croft and 1 land and 1½ lands in the Blackshaw Field and 4 pieces in the Town Meadow - 1838

185 - Abstract of title of William Gallimore to an estate at Swinscoe in the parishes of Mayfield and Blore, beginning with an indenture of mortgage of 23 Dec 1766 by Richard Lisett alias Bruchshaw of Shirland to John Hall of Wensley, in consideration of £300, of a messuage and tenement in Swinscoe with all appurtenances then in the occupation of Philip Peach - 1838

186 - Abstract of title of Rev Edward Hodgson, clerk, to several freehold messuages lands and grounds at Swinscoe in the parish of Blore beginning with marriage settlement date 18/19 Mar 1678/1679 on the marriage of John Offley to Ann Crewe - 1844

187 - Abstract of title of John Gallimore to of a messuage, closes called Blackshaw Field, Home Croft and 1 land and 1½ lands in the Blackshaw Field and 4 pieces in the Town Meadow again beginning with Lowndes' mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 - 1844

188 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Hodgkinson to an estate at Swinscoe in the parishes of Mayfield and Blore beginning with the will of Richard Lisett of Wirksworth, gent - 1845

189 - Abstract of title of William Gallimore to a messuage and land at Swinscoe in the parish of Blore, beginning with lease and release by Daniel Lowndes of Grindon to Henry Ford of Little Park Okeover, dated 4/5 Apr 1781, of a messuage at Swinscoe close called Blagshaw Field, Home Croft, 1 acre and 1½ lands in Blagshaws Field and four parcels of meadow in Town Meadow - 1848

190 - Abstract of title of Stanley Pipe Wolferston, esq., Rev Paul Belcher and Richard Beaumont Child, esq., to the manor of Mayfield beginning with lease and release 5/6 Apr 1763 by Sussanah Ley of Mayfield spinster to John Williamson of the borough of Stafford and William Greaves in Ingleby, gent., of the manor of Mayfield and ending with agreement of 24 Mar 1848 by which the manor sold to Belcher, Child and H C Bingham - circa 1850

191 - Copy gift by Hugh de Okeover to Roger de Okeover of all that land in Woodhouses which Hewit held except for eight acres which he holds himself in Finhas, namely that messuage which Hewit held and two tofts in the same vill which Siwy and Hathewell held and 46 acres in the field remain to the said Roger; and he grants also to Roger the recognition and the land as part of his inheritance; to be held from Hugh with all usual services and homages and paying a mark of silver for the recognition and an annual rent of 3s and suit of mill at a twentieth of the grain and suit of court Witnesses: Ralph son of Jordan, Herbert de Tissington, William de Coddington, Thorgil de Ilam, Richard de Okeover, William de Stanton, Geoffrey, clerk of Ashbourne, William and Richard de Bentley - [1327-1377]

192 - Rocester Abbey Cartulary - [15th cent]

193 - Further copy of part of the Rocester Abbey Cartulary - [15th cent]

194 - Copy mortgage by John Waterfall of Swinscoe, farmer, to John Goodwin Johnson of Bradbourne, esq., of one six part of a messuage and 30 acres of land in Swinscoe 7 May - 1807

195 - Abstract of feoffment by John Waterfalle of Swinscoe, yeoman, and Mary his wife, William Waterfall, of Ashbourne, baker and Ralph Waterfall of Mayfield, yeoman, Hannah Mellor or Mayfield, widow, John Mellor, yeoman, Charles Mellor, yeoman, John Haywood of Atlow, yeoman, and Ann his wife (nee Mellor), Thomas Mellor of Mayfield, yeoman, and William Mellor of Mayfield, yeoman, to Richard Utting of Okeover, yeoman, of a messuage, tenement or farm at Swinscoe with Homestead 6 acres 0 rood 15 perches, the Netlows 3 acres 0 rood 02 perches, Back of the Hill, 2 acres 3 roods 28 perches, End Croft, 2 acres 3 roods 12 perches, Blagshaw Field 6 acres 2 roods 09 perches, two allotments on Swinscoe Common 9 acres 0 rood 10 perches, also a messuage and croft in Mapleton, 1 acre 1 rood 34 perches, Brown Hay 1 acre 0 rood 15 perches, Butlers Hole 1 acre 1 rood 08 perches, and Upper Hill 1 acre 0 rood 14 perches, to be held in trust by Ulting, one moiety to the use of the three Waterfalls, the other to the use of the six Mellors: the Waterfalls and Mellors to levy a fine of the premises to Utting with the intent of barring all prettended right or title to the property 18 Sep - 1815

196 - Copy covenant for production of title deeds relating to the Netlows, 3 acres 0 rood 03 perches, in Swinscoe: John Gallimore of Mayfield, yeoman, to James Haughton, Langston of Sarsden House, Oxford, esq., and William Stratford Dugdale of Merevale Hall Warwickshire, esq., trustees under the will of H F Okeover 26 Mar - 1839

197 - Copy assignment by John Goodwin Johnson to William Haines of Birmingham, gent., for the remainder of a 1000 years terms the property recited in a mortgage of 23 Dec 1766 by Richard Lisett alias Bruckshaw to John Wall 27 Mar - 1839

198 - Copy assignment by Thomas Wise of Ashbourne, gent., to William Haines of Birmingham, gent., of the remainder of the 500 year term in the mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams and the piece of land in Swinscoe called the Netlows, 3 acres 0 rood 02 perches 26 Mar - 1839

199 - Valuation of the timber on the Swinscoe estate 8 Apr - 1845

200 - Lease by Hugh de Okeover to Richard de Laforde of two bovates of land in Swinscoe namely that which Yvelot held: to be held for 21 years from the feast of St Martin 26 Henry III at an annual rent of 6s 2d for all services except foreign and suit of mill at a twentieth of the grain and suit of court Witness: William de Alditle[ Alderley/Audley] - 1241

201 - Lease by John son of Henry son of Robert del Woodhouses and Lettice daughter of William de Praers to William son of Robert del Woodhouses of three plots of land with appurtenances in Woodhouse, one called le Oldehouseyard and the second called le Parrok and the third called Howeclif: to hold for life at a rent of 13 silver pennies: to revert to John and Lettice and their heirs on the death of William Witnesses: Ralph del Woodhouse, Hugh Asser de Swinscoe, Richard Smith of Mayfield, Henry Avot, William, clerk, and others Friday in Easter Week (24 Apr) - [24 Apr] 1332

202-203 - Lease by Adam son of Hawise de Calton to Thomas his son of all his messuages with buildings superstructures and all his lands and tenements with appurtenances in Swinscoe: to be held for life at an annual rent of 20 pence: remainder to Thomas if he survives his father Witnesses: Roger le Deye, Hugh de Bayli, Richard de Calton, Henry de Bayli, Robert de Rampdale and others 12 Feb - 1386

204-205 - Tenancy agreement (with bond) between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Hodgkinson of Woodhouse, farmer, by which Okeover lets to Hodgkinson on a year-to-year basis a messuage or tenement in Woodhouse and 174 acres of land at an annual rent of £145: not to break up more than 20 acres in any one year: not to keep any part in tillage more than three years successively in one of which three years the same to be in summer fallow, and also shall and will sow such land with 12 lbs to cover seeds at the least or a proper quality of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing and pasture 21 Mar - 1776

206 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and Samuel Archer of Swinscoe farmer, by which Okeover has let to Archer on a year-to-year basis, several closes of land in Swinscoe namely Long Croft, New Long Croft and the Hill, 19 acres 3 roods 09 perches, at an annual rent of £40: an additional rent of £20 per acre for ploughing up the Hill: in the course of tillage not to take more than three crops of corn from off the said lands and shall during such tillage make a summer fallow for wheat or a fallow for turnips and shall not take more than one copy of corn or grain upon such land as shall be fallowed and shall lay down the same in a clean, husbandlike manner with 12 lbs. of good clover seed and other grasses and half a bushel of rye grass seeds upon every acre and keep the same in pasture unbroken for the two next years 26 Apr - 1847

207 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and John Chadwick of Mappleton [Mapleton], farmer, by which Okeover has let to Chadwick on a year-to-year basis, several pieces of land at Swinscoe namely Little Flat, Big Flat, Little Upper Flat, Big Upper Flat, Greave Lands, Field Meadow, Upper Close, Lower Close, Back of the Hill, Hill End, Near Hill, Middle Hill, Far Hill, Lime Kiln Hill, Back of the Hill and Lime Kiln Plantations, 89 acres 1 rood 08 perches, at an annual rent of £120, with an additional rent of £20 per acre for ploughing up Little Upper Flat, Big Upper Flat, Greave Lands, Field Meadow, Upper Close, Lower Close, Hill End, Far Hill, Lime Kiln Hill, Back of the Hill and Lime Kiln Plantations: other husbandry covenants 26 Apr - 1847

208 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and Samuel Archer of Swinscoe, farmer, by which Okeover has left to Archer, land in Swinscoe at the same rent and on the same conditions 23 Nov - 1850

209 - Award following arbitration by Ralph Egerton, Robert Falkhurst, Nicholas Fitzherbert and John de la Wood in a dispute between John, Abbot of Rocester and James and Lawrence Thickness of Balterley regarding two oxgangs of land in Swinscoe and six acres of land in the Woodhouse, one oxgang being the gift of Ralph de Bicklow, the other the gift of a former Abbot of Rocester by the award the two oxgangs awarded to the Abbot for 8d a year rent; James and Lawrence remain in possession of one oxgang together with all its appurtenances and customs including fours wains full of wood from Swinscoe Wood 4 Jul - 1451

210 - Receipt by Rauff Thickness son and heir of Laurence Thickness of Balterley for 4 marks for the rent of Woodhousefrom Robert Lont and Thomas Lont his son . Dated at Balterley Feast of St Edmund (16 Nov) 1 Henry VII - 1485

211 - Power of attorney by Ralph Thickness and his son and heir Laurence Thickness, late of Balterley, to Richard Byton of Mayfield and Edward Wall of Cheadle to deliver seisin of all his lands, tenements rents, services, meadows, pastures and pasturage in Woodhouse and Swinscoe in the fee of Mayfield and Grindon, to Elizabeth lately wife of John Lont of Woodhouse 11 Nov - 1487

212 - Power of attorney from Ralph Thickness of Marston, Staffs, to Thurstan Lont, son of William Lont to take and receive possession of a piece of land called Churchyorde in the fee of Woodhouse lying between the lane leading to Coldwall and a parcel of land called Ugoste, and between a croft called Doide Croft and a croft of the said Ralph's, also of 4 acres of land and 2 acres of land with appurtenances in Woodhouse and Swinscoe, which lie in the field of Swinscoe next to the land of the Abbot of Rocester (the 4 acres), and the 2 acres lie in the fields of Woodhouse next to the enclosure which from ancient time was in the tenure of Richard Coynton - 16 Feb [1490]

213 - Memorandum that Thurston Lont and Elizabeth late wife of John Lont of Woodhouse have paid to Rafe Thickness gent., at Balterley in Staffordshire, 4 marks of money being the rent of the Woodhouse 12 Oct - 1493

214 - Memorandum that Elizabeth Lont late wife of John Lont of Blore Woodhouse and Thurston Lont, heir and executor of John Lont, have paid to Ralph Thickness, gent., at Balterley 4 marks for the rent of Woodhouse 13 Oct - 1495

215 - Order from John Gifford, esq., Sheriff of Staffordshire, to the bailiff of the liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster and John Porter bailiff of the hundred of Totmonslow to take into the hands of the King a messuage, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, and 10 acres of wood in Woodhouses, claimed by Humfry Okeoverr against Thurstan Lonte and Elizabeth Lonte widow, and to summon the said Thurstan and Elizabeth to appear in court at Westminster within fifteen days from Trinity following, to show why they did not appear there within fifteen days of Hilary as they were summoned to do 8 Apr - 1510

216 - Bond by Joseph Millington of Swinscoe, yeoman and Richard Millington, son and heir apparent of Joseph to Richard Lownds, yeoman, in £100, reciting indenture of the same date between Joseph and Richard Millington and John Lownds, Richard Lownd's trustee reciting to various lands in Swinscoe, the condition being that if Elizabeth Millington should survive her husband Joseph then she shall immediately after his death release and quitclaim all her right to dower in the premises 26 Feb - 1746/1747

217 - Bond by Daniel Lowndes of Swinscoe, yeoman, and Mary Lowndes of Swinscoe, widow, to Ralph Adams of Narrow Alstonfield, yeoman, in £400; to pay £200 to Ralph Adams on or before 20 Apr 1763 - 1762

218 - Bond by Richard Lisett alias Brickshaw of Winster, hosier, to John Wall the elder of Wensley, gent., in £600; to pay Wall £300 plus 4½% interest by 23 Jun 1767 23 Dec - 1766

219 - Articles of agreement between Richard Lisett alias Bruckshaw gent., and Thomas Hodgkinson of Woodhouse, Mayfield, husbandman by which Lisett agrees to sell to Hodgkinson for £750 a messuage called the Woodhouse in the occupation of Philip Peach in the parish of Mayfield together with the Croft, Hill Meadow, Big Nether, Nether Pingle, the Pools, Barn Flatt, Barn Flatt Pingle, Little Nether, Wet Close, Wet Close Pingle, and Poole Pingle, all in Mayfield, and Hill Meadow Pingle and Long Croft in the parish of Blore 2 Jun - 1768

220 - Declaration by Richard Lisett following the purchase from him by Thomas Hodgkinson of a messuage and lands at Swinscoe Woodhouse, agreeing to pay the charges of a further recovery should one be needed 1 Dec - 1768

221 - Further security for £100 on mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams 20 Oct - 1769

222 - Bond by Daniel Lowndes of Swinscoe, yeoman, to Ralph Adams of Narrowdale Alstonefield in £200; Lowndes to pay £100 plus 4½% interest to Adams before 20 Apr 1770 20 Oct - 1769

223 - Bond by Samuel Stubs of Calton, yeoman, to James Stubs, of Mayfield, Staffordshire, and Mary his wife in £20; James and Mary Stubs to peacefully possess and occupy the north part of their messuage for life 1 Nov - 1771

224 - Bond by Thomas Hodgkinson the elder and Thomas Hodgkinson the younger of Woodhouse, to Samuel Stubs in £20; to indemnify Stubs against the dower of Isabel wife of Thomas Hodgkinson the elder 1 Nov - 1771

225 - Further security for £100 on mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams 14 Oct - 1774

226 - Bond accompanying further security for £100 on mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams 14 Oct

227 - Acknowledgement by Mary Kniveton that she has received of Daniel Lowndes a legacy of £50 granted to her by her grandfather Richard Lowndes at Swinscoe 3 Apr - 1781

228 - Bond by Daniel Lowndes late of Swinscoe now of Withington in the parish of Leigh, Staffordshire, to John Alcock, of Marton Hill, farmer, in £500 to carry out the covenants in an indenture of the same date 5 Apr - 1781

229 - Bond by Hannah Mellor of Mayfield widow (lawful guardian of Lydia Mellor an infant) to John Gallimore of Mayfield farmer in £100; Lydia Mellor shall within three months of reaching the age of 21 convey to Gallimore her share in the premises in Swinscoe conveyed by the Mellors and Waterfalls to Gallimore 12 Mar - 1816

230 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Small bundle of papers relating to Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes - 1847-1853

231 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Decision of the Assistant Tithe Commissioner on a customary modus for all tithes except corn and hay payable at Easter in the township of Woodhouses (disputed by the Vicar of Mayfield) 11 May - 1846

232 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Copy of the opening preamble of the Woodhouses tithe rentcharge apportionment award 7 Aug - 1847

233 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Merger of tithe rentcharge at Woodhouses by Haughton Charles Okeover 16 Apr - 1850

234-235 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Remarks on the draft apportionment and map and covering letter - 1850

3 - Atlow and Bradbourne Estates

4 - Snelston Estate

5 - Mapleton Estate

6 - Mayfield and Snelsdal Estate

7 - Stanton Estate

8 - Stretton Estate

9 - Ilam Estate

10 - Estate papers regarding H C Okeover and the Blore Park estate - 1844-1869

11 - Broadlow Ash estate

12 - Kniveton Estate

13 - Norbury

14 - Duffield Church

15 - Derbyshire Estate

16 - Fenny Bentley Estate

17 - Findern Estate

18 - Derbyshire and Staffordshire estates combined

B - Norfolk and Suffolk Estates

C - Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Estates

D - Warwickshire Estate

E - London

F - Other Okeover Family Estate Papers

G - Other families' estate papers

F - Family - 14th cent-c1950

M - Manorial - 1345-1728

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