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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

3 - Atlow and Bradbourne Estates

4 - Snelston Estate

5 - Mapleton Estate

322 - Abstract of title of Mr Okeover to an estate at Mapleton late Carters and Lowes, beginning with feoffment of 10 October 1654 from Charles, Viscount Mansfield son and heir of Elizabeth, Countess of Newcastle in consideration of £180, to Richard Carter or Williamson of a messuage, farm or tenement with appurtenances in Mapleton called Wainwrights Farm and another farm or tenement called Old House Farm. - 1746

323 - Abstract of title of Francis Goodwin, esq., to messuages farms and lands at Mapleton, articled to be sold to H F Okeover, beginning with feoffment of 16 August 1725, by John Newham of Whittington, gent., to George Milnes of Dunston, gent., in consideration of £800, of a messuage, farm and land in Mapleton and Okeover called Goodwins Farm, then in the several tenures of George Williamson alias Carter, Richard Williamson alias Carter and John Alcock: property conveyed to John Goodwin by feoffment of 21 March 1772. - 1802

324 - Abstract of title of Mr John Thompson and his to a piece of land in Mapleton beginning with lease and release of 9/10 October 1805 by H F Okeover to Humphry Thompson of a parcel of land known as the Shoulder of Mutton Piece 3 acres by estimation. - 1818

325 - Abstract of title of Edmund Lamplugh Ireton, esq sole acting devisee, trustee and executor under the will of William Hayne, esq., deceased, to a freehold messuage and land at Mapleton and Okeover, beginning with the will of Margaret Trott of Mapleton, spinster. 4 May 1754 - 1821

326 - Abstract of title Mr Richard Haskey to lands at Mapleton beginning with release of 6 July 1708 by William Alcock and others to Samuel Dickinson of Uttoxeter, of parcels of land in Mapleton called Hollands Crofts and the Brown Hay, and two beast grasses every third year upon the Callow, 1½ beast grasses every two years together and 2½ beast grasses every third year, upon a pasture called Upper Hill and winter pasture every year for 12 sheep upon the Callow and ½ of all brakes belonging to the town of Mapleton. - 1823

327 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Lees to messuages and lands at Mapleton and Okeover beginning with probate copy of the will of Margaret Trott of Mapleton spinster 4 May 1754, by which she bequeathed all her messuages, houses, farms, lands, tenements and hereditaments in Mapleton to Elizabeth wife of John Revett of Brandeston. - 1846

328 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Lees to messuages and lands at Mapleton and Okeover - 1846

329 - Copy lease and release by John Revett of Brandeston, Suffolk, gent., executor and devisee of Margaret Trott late of Mapleton to Leighton Hayne of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, gent., in consideration of £3150 of the capital messuage and mansion house at Mapleton in the possession of John Woodhouse and closes called Hall Croft, the Paddock, New Close, Little Piece, Little Cowpasture, Hamberlands, Thornley, Skinner Flatt, new enclosure on the Upper Hill, three new enclosures on the Callow, new enclosure in the Goats Nook, Pingle adjoining the Patch, Pingle, two small pieces next to the Dove, Olivers Meadow, the Holes, a little garden adjoining Mapleton Town Street, now or late in the respective tenures of John Woodhouse, Edward Milward, Richard Williamson, George Silcock, and the executors of Joseph Munnicliffe deceased. 10/11 Sep - 1760

330 - Rental for Church Ley, Mapleton. - 1718

331 - Lease by Roger de Wensley, Lord of Mapleton, to John de Stancliff of the stream Bradeburnebrok belonging to his demesne of Mapleton : if the said John dies within twenty years then his heirs and assigns may hold the streatm for remainder of the twenty years : to be held for life at the rent of a peppercorn, but if said John lives over twenty years rent, the yearly rent to be 6s. 8d. Witnesses: Thomas de Mayfield of Ashbourne, John son of Robert de Mapleton, John de Wensley, Richard Brown of the same place. William clerk and others. Sunday next after the feast of St Denis(13 Oct) 4 Edward III - 1330

332 - Articles of agreement between Rowland Okeover of Okeover, esq and Francis Greensmith of Mapleton, blacksmith, by which Okeover lets to Greensmith the shop in which he lives with appurtenances in Mapleton for three years at 15s per annum. 24 Dec - 1690

333 - Lease by Symon Degge of Derby, gent., to Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, weaver, of a parcel of ground called Townmeadow in Mapleton : for 11 years at £6 10 s for the first year, then £7 per annum : additional rent of £5 per acre for any lands ploughed up : not to mow any land in the last year. 10 May - 1699

334 - Articles of agreement between John Hawkesworth of Compton, Ashbourne, gent., and Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, webster by which Hawkesworth has leased to Williamson a piece of ground called Vickars Meadow in Mapleton with the barn upon it : for 11 years at £7 5s. per annum rent : £5 per acre additional rent for any land ploughed up. 28 May - 1720

335 - Articles of agreement between Joseph Lee of Wem, Shropshire and Samuel Mills of Ashbourne, maltster, by which Mills agrees to pay £31 to Lee for a messuage, tenement or cottage in Mapleton. 27 Apr - 1728

336 - Memoranda that Richard Taylor has sold to Leake Okover [Okeover] for £220 a piece of land lying at the Moor, 5 acres 3 roods 00 perches., lately enclosed out of Mapleton Callow, pingle or meadow called the Flaxpiece in Mapleton, Dovefield, and all that land opposite to the Flaxpiece on the west side of the Dove, also half a mean piece of land lying upon the river, the other half whereof Leeke Okeover recently purchased from the trustees of Baptist Trott and finally a sedgey piece of land lying in the Oldwaters in Mapleton about 1½ acres now in the holding of Thomas Salt. 18 Jan - 1730/1731

337 - Memoranda that Richard Goodin has sold to Leeke Okeover for £160, a piece of meadow land in Mapleton lying in the Mean Piece, also another piece of meadow lying opposite upon the Dove and cour perches of land lying on the river bank to the west of the former piece. 18 Jan - 1730/1731

338 - Memoranda that Richard Williamson of Cheadle Park has sold to Leeke Okeover for £625 his farm in Mapleton in the possession of Anthony Maddock, being of a yearly value of £21. 9 Feb - 1733/1734

339 - Copy Memoranda that Richard Williamson of Cheadle Park has sold to Leeke Okeover for £625 his farm in Mapleton in the possession of Anthony Maddock, being of a yearly value of £21. 9 Feb - 1733/1734

340 - Articles of agreement between George Peach of Stanton Staffordshire, maltster, and Peter Pearson the younger of Mapleton, stone-cutter, by which Peach agrees to convey to Pearson for £35 before 10 August, a messuage, tenement or cottage in Mapleton inhabited by John Sim - 5 Jul 1735

341 - Lease for 21 years by Richard Williamson of Caulton, Staffordshire, yeoman, to Peter Pearson the younger of Mapleton, mason, of a messuage farm or tenement in Mapleton with two closes called the Old Croft, the Three Lands, Overhill Close and the Laund : annual rent of £16 : an additional rent of £5 per acre for ploughing more than two acres in the final two years of the term : within three years to bring and lay down in the Overhill Close all the materials necessary for the building of a barn of a bay and a half and also a good and convenient farm house in the same closes 10 Oct - 1737

342 - Articles of agreement between George Adamson the elder of Ashbourne, blacksmith, and Leake Okeover, by which, in consideration of £80, Adamson agrees to convey to Okeover before 25 Dec 1738, a parcel of ground, land, meadow or pasture in the north west corner of Mapleton Ryefield, by estimation 2 acres, lately enclosed, purchased by Adamson from John Maddock of Ashbourne, baker and the other part of the parcel adjoining to the lane from Ashbourne to Mapleton, purchased from Richard Godwin and lately received inexchange from Richard Goodwin and lately received inexchange by Goodwin from Rev John Boydell, Rector of Mapleton. 16 Oct - 1738

343 - Bargain and sale by Thomas Williamson alias Carter of Mapleton, weaver, to Leake Okeover, in consideration of securing the sum of £25 10s 0d. now owing to Okeover on the balance of all accounts for rent, of all goods, cattle, chattels, household goods, ware merchandise, implements of household and husbandries, working tools and all lease and personal estate in his dwellinghouse 13 Oct - 1739

344 - Articles of agreement between Richard Williamson of Cheadle, yeoman, and Leake Okeover of Okeover, esq., by which, in consideration of £450, Williamson promises to convey to Okeover a messuage, farm or tenement in Mapleton with closes called New Close, Two Closes called Oldcroft, the Three Lands, the Overhills and the Laund, free of all incumbrances except for a mortgage to John Heath for securing the repayment of £350 and a lease of the premises to Peter Pearson 5 Jun - 1743

345 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Hewson of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hewson on a year to year basis a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement in Mapleton, and several closes 37 acres in Mapleton: annual rent of £42: not to have more than 7 acres in tillage in any year not any part more than three years successively in tillage, in one of which three years the same to be made and lie in summer fallow and sow such land with 12 lbs of clover seed and at the lease a proper quantity of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing the pasture 21 Mar - 1776

346 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Hewson of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hewson on a year to year basis a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement in Mapleton, and several closes 37 acres in Mapleton: annual rent of £42: not to have more than 7 acres in tillage in any year not any part more than three years successively in tillage, in one of which three years the same to be made and lie in summer fallow and sow such land with 12 lbs of clover seed and at the lease a proper quantity of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing the pasture 21 Mar - 1776

347 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Samuel Dawson of Ashbourne, miller, by which Okeover has let to Dawson on a year to year basis a messuage dwellinghouse or tenement, garden and croft 1 acre 1 rood 00 perche in Mapleton, a corn mill in Okeover and Mill Meadow 4 acres 04 30 perches: annual rent of £42. 21 Mar - 1776

348 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Samuel Dawson of Ashbourne, miller, by which Okeover has let to Dawson on a year to year basis a messuage dwellinghouse or tenement, garden and croft 1 acre 1 rood 00 perche in Mapleton, a corn mill in Okeover and Mill Meadow 4 acres 04 30 perches: annual rent of £42. 21 Mar - 1776

349 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Edward Bromley of Alderwasley, farmer, by which Okeover has to Bromley on a year to year basis, a messuage, dwellinghouse and tenement at Mapleton and closes in Mapleton and Okeover 106 acres 0 rood 30 perches, in the possession of George Taylor: annual rent of £160: not to have many part of the premises in tillage for more than three years successively and in one of the three years to be summer fallowed: not to plough without consent any of the premises except five pieces of land called the Carlows 21s 2 roods 27 perches, two pieces called the Carlows 21s 2 roods 00 perche, and the Bean Piece 5 acres 0 rood 20 perches 29 Nov [later altered and used as a 1779 agreement with the same farmer] - 1776

350 - Tenancy agreement between Dudley Baxter of Atherstone, Warwickshire., gent., receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery of the rents and profits of the real estates of Leake Okeover deceased, and Joseph Rogers of Duckmanton, farmer, by which Baxter has let to Rogers with the consent of Edward Bromley of Mapleton, farmer on a year to year basis at an annual rent of £168 15s 0d the farm at Mapleton: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing or using for gardening any grass or meadow land 25 Apr - 1795

351 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Thomas Hewson of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hewson on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Mapleton and closes called New Close, Far Hill, Middle Hill, Horse Hill, Barn Silcocks Close, Shoulder of Mutton, Lawn Mirey Cote Croft and Goats Close, 37 acres O rood 06 perche: annual rent of £48 7s 9d: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing New Close, Silcocks Close, Shoulder of Mutton, the Croft and Goats Close: standard husbandry covenants 14 Apr - 1801

352 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and George Gouch of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Gouch on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Mapleton and closes called Cote Close, Goates Nook, Near Carlow, Far Carlow, Moor, Nether Field, Dove Field, Ox Pasture, Bean Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, Piece, Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow, Little Mean Piece, Little Carlow, Middle Carlow and Great Carlow, 120 acres O rood 03 perche, formerly in the occupation of Henry Summers: annual rent of £240 £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Cote Close, Goats Nook, Far Carlow, Moor, Nether Field, Dove Field, Ox Pasture, Been Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, Horse Piece, Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow and Little Mean Piece - standard husbandry covenants 11 Apr - 1804

353 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and John Swindell of Mapleton, farmer by which Okeover has let to Swindell on a year to year basis four pieces or parcels of land lately purchased of Mrs Lees 9 acres by estimation, all in Mapleton: annual rent of £20 and £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing any of the land 26 Apr - 1847

354 - Power of attorney by Thomas Okeover to Thomas Parfaye to deliver to Richard Boys and Cecily his wife full and peaceful seisin of a pasture called Hewodfeld in the fee of Mapleton 20 Sep - 1456

355 - Power of attorney by Thomas Okeover to Thomas Parfaye to deliver to Richard Boys and Cecily his wife full and peaceful seisin of all his lands and tenements in the fee of Mapleton 22 Sep - 1456

356 - Memoranda of an agreement between William Hancock and Margaret his wife and their son in law Richard Williamson and his wife Margaret: Williamson and his wife has has half of the garden which was sown and half of the apples, when there are any, and the house they dwell in for Margaret's life, if it chance he dies before her, she keeping the name of her husband but not otherwise - circa 1660

357 - Agreement between the freeholders of Mapleton for the regulation of the open fields and stocking of the Callow Pasture 22 Oct 1661, together with a terrier of all the field land in Mapleton belonging to Mr Trott, 10 Mar 1668 - 1661-1668

358 - Bond by George Ferne of Bradbourne to George Timberhill of Draycott in the Clay, Staffordshire, in £20 to carry out the covenants in a feoffment of the same date (feoffment of Nether Houes and Pateman's House, Mapleton) 20 Dec - 1671

359 - Bond by William Alocke of Mapleton, yeoman, and William Alcocke son and heir apparent to Robert Phillips of Mapleton, yeoman, in £9 to keep all the covenants in a deed of the same date 21 Jan - 1670/1671

360 - Receipt by George Eyre to Robert Phillips of Mappleton by the appointment of Edward Pegg of Beaucheiffe, of £16, being the consideration for 2 beast gates and 8 sheep gates in Mapleton, sold by Edward Pegg to Robert Phillips 16 May - 1673

361 - Power of attorney by Edward Pegge of Beauscheiffe, esq., to Humphry Wall of Ashbourne, to enter Mapleton Callow and deliver true and peaceable possession of so much of the said Callow as it proportionable for the keeping of two beasts in summer and eight sheep in winter to Robert Phillips of Mapleton, yeoman 19 May - 1673

362 - Bond by John Maddox of Mapleton to Rowland Okeover in £40 14s Od: to perform the covenants etc., in an indenture of the same date 31 Dec - 1679

363 - Bond by William Williamson of Mapleton mason and Richard Williamson of the same place, webster, to Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, webster in £10, to keep the covenants in an indenture of the same date 24 Sep - 1685

364 - Bond by Francis Greensmith of Mapleton, blacksmith and Richard Williamson to Mapleton, to Rowland Okeover, in £10; to carry out the agreements etc., specified and declared in articles of agreement of the same date 24 Dec - 1690

365 - Bond by William Savage of Dovebridge [Doveridge], yeoman, guardian of the parish church of Dovebridge, to John Williamson of Mapleton, husbandman, Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, weaver and Richard Williamson of Mapleton, husbandman, in £36; the condition being that Savage and Robert Wall of Dovebridge, yeoman, shall cause to be maintained and kept Sara Finney and her child now begotten by the said John Williamson 17 Oct - 1691

366 - Receipt by Richard Williamson to Leake Okeover for £20, being part of the purchase money for theland in Mapleton sold by Williamson to Okeover 2 Jul - 1743

367 - Bond by Joseph Smith to Leak Okeover in £96; to keep all the covenants etc., in an indenture of release of the same date 5 Jun - 1747

368 - Bond by Edward Bromley of Alderwasley farmer, to Edward Walhouse, Okeover in £320; to perform the covenants etc. in articles of agreement of the same date 5 Jun - 1776

369-370 - "Charges of Mapleton Division" - The enclosure of the Overhills and Callow pastures, - giving proprietors number of gates held and proportion of expense to be borne - circa 1730

371-375 - Surveys of land in Mapleton open arable relating to the exchanges between the proprietors preceding the private enclosure of the fields [see Mapleton title deeds 1730-1733] - 1730/1731

376-380 - Summaries of the exchange of lands in Mapleton open arable fields proceeding the private enclosure - 1730/1731

381 - Mapleton tithe hay and corn: tenants and quantity of land in oats and barley, together with the tithe rent paid 10 Jan - 1734/1735

382 - Receipt for Mapleton land tax - 1718

383 - Building account for `Mapleton cottage' - 1863

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

UL - Okeover family of Okeover: unlisted records

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