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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
B - Norfolk and Suffolk Estates
C - Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Estates
D - Warwickshire Estate
661 - Abstract of title: Supplemental schedule of deeds not found at Oldbury Hall but subsequently discovered and received by the trustees of the late Haughton Farmer Okeover and therefore separately scheduled relating to Oldbury estate. - 1837
662 - Mancetter: Lease by Rowland Okeover of Oldbury to John Villers of Mancetter, Warwickshire, husbandman, of a messuage or tenement in Mancetter, closes in Mancetter called White Fields, Catt Field and Broom Hills, and closes in Oldbury called Hayes Common, Keys Meadow and Harthill Close: for 8 years at an annual rent of £52: an additional rent of £2 per acre for every acre in excess of 27 acres ploughed up: not to be ploughed for longer than three successive years and then to be laid down with 8 lbs, of clover seed and 1 strike of rye grass per acre, applying 8 quarters of lime or 8 wagon loads of muck per acre. 25 Mar - 1846
663 - Mancetter: Tenancy agreement between Rev Edward Eardley Wilmot and James Haughton Langston and William Stratford Dugdale, trustees of H.F. Okeover, by which Wilmot has let to the trustees on a year-to-year basis, a wood in Mancetter called Purley Park, 50 acres, and a piece of arable land adjoining, 4 acres: annual rent of £50. 25 Mar - 1846
664 - Oldbury: Lease by Rowland Okeover of Oldbury, esq., to Thomas Harrison of Oldbury, husbandman, of a messuage or tenement in Oldbury and closes called Fold Yard, Hempleck, Little Filed, Longfield, Close by the Wood, Watery Close, Broan Close, House Close, Common Close, Pool Meadow, two parts of Barn Meadow, Nether Sleepers, Den Meadow, Nether Sleepers Den, Middle Sleepers Den, Upper Sleepers Den, Holly Hill, New Field, Fatbyes Close, Lime Kiln Close, Ox Pasture, Cow Pasture, Stone Pit Close, Further Hound Leys, Middle Hound Leys, Hither Hound Leys, Home Close and Breath Close: for 7 years at an annual rent of £120: Okeover reserves the right to get clay and stone in the quarry: £5 per acre additional rent for ploughing above 40 acres: not to keep any land in tillage for more than three years successively and then to lay down with 8 lbs. of clover seed and 2 strikes of rye grass, applying 8 wagon loads of much and 6 quarters of lime per acre. 25 Mar - 1741
665 - Oldbury: Lease by Rowland Okeover of Oldbury, esq., to Thomas Harrison of Oldbury, husbandman, of a messuage or tenement in Oldbury with Foldyard and Hempleck and closes: for 7 years at an annual rent of £120: Okeover reserves the right to get clay and stone in the quarry: £5 per acre additional rent for ploughing above 40 acres: not to keep any land in tillage for more than three years successively and then to lay down with 8 lbs. of clover seed and 2 strikes of rye grass, applying 8 wagon loads of much and 6 quarters of lime per acre. 2 Aug - 1748
666-667 - Oldbury: Lease and counterpart by Haughton Farmer Okeover of Okeover, esq., to William Breton, esq, of the capital messuage called Oldbury Hall (with furniture) and several closes late in the occupation of Francis George Smyth in Oldbury and Hartshill, 129 acres 3 roods 31 perches. for 21 years at an annual rent of £100 for the house and £170 for the land: additional rent of £10 per acre for every acre of meadow ploughed or used for gardening, and closes called Hall Croft, Lawrence Close, Hill Side, First Mill Field, Middle Mill Field and the residue of the upland that shall be moved other than once in two years, and for every acre of ploughland sown with hemp, flax or woad; also not to use in tillage the Third Mill Field, Far Steep Hills, Near Steep Hills, Mink Close, Yew Tree Close, Ironstone Close, Stonepit Close and Eight Leys Close for more than thre crops at one course for tillage without laying the same down with 12 lbs of clover, ½ strike of rye grass seed on each acre, and during such tillage to make a summar fallow, ploughing the same thre times, and if turnips own therein, to eat the turnips and the premises with sheep and cattle; not to mow the clover and rye grass after the second year but graze the same until used again. 1 May - 1799
668 - Oldbury: Agreement regarding minerals - 12 Jan 1844
669 - Ansley: Lease by John Ludford of Ansley Hall, doctor of Laws, to Haughton Farmer Okeover, of Okeover, Staffordshire, esq., of all those several mines, delphs, beds of coal called the Ryder, Seven Foot and Ell Coal now being under the commons or waste lands of Ansley, with full licence to sink pits and shafts, to dig and win coal, draw levels and make soughs, erect engines and such other buildings as may be necessary and useful: for 21 years at a rent of 1s per ton for all the large and 6d per ton for all the small coal got from the lands of John Ludford: if any of the coal dug during the said term is sold at above 10s 6d per ton for large and 7s 6d per ton for small, then an additional rent of half of the advance in price over and above the 1s and 6d per ton: not to dig for coal under John Ludford's park and to get all the coal in a level if possible; to fill in all shafts from the bottom when worked out and if left open for air to be well protected 1 May - 1802
670 - Bill of costs for the sale of the Oldbury estate - 1865-1866
671 - Oldbury estate sale catalogue: Oldbury Hall and 1063 acres 3 roods 14 perches of land: plan attached: to be sold by Messrs E and H Lumley of Chancery Lane 17 Feb - 1869
672 - Letter from Rev R R Vaughton to Mr Haines regarding the Warwickshire estate 12 Sep - 1842
673 - Oldbury Wood account books - [1760s]
674 - Bill for work carried out for Rowland Okeover by John Thallal and John Chatten, probably at Oldbury - sawing planks for barn and stable, repairing railings etc - 1773
E - London
F - Other Okeover Family Estate Papers
G - Other families' estate papers
F - Family - 14th cent-c1950
M - Manorial - 1345-1728
O - Public Office
P - Maps and Plans
T - Title Deeds
Z - Miscellaneous
UL - Okeover family of Okeover: unlisted records
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