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Collapse D366 - Darwin family of Derby and Ashbourne - 1771-1859

D366 - Darwin family of Derby and Ashbourne - 1771-1859

Collapse MT - Title deeds and associated papers - 1771-1859

MT - Title deeds and associated papers - 1771-1859

1 - Lease and release by John Wright and Thomas Wright of Nottingham, bankers, (mortgagees) at the request of Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall and Brooke Boothby his son and heir apparent (mortgagors) to John Robinson Hawkins and Daniel Hurd, both of Stead, and to heirs and assigns of John Robinson Hawkins for £450 paid to mortgagees by Hawkins and 10s each to mortgagers and mortgagees by Hawkins and Hurd, of messuage in St John's Street, Ashbourne now known by the sign of the Nags Head, formerly three dwelling houses. Earlier mortgages and assignments from 1763 recited. Interest in remainder of two separate terms of six hundred years under earlier mortgages conveyed by Wright's trustee, John Foxcroft to Samuel Fletcher of Heanor to hold in trust for Hawkins - 1771

2 - Schedule of deeds, 1731-1768 - 1771

3 - [Copy release in two parts] - 1771

4-5 - Mortgage (with bond) by way of lease for 1,000 years by Hawkins and Hurd to Mary Toplis and Sarah Ellen Toplis of Ashbourne, spinsters, of the Nags Head Ashbourne. £300 at 4% a year. Bond by Hawkins to the Misses Toplis to perform covenants - 1771

6-11 - Abstract of title of Thomas Lincker of Nottingham, cordwainer, and wife Mary, only child of John Robinson Hawkins, to Upper Nags Head, Ashbourne; agreement for sale, final concords, lease and release by Thomas and Mary Lincker and Mary and Sarah Ellen Toplis to Erasmus Darwin of Derby, Doctor of Physic, for £3,000 to Misses Toplis and £25 to Lincker, remainder of term of 1000 years merged freehold - 1793

12-17 - Copy agreement by John Twigge of Westholme Lodge, Ripley, to sell pew in Ashbourne church to Henry Thacker - 1794

18-20 - Assignment of furniture, and release of dower by Elizabeth Darwin of the Priory, Derby, widow and executrix of Dr Darwin, to the Misses Parker; and solicitor's covering letter - 1802

21-22 - Lease and release by Henry Hadley of Derby, surgeon, and wife Susanna [Parker] to Mary Parker, moiety of messuage and pew in Ashbourne church - 1817

23-25 - Undated part draft of Mary Parker's will; abstract of title of trustees under will to messuage in St John Street; and receipt for deposit by William Toogood as part purchase price - 1859

26 - Notes on deeds by R Smith - 1965

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