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Collapse D417 - Sale Catalogues, Marple & Mellor, Cromford, 20th Cent Cowell/Cooper Family Papers, 18th-19th cent - 1794-1924

D417 - Sale Catalogues, Marple & Mellor, Cromford, 20th Cent Cowell/Cooper Family Papers, 18th-19th cent - 1794-1924

Expand ZES - Sale Catalogues - 1924

ZES - Sale Catalogues - 1924

Collapse ZF - Family - 1794-1822

ZF - Family - 1794-1822

1 - Marriage settlement of Thomas Clarke of Cheapside, London gentleman, and Susannah, daughter of Samuel Bowyer of the Inner Temple, dec'd - 1794

2 - Grant by Andrew Cowell of Portman St. (Middlesex) and Maria Justina his wife (late Maria Justina Head, widow) to Catherine Cooper of Doveridge Hall (Staffordshire), spinster, reciting the marriage settlement of Francis Head of St Andrew Hall, Buckenham, (Norfolk), and Maria Justina his wife, whereby certain estates in Old Buckenham, New Buckenham and Carleton Rode (Norfolk) were charged with £500 a year as jointure of Maria in consideration of £700 paid to Cowell, of an annuity of £100 for the life of Maria, and of£200 a year, parcel of the above £500 with covenant to levy a fine upon the same to the use of Catherine upon trust to receive the same, to retain £100 as the above annuity and hold the remainder in trust for Maria, 16 Mar. Endorsed with an assignment of the above annuity by Catherine Cooper to Timothy Yeats Brown of Manchester Street (Middlesex) in consideration of £700 (9 Sep 1818) - 1807

3 - Declaration of trust by Catherine Cooper to Thomas Clarke of Sadlers Hall, London, gentleman, in consideration of £400, that £40, parcel of the above annuity, is to be paid to Clarke, 29 May. Endorsed with release by Clarke to Cooper, in consideration of £400, of the above annuity of £40 (7 Apr 1808) - 1807

4 - Warrant of attorney by Andrew Cowell to William Broderick and Thomas Hunt, as collateral security for the above annuity. 16 Mar - 1807

5 - Life assurance policy for £700 taken out by Catherine Cooper upon the life of Maria Justina Cowell, with undertaking that Maria is not above44 at the time of the policy, 16 Mar - 1807

6 - Assignment of the above policy by Catherine Cooper to Timothy Yeats Brown - 1818

7 - Copy register entry of the burial of Maria Justina Cowell (sic) at Preston (Sussex), on 17 Nov 1821, aged 65, sent by Charles Townshend, curate of Preston, to William Meyrick, 13 Dec - 1821

8 - Letter from W Goodeve to William Meyrick (sic) stating that Mrs. Cowell would have been 66 next birthday and was born at Llanelli (Carmarthenshire) - 1822

9 - Letter from H Bellingham to Messrs. Meyrick and Broderick returning Mrs. Cowell's death certificate and stating his charges in the matter, 15 Mar - 1822

10 - Letter from Meyrick and Broderick to the Society for the Equitable Assurance upon Lives and Survivorships re a mistake in the age of Mrs. Cowell in the above policy (D417 Z/F 5) - 1822

Expand ZP - Property sale - 1924

ZP - Property sale - 1924

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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