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Collapse D5208 - Brooke Family of Little Eaton - 1723-1877

D5208 - Brooke Family of Little Eaton - 1723-1877

Collapse 1 - Deeds and related papers - 1723-1877

1 - Deeds and related papers - 1723-1877

1 - Deed re the administration of a Charitable Legacy set up by Richard Parker of Long Eaton, gent, in which the poor people of Long Eaton are to be paid 20 shillings a year from the rent of a close of land in Long Eaton of the value of £20 - 1719-1720

2 - Deed of Uses of the tithes of a piece of land known as Highwoods or High Oakes in Kilbourne in the parish of Horsley from the heirs of Samuel Richardson and John Richardson to Dorothy the wife of Henry Peter Lalovell and only daughter of John Webster of Duffield - 1723

3 - Grant of Tithes from James Mingay of the Inner Temple London, esq, and others by the direction of Joshua Reece of Little Eaton, framework knitter to William Woollatt of Derby, hosier and his trustee of lands known as Ley Knowl, Middle Lee and Lee Foot in Little Eaton - 1784

4 - Lease for 14 years from William Woollatt of Derby, gent, to Joshua Reece of Little Eton, farmer of a farm known as Winds Arse together with pieces of land known as the Ley Knowl, the Middle Ley and the Ley Shoot in Little Eaton for £29-3s-0d per year - 1785

5 - Deed of Covenant from Francis Radford of Little Eaton, Maltster to William Woollatt of Derby, gent, in which Francis Radford agrees to care for on behalf of William Woollatt the deeds and evidences re land known as Ley Knowl, Middle Lee and Lee Foot in Little Eaton - 1785

6 - Extracts from the title deeds held by William Woollatt 1759-1791 of lands in Little Eton, Duffield, Hazelwood and Derby - 1791

7 - Copy of the will of William Brookes of Coxbench, esq - late 18th cent

8 - Copy of the will of Daniel Parker of Derby, gent - late 18th cent

9 - Covenant to surrender from Dorothy Webster Trowell of Thornhill, widow, to Samuel Evans of Derby, esq, copyhold lands in the Manor for Little Chester known as Great Ox Pasture, Little Ox Pasture, Ley Foot, Little Meadow, Ley Knowl, Middle Ley, the Derwent Pingle and the Upper and Lower Flat for £1000 - 1817

10 - Surrender of the Manor of Little Chester from Dorothy Webster Trowell of Thornhill, widow to Samuel Evans of Derby, Esq, of lands, messuages and farms lying in Little Eaton - 1817

11 - Admittance at the Manor of Little Chester of Dorothy Webster Trowell of Thornhill, widow to land known as Upper and Nether Flatts and Derwent Pingle - 1817

12 - Abstract of Title 1749-1803 of Dorothy Webster Trowell of Thornhill, widow to copyhold estates in Little Eaton in the manor of Little Chester - 1817

13 - Surrender of the Manor of Little Chester from Samuel Evans of Darley Abbey, esq, to Dorothy Webster Trowell of Thornhill, widow of copyhold lands in Little Eaton in the Manor of Little Chester - 1844

14 - Copy of the will of Dorothy Webster Trowell of of Thornhill near Derby, widow - 1845

15 - Receipt for £8 paid by Mrs Trowell for a small piece of land known as Winds End belonging to Little Eaton parish and used as a stone quarry (/a-b) - 1849

16 - Francis Barber's bill to Miss Trowell for services re the surrender by Miss Trowell and admittance of William Brown to copyhold lands at Little Eaton in the Manor of Little Chester - 1851

17 - Receipt for £12 paid by William Brown to Dr Heggate for unidentified property in Little Eaton - 1865

18 - Memorandum of Agreement in which William Brown of Thornhill agrees to let to William Poole of Little Eaton a field of grass land known as the Flats in Little Eaton for £18 a year - 1868

19 - Bundle of land and income tax receipts for W Poole of Little Eaton - 1871-1877

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George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

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

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