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D77 - Gresley family of Drakelow - [12th-20th cent]
1 - Title Deeds
1 - Breadsall Park
2 - Burton
3 - Caldwell
4 - Castle Gresley
5 - Catton
6 - Church Seal
6 - Church Seal
7 - Great Seal
8 - Cotes
9 - Coton
10 - Doveridge
11 - Drakelow - 1525-1821
12 - Gresley
13 - Kirk Langley
14 - Linton
15 - Lullington
16 - Netherseal
17 - Normanton
18 - Osmaston[-by-Ashbourne?]
19 - Overseal
20 - Wapentake of Repton and Gresley
21 - Rosliston
22 - Scropton
23 - Seal
24 - Stapenhill
25 - Thorpe
26 - Thursvaston
27 - Walton on Trent
28 - Winshill
29 - Yeldersley
30 - Yeaveley
31 - Apedale
31 - Apedale
32 - Audley
33 - Burton-on-Trent
34 - Clifton Campville
35 - Colton
36 - Draycott
37 - Elford
38 - Freyford
39 - Hixon
40 - Knypersley
41 - Morton
42 - Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
43 - Podmore
44 - Drayton Bassett
45 - Number not used
46 - Uttoxeter
47 - Wigginton
48 - Tamworth
1 - Quitclaim by William Schiret [ Skirrett] of Yoxall, brother, and John Schiret, to Thomas Gresley, knight, John Gresley, knight, Geoffrey Gresley, esquire, and William Arden, of five acres of meadow in Yoxall [Staffs] - 24 Feb [1434]
2 - Bargain and sale by Thomas Cumberford of Cumberford (Co. Stafford) Esq., and William his son to Henry Bacon of Tamworth draper of one burgage and garden lying on Colehill in Tamworth - 5 Dec 1573
3 - Gift by William Drasgate of Tamworth chandler to Richard Drasgate of Lichfield apothecary (his son) of a messuage on Colehill in Tamworth - 25 May 1613
4 - Feoffment by Nicholas Vaughton of Tamworth butcher to Robert Jefferies of Tamworth butcher, son-in-law of Nicholas, and Joyce his wife, of one messuage, orchard, and garden in Tamworth on Lichfield Street, reserving to Nicholas one moiety of the foldyard and half a little garden with herbs and half the apples growing yearly on the property - 30 Nov 1618
5 - Settlement by Thomas Coape of Wigginton (co Stafford) yeoman whereby he conveys to Ankytell Willington of Tamworth gent, Francis Wood of Tamworth yeoman, Richard Buckland of Tamworth yeoman, Robert Coape of Draycott-in-the Clay (Co Stafford) yeoman, William Sheamons of Wigginton, yeoman and Michael Vaughton of Wigginton, yeoman of one cottage in Bowbridge Street in Tamworth and a croft or close - 5 Feb [1621]
6 - Quitclaim by Robert Cope of Draycott (Co Stafford) yeoman to Michael Vaughton of Wigginton (Co Stafford) yeoman of all causes etc. - 21 Jan [1642]
7 - Lease for 12 years by John Collins of Glascote (Co Warwick) yeoman to John Ashmore of Tamworth (Co Stafford) ironmonger and William Browne of Kinsbury Lodge and John Harris of Dostill (Co Warwick) colliers of a close of land called Jack Bradley in Glascote for getting of coal - 1 Sep 1641
8 - Copy mortgage by William Comberford of Tamworth Esq. to Thomas Rogers of Tamworth gent. of one messuage in Glascote in the parish of Tamworth in Co Warwick and the Pearce Croft in Tamworth near Perricrofte Lane - 15 Feb [1649]
9 - Lease by Frances, Dowager Duchess of Somerset and others to George Wolrich of Tamworth shoemaker of a messuage on Bowbridge Street in Tamworth to hold for term of 100 years or for lives of Elizabeth wife of Thomas Gee of Streethay (Co Stafford) yeoman, Bennett Wolrich daughter of George and Thomas, son of Thomas Gee - 1 Nov 1664
10-13 - Bundle of deeds re a cottage and a messuage on Church Street, Tamworth - 1674-1683
14 - Bargain and sale by John Bowys of Elford (Co.Stafford) gent. and Richard his son to John Vaughton of Elford butcher of a messuage or burgage, garden orchard, and croft in Tamworth - 14 Oct 1674
15 - Feoffment by Richard Beardsley of Amington (Co Warwick) gent and Thomas Fox of the Inner Temple Esq.. to Dorothy Williams of Tamworth widow of one moiety of a messuage or burgage in Tamworth (lately purchased from Joseph Wakelyn and Mary his wife, daughter of Richard Licet of Tamworth deceased) - 5 Nov 1660
16 - Common recovery re property in Tamworth - 28 Nov 1663
17 - Articles for the purchase of a messuage in Tamworth by Samuel Dawes and Edward Davenport of Tamworth to Jonathan Johnson of Birmingham - 30 Jul 1740
18 - Declaration of Trust regarding the stock of Southsea annuity between Robert Bayley of Rochester, Kent and Margaret, wife of John Poynton of Tamworth, sadler - 19 Apr 1742
19-20 - Lease and release by Joseph Bunney of the Newark, Leicester hosier to Edward Plaisted of Bolehall in the parish of Tamworth Esq. of land in Tamworth, formerly property of Richard Weston, a bankrupt - 20/21 Jun 1759
21 - Quitclaim by Lawrence Sekynton and Beatrice his sister to William Sekynton their brother, of a messuage in Thorpe Constantine, near Tamworth], which they lately acquired by feoffment of the said William Sekynton - 2 Mar 1465
22 - Grant by Roger Antelot of Wilnecote to Henry Cockin of Tamworth and Margery his wife of four selions, one rood of arable with a certain piece of meadow, in Wilnecote, of which one selion with the piece of meadow lies in the field towards Tamworth on a furlong called Offordeshull, one selion lies at le Causey, one selion lies at Kettilbrok' Marleputt and one selion lies between the land of Thomas son of Walter and the land of Roger clerk and the rood lies at Kettilbrok - [18 Oct 1319]
23 - Feoffment by Richard Beardsley of Armington, Warkwickshire, gentleman to Richard Bellesworth of Tamworth, fellmonger concerning arable land called Brooke Close in the Liberty of Wilnecote, Tamworth - 4 Jun 1655
24 - Release to follow lease for possession by Samuel Beardsley of Wigginton (Co Stafford) gent. to Job Beardsley of Wilnecote (Co Warwick) gent. of a messuage and backside in Wilnecote and 4 selions in Dosthill field in Wilnecote, four selions in Chapelfield, and 16 selions in Tamworth Field, 12 selions of land in Chappelfield, and 18 selions and one little parcel of meadow in Tamworth Field etc. - 22 Jul 1685
49 - Ruscomb and Sunning, Berkshire
50 - Butterworth, Lancashire
51 - Spotland, Rochdale, Lancashire
52 - Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
53 - Brestopp Park, Leicestershire
54 - Donisthorpe, Leicestershire
55 - Number not used
56 - Loughborough, Leicestershire
57 - Measham, Leicestershire
58 - Oakthorpe, Leicestershire
59 - Osgathorpe, Leicestershire
60 - Skeffington, Leicestershire
61 - Snarestone, Leicestershire
62 - Braceborough, Lincolnshire
63 - St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex
64 - Northampton
65 - Surrey
66 - Warwick and Warwickshire
67 - Arden Forest, Warwickshire
68 - Austry, Warwickshire
69 - Baxterley, Warwickshire
70 - Bolehill, Warwickshire
71 - Coventry, Warwickshire
72 - Kingsbury, Warwickshire
73 - Newton, Warwickshire
74 - Norton Heath, [Leicestershire] - [1272-1367]
75 - Norton-juxta-Twycross or Norton by Twycross, Leicestershire
76 - Polesworth, Warwickshire
77 - Stoneydelph, Warwickshire
78 - West Cottingworth, Yorkshire
79 - Deeds and other papers of Elizabeth Beardsley
80 - Unknown and Unidentified items
81 - Wills and Probate, Gresley
82 - Wills and Probate, Lee
83 - Wills and Probate, Bott
84 - Wills and Probate, Webb
85 - Wills and Probate, Wright
86 - Other
2 - Manorial Records - [14th-19th cent]
3 - Estate Papers
4 - Family and Personal Papers
5 - Official Papers
6 - Parish and Ecclesiastical Papers - [16th cent]-1914
7 - Legal/Case Papers
8 - Maps and Plans - [18th-19th cent]
9 - Photographs
UL - Gresley Family of Drakelow: unlisted records
George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist
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