Marriage Settlement

Reference No:
U DDCB/29/4
Dates:
25 Jun 1729
Description:
i) John Hedworth of Chester in the Street, esq. ii) Margaret Ayton of West Herrington, gentlewoman (a daughter and co-heir of Samuel A. of West Herrington, esq. dec'd.) iii) Ralph Robinson of Middle Herrington, esq., Edward Harle of Newcastle upon Tyne, gent. and William Watson of Houghton le Spring, gent. (testamentary guardians of M.A.):: prior to marriage of J.G. and M.A.: for her portion of £1,670: hamlet, grange or tenement called Ouston alias Ewston in par. Chester in le Street, now in several farms (mentions North Farm with closes called the Beast Folds, North Bank Pasture, Low Lingfield and part of Bridge Close; 2 parcels called the Corn Ewe Hill and part of Pry Pasture; East Farm with closes called Three Cow Pastures, North and South Closes, North and South Meadows Fences, and the third, fourth and fifth part of Bridge Close; Middle Farm and closes called Banks Intack, Lingey Field, Long Garth, Four Nooke Garth, the Awarts and Stone Horse Garth; parcel called East Green, part of Pry Meadows, Fogg Close, Ewe Hill Pasture and Meadow, Four Acre Close, and Bank Pasture; West Farm and closes called West Pasture, High and Low Leases and Garth, West Green, North and South Pelton Nooks, Pry Meadow and Pasture and the Leases; Water Course Farm and closes called Stable Close, Long Close, Whinney Close, Pasture Banks, North and South Fences, Great and Little Low Meadows and the Springs; Little Farm and closes called Little Moor, Low Moor, Pelaw Nook, the Six and Two Acre Closes and Pelaw Carr; messuage and closes called Fattfield Biddick Closes; Staith House and closes called Borehole Meadow, Ox Pasture, Henderson's Close, High Rush Pasture, the Plains, Lowsing Hill, the Awarts, Cockshot Hill and Low Field Pasture): Witn. Ra. Gowland, Matt. Dawson
Format:
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Extent:
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of the Burton Family (incorporating the Robinson Family of County Durham) of Cherry Burton