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Indenture of Conveyance between 1. Mrs Elizabeth Seale, widow, mother & guardian of John Seale, an infant under 21, viz. aged 19 years, and 2. Capt. Thomas Pipon, brother of E. Seale and uncle of John Seale.
Document Held: DRO Exeter
Mr Robert Cranford to the Dartmouth Local Board of Health. £475 from Board of Health for 2 houses near churchyard on the west, a public street and premises owned by John Strike, innkeeper. On north partly by a public street and partly by public steps lately converted to a slopeway from New Quay to the church. On east by street leading to Lower Street. On south by lands of Robert Luke, previously in the possession of Pegg Maddick and Margaret Stephens or tenants and then Wm Ash Hawke, Gge Walter Bodley and Thom Lear as tenants. Premises lately taken down to improve and widen the streets.
Document Held: DRO Exeter
£70 paid to Robert Cranford by Town Council acting as Urban Sanitary Authority.
Treasurer – Richard Webber Egg
Mentioned;- Alexander Ridgeway
Public Health Act 1875
Dwelling bounded south side of Pillory Lane on north and east by dwelling property of Trustees of the Borough, on the south side by property of Alexander Ridgeway Esq, on west side by piece of land formerly a house taken down by Council for widening highway.
Document Held: DRO Exeter
Oaths made by;-
Henry Joseph Holdsworth Esq – Mayor,
Robert Efford – Builder and Appraiser,
William Adams – Builder.
Visited the dwelling house in possession of Messrs Harris & Co and John Jennings to survey and estimate.
Valued at £20 per annum (rent), £350 for the term of 79 years. For further information for documents in this series see 103051 Guildhall Documents 1.
Sale of property by Henry Seale to Hugh Mair April 1864
This Indenture list many Dartmouth property’s sold by H Seale to Hugh Mair & possibly marks the ending of the Seale families affair with Dartmouth after several centuries. Also given are details of the occupants at that time. PDF File.
Document Held: DRO Exeter
Mary Bastard, widow/executrix of John Bastard, to Thomas Lake pawnbroker(?), the western one of 2 houses near New Quay, including ground floor shop and office, for £177-10-0. Premises lately rebuilt.
Previous owners or adjoining owners referred to were Elizabeth Pottin, Staplehill, Adams, Roger Bidgood, Honor Hawkins dec’d.
Document Held: DRO Exeter
Assignment of Lease of land at Mill Gullet for up to 4 houses, by Thomas Bartlett Codner, Master R.N., and Joseph Lidstone builder to William Gregory victualler, 29 July 1856.
Land measuring 74 ft. e-w. and between 27 ft. and 56 ft. n-s, bounded by house/garden of Charles Campion Jones, highway and millpond.
Consideration £250 plus £175 = £425.
Document Held: DRO Exeter
Alexander Ridgeway of Shepherd A in the parish of Blackawton Covent with Dartmouth local Board of Health formed in 1858. Reference to several Indenture this previously made between the Board of Health and Richard Webb Egg treasurer, and A Ridgeway really arched cellars at Bearcove, land and hereditament conveyed to a A Ridgeway with that other hereditament.
Schedule:- List history of the various properties from 1835. Names mentioned:-Amos Peek, John Caddy, John Brown Smith, Joseph Wills, Joseph Love, Jane Efford, William Hockin, Robert Loney, Walter Prdeaux, Hodge, Perring, Thomas Holdsworth Brooking, Thorn, Gray, Steer, Mitchelmore, Lewis, Henry, Lamble, and others.
From 1802., Hayman Codner, New house in Higher Street and Newcomen Road. From 1845:- Codner Thompson Symonds, Earle, Neck.