Box File 9 : Deeds relating to Property on Cobden Edge

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Box File 9 : Deeds relating to Property on Cobden Edge

Subject

These deeds start with the enclosing of Mellor Moor in 1776. Land given to owner of Broad Carr on the moor has several houses constructed on it. The papers relate to the history of the property down several generations and different ownership plus the mortgages raised.

Description

Box files containing original deeds relating to property on Cobden Edge including history and ownership of properties.
1.1708 : Lease /release of land in Mellor, The Little Meadow, the Over Meadow, Gee Croft and Catstone together with all those houses etc. Jonathan Shallcross, Edward Downs, Thomas Stafford and Trisam Stafford to Samuel Heginbotham.

2. 1783 : Thomas Waterhouse of Sudehill in Mayfield, Yoeman & Samuel Standley of Snap Hey Yoeman in the said parish, executors to the late John Hibbert to Thomas Heginbotham to a plot of land and messuage in Mellor. By 1778 will of John Hibbert of Weathercoats, enclosed and subdivided. A Plot near Cobden Edge, ‘lying upon or near’ had been allocated to the estate called Broad Carr, a part of which plot consisting of 2 rods, 37 perches the said John Hegginbotham had contracted with the executors of John Hibbert to buy at his own expense erected messuages, dwelling houses upon the same (no tithes)

3. 1804 : Lease & release, being a mortgage for £300 and interest between James Heginbotham of Stockport (grandson & heir of John Higenbotham) estate at Catstone and Cobden Edge to George Kirk Shirt of Edale, messuages, tenement and cottages called Gee Croft and the Catstone (names of tenants included, land appears to be two plots, Catstone and a house now divided into two, what would now call Three Chimneys, at one time Sprint Mount.

4. 1848 : Mortgage between John Heginbotham 1. James Heginbotham 2. Thomas Stafford 3. £450 from Thomas Stafford to John Heginbotham with permission of James Heginbotham Gee Croft or Catstone, Little Meadow, Over Meadow, The Croft, the Little Field the Capstone, and back Meadow, The Long Meadow, The Piece, Top Meadow, William Livesley and others.

5. 1855 : Thomas Stafford and William Heginbotham Draper of Stockport sole executor of the late James Heginbotham. Mentioning 1848 deed between John Heginbotham 1. James Heginbotham 2. Thomas Stafford 3. £450 from Thomas Stafford to John Heginbotham with permission of James Heginbotham, Gee Croft or Catstone (others mentioned as above) 13 acres in occupation of James Heginbotham, Sarah Mallison, William Livesley & Others. James died in 1853 and son William inherited. A series of sentences dealing with the repayment of mortgage.

6. 1858 : John Heginbotham receives mortgage from John Stafford £200 on estates in Mellor, Captstone (and others as mentioned above) Six dwelling houses late in occupation of James Heginbotham, Sarah Mallison, William Livesley & Others but now in occupation of Thomas Middleton, Rose Middleton and others.

7. 1882 : The executors of the late John Heginbotham to Henry Heginbotham, James Heginbotham of Stockport, Grocer, Henry Heginbotham of Stockport, Surgeon and James Robinson of Stockport, Grocer and the said Henry Heginbotham. Where as John Heginbotham, Gent, late of Spring Mount, left his estate at Capstone then in occupation of himself, Mrs Brown, Mr Bowden, Mrs Pilcher and his brother Henry Heginbotham (party hereto) mention of property at Preston to James Robinson. Rest to brother James and his nephew James Robinson. He died February 1881. Executors ie James, Henry and James get £4000.

1883 : Probate will of Charles Hadfield of Cobden Edge leave everything, money in bank, stock on land, farm, furniture etc, to his wife Ann sons, Thomas and John (why is this in with these deed?)

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Identifier

BOX/09
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Citation

“Box File 9 : Deeds relating to Property on Cobden Edge,” Marple Local History Society Archives, accessed April 27, 2024, https://marplelocalhistorysociety.org.uk/archives/items/show/2080.

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