Archive Trips

At Birmingham City Archives:

1. Copy of order of the Master of the Rolls authorising the grant from the Warden and Society of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, co. War., to Sir Edmund Cradock Hartopp of Clifton, co. Glouc., bart., and Edmund Cradock Hartopp of Four Oaks Hall, co. War., of two pieces of land adjoining Four Oaks Park and being part of Sutton Park, in exchange for other lands adjoining Sutton Park. MS 3069/Acc1935-063/443143 16 November, 1827

2. Particulars and plan of sale of Four Oaks Park, Sutton Coldfield, co. Warwick. MS 20/236 1890

3. Indenture between Sir Charles Holte of Freeford Hall, co. Staff., bart., Dame Ann, his wife, and Alexander Jesson of the City of Worcester, esq., being a release from the said Sir Charles Holte and Dame Ann, his wife, of the half part of certain monies due to them from the said Alexander Jesson, guardian of Pudsey Jesson, deceased, son of Pudsey Jesson, late of Langley Hall in the parish of Sutton Coldfield, co. War., deceased, in the right of the said Dame Ann as one of the next of kin of the said Pudsey Jesson, the son; the release being in return for certain covenants on the part of the said Alexander Jesson. MS 3889/Acc 1933-055/415023 13 September 1773

4. Title deeds etc re land in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham etc.. Records of the Jesson Family including deeds of title to property in Sutton Coldfield, 1571 - 1875. MS 1396 (69 files)

At Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford:

5. Railway Plans (British Raid Engineer's Department at Crewe) D3678/436 to 439 inclusive.

At Warwickshire County Record Office:

6. Midland Railway New Works (at Sutton Coldfield) (and duplicate). 29 Nov 1876 QS/111/345

At Walsall Local History Centre:

7. H. E. Lavender plan of villa residence for Matthew Overton, Tudor Hill, Sutton Coldfield 878/6/1 to 3 inclusive 30 Jan. 1880

At Parliamentary Archives:

8. Local Act, 35 & 36 Victoria I, c. clxxii HL/PO/PB/1/1872/35&36V1n240 1872

At Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service:

9. Plan of Langley Hall Estate, Sutton. Plan of The Langley Hall Estate in Sutton township, property of Messrs. William Smith, exec. of Isaac Smith, dec., Samuel Smith, dec., Charles Ball and William Prichard.; Surveyor: Cawley and Firth, Macclesfield 197a. 3r. 38p.; schedule of owners, tenants, field names and acreages; names of adjacent owners; roads; woodlands and pools; block plans of buildings; boundary fences to estate; landowners' properties outlined by colour. 46" x 35" 2ch. = 1"; 40" = 1m D2817/49 1851

At Society of Antiquaries of London:

10. Abstracts of title, copy wills, a few original deeds, litigation papers and pedigrees relating to the families of Pudsey and Jesson of Langley (in Sutton Coldfield) and Wishaw, Warws. with a few earlier documents. Five bundles:- I. Original deeds, including:- Bond of John Lisle to Thomas Fulthorp to abide by the decision of arbitrators conc. the title to the manors of Wishaw and Langley and the advowson of Wishaw, etc., 1515; arbitration award, 1607/8; marriage agreement, 1624; extract from a court roll, 1680; bond, 1695; final concord between J. Edey and Thomas Pudsey, 1698; release by Mary Scarfe to Alexander Jesson, 1765; indemnity to Alexander Jesson, 1774; printed conditions of sale of Langley estate after the death of Pudsey Jesson;- II. Abstracts of title to the manors of Langley and Wishaw, 12th-16th century, 17th century-1725; marriage settlement of George Pudsey, junior, and his second wife, Mary Gibbons, 1607; copy wills of Alexander Pudsey, DD, 1720, and Alexander Jesson, 1748-51; legal opinion conc. Pudsey Jesson's will, 1759; extract from a minute book of the corporation of Sutton relating to a grant of warren to Pudsey Jesson, 1733, and later assignment of warren by Alexander Jesson to Sir Charles Holt, 1774; parcels of land in Cooper's lease; various sale particulars;- III. Legal dispute relating to the manors of Langley and Wishaw, 1621-41;- IV. Miscellaneous, including coroner's inquest on the murder of WilliamPudsey by William Elson, at Birmingham, 5 Oct. 1593; notes of baptism of Richard Pudsey, 1616, and George Pudsey, 1639; power of attorney from Alexander Jesson to Henry Shaw (both of the Middle Temple) conc. the estate of Francis Jesson, 1769; letter from Henry Shaw to Alexander Jesson, on personal and business matters, before 1774;- V. Pedigrees of Pudsey, Jesson and related families, to the 17th and 18th centuries.