Holte

"During the eighteenth century, Aston Manor and other properties passed to Sir Lister Holte who bought streches of Small Heath (then part of Bordsely). He died in 1770 and his will was a strange thing. He left his real estate to his brother, Charles, and his male heirs. However, if Charles had no sons then the Holte lands were to go to Heneage Legge, a nephew of Sir Lister's first wife; and if he had no successors then everything would be passed on to another cousin, Lewis Bagot, Bishop of Saint Asaph.if Bagot's line failed, the properties were to be given to Wriothesley Digby of Meriden and his heirs. Finally, if he had no issue then the Holte estates would revert to Mary, the daughter of Charles and the wife of Abraham Bracebridge of Atherstone. All three men mentioned in the will had no heirs general and on the security of Mary gaining her inheritance, Abraham Bracebridge raised mortgages on the properties. Because of his business failures he was unable to discharge his loans and in 1818, to meet the demands of his creditors, he had to obtain an act of Parliament allowing the partion of the Holte lands. In this way, the Legge family came to own a great part of Aston, Ashted, Duddeston, Nechells and the Gosta Green neighbourhood, whilst the Digbys took over large swathes of Small Heath in Bordesley (see Small Heath)."

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