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Chris Hills wrote on 29jul2014
Hi John -just checking through some old notes from Matlock
(glynns documents?) and think i've found two more surrenders of
the Gorsey Bank closes;
(679) 1769 Surrender by Robt Wagstaff etc to John Andrews
(681) 1779 Surrender by Joseph Andrews to Thomas Hemsworth, Ashbourne
innkeeper of a close at G B; void if payment of £110+interest paid by
April (1780?)
(663) 1784 Surrender of two closes at G B, formerly in possesion of
John Andrews, by Thomas Hemsworth, Ashbourne innkeeper to Thomas Lomas,
baker of WW
I assume that these all refer to the Vellum closes, although how that
ties up to the details in the will is unclear at the moment.
Looking at Thomas Lomas's tree it would seem likely that on his death in
1803 he would have left everything to his daughter Dorothy (only surviving
child, son died shortly after birth) who married Henry Lomas, London gent
and relation. He may of course have disposed of the land before that.
I dont know if that adds anything useful.
My own researches are based around the Nether Street end of SJS and I'm
Trying to integrate information from deeds with that in census results,
registers, etc to put together a complete (as if!) picture. It tends to
end up as collection of interlinked stories but is interesting nonetheless
Glad to see you are keeping wirksworth.org.uk going
chris
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Chris Hills wrote on 25jul2014
Hi John
Very interested to see the vellum and transcript; it ties in with
some Nether Street research I'm doing.
John Andrews seems to have been fairly succesful and accumulated
various plots of land around Wirksworth. His will is detailed in Ince
(also his marriage to Ellen Maggs, should be Wragg)
and shows ownership of five separate pieces of land;
Ogdens Dingle left to Peter Timpson
Two closes at Gorsey Bank left to Joseph Andrews
Gethin close at Gorsey bank left to Nathaniel Andrews
Denny's dale close left to Theophilus Andrews
Fourlands close left to Richard Bradshaw and Elizabeth Wall
I suspect the Joseph Andrews closes are those referred to in the vellum
He also left two adjacent houses on Nether street to Richard and Elizabeth;
these are almost certainly 53 and 55 although I suspect a fair amount of
rebuilding to both of these properties.
Interestingly enough there seems to be an extra twist with a reference
to Robert Wagstaffe mentioned after a missing part in Ince.
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