| Reference Number | DSCAM/3/260 |
| Title | Will, mortgages and settlement of David Leech |
| Description | DSCAM/3/260/1: Mortgage (26 May 1806) by demise of 1000 years by David Leech of Dudley, Worcs., hair dresser and Mark Turner of the same, waerhouseman (his trustee), to John Hartil of the same, broker, of 400sq. yds and 145sq. yds of Duntons Piece, with 4 messuages erected thereupon, adjoining Oakey Well Lane, Dudley, to secure £100 and interest. |
| DSCAM/3/260/2: Further charge (8 Jan. 1810) by Leech to James Bourne of Dudley, gentleman, for £40, secured upon a messuage in Oakey Well Lane, lately erected upon 256sq. yds of land at he time of the principal mortgage (by demise) of 14 Dec. 1799 for £30; vacating receipt, 7 Jan. 1823. |
| DSCAM/3/260/3: Mortgage (24 July 1827) by demise of 1000 years by Leech to Edward Robinson of Holly Hall, parish of Dudley, gentleman, of 302sq. yds of land adjoining Oakey Well Lane and Dunton's Piece, with 2 messuages erected thereupon, to secure £100 and interest. |
| DSCAM/3/260/4: Mortgage (11 June 1831) by demise of 1000 years by Leech to Thomas Goode of Dudley, gentleman, of lands as in #1, and 16 messuages erected thereupon, to secure £100 and interest. |
| DSCAM/3/260/5: Copy pre-nuptial settlement of David Leech and Hannah Wilkinson (dated 12 Sept. 1821), between Leech and Turner his trustee, and Hannah Wilkinson of Himley, Staffs., spinster and Thomas Hawkes of Himley, Esq. and Joseph Green Bourne of Dudley, gentleman (trustees), settling lands at Duntons Piece, with 4 messuages, upon trust for Leech for life, then to secure the payment of an annuity of £28 to Hannah for life, and paying the balance to the persons otherwise entitled to the freehold, with covenant by David to effect the payment of £100 to the trustees in trust for Hannah or to such uses as she shall appoint, with remainder, in default of appointment to her personal representatives; attached receipt for £100 and interest, 19 May 1853. |
DSCAM/3/260/6: Probate (6 Oct. 1847) of the will (dated 4 July 1839) of David Leech of Dudley, gentleman; 2 dwellinghouses in Bond Street, Dudley, and all household effects, to wife, Hannah Leech, during widowhood, then for sale; 2 messuages in Oakey Well Street, 1 more messuage adjoining, and 1 in Summer Row, Dudley, to Ruth, wife of son Matthew Leech, for life, then upon trust for Matthew for life, then to pay the rents to Matthew's children until the death of the last of the testator's 4 children, and should Matthew die childless, to pay the rents to the testator's other children, with benefit of survivorship; messuage in Oakey Well Street, 1 in Summer Row and 2 in Spring Row, Dudley, to daughter Prudence, wife of Richard Chamberlain, for life, thence upon trust for her husband for life, thence for their children during the lives of the testator's other children, and in default of issue to pay the rents to the testator's other children, with benefit of survivorship; 1 messuage in Oakey Well Street, 1 in Summer Row and 2 in Spring Row, to son James for life, thence to his issue during the lives of the testator's other children, etc.; 1 messuage in Oakey Well Street, 2 in Spring Row and 1 behind, to son Edward for life, thence to his issue etc., etc.; and then all 16 houses upon trust for sale, with the proceeds paid to testator's grandchildren equally as tenants in common (with remoter issue taking per stirpes), with remainder in default of surviving grandchildren, to the children of William Wilkinson of Porters Fields, Dudley and of John Wilkinson of Wordsley as tenants in common; proceeds from Bond Street and household effects, equally to 4 children as tenants in common, but taking into hotchpot the £102 advanced by testator to his son Matthew and £50 to Prudence; executors, John Baugh, Joseph Pitchfork and Hannah Leech (wife).
Codicil (dated 9 Feb. 1842), whereby after death of son Edward, latter's wfe Maryann, is to receive rents in order to maintain and educate grandchildren, of whom she is to be sole guardian; if marriage settlement trustees demand the £100, the 2 houses in Bond Street devised to wife for life/during widowhood are to be sold and the £100 found from the proceeds, with the balance being invested for wife for life, and thence to fall into the estate. |
| DSCAM/3/260/7-8: Estate accounts, Residuary Account, etc., 1847-48. |
| DSCAM/3/260/9: Assignment (16 July 1850) by Edward Leech of Halesowen, Worcs., cordwainer, to Richard Chamberlain of Bilston, Staffs., leather cutter, of his one fourth share in the sale proceeds of messuages in Bond Street, Dudley, under the will of his late father, David Leech, to secure £58 19s 5d due on account and the costs (£11) of preparation of this security; accounts and correspondence attached; vacating receipt endorsed, 18 May 1853. |
| DSCAM/3/260/10-11: Release (17 May 1853) of the trustees and executors under the will of David Leech (John Baugh of Dudley, chain and pump manufacturer and Joseph Pitchfork of Dudley, school master), by the beneficiaries (Matthew Leech of Sedgley, Staffs., butcher; Richard Chamberlain of Bilston, currier and Prudence his wife; Edward Leech of Halesowen, cordwainer; and Richard Chamberlain as mortgagee under #9) with attached account; statutory declaration of Matthew Leech of Sedgley, butcher as to the issue of his late father, David Leech. |
| DSCAM/3/260/12-13: Appointment (28 June 1875) by John Baugh of Dudley, pump maker (retiring trustee) of David Leech of New Bond Street, Dudley, shoemaker and Alexander Knowles of Stafford Street, Birmingham, confectioner as new trustees of the will of David Leech, and conveyance and assignemnt of real and personal estate to them; schedule of deeds relating to the trust estate received by new trustees, 28 July 1875 [includes #1-6, 9-12 above]. |
| DSCAM/3/260/14: Release (28 Sept. 1891) of Alexander Knowles of 24 Nechells Park Road, Birmingham, confectioner (surviving trustee of the will of David Leech) by the beneficiaries (Ernest Leech of 35 Bond Street, Dudley, an infant; Albert Shingleton of Grove Street, Kates Hill, Dudley, pin and screw cutter and Mary his wife; Edward Leech of 5 Chester Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, fireman; Edmund Kitchen of 7 Oak Place, Pitsford Street, Hockley, Birmingham, brass finisher; Emma Leech of Oakeywell Street, Dudley, spinster; James Leech of 17 Harrogate Street, Barrow in Furness, fireman; Frank Richards of 78 Scotch Street, Barrow in Furness, fireman, and Sarah his wife; Matthew Leech of 19 Parry Street, Barrow in Furness, fireman; and Henry Terry of Birmingham and Ann his wife); with attached statement of account for the sale of property in Oakeywell Street and the Minories, Dudley. |
| DSCAM/3/260/15: File of copies of birth, marriage and death certificates for members of the Leech family; copies 1891. |
| Date | 1806-1891 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 15 items |
| Level | Item |