| Reference Number | DSCAM/5/1/8 |
| Title | Bundle of deeds relating to Harborne, Aston family |
| Description | DSCAM/5/1/8/1: Lease and release (11-12 Oct. 1799) by Thomas Green of Harborne House, parish of Harborne, Staffs., Esq. and Hannah his wife to George Simcox of Birmingham, Warwickshire, Esq. (their son-in-law) and Thomas Jones of the Crescent, Birmingham, gentleman, by way of settlement, reciting that Thomas Green Simcox, only child of George, is the only grandchild and heir apparent of Thomas; conveys Harrison's Green Farm (161a. 1r. 3p. as specified), at Harborne, in the tenure of Mary Birch at a yearly rental of £200, to Jones in trust for Simcox in fee simple, for which the consideration is an annuity of £200 secured by bond from Simcox to Thomas Green; and settlement of Harborne House, pleasure grounds and appurtenances (33a. 1r. 5p.); assignment of the Turks Head in Livery Street, Birmingham, and other leasehold premises there and in Snowhill, for the residue of several terms of years, in trust for Thomas Green for life, thence for Hannah for life, thence to Simcox for life, with remainder to Thomas Green and his heirs and assigns; annuity of £100 to Simcox from the death of the last Green, charged on the Harborne premises. |
| DSCAM/5/1/8/2: Lease and release (6-7 June 1808) by John Taylor of Moseley Hall, Worcs., Esq. and Charles Lloyd of Birmingham, banker (surviving partners of Sampson Lloyd and Nehemiah Lloyd) to George Simcox of the parish of Harborne, Staffs., Esq. and Thomas Jones, of Harrison's Green Farm, freed from a mortgage for £14000 of 1787. |
| DSCAM/5/1/8/3: Conveyance by appointment (14 Aug. 1830) by George Simcox to the Revd Edward George Simcox of Harborne, Clerk (only surviving son) and Thomas Simcox Lea of Hagley, Worcs., Esq. (trustee to uses) of two cottages and lands at Harborne, part of Harrison's Green Farm, to the use of Edward, with power of appointment, as specified. |
| DSCAM/5/1/8/4: Lease and release (28-29 Sept. 1837) by the acting devisees in trust of Edward George Simcox, deceased (the Revd Thomas Green Simcox of Harborne, Clerk and the Revd William Harding of Hockleigh, Essex, Clerk, and Charlotte his wife (late Simcox) and Elizabeth Simcox of Harborne, widow (of George Simcox), to Edward Aston of Tipton, Staffs., maltster and Samuel Round of the same, maltster, of a messuage and lands specified (about 61a.) at Harborne, to the use of the purchasers in moieties, with each purchaser acting as trustee to uses for the other; covenant for the production of title deeds; consideration of £5260 paid equally by Aston and Round to the devisees in trust; recites will of George Simcox and Edward George Simcox, and deed #3; attached certificate of acknowledgment; plan attached. |
| DSCAM/5/1/8/5: Declaration of trust (14 Dec. 1837) by the Revd Josiah Pratt of the City of London, Clerk, Thomas Simcox Lea of Waresley in the parish of Hartlebury, Worcs., Esq. and John Turner of Birmingham Heath, Warwickshire, Esq. (surviving trustees and executors of the will of George Simcox), the Revd Thomas Green Simcox and the Revd William Harding and Charlotte his wife (acting executors and trustees of the will of Edward George Simcox), Elizabeth Simcox (widow of George), George Price Simcox of Newgate Street, London, carpet manufacturer, Anna Maria Simcox of the City of Dublin, spinster, John Lea Simcox of Wadham College, Oxford, Esq. and Jane Margaretta Simcox of Kidderminster, Worcs., spinster (four of the younger children of Thomas Green Simcox of Harborne, deceased), Alexander Simcox of Harborne, gentleman, Howard Simcox of Harborne, gentleman and Emma Charlotte Simcox of the Lakes near Kidderminster, spinster (the other children of the late Thomas Green Simcox; minors), the said William Harding and Charlotte his wife, and Edward Aston and Samuel Round, the said Revd Thomas Green Simcox, John Freeth of Smethwick, parish of Harborne, gentleman, Clement Ingleby of Birmingham, Warwickshire, gentleman, John Wilkes Unett of Birmingham, gentleman and George Downing of Smethwick, farmer (purchasers), concerning the sale monies from the Harborne estate, and the sums of £6000 and £4000 vested in the trustees of the will of the late George Simcox for the benefit of Mrs Simcox for life, subject to certain charges, and subject thereto, as an appropriation for the like amount charged by the wills of George Simcox and of the Revd Edward George Simcox, upon the Harborne estate, and indemnity of the purchasers; recites Simcox wills and settlements; attached schedule of purchasers, lands purchased by them, which of those klands was included in the appointment [#3 above], and amount of the purchase money (£11950). |
| DSCAM/5/1/8/6: Mutual release and deed of covenant (21 June 1853) by Joseph Hill of Tipton, Staffs., iron merchant and Caroline his wife, Thomas Round of the same, victualler and Jane his wife, Jonathan Edwards Howl of Gospel Oak, Staffs., coalmaster and Sarah his wife, Thomas Cox the younger of Great Bridge, parish of Tipton, builder and Matilda his wife and Edward Aston of Smethwick, Staffs., land surveyor (the ladies and Edward being parties entitled under the recited will of Edward Aston late of Tipton, then of Smethwick, maltster and coalmaster, deceased) setting aside a clause of survivorship relative to the share(s) of any of them dying without issue, to enable them each to become unfettered tenants in common of the real and personal estate previously subjevt to that clause; recites purchase of Samuel Round's moiety of property at Harborne; attached certificate of acknowledgment by a married woman. |
| DSCAM/5/1/8/7: Appointment and conveyance (21 June 1853) by Samuel Round, now of Smethwick, Staffs., maltster, to the trustees of the will of the late Edward Aston (Edward Aston of Smethwick, land surveyor and Jonathan Edwards Howl of Gospel Oak, Staffs., coal master), of a moiety of freehold premises (60a. 1r. 14p.) at Harborne as in #4 (recited); consideration of £3800; recites agreement concluded with Aston in 1852, shortly before his death; plan endorsed. Memoranda of sales of parts of the premises to Mary Ann Cartwright (30 Dec. 1854); Samuel Round (24 Mar. 1855) and the Revd Thomas Smith and Isaac Newey (both 20 June 1857), with related plan. |
| DSCAM/5/1/8/8: Attested copy deed of disclainer (dated 1 June 1837) by Thomas Simcox Lea of Kidderminster, Worcs., Esq. and the Revd Thomas Rickards of Cosby, Leicestershire, Clerk, of the trusts and executorship of the Revd Edward George Simcox, deceased. Examined, 27 Oct. 1837. |
| Date | 1799-1857 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 11 items |
| Level | Item |