| Reference Number | DSCAM/5/10/4 |
| Title | Papers re John Millard and Whitehouse and Company's bankruptcy |
| Description | DSCAM/5/10/4/1: Agreement (22 June 1871) between John Millard of Sedgley, Staffs., gentleman and Isaac Whitehouse of Coseley, parish of Sedgley, fire brick manufacturer, for a lease of The Patent Fire Brick Works at Tipton (2635sq. yds and rights under the adjacent viaduct of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton [Great Western] Railway), for 7 years three months from 25 Mar. 1871, at a rent of £100 p.a.; plan attached. |
| DSCAM/5/10/4/2: Copy correspondence dated 1881-82 between the lessor's solicitors (Messrs Coldicott, Canning and Coldicott, Dudley) and the lessee's |
| DSCAM/5/10/4/3: Counterpart lease (4 May 1883) by the trustees of the late John Millard (Harry Dudley Bateman of Dudley, Worcs., surveyor, Benjamin Elwell of Woodsetton, Sedgley, agent and Mary Forman Millard of Sedgley, widow), to Isaac Whitehouse of Coseley, coalmaster and fire brick manufacturer, of land, a fire brick works and premises at Tipton (2635sq. yds of land, rights to land under the viaduct, and 60sq. yds of land on the far side), for a term of 14 years from 24 June 1881, at a rent of £100 p.a.; and contract for lessee to buy reversion of the freehold for £1500. [Adjoins property of E. Cresswell and Sons]. |
| DSCAM/5/10/4/4-12: Copy orders and notices, with related correspondence concerning the bankruptcy of Whitehouse and Company and the administration of the estate of Isaac Whitehouse, deceased, with catalogue for the sale of plant and machinery at the Factory Brick and Chain Works, Tipton under the bankruptcy; 1885-87. |
| DSCAM/5/10/4/13: Surrender of the lease (8 Dec. 1887) by Sarah Whitehouse of the Coppice, parish of Sedgley, widow, Edgar Isaac Henry Edward Whitehouse of Tipton, brick manufacturer and Joseph Trubshaw Whitehouse of Coseley, coal master, and Edward Percy Jobson of Dudley, solicitor (Official Receiver), and Thomas Strange Hatton of Wolverhampton, accountant (trustee in bankruptcy of the Whitehouses, trading as Isaac Whitehouse and Whitehouse and Company), to Bateman, Elwell, commercial clerk and Mrs Millard of - (as devisees in trust and executors of John Millard), release of contract for purchase by the same to the same, and release of Jobson et al. by Millard's trustees in respect of both; consideration of £75 to the Millard representatives; recites wills, insolvency of the estate, bankruptcy proceedings etc., inter-party debts. |
| DSCAM/5/10/4/14: Financial statement of the loss to Millards executors re Whitehouse. |
| Date | 1871-1887 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 14 items |
| Level | Item |