Durham Solicitor’s Papers

Name	Reference	Description	Repository
Thomas Ismay	D/CG 7/1596	Civil Suit	Durham CRO
Joseph Bruce Ismay	D/HH 6/5/36	Property Lease	Durham CRO
Thomas Ismay	D/X 938/20	Property Transfer	Durham CRO
Thomas Ismay	GB-0033-BAK	Property Transfer	Durham University
Hastings Lionel Ismay	GB-0033-GRE-I	Correspondence	Durham University

Clayton & Clayton

Ref No. D/CG 7/1596

Copy award of Thomas Ismay of Whickham, builder, James Davidson of Newcastle upon Tyne, builder and John Lister of Gateshead builder in arbitration of the dispute between Joseph Hannington and others, fire brick manufacturers and Cuthbert Gardner of Winlaton, builder. Hanningtons are to pay £768 to Gardner. The cost of the arbitration (£50 16s 8d) to be divided between the two parties, 25 March 1849

Hanby Holmes

Ref No. D/HH 6/5/36
22 January 1910

(1) Francis Horner Lyell

(2) Joseph Bruce Ismay of 30 James Street, Liverpool, shipowner

Counterpart sporting lease over Reeth Low Moor to the north of the watershed, a further part of the Old Gang Moors bounded on the north by Old Gang Beck and by the Little Gill up to the boundary of Arkengarthdale, on the west from Water Crag by the Melbecks/Gunnerside boundary and by Gunnerside Gill, on the south and east by the old enclosed lands in the Manors of Healaugh and over the enclosed lands specified between Arkle Beck and Gunnerside Beck, for a term of 10 years

Rent: £1,400 p.a. and 36 brace of grouse

Miscelleaneous Papers

Ref No. D/X 938/20

1841

(1) John Hodgson of Aikton (co. Cumberland) and his wife Mary

(2) Thomas Ismay of Thursby (co. Cumberland), gent.

Draft release by (1) to (2) of lands and tenements in Ainstable (co. Cumberland) (1 file)

Baker Baker Papers

Ref No: GB-0033-BAK
Dates of creation: 1686-1833

Origination: documents relating to the Baker (later Baker Baker) family of Crook Hall, Durham City and Elemore Hall, Pittington, Co. Durham.31/44.

18 November 1774

1. The Right Hon. John Bowes Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn John Baker of Newcastle upon Tyne, Esq. Ralph Hopper of Bishop Middleham, County Durham, Esq. the Devisees in Trust and 3 of the Executors named in the last will and testament of George Baker late of Elemore Hall, Esq., deceased.
2. John Tempest of Sherburn, County Durham, Esq., the only acting Trustee, Devisee and Executor of and in the last will and testament of Robert Spearman late of Old-Acres, County Durham, deceased.
3. Edward Shipperdson of Pittington Hall Garth, County Durham, Esq.
4. William Hopper of the City of Durham, Gent, Deputy Registrar of the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham.

Demise for 1,000 years by (1) to (3) (a Trustee appointed by (2)) of premises at Elemore Hall, Little Haswell and Haswell Grange, County Durham, and at Shilford, Broomhaugh and Birkenside, Northumberland (all mortgaged by George Baker, since deceased, to (2) for £6,000 and interest by deeds of 17 and 18 May 1767) to secure to (2) a further £5,000 and interest; and, as additional security, the Village or Township of Scaling, and the premises called Ronsgate Holme, Small-Oaks, Ray's Farm, Greenkall, Beacon Field, the Holes and Langstaff's Pasture, and the three-quarters of the alum rocks, mines and works which belonged to the said George Baker, deceased, in the Township of Boulby and Parish of Easington, are to stand charged with the £5,000 and interest; and 5 terms of years in the demised premises which were assigned to the Earl of Strathmore on 18 November 1767 are to be in trust for (2) for the better securing of the £5,000 and interest, and subject to that, in trust for George Baker, son of the said George Baker deceased, and in the meantime to attend the reversion and inheritance; with agreement by (2) to take interest at four and a quarter per cent as long as the £5,000 remains at interest.

Proviso: if (1), or George Baker the son, pays (2) £5,000 and legal interest on 18 November 1775, the said term is to be void. Consideration: the premises of the deed, £3,900 the proper money of (2) and £1,100 trust money in the hands of (2) out of the estate of Robert Spearman, deceased - £5,000 in all - paid by (2) to (1) and 10s. 0d. apiece paid by (3) to each of the parties to (1). Rent: 1 peppercorn. Signed by all the parties except (3).

Seals: 5 red wax applied on green ribbon. Parchment, 6mm.

31/45a. 21 November 1776

1. George Baker of Elemore Hall, Esq., only son and heir at law and a Devisee named in the last will and testament of George Baker of Elemore Hall, Esq., deceased.
2. John Tempest of Winyard, County Durham, Esq., only son and heir at law and sole Executor of the last will and testament of John Tempest late of Sherburn, County Durham, Esq., deceased, who was the only acting Trustee, Devisee and Executor of the last will and testament of Robert Spearman late of Old-Acres, County Durham, Esq., deceased.

Lease for a year by (1) to (2) of the Village or Township of Scaling in the County of York and of the premises called Ronsgate-Holme, Small-Oaks, Ray's Farm, Greenkall, Beacon-Field, the Holes and Langstaff's Pasture, and the three-quarters share which belonged to the said George Baker deceased of the mines and rocks of alum and alum works on any of these grounds or elsewhere in the County of York (including lands in or near the Township of Boulby once owned by Nicholas Conyers deceased and now belonging to Sir Thomas Heron Middleton, Bart.) in which (1) has any estate of freehold or inheritance.

Consideration: 5s. 0d.

Rent: 1 peppercorn.

Signed by (1). Seal: red wax applied on pink ribbon. Parchment, 1m.

31/45b. 22 November 1776

1. George Baker as in No. 31/45a
2. John Baker of Newcastle upon Tyne, Esq. Ralph Hopper of Bishop Middleham, County Durham, Esq. (the surviving Devisees in Trust and two of the Executors appointed by the last will and testament of George Baker deceased).
3. John Tempest as in No. 31/45a (4) William Hopper of the City of Durham, Gent., Deputy Registrar of the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham.

Release of the premises described in No. 31/45a by (1) to (3) for the better securing of £6,000 and interest due on a mortgage of properties at Elemore and elsewhere as described in No. 31/44, except the estates at Shilford and Broomhaugh which (1) has sold to Thomas Ismay of Crow Hall, County Durham, and so discharged the mortgage of £5,000 also secured on the said properties by No. 31/44. Consideration: the premises of the deed, and £6,000 with interest due from 18 May 1776, and 10s. 0d. paid by (3) to (1). Proviso: if (1) pays (3) £6,000 with interest at the rate of 5% per annum on 18 May 1777, (3) will reconvey the premises to (1) or as he directs; and if the £6,000 is continued at interest (3) agrees to accept 4¼% instead of 5%.

Signed by all the parties. Seals: 5 red wax applied on pink ribbon.

Parchment, 7mm.

14/143. 4 April 1776

Letter from George Pearson to Mrs Judith Baker, concerning accounts relating to the suit against Lambton, £500 that he expects Mr Ismay will advance, and the widening of Layton Lane. Paper, 2ff.

14/148. 13 May 1776

1. George Baker of Elemore Hall, Co. Durham, Esq
2. Thomas Ismay of Crowhall, Co. Durham, Gentleman

Bond of (1) to (2) in £1,120. Condition: if (1) pays (2) £560 on 22 November next with legal interest, the obligation to be void.

Signed: (1). Seal torn off. f.2r. Agreement (same date) of (1) to allow (2) the principal and interest due on the above bond out of the purchase-money (£6,560) agreed to be paid by (2) to (1) for the estate of Shilford in Northumberland, but, if (2)'s Counsel does not approve the title to the estate, (1) agrees to pay (2) the principal and interest secured by the said bond on 22 November (1776) together with such money as (2) shall have expended in the interim on the improvement and buildings of the said estate. f.1v. Receipt, dated 2 December 1776, of (2) for £575 12s. 0d. principal and interest. Paper, 2ff.

14/164. 19 November 1776

Letter from George Pearson to Mrs Judith Baker, concerning the completion of Mr Ismay's purchase.

Paper, 2ff.

Baring (Howick of Glendale) papers

Ref No: GB-0033-GRE-I
Dates of creation: 1904-1973

Origination: papers of Lord Howick, personal, estate and public life.

ISMAY, Hastings Lionel (1st Lord Ismay) S/S for Commonwealth Relations, 27 Oct 1951 - 23 Mar 1952