| Description | Bundle of correspondence and papers re the purchase/transfer of 400 yds. of land adjoining the churchyard from J.F. Pearson of Netherton Furnaces near Dudley, executor of the late J.H. Pearson, as a churchyard extension: comprising correspondence from J.F. Pearson re the lessees' (Messrs. Howl) willingness to surrender the land without a rent reduction and re the rector's erection of an iron fence for the new churchyard and payment of all legal charges for the transfer, 15 May 1908 (DR0254/11/1); corres. from G.M. Seabroke & Son of Rugby, solicitors, re the drafting of the Deed Poll and execution of the same etc., and enclosing a detailed bill of costs of the Vendor's solicitors (E. Caddick & Co. of West Bromwich), and Abstract of the Title of the Surviving Trustee of the will of the late J.H. Pearson, esq., (d. 1 May 1902) to land at Frankton (1873-1905) abstracting, inter alia, the Indenture of 4 Nov 1873 by which Webb's Close and Cook's Close (a small strip next the churchyard), inter alia, it is recited, were conveyed to W.J. Edmonds of Southrop (Glos.), 13 July 1868, who mortgaged it, 14 and 15 July 1868, to secure £3,000 and £1,000 respectively (and later assigned the same mortgages, 1870-1872) and then conveyed it, inter alia in Frankton, to J.H. Pearson by the deed of 1873 and abstracting Pearson's will, 25 Apr 1902, and the appointment of executors and trustees. With plan (coloured). 1908 (DR0254/11/2-8); bill of expenses from T.W. Willard of Rugby, architect, for surveying and making plans for the conveyance, 1909 (DR254/11/9); corres. from the London and North Western Railway re a donation of £2 2s. for the extension, 30 Nov 1908 (DR0254/11/10); MS Churchyard Extension Fund Treasurer's Statements of Accounts, lists of subscribers, and related corres., 1909-1910 (DR0254/11/11-14); corres. from the Diocesan Registry, the Bishop et al re the consecration of the land, 1 Dec 1911-6 Jan 1912 (DR0254/11/15-20). |