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| | |  | 1 - WILL of Ann Walley of Checkley, par. Wybunbury, widow; after payment of debts and funeral expences, she bequeaths and devises the residue of her real and personal estate to her sister Mary Walley, widow, provided she keeps herself sole and unmarried, but after her decease or marriage, she bequeaths and devises the same to her nephew John Walley, being the son of her said sister Mary Walley; grants legacies to her nephew Thomas Walley, niece Mary Walley, niece Jane Walley, sister Hannah Walker and neice Mary Boot; appoints her brother in law Richard Walley of Micle Trafford executor. Paper.
Also: BAPTISMAL CERTIFICATE of Thomas son of Robert Walley of Checkley, baptised at Wybunbury, 9. July 1765. - 1774, 20. May |
| | | | 2 - RELEASE of equity of Redemption, by Mary Walley of Checkley, widow, and John Walley of Checkley, yeoman, her eldest son and heir, to Richard Mare of Hanley (Co. Staff.), potter --- a messuage, farm or tenement with appurts. in CHECKLEY, par. WYBUNBURY, heretofore in the holding of Thomas Astbury deceased, after of William Bickerton, but now/late of the said Mary Walley, and closes in CHECKLEY called the Barn Meadow and the Hill, the Lee Ridding, the two Simm Crofts, the Broomey Field and the Twopenny Hole now laid together, the Fosters Meadow and the Leaney field, the lover Field alias the Tentry Croft and the meadow at the Green, heretofore also in the holding of the said Thomas Astbury and after of the said William Bickerton, but now/late in the possession of the said Mary Walley, reserving the dwelling house or tenement with the croft or parcel of land belonging situate in CHECKLEY near to the Green now in the holding of the said Mary Walley. Cons. £712-19 owing to the said Richard Mare for principal and interest on a Mortgage and a further payment by him of £64-1. Parchment. - 1783, 26. Sept |
| | | | 5-6 - LEASE for 1 year & RELEASE by 1) James Kennedy of Trentham (Co. Staff), gentleman, and James Smith of Newcastle under line (same Co.), stationer, and 2) Thomas Mills of Leek (same Co.), Esq., mortgagees and 3) Richard Mare of Hanley, par. Stoke on Trent (same Co.), gentleman, and Mary his wife to 4) Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton of Doddington Hall Bt. --- a messuage, tenement or farm house in CHECKLEY, par. WYBUNBURY with appurtenances, heretofore in the holding of William Gibbs, laterly of John Heath but now of Thomas Whittaker, another messuage at CHECKLEY now/late in the occupation of Thomas Roe and Thomas Clarke and closes in CHECKLEY called the kiln croft, the Common Meadow, the Colts Croft, the Long Flatt, the two Walley Pit Crofts, the two shoots, the Watkins Field, the Pee Mee Meadow, the Three Ox pastures, the long Meadow, the Brick kiln Fields, the Copy Fields, the Three Stockings Fields, the Stockings Meadow, the Broom Field, the two Moors, the Bridge Meadow, the Marl Fields, the Holly Bush Field, the Crab Tree Field and the Gardens, orchards and hempbutts and all other messuages, lands etc: in CHECKLEY devised to Richard Mare by the will of John Mare his late father deceased and by him purchased from Peter Somerfield of Weston Hall, par. Wybunbury, gentleman, ontng. 102 acres 1 rood 8 perches and now in the possession of the said Thomas Whittaker as tenant to the said Richard Mare, and also closes in CHECKLEY called the Barn Meadow and the Hill, the lee Ridding, the two simm crofts, the Broomey Field and the Twopenny Hole (now laid together), the Forsters Meadow and the Leany Field, the clover Field alias the Tentry Croft and the Meadow at the Green, heretofore in the holding of Thomas, Astbury, afterwards of William Bickerton, since of Mary Walley and now of the said Thomas Whittaker, all which were purchased by the said Richard Mare from Mary Walley and John Walley her eldest son and whereon a messuage and outbuildings lately stood, but which have been pulled down and a barn and other buildings have been lately erected and built. Cons. £3,250. Parchment. - 1795, 22. & 23. Dec |