Rickerby Estate, and the Brunstock House Estate

Note Though estate plans are mentioned at one point in the list, as sent to London for counsel's perusal, none have survived other than a few small sketches, or plans inset in margins. The only exceptions are the copy Inclosure Maps (D RIC 30, 51).

Most of the armorial seals are not mentioned in the list, but drawings of almost all of them are in D RIC 104 (only fragments or repeats or blurred specimens are omitted). Many of the pedigrees of families named in these deeds are mentioned in the list, but for them all see D RIC 103.

SUMMARY CONTENTS

D RIC 1 - 89 Rickerby Estate

D RIC 90 - 98 Out-County

D RIC 93 - 102 Brunstock Estate

D RIC 103 Pedigrees

D RIC 104 Heraldry

At back of list Index

INCLUDING:

D RIC 1 - 3 Rickerby before the Richardsons

D RIC 4, 6, 7-9, 14, 16, 19, 20, 33-41 Purchases and will of William Richardson (died 1807), creator of the estate

D RIC 5, 18, 19 Rickerby Tithe Barn; tithes of Rickerby, Linstock, Crosby-on-Eden

D RIC 10 - 33 The Grahams (Richardson's heirs)

D RIC 13, 21-22 Graham family settlements and Trust Deed (1835)

D RIC 23 - 24 Graham's Bank in Carlisle

D RIC 25, 32-37, 56 Walby, Linstock, Parkbroom, Crosby, Whitrigg (Crosby), Houghton Tofts, Rickerby

D RIC 28 - 32, 40 - 41 Preludes to the Grahams' sale (1835) to GH Head (1828-1835)

D RIC 29 - 30 Abstracts of title (Rickerby; Bleatarn p. Irthington)

D RIC 30 Whitrigg Common Field Inclosure Award

D RIC 37, 60 Pews in St Cuthbert's Church, Carlisle

D RIC 40 Scotby estate

D RIC 45, 48 Lowry of Stanwix and Lowry Hill

D RIC 50 Sutton of Tarraby

D RIC 48, 58 Fishing in the River Eden

D RIC 51 Crosby Holme Inclosure Award

D RIC 52, 53, 56 Stanwix

D RIC 53 Pew etc. in Stanwix Church

D RIC 54 Carlisle Water Works, Stoney Holme

D RIC 59, 61, 62, 69 Building-land in Carlisle

D RIC 63 Caldbeck Fells mine-lease

D RIC 65 - 81 Head's Bank, Carlisle

D RIC 65-67, 80 Deeds of Head's forebears in Castle Sowerby, Raughtonhead, Stockdalewath

D RIC 68-71, 75 Deeds of the site of Head's Bank

D RIC 72 - 81 Dealings with banking clients

D RIC 82 - 86 Strays re GH Head

D RIC 83 Patterdale meeting-house site

D RIC 86 Shares in Greenside Mine

D RIC 89 Longlands, Stanwix

D RIC 90 Rock Ferry (Cheshire) Baths etc.

D RIC 93 - 98 Brixton and Stockwell, Surrey (Thomas Woodrouffe Smith's estate)

D RIC 99 (viii) Brunstock Beck clearing/flood-prevention agreements

D RIC 100 - 102 Crosby and Brunstock 1766 - 1907

D RIC 103 Pedigrees

D RIC 104 Heraldry

D RIC 105 - 108 Rickerby (deeds) 1653 - 1879

D RIC 109 - 118 Rickerby (plans) 1817 - 1925

D RIC 119 Pedigree of Head, Monkhouse, etc., 1580-1732 1732

D RIC 120 - 123 Raughtonhead deed and plans 1851 - 1884

D RIC 124 - 130 Joseph Monkhouse Head and George Head Head, and as partners in Head's Bank, Carlisle 1779, 1812 - 1839

D RIC 131 - 134 Other Head and MacInnes items (Rickerby and Hayton) 1877 - 1916

D RIC 135 - 137 Rickerby fisheries 1877 - 1905

D RIC 138 Wannop of Linstock 1862, 1913

D RIC 139 Woodrouffe Terrace etc., Carlisle 1729 - 1914

D RIC 140 Newtown mission chapel site, Carlisle 1898

D RIC 141 - 146 Atkinson of Brackenthwaite (Cumrew): Castle Carrock, Cumrew, Albyfield, and Alston Moor 1709 - 1912

D RIC 145 Plan of Albyfield and Brackenthwaite (Ivinson's Estate) 1888

D RIC 146 Enfranchisement to Warwick 1801

• <corpname>Rickerby Estate, Cumbria</corpname>
• <corpname>Brunstock House Estate</corpname>

Deposited by Messrs. Cartmell, solicitors, Carlisle; 24 May 1971

The nucleus of the Rickerby Estate was formed by the purchases of William Richardson, member of a Rickerby family, who made a fortune in the City of London and applied it to creating and improving his estate. No firm date appears in these deeds for the building of Rickerby House, but it is likely that its core was the residence of William Richardson. His successors the Grahams, their purchaser George Head Head, and his heir Miles MacInnes, all added to the estate.

The Brunstock House estate was created by George Saul, solicitor, of Carlisle in the late 1820s, when he built his mansion and laid out his park. (For its later history see D RIC 99).

This archive also contains deeds of other estates with no explicit connection; possibly they were purchased later.

Descent of the estate

William Richardson (1780's-1807), devised to Mrs Graham (1807-1834), sold to George Head Head (1834-1876), devised to Mr & Mrs Miles MacInnes (1876-c.1914), Trustees of Miles MacInnes (1914-1920's)

For background details of George Head Head, see his obituary in Carlisle Journal, 15 December 1876, p. 5 col. 3.

On his successor Miles MacInnes, see his obituary in Carlisle Journal, 1 October 1909, p. 5. GH Head's will was proved at Carlisle in 1877; Miles MacInnes's will was proved in London in 1910.

Rickerby is a manor and township in the parish of Stanwix.