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RAY OF HEANOR

Catalogue reference: D255

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This record is about the RAY OF HEANOR dating from 18th- 19th cent.

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Reference
D255
Title
RAY OF HEANOR
Date
18th- 19th cent
Description

This collection consists of the family and business papers of the Sutton and Ray families of Heanor Hall.

Arrangement

Contents

Title

John Sutton's Heanor Hall Estate

Heanor Hall

Two cottages in Heanor

Messuage, tenement, croft and common allotment in Heanor

Scarsdale property in Heanor

Windmill House and land

Two messuages in Heanor

Spendlove property

Small parcel

Toplis property on West Hill

Land on Ray Street

Coal at Heanor

Disposal of property

Allins Fields, Heanor

Blacksmith's shop, Middleton by Wirksworth

Middlesex and Hertford

Estate

Heanor Hall Estate

Abstracts of title

Legal papers

Surveys, valuation and rentals

Plans

Leases

Correspondence and related papers

Roads

Fletcher's sale

Chief rents

Boundaries with Toplis property

The Marlpool

Toplis purchase

Marshall's sale

Hunt's purchase

Accounts

Coal leases

Other coal papers

Partition of coal at Heanor, 1852

Miscellaneous papers re coal

Miscellaneous papers re Heanor Hall estate

Shipley Wharf, Leicester

Wood Street, Cheapside, London

Correspondence

Receipts

Personal Estate

Succession accounts

Sills Executors

Other papers

Miscellaneous

Family

Settlement

Wills

Correspondence

Business

John Sutton's Pinxton Collieries

Title deeds

Other papers

Correspondence

John Ray's Kilburn Colliery

Title deeds

Leases and agreements

Other papers

Correspondence

Office

Miscellaneous

Held by
Derbyshire Record Office
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • <famname>Ray family of Heanor Hall, Derbyshire</famname>
  • <famname>Sutton family of Heanor Hall, Derbyshire</famname>
Physical description
6 Sub-fonds
Immediate source of acquisition

These documents were transferred to the Record Office in 1964

Administrative / biographical background

John Sutton purchased the Heanor Hall estate from E G Fletcher c1784 and continued to build it up until his death in 1803. John Ray of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, married Elizabeth Sutton Inman, niece of John and Elizabeth Sutton, in 1810, and Elizabeth Sutton Ray inherited the estate on the death of her aunt in 1839.

John Ray made further additions to the estate but his son, Rev George Henry Ray, rarely lived at Heanor and there were no substantial acquisitions of property after John Ray's death in 1867. Both John Sutton and John Ray were very much involved in the coal trade, Sutton at Pinxton, Leicester and elsewhere, and Ray at Kilburn and Horsley where he developed the Kilburn Colliery Company.

Record URL
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RAY OF HEANOR