DEEDS OF 58 CANBURY AVENUE, KINGSTON

Deeds of Title and related documents

Referring to 1 & 2 Victoria Villas apparently later [?56] and 58 Canbury Avenue, purchased new by Mrs A N Nightingale of Ingleton, Minerva Road, Kingston, widow, from the builder, Frederick John Turner of 70 Richmond Park Road, Kingston, on 26 October 1897 (KX58/7, and see also Turner's letter to Mrs Nightingale, KX58/4)

The land upon which the houses were built, ie plots 287 and 288 of the CANBURY PARK ESTATE (including the area of Elm Road, Elm Road South, Canbury Avenue, Lowther Road, Craven Road, Beresford Road, Deacon Road and Willoughby Road, see plan on KX58/2) was purchased by Turner on 24 March 1897 from the trustees of the wills of Abraham Hodgson Phillpots, died 31 May 1891, and Albert Deacon, died 31 Jan 1895 (KX58/2; see also Abstract of Title, KX58/6, and Statutory Declaration about sale negotiations in 1893, KX58/5). Within two months of purchase, in compliance with covenants in the purchase deed, Turner had built the two houses, mortgaged them on 6 May 1897 (KX58/3) and sold them to Mrs Nightingale by October of the same year.

An abstract of title of 1896 (KX58/1) recites deeds from 1835 revealing that the Canbury Park Estate land formerly formed part of the NORBITON HALL ESTATE owned by the Earl of Liverpool (released to him by Robert Henry Jenkinson in 1847 in remainder after his [RHJ's] death in return for an annuity). The land was sold by the trustees of the Earl of Liverpool's will (died 3 October 1851) to John Charles Hawkins (3 Dec 1877) and then passed by sale to Robert Palmer Tebb (1 Aug 1878) and from Tebb to Christopher and William Oakley (24 Dec 1880), from whom it was purchased by Phillpots and Deacon on 24 Dec 1880.

Presented by Dr S A Atkin of Yorkshire, former owner of the property per Palmers', solicitors, of Kingston, in October 1986.