| Description | Title deeds relating to the Consett's estate including lands in Askham Bryan, Borrowby, Brawith, Crosby, East Tanfield, Nether Silton, Northallerton, Knapton, Kirby Knowle, Kirby Sigston, Leake, Oldstead, Romanby, South Kilvington, Sowerby under Cotcliffe and Thornton le Beans 1649-1925; lands in Middlesbrough, Yarm, Egglescliffe and Stainton 1555-1806; lands in Bowsden, Sighill and Norham in Northumberland 1658-1831; property in Camden Town, Middlesex 1792-1870. The collection of title deeds includes abstracts of title, 1798-1914; wills and family settlements, 1683-1895; legal papers including Consett v. Bell, depositions, 1829-1925; Trinity College, Cambridge v. Lepton, regarding the boundaries of the Kepwick estate, 1626; William Warcop Peter Consett v. John Bell, Thomas Stubbs Walker, and a Chancery suit, 1842; and leases to tenants which contain detailed covenants and schemes of husbandry with field names and acres 1783-1838.
Title deeds of various families in the Yorkshire area including the Wetherall family of Osmotherly, the Thorner family in Carlton in Cleveland, the Saltmarsh family of Thornburgh, Newby Wiske and Aldwark, and the Stringer family of Danby 1628-1799.
Estate papers including Knayton Enclosure 1800-1802, Brawith road diversion 1852-1853, crop rotation systems 1801-1804; and Oldstead estate field book 1806.
Personal papers including receipts, vouchers and accounts 1776-1811, and correspondence 1778-1839.
Maps and plans of Leake 1786, Askham Bryan 1821, Brawith 1854, and Ordnance Survey maps 1849-1893. |
| Administrative history | The Consett family appear first in North Cleveland and Teesside, purchasing property in the 17th century in Middlesbrough and Yarm. In the 1670's Peter Consett was a 'master and mariner'. This estate seems to have been sold about the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. In the middle and late 18th century the Brawith estate began to be built up. Brawith itself was acquired through the marriage of Consett of Yarm and Peacock of Brawith in the middle of the 18th century. |