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Creator(s):
Shuttleworth, Dallas and Cromblehome, Preston, solicitors
ASSIZE PAPERS - ref. DDCM
1
Orders for the
Commutation of Death
Sentences to
Transportation
FILE [no title] - ref. DDCM
1/38 - date: 24 Aug. 1831
[from Scope and Content] John
Grimes, George McGivesall, otherwise George McGiveren, John Sidepot, Samuel
Taylor, Joseph Wilkinson (burglary), John Riley, Joshua Ashcroft, Samuel Wilson
otherwise James Maitland (larceny in a dwelling house), John Standring, Robert
Eccles, Thomas Thompson, otherwise Thomas Gill (robbery) Thomas Kelly, Richard
Clough (horse stealing) James Bates (sheep stealing) James Thompson, Richard
Meadows (riotously and feloniously beginning to demolish a dwelling house),
Richard Edlestone, otherwise Richard Slater, Robert McNare (uttering counterfeit
money), William Brett the younger (stealing letters from a post office), John
Campbell (being accessory before the fact to forging a promissory note), William
Calvert (being accessory before the fact to forging a Bill of Exchange), Robert
Kirkwood (forging a Bill of Exchange and promissory note), John Stansfield
(forging a promissory note). Jonathan Dade otherwise Jonathan Day (forging a
Bill of Exchange), James Kirkwood (uttering a forged promissory note) William
Billington (uttering forged Bills of Exchange). Beyond
the seas for life. Thomas Chadwick (robbery. Beyond the seas for 14 yrs.
LEASE OF LAND
ALTCAR
- ref. DDM
19..... LEASES
FILE - John
Billington of Altcar, yeoman - ref. DDM 19/147
- date: 24 Jun. 1741
FILE - John
Billington of Altcar, husbandman - ref. DDM 19/154
- date: 24 Jun. 1742Great Crosby, General
- ref. DDBL 46
FILE [no title] - ref. DDBL
46/58 - date: 20 Jul. 1784
[from Scope and Content] Surrender:
Thomas Billington of Manchester, cabinetmaker, to
Nicholas Blundell, esq. -- 6 perches in common field in Great Crosby called the
Dunnd Acre, with 2 cowgates on Crosby Marsh. --
LAYTON-with-WARBRECK. -
ref. DDCL 695-774
FILE [no title] - ref. DDCL
733 - date: 28/29 Apr. 1742
[from Scope and Content] Lease
and Release: for £42.10.-: George Billington of Rakes
within Layton with Warbreck, husbandman, to Sarah Roskell of Blackpoole,
spinster -- a close in the Rakes called the Withern, late the inheritance of
John Grookall of the Rakes, husbandman (purchased by G.B. from John Crookall by
Mitcham, co. Surry, Leather-Dresser, devisee of J.CC,) 1½ ac. -- Witn. Richard
Wilson, Richd.Tennant. Seal.
Clifton-with-Salwick.
Salwick Leases.
FILE - Thomas
Billington of Lower Bartell, husbandman. - ref. DDCL
1571 - date: 7 Jan. 1724/5
FILE [no title] - ref. DDCL
1616 - date: 2 Feb. 1763
[from Scope and Content] Richard
Hardman of Wharleys, yeoman (administrator of goods of John his father), and
James Etherington of Garstang, flaxdresser (administrator of goods of Thomas
Etherington of Salwick, flaxdresser, who was eldest son and heir of James
Etherington of the same, yeoman,), Matthias Etherington of Salwick, taylor
(another son of James E.), James Etherington of Salwick, husbandman, eldest son
of John Etherington of Salwick, flaxdresser (another son of James E.), and
Philip Ashcroft of Rufford who married Elizabeth a daughter of James E., to
Thomas Billington of Treales, weaver. (Assignment.)
WOODPLUMPTON
- ref. DDS 5
FILE [no title] - ref. DDS
5/1 - date: 2 Apr. 1714
from Scope and Content] Lease
for 3 lives at £1.1.0 retn: for £120: John Warren of Stockporte, co. Chester, to
John Towlinson of Woodplumpton, husbandman, -- cottage called Moone's Cottage
with barn, garden, and 1½ac. moss; also 6½ac. moss in several parcels; also 6ac.
moss ground, part unimproved called Abbotts Moss Short, late in the tenure of
Anthony Billington of Bartell, all in Catforth Quarter
of Woodplumpton -- for ewes of J.R. and John and James Eccleston his grandsons.
MOORSIDE -
ref. DDX 243/8
FILE [no title] - ref. DDX
243/8/13 - date: 12/13 Feb. 1794
[from Scope and Content] Lease
and Release: for £30: (i) William Cock of Halton, yeoman, (the surviving
trustee), (ii) Edward Hesketh of Caton, yeoman, and Anne his wife, (iii) Anthony
Billington of Caton, taylor -- dwellinghouse with one
garden at Caton Moorside, also two bracken dales on Caton Common.
FILE [no title] - ref. DDX
243/8/14 - date: 13 Feb. 1794
[from Scope and Content] Bond:
for £20: William Tomlinson Hesketh of Manchester, cotton manufacturer, Joseph
Hesketh of Manchester, husbandman, Thomas Tomlinson of Garstang, gent. to
Anthony Billington of Caton, taylor -- to bar Ann
Hesketh's dower, as DDX 243/8/13
Affidavits in Borough Court of Clitheroe
FILE - Thomas Warner v. John
Billington of Eydesford Factory, labourer - ref. DDX
28/249/1 - date: 27 Nov. 1790 Chapel
Centenary - ref. BIN
8
FILE - Letter to Rev. A J Long from
John Billington of Thornton-le-Fylde with information
on history of Inskip Baptist Chapel - ref. BIN 8/7
- date: n.d [1916/1917]
Assessment Cause Papers
FILE - Woodplumpton: Robert
Butterworth, curate v. John Cunliffe etc - ref. ARR
13/1/18 - date: 1722-1723
[from Scope and Content] Woodplumpton:
Robert Butterworth, curate v. John Cunliffe, John Lund, Grace Baine and Thomas
Billington for non-payment of assessments, 1722-1723
FILE - Thomas Warner, joiner v. John
Billington of Primrose Hill, labourer - ref. DDX
28/249/13 - date: 15 Aug. 1793
Properties in divers townships
FILE [no title] - ref. DDB
13/31 - date: 5 Mar. 1699/1700
[from Scope and Content] Lease
for a year at peppercorn rent: Richard Spencer of Preston, esq. and Sidney his
wife, widow of Thomas Hesketh of Rufforth, esq to Thomas Winckley of Preston,
gent. -- capital messuage late in tenure of Richard Farington, gent., decd. and
now of William Billington, yeoman, with closes called
the Intack, Maiden Croft, Litle Forlong, Town Field, Long Hey, Litle Hey, Black
Earth, Great Field, Marle Field and Wood, Hill or Wood Meadow and Wood, Coppy,
Kilne Croft, Wall Banck and Wood, Great Forlong, West Croft, Litle and Great
Kill Butts, Ox Hey and Lane, Litle and Great Fishwick Bancks, 2 Crooked Ridings,
Broom Banck and Wood, Hillock and Ash Orchard, in RIBLETON, FULLWOOD and
FISHWICK (90ac); also cottage in Ribbleton late in tenure of Henry Cooper and
now of William Cooper, with close called the Moor Intack (2ac); also close in
LONGTON late in tenure of Alice Wilding and now of one Wiggans her husband
(6ac½ac) --
CHIPPING
FILE [no title] - ref. DDE
22 - date: 21/22 Jan. 1768
[from Scope and Content] Lease
and Release: for £20: to George Heys and his wife Ann and 5/- to James Cottam by
John Walmesley: (i) G.H. of Rishton, tailor, & his wife A.H., (ii) J.C. of
Rishton cotton-weaver, (father of A.H.) and (iii) J.W. of Chipping yeoman: --
eighth part of moiety as DDE 19 --: recites previous descent of property. Witn.
Jas. Billington, T.P. Haighton
Broughton Chapel
FILE - Bond: Sir Henry Hoghton to John
Billington of Alston with Hothersall yeoman -- for
payment of 12/- per year to the curate of Longridge Chapel for administering the
sacrament on Good Fridays - ref. DDHO 299 - date:
(Copy) Jan, 1792
Correspondence - ref. PR5033/4
Letter books
FILE - Copy deed of appointment and
declaration in connection with Goosnargh Village Hall - ref. PR5033/4/5
- date: 1962 2 Apr
[from Scope and Content] 1
William Billington of Whittingham Lane, Goosnargh,
Thomas Holland of 25 Charnock Avenue, Penwortham, Thomas Wilkinson of Gray Rigg,
GoosnarghFILE - Conveyance: for £135: (i) James
Cottam of Greaves Town in Lea, yeoman, (ii) John Blacow of Mowbrick, yeoman,
William Billington of Kirkham, pavior, and John
Gradwell of Preston, yeoman, (iii) James Brown of Woodplumpton, yeoman, and (iv)
William Cunliffe of Salwick, yeoman -- close called Dargley Croft (1ac) in
Catforth in Woodplumpton, in the tenure of Joseph Dewhurst -- Seals - ref. DDX/50/1
- date: 10 Feb. 1807
Building Byelaw Deposited Plans
- ref. RDG 19 GARSTANG
RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL
Plans (13 boxes) numbered annually
FILE [no title] - ref. RDG
19/1/1914/51a - date: 1914
Scorton, Mr Billington: wood stable,
etc
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