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Includes small collections of legal documents and papers relating to properties and families connected to York.

Documents include:
Property records
Apprenticeship indentures
Wills and probate records
Marriage documents
Business records

File of legal papers relating 31 Water End, Clifton, previously lodged with the Land Registry, and acquired by the new owner on purchase of the property in 1994.

File includes abstracts of title, conveyances, mortgages, and documents from a land registry search, along with a covering letter, and a numbered list of documents. Documents 13-15 from the list of documents are not included in the deposit.

Also includes an abstract of title to 10 Moorgarth Avenue, Mount Vale Drive in the City of York.

Includes:
A solicitors letters concerning the return of legal documents from the land registry
List of documents sent to the land registry (1926-1994) (2 copies)
Land registry entry for 31 Water Lane, Clifton, including a plan of the property

Assent from the executor of Mrs Evelyn Dodgshun, deceased, with a deed of gift. Document number 9 on the 1994 land registry list.

Document number 10 on the 1994 land registry list.

Document number 11 on the 1994 land registry list.

Transfer of property in consideration of the sum of £91,500. Document number 12 on the 1994 land registry list.

Includes details of property ownership from 1933, with a site plan.

Includes details of property ownership from 1850. Document number 1 on the 1994 land registry list.

Conveyance from the trustees and treasurer of the York Penitentiary Society, in consideration of the sum of £170. Document number 2 on the 1994 land registry list.

Conveyance in consideration of the sum of £3800. Document number 3 on the 1994 land registry list.

Includes a photostat copy of the document, labelled 2a.

Includes details of property ownership since 1919, with a copy of a site plan. Document number 4 on the 1994 land registry list.

Mortgage to the National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited of the sum of £3300. Document number 5 on the 1994 land registry list.

Includes a photostat copy of the document, labelled 5a.

Document number 6 on the 1994 land registry list.

Includes a photostat copy of the document, labelled 6a.

Includes details of a conveyance from 1961. Document number 7 on the 1994 land registry list.

Conveyance in consideration of the sum of £8750. Document number 8 on the 1994 land registry list.

File of legal papers showing ownership of property at 15 and 16 Scarborough Terrace, York.

Documents created at the sale of the property in 2001. Includes:
Sales particulars for the property, included a colour photographic print
HM Land Register certificate of official search, with a property plan
Photocopy of a street plan from 1898 showing Scarborough Terrace, Newborough Street, and Pickering Terrace with the names of the owners/occupiers. This is copy of archive reference Y/PPT/6/3/888.
Epitome of Title relating to 16 Scarborough Terrace
List of documents lodged with the land registry relating to the property
Certificate of a search relating to Land Charges Act
Signed transfer of title
Land Register entry for the property, 10 July 2001, showing restrictive covenants attached

Conveyance dated 1 November 1947, with a typed memorandum showing that by a conveyance dated 31 October 1973, the ownership of property known as 15 Scarborough Terrace was transferred.

Mortgage to the Leeds Permanent Building Society.

Letter addressed to 16 Scarborough Terrace, York, enclosing deeds to the property previously mortgaged.

Title in the name of Messrs. Charles Hornsey, Thomas Pickering, and John Penrose, including details of property ownership from 1848.

Conveyance from Messrs Charles Hornsey, Thomas Pickering, John Penrose, and Charles Bedford to Mr William Hackwell. Includes a site plan.

Mortgage from Mr. William Hackwell to Messrs. Henry Newton and George Brown.

Transfer of Mortgage later added to the same document. Transfer from Messrs Henry Newton and George Brown to Mr James Scawin.

Conveyance from Mr James Scawin to Mr William Hackwell

Title in the name of Mr William Hackwell. Includes details of property ownership from 1878, and a colour property ground plan.

Conveyance from Mr William Hackwell to Mr William Barker Jackson.

Mortgage from Mr. William Barber Jackson to Mrs Elizabeth Syme and Mr Frederick Crombie dated 4 May 1903; Transfer of Mortgage dated 15 May 1926; and notice of mortgage repayment dated 5 November 1928.

Incudes details of property ownership from 1903, and details of the transfer of ownership of the property after the death of William Barber Jackson in 1938.

Property deeds relating to the ownership of land and property in Clementhorpe, east of Bishopthorpe Road.

Conveyance from Robert Vail [Robert Vale] of Clementhorpe in the suburbs of the City of York, Porter, and his wife Jane Vail, to Thomas Thompson of the City of York, Miller, and his wife Ann Thompson, in consideration of the sum of £55. Jane Vail is described as the widow of John Hall, a previous owner of the property.

Conveyance from Thomas Thompson of the City of York, Miller, to William Tate, of Clementhorpe without Skeldergate Postern in the City of York, Yeoman. Includes lease (bargain and sale) in consideration of the sum of 5s for one year, dated 24th March 1763, and release (conveyance) in consideration of the sum of £70. The property is said to have previously been in the occupation of John Hall, and of Robert Vail and his wife Jane.

Conveyance from members of the Darling family collectively, including Philip Darling, to John Hall. The deeds sets out the details of how various individuals inherited the property through the wills of William Tate [William Taite] and Ann Tate, now deceased.

Conveyance from Robert Smith of Clementhorpe, Yeoman, and Christopher Newstead of the City of York, Gentleman (trustee for the said Robert Smith) to Lumley Kettlewell of the City of York, Gentleman. Includes lease (bargain and sale) in consideration of the sum of 5s, dated 10th June 1802, and release (conveyance) in consideration of the sum of £235.

The property is said to have previously been in the possession of John Hall, blacksmith/baker, afterwards of Robert Vail since of Mary Relph and John Taite, late of the said Mary Relph and Sarah Taite and now of the said Sarah Taite and John Harrison. The property includes a dwelling house, garden and appurtenances in Clementhorpe adjoining the site of the late dissolved nunnery of Clementhorpe towards the south, and on a common lane leading to the River Ouse towards the north, as well as new houses built on the property by Robert Smith.

Conveyance from Lumley Kettlewell of Clementhorpe, Gentleman, to Charles Fothergill of the City of York, Gentleman, in consideration of the sum of £250. Property includes all those houses or dwelling houses lately built in Clementhorpe by Robert Smith, together with outbuildings. The property in bounded to the south by the wall of the dissolved nunnery, to the north by a common lane leading to the River Ouse, to the east by a house belonging to Edward Turpin, ship carpenter, and to the west by a tenement of the said Lumley Kettlewell.

Conveyance from Charles Fothergill late of the City of York, Gentleman, to Robert Triffit, late of Stillingfleet, farmer, but now of the City of York, publican, for the sum of £121. The property in bounded to the south by the wall of the dissolved nunnery, to the north by a common lane leading to the River Ouse, to the east by a house belonging to Edward Turpin, ship carpenter, and to the west by a lane leading from York to Bishopsthorpe, with gardens and land behind the same.

One title deed.

Transfer of ownership of the property from Frances Whittaker, widow, to John Whittaker, yeoman under bond and conditions for John Whittaker to provide for the support and maintenance of Frances Whittaker during her life time.

Writing on the reverse of the deed shows that 'A memorial of the within written deed was registered at Beverley the Twenty second day of June seventeen hundred and seventy eight at three in the afternoon in book AY page 553 and number 941'.