DOCUMENTS: The Briggs Deeds

The Briggs Family is connected by marriage to the Taylors and others. They own pieces of land in Hutfall Field and also the Taylor inheritance off the Market Place, Belper. Charles Bridges also built a house just off Green Lane, and inherited a parcel of land in Hutfall called The Orchard (possibly the site of the present Orchard cul-de-sac.)

Each Deed Reference below is a clickable link that takes you to the contents of the manuscript bundle and any conclusions drawn from them.

Bridges-Briggs References in the Strutt Archives (summary)

D3772/T29/1/1-11 Creation dates: 1790-1839

• Cottage with shop, stable, bakehouse and garden in Belper now better known as messuage with garden and other messuage adjoining and blacksmiths shop (in D3772/T29/1/8 said to be on west side of Market Place) - (Bridges alias Briggs- Taylor -Strutt)
• D3772/T29/1/9 Abstract of title (1790-1816) 1833
• Label on bundle is marked Sold to S Kiddy [Formerly Box 29 Bundle No. 356]

29th April 1715 The will of Richard Gratian of Belper, yeoman

Part of a Gratian bundle D3772/T7/3/1-15

A will witnessed by Joseph TAYLOR possibly the father of John Taylor, Mary Gratian's husband
Also by John BRIGGES possibly the father of Charles Brigges, Elizabeth Gratian's husband

Reference: D3772/T8/29/1-9 Creation dates: 1779-1799

• Land in Belper inc Hutfallfield (Bridges - Lane - Strutt)
• Parcel of land formerly in? Three Park, or Yard, or Yate??? [now enclosed] in the Hutfall Field
• Given by the Bridges to the Lane family in trtust for the Sick Club

[NOTE: Humphrey Lane, the beneficiary of this piece of land in Hutfall, was in possession of a similar or same piece of land mentioned in the will of George Spendlove of Shottle.]

Reference: D3772/T29/20/1-33: 1815-1906

Messuage called Beech Lawn with surgery outbuildings, gardens etc, croft adjoining on West side and messuage adjoining Beech Lawn with yard, garden etc, Belper (Evans-Evans-Gunn-Johnston-G H Strutt esq)

Including

• D3772/T29/20/1-3 Piece of land abutting East on Market Street Lane, Belper (Thorpe -Evans) 1815
• D3772/T29/20/4 Land in Hutfall Field, Belper (1 acre) and messuage with nailer's shop built by Richard Bridges on the land (Bridges-Evans) 1822
• D3772/T29/20/5-7 Enfranchisement of property in D3772/T29/20/4 and acre in Hutfall Field said to have descended from Ward-Jackson and Bunting - Evans (in 1816) 1824
• D3772/T29/20/8 Premises described as land purchased from Thorpe (see D3772/T29/20/1-3) with messuage with outbuildings built on it, acre in Hutfall Field and acre in same field with messuage on it (see D3772/T29/20/4-7) 1839
• D3772/T29/20/22 Copy of will of Joseph Finney of Amblecote, Staffordshire late relieving officer (1887, proved 1891)