412 Notes on Akeld and Coupland. By M. Culley. 



Esq., Benjamin G-ricoe of Berwick, gent., Pereival Clennell 

 of West-Lilburn, Esq., Patrick Hepburn of Norharn Demense, 

 gent., and Mary Ord, executed a Deed, by which, an annual 

 rent charge of £200 out of Akeld was settled, on the marriage of 

 Walter Kettilby with Mary, daughter of William Ord, of 

 Sandybank, Co. Durham, Esq. 1 



A division of the " intermixed lands" of Sir Chaloner Ogle, 

 and Samuel Kettilby, Esq., at Akeld, took place in 1741. 2 The 

 persons appointed to carry out the division were William Potter 

 of Hawkwell, Esq., and Major Allgood of Branton. This 

 division was confirmed by Newton Ogle of Kirkley, and Walter 

 Kettilby of Akeld, by their Deed bearing date 7 and 8 Sept., 

 1767; and Sir Walter Blackett of Wallington, Bart., was 

 appointed trustee of the divided lands on behalf of both 

 parties. 3 



The same year — 1707 — the lordship of Akeld changed hands 

 again, for Walter Kettilby, Esq., and Maiy his wife "having no 

 issue of their own two bodies living " conveyed the whole Manor 

 and Lordship, etc., of Akeld to George Sparrow, (late called 

 Barkas) of Washington, Co. Durham, Esq., for £11,000. Ex- 

 empted from the sale were a fee-farm rent of Is. 4d. ; also a 

 lease to George Davison for 21 years from 1766, at £350 a year ; 

 and " such stints as Messrs Shanks and Grey had on the hilly 

 pasture grounds." J 



In the meantime the St Paul family were executing Deeds of 

 Mortgage on their newly acquired estate at Coupland. One deed 

 bears date 1763, there is another of the following year ; and two 

 others of 1768 and 177 1 ; 5 and in 1777 they disposed of the estate 

 by sale to Samuel Phipps, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, London. This 

 estate included " all the Town, Village, etc., of Coupland . . 

 and the Mill called Coupland Mill," also the lands of South- 

 Coupland, more generally known as Yeavering. The Coupland 

 Castle estate, which was in the possession of the Ogles, formed 

 quite a distinct and separate property. 



Samuel Phipps, by his will dated 18 Sep. 1789, devised all his 

 estates in Northumberland to the use of his kinsman, Francis 

 Sitwell, Esq., nephew of William Sitwell of Renshaw, Esq., 6 in 

 Derbyshire. 



We now come to the last conveyance of the Manor of Akeld — 



1 Akeld Title Deeds. 2 Akeld Title Deeds. 3 Akeld Title Deeds. 

 i Akeld Title Deeds. 5 Coupland Title Deeds. 6 Coupland Title Deeds. 



