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A descendant’s comment: Mortgagee certainly means the lender be it bank or private individual.  I presume the fact that the sale was "by order of the Administrator" is the clue to his bankruptcy.  They must have been going very cheap as it also says ""to persons of limited capital they offer an unusual opportunity"  Do you have Jacob Durham's will of 1867?  How much did Charles get from it?   Did he inherit the four pubs that were sold in 1871? And were they on leases then?

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CHARLES JACOB DURHAM (1815-70)

1815 BIRTH

1838 MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

1840 PIGOT’S DIRECTORY

1841 SON’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

1841 CENSUS

1843 SON’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

          AND POST OFFICE DIRECTORY

1847 DAUGHTER’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

1848 POST OFFICE DIRECTORY

1849 SON’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

1851 CENSUS, POST OFFICE DIRECTORY

1858? MELVILLE’S DIRECTORY

1861 DAUGHTER’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

1861 CENSUS

1861 POST OFFICE DIRECTORY

1870 DEATH CERTIFICATE

HATTON GARDEN, LONDON, MIDDX

DEPTFORD, KENT

KINGS ARMS, DEPTFORD

JOINERS ARMS, CAMBERWELL

JOINERS ARMS, CAMBERWELL

JOINERS ARMS, CAMBERWELL

 

JOINERS ARMS, CAMBERWELL

JOINERS ARMS, CAMBERWELL

JOINERS ARMS, CAMBERWELL

JOINERS ARMS, CAMBERWELL

MAN IN THE MOON, GREENWICH

MAN IN THE MOON, GREENWICH

MAN IN THE MOON, GREENWICH

MAN IN THE MOON, GREENWICH

MAN IN THE MOON, GREENWICH

· Charles Jacob doesn’t seem to have left a will – perhaps he died unexpectedly, as he was only 55 – and Letters of Administration (see below) were granted to the firm of John & William Nicholson, Distillers, so perhaps he died in debt - there is a court case (see below) in 1871, brought by  John Edward Meek, a copartner in John & William Nicholson, and there is a notice (see below) from the latter’s solicitors, dated March 1871, addressed to any of Charles Jacob’s creditors – then there is another court case (see below), in 1871, Short title: Nicholson v Knott, where Nicholsons sue the entire family and John Edward Meek

 · The following has been found online: Nicholson’s pubs have a rich historical past, stretching back to an 18th century family of Clerkenwell gin distillers. Two descendants of that family, John and William Nicholson, decided to found ‘their own houses’ offering impeccable hospitality, excellent food and the finest drinks. Over two hundred years later, each of the Nicholson’s pubs still has its own fascinating story and each provides the same exceptional standards of service and fare.  Today Nicholsons are a brand of the Mitchells & Butlers pub chain

· Charles Jacob had land dealings in Lee, Kent in 1867, together with his brother-in-law, William Steward, but ….yyy

LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION 27 FEB 1871

(italics = handwritten parts)

 

ON the 27th day of February 1871, Letters of Administration of all and singular the personal Estate and Effects of Charles Jacob Durham, late of Bear Lane, Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Licensed Victualler, deceased, who died on the 10th day of November 1870, at Bear Lane aforesaid intestate, were granted at the Principal Registry of her Majesty’s Court of Probate to John Edward Meek of No. 195 Saint John Street, Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex, a Copartner in the firm of John and William Nicholson and Company, of the same place, Distillers, the person appointed by the Right Honourable James Plaisted, Baron Penzance, the Judge of Her Majesty’s said Court, under the authority of the xx Section of the Court of Probate Act 1857 to be the Administrator of all and singular the personal Estate and Effects of the said deceased, he having been first sworn duly to administer

 

Effects under £3,000 (approx. £200,000 or £2 million in today’s currency?)

LONDON GAZETTE 3 MAR 1871: CHARLES JACOB DURHAM

(INSOLVENCY MATTERS WERE PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON GAZETTE)

 

CHARLES JACOB DURHAM, deceased

Pursuant to an Act of Parliament 22nd and 23rd Vic., cap. 35, intituled "An Act to further amend the Law of Property, and to relieve Trustees”

NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of Charles Jacob Durham, late of Bear-lane, Greenwich, in the county of Kent, Licensed Victualler, deceased (who died on or about the 10th day of November, 1870, and letters of administration to whose personal estate and effects were on the 27th day of February, 1871, granted to John Edward Meek, a creditor of the said deceased by the Principal Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate), are hereby required to send the particulars, in writing, of such claims or demands and the nature of the securities (if any) held by them for the same, to us the undersigned, Nash, Field, and Layton, of No. 2, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-street, London, E.C., the Solicitors of the said administrator, on or before the 1st day of May, 1871, after which day the said administrator will proceed to distribute the assets of the said Charles Jacob Durham, deceased among the persons entitled thereto, having regard to the claims and demands only of which he shall then have had notice ; and the said administrator will not be liable for the assets of the said Charles Jacob Durham, deceased, so distributed, or any part thereof, to any person or persons whomsoever of whose claims or demands he shall not have had notice at the time of such distribution.—Dated this 1st day of March. 1871.

NASH, FIELD, and LAYTON, No. 2, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-street, London, E.C., Solicitors for the Administrator

COURT CASE 1871

(perhaps the case had been started before Charles Jacob died in 1870 – John Edward Meek was the man who was granted Letters of Administration)

 

Court of Probate and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate...

Testator: Durham, Charles Jacob, Case: Meek v Durham,  Court of Probate and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Principal Probate Registry: Date: 1871*. Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives

1871 COURT CASE LISTED ON NATIONAL ARCHIVES

number: 1871 N25.

Short title: Nicholson v Knott.

Documents: Bill, interrogatories and four answers.

Plaintiffs: William Nicholson, William Graham and James Robert Aldous.

Defendants: Frederick Alphonso Knott, John James Fenn, Ann Frances Durham widow [presumably Charles Jacob’s widow, as his  daughter Ann Fran was not yet a widow], William Jacob Smith Durham, Charles John Durham, Alfred Thomas Durham, Frederick Evan Durham, Walter Herbert Durham (since deceased), James Edward Durham and John Edward Meek.

Covering dates 1871

AUTHOR’s ANALYSIS OF THE DEFENDANTS

· the author imagines this had something to do with Charles Jacob’s estate!

CHILDREN IN ORDER OF BIRTH

MENTIONED AS DEFENDANTS

ELIZABETH ANN

1839-1928

HUSBAND FREDERICK ALPHONSO KNOTT

SARAH JANE

1840-1914

HUSBAND JOHN JAMES FENN

CHARLES WILLIAM I

1841-2

DEAD

WILLIAM JACOB SMITH

1843-94

WILLIAM JACOB SMITH DURHAM

CHARLES JOHN I

1845-95

CHARLES JOHN DURHAM

ANN(E) FRANCES

1847-?

NOT MENTIONED

JAMES EDWARD I

1849-1912

JAMES EDWARD DURHAM

EMMA LOUISA

1851-74

NOT MENTIONED

ALFRED THOMAS

1853-82?

ALFRED THOMAS DURHAM

JANE ANN

1854-1937

NOT MENTIONED

FREDERICK EVAN

1855-1918

FREDERICK EVAN DURHAM (he was not often mentioned in family matters!)

MARY ANN II

1856-1922

NOT MENTIONED

ALICE MATILDA

1858-65

DEAD

WALTER HERBERT I

1859-71

WALTER HERBERT DURHAM (SINCE DECEASED)

HENRIETTA SARAH

1861-1959

NOT MENTIONED

GEORGIN(I)A MORRIS

1862-1935

NOT MENTIONED

· all the sons are listed as defendants, even Walter Herbert who, assuming the case was started in 1870 (Charles Jacob’s death) , would only have been 11!

· only the (husbands of the) first two daughters are listed – perhaps for age reasons, as all the others would all have been 23 or less in 1870 – a correspondent says it is due to the lower standing of women in those days

· the plaintiff William Nicholson is presumably the distiller, and the other two plaintiffs his partners (William Graham became partner 1860, John Edward Meek and James Robert Aldous 1867) – unfortunately the names are too common to find in the 1871 census

· apparently Nicholsons loaned out money to many publicans and there are records of these loans and associated deeds – they were probably trying to get their money back!

· John Edward Meek – the author thought at first he was something to do with the family, but sees that he is, or was, a copartner in John & William Nicholson, to whom the letters of administration were granted in February 1871 – for some reason he found himself a defendant together with the family!

(originally written 25 September 2009)

PAGE UPDATED 16 JANUARY 2013

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