weller charlotte 1838

Deeds and papers relating to Ryde House, Ripley. The property is first described as a freehold messuage and 60r lying between Ripley Green to the north and the King's Highway to the south and east. The name Ryde House first appears in 1841, when John Cooke was the owner. In 1727 Thomas Lord Onslow sold the property to Edward Stevens who mortgaged it to Robert Stevens by lease for 1000 years. In 1754 Edward Stevens' son Edward Stevens sold it to Phillip Daw and in 1774 Daw sold to John Tice of Woking (died 1780, copy of will), who pulled down the original house, divided into two, and built a new house. Tice's executor William Smyth sold to James George Russell in 1786 and he sold to Richard Helyer in 1799. Helyer sold to William Pierrepont, Captain, RN, in 1802 who sold to Thomas Souter in 1804. Souter sold to Charles Foster in 1805 and in 1827 Foster and his mortgagees sold to Charlotte «Weller». She put the property up for sale in 1838 (sale particulars, -/30) and it was purchased by John Cooke. He leased it to Edward Eager in 1841 and to the Rev Henry Albany Bowles in 1844 (inventories of fixtures and fittings). Under Cooke's will of 1860, proved 1861, it descended to his daughter Elizabeth Susan Cooke. The earliest deed (-/1) is a 1726 assignment of a lease of a seemingly different property, also at Ripley Green, originally leased by Francis Viscount Mountaigne to Henry Harrison in 1696 and assigned by Robert Harrison to Edward Stevens.