| Description | Title deeds including abstracts of title, leases, conveyances, agreements, schedules, and associated papers relating largely to the affairs of three clients of Benbow, Tucker and Saltwell: Edward Bagnall Dimmack, John Thompson and Henry John Marten. Listed below, in approximate chronological order, are the different partnerships/businesses with which they were involved whose affairs are represented in the papers.
- Pontypool Iron Co [formerly the Pontypool Iron and Tin Works], Panteague, Monmouthshire. Partners: Edward Bagnall Dimmack, John Thompson, Joseph Firmstone, and John Kenyon Blackwell. Partnership active during the 1850s. Papers include copy and draft leases for lands, mines and properties leased in 1852 from Capel Hanbury Leigh, of Pontypool Park, Monmouthshire, copy mortgages, releases, minutes of agreement, articles of agreement, deeds of indemnity and deeds of dissolution of the partnership between Dimmack, Thompson and Firmstone in 1856, and deeds relating to the sale of the company to Abraham Darby, Thomas Brown, Joseph Robinson, and Frederick Levick in 1857.
- Parkfield Coal and Iron Works Co, Sedgley, Staffordshire. Partners: Dimmack and Henry John Marten. Partnership active during the 1850s-1860s. Papers relate to matters including the purchase of additional mines, works and lands including the Millfield Iron Works, the financial status of the company, and its sale to Thomas Rose and J. R. Whitehead in 1865. Papers include abstracts of title of the Parkfield Coal and Iron Works, copy conveyances and assignments, prospectus and proofs, copy settlement on the marriage of Marten and Frances Ann Dimmack [daughter of Edward Bagnall Dimmack], 1854, and draft agreements for securing the repayment of advances, 1854-1865.
- Coalbrook Vale Iron Works [Blaenau Gwent]. Partners: Dimmack and Thompson. Partnership active during the 1850s and 1860s. Papers include agreements, 1854-1865.
- Bradley Iron Works, nr Bilston, Stafford. Partners: Edward Bagnall Dimmack and John Thompson. Partnership active during the [1850s-1860s].
- Somerford Colliery, Willenhall, Stafford. Partners/shareholders: Edward Bagnall Dimmack, John Thompson and Henry John Marten. Partnership active during the 1850s and 1860s. Papers include conveyance, copy mortgage, and memorandum of agreement, 1864-1868.
- South Staffordshire Coal and Iron Co. Managing Director: Henry John Marten. Papers include prospectus, [1860s].
-Ebbw Vale [Coal] Co. Shareholder: Dimmack.
In addition to title deeds relating to the specific companies with which Benbow's clients were involved, there are also papers relating to associated legal affairs of the individual clients. These include papers relating to the bankruptcy of John Thompson, and his bill of complaint issued against George Turner, Edward Bagnall Dimmack, and Jeremiah Dimmack [formerly in partnership as, or employed in, the Bradley Iron Works] to retrieve outstanding monies due from the Bradley Iron Works on the dissolution of Thompson's partnership with Edward Bagnall Dimmack in 1856. In addition there are draft authorities, copy mortgages, draft creditors' deeds, and deeds of assignment.
Note that there are several drafts and multiple copies of the same document. |