Collection of documents relating to numbers 9 and 11 East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent. Dates ranging 1839-1959. 1: Indenture between Walter Strouts and Henry Hooker about No's 9 and 11 East Street, Sittingbourne. £545 to Walter Strouts from Henry Hooker. 2: Copy of letter (typed) from Emmerson, Brown and Brown Solicitors to Kenneth Redfern and Co. About lease of property 11 East Street, Sittingbourne. 3: Indenture/Mortgage no. 9 and 11 East Street Sittingbourne. Henry Hooker and Henry Pell. Henry Pell paid Henry Hooker £200 on 6th March 1886, and £250 on 8th June 1883. 4: Reconveyance on no. 9 and 11 East Street, Sittingbourne. Henry Pell ('of Oakfield House') to Henry Hooker ('Leather Merchant'). 5: Henry Hooker to William James Harris, mortgage to secure £2100 and interest. Stamped with Land Registry Middlesex Deeds Department. Mentions insurance (of at least £700) against damages by fire. Also refers to Section 18 of the Conveyance and Law of Property Act 1881. Signed and sealed by Henry Hooker in the Prescence of his solicitor, Charles R Harris. 6: Letter from the solicitors of Alfred Sage to William James Harris, concerning the indenture dated 14th December 1895 between Henry Hooker and Alfred Sage, and the sum of £350 and interest. 7: Second mortgage to secure £350 and interest, document sent from Henry Hooker to Alfred Sage. The same document also contains and indenture between Alfred Sage and Mrs Elizabeth Anne Hooker dated 2nd September 1911, and the transfer of a mortgage from Alfred Sage to Elizabeth Anne Hooker on 25th September 1911. On reverse of document is a note acknowledging receiving £350 signed Elizabeth Anne Hooker and dated 24th December 1919. 8: Statutory declaration of Henry Payne about the deceased Henry Hooker. Written in first person of Henry Payne ('of Trotts Hall Sittingbourne', a 'banker') stating he's well acquainted with deceased and family for fifty years. States Henry Hooker (deceased) occupation as 'Currier ond Leather Dresser'. Typed, formatted as a numbered list. States: Henry Hooker married Jane Beecher on 3rd September 1855 in Yalding, Kent. They had two sons '(besides daughters)', Henry Beecher Hooker (born 13th July 1866, died 8th October 1897) and Mathew Trevan Hooker (born 5th April 1873, 'died a Bachelor' 24th July 1900 - 'Bachelor' twice underlined in pencil, no other annotations). First son, Henry Beecher Hooker married Elizabeth Anne Jessop on 23rd October 1893 in Holy Trinity Church, Maidstone. They had one son Henry Richard Hooker, born 25th September 1894. Jane (Beecher) Hooker died 1st August 1899 (in her husband's lifetime). Henry Hooker died on 12th February 1911 'interstate leaving the said Henry Richard Hooker him surviving his heir-at-law and in gavelkind'. States he's been shown all birth/death/marriage certificates. Signed by Henry Payne, witness signature illegible, but followed with 'A Commissioner for Oaths'. 9: 'conveyance' from the representative of Henry Hooker (deceased) to Henry Richard Hooker. Lists Henry Hooker's estate (including tenants and who he purchased properties from). Also an indenture between Alice Johnson and Richard Henry Hooker about the estate. 10: Indenture between Stephen Masters and John Masters and Stephen Court about a one year lease of land in Sittingbourne. 11: Indenture between Henry Richard Hooker ('motor engineer') and Elizabeth Ann Hooker ('widow'), about mortgage of No's 9 and 11 East Street Sittingbourne (Henry the 'mortgager', Elizabeth the 'mortgagee'), Elizabeth lending Henry £450. 12: Transfer of mortgage from Henry Payne (bank manager) to Sydney Boulding (butcher) and Albert Edward Wood (bricks manufacturer) of No's 82 and 82 High Street and 9 and 11 East Street, Sittingbourne. Henry Richard Hooker referred to as 'the borrower'. References RB/DOC/LT/190/5, RB/DOC/LT/190/10, and an Indenture of Transfer between William James Harris and Henry Payne dated 25th April 1895. Also makes explicit that Alice Johnson was Henry Hooker's daughter. 13: Reconveyance of No's 9 and 11 East Street, Sittingbourne from Sydney Boulding and Albert Edward Wood to Henry Richard Hooker. Mentions RB/DOC/LT/190/5, RB/DOC/LT/190/12, and an Indenture of Transfer between William James Harris and Henry Payne dated 25th April 1895. 1839-1959