Sharpe & Sons, Railway Contractors (1860 - 1883)

City of Westminster Archives Centre
BRA1739 / WBA890 
Stephen Tonge, 13th Sept. 2002

1. Articles of Agreement 4th April 1867, between Robert Sharpe of Courtlands in the parish of East Grinstead in the County of Sussex, Esquire and Lewis Howard of Gresham House, Old Broad Street, London. Payment of debts.

   1. "Estate of William John Sharpe Esquire known as Beullah Spa Villa, Norwood in the county of Surrey (and which said mortgage was created by an indenture dated the 29th October 1862 made between the said William John Sharpe and Ellen Brogden)"

2. Articles of Agreement 4th April 1867, between Charles James Sharpe of Victoria Street, Westminster, Contractor, and Lewis Howard. Payment of debts.

3. Indenture 7th September 1873. Paul Wallace Sharpe and William John Sharpe to W. A. Gregory of Leatherhead.

1. Sharpe owed Gregory £5,300

2. "Robert Sharpe the elder, now deceased"

3. "Robert Sharpe the elder died on the twenty fifth day of July 1868, having duly made his will dated the 23rd September 1864

4. PWS & WJS owed a further £2,150

5. Gregory accepted 350 shares in the Ebensee Ischl Steg Railway of Austria at the aggregate nominal value of 70,000 florins.

4. Various Directors Reports, shares related papers and printed documents relating to Falmouth Docks 1874-86. Contains the address of Lewis Howard

5. Requisitions on Title: Bunn to Sharpe. Beulah Spa Villa, Norwood. 29th September 1862. Abstracts of legal papers relating to previous owners and conveyance.

6. As above. 8th October 1862

7. As above. 15th October 1862

8. Various balance statements

9. Letter from Smith Payne & Smith. 29th October 1862. Letter to W. J. Sharpe stating that "you have no claim or charge whatever on the Bunns Beulah Spa Villa Estate sold by him to you"

10. Letter to Mrs. Brogden. 16th Jan 1867. See copy.

11. Certificate W. J. Sharpe & Chas. Tahourdin. 9th July 1866. Beulah Spa Estate

12. Indenture. Beulah Spa Estate. Charles Tahourdin, William John Sharpe and Lewis Howard. Lewis Howard pays £3000 to CT on behalf of WJS and lends a further £2000.

13. Letter on behalf of Baron de Maua, 20th July 1886. Requested that legal documents be ready for Saturday.

14. Indenture and mortgage papers for Beulah Spa Estate. William John Sharpe and Charles Tahourdin

1. "Beulah Spa Villa with the Coachhouse Stables and Out Buildings, pleasure grounds garden, shrubbery, ornamental water paddocks and lands thereto belonging"

15. Book of shares in Ebensee-Ischl-Steger Eisenbahn, 1873

16. Letter to the SPRC, 1864. Sum of £100,000 advanced to RS&S. See copy.

17. Memordandum of agreement. Robert Sharpe & Sons and Baron de Maua. Relating to Beulah Spa Estate

18. Letter from solicitors of William Anthony Gregory to Messrs. Tweedy, Bankers, Truro, 27th June 1860. Relating to earlier indenture with the Sharpe family

19. Memorandum of contract of services. 9th December 1867. William A. Gregory and the Baron de Maua.

20. Indenture of assignments and security: 25th June 1867, Robert Sharpe the elder and Paul Wallace Sharpe and W. A. Gregory

21. Agreement between The Baron de Maua and Robert Sharpe & Sons. 8th February 1860. SPR

22. As above

23. Letter from Tahourdins & Hargreaves to Robert Sharpe & Sons and de Maua 11th July 1881.

1. Paul Wallace Sharpe was in Brazil when document was signed on 23rd January 1864

24. Contract. 8th February 1860. Messrs. Sharpe & The San Paulo Brazilian Railway Company. Large document

25. Letter. Assignment by C. J. Sharpe to Mr. J. Cooper of a debt referred to in an indenture dated 30th September 1871.

26. Assignment in trust. 12th April 1872. Messrs. Robert Sharpe & Sons to Baron de Maua

27. Notice of Assignment. 15th April 1872. Messrs. Sharpe & San Paulo Railway

28. Letter from Lewis Howard's solicitors. 25th Oct. 1884. Refers to indenture of 25th Oct. 1884.

29. Notice of retraction on notice of change on San Paulo retention. Sharpe & Sons and Baron de Maua. March 1864

30. Appointment of new trustee of 1871 indentures. 25th October 1884. Lewis Howard and Robinson.

31. Agreement for the compromise of actions. 30th August 1883. The Ashby Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd, Lewis Howard and others.

1. "...Irienio Evangelista de Louza, Viscount de Maua of the Empire of Brazil and of Paul Wallace Sharpe of 5 Salters Hall Court, Cannon Street in the City of London, and William John Sharpe"

2. "who were then carrying on business as 'Robert Sharpe and Sons'"

32. Supplemental contract 8th April 1864. Messrs. Sharpe & SPR

33. Security. Mess. Sharpe & Sons to Baron de Maua. 23rd January 1864

34. Deeds of Arrangement by way of compromise and assignment in trust. Monies still owed to de Maua. Dated 30th September 1871. Robert Sharpe & Sons to Baron de Maua

1. There is a letter pinned to this document, which reads as follows: