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Excerpt from Some Records of an Old House
About 80 acres lying in West Bromwich in a leet or common field there called Linedon (lyndon) The family also owned property in other parts of West Bromwich. By an indenture, dated February sth, 1594, William Ske?'ington, of Fisherwick, and Elizabeth his wife, conveyed to Francis Symcock, of West Bromwich land called Barditch lying between the land of George Birch, deceased, and the land of William Whorwood, Esquire, and the ancient way leading from Wolver hampton towards Birmingham, and the ancient way leading from West Bromwich to Smethwick. This property was conveyed on the 24th March, 1670, by the above-mentioned John Simcox, the elder, to George Jesson. The same deed conveyed property at Wiggmorefield, also in West Bromwich. The Harborne branch of the family, who descend from George Simcox, the younger son of the first William of Camp Hill, and who became Lords of the Manor of Harborne in 1805, held property at Lyndon until the year 1844. My branch retained some parts of their possessions in Linefield (lyndon) - (a lease of various pieces of land there having been granted, in 1772, by Sarah Simcox, therein described as of West Bromwich, Widow, and her son John, therein described as of Bordesley, Gentleman) - down to the time of my grandfather, who took them under his father's will, but.
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