Constitutional and legal records of Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1703-1991, comprising 'Memoranda and Articles of Association', 1914; annotated 1936; 1939; Constitution and Rules of the Hospital, 1908 and 1924 editions; register of seals, 1952-1960; Miscellaneous legal correspondence, 1930-1932; copy letters to the Hospital’s and other lawyers regarding the revision of Articles of Association; Peter Pan copyright agreements with the Daniel Mayer Co., and George Bell Ltd.; administration of legacies to the Hospital; administration of Hospital property and tenancies, Guilford Street, London. Deeds of Hospital properties in and around Great Ormond Street,1703-1991

Collection of conveyances and other legal papers received from the British Records Association. Please note that cataloguing is still underway in some sections of this catalogue.

Q/UL/A1 Saint John's Street, Saint Sepulchre, London 1628- 1752;
Q/UL/A2 The Kynaston (Southouse) family 1656- 1835;
Q/UL/A3 Crane Court, Fleet Street, London 1667-1734;
Q/UL/A4 Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch 1685-1725;
Q/UL/A5 Hedge Lane, Saint Martins in the fields 1690-1802;
Q/UL/A6 Parish of Saint George's, Hanover Square (Grosvenor Street section) 1722-1883;
Q/UL/A7 Parish of Saint George's, Hanover Square (Hereford Street section) 1777-1883;

Q/UL/C1 Leases, wills etc. 1663-1887;
Q/UL/C2 Leases, wills etc 1771-1789;
Q/UL/C3 Leases, wills etc. 1790-1795;
Q/UL/C4 Leases, wills etc 1795-1800;
Q/UL/C5 Leases, wills etc 1801-1908;
Q/UL/C6 Attwood family with independent London and Lincoln records 1673-1840;
Q/UL/C7 Hammond and Douglas 1674-1821;
Q/UL/C8 The Peache Family 1820-1893;
Q/UL/C9 Miscellaneous documents 1843-1913;

Q/UL/D1 Deeds 1606-1835;
Q/UL/D2 The James Family 1671-1857;
Q/UL/D3 Deeds 1229-1804;
Q/UL/D4 Will 1882;
Q/UL/D5 Defeasance and Lease 1645- 1676;
Q/UL/D6 Property records 1601-1873;
Q/UL/D7 Property records 1665- 1865;

Q/UL/E1 The Rayley Family 1604-1844;

Q/UL/F1 Clapham in relation to the Atkins family 1631-1776;
Q/UL/F2 Documents re Whitbread's, the brewing family 1695-1855;
Q/UL/F3 Whitbread (the brewing family) deeds 1803-1855;
Q/UL/F4 Samuel Whitbread (the brewing family) 1734-1840;
Q/UL/F5 The manor of Canlowes or Cantlers 1714-1769;
Q/UL/F6 The Family of Robert Pratt 1739-1864;
Q/UL/F7 Margaret Street and Oxford Road (Oxford Street) 1739-1825;
Q/UL/F8 Philip lane, St. Alphage (St Mary Aldermanbury) 1745-1831;
Q/UL/F9 The affairs of John Watt 1756-1848;
Q/UL/F10 Documents relating to the Peache family 1759- 1878;
Q/UL/F11 Peache family property records 1841-1878;
Q/UL/F12 The Maynard family, including Spencer road, Clapham 1779-1861;
Q/UL/F13 Parish of St Marylebone (various) 1794-1878;
Q/UL/F14 Grosvenor Place (records no longer in collection) 1801-1875;
Q/UL/F15 Thomas Hasker 1805- 1824;
Q/UL/F16 Eastcheap 1810-1833;
Q/UL/F17 Marquis of Headfort 1811-1819;
Q/UL/F18 St. Giles's, Camberwell and district 1812-1863;
Q/UL/F19 The affairs of John Robertson Bell and WM Wilkinson 1816-1820;

Q/UL/G1 West Smithfield 1818-1862;
Q/UL/G2 Clapton and surrounding area 1820-1829;
Q/UL/G3 Stepney 1824-1867;
Q/UL/G4 Anti-Gallican and Star 1838-1856;
Q/UL/G5 Cheapside 1836-1877;
Q/UL/G6 John Britten 1840-1878;
Q/UL/G7 The Hodgkinson 1843-1866;
Q/UL/G8 Southwark 1851-1887;
Q/UL/G9 The Parish of Lewisham 1854-1890;
Q/UL/G10 Messrs. Wilson and successors, Cheapside (File no longer in collection) 1854-1858;
Q/UL/G11 Rotherhithe 1855-1861;
Q/UL/G12 Miscellaneous documents 1693-1738;
Q/UL/G13 Miscellaneous documents 1752-1827;
Q/UL/G14 Miscellaneous documents 1777-1799;
Q/UL/G15 Miscellaneous documents 1801-1841;
Q/UL/G16 Miscellaneous documents 1820-1836;
Q/UL/G17 Miscellaneous documents 1836-1852;
Q/UL/G18 Miscellaneous documents 1846-1862;
Q/UL/G19 Miscellaneous documents 1852-1867;
Q/UL/G20 Miscellaneous documents 1856-1865;
Q/UL/G21 Miscellaneous documents 1866-1885;

Q/UL/H1 Deeds 1667- 1924;

Q/UL/J1 Miscellaneous deeds 1714-1767;
Q/UL/J2 Miscellaneous deeds 1772- 1779;
Q/UL/J3 Miscellaneous deeds 1780-1789;
Q/UL/J4 Miscellaneous deeds 1790-1799;
Q/UL/J5 Miscellaneous deeds 1800-1809;
Q/UL/J6 Miscellaneous deeds 1810-1819;
Q/UL/J7 Miscellaneous deeds 1820- 1829;
Q/UL/J8 Miscellaneous deeds 1824-1845;
Q/UL/J9 Miscellaneous deeds 1830-1853;
Q/UL/J10 Miscellaneous deeds 1837-1839;
Q/UL/J11 Miscellaneous deeds 1840- 1861;
Q/UL/J12 Miscellaneous deeds 1844- 1849;
Q/UL/J13 Miscellaneous deeds 1850-1859;
Q/UL/J14 Miscellaneous deeds 1860-1879;
Q/UL/J15 Miscellaneous deeds 1870-1885;
Q/UL/J16 Miscellaneous deeds 1880-1919;

Q/UL/K1 Leases, Deeds and Grants 1710- 1900;

Q/UL/L1 Assignments, Convenience, Deeds and Leases 1667-1894;

Q/UL/M1 Bargain Sales, Leases, Deeds and other property records 1630-1866;

Q/UL/N1/1-2 Bread St, Nicholas Olaf 1600-1605;
Q/UL/N1/3-13 The Hat and Feather, Birchin Lane, St. Michaels 1670-1748;
Q/UL/N1/14-17 1 Birchin Lane 1845-1859;
Q/UL/N1/18-27 Upper Fuzzy Field, St. Georges, Hanover Square 1732-1804;
Q/UL/N1/28-29 18 Laurence Pountney Lane 1797- 1803;
Q/UL/N1/30-36 20 Adam St., Adelphi 1811-1865;
Q/UL/N1/37- 43 21 Grosvenor St. 1815-1864;
Q/UL/N1/44-47 Trafalgar House, Walham Green 1854-1871;
Q/UL/N1/48-63 Shepherds Bush, Hammersmith 1869-1869;
Q/UL/N1/64-65 Mortgages from Clara Elizabeth, Albert and Rosina Pitter 1891-1891;
Q/UL/N1/66-88 Miscellaneous documents 1610-1893;
Q/UL/N1/89-90 Miscellaneous documents 1623-1735;
Q/UL/N1/90-202 Indenture of apprenticeship and other documents 1750-1879;

Q/UL/O1 The Sebright Collection 1605-1777.

Letter from Thomas A Cook of Newcastle upon Tyne to H B Jordan, Esq of the Alkali Works, Bristol, 8 Dec 1845. Acknowledging Jordan's letter of 4 Dec 1845. Discussing at length the relative efficiency of stone stills [for manufacturing alkalis] used by Cook [at Walker, Newcastle], by Jordan and by Lee and Co; advising Jordan to visit Lee and Co and copy their stills exactly. Mentioning a Mr Bell's patent, the surprising cheapness of coal, and a meeting of masters [i.e. factory owners] which he was unable to attend. Noting that the returns show an increase of stock.

Autograph, with signature. A note [in Jordan's hand] on page 3 states: 'Ansd. 5 Jany'.

Title deeds of the Cooke family relating to premises owned by them in Charing Cross, Westminster, including bargain and sales; leases; mortgages and probates.

The collection is of family papers belonging to Isabella, Lady Cooper, her children and grandchildren. The papers include documents detailing Lady Cooper's inheritance and assignments of its stock to her husband and children.There is a collection of title deeds for Isleworth Estate, together with leases of various parts of it, tradesmen's vouchers, accounts and particulars of its eventual sale (1855-78). There are also some 17th century title deeds to property in Hidden, Hungerford, as well as later deeds, accounts, rentals and leases.

Among the personal papers are a group concerning the settlement made on the marriage of William Honywood, Lady Cooper's grandson, with Barbara Whyte, and a group of financial papers chiefly on the subject of loans and securities, the same is true of the papers belonging to William's sisters Elizabeth and Caroline. There are also papers dealing with a mortgage he held from Sir John Shelley on property in Maresfield and Fletching in Sussex and as an executor of his grandmother's will he was forced into lengthy proceedings against the Ware family of Cheltenham for a long outstanding mortgage debt owed to Lady Cooper.

The last group of family papers relates to Elizabeth, Lady Cooper's younger surviving daughter, who married, secondly, the Reverend Edward Henry Dawkins. It includes their marriage settlement, and a number of his financial papers. The most interesting part of the whole collection relates to the sugar plantation of Dukinfield Hall, Jamaica (1719-1877). There are title deeds for a particularly tortuous descent, yearly accounts of crops, letters from the Jamaica agents and inventories of stock, which include slaves and give their names, ages, country of origin, occupation and state of health. There is also the will of Robert Dukinfield (1755), the original owner of the plantation, which makes provision for his negre mistress and their children out of his other property. The family name has a variety of spellings, Dukinfield being the one most frequently applied to the estate, although the main branch of the family comes from Duckenfield, Chester.

There are also a few papers concerned with three plantations on the Island of Grenada, which Lady Cooper also inherited (1773-1867).

Papers, 1840-1862, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title, a mortgage and associated correspondence for Number 27 Wolsey Terrace, Kentish Town, and abstract of title of Brentford Union Board of Guardians to parish workhouse and adjoining land in Twickenham.

This collection comprises records of the William Cotton Estate (later the Bow Common Estate) and documents the acquisition and running of the Cotton estate from [1714]- 1936.. The records include marriage settlements, trustee appointments, wills and probates, legal case papers, administrative papers for the Limehouse estate, papers relating to property transactions, registers of properties, plans and maps, catalogue of wines for auction and register of leases. Some of the material concerns the Bow Common Estate Company Ltd.

The archive consists of Minutes of the Executive Committee (1952-1959, 1969) and Annual General Meeting (1957-1964, 1967), Chairperson's reports (1953, 1956-9), papers related to the formation of the Council of Married Women, correspondence files including papers and press cuttings (1944-1970), Bills, Acts and Parliamentary file (1956-1971) and file of evidence to the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce (1952-1956), financial papers (1961-1969) and publications including the Bulletin.

Sales records of Courage and Company Limited, including Sales Committee minutes; trading figures; trade books; records of supplies; prices and charges; records of beer bought and sold; records of beer recieved; purchase and adjustment account papers; sales summaries; delivery records; licences, agreements and contracts.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including Group Sales Committee papers; correspondence and papers regarding complimentary drinks; sales ledger transfer journals; registers of trademarks for UK and overseas products.

Records of the Court of Husting, 1100-1990, including deeds and wills; Husting books containing records of proceedings; material relating to Pleas of Land including court rolls and writs of right patent and proceedings; material relating to Common Pleas including court rolls, writs and proceedings; charters relating to the Court and offprints of articles about the Court of Husting.

Records of the Court of Judicature, or 'Fire Court', City of London, 1666-1673, including fire decrees (judgements of the court) and other records of court proceedings.

Records of the Court of Requests, City of London, 1595-1853, including committee reports; petitions; regulations; appointment of Commissioners; accounts ledgers; cash books; record of fees; summons books; warrant books; bonds and promissory notes, and other administrative papers.

Record of the Court of Wards and Liveries, comprising examinations of defendants in a court case concerning commodities in a court yard adjoining the Bull Head Tavern in Cheapside, October-November 1631.

Records of various City of London Courts of Law, 1301-1965, including the Royal Courts, Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark, the Central Criminal Court, Assize of Bread and Possessory Assizes.

Records of the Royal Courts include plea rolls, escheat rolls, inquisitions post mortem, writs, proceedings, and articles relating to the history of the court, while the records of the Possessory Assizes, comprising the Assizes of Novel Disseisin, Fresh Force and Mort d'Ancestor, include rolls of assizes and precedent books.

Records of the Civic courts (Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark) include pleas of nuisance, Southwark fire decrees and court books.

Records of the Central Criminal Court include registers of felons' gods, petitions for return of goods, auction catalogues, prints and photographs, financial accounts, statistics and papers relating to civil defence duties during World War Two.

Records of the Assize of Bread include mealweighters books, including quantities of wheat sold and delivered; register of bakers and cornfactors, prices of wheat and flour and papers of the Committee on the Assize of Bread.

Also papers relating to cases of bankruptcy and debt, papers of the London Chamber of Arbitration and other legal records and administrative papers.

Records of solicitor John Coverdale. Many of these papers relate to his marriage to Isabella Frederica Tomkyns, and to the execution of both their wills. Papers concerning Isabella's first husband, the Rev. John Tomkyns and his brother, Thomas Tomkyns are also included. The collection also includes deeds for properties in Gravel Road, Twickenham and Windmill Road, Hampton Wick.

Records of Jonathan Crane comprising declaration of trust, 1849, and will, 1860. The will bequeathed property in Bethnal Green. Also in the collection are papers relating to properties including houses on Idmiston Road, West Norwood; Sussex House on Clifford Road, South Norwood; and premises in Edmonton.

Records of the Crawley family relating to the management of their estates in Holborn and Marylebone.

Papers, 1867-1910, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 557 Lordship Lane, Dulwich, including leases, mortgages, assignments of lease, conveyances and covenant to produce deeds.

Papers, 1762-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds and legal documents relating to properties on Hornsey Lane, Highgate; copies of the court roll of the manor of Harringay alias Hornsey; legal papers relating to the Idle family of Kennington, including marriage settlements; and legal papers relating to the Grove family of Hackney and the City of London, including marriage settlements, correspondence, genealogical research and wills.

Draft agreement of employment relating to work in Dulwich, between William Crundall and Company and George Spanswick, commercial traveller, 1887.

Papers collected by the antiquarian dealer in the course of his work, comprising article of agreement, assignment and surrender of leases relating to premises in Saint Mary, Whitechapel, 1680-1694; receipts for rates for paving, lighting, cleansing and watch, and demand for poor rate, for premises in Saint Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, City of London, 1822-1823.

Papers, 1621-1927, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties Ashford; Hendon; Heston; Hounslow, including Lampton Park Estate; Isleworth; Laleham; Paddington; Staines, including property belonging to the Dean and Canons of St. George's Chapel, Windsor; Stanwell including the Crooked Billet Estate; Sunbury. Also papers of the Fenton family. Includes copies from court rolls, depositions, leases and releases, conveyances, mortgages and wills.

Papers, 1769-1941, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties mainly in Edmonton, Enfield, Harrow and Tottenham.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising marriage settlement, on marriage of Mary Anne Beale of Stoke Newington and Richard Baughan Ashby of Manor Road, Stamford Hill, 1850-1878; marriage settlement, on marriage of Emily Sanders of 57 Belsize Park and Harry Waddington Smythies, New Zealand, 1874-1893; and probate, with will annexed, of Mrs Emily Smythies, of 4 Chichele Road, Cricklewood, formerly of Kenmera, Auckland, New Zealand, widow of Harry Waddington Smythies, surveyor, 1887-1892.

Papers and correspondence relating to Davidge's inventions and to patents of them.

Collection of legal papers including bonds, mortgages and settlements; relating to premises or persons in Southwark, City of London, Lambeth, Bermondsey and Battersea.

Papers of the Davis family, comprising deeds relating to 52 Marlborough Place, Saint Marylebone.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising admission of John Durham, junior of 10 Great James Street, Bedford Row, as solicitor in court of Chancery, 8 May 1863, signed by John Romilly, Master of the Rolls; admission of John Durham as solicitor in Court of Queen's Bench, 8 May 1863. Also leases for 108 Stroud Green Road (formerly called Osborne House), Hornsey, 1887 and 1895.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title of representatives of J.Goddard to premises in North Street (Basil Street) Brompton Road and Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, including references to Harrods. With plans. 1954.

Title deeds relating to two houses in Brompton Road, later 1 Bute Sreet and Bute House, later Prospect House and Bute House, later 1 and 2 (also 2A) Sussex Place, 1846-1931.

Records of the Delme-Radcliffe family, 1316-1809, comprising deeds (original and 17th century copies), namely quit claims, grants, charters and lease for land and property largely in Edmonton and Bromley, Middlesex, City of London and Essex, notably:

fields called 'Rathesfeldes and Pyamoors', and property in Edmonton, 1316-1567; the 'Lyon', Edmonton, 1522-1541; 17th century copies of deeds for property in Edmonton, namely for land at Holflete in East Marsh, {1395-96}; Trumpton Hall, Edmonton, and lands, {1500}; land in Edmonton, 1551;

'Brodemede' in Tottenham, lands in Enfield, Edmonton Marsh and Chingford Marsh, Essex, (property of the Priory of St John of Jerusalem, dissolved by Henry VIII, revived by Mary and suppressed again by Elizabeth I), 1536-1560; mansion house in Edmonton, 1569-1825; marshland in Edmonton, Tottenham and Chingford, {1676}; houses in St Leonard, Shoreditch, 1678; Swan Inn, Edmonton, 1682; property in Chingford, 1700-01; Palmer's Green, 1745-1761; messuage in Strand Lane, 1721; land in Stanwell, 1646; messuages and land in South Mimms, 1572-1678/9;

manor ('great brickhouse' built c 1617 by Sir Arthur Ingram, Knight of London) and site at Bromley, Middlesex, 1606-1802, and property in St Giles Cripplegate, the Strand, Stepney, Shoreditch, 1692-1731/32;

messuages and land in Norton Folgate (parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate), St Leonards, Shoreditch, Hackney, parishes of St Magnus and St Margaret in the City of London, and Newington in Hackney, 1518-1762;

papers relating to the estate including wills, legacies, administration of the estate, 1735-1809;

deeds for house in Greville Street, Holborn, 1738; houses in the parish of St Clement Danes, 1729-1736; Queen's Head, Snow Hill in the parish of St Sepulchre without Newgate, 1732; house in Brook Street, Ratcliffe, Middlesex, 1747; land on Farmer Street, Shadwell, 1694-1746; Buckley Street, Whitechapel, 1693-1714; house, shipwright's yard, wharves and bridge in Limehouse, 1668-1717.

Records of John Dence relating to properties in Sydenham, Lewisham, the City of London, Holborn, and the Strand.

Records of Thomas Dence and family, 1876-1923, including investment ledger and papers relating to investments such as certificates; cash books, registers of deeds and legal documents relating to properties; register of insurance policies; wills, powers of attorney and documents relating to the Dence Trust; cheque books; letter book, mostly letters to tenants; ledger listing documents regarding the Ferme Park Estate, including building agreements, leases issued and deeds.

Records of the Dent family, watchmakers, comprising legal papers, deeds and related papers mainly relating to family estates and property in Charing Cross and Worthing.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising copy memorandum of agreement between Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Colne Valley Water Company, relating to land at Stanmore, 1931.

Papers, 1761-1858, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including extracts from court rolls, copies of wills, receipts, leases, releases, mortgages, conveyances, fines and deeds relating to land and properties in Enfield.

Collection of legal documents, wills, bonds, business arrangements, and title deeds for premises in Spitalfields, Limehouse, Holborn, Westminster, Hackney, Stepney, Lincoln's Inn, Bermondsey and Saint Marylebone.

Records of the Dewell family of Brentford, relating to property in Old Brentford, New Brentford, Hanwell, Chiswick and Isleworth, including wills, leases, extracts from court rolls and legal opinion.

Records of D.H. Evans, general drapers and silk mercers, comprising a prospectus from 1894 and sales particulars relating to premises in Armadale Road, Fulham, 1899.

Deeds from the estate of John Dicks, builder, relating to 39 London Street, St Pancras; Russell Mews, St Pancras and 6 Brunswick Place, Brixton Causeway, Lambeth.

Papers of Dr Max Dienemann, [1928-1936], comprise cuttings including one from Jüdisch liberale Zeitung showing article by Dr Dienemann, 'Das jüdische Ehescheidungsrecht' (Jewish divorce right), 1928; typescript essay by Dr Dienemann concerning divorce, entitled 'Die Ehescheidung auf bürgerlichen und jüdischen Recht', containing corrections and annotations, undated, and manuscript notes on the subject of Jewish divorce, by Dienemann, undated.

Title deeds of the Dinsdale family relating to properties in Shoreditch, Hackney and Bethnal Green, including leases, conveyances, assignments and abstract of title.

Records of the Dixon family, including exemplification of a common recovery for premises in Kensington Square; and marriage settlement relating to premises at Winchmore Hill.

Documents relating to 203 Lower Richmond Road.

Documents relating to 287 Battersea Park Road.

Typescript of an unpublished book entitled 'Elizabethan Technology or the development of the letters patent protection for inventions'. Also correspondence about the book.

Papers, 1869-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Deptford, Lambeth and Paddington including assignments, abstract of title, and sales particulars.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate copy will of David Aldridge of Church Street, Staines, later of Feltham, carpenter, made 17 Feb 1888, proved 4 Jan 1892. Bequests include cottage in Hythe Road, Egham, Surrey.

Deeds relating to properties owned by Dowgate Properties Ltd in Lanark Mansions, Shepherds Bush, Kingscroft Road, West Hampstead, and Vaughan Road, Harrow. 1906-1923.