Papers, 1773-1849, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising mortgage for messuage on Saint Martin's Lane; assignment of a lease for premises at Lamb's Conduit Street; order by Commissioners for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting, and Watching the streets of the Parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields and lease for cottages in Whitton.
Abbey and Lucas , solicitorsPapers relating to premises in Uxbridge owned successively by the Abbott and Powell families. Documents include marriage settlement, bonds, fines, releases, leases, assignments, and certificates of baptism, marriage and burial.
Various.A collection of local Acts of Parliament relating to Middlesex and Westminster, concerning building permission (including building bridges over the Thames at Richmond, Staines and Ealing); the powers of Justices of the Peace; the administration of the Militia; street maintenance; enclosures; and legacies, especially the disposition of estates and land after death.
Houses of ParliamentPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising agreements to let premises called The Peaks, Harlaxton, Rosefield Cottage, Ford Cottage and Ascham in Ford Bridge Road, 1905-1910 and probate and miscellaneous papers of John Charles Gee of Avon House, Acton Hill, 1874.
Adams , solicitorsRecords of The Aerated Bread Company Limited, 1869-1885, comprising a set of minutes of the Board of Directors, and a register of company premises.
Aerated Bread Company Limited , bakers, confectioners and light refreshment contractorsPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hounslow and Staines, including mortgages, leases and conveyances. Also probate of will of John Edwards of Hampstead, 1783; administration of will of Edmund Fleming Akers of Acton, 1818, and administration of will of Edmund Akers' widow Frances, 1841.
A F and R W Tweedie , solicitorsPapers, 1878-1970, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, Hornsey and Willesden, including leases, specifications for repairs, receipts, notes on the condition of premises, conveyances, mortgages and abstract of title.
A F and R W Tweedie , solicitorsPapers, 1880-1904, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ealing, Harrow, Harrow Weald and Hillingdon including conveyances, leases and mortgages.
A F and R W Tweedie , solicitorsPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a counterpart lease for a messuage in James Street, Covent Garden, 1779 and probate of will of Frances Caswall formerly of Abingdon Street, Westminster, now of Alvescot, spinster, made 20 April 1818, proved 1821.
Alberry and Lucas , solicitorsPapers, 1799-1930, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to the Claysmore Estate, including two documents relating to New River, 1821 and 1864.
Allen and Overy Limited , solicitorsPapers, 1806-1899, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chiswick and Pinner; and papers of the Sadler family. Papers include copies of court rolls, deeds of covenants, releases and probate of wills.
Allen and Son , solicitorsRecords of the Allen and Cooper families of Finchley; including family pedigrees; grant of arms; wills; marriage settlements; copies from parish registers; papers relating to family finances; papers relating to property owned by the families; insurance policies; letters; historical research; surveys; papers relating to enclosure; legal papers including Chancery proceedings; and copies from court rolls.
Allen , family , of Finchley Cooper , family , of FinchleyDocuments received from Altergo Limited, computer consultants, comprising a lease for a messuage known as "Witham House" on east side of London Road, Harrow on the Hill, with garden in front and at rear, 1887; a bond stating that George Chapman Briggs M.D. of Gothic House, Harrow, will pay George Tonge of 25 Brunswick Place, Brighton, Sussex, £504. 17s. 6d, 1891; and a deed of dissolution of partnership, assigning William and Arthur Hurley of 19 Windsor Road, Palmers Green a share and interest in business of wholesale label and tag makers, general printers, lithographers and manufacturing stationers at No. 7 Fann Street, City of London, including use of firm name of Sutcliffe and Hurley, 1912.
UnknownDeeds and other papers, 1721-1923, relating to the estates of the Andrews and Weall families; including title deeds and other documents relating to the Andrews' estate in Pershore, Worcestershire (comprising various premises), 1744-1910, including references to various other individuals (Ref: ACC/1058/1-77); and records relating to the administration of the trust funds and estate of Margaret Andrews (Ref: ACC/1058/78-302), comprising title deeds and other documents relating to the Pinner estate (comprising various premises), 1721-1881, including references to various other individuals (Ref: ACC/1058/78-176), and records relating to the administration of trust funds, 1855-1923, comprising accounts of the trustees, correspondence and conveyances of the estate to property developers (Ref: ACC/1058/177-302).
The trustees' correspondence throws light on the state of farming and agriculture in Middlesex during the 1880s. The papers also include records relating to Margaret Andrews' litigation against her trustees.
Also papers of Dr James Andrews, 1852-1919, including insurance policies and conveyance of premises at Hampstead (Ref: ACC/1058/303-318).
Various.Records of the Paget family relating to the manors of West Drayton, Dawley, Harlington and Harmondsworth, and properties owned by the family in London, Westminster, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Surrey. The papers include court rolls and books; court papers; customs; estate and financial management; court fines and estreats; wages; rentals; tenancy lists; surveys, valuations and inventories; maps and plans; enclosure records; tithe records; sales particulars; correspondence and muniments of title.
Also papers relating to household management such as bills, receipts, inventories, valuations, insurance and correspondence; genealogies and pedigrees; business papers; records relating to appointments and commissions; personal financial accounts; diaries and legal papers.
Paget , family , of Staffordshire and MiddlesexRecords of the Anguer family; comprising title deeds and legal documents relating to land and property in the Manor of Poplar, including Stepney, Stratford and Bromley by Bow.
Various.Papers relating to apprentices, comprising conditions of employment of journeymen regarding trade secrets for the printing, colouring and staining of silks, linens and calicos, 1715; and apprenticeship indenture for Moses Kendall to Francis Church, timber merchant, 1736.
Agreements regarding business partnerships, including agreement for draper John Mosden, painter Edward Baugh and grocer Matthew Hewytt to establish business of Mercer, 1729; agreement that John Chaplyn, haberdasher, and George Kent, mercer, will trade jointly as mercers, 1729; agreement of co-partnership between John Purcas and Abraham Purcas, merchants, 1732. Also bond and receipts.
UnknownTwo copies of 'Civil justice in tribal India, with special reference to the Santal Parganas', by William George Archer, [c. 1946].
Archer , William George , 1907-1979 , civil servant and historianThe collection consists of a bundle of miscellaneous papers derived from the work of Arthur Wellings.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Papers relating to property owned by the Ashburnham family, including assignments of lease for premises in the precinct of the dissolved monastery of Westminster [later Ashburnham House, Dean's Yard]; agreements, leases, inventories, valuations and insurance documents for Ashburnham House, Dover Street, Piccadilly; and papers relating to property in Chiswick and Chelsea.
Ashburnham , family , of Ashburnham, East SussexRecords of Ashurst Morris Crisp, 1685-1999, including partnership agreements; financial records; copy-out letters; client papers, including Fairey Aviation Company Limited and White Waltham Airfield; press cuttings; papers relating to firm's history; staff salary books; correspondence concerning staff matters; papers relating to Ashmor Musical Society; photographs of company dinners and functions; plans and deeds relating to firm's offices at Throgmorton Avenue; papers concerning the Ashurst, Morris and Crisp families.
Green and Ashurst , 1823-1829 x Ashurst and Gainsford , 1835-1840 x Ashurst and Son , 1843-1864 x Ashurst and Morris , 1864-1865 x Ashurst Morris and Company , 1865-1877 x Ashurst Morris Crisp and Company , 1877-2003 x Ashurst LLP , 2003-Assignment of lease of 2 Francis Street, Battersea, subject to mortgage, between 1) William Bodley, Church Road, Battersea and 2) Alfred John Ruff, Francis Terrace, Bridge Road, Battersea.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Report on the disposal and development of the estate of Mr and Mrs Backhouse, Old Kent Road, Southwark.
Hartley, Pilgrim and Hayman , solicitorsPapers relating to property owned by the Bacon family, including copy of Act of Parliament to partition real estate devised by will of John Bacon of Friern Barnet containing an inventory of lands in question; notes of judgements in cases of debt brought against member of the Bacon family and accounts of debts and insolvency of Bacon family; legal opinion of liability of estates to creditors; agreement and conveyance for land in Muswell Hill.
Various.Papers relating to the estate of John Bacon the younger, sculptor, including title deeds and documents relating to the purchase, ownership and sale of properties in the City of London, Bethnal Green, Paddington, Marylebone, Hoxton, Shoreditch, Stepney, Knightsbridge, Westminster and Kent; correspondence; articles of co-partnership with Charles Manning; and lists of sculptural works underway.
Bacon , John , 1777-1859 , sculptorRecords of Bacon's Free School, Bermondsey, including copy of Josiah Bacon's will; copies of Chancery orders relating to the school; copy of articles of agreement for building the school; leases, releases and assignments of annuity relating to school property; minutes of Governor's and Trustee's meetings; financial records; reports; and school log-books.
Bacon's Free School, BermondseyLease by Viscount Melbourne to Thomas Bott, umbrella-maker, of the second house from the east corner of Cecil Street, numbered 86 Strand, 1792; assignment of lease of No 86 Strand by Melbourne, Bott and others to Baddeley, shoemaker, 1798 and assignment of lease of No 86 Strand by Baddeley to Mackinlay, 1807.
UnknownRecords of the Badger's Almshouses, Shoreditch, relating to the ownership of property, including bargain and sales, feoffments, deeds, lease and releases, assignments and abstract of title.
Badger's Almshouses , ShoreditchRecords of William Bagshaw relating to two properties in which he had an interest, 42 Craven Street, Strand and 3 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and to a grave in Highgate Cemetery he purchased. One document shows him acting as a trustee. Two apprenticeship indentures have no obvious link with the rest of the documents, and may have come from another source.
Bagshaw , William , fl 1816-1864 , accountantPapers, 1787-1811, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to Edwin Payne [Paine], the Holbrook family and their lease of Church Farm, Tottenham; and to properties and enclosures in Hounslow including 'Church Meadow', Bath Road.
Baileys, Shaw and Gillett , solicitorsRecords of Balch and Balch, solicitors, 1843-1948, relating to properties handled by the company, including sales particulars for properties throughout London, and title deeds, as well as other legal documents such as mortgages, leases, assignments, conveyances and abstracts of title.
Balch and Balch , estate agentsPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a conveyance for premises named Kenilworth, Berlin Road, Catford, "recently erected"; previously mortagaged to William Jackson, Sittingbourne, Kent, auctioneer and surveyor and Richard S. Jackson, Greenwich. Considerations paid: £700 from Edwin Underwood, Kenilworth, Berlin Road, Catford, to William Jackson; £200 from Edwin Underwood to Richard Jackson; and £350 from Edwin Underwood to James Watt, Langley Lodge, Bromley Road, Catford, builder; 1901.
Baldocks , solicitorsTwo legal documents, comprising an agreement allowing Thomas Earl of Stamford, Sir Henry Hobart and Sir William Rawlinson access to the law books of the late Sir John Maynard, which were being held by Maynard Colchester of the Middle Temple, London, 1694; and a renewal of Commission in bankruptcy against Charles Pearce and James Pearce of Castle Street, Leicester Fields, Middlesex, tailors and co-partners, 1787.
VariousLegal documents presented to Bankruptcy Courts, including mortgages, assignments, leases, abstract of title, wills and probates, grants, copies of court rolls, admissions, releases, conveyances, agreements, covenants to surrender, letters of administration, deeds of partnership, bills of costs, indentures of fines and marriage settlements; all for premises in Middlesex. Also records of pleas before the King's Bench, Queen's Bench, the Court of Exchequer and the Exchequer of Pleas; all for Middlesex.
Court of King's Bench x Court of Queen's Bench Court of Exchequer Court of BankruptcyCollection of title deeds relating to ownership of property in Earl's Court Road, Somerset Place, Bath Place and Edwards Square, Kensington. Documents include leases, assignments, mortgages, abstract of title and releases.
Various.Papers relating to Barnsbury Manor, Islington, including records of the courts baron and courts leet; deeds to the copyhold estate of the manor; surrenders; warrants; deeds of conveyance of land and premises at Holloway; deeds for Tufnell family holdings in Holloway, Manor of Canonbury, and in the Manor of Newington Barrow at Highbury; and deeds for the Tufnell family estates in Ireland.
Manor of Barnsbury , IslingtonPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including fines (right hand indenture) and feoffments (livery of seisin endorsed) for lands at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1598-1630; papers relating to members of the Piper family of Sunbury and their property at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1702-1749; papers relating to members of the Dench family and their property at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1751-1776; papers relating to members of the Harris family of Sunbury, 1777-1786.
Barre and Morton , solicitorsPapers, 1868-1913, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to numbers 24, 26, 28, 30 Tranton Road (formerly Francis Road) and numbers 21, 22, 23, 24 Whitstable Street (formerly Prince Street), Bermondsey; including leases, mortgages, assignments of leases, articles of partnerships, conveyances, declarations, abstract of title, covenant to produce deeds and burial certificates.
Bartlett and Gregory , solicitorsRecords of the Barton family relating to the manors of Ealing and Hampton Court, including property transactions, bankruptcy papers, family papers and court minute books (view of frankpledge and court baron).
Manor of EalingRecords of John Barton relating to the trust of Thomas Woodrouffe Smith. Apart from property in Essex, Surrey, Norfolk and the City of London, T. W. Smith was the owner and lord of the Manor of Teddington, and the bulk of the material in this deposit relates to that manor, including a series of court rolls. Throughout the Middle Ages the manor was the property of Westminster Abbey, being granted to Henry VIII in exchange for other lands in 1536, who then made it part of the Honour of Hampton Court. In 1603 it was granted to John Hill {1246/019} and its subsequent ownership can be seen from the deeds in this deposit {1246/019-082}. Between 1802 and 1863 John Barton's trustees sold the manor and demesne lands off in parcels, which heralded the beginning of Teddington's urbanisation. This and a previous deposit of manor court books {see ACC/0363} came from the solicitors who had acted for the trustees in the 1860's.
Barton , John , 1789-1852 , landowner in TeddingtonPapers, 1900-1934, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Bethnal Green, Hackney, Shoreditch, Walthamstow and Ealing; including leases, releases, tenancy agreements and assignments.
Batchelors , solicitorsRecords of the Bateman family relating to their property in Ealing, Elbow Lane (later Little College Street) in the City of London, Tottenham; and out of London in Chesham, Buckinghamshire; and Kimberworth, Yorkshire (this latter including coal mines).
Bateman , family , of Brentford and EalingTitle deeds relating to Peveril Street, Ethelburga Street, the Clapham Junction [Winstanley] Estate and other legal documentation.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Legal documents, acquired by the solicitor's office in the course of their work, relating to the Manor of Stanwell, including: abstract of title for the Manor of Stanwell, parties: Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland and John, Earl of Dunmore, 1576-1725; abstract of title for lands in the parish of Stanwell, parties: Richard Willshaw and Lord Dunmore, 1677-1726; abstract of title for arable lands in the common fields of Stanmore, parties: Richard Blunt and the Earl of Dunmore, 1714-1737; abstract of tithe for copyhold lands in Stanwell, some belonging to the Earl of Dunmore, 1712-1780; and memorial of release for lands in the parish of Stanwell, 1736.
Also deed of company to establish a bank, to be called the 'Middlesex and Surrey Bank' at Staines, 1810; marriage settlement for lands in Staines, Highgate, Hornsey and Shenley Bury (Hertfordshire), 1844; copy of probate of will, regarding a house at Stamford Hill belonging to Thomas Gudgeon and copy of information at the Exchequer relating to a prosecution for evasion of stamp duty on bottles of soda water, 1813.
Beachcroft, Hays and Lechward , solicitorsRecords of the Beauclerk family relating to property in Hanworth, Feltham, Hounslow, Hampton, Isleworth, Heston, Westminster, Chelsea, Brompton, and Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Cheshire. The records include rentals and tenancy accounts; title deeds; property transactions; extracts from court rolls; bonds; legal opinions and leases.
Beauclerk , Vere , 1699-1781 , Baron Vere of Hanworth , naval officer and politicianPapers, 1811-1893, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Cowley, Hillingdon and Edgware, including leases, releases and conveyances. Also grant of grave space in Harmondsworth to Francis Pitt Wood and wife Anna Maria 4, Delamere Street, Paddington.
Beaumont and Sons , solicitorsRecords of the estates of the Russell family, Dukes of Bedford, in Covent Garden, Streatham and Rotherhithe, 16th to 19th Century. These records are of properties no longer owned by the Bedford Estate and none of them relate to Bloomsbury. The papers include title deeds, leases, abstracts of title, surveys, valuations, maps, plans, rentals, financial accounts, correspondence, legal papers, printed items, papers relating to Covent Garden market and Rotherhithe docks.
Russell , family , Dukes of BedfordRecords of G Bedford, including apprenticeship indentures, leases, assignments, marriage settlement, mortgage and other documents relating to property. The properties mentioned are situated across London, including Hanover Square, Soho, Golden Square, Grosvenor Square, and Hackney.
Various.Papers, 1821-1847, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease for parcel of ground (measurements and abuttals given) at north west corner of White Conduit Fields, Islington and declaration of trust for the same premises at White Conduit Fields as well as a parcel of land and two messuages on north side of Speldhurst Street, Sandhills, Saint Pancras, both premises owned by George Dawe and Mary Margaret Dawe, of Saint Petersburg; and administration with will annexed of Samuel Serle, late of Brentford, commander in maritime service, East India Company.
Beechcroft, Hay and Ledward , solicitorsPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deed to receive royalties on manufacture of bricks on land near Southall, Hayes, with plan, 1877.
Belmont and Lowe , solicitors