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Deeds, drawings and sales documents, 1891-1963, relating to 21 Cambalt Road, Putney.

Papers 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.

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.

Records 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.

Deeds 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).

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.

Records 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.

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.

Records 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.

Report on the disposal and development of the estate of Mr and Mrs Backhouse, Old Kent Road, Southwark.

Papers 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.

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.

Records 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.

Papers of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, 1944-1957, notably include his personal papers including passport and notebook containing addresses and notes apparently taken during Baker-Byrne's time as investigator into war crimes in Kiel, 1948-1957; a memoranda from War Crimes Group (North West Europe) regarding the role and activities of Captain Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, 1947-1948; correspondence and papers regarding 'the Kiel Hassee case' in which 50 allied prisoners of war were summarily executed by Gestapo officers, 1948-1951 and correspondence including affidavits regarding an application for restitution money from the German government.

Collection 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.

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.

Records 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).

Records 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.

Records 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).

Records 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.

Records 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.

Records 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.

Papers relating to property ownership for premises in London, Middlesex and Westminster, 1689-1875 and papers relating to court proceedings, 1776-1869, including King's Bench and Chancery.

Papers, 1551-1950, of the Benyon family, including records of the de Beauvoir estate in Hackney, Shoreditch and elsewhere, and including references to several families including the de Beauvoir, Macdougall, Tyssen and Whitmore families.

The first deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1551-1723, largely 17th century, also relating to some property in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Ref: E/BVR/1-28);
De Beauvoir Town (Hackney): rent books, 1830-1950, for properties in the area bounded by Regent's Canal in the south, Kingsland Road in the east, Ball's Pond Road in the North, and Southgate Road in the West, also notebooks concerning rents, 1829-1845, and a Trust account book of the late Rev Peter Beauvoir, 1821-1843 (Ref: E/BVR/29-193);
accounts, 1857-1859, 1867-1950, and associated records concerning the estate and its administration, including correspondence, 1821-1935 (Ref: E/BVR/194-286);
Tyssen estate: manor of Hackney Lordshold, Kingshold and Grumbolds: correspondence, accounts, etc, 1746-1820, concerning administration of the estate, also mentioning Hackney church (Ref: E/BVR/287-346);
Piccadilly estate (St Martin in the Fields): deeds (copies), 1623-1676 (Ref: E/BVR/347-358);
Haymarket properties (St Martin in the Fields): deeds: Macdougall family papers, 1632-1821 (Ref: E/BVR/359-399);
Pall Mall properties (St Martin in the Fields and St James, Westminster): deeds, 1660-1812 (Ref: E/BVR/400-411);
Redcross Street (St Giles, Cripplegate) properties: deeds, 1669-1755, including one item, a note c1700, relating to property in Acton (Middlesex) (Ref: E/BVR/412-418);
Vauxhall estate: rental, including record of rents received, 1758-1821, and list of deeds, 1694-1822, concerning this estate, copyhold to the Manor of Kennington (Ref: E/BVR/419);
Maps, plans and engravings, 1831-1879 and undated {19th century}, including printed, manuscript and lithographed items, largely of Hackney and Shoreditch, including De Beauvoir Town, some including details of settlement and other information as well as property ownership (Ref: E/BVR/420-428).

The second deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1627, 1773 (Ref: E/BVR/429-431);
'Essex' rental, 1839-1907, including also De Beauvoir Town, Haymarket and Vauxhall (Ref: E/BVR/432);
De Beauvoir Town: estate papers etc, 1869-1900 (Ref: E/BVR/433-437);
correspondence and papers, 1867-1906, relating to St Peter's Church parish matters and church fabric, and an original watercolour of the church, 1842 (Ref: E/BVR/438-446);
Piccadilly estate: case for opposition to rate for cleaning Piccadilly and Park Lane, 1809 (Ref: E/BVR/447);
Haymarket: rentals, 1903 (Ref: E/BVR/448).

The third deposit comprises:
Hoxton: deed, 1551 (Ref: E/BVR/449);
Manor of Balmes: deeds, 1626, 1634 (Ref: E/BVR/450-453);
Estate accounts: De Beauvoir Town vouchers for various payments, 1831-1852, including work on the new church, De Beauvoir Town; vouchers for repairs etc, 1921-1933; correspondence and statement of accounts of the estates' London solicitor and agent, 1838-1917 (Ref: E/BVR/454-496);
No 27 Grosvenor Square: lease, 1911 (Ref: E/BVR/497);
West Hackney Church: correspondence with the Bishop of London re proposed church, 1838 (Ref: E/BVR/498).

The fourth deposit comprises: Valuation and accounts for the De Beauvoir Town estate (Ref: E/BVR/499-501).

Collection of deeds, correspondence, and plans relating to premises in Kensington and Southwark.

Papers relating to the Berkeley family estates in Middlesex and London. Please note that the original records in this collection are now held at the archives in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire and only microfilm copies can be viewed at LMA.

The documents relate to the Manors of Cranford, Harlington, East Bedfont, and Heston and to property in Harlington and Saint James's Park. They include Court rolls and books, rentals, financial accounts and other papers.

Papers of the Berney family, comprising deed for the transfer of estates including land in Barbados and slave lists, 1799; and transcript, 2000.

Papers concerning the property and estate of Richard Berridge of Bloomsbury, including papers relating to money left to various charities and institutions, and the executorship of Charles Tomkins.

Collection of title deeds and marriage settlements relating to properties in Fulham, Holborn, Enfield and Hampstead.

Confirmation by Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, of premises in South Mimms purchased by Henry Frowic, citizen of London, from Arnulf de Maundevil; together with right of common for Frowic's animals, to include 40 she-goats and 2 he-goats, in de Bohun's park at Enfield, 1250.

Records of Lord Bolingbroke relating to his estates in Battersea, including leases, releases, conveyances and particulars of the estate including plans.

Papers of the Bore and Pugh families, including papers relating to properties in Stepney, Whitechapel, Tottenham, Limehouse, Shoreditch, Mile End and the City of London; papers of the family relating to their role as executors of various wills; legal papers including a Chancery case; receipts and rents.

Records relating to property owned by the Irby family, barons Boston, in Shepperton, Sunbury, Barnes, Chertsey, Hillingdon and Hanover Square. The records include title deeds, legal documents, orders and inventories.

Title deeds for property in Edmonton owned by the Bowles family, 1786-1835; property in Highgate owned by the Gould family, 1724-1795; and properties in Ashford, Stanwell, Staines, Enfield, Hornsey and Pinner, 1684-1885.

Documents relating to Bridgen Hall Estate and Adelaide House Estate, Forty Hill, Enfield; including lease and releases; fines; wills; mortgages; bonds; agreements; conveyances; admittances; copies from court rolls; and other title deeds and legal documents relating to property ownership.

Records of the Bridges family relating to premises in Edmonton, Enfield, Pinner, Harrow, Hillingdon, Isleworth, Tottenham, Hackney, Twickenham, Clapton, Hampstead, Islington, Holborn, Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London., Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Chelsea, Bloomsbury, Stepney, City of Westminster, and Saint Clement Danes. The documents include releases, leases, extracts from court rolls, marriage certificates and settlements, legal case papers including Chancery court, probates, letters of administration, leases, abstracts of title, and conveyances. Also appointments by Justices of the Peace of John George Bridges and John William Bridges, both of 54, Torrington Square, as Special Constables, 1848.

Records of Broad Street Estates Limited, including minutes of director's meetings; statements of account; financial records such as ledgers and cash books; rent rolls; and building plans.

Papers of David Brown of Harrow Park, including title deeds and abstract of title; valuation of Harrow Park house and contents; papers relating to other property in Harrow owned by David Brown; insurance policies; papers relating to the will and estate of David Brown and papers of the trustees of his will.

Deeds and papers relating to premises in Edmonton, Enfield, Hendon, Hornsey, Teddington and Willesden, and the estates of Charles Brown and Charles James Sanderson.

Records of the Buckton family relating to property, including extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Hornsey; sales particulars; covenants; lease and conveyances.

These papers relate to the property of Sir John Buckworth and his family. They comprise deeds and related papers concerning property in or near Great Winchester Street within the parishes of All Hallows London Wall and St Peter le Poer.

Records of the Bullock family, including title deeds to properties in Stanwell, also Colnbrook, Horton, Langley Marish, and Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, 1366-1830; title deeds to Poyle Mills and related properties in Stanwell, 1612-1744; abstracts of title, 1612-1811; plans, early nineteenth century; Bullock family wills and settlements, 1708-1830; Bullock family accounts and business papers, 1704-1877; Bland family papers, 1770-1879; Stanwell Parish Records (church rate accounts and churchwarden's accounts), 1728-1854; Colnbrook Chapel Records (charity accounts), 1693-1850; and building leases, Fitzroy Square, 1793-1794.

Records of the de Burgh family relating to their estates in Hillingdon, Harmondsworth and West Drayton, including leases, releases, mortgages, letters, agreements and tax certificates. Also court rolls (courts baron) for the Manor of Colham and the Manor of West Drayton.

Papers relating to the Bush Hill Estate, Edmonton, owned by the Clarke family. Documents include sale to John Clarke 1696/7; inheritance by Samuel Clarke 1700-1701; additions to estate 1701-1716; inheritance by Anna Clarke and William Clarke 1741-1755; sale to John Blackburn 1785; deeds of lands bought by John Blackburn senior as additions to estate 1721-1796; inheritance by Catherine Blackburn and John Blackburn junior 1799-1805; deeds of land bought by John Blackburn junior from William Mellish 1795-1805; sale of Bush Hill Estate to R.M. Jephson 1809; and sale of Bush Hill Estate to Isaac Currie 1811.

Also documents relating to St. Mary's Road, Edmonton 1882; Slopers Pond Farm, Enfield 1846-1879; The Grove, Hanwell 1871 and Monken Hadley and Barnet 1836-1878.

Records of the Byng family relating to their estates, including Wrotham Park and surrounding lands, Barnet; and properties in South Mimms; Potters Bar; Westminster; Berkshire and Hertfordshire. The collection includes some family papers including marriage settlements and wills.

Collection of title deeds relating to property in Ealing, Brentford, Enfield, Greenford, Hampton, Harmondsworth, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, South Mimms, Shepperton, Teddington, Tottenham, Edmonton, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Hayes and Stratford-le-Bow.

Cahn family papers, 1940-1983 including copies of Red Cross telegrams sent by Sophie Cahn from England to her father, Emanuel Cahn in Mönchen-Gladbach, 25 Jun 1940-3 Jun 1942; copy of a claim form by Fritz Cahn, Canada for compensation for property owned by the Cahn family in the city of Mönchen-Gladbach, 25 Feb 1947 and family documents including a photograph of the grave of Lotte Cahn, 1 Sep 1942-Jul 1983.

Records relating to the Calthorpe family estates, including mortgages, conveyances, insurance policies, tax redemption certificates, and letters. The estate included premises in Grays Inn Road, City Road, Gough Square, Chelsea, Fleet Street and in Norfolk.

Records of the Calvert family of London, including papers relating to properties in Brixton, Kent, Tottenham Court Road and the City of London; genealogical notes on the family; and papers relating to the clerical career of William Calvert, rector of St Antholin with St John the Baptist, City of London.

Papers relating to the London estate of the Marquess of Camden. The records consist almost exclusively of deeds and leases for property on the estate.