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Records of the Willis family relating to properties in Hackney and Clapton, including leases, marriage settlements, a will, and receipts.

Business papers of Willis, Fairthorne and Clarke, solicitors and attorneys at law.

Diaries of Herbert M Willmott, covering his work in India, 1921-1923; his retirement including travels in France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Germany, Belgium and Austria, 1923-1939; and life in war-time Kensington, 1939-1947.

Records of Wills, Faber and Dumas Limited comprising sea casualty books, 1916-20 and 1930-50; and a register of claims, 1932-54.

Analysis of William Willshire's early printed book collection and notes on early Christian archaeology.

Wilson Street Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel financial account book, 1850-1872.

Papers of Samuel Henry Wilson, including will, probate and correspondence; and deeds, insurance policies, reports, and valuations for properties in Fulham, Brompton, and Ratcliff.

Records of Wilson, Sons and Company Limited, coal and steamship agency, and associated companies. The records include minutes; financial accounts; letter books; constitutional documents; historical notes; registers of members; annual reports; and agreements.

Documents donated by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, including draft marriage settlement between Henry Roberts and Betsy Martyn; draft feoffment between the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Insurance Office and Frances Gardner and probate copy of will of William Rayson.

Legal papers, such as court rolls, feoffments, lease and releases, assignments, agreements, bargain and sales, grants, mortgages and common recoverys, relating to properties in Stanwell; Harlington; Cranford; Heston; Uxbridge; Denham, Buckinghamshire; Brentford; Hendon; Hampstead; Cowley; Rickmansworth; Willesden; Tilehurst and Bradfield, Berkshire; St. Margaret's Westminster and Shinfield, Berkshire.

Deeds for properties in Uxbridge; Cowley; Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

Records of Winchester Brewery, comprising documents relating to public houses owned by the company in Stepney, Camberwell and Lambeth.

Records of Winchmore Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1884-1981, including minutes of the Trustees, Finance Committee, Church Choir, Overseas Committee and Sunday School; original building tender for the new church; correspondence relating to the maintenance of the building; church accounts; Seat Rent; Collection Journals; plans and specifications for rebuilding and later developments; orders of service; Year books and magazines; a history of Winchmore Hill Church; Sunday school certificates all awarded to Gladys May Howard for scripture and religious knowledge and 3 Sunday school attendance medals.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate of will of Anne Aleyn of Harefield, widow, 1724; papers arising out of Chancery Suit regarding a share in the Shadwell Waterworks Company formerly belong to Robert Bodington, including drafts, correspondence, genealogical notes and involving such families as Pitfield and Bathurst, also giving some account of the history of the company and early shareholders, 1740-1866; documents arising out of trusts under will of Dr Daniel Tuke of Lyndon Lodge, Hanwell, 1924-1934; conveyance and mortgages for West End Farm Estate, Pinner, 1914; mortgages and conveyance for number 2 Palmerston Road, Twickenham, 1929 and 1958; draft wills of Miss Sibyl Thesiger, 1931-1947.

Court of Session minute book for Windsor Presbyterian Church, 1853-1855.

Records of Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Limited, drinks retailer, including directors' meetings minute books (including board meetings); register of members, directors and secretaries; papers relating to shares and shareholders; register of uses of the company seal; and financial accounts.

Collection of items belonging to Frederick Winfield, comprising handkerchief commemorating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, presented to Frederick Winfield as a boy at Saint Pancras Sunday School; bookmark commemorating the assassination of "The Late Lamented President Lincoln"; and photographs of Frederick Winfield.

Deeds, 1580-1770, relating to property in Cowley, Edmonton, Enfield, Harefield, Harrow, Hayes, Hillingdon, Ickenham, Uxbridge, Shoreditch and Stepney; including deed of feoffment, bargain and sale, leases, mortgages and bonds.

Bargain and sale of a yearly rent arising out of the manors of Poplar and Bromley, 1658; lease of property in Charlotte Street, 1776, and copy of Will and Probate of David Hatton, of Saint Sepulchre parish, London, vintner, 1786.

Legal documents relating to property in Enfield and Whitechapel, 1598-1825, including a bargain and sale and several declarations.

Surveyors' Certificate stating that the Party Wall between a house in Great Queen Street occupied by Humphrey Pritchett, Esq., and adjoining ground belonging to Jeremiah Glanvill, builder, was not of proper thickness according to Act of 14 Geo. III, and on rebuilding on said ground the whole party wall ought to be pulled down, 1821; Queen's Bench Proceedings between John Sayer, plaintiff, and Sir Robert Buckes Clifton, defendant, for recovery of debt of £292. 7. 6d for hire of horses, carriages, broughams, 1854.

Papers, 1638-1890, collected by Myers in the course of their work, comprising wills and a bond relating to Palgrave, Suffolk; Hampstead; Kensington (Old Brompton); West Twyford and Bloomsbury.

Records of Winifred House Invalid Children's Nursing Home comprising Admission and Discharge register, 1906-1923; records of nursing staff, 1939-1972 and financial records consisting of receipts and payments, weekly accounts, staff accounts, patient accounts and register of donors and subscribers, 1886-1958.

Documents relating to Fulham House (also known as Stourton House), owned by Thomas Winter, including bargain and sales; fines; exemplification of recovery; releases; assignments; leases; mortgages; and copies from court rolls.

Records of Witherby and Co Ltd including Partners deeds, memorandum and articles of association, minutes, acquisition and policy papers, accounts, ledgers, journals, 'precedent' books (specimen forms), staff salaries, photographs, annual outing booklets, premises deeds, rentals, plans, inventories, printed material, history research including Witherby family papers and memoirs.

There are also records of subsidaries including H. F. & G. Witherby publishers of 'British Birds' , Electric Law Press Limited, Greaves Pass & Company and Drake, Driver and Leaver Limited (subsidiaries).

A highlight is the precedent books containing pro forma specimen court documents and forms written in Thomas Witherby's hand and intended for the guidance of his staff of law writers.

Papers, 1645-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including leases, copies from court rolls of courts baron, letters of administration and copy will and probate relating to property in Ealing, Edmonton, Chiswick and Sutton.

Minutes of the Withington Friendly Burial Collecting Society.

Records of Leslie R Wolfson's dental practice, 1934-1987, consisting largely of accounts such as balance sheets, cash books, bills, receipts and tax papers relating to Mr Wolfson's dental practices in Enfield; sample of patients' record cards (patients unidentifiable); booklets, pamphlets, and so on regarding aspects of dentistry, National Health Service leaflets and other leaflets on dental charges; and correspondence concerning property transactions in Enfield including agreement for sale of general practice at Grange Park, Enfield.

Records of the Wolley family of Clifton, Bristol, including diaries and notebooks of Thomas Lamplugh Wolley, including account of travels in Europe visiting Germany, Belgium, France and Italy, and account of military service; family letters; financial accounts; and genealogical notes.

Records of Wolton and Attwood Limited, wholesalers in beer and spirits, including papers relating to the acquisition of the Company; memorandum and articles of association; balance sheet; copy board and extraordinary general meeting minutes; draft service agreements; stock transfer forms and financial accounts.

Records of the Wombwell family relating primarily to number 68 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, but also to premises in Pinner, Harrow and Hounslow. The documents include probates, leases, assignments, grants, and mortgages.

Records of the Women's Local Government Society, including minutes of the Executive Committee, Council and sub-committees; annual reports; outgoing letters; printed notices, memoranda, letters and handbills printed by the Society.

Photograph of Chinese seamen, their captain and other staff on an ocean liner, 1940s.

Transcript of the parish registers of Thaxted, Essex, including baptisms 1558-1812 and marriages 1538-1754.

Records of the Wood family, comprising 1695 marriage settlement between Edward Wood (son of Thomas and Dorothy) and Elizabeth Bridger of Guildford, mentioning land in Harmondsworth, Stanwell, Littleton, and Yorkshire. Also probate relating to money left by Thomas Wood of Littleton, 1856.

Records of the Wood family, including marriage settlement of Major Charles Wood, youngest son of Thomas Wood of Littleton and Miss Susannah Mary Watkins, 1819; marriage settlement of Captain Edward Alexander Wood and Miss Janet Alexander, 1871; probate copy of will of William Wood, rector of Lawford, Essex, 1821; probate of Sir Charles Alexander Wood of Littleton, 1849/90; probate of Major General Edward Wood, of Shorncliffe, Kent, 1898. Also papers relating to Moss Hall, Hampton, including deeds.

Letters of the Wood family, comprising letter from Charles Wood, Colonel in the 10th Hussars, to his brother Thomas Wood, MP; and letter from Thomas Wood to Lord Camden.

Papers of the Wood family of Littleton. This is a very interesting collection, consisting mainly of family letters, diaries and papers, and also some early account books. These latter items are a primary source in the study of the business ventures of a seventeenth century merchant, and can be augmented by the correspondence between Edward and Thomas Wood and John Pack (ACC/0262). The farm account books provide information about the state of agriculture in a particular area of Middlesex in the eighteenth century. The letters are full of rich detail of everyday family life, as well as touching on wider local and national issues. Of special note are those letters describing student life at Oxford at the end of the seventeenth century (ACC/1302/51-55, 57-67), and the early stages of the Crimean War as witnessed by an officer (ACC/1302/213-41). Distinguished nineteenth century correspondents include Queen Adelaide, Emperor Napoleon III, Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington.

The collection includes:
Accounts, 1654-1821;
Notebooks and diaries, 1721-c 1832;
Pedigree, 1694-1726;
Correspondence and family papers, 1639/40-1924;
Papers formerly mounted in album, 1639/40-1924;
Correspondence mainly of Colonel Thomas Wood, 1812-55;
Letters from Thomas Wood to his wife Fanny, 1852-69;
Correspondence of Sir David Wood, 1857-69;
Letters from Thomas Wood to his son Tom, 1862-72;
Letters from Tom Wood to his mother Fanny, 1882-87;
Family letters, 1854-93;
Parish of Littleton-Rates, 1743-92; and
Miscellaneous items, 1631-1876.

Papers of the Wood family relating to property in Littleton, Laleham, Shepperton, Staines, Harmondsworth, and Stanwell.

Papers of Dr Robert Wood, comprising formulary of ecclesiastical law compiled by Wood; and articles against William Whiston for heretical publications.

Papers of the Wood family of Littleton relating to property owned by the family in Ealing, Acton and Hanwell.

Records of the Wood family of Littleton comprising annuities granted to assignees of Thomas Wood of Horsley as part of fund raising for erection of Middlesex House of Correction; lease of premises in Cotterslock and Glapthorne, Northamptonshire, by Thomas Wood of Littleton to the Earl of Cardigan; and assignment by Colonel Thomas Wood of trust funds.

Papers of the Wood family, including records relating to properties in Laleham, Littleton and Shepperton including title deeds, tax assessments, legal papers, rentals, court rolls and plans; family letters, particularly between Edward Wood and his London agent John Pack; family papers such as legal opinions, marriage settlements, wills, and financial accounts; and papers relating to court cases including the Chancery case of Sir Richard Lane versus Charles Wood, 1733, and the Chancery case of Wood versus Wood, 1738-1746.

The material as a whole provides a fascinating picture of the Wood family in the seventeenth century, their personal letters and papers complemented by the deeds of the property they acquired. The material is also interesting from a wider point of view. There are, for example, various references to the Elections of Members of Parliament for Middlesex, including a letter from Henry Spiller of Laleham in 1695 saying, "I have this day sent to particularly and spoken to myself every person in this parish that I thought a freeholder" (March 4th, 1695?). The results of his canvassing are given in detail. Less information has survived on the plague, however, than one might expect. Pack was apparently in the habit of sending down to Littleton the current Bills of Mortality, but unfortunately none of these have survived, although Edward Wood frequently makes pious and sententious comments on them. There are also interesting sidelights on the political scene, including two detailed accounts of the background of the 1688 deposition, and four political and satirical ballads. It is surprising, however, to see how little the family were affected by the enormous political changes taking place. Edward Wood, for example, made his fortune during the Interregnum but did not suffer from the Restoration when he set himself up as a wealthy landowner in Middlesex.

Records of the Wood Green and Lower Tottenham Conservative Association, including minutes of the Southgate Conservative and Unionist Association; Executive Committee and Entertainments Committee minutes of the Palmers Green Unionist Association; financial accounts for the Wood Green Constitutional Association; Executive and General Purposes Committee minutes for the Women's Constitutional Association Wood Green Branch; and minutes, correspondence and papers relating to ward organisation for the Wood Green and Tottenham Conservative Association.

Minutes of Church Meetings, 1861-1963; minutes of Church Committee, later called Deacon's meeting, 1873-1963; membership roll, 1866-1870; counterfoils of marriage certificates, 1924-1940; documents relating to Church property, 1856-1914; handbill advertising meeting to be held on 18 Aug 1861 in the [small school] rooms "to unite together those friends willing to devote themselves to the establishment of a permanent Religious [Cause] for Protestant Nonconformists at Wood Green, [suited to] the increasing of the village", 1861.

Marriage registers for Wood Green Congregational Church, Lordship Lane, 1912-1940.

Records of Wood Street Compter, later Giltspur Street Compter, 1667-1829, including lists of prisoners; ducie books recording prisoner transfers; care of sick prisoners and apothecaries bills, accounts and other administrative papers.

Papers, 1575-1841, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds, leases and releases, conveyances, wills and probate, fines, bonds, particulars of sale, letters and extracts from parish registers; most relating to land in Edmonton, Standon and the City of London.

Note, account and estimate book of Thomas Wood, carpenter. He worked on the almshouses and school of the Drapers' Company in Mile End left to them by Francis Bancroft in 1728: a substantial portion of the volume contains detailed notes and calculations on the erection and fittings of the buildings to the design of Henry Barratt, architect.

Records of Woodbridge and Sons, solicitors, 1281-1960, including:

*Official records, with papers of the Uxbridge Poor Law Union, Rural Sanitary Authority and Rural District Council, and of the Uxbridge Petty Sessions (members of the firm being clerks to these bodies) and also of the Harlington Tithe Commissioners, whose clerk was William Mercer, a solicitor with no apparent connection with the Woodbridge firm;

*Charity records, comprising account books, minutes, letter books, deeds and papers of the Lords in Trust of the Manor and borough of Uxbridge, later known as the Uxbridge United Charities;

• Administrative records of the firm including account books, salaries books and partnership agreements; and

• Practice papers, which themselves fall into several groups, namely, deeds of property of which the firm became mortgagee, Woodbridge family deeds and private papers, and clients' papers, by far the largest section. A large number of probates, letters of administration and unproved wills were preserved by the firm as a separate class. The rest of the clients' papers are preserved in separate personal or family groups (covering in many cases two or three generations); since many of the documents are title deeds, these bundles have been arranged according to the parish in which their property lay, although where a family owned property in more than one parish, the whole group has been listed under the parish in which the clients resided. An index of places is provided. Original bundling has been preserved although this has sometimes interfered with the logical arrangment. Where necessary for clarification, family trees have been included; although as accurate as possible these do not claim to be comprehensive.