Records of the Lake family relating to a property in Hounslow, called the Longhouse, including extracts from court rolls for the Manor of Twickenham; bonds; agreements; and receipts for quit rent.
Various.Copies of contracts and notarial certificate documenting the sale of a house at Burgschmietstrasse 12, Nuremberg, property of Max and Frieda Landenberger, to Gauleiter Hölz for the sum of RM 4,000 and a summary of the event, 4 Dec 1938-27 Feb 1939. This collection is an example of the way in which the Nazis forcibly appropriated Jewish property under the guise of a legitimate transaction into which both parties freely entered.
Landenberger , Max , fl 1938-1939Records of the Larmite family relating to premises in Finchley. Documents include conveyances, lease and releases, abstracts of title, wills and probates, bargain and sales, mortgages, feoffment and papers relating to enclosure.
Various.Records of the Le Neve family, including deeds for properties in Southwark; documents relating to the bankruptcy of Edwin Morgan of 6 Three Crown Square, hop merchant; and agreement for custody of a mentally sick person.
Various.Letters of the Lee family, comprising letter from Thomas Martyn to Sir William Lee of Aylesbury thanking him for having recommended him for the living of Edgware, 1788; letter to the Morning Herald newspaper regarding the building of almshouses at Edgware by Charles Day, probably written by Philadelphia Lee, 1828; and letter from Thomas Wall, vicar of Edgware, to John Lee, lord of manor of Edgware Boys, 1859.
Various.Records of the Lethbridge family relating to their estates in Southwark and the City of London, including the Manor of Paris Garden.
Various.Title deeds and plans concerning the estate of Richard Lowndes, relating to property in Carnaby Street, Chesham Street, William Street, William Mews, Harriet Mews and Lowndes Square; all in Westminster.
Lowndes , family , of WestminsterRecords of the Bingham family, barons Lucan, relating to their estates in Laleham, Chertsey and Staines. The records include court rolls for the Manor of Laleham; estate correspondence; papers relating to the managements of the estate such as inventory of crops; financial records and accounts; rent accounts; plans of the Laleham estates; legal documents relating to title to the estates such as deeds, leases, wills and settlements; papers relating to leases of parts of the estate including advertisements and agreements; legal papers including King's Bench and Chancery proceedings.
Bingham , family , of Laleham x barons LucanPapers relating to property owned by the Lyon family in Turnham Green, Chiswick, including assignments, mortgage, and demise.
Lyon , family , of Turnham GreenRecords of the Mann family, comprising title deeds for premises in Isleworth.
Mann , family , market gardeners of IsleworthRecords relating to property ownership, including leases of premises in Ealing and Chiswick; probates of wills; and extracts from court rolls of the Manor of Hanwell.
Manor of HanwellRecords of the Maryon-Wilson family relating to their estates and property holdings. Papers relating to the Manor of Charlton include rentals, correspondence, agreements, court rolls, deeds, leases, legal papers, papers relating to the Woolwich ferry and the Thames Steam Boat Company, plans of the estate, tithes and papers relating to the Charlton churches of St Luke, St Thomas and St Paul, photographs of Charlton House, and papers relating to the Blackheath regiment.
Papers relating to the Manor of Hampstead include court rolls and minutes, admissions and enfranchisements, licence books, plans and surveys, leases, papers relating to the Hampstead Heath Act, and family papers.
The collection includes a small number of documents relating to the family estates in Sussex and Essex.
Wilson , Maryon- , family , of Charlton, Hampstead and Essex x Maryon-Wilson , familyRecords of the Maxse family relating to property in Marylebone, Hanover Square, Westminster and Kensington.
Maxse , James , 1792-1864 , landowner Maxse , Frederick Augustus , 1833-1900 , admiralPapers of the McIntosh family relating to property transactions. Properties mentioned are in Bromley by Bow, Stepney, Limehouse, Shoreditch, Haggerston, and Bow Common. The premises include a soap factory in Stepney and factories at Bow Common.
McIntosh , David , d 1881 , property ownerRecords of the Meniconi family relating to property owned by them at Ashford, Shepperton, Staines and Sunbury. Documents include extracts from court rolls for the Manor of Sunbury; copies of wills; title deeds; plans and abstracts of title.
Various.Records relating to Lismore Lodge, 31 Cole Park Road, Twickenham, including list of deeds, lease, mortgages, assignments, conveyances and abstracts of title.
Miall , Stephen , fl 1911-1920 , solicitorA collection of documents relating to Middlesex and Westminster, including property conveyances, marriage settlements, wills and court papers.
Various.These records relate mostly to the estates of the Mitchison family and their relations in Middlesex, London, Northumberland, Surrey and elsewhere, which were managed by William Anthony Mitchison, the elder, on behalf of his father John Mitchison, the elder, his brother John Mitchison, the younger, and himself in the mid and late nineteenth century. The remainder of the accession is composed of private papers of members of the Mitchison family. These are generally draft marriage settlements, drafts wills, and draft executors' papers. There are also some papers relating to trusts and shares. The private papers of John Mitchison the younger include, besides papers relating to the inquiry into his state of mind, transcripts of accounts of his estate from 1856-99, and records relating to his establishment in Brighton.
This accession was originally composed of forty bundles, bearing solicitors' numbering on the wrapper, where these remained. Most also bore labels giving a rough summary of the contents-not always correct-the sectors' number and a title assigning it to a member of the Mitchison, Maw or Sturges family (ref: ACC/1156/154). These have been used as sectional headings in the catalogue, and where the label does not survive, or is defective, the bundle has been assigned to the member of the family who from the contents, seems likely to have been the original assignee. In a few cases, new titles have had to be substituted, as in 178, 191-3. Inside each bundle was one or more bundles which form the basic unit of this list. A corresponding list of the original larger bundles with the new numbering of the inner bundles is appended. Bundles 807, 813 and 868 appear to be incomplete. The contents of the bundles are largely draft deeds, mostly leases and affidavits, and correspondence. As solicitors' drafts, the information given in the draft affidavits is on occasions contradictory or misleading. There are a few original deeds, inducing a small number of conveyances. In several bundles, stamps are missing from correspondence.
Mitchison , family , of LondonThe copy correspondence and papers in this collection document the systematic theft of Jewish property following the ransacking of Jewish lodges, libraries and archives; the subsequent confiscation of all art works in Jewish hands throughout Europe and their dispatch to Germany in special trains; and the plunder of the homes of Jews deported to the East collectively known in Germany as 'Möbelaktion'.
United Restitution OfficeRecords relating to property, especially deeds for 31 Leinster Gardens, Paddington (formerly No. 20). Also some papers relating to houses at White Hart Lane, Tottenham and 4-8 Booth Street, Spitalfields, owned by the Morrell family.
Various.Copy of Court Roll for the Manor of Enfield, 1768; and sessions paper from the Middlesex Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1708.
Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the PeaceRecords relating to properties owned by the Bonney and Nevinson families in St James, Westminster; St George Hanover Square; and Marylebone.
The remaining documents do not appear to be connected with the main group. However, since the series of deeds for the property in St James Westminster, at least, are clearly incomplete, it may be that the two groups are related, though the link is not now apparent.
Nevinson , family , of LondonRecords of the Newdigate [later Newdegate] family relating to their manors of Harefield, Moorhall and Brackenbury, including court rolls, rentals and rent rolls, lists of tenants, surveys, financial accounts, surveys, maps and plans, and legal case papers (cases in Chancery and Common Pleas). Also papers regarding a visit to Harefield by Queen Elizabeth I in 1602; election diary of Sir Roger Newdigate, MP for Middlesex 1741-47; papers relating to the lecturer's house at Uxbridge; papers relating to the Uxbridge Yeomanry, captained by Charles Newdigate; and papers relating to Harefield Church. Also some papers relating to family property in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Hampton, Ickenham and Hillingdon.
Newdigate , family , of Harefield x Newdegate , family , of HarefieldRecords relating to properties owned by the Combes and Newman families in Harlington, Hayes and Cranford. Documents include a marriage settlement, demise, lease, release, undertaking, plans, and extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Hurlington with Shepiston.
Various.Records of Josiah Hignell Newman including certificate of payment of duty on 3 Amy Villas, Hounslow, 1903; and counterpart building leases granted by Newman for sites on Hammond Road, Southall, 1899-1900.
Newman , Josiah HignellPapers of John Newton, brewer, relating to property purchases in Brentford, Isleworth and Twickenham.
Newton , John , fl 1815-1816 , brewerRecords of Moses Levy Newton, mostly papers relating to properties in the City of London and Westminster, with some mercantile business and private papers.
Newton , Moses Levy , d 1823 , merchantThis collection consists of title deeds relating to property in Hendon and Totteridge owned by the Nicoll family.
Various.Personal property records of Baptist Wriothesley Noel relating to premises in Hampton and Enfield.
Noel , familyPapers of the Nokes family, mostly relating to property in the City of London, Newington and Shoreditch, but also copies of certificates (baptisms, marriages, deaths) and copies of wills and probates.
Nokes , family , of NewingtonCollection of deeds and papers relating to the site of Nomura House, no.1 St Martin le Grand (the former General Post Office building). The Library does not hold any records relating to the Nomura's operation as a Japanese bank; the only records held relate to the site of Nomura House.
The collection also includes deeds which do not appear to relate to the site of no.1 St Martin le Grand, although they may have been acquired by the Postmaster General.
Various.The records of the Marquess of Northampton's London Estates in Holloway and Canonbury form a considerable collection of material from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries relating to the development of Islington.
Estate Records (E/NOR/E): These relate almost entirely to the Northampton Estates in London in Clerkenwell and Canonbury, Islington. There is a fine series of eighteenth century rentals and accounts which extend into the twentieth century. These can be used in conjunction with the leases and maps in E/NOR/L.
Also included in this section are records of Estate administration in the twentieth century, relating to legislation under the Housing Acts of 1925, 1930 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, together with more local orders by Finsbury Justices. In particular, there is a lot of material relating to the Clearance of the Northampton Road area in the 1930s and the building of new flats in Canonbury via the Compton Housing Association in the same decade. By 1954 at least part of the Canonbury Estate had been sold by the Northampton trustees to property companies Western Ground Rents and the Oriel Property Trust.
The development of the Canonbury Estate is outlined in the Victoria County History of Middlesex vol VIII pp 54,55.
Leases (E/NOR/L): There are a number of schedules of leases giving an insight into the running of the Estates in the nineteenth century; these are complemented by the Maps of Estates which vary in date from 1809 to 1947 (E/NOR/L/2), the maps in the Map and Print Section of the LMA, and Estate Records mentioned above.
The leases have been split into two groups: one covering the geographical area of Clerkenwell (E/NOR/L/3) and one covering Canonbury (E/NOR/L/4). They include documents from all forms of transfer of property and other related records: bargain and sale, demises, assignments, abstracts of title, building agreements, mortgages. Most of these have been kept in original bundles where possible.
For ease of access the leases have been listed in alphabetical order of streets and within each street by the numbered property. An attempt has been made to give alternative street names. Similarly cross references to properties mentioned in other deeds have been added. However, it has not been possible (or considered necessary) to produce a totally comprehensive appendix of street numbering changes. Individual instances of street numbering can be further clarified by reference to the LCC's published Names of Streets and Places and the accompanying list of Street Naming and Numbering records in the Catalogue Room.
Many of the nineteenth century leases have plans on them, but a number of separate plans of buildings are included separately at the end of the leases section (E/NOR/L/5).
Among the leases of Clerkenwell properties belonging to the Marquess of Northampton are the London Spa, Wilmington Square, Exmouth Market, the Sheep Skin Market at Woods Close, and Northampton Square.
Canonbury leases include Canonbury Tower, Canonbury House, Canonbury Square and Northampton House. Pevsner describes Canonbury as "especially illuminating for the development of domestic building in London."
Other Records: Apart from the Estate Records there are a number of significant small collections and individual items in this archive.
The Sheep Skin Market run by the Skinners Company in Woods Close is documented by three volumes of market books 1754-1772 (E/NOR/S/1-3).
Among items of local historical interest there are photographs of Canonbury (E/NOR/X) and a small amount of printed material on Clerkenwell including a History of Spa Fields Burial Ground (E/NOR/Y/2), and a sketch of Finsbury Health Centre (E/NOR/Y/7).
Away from Clerkenwell and Canonbury, there are some records concerning the Northampton family's involvement in the Ragged School at Hertford Place, Mile End Old Town (E/NOR/R) and the Northampton Training Ship (E/NOR/Y/8).
Compton , family , marquesses of NorthamptonRecords of the manor of Isleworth Syon, including court rolls, court books, court minutes and papers, property transaction licences and general papers.
Records of the manor of East Bedfont with Hatton Manor, including court rolls, court books, court minutes and papers, call papers and appearance papers.
Manor of Isleworth Syon , Corporation of LondonRecords of the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, including court books (court leet and court baron); minute book and custumal. Records of the Manor of Harrow Rectory, including court books (court leet and court baron) and minute book. Records of both manors including quit rent books; account books; steward's papers; voters lists and enclosure records. Also sales particulars for premises at Roxeth, Alperton and Northolt.
Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury Manor of Harrow Rectory alias Harrow-on-the-HillPapers of the Northwick family relating to the manors of Harrow alias Sudbury and Harrow Rectory alias Harrow-on-the-Hill, including court rolls, financial accounts, rentals, surveys, papers relating to the livings and churches of Harrow and Pinner, papers relating to Harrow School, family papers including correspondence, and papers relating to property owned by the family in Bloomsbury, Shoreditch, the City of London, and Paddington.
Various.Records relating to properties in Charles Street, Hampstead Road, Saint Pancras, including leases, assignments and mortgages.
Oetzmann and Co , furniture and carpet sellersThe collection comprises title deeds relating to land owned by the Benn-Walsh family, barons Ormathwaite, in Marylebone, Westminster, Stepney, Essex, Buckinghamshire and County Durham.
Walsh , Benn- , family , Barons of Ormathwaite x Benn-WalshRecords of the Paddington Estate comprising a survey of the estate and rentals and financial accounts of the estate trustees.
Manor of Paddington x Paddington EstateRecords of the Page family relating to property including the Manor of Uxendon, and premises in Wembley, Harrow on the Hill, Preston, Willesden and Kenton.
Page , family , of Uxendon, Harrow Manor of UxendonRecords of the Paine family relating to properties owned by the family in Deptford and Forest Hill, with some family papers including certificates and letters.
Paine , family , of DeptfordRecords of Paris Garden Manor, Southwark, including title deeds such as morgages, leases, and releases; probates, wills and letters of administration; courts leet and courts baron books; court minute books; licence books; lists of copyholders; papers relating to tenants; and map of the manor.
Manor of Paris Garden , SouthwarkRecords of the Manor of Sunbury and other property of John Cornelius Park in Sunbury, Teddington and Walton, and records of the Pride family in Hendon, Golders Green and Streatham. The records include court rolls, court books, surveys, book of customs, plans, papers relating to stewards, deeds and other property ownership documents, legal papers and financial records.
Various.Records of the Partridge family, comprising title deeds for premises in Hendon and Edgware, including exemplification of common recovery; copies of court rolls; leases and releases; land tax certificates; and mortgages.
Various.Papers of the trustees of the will of Jonathan Passingham, relating to the management of Heston Farm, North Hyde Farm, and the Depot Estates, Heston.
Various.Title deeds for properties in Brixton, Sydenham, Herne Hill, Tooting, and East Dulwich.
Various.Records of the Peacock family relating to property in Hornsey, Highgate, Muswell Hill and Finchley; including title deeds, probates, settlements, abstract of title and legal proceedings.
Various.Papers of the Penhall family relating to property owned by them in Lisson Grove, St Marylebone and Tottenham Street, St Pancras.
N.B. Street numbering of premises in Lisson Grove/Lisson Grove North appear to have altered between c 1836 and {1856}. A subsequent change was made by an order of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 8 February 1878, Plan No.2074.
Penhall , family , of SussexThis collection consists mainly of property records (such as assignments, probates, leases and mortgages) relating to premises in Middlesex and London. It also contains twentieth-century sales catalogues and advertising brochures for properties.
Various.Records relating to property, comprising title deeds to Oxgate Farm, Willesden; and title deeds, inventories, sales particulars and abstracts of title for premises in Twickenham, Kingsbury, Finchley and Chiswick. Also probate of will of Honorable Dorothy Charlotte Montagu of Hampton Court, 1821-1843.
Various.Papers relating to the estate of Daniel Phillips of Bedfont, 1892-1929, including title deeds, solicitors' bills, trustees papers and bank books; and to the estate of his niece, Mary Elizabeth Phillips of Tottenham, {1792}-1925, including title deeds, letters, inland revenue forms, annual accounts, bank books and household accounts.
Phillips , family , of Bedfont and Tottenham