Records 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.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreTitle deeds relating to Highgrove House, Eastcote, Ruislip; including admissions, conveyances, mortgages and leases.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex Militia, comprising monthly pay lists for the Western Regiment and copy of court martial proceedings against the commander of the Westminster Regiment of the Middlesex Militia for misappropriation of pay.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex Sessions of the Peace comprising extracts from minutes of the orders of court relating to County business. The extracts were first made in 1819 for the period 1716-1829. Only two entries were made between 1826 and 1829.
Sans titrePapers, 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.
Sans titreA 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.
Sans titreRecords of the Mills family of Hillingdon, including court rolls for the Manors of Hayes, Northolt, and Northwood; documents relating to property transactions in Middlesex, Westminster and the City of London; maps; sales particulars; marriage settlements; wills; extracts from parish registers and insurance policies.
Sans titreRecords of the Child and Jersey families, including property transactions relating to properties in Norwood, Southall, Hanwell, Heston, Isleworth, and Saint George Hanover Square; sales particulars; tithe records; public utility undertakings; legal papers; estate papers; plans and rentals.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreRecords of the Shorediche family of Ickenham, including historical research on the family covering the years 1324-1740 (compiled 1800?); and letters home from G D Shorediche, a sailor and gold miner, describing his adventures in India and Australia; 1845-1852.
Sans titrePapers of the Child and Jersey families comprising title deeds and property ownership documents for the Manor of Heston; the Manor of Wick, Isleworth; and lands in Heston, Norwood, Southall, Hayes and Isleworth.
Sans titreFarm diary and account book for Swakeleys Farm, Ickenham, Hillingdon, 1842-1884, with references to Herres [or Hercies] Farm, Hillingdon.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreDocuments relating to the Bentley Priory estate in Harrow and Aylwards estate in Great Stanmore; including mortgage, covenants, surrenders, lease and releases, plans, grants, and conveyances.
Sans titreRecords relating to the Hillingdon House Estate, including title deeds for Hillingdon House and estates, and for additional lands added to the estate by various owners including John Chetwynd, the Marchioness of Rockingham, Josias Porcher and R.H. Cox. Documents include maps and plans; extracts from court rolls; wills; abstracts of title; lease and releases; fines; legal case proceedings; bonds; covenants and marriage settlements.
Sans titreFamily papers of the Child and Jersey families of Osterley Park, including:
ACC/0510/097: volume of transcripts of the letters of Edward, Viscount Villiers (later 1st Earl of Jersey), then ambassador at The Hague and envoy to the peace conference at Rijswijk (Ryswick), to Richard Hill, an envoy in Brussels, 1696-1704;
ACC/0510/157-190: correspondence between William, 3rd Earl of Jersey, and Lady Anne Egerton, Duchess of Bedford, his wife, 1733-1750;
ACC/0510/191-234: correspondence of Thomas Villiers (brother of William, 3rd Earl of Jersey) envoy to the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 1739-1746;
ACC/0510/235-256: correspondence and journals of George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, while on Grand Tour in Europe, 1746-1798;
ACC/0510/257-272: correspondence of George Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, relating to estates at Southall and Staines, 1822-1847;
ACC/0510/273-332: correspondence between George Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, his wife Lady Sarah Sophia and their children, 1793-1847;
ACC/0510/333-698: correspondence of Lady Sarah Sophia, the wife of George Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, with various members of the British and European Royal families and notable figures of the day including Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington, 1812-1865;
ACC/0510/702-718: Child family wills, 1694-1793, including Francis Child, Samuel Child and Robert Child;
ACC/0510/719-726: Robert Child's household accounts, 1775-1790;
ACC/0510/727-739: Jersey household accounts, 1720-1726, including receipt books of William, 3rd Earl of Jersey.
PLEASE NOTE: Items ACC/0510/001-096 (original letters of Viscount Villiers to Richard Hill) and ACC/0510/098-156 (correspondence of Matthew Prior) were withdrawn by the depositor in March 2009.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreDocuments relating to premises in Hanwell, including Lawn House. The papers include extracts from court rolls, leases, conveyances and deeds.
Sans titreLegal documents relating to property ownership for premises in Chiswick, Cowley, Ealing, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Hampton, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Hendon, Heston, Hillingdon, Ickenham, Isleworth, Ruislip, South Mimms, Staines, Stanmore, Sunbury, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Stanwell, Harrow, and Northolt. Also copies of wills and probates and papers relating to legal proceedings.
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titrePapers relating to West Drayton, including original presentments of the Customs of the Manor; survey of West Drayton field; records relating to property ownership including extracts from court rolls, fines, bonds, and agreements; letters; legal papers including Chancery proceedings against the Earl of Uxbridge; and papers relating to enclosure in West Drayton.
Papers relating to property in Hillingdon, Harlington and Cranford, comprising bond, articles of agreement, extracts from court rolls, assignments and indentures of fines.
Sans titreRecords of the Broad Street/Richmond Line Joint Committee, including minutes of meeting of the Joint Committee; minutes of meetings with Members of Parliament including the Minister of Transport; correspondence; press releases and publicity material; financial records; Hansard reports on the Parliamentary debate on railways; and press cuttings.
Sans titreRecords of the Cowdray Club, also known as the Nation's Nurses and Professional Women's Club. The records consist of a complete set of council and committee minutes and detailed membership records, including notes on links with other women's clubs such as the University Women's Club and the VAD Ladies Club. The collection also includes some photographs, newscuttings, annual reports, and plans of the club building.
Sans titreRecords of the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy, including minutes and agendas; correspondence; memoranda; financial accounts; sermons; reports; advertising material; scrapbooks; and ephemera relating to the festival (handbills, orders of service, tickets, invitations and so on).
Sans titreRecords of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London including records from the governance bodies of the Fund, including the minutes of the General Council and annual reports. There are also significant correspondence files from the offices of the King's Fund paid secretaries. The material dates mainly from the 20th Century, with a very small amount from the late 19th Century reflecting the very beginnings of the Fund.
Committee records includes minutes, agendas and committee documents as well as extensive runs of institution files from committees such as the Convalescent Homes, Auxiliary Hospitals, Distribution and other grant giving committees which not only give information on the type support the Fund were giving at various points in time but also reflect changes in the needs of hospitals, convalescent homes and other health care related institutions and the introduction of new equipment and methods of delivering health care services.
Included also are the visitors reports on individual hospitals, Information relating to the King's Fund role in specialised initiatives such as its involvement in the purchase and distribution of radium for use in London hospitals, the opening of half-way homes for the aged sick and supplying garden advisors to assist in providing pleasing open spaces within hospital grounds.
The Fund's influence in the development of health care policy and in developing new initiatives can be seen in records such as the King's Fund Institute and the King's Fund Organisational Audit. There is also an extensive series of project files which reflect a huge range of diversity in the needs of hosptials, health care providers, patients and staff. The project files also include records of arguable the Fund's most famous project whereby it produced a specification for the King's Fund bed and the project files whereby it revisited the bedstead in celebration of its centenary.
Financial records include a substantial series of legacy files reflecting the philanthropic bequests of donors throughout the 20th Century and the decline of legacy giving as a means of supporting charities in more recent years.
There are records reflecting the Fund's commitment to improving hospital administration such as those relating to the Colleges and the King's Fund Centre that were established in the 1950s and 1960s when the Fund began to provide educational, training and development opportunites and to be a place to stimulate and improve hospital services.
Sans titreRecords of Kennington National Schools, later known as Saint Mark Kennington Schools, including records relating to the management of the schools such as minutes of the Management Committee and correspondence; financial records; pupils' records including log books and admission registers and a history of the schools.
Sans titreCollection of deeds, correspondence, and plans relating to premises in Kensington and Southwark.
Sans titrePapers relating to Lambeth Infirmary, later Lambeth Hospital, presented by Norah B. Wallis, Matron, 1919-1945, including dietary plans, notes on 'Training to become a nurse in 1906', hospital notices, statistics, reports, architectural plans, articles and photographs of wards and staff.
Sans titreRecords of Archbishop Tenison's Secondary School for Boys, including deeds of title; leases; minutes; financial accounts; reports; vouchers mainly for repairs and taxes; correspondence; property management; records of boys admitted, school work and functions; the will of Archbishop Tenison and notes on his life; and records relating to the parish of Saint Martin in the Fields.
Sans titreRecords of the Archbishop Tenison's Secondary School for Girls including deeds of title; leases; financial accounts; vouchers; plans; reports and returns on school by and to authorities e.g. Board of Education; Headmistress's reports to Managers; logbooks; reports; Headmistress's correspondence.
Also papers of Lambeth Subscription Girls' School including deeds of title; minutes; financial accounts and voucher.
Papers of the Lambeth Head Teachers' Conferences including minutes, financial accounts and correspondence.
Sans titreRecords of the Save the Broad Street / Richmond Line (Hampstead) Committee, including minutes, agendas, correspondence, leaflets, petition forms and financial records.
Sans titreRecords of the London Chess Club, including volume of minutes; lists of members and financial accounts.
Sans titreRecords of the London Dispensary, including minutes, correspondence, deeds and leases, annual reports and financial accounts.
Sans titreRecords of the British Anti-State Church Association, later known as the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State-Patronage and Control or the Liberation Society. Records include minutes of the Executive Committee and the Parliamentary Committee; reports and memoranda; annual reports; lists of members, officers and executive; correspondence relating to legacies; financial records; leases for offices; legal opinions; papers relating to burial grounds; copies of relevant Acts of Parliament; printed material such as publications, magazines, addresses, circulars and pamphlets; photographs; and press cuttings.
Sans titreRecords of the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, including minutes, agendas and financial records.
Sans titreRecords of Archishop Temple's Boys School, Lambeth, including deeds relating to the school; minute books; financial accounts; plans of the school; Headmasters' reports; registers of admissions; log books; staff meeting minute books; and list of headmasters.
Sans titreRecords of the London Master Builders' Association, including minutes of the council and committees; minutes, reports and papers of conciliation boards and panels; minutes of officers' meetings; constitution and rules; membership records; papers relating to disputes and lawsuits; Association publications.
Also papers of the Builders' Benevolent Institution, including minutes, annual reports and ledgers; and papers of the Builders' Clerks Benevolent Institution, including minutes, committee attendance books and annual reports.
Sans titreRecords of the Bethnal Green Poor Lands Trust including deeds of title; appointments of new trustees; leases and counterpart leases; minutes of the trustees; orders of the Charity Commissioners; accounts; correspondence and case papers; records of pensioners and printed copies of the 1690 foundation deed.
Sans titrePapers of Rotherhithe Charity School, comprising vouchers, subscription lists, and financial accounts of the Treasurer and Schoolmaster.
From these documents it would appear that subscriptions were collected and the schoolmaster's accounts submitted quarterly, and the treasurer's account made up from these and other documents half-yearly. Though some of the vouchers relate to the schoolmaster's accounts, others presumably belong to treasurer's accounts no longer extant; all have been placed in quarterly bundles, since conclusive evidence on the original arrangement is lacking.
Sans titrePapers of the 2nd Middlesex Volunteer Artillery, comprising orders relating to the royal review of volunteers, 1899, and observations on the regimental camp.
Sans titrePapers, 1851-1938, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Old Brentford, the Parish of Ealing, the Manor and Parish of Isleworth, and papers of Montgomery Family relating to premises in Acton, Brentford and Twickenham. Papers include conveyances, mortgages, deeds of settlement, assignments, probates of wills, memoranda and letters of administration.
Sans titreRecords of Topsfield Manor, Crouch End, Hornsey, including court book, 1683-1885, including tenants names and steward's notes; plan of the manor house, gardens, out buildings, demesne lands and fields, 1781; conveyance of the manor and lordship of Topsfield Hall, 1855 and particulars of sale for the Harringay Arms and other premises in Crouch Hill and Crouch End Broadway.
Sans titreRecords of George Clement relating to property in Teddington.
Sans titreRecords of Charles Johnston, businessman, including property transactions, probates and administrations; papers relating to Johnston's marriage settlement; correspondence; financial accounts; sales catalogues; papers relating to charities in Cheshunt; papers regarding Johnston's insanity and his financial affairs; letters to Johnston in his capacity as the chairman of the English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank; papers of the New Granada Company including annual reports, prospectus, correspondence, shares and papers relating to liquidation.
Also papers of Edmund Johnston including property transactions, financial records and papers relating to his estate.
Sans titreRecords of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, including minutes of Board Meetings, Committee Minutes and Shareholders Meetings; indexes to minutes.
Sans titreRecords of the City and South London Railway (formerly the City of London and Southwark Subway Company), comprising Board meetings minutes and General meetings minutes; volume of monthly reports giving Operating Statistics of the City and South London and Central London Railway Companies and volume of monthly reports relating to the generating stations at Stockwell (City and South London Railway) and Shepherds Bush (City London Railway).
Sans titreRecords of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, comprising Board meeting minutes and General meetings minutes.
Sans titre