Papers of Eleazer Gidney, 1824, comprising a manuscript of Treatise on the Structure, Diseases and Management of the Human Teeth; and a certificate of copyright dated 14 May 1824 for registration of Treatise on the Structure, Diseases and Management of the Teeth, awarded by the Clerk of the Northern District of New York.
Gidney , Eleazer , 1797-1876 , dentist x Gedney , EleazerRecords relating to the Gill family property and farming business, including property in Deptford and two farms in Elham, Kent.
Gill , family , of KentPapers collected by the bankers in the course of their work, comprising declaration of trust stating that annuity of £220 purchased by William L. Johnson of Camberwell to be held in trust for Mary A. Wood of Hadley, widow of George Wood and William L. Wood of Horton House, Berkshire, army major, by David Jennings of Essex Street, Strand, solicitor, 1834; articles of partnership, establishing partnership in barge-building business (to be known as 'Recknell and White') between William Recknell of High Street, Old Brentford, barge builder and Frederick White of Long Ditton, Surrey, barge builder, 1874; probate of will of George Howell of 33 (formerly 69) Sunnyside Road, Hornsey Rise, carpenter; made 5 July 1878; mortgage for piece of land at Northwood in Ruislip parish (now Murray Road), 1889.
Glyn Mills and Company , bankersPapers of the Gordon family of Letterfourie, Banffshire, Scotland, relating to their merchant interests and financial matters, 1735-[1800], comprising, including a bond in £250 of 1735 discharged in 1751 by James Gordon and his son Patrick to John Gordon; two letters from Strauss & Schmidt, Lisbon, to James Gordon, 1763; an invoice and bill of lading, dated Oct 1770, for goods shipped on the Hambro Packet from Hamburg by order of Alexander Gordon & Co., Madeira; a letter from C. Grant, Edinburgh, to James Gordon, 7 Dec 1785; two receipts of 1799 for money paid by a Mrs. Gordon; and a letter from James and Alexander Gordon at school to their parents in Letterfourie, [1800].
The collection also contains material not apparently relating to the Gordon family: accounts of John Scott, vintner in Portsoy, 'for Letterfouries servants and horses when sundry times in Banff', 22 Dec 1798-3 Jun 1799; a 'Certificate of the term of payment of Lady Fraiser [of Durris]'s annuities, 19 Nov 1776, signed by the town clerk of Aberdeen; and a receipt of 1780 for payment for goods bought from E. Fielder, stationer, London, by a Mr. Ruddick. The connection between the Gordon items and the last two items is unknown.
Records of Hendon Magistrates' Court, 1873-1992 and Harrow (Wealdstone) Magistrates' Court, 1889-1934. Records of Hendon Magistrates' Court include: court registers (Hendon, Edgware and Harrow Courts); registers of juvenile, income tax and matrimonial cases; court minute books; licensing registers and bail forms. Records of Harrow (Wealdstone) Magistrates' Court include: court registers; Justices' Quarterly Meeting minute books and petitions.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Domestic / matrimonial cases: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.
Hendon Magistrates Court Harrow Magistrates CourtTitle deeds and other papers relating to the Gort family estates in London, the Isle of Wight and Ireland.
E/GOR/1-174 comprise documents relating mainly to Gresse Street, Stephen Street, Percy Street and Tottenham Court Road, St Pancras, London. E/GOR/175-243 comprise documents relating to East Cowes Castle Estate and other properties at Whippingham and East Cowes, Isle of Wight. E/GOR/244-263 comprise documents relating mainly to Oatlands and Roxborough, Co Limerick, Ireland.
Each of these sections is further divided into: (i) marriage settlements, probates, and other documents listed by person, which cannot be related to a specific property; and (ii) documents listed by property. Except in listing the original numbered series, sub-numbering has only been used where an item was originally enclosed inside another item.
E/GOR/59-174 form an original numbered series. The series contains a few conveyances but consists mainly of licences to demise granted by the Lord of the Manor of Tottenham to a trustee under the will of John Jones, leases made by the trustees under the same will, and assignments of leases.
The properties were held in trust for his daughter, Elizabeth Mary, wife of George Tudor (who was also one of the trustees) and later wife of John Prendergast, Viscount Gort. Each group of deeds relating to a property has an original number (marked in red ink on some of the documents) making it a part of an original series consecutively numbered.
Within this number series the series is ordered by street and then by street number, although occasionally a document relates to different properties in different streets. Many of the documents are not numbered but were found with numbered documents relating to the same properties. This particularly applies to the licences.
Vereker , family , Viscounts GortPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and counterpart lease for a house and garden intended to be called 39 Alfred Road, Acton, 1 May 1880 and mortgage for the same property, 3 May 1880.
Gould and Swayne , solicitorsPapers, 1731-1865, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds relating to premises in Ealing, Saint Marylebone, Hampstead and the City of London; letters of administration and probates of wills, articles of partnership in a glove making business and other legal papers.
Gray, Dodsworth and Cobb , solicitorsRecords of the Great Central Gas Consumers Company, 1846-1870, including certificate of formal registration of the company; reports of the Company's Directors; bills of costs in various legal transactions and suits; correspondence agreements; contracts for lighting various parishes; deeds and plans for various premises.
Great Central Gas Consumers CompanyRecords of the Great Western Railway, comprising agreements regarding siding accommodation near Brentford Station, 1930-1932.
Great Western RailwayGreat Winchester Street Estates Limited records comprise annual reports, accounts, plans, and tenancy agreements.
Great Winchester Street Estates LtdRecords relating to Mary Green, comprising apprenticeship indenture; instructions to Mary Green at time of her apprenticeship directing her to good behaviour and industry; certificate from Foundling Hospital of satisfactory completion of apprenticeship by Mary Green; printed advice and guidance for her future life presented to Mary Green by Foundling Hospital.
Foundling HospitalRecords of the Greenhill family of the City of London, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex and Oxfordshire, comprising deeds, legal papers, probate records and related items. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1977.
Greenhill , familyRecords of Greenwich Magistrates Court, 1914-1968, 1974-1975, including court registers; maintenance arrears cases; motoring offences and civil debt cases.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.
Greenwich Magistrates CourtPapers, 1867-1909, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases and agreements relating to properties in Shepperton; Halliford; Littleton; Weybridge; Chertsey, Chobham, Addlestone; Byfleet and Bournemouth, Hampshire. The documents include leases of farmland owned by William Schaw Lindsay, owner of the Manor House, Shepperton.
Gregory, Rowcliffe and Company , solicitorsRecords of Gresham House Estate Company Limited and subsidiaries Broad Street Estates Limited and Great Winchester Street Estates Limited; comprising minutes and financial material, correspondence, rent rolls and other tenancy material and plans.
VariousRecords of solicitors Guillaume and Sons comprising letter books, client ledgers, day and cash books and client deeds relating to properties in Nightingale Road, Hampton on Thames, including conveyances and mortgages.
Guillaume and Sons , solicitorsPapers, 1898, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising plan of Greenhill Park, Willesden, showing proposed roads and building plots.
Gustavus Thompson and Company , solicitorsRecords relating to Hagen family property in Wapping and Bermondsey, comprising bills, receipts and plans.
Hagen , family , of LondonPapers, 1895-1976, collected by the Halifax Building Society in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 368 High Road, Chiswick; including leases, assignment of lease, abstract of title, conveyances, deed of covenant and agreements.
Halifax Building SocietyThis collection, originally belonging to Bernard Halliday, Leicester, consists mainly of property records relating to the City of London; Chelsea; Finsbury; Fulham; Hackney; Hammersmith; Hampstead; Holborn; Islington; Kensington; Paddington; Poplar; Saint Marylebone; Saint Pancras; Shoreditch; Stepney and Westminster.
Various.Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title of Edmondsons Limited to freehold land in Edmonton, including plans, 1871-1906.
Halls , solicitorsRecords of the Hamborough family relating to their estates in Stanwell, West Bedfont, East Bedfont and Staines, including orders and awards of the manor of Stanwell and Sheepcot alias Hammonds; title deeds; sales particulars; legal papers; wills, bequests and probates; tithes; tax certificates.
Hamborough , family , of StanwellPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease by Doctor J. Menzies to Miss Sophia Russell of 181 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, with marginal plan, 21 Dec 1888; lease by Mayor and Commonalty of City of London to the Reverend Thomas Tylee of Victoria Mission Hall and numbers 10 and 12 Lancaster Street, Southwark, with marginal plan, 25 Jun 1901 and release concerning will of Canon J.G. Cromwell, 16 Dec 1908.
Hammond, Clark and Damon , solicitorsRecords of Hampstead Petty Sessional Division, 1867-1991, including court minute books; court registers; registers of summonses and orders; registers of offenders placed on probation; juvenile court registers; adoption registers; licensing registers and justices signing-in books.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Hampstead Petty Sessional DivisionPapers, 1907-1923, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Deans Road, Seward Road, Cuckoo Lane and Park Road (at one time Cowper Road), Hanwell and St Kilda Road, Ealing; including conveyances and mortgages.
Hanburg, Brooks and Weston , solicitorsThis collection consists of title deeds, wills and other property records relating to premises in London and Middlesex. Please use microfilm.
Various.Title deeds for properties in London and Middlesex; including bargain and sales, assignments, conveyances, mortgages, leases and covenants. Note: please use microfilm.
Various.Title deeds and property transfer papers relating to the Harman family property in Uxbridge, including the brewery premises and public houses.
Harman , family , of UxbridgeSales particulars, 1834-1947, for the following properties:
- 35 and 36 Foley Street, Regent Street, Saint Marylebone
- 5-storey building, Buckingham Street, Strand, Westminster; with plan and elevation.
- 16 and 17 Kings Parade, Kings Road, Chelsea.
- Estate in Frederick Street, Hampstead Road, Saint Pancras, including a brewery; with plan.
- Suite of chambers, Albany, Piccadilly, Westminster.
- 133 Barnsbury Road, Islington; house and shop.
- 6 Holford Place, Pentonville, Finsbury.
- 2 Pont Street, Belgravia, Westminster.
- 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 Malden Crescent, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras and adjacent land; with plan.
- The Queen's Arms, Weston Street, Southwark, with adjoining building land. Land and vaults at Maze Street and Saint Thomas Street, Southwark; with plan.
- 6 Euston Square, Saint Pancras with stabling in Seymour Row.
- 110 and 116 High Street, Poplar. Houses and shops; with plan.
- Building estate, Clifton Road, New Cross, Deptford; with plan.
- 166, 168 and 170 Park Road, Crouch End.
- Building land at Chapel Road, Church Road, Mitcham.
- 5, 7, 10, 12 and 14 Linscott Road, Lower Clapton, Hackney.
- 126 and 127 High Street, Whitechapel, Stepney. Bank, office and warehouse premises.
- Pedrail Transport Works on the corner of Wyfold Rd, and Kingwood Road, Fulham.
- 40-46 and 60-72 (even) Bowland Road, Clapham, formerly Crescent Road, Clapham, Wandsworth.
- 26-40 (even) Balham New Road, Balham, Wandsworth.
- 311-321 (odd) York Road, 254-260 (even) York Road, Lambeth, 61-63 (odd) Battersea Park Rd, Battersea.
- 'Collingtree' 68 Norbury Crescent, Norbury.
- 93 Finchley Road, Hampstead.
- 31 and 35-53 (odd) Pendle Road, 35-41 (odd) Penrith Road, 30 and 32 Parklands Road, Streatham, Wandsworth.
- Property known as 'Clarence Cinema', Hackney in Mare Street at the junction of Clarence Road and Lower Clapton Road, Hackney; with plan.
- 'Neilgherry' 77 Stanhope Avenue, Finchley.
- 8 Balham Hill, Balham, Wandsworth; with plan.
- 11 Motcomb Street, Belgrave Sq., Westminster; corner shop premises.
- Details of forthcoming auction sales.
- Royal Parcel Mail Yard, 11-29 Seward Street, Goswell Road, Finsbury; stabling and cottages; with plan.
- 129, 131 and 133 Mare Street, Hackney; with plan.
- Building site at 11-29 (odd) Seward Street, Goswell Road, Finsbury; with plan.
- 21 Culmore Road, 123 and 125 Asylum Rd 18, 20 and 22 Marmont Road, Peckham, Camberwell.
- 10 St James Street, Bedford Row, Westminster; with plan and photograph
- 1 Fleming Road, Walworth, Southwark.
- Site and premises and 10 houses 65, 66, 67 and 68 George Street, and 80, 82, 86, 88, 90 and 92 Euston Street, at Euston, Saint Pancras; with plan.
- 41 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea.
- 'Clarence House' Mare Street, Hackney.
- 'Villa Bellevue' 23 Umfreville Road, Green Lanes, Harringey.
- 127 Fortess Road, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras; shop premises.
- 'The Poplars' 159 Upper Brockley Road, Brockley, Lewisham; houses and garages; with plan.
- 1 and 3 Bannockburn Road, Plumstead 139 Maxey Road, Plumstead, 13 and 15 Abbey Grove, Abbey Wood.
Records of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited relating to London and international properties; including reports; financial accounts; correspondence; deeds, leases and circulars.
Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd , traders in tea, coffee, rubber, timber, chemicals, and other agricultural productsPapers relating to Harry Hart and family, 1789-1842, including copies of the wills of Robert Norris, 1816, and of Ann Henwell Morris, 1820; letters of attorney and affidavits by James Maxwell of Kingston, Jamaica, in favour of Clara Maxwell of London, 1822; grants by royal letters patent to Robert Salmon, surveyor, his executors, administrators and assigns, of the sole benefits and profits of the invention of 'Mathematic principled safe and easy trusses of the Relief and Cure of Ruptures' for 14 years in Scotland only, 1807; deed of co-partnership in the patent and manufacture of the 'improved trusses', between Robert Salmon, John Ody of St Anne's Soho, gentleman, and Harry Hart of St George's Hanover Square, gentleman, 1810; assignment of partnership and effects in the business as manufacturers and traders in sale of patent trusses, Harry Hart to John Ody, 1825; leases and counterpart leases for property owned by Harry Hart in the parishes of Saint George's, Hanover Square; Saint Luke, Chelsea; Saint Mary, Lambeth; Saint Mary, Newington and Saint Anne, Westminster, 1789-1842.
Hart , Harry , fl 1789-1842 , gentleman, pastry cook and truss makerDeeds, wills and other papers relating to the property and estate affairs of the Harvey family.
Harvey , familyPapers, 1744-1924, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Edgware and Little Stanmore, including copies of court rolls, copies of probates of wills, sales particulars, mortgages, papers relating to land tax, assignments of lease and plans.
Hatchett, Copley and Hails , solicitorsProperty documents relating to the Hatton family estates in Hatton Garden and surrounding area, Holborn. Also papers relating to property in Barking, Clerkenwell, the City of London, Westminster, and Southwark; and share certificates in the Southwark Bridge Company.
Hatton , family , of Hatton Garden, HolbornPapers, 1796-1919, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties mainly in Hornsey, Twickenham and Tottenham, including insurance policies, leases, conveyances and correspondence.
Hawes and Udall , solicitorsRecords of the Hawley family recording property transactions in Isleworth, Brentford, Ealing, Hanwell, Stanwell, Harrow Weald, Whitechapel and the City of London as well as outside London in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Shropshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. The records include leases, fines, deeds, marriage settlements, releases and conveyances.
Various.Papers 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.
Various.Papers, 1890-1895, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases for land on Henderson Row and Hertford Road, Edmonton.
H E Gurling , solicitorPapers relating to the Manor of Hendon, comprising extracts from court rolls and a rent roll. Also an extract from a court roll for the Manor of Ruislip.
Manor of Hendon Manor of RuislipThe correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, comprising three main groups of documents:
The first series comprises 19 volumes of manuscript letters sent to Herschel, with drafts of his replies (Ref: HS 1-19).
The second series comprises 16 volumes of copy letters from Herschel (Ref: HS 20-25). These are arranged in chronological order and are apparently constructed from Herschel's original letters brought together by a son, Col. John Herschel R.E., for a proposed biography and then returned to their original owners. The biography was never produced. There is some duplication between these versions of finished letters and the rough versions of the same in HS 1-19.
The third series comprises five boxes of unbound manuscript letters, copy books and listings (Ref: HS 25-28) in which there appears information on the copying project, and groups of original letters on particular topics, such as Herschel's involvement in W H F Talbot's photography patent disputes.
Records of Higgs and Hill Limited, builders, and of subsidiary or merged companies, 1868-1978. The records are largely of financial nature, but do include other administrative material and contract information. There is a particularly good run of tender books for the period 1906-1965, detailing all the jobs for which Higgs and Hill tendered, regardless of whether or not they won the contract.
Higgs and Hill Ltd , buildersRecords of Highgate Petty Sessional Division, 1876-1964, including court registers; court minute books; licensing registers; domestic proceedings and juvenile court registers.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.
Highgate Petty Sessional DivisionTitle deeds relating to Highgrove House, Eastcote, Ruislip; including admissions, conveyances, mortgages and leases.
Various.Records 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.
Various.Records 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.
Mills , family , private bankersRecords relating to property owned by Charles Hird in St Pancras, Marylebone and Peckham.
Hird , Charles , fl 1820-1898Records of the Hitchins family, comprising documents relating to the ownership of 39 Curzon Street, Mayfair, 1769-1921, including leases, abstracts of title, wills, assignments, schedules of fixtures, plans and elevations, and undertakings to repair.
Various.Papers, 1827-1919, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Saint John's Wood, Saint Marylebone and Hampstead including leases, assignments of leases, mortgages and an abstract of title.
Hodge, Lloyd and Gibson , solicitorsPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising schedule of deeds relating to 1, Vicarage Rd., Camberwell, belonging to Robert P. Whellock, 1868 and administration, with will annexed, of Samuel May, 32, Bridge Row, London, commercial traveller, 15 June, 1872 and 13 March 1879.
Hodgkinson and Beevor , solicitors