IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1367
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: A.F AND R.W. TWEEDIE {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1783-1920
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s): A F and R W Tweedie | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.
Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.
Probate (also called proving a will) is the process of establishing the validity of a will, which was recorded in the grant of probate.
If a person died intestate (without a valid will) their money, goods and possessions passed to their next of kin through an administration (or letters of administration) which had the same form in law as a will.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hounslow and Staines, including mortgages, leases and conveyances. Also probate of will of John Edwards of Hampstead, 1783; administration of will of Edmund Fleming Akers of Acton, 1818, and administration of will of Edmund Akers' widow Frances, 1841.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In sections: Hounslow; Staines; wills and probates.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1977 (ACC/1367)
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009