London Metropolitan Archives

DAVIS

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/048

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DAVIS

Date(s): 1692-1916

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

These papers relating to properties were collected for their general or antiquarian interest, rather than having a united provenance (that is, being produced by the same institution or business).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection of papers relating to properties in Pimlico, Holborn, Westminster, Saint Pancras, Chelsea, Islington, Saint Marylebone, Cheam, the City of London, Kentish Town, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; including title deeds, marriage settlements and probates of wills.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Documents arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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:

Records donated to the Archive in March 1961 by E J Davis.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Legal documents | Law
Local history | History
Marriage settlements (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Aylesbury | Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Cheam | Sutton | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Chelsea | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Holborn | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Islington (district) | Islington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kentish Town | Camden | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Mary-le-bone | City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Marylebone | City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Pimlico | City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
St Pancras | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kensington and Chelsea
Saint Marylebone