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SPERLING FAMILY ESTATE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0564

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SPERLING FAMILY ESTATE

Date(s): 1544-1849

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.53 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Sperling | family | of Tottenham

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

James Milner left his estates in Tottenham to his grand-daughter Elizabeth who was married to Henry Sperling.

A manor in Tottenham known as the Rectory manor was held by Henry Piper Sperling from 1797.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Milner and Sperling families of Tottenham, including title deeds for properties purchased by James Milner in Tottenham including mansion and land built by Sir Richard Martin; deeds and inventories for properties owned by Henry Sperling the Elder and Henry Sperling the Younger in Tottenham; papers relating to the Manor of Tottenham and the Manor of Iver held by Henry Piper Sperling.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0564-1: Deeds 1593-1712;
ACC/0564-2: Deeds 1617-1710;
ACC/0564-3: Other Milner Deeds;
ACC/0564-4: Copy of will of James Milner;
ACC/0564-5: Sperling Deeds;
ACC/0564-6: Tottenham Poor Rate;
ACC/0564-7: Kent, Suffolk and Essex;
ACC/0564-8: Sussex;
ACC/0564-9: Manors and Parish of Tottenham;
ACC/0564-10: Manor and Parish of Iver.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

Records deposited in June 1955.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Estate management | Land management | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Estates (land) | Land use
Family archives | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names
Sperling | family | of Tottenham

Corporate names

Places
Tottenham | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Haringey