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London Metropolitan Archives

WOMBWELL FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0406

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WOMBWELL FAMILY

Date(s): 1761-1850

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The lease of the house in Gower Street featured in these records was assigned to Frances Wombwell and her daughters by a probate of 1809-10. Other Wombwells mentioned in the collection are Walter Wombwell, a stage coach proprietor and horse dealer, and his wife Martha.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Wombwell family relating primarily to number 68 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, but also to premises in Pinner, Harrow and Hounslow. The documents include probates, leases, assignments, grants, and mortgages.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0406/001 to ACC/0406/022.

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 January 1951.

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
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Probate records | Records (documents) | Records and correspondence | Information sources
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Bloomsbury | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Camden