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London Metropolitan Archives

BACON FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0260

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BACON FAMILY

Date(s): 1815-1855

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Bacon family owned extensive estates in the Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hornsey areas. See A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate (1980) for more information (available online).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to property owned by the Bacon family, including copy of Act of Parliament to partition real estate devised by will of John Bacon of Friern Barnet containing an inventory of lands in question; notes of judgements in cases of debt brought against member of the Bacon family and accounts of debts and insolvency of Bacon family; legal opinion of liability of estates to creditors; agreement and conveyance for land in Muswell Hill.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0260/001-003: Papers relating to insolvency; ACC/0260/004-006: Papers relating to Muswell Hill.

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:

Gifted to the Archive in August 1947.

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
Conveyances (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Debts | Financial resources | Finance
Estates (land) | Land use
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Insolvency | Finance
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
Bacon | family | of Friern Barnet and Hornsey

Corporate names

Places
Friern Barnet | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Muswell Hill | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Barnet
Haringey