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London Metropolitan Archives

BERNEY FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4301

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BERNEY FAMILY

Date(s): 1799

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.09 linear metres (2 files).

Name of creator(s): Berney | family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No biographical information has been discovered for the Berney family.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Berney family, comprising deed for the transfer of estates including land in Barbados and slave lists, 1799; and transcript, 2000.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

2 documents in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

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 November 2000.

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: Records prepared May to September 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Estates (land) | Land use
Plantation workers | Agricultural personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Plantations | Agricultural land
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
Slavery | Social structure
Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Barbados | Caribbean