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RISIEN, JOHN {LAWN HOUSE}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0523

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: RISIEN, JOHN {LAWN HOUSE}

Date(s): 1764-1910

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lawn House was a large private home in Hanwell. From the mid-nineteenth century it was used as a private lunatic asylum. It was demolished in the early twentieth century.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents relating to premises in Hanwell, including Lawn House. The papers include extracts from court rolls, leases, conveyances and deeds.

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:

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 April 1954.

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
Court rolls | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Manorial courts | Courts | Administration of justice
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
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Hanwell | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Ealing
London