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DEWELL FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0345

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DEWELL FAMILY

Date(s): 1719-1822

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear meters.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A Thomas Dewell is noted as a leader of non-established religions in Old Brentford; organising meetings of Independents and acting as trustee of a Baptist congregation in Old Brentford, founded in 1819.

Source: 'Ealing and Brentford: Protestant nonconformity', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), pp. 158-162.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Dewell family of Brentford, relating to property in Old Brentford, New Brentford, Hanwell, Chiswick and Isleworth, including wills, leases, extracts from court rolls and legal opinion.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Documents are arranged in broad chronological order.

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 February 1950.

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
Court rolls | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Manorial courts | Courts | Administration of justice
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Wills | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names
Dewell | family | of Brentford

Corporate names

Places
Brentford | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Chiswick | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hanwell | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Isleworth | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Ealing
Hounslow