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CRONIN AND SON {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0953

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CRONIN AND SON {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1762-1887

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Cronin and Son | solicitors

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Hornsey Lane runs between Crouch End Hill and Highgate Hill and includes the bridge of Highgate Archway. It forms the boundary between Islington and Haringey boroughs. The street did not become built up until the 1870s, when a train station (now closed) was constructed at the Crouch End Hill end of Hornsey Lane.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1762-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds and legal documents relating to properties on Hornsey Lane, Highgate; copies of the court roll of the manor of Harringay alias Hornsey; legal papers relating to the Idle family of Kennington, including marriage settlements; and legal papers relating to the Grove family of Hackney and the City of London, including marriage settlements, correspondence, genealogical research and wills.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Papers relating to Hornsey Lane, Highgate; papers relating to the Idle Family; papers relating to the Grove family and papers relating to the Smith family.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright 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:

Received in 1967 (ACC/0953)

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Marriage settlements (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Solicitors | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Wills | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property
Genealogy
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Cronin and Son | solicitors

Places