IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1438
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: COTCHING AND SONS {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1840-1862
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Cotching and Sons | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Abstract of title is a summary of prior ownership of a property, drawn up by solicitors. Such an abstract may go back several hundred years or just a few months, and was usually drawn up just prior to a sale.
Brentford Poor Law Union was formed in June 1836. The Brentford Union Workhouse was constructed on Twickenham Road in 1837. A separate school, called Percy House, was built on the same site in 1883.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1840-1862, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title, a mortgage and associated correspondence for Number 27 Wolsey Terrace, Kentish Town, and abstract of title of Brentford Union Board of Guardians to parish workhouse and adjoining land in Twickenham.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright 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:
Received in 1978 (ACC/1438)
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See reference BG/B for the records of Brentford Board of Guardians.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009