Examples of documents being catalogued

As I mentioned in an earlier post, a large collection of legal documents salvaged from a builders skip was donated to the branch. Before handing over to Lincolnshire Archives, our aim is to record what each document is, the names in the document and details of any locations recorded in the document. This will result in an index for Family and Local historians to use in their research.

I thought I would post some more photo's of just a few of the documents in just one of many carrier bags full of documents to illustrate that the documents are varied, cover a wide date range and different parts of the County. 

The first two photos in this collection relate to the Probate of the Will of Mary Codd of Alford and is dated 1771 and mentions land in Markby and Sutton in the Marsh - the latter better known as Sutton-on-Sea.

 

The next three relate to a Conveyance from 1861 of Copyhold Estates in Long Sutton from John Bellamy of and others to John Clarke. Names beyond Lincolnshire are mentioned; the detail tells us that John Bellamy was living in Wisbech St Peter, Cambridgeshire and we also have reference to The Reverend William King of Stibbington  (then in Huntingdonshire). On the back we have a helpful hand drawn map showing the location of the land. It is likely that anything like that will be photographed for the record!

 

 

 

 

The next three relate to a Sale of land in Holbeach and surrounding villages in 1811 held at the Horse & Groom. Much of this is pre printed but nonetheless useful as the sale notice tells us the names of the owners and occupiers of the various parcels of land offered for sale.

 

 

 

 

 

There are quite a lot of documents relating to Adderley Howard of Long Sutton near Spalding. Below is part of an Appointment and release of Land in Spalding between the Hon. Selena Childers and John Walkbanks Childers to Adderley Howard in 1842.

 

Finally and a bit of a quiz. The last two photos relate to a Mortgage Surrender from 1826 between Mr & Mrs ???? Mr George Tickler. For the life of me I cannot make out the names of Mr & Mrs ???. The detail shows that his first name is John and that he lived in Spalding. It looks like "Kes" but this is where more than one pair of eyes is useful. 
 

 

If you have read this far I hope you can see that we have a wide and varied collection. A proper catalogue of what the documents relate to, who they relate to and where they relate to will be of use for Family and Local Historians in Lincolnshire and I suspect beyond. 

If you can spare an hour or two on Saturday 15th August at the Bourne United Reformed Church Hall, Spalding Road, Bourne, Lincs, PE10 9LE helping us with some of these documents it will help bring the index that we are working to fruition so much quicker. If you are unable to attend please share this post