Tracing history through title deeds : a guide for family and local historians /
Property title deeds are perhaps the most numerous sources of historical evidence, but also one of the most neglected. While the information any one deed contains can often be reduced to a few lines, it can be of critical importance for family and local historians. Nat Alcock's handbook aims to...
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK :
Pen & Sword Family History,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Deeds as history
- Why. Deeds for people
- Post-medieval evidence
- Medieval evidence
- People in the community
- People in copyhold deeds and manor court rolls
- Deeds for places and for houses
- Land
- Houses
- Large-scale studies of deeds
- Where. What to look ofr
- The local historian's objectives
- The family historian's objectives
- Where to look. Local collections
- Out-county records
- National collections
- The National Archives
- Enrolled and registered deeds
- Private copies of deeds
- The Land Registry
- Deeds in private hands
- Dispersed deeds
- On the trail
- How. Tenure
- Post-medieval deeds
- Medieval deeds
- Appendix I: Flowchart to identify deed types
- Appendix 2: Sample deed record sheet
- Appendix 3: Post-medieval letter forms
- Appendix 4: Texts of typical deeds.