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Document Number:					0512068
Title:		Manor Court Document
Date:			02 October 1851
For Sale:				£58.00
Condition:
Very good except for small stains at the corners of the centre fold
Description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 61cm x 74cm with revenue stamp, signed by the steward of the manor.
Summary of contents:
PARTIES Henry Norton (deceased) of Broadwater, Susex. Gentleman. James Penfold of Goring, Sussex., Merchant. Robert Baker of No 3 Hicks Lane, Pike Street, Plymouth, Devon. Mariner. Ann (nee Baker) the wife of George Calverley of Limehouse, Parish of St Anne, Middlesex. Engineer Thomas Baker of Greenwich, Kent. Mariner Henry Baker, carpenter on shipboard, Newfoundland Mary (nee Baker) the wife of James Corder of No 86 Whitechapel Road, Middlesex George Baker, Mariner on HMS Ringdove, Lisbon Susan Baker (aged 19) of No 124 Cockhill, Ratcliffe, Middlesex. Spinster Subject This is a record of the General Court Baron of the Manor of Broadwater, Sussex. It begins by telling us of the will of Henry Norton in which he left 7 acres of copyhold land in the manor to his niece Ann Baker, the wife of William Baker, for her lifetime. After her death it was to be divided equally among her children. Accordingly Ann was admitted to the property in 1795 and died in 1835 leaving 7 surviving children : Robert, Ann, Thomas, Henry, Mary, George and Susan. The children all duly received 1/7 shares in the property, but since then Thomas and Susan have died and others have sold their shares to John Holden. Ann has been widowed and is now the wife of George Calverley. Finally it has been discovered that Robert was an illegitimate child and not entitled to a share. The present Court Baron, of which this is a record, is trying to sort things out and is admitting Ann Calverley to a 1/6 share of Robert's 1/7 share. Note that Ann Calverley was previously married to Thomas Cornelius Henry.
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