~~ Your FamilyChest Document ~~ MARRIED WOMAN'S CERTIFICATE

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Document Number:

0710007

Title:

Married Woman's Cert

Date:

03 February 1879

Price:

£12.00

Condition of this document:

Good consistent with age

Physical description:

Parchment : 2 sheets each 37cm x 25cm

This ORIGINAL document is a standard certificate which arises from the sale or mortgage of property which had belonged to a married woman. At this period (ie after 1833 but prior to the Married Women's Property Act of 1882) any property of a married woman passed immediately to her husband. As some sort of safeguard she would be examined by a commissioner appointed for the purpose who would satisfy himself that she was of full age and understood what was going on. The document is signed by the commissioner, but not by either the husband or wife. It gives the parish in which the property is located and date of the transaction, but no further detail.

People in this document:

In this case the people involved are Henry Angelo Michael COOKE of Harting, Sussex, and Marion his wife. All the estate comprised in an Indenture of Settlement of 1834 made by George KIALLMARK was either sold or mortgaged on 3 February 1879. The document was sworn before Two of the perpetual Commissioners appointed for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women in Petersfield, Hampshire.

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