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

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Document Number:

0710013

Title:

Married Woman's Cert

Date:

24 December 1851

Price:

£12.00

Condition of this document:

Very good

Physical description:

Parchment : 2 sheets 30cm x 22cm and 30cm x 35cm.

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 Charles ROBERTS and Mary his wife. The property is in the Parish of Broadwater, Sussex, and was sold or mortgaged on 24 December 1851. The document was sworn before Two of the perpetual Commissioners appointed for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women, in Worthing, Sussex.

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