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

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Document Number:

0710017

Title:

Married Woman's Cert

Date:

17 December 1851

Price:

£10.00

Condition of this document:

Fair - a little grubby but otherwise good

Physical description:

Parchment : 2 sheets each 33cm x 28cm

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 John MARSHALL and Margaret his wife. The property is in Salford, Lancashire and was either sold or mortgaged on 17 December 1851. The document was sworn before Two of the perpetual Commissioners appointed for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women, in Manchester, Lancashire.

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