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

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Document Number:

0710050

Title:

Married Woman's Cert

Date:

18 January 1843

Price:

£12.00

Condition of this document:

Good consistent with age although a little discoloured around the edges

Physical description:

Parchment : 2 sheets 34cm x 26cm and 24cm x 34cm

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:

The people involved are Richard JAMES and Susannah his wife. The properties concerned are in Forest of Dean and Saint Briavels, Gloucestershire. They were sold or mortgaged on 17 January 1843. The document was sworn before Two of the perpetual Commissioners appointed for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women in Coleford, Gloucestershire.

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