Original Document Sale or mortgage of married woman's property

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Document Number:

0710056

Title:

Married Woman's Certificate

Date:

01 June 1865

For Sale:

£10.00

Condition of this document:

Good consistent with age

Physical description:

Parchment : 2 sheets 24cm x 28cm and 37cm x 22cm

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 concerned are John BROOKE and Elizabeth his wife. The property is in Heaton Norris, in the Parish of Manchester, County of Lancaster, and was either sold or mortgaged on 1 June 1865. The document was sworn before Two of the perpetual Commissioners appointed for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women in Stockport, Cheshire..

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