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Short Title: Selby v Gilliam. Plaintiff(s): Prideaux John Selby. Defendant(s): Stephen...
Catalogue reference: E 134/2Vic/Hil4
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This record is about the Short Title: Selby v Gilliam. Plaintiff(s): Prideaux John Selby. Defendant(s): Stephen... dating from 1839 Jan 11-1839 Jan 31 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/2Vic/Hil4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1839 Jan 11-1839 Jan 31
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Selby v Gilliam.
Plaintiff(s): Prideaux John Selby.
Defendant(s): Stephen Fryer Gilliam, Matthew Frederick Steele, Frances Mary Elizabeth Steele, Frederick Stephen Steele, John Selby Mitford Steele, Elizabeth Gilliam, Margaret Gilliam, Marianne Gilliam, Isabella Selby Gilliam, Charlotte Sarah Gilliam, Prideaux William Gilliam, Charles Farebrother, George Morgan, Susannah Jane Steele.
Depositions for: Defendants.
Subject of Depositions: Sums of money received for or in respect of the Middleton Hall Estate, and Hutton Farm (Essex) both lately belonging to the testator Stephen Fryer Gilliam esq.
County: London; Kent.
Taken at: Court of Exchequer.
Date of Commission: 30 January 1839.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (7 February 1839), taken before Richard Richards, one of the masters of the Court of Exchequer (pursuant to a decree of the court dated 20 Dec 1836).
See also: E 134/1Vic/Hil14; E 134/3and4Vic/Trin5.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Wills and probate
- Farming
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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