Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

File

Settlement

Catalogue reference: ABE/39A/22

What’s it about?

This record is a file about the Settlement dating from 17 Nov 1804.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
ABE/39A/22
Title
Settlement
Date
17 Nov 1804
Description

Surrender from Catherina Nevill of Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, spinster and George Henry Nevill of Flower Place, Surrey, to Henry [Nevill] Earl of Abergavenny of a lease and release for lives so that the estate may be merged in the inheritance of HN to enable him to grant a new lease

Property as in 1-2

Recites lease and release (14-17) and declaration of trust (18-19); George [Nevill] Lord Abergavenny party thereto was created Earl of Abergavenny in 1784 and died 10 Sep 1785, and his will was proved (PCC) 17 Sep 1785; the reversion of the property descended to HN as his eldest son and heir

Also recites death of Elfred Staples [blank] Mar 1784; his will, proved PCC 22 Mar 1784, made no mention of the property, but his heir at law was John Staples of the Middle Temple, London, gent, whose will of 12 Mar 1785, also failed to mention the property but left the residue of his estate to the children of John Dixon Dyke, bt in equal shares; death of John Staples [blank] May 1789, and it is not known in whom the legal estate in the property is now vested; CN and GHN, as the persons entitled to the beneficial interest in the property, have therefore agreed to surrender the lease and release for lives so that HN may grant a new lease

W: Richard Jones

Held by
East Sussex Record Office
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/a83f709c-d929-4772-ad72-a8aad11312ae/

Series information

ABE/39A

'Deeds relating to life leases abolished under the Estate Act 1864': lands in Frant...

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

366,693 records

This record is held at East Sussex Record Office

2,610 records

Within the fonds: ABE

Archive of the Nevill Family of Eridge Castle in Frant, Marquesses of Abergavenny

23 records

Within the series: ABE/39A

'Deeds relating to life leases abolished under the Estate Act 1864': lands in Frant...

You are currently looking at the file: ABE/39A/22

Settlement