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Title deeds and family papers of the Finch family estates mainly at Watford, Rickmansworth,...

Catalogue reference: DE/Fn

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This record is about the Title deeds and family papers of the Finch family estates mainly at Watford, Rickmansworth,... dating from c1250-1893.

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Title

Title deeds and family papers of the Finch family estates mainly at Watford, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and Bray, Berkshire, c 1250-1893

Date

c1250-1893

Description

The collection relates to the estates gathered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the Baldwin and Finch families. These were mainly in Watford and Rickmansworth, with outlying properties in Middlesex and Berkshire, notably Ockwells manor at Bray. The Baldwin family settled at Red Heath towards the end of the seventeenth century, and the Finch family took possession from them and remained there for the next two hundred years. Besides title deeds there are a large number of family wills and settlements, and a few miscellaneous personal papers

Held by

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

Language

English

Creator(s)

<famname>Finch family of Watford and Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire</famname>

Physical description

8 series

Immediate source of acquisition

[Accession 582]

Deposited 1955

Record URL

https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/0ecf0218-48dc-4c88-9f65-4cb80007c90b/

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