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RECORDS OF GEGAN AND COMPANY OF LEICESTER, SOLICITORS

Catalogue reference: DE 3255

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This record is about the RECORDS OF GEGAN AND COMPANY OF LEICESTER, SOLICITORS dating from 1888-1986.

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Reference
DE 3255
Title
RECORDS OF GEGAN AND COMPANY OF LEICESTER, SOLICITORS
Date
1888-1986
Description

Most of the records predate the introduction of compulsory registration of title, which became operative in the City of Leicester on 1 October 1957, in Blaby and Oadby and Wigston districts in March 1977, in Charnwood, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton and Rutland districts in November 1985.

Note

The records should be useful for students of building plans, land history and social and economic history, in particular social mobility and social trends, inflation, the housing market, boom of the 1970s, housing development, commercial use of premises and establishment of ethnic minorities.

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Related material

<p>See also unlisted collections DE 3411 and DE 3424</p>

Held by
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>Gegan and Co, Solicitors, Leicester</corpname>
Immediate source of acquisition

Donated 26 January 1988.

Unpublished finding aids
<p>The bundles have been arranged in alphabetical order in order of Leicester (not necessarily according to the County Borough or City boundary) and the rest of Leicestershire. Original labelling has been quoted and presumably relates to name of latest purchaser, and a brief history of title is given in the list also.</p>
Administrative / biographical background

This collection is the product of solicitor's conveyancing business. The records cover a period of nearly a hundred years, during which old family estates were sold off in parcels and new residential areas established, eg 10). The records relate to freehold property except 57) and comprise deeds, abstracts and epitomes of title, plans, papers relating to search fees, and land charges and land registration forms.

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