HARMAN, EDWARD

Records of The White Webbs Park Estate and other property in Enfield.

This collection is composed mainly of deeds dating from 1600 to 1876, although the majority relate to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The arrangement at the time of deposit was in separate items and in bundles, which have been kept intact in this list and are indicated in footnotes. A chronological sequence is followed within the two groups into which the collection seems to divide; relating to White Webbs Park Estate, covering the period 1600 to 1876 and to the estate of Edward Harman, 1719/20-1829, both situated in Enfield.

Nos. 2 to 11 form an original bundle.

Nos. 20-36 form an original bundle.

Nos. 46 to 48 form an original bundle.

Nos. 57 to 73 form an original bundle.

Nos. 82 to 86 form an original bundle.

Nos. 88 to 98 form an original bundle.

Nos. 116 to 119 form an original bundle.

Nos. 123 to 129 from an original bundle.

Nos. 138 to 141 form an original bundle.

Nos. 167 to 176 form an original bundle.

Nos. 177 to 188 form an original bundle, labelled "Abstract ---- as to part purchased by Mr. Harman of the Trustees of Mr. & Mrs. Lucena's marriage settlement".

Nos. 189 to 193 form an original bundle, labelled "Abstract .. as to copyhold premises purchased by Mr. Harman of Mr. Newton".

Nos. 194 to 205 form an original bundle, labelled "Abstract .. as to freehold and copyhold part purchased by Mr. Harman of Mr. Hume in 1811".

Nos. 208 to 218 form an original bundle, labelled "Abstract .. as to freehold and copyhold part purchased by Mr. Harman of Mrs. Hume".

The White Webbs Park Estate was formed by Dr. Abraham Wilkinson in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century from several sources. He acquired parts of the Breton, formerly Wolstenholme, estate, including White Webbs Farm, but earlier deeds for these went by agreement to purchasers of other parts of the estate, which was put up for sale in 1787. However there are attested copies of the deeds in the collection. There are also deeds relating to rearrangements of Dr. Wilkinson's marriage settlement, made necessary by the intended sale of settled land in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, where he and his wife had lived before they settled in Enfield. Dr. Wilkinson also purchased several allotments allocated under the enclosure act for Enfield of 41 George III in the first decade of the nineteenth century, after which the estate remained relatively static for the next sixty years. There are no records of any additions to the estate after the death of Abraham Wilkinson in 1839, and the remaining records relate to the subsequent admissions of his son, Henry, and grandson Henry Cox, to his copyhold lands and the mortgage and redemption of the estate by the latter. The property is mainly located in the White Webbs and Clayhill districts of Enfield and comprises numbers 1 to 142 in the list.

The second part of this collection relates to property which was eventually acquired by Edward Harman in the early nineteenth century. He obtained most of the estate represented here from three sets of transactions. One was with Ann Hume of Clayhill, daughter and heir of John Adolph Schroder, and her son Adolphus William in 1811, and another with William Newton, of Exeter Street, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1814. The last was with the trustees of the marriage settlement of John Charles and Mary Ann Lucena in 1829. The property is in the Clayhill and Moores Hatch districts of Enfield, and comprises numbers 143 to 228 in the list.