Court of Chancery: Office of the Paymaster General: Carryings Over of Accounts

J 341

1884-1968

These records comprise the Carryings Over Registers. Accounts are made up at stated intervals; this was usually every two weeks. The first day of each new account was known as the carry over day when the Chancery masters who managed the investments of suitors accounts from the deceased persons estate were required to forward the settlement of investment annuities over to the next accounting period where they had not been completed within the previous accounting period. Payments were duly 'carried over' into the following accounting period.

These Registers contain the following information: Date of transaction; Deceased estate account to be debited; Account ledger folio of deceased estate account; Ledger credit usually naming the estate; Money in the account; ammount to be invested in Government securities; Description of investment (usually left blank); Amount to be invested in other securities; Description of investment (usually left blank); Suitor's account to be credited ledger folio; Ledger credit usually naming the Suitors account to be credited; Reference to Chancery Order date.

The ledgers are arranged chronologically and then by the deceased title of the estate.

See also J 337

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These records can be traced back with certainty to 1972 when they were known to be in the custody of the Supreme Court Pay Office to 1975 and the Court Funds Office, thereafter, both sited at the Royal Courts of Justice London WC2A 2LL. During the 1980s the records were moved to the Public Record Office repository at Hayes Middlesex UB3 1RF. In 2003, the records were temporarily held in the basement of the Court Funds Office in 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE before being moved in the same year into private storage at Bishops Furniture Storage in Battersea London acting on behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. In 2008 the records were moved to Bishops Storage in Chessington, Surrey before being moved in 2009 to Harwell Laboratories in Oxfordshire for preparation for transfer to the National Archives. The remaining records that were not selected for transfer continue to be held by Bishops on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in Chessington Surrey.

Series is not accruing.

All Carryings Over ledgers have been preserved (where extant).