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Short Title: Ogborne v Emmett. Plaintiff(s): Joseph Wilkins Ogborne. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/29Geo3/East10
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This record is about the Short Title: Ogborne v Emmett. Plaintiff(s): Joseph Wilkins Ogborne. Defendant(s):... dating from 1789 Apr 29-1789 May 25 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 134/29Geo3/East10
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1789 Apr 29-1789 May 25
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Ogborne v Emmett.
Plaintiff(s): Joseph Wilkins Ogborne.
Defendant(s): Charles Emmett, Robert Waltham, William Brailsford, Richard Samuel Williams and his wife Jannett, Hyde Geatrell Williams, Mary Williams, Edward Brailsford, John Bundy and his wife Sarah, Seede Bundy, William Walter and his wife Penelope, Timothy Brailsford Geatrell.
Depositions for: Plaintiff and Defendants.
Subject of Depositions: The legitimacy and heir at law of the testator William Geatrell, late of Spanish Town in the island of Jamaica; also touching who is the heir at law of William Seede of Bristol (Somerset), apothecary, etc; the names of William Geatrell the elder (testator's father) and his wife Sarah (daughter of Thomas Seede, late of the parish of St Nicholas, Bristol, hooper, William Seede of the City of Bristol, apothecary (brother of said Sarah) and Brice Geatrell (testator's brother) are mentioned.
County: Bristol; Jamaica.
Taken at: Bristol.
Date of Commission: 9 February 1789.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (1 Apr 1789); the forms of the oaths to be taken by the commissioners and their clerk.
See also: E 134/29Geo3/Trin7.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Caribbean
- Wills and probate
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6029317/
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E 134
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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