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Short Title: Selby v Gillum. Plaintiff(s): Prideaux John Selby. Defendant(s): Stephen...
Catalogue reference: E 134/1Vic/Hil14
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This record is about the Short Title: Selby v Gillum. Plaintiff(s): Prideaux John Selby. Defendant(s): Stephen... dating from 1838 Jan 11-1838 Jan 31 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/1Vic/Hil14
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1838 Jan 11-1838 Jan 31
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Selby v Gillum.
Plaintiff(s): Prideaux John Selby.
Defendant(s): Stephen Fryer Gillum, Matthew Frederick Steele and his wife Anne, Charles Farebrother, George Morgan, Susannah Jane Steele, Frances Mary Elizabeth Steele, Frederick Stephen Steele, John Selby Mitford Steele, Elizabeth Gillum, Margaret Gillum, Marianne Gillum, Isabella Selby Gillum, Charlotte Sarah Gillum, Prideaux William Gillum.
Depositions for: Defendants.
Subject of Depositions: The value and disposition of the freehold, copyhold, and personal estate and effects of the testator Stephen Fryes Gilliam; said estate including freehold and copyhold estates in the parish of Shenfield, Essex, Middleton Hall (sold to Mr Tasker), cottages at Brentwood, Essex, sold to Miss Chaplyn, a lease of a farm called Hulton Farm situated near Shenfield.
County: Northamptonshire; Essex.
Taken at: Selby.
Date of Commission: 25 November 1837.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories (19 January 1838), the answers and examination of the plaintiff (pursuant to a decree of the Court of Exchequer dated 20 Dec 1836).
See also: E 134/2Vic/Hil4.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Wills and probate
- Farming
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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