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Short Title: Dickson v Tuddis. Plaintiff(s): Charlotte Dickson, spinster. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/3Vic/East3
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This record is about the Short Title: Dickson v Tuddis. Plaintiff(s): Charlotte Dickson, spinster. Defendant(s):... dating from 1840 Apr 15-1840 May 8 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/3Vic/East3
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1840 Apr 15-1840 May 8
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Short Title: Dickson v Tuddis.
Plaintiff(s): Charlotte Dickson, spinster.
Defendant(s): Frances Tuddis, widow, Anne Tuddis, widow, Anne Tuddis, spinster, Henry Lingen and his wife Priscilla, and John James Tuddis (an infant) by Anne Tuddis, widow, his guardian.
Depositions for: Plaintiffs and Defendants.
Subject of Depositions: Who were the heirs at law of the testator Patrick Dickson, formerly of Jamaica (West Indies) and afterwards of Otley (Yorkshire), surgeon and apothecary, and since of Berwick upon Tweed, physician; Whether Charlotte Dickson and Dorcas Dorothea Dickson were his children; [The names of Anne and Annie (testator's daughters), Ravensdown, Berwick, the residence of the Plaintiff, and Anne Figg, the maiden name of testator's wife, are mentioned].
County: Berwick upon Tweed [Northumberland]; Yorkshire.
Taken at: Ravensdown and York.
Date of Commission: 31 January 1840.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions taken at Ravensdown 18 March and at York City 10 April 1840 (filed 23 April 1840).
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