Miscellaneous Somerset deeds, mills, etc

Miscellaneous Somerset deeds, mills, etc

1-10 Estates of Crook and Salmon families of Bath

11 Estates of Brigstock family of Tickenham

12-22 Estates of Philip Bonnett of Wincanton

23-34 Miscellaneous

The greater part of the deposit was comprised in accession C/578; item 33 was received as accession C/600, and items 27 and 28 (ii) formed accession C/1689. Neither the main groups nor the individual items from item 23 onwards have any kind of interdependance but have entirely separate origins.

First treated are the estates built up by the Crook family of Bath in Bath, Batheaston and St. Catherine, including the property of several smaller families, including Clements and Walters, which passed to the Salmon family through the marriage of the Rev. George Salmon and Mary Ann Crook in 1825.

The second group consists of deeds and family papers apparently centred around the wills of Thomas Brigstock, 1791, and W.H.T. Brigstock of Tickenham. There is little concerning the history of the property itself in Congresbury and elsewhere.

The next major division relates to the property interests of Philip Bennett of Maperton, mostly in Wincanton and including the purchase of several small family tenements and closes of land, but the coverage does not greatly extend beyond the death of Philip Bennett the younger in 1725.

Philip Bennett the elder was Clerk of the Peace for Somerset 1677-1690 (Deputy Clerk 1673-1676); his son acted jointly with him in both these offices and was then Deputy Clerk to Edward Cheeke, 1690-1706, and Clerk 1706-1724.

The remaining part of the collection (items 23 onwards) comprises miscellaneous deeds and papers relating to individual properties, and these have merely been grouped according to the parish in which the premises lay. The final two items do not have any identifiable parish location.

C/578,C/600,C/1689

S/1398

G/924

This collection of records of unknown bankrupt persons, accumulated in the offices of the Senior Official Receiver in Bankruptcy and the Board of Trade Bankruptcy Dept., is essentially an artificial one. No trace of original order being apparent, the present division into four main groups and 34 bundles of documents has been made by the Somerset Record Office.