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Correspondence between AH and Peter How (Whitehaven) as to division of the estate...
Catalogue reference: D HUD 8/33
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This record is a file about the Correspondence between AH and Peter How (Whitehaven) as to division of the estate... dating from 1758 - 1759.
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- D HUD 8/33
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Title (The name of the record)
- Correspondence between AH and Peter How (Whitehaven) as to division of the estate of the late John Spedding of Whitehaven, intestate, under the probate custom of the Province of York
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1758 - 1759
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Description (What the record is about)
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Includes letter from AH explaining the custom of the Province of York in dividing intestates' estates, 1758; cases and opinions.
Case for Dr Topham states that John Spedding left personal estate of about £6,000, and family as follows: *Lowther Spedding (eldest son) James Spedding (second son), Mary Spedding, by then wife of Dr William Brownrigg.
*Lowther Spedding was already dead, but his infant daughter Margaret was heir at law to her grandfather John Spedding and takes his real estate.
This case states the various sums advanced by the late John during his lifetime to his children, and why.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/fce3d1c2-a906-4f31-a90c-1d9728035511/
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This record is held at Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle
Within the fonds: D HUD
Huddleston family of Hutton John
Within the sub-fonds: D HUD 8
AH (1705-80)
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Correspondence between AH and Peter How (Whitehaven) as to division of the estate of the late John Spedding of Whitehaven, intestate, under the probate custom of the Province of York