~~ Your FamilyChest Document ~~ MARRIED WOMAN'S CERTIFICATE

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Document Number:

0710005

Title:

Married Woman's Cert

Date:

30 December 1851

Price:

£14.00

Condition of this document:

Good consistent with age

Physical description:

Parchment : 2 sheets 37cm x 20cm and 32cm x 24cm

This ORIGINAL document is a standard certificate which arises from the sale or mortgage of property which had belonged to a married woman. At this period (ie after 1833 but prior to the Married Women's Property Act of 1882) any property of a married woman passed immediately to her husband. As some sort of safeguard she would be examined by a commissioner appointed for the purpose who would satisfy himself that she was of full age and understood what was going on. The document is signed by the commissioner, but not by either the husband or wife. It gives the parish in which the property is located and date of the transaction, but no further detail.

People in this document:

In this case the people involved are: John KIRBY of number 20 Exeter Street, Sloan Street, Chelsea, Middlesex (Gentleman), and Anne his wife. John Thomas Michael Holinden DENNY of number 16 Miner Road, Old Kent Road, Surrey (Gentleman) and his wife Ann Elizabeth (formerly Ann KIRBY). The property is in Twickenham, Middlesex, and was either sold or mortgaged on 30 December 1851. The document was sworn before Two of the perpetual Commissioners appointed for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women in Chancery Lane, London. It is probable that the two women mentioned are sisters who have each inherited a share of the property involved.

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