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Bedfordshire Solicitors Collection
A (partial?) list of the Bedfordshire Solicitors Collection held by the Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service. Ref | Firm | Archive Types | Places included |
A | AUSTIN of Luton | Caddington Overseers' Accounts and other parish papers; manorial documents for Manor of Caddington, Manor of Sharpenhoe, Manor of Stopsley Haverings; Luton & District Turnpike Trust minute book; Luton rate books; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Barton-le-Clay; Biscot; Caddington; Harlington; Kensworth; Leagrave; Limbury; Luton; Sharpenhoe; Stopsley; Streatley; Studham; Sundon; Westoning; Hertfordshire: Flamstead; Markyate; Shenley |
BH | BENNING, HOARE & DREW of Dunstable | Chew's Foundation of Dunstable charity documents; Jane Cart's Charity of Dunstable documents; maps and plans; manorial documents of Manor of Toddington; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Caddington; Cardington; Dunstable; Eaton Bray; Gravenhurst; Houghton Regis; Kensworth; Luton; Meppershall; Milton Bryan; Studham; Toddington; Totternhoe; Whipsnade; Buckinghamshire: Edlesborough; Durham: Barnard Castle; Hertfordshire: Flamstead |
BO | BOUTWOOD of Leighton Buzzard | Papers of Willis family of Leighton Buzzard; 607, mostly South Bedfordshire, probates of wills; management of commons and open fields; enclosure papers; Leighton Buzzard British Infant School papers; 1892 election papers; Grand Junction Canal papers; estate papers; manorial documents of Manor of Leighton Buzzard alias Grovebury; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Barton-le-Clay; Billington; Chalgrave; Dunstable; Eaton Bray; Heath & Reach; Hockliffe; Houghton Regis; Leighton Buzzard; Potsgrove; Stanbridge; Tilsworth; Toddington; Totternhoe; Buckinghamshire: Bletchley; Edlesborough; Fenny Stratford; Ivinghoe; Mentmore; Wing; Wingrave; Hertfordshire: King's Walden; Northamptonshire: Deanshanger |
CD | CHAUNDLER of Biggleswade | Records of the firm; legal papers; Biggleswade Association for the Prosecution of Felons papers; River Ivel Navigation papers; 63 Biggleswade area probates of wills; manorial documents of Manor of Langford; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Beeston; Biggleswade; Blunham; Caldecote; Campton; Clifton; Clophill; Dunton; Everton; Hatch; Henlow; Ickwell; Kempston; Langford; Meppershall; Milton Ernest; Mogerhanger; Northill; Potton; Pulloxhill; Sandy; Shefford; Shillington; Thorncote; Wrestlingworth; Hertfordshire: Royston; Kent: Meopham; Milton-next-Gravesend; Northfleet; Middlesex: Islington; Somerset: Whatley; Sussex: Birchden |
CC | CONQUEST, CLARE & BINNS of Bedford | 142 wills; manorial documents of Manor of Milton Ernest Bassetts; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Bedford; Clophill; Houghton Conquest; Maulden; Milton Ernest; Oakley; Ravensden; Renhold; Shefford; Steppingley; Lincolnshire: Great Hale; Little Hale |
FA | FARR of Bedford | Deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Bedford; Shefford; Thurleigh |
GA | GARRARD & ALLEN of Olney [Buckinghamshire] | farming accounts; sale particulars; enclosure papers; 157 wills; papers of the following families - Alston, Battams, Garrard, Gee, Gibbard, Higgins and Small; militia papers; Bromham & Olney Turnpike papers; Colworth Estate papers; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Aspley Guise; Aspley Heath; Bedford; Biggleswade; Bletsoe; Bromham; Caddington; Cardington; Carlton; Chellington; Clapham; Clifton; Colmworth; Cranfield; Dean; Dunstable; Eaton Bray; Eggington; Felmersham; Flitton; Goldington; Great Barford; Harrold; Henlow; Houghton Regis; Hulcote; Husborne Crawley; Kempston; Keysoe; Leighton Buzzard; Lidlington; Little Staughton; Luton; Marston Moretaine; Maulden; Millbrook; Meppershall; Milton Bryan; Milton Ernest; Odell; Pavenham; Pertenhall; Podington; Potsgrove; Radwell; Renhold; Ridgmont; Riseley; Salford; Sharnbrook; Souldrop; Southill; Stanbridge; Stevington; Studham; Thurleigh; Toddington; Totternhoe; Turvey; Whipsnade; Wilden; Willington; Wilstead; Woburn; Wootton; Wymington; Buckinghamshire: Lavendon; North Crawley; Olney; Sherington; Stony Stratford; Woburn Sands; Huntingdonshire: Covington; Great Catworth; Long Stow; Tilbrook; Northamptonshire: Rushden; Yardley Hastings |
GT | GUTTERIDGE of Dunstable | Deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Bedford; Caddington; Chalgrave; Dunstable; Eaton Bray; Flitwick; Houghton Regis; Leighton Buzzard; Luton; Pulloxhill; Studham; Toddington; Whipsnade |
HA | HAWKINS of Hitchin [Hertfordshire] | Papers regarding the disputed Bedfordshire election of 1794; Cardington Enclosure Commissioners' papers; Houghton Regis poor rates; Hitchin to Bedford Turnpike Trust records; enrolment of volunteers for national defence 1803; enclosure papers; parish records for Ampthill, Cardington and Shillington; Rand's Charity of Holwell papers; Bedfordshire clergy papers; Bedfordshire Infirmary papers; legal papers; manorial documents of Manor of Alrichsey alias Arlseybury with Lanktony, Manor of Eton Bury, Arlesey, Manor of Astwick, Manor of Barton in the Clay, Manor of Blunham, manor of Chelston Smermongers, Manor of Clophill with Cainhoe, Manor of Flitt alias Flytton, Manor of Girtford, Manor of Gravenhurst alias Gravenhurst Magna alias Gravenhurst Superior alias Tuelsbury, Manor of Henlow Lanthony, Manor of Ickleford Ramerick, Manor of Langford, Manor of Shitlington, Manor of Westhay; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Arlesey; Astwick; Barton-le-Clay; Biggleswade; Blunham; Cardington; Clifton; Clophill; Eastcotts; Elstow; Flitton; Girtford; Gravenhurst; Harrold; Henlow; Higham Gobion; Houghton Regis; Kempston; Langford; Oakley; Old Warden; Potton; Sandy; Shillington; Stotfold; Studham; Westoning; Hertfordshire: Bengeo; Holwell; Ickleford; Offley |
HN | HOLBOURN of Woburn | A very large collection with a great diversity of material - the collection was received in a completely disordered state and has been too large to catalogue other than to prepare rough box lists, but key areas included are: firm's records; maps and plans; plans of public houses; Harlington Estate records; Husborne Crawley Charity records; correspondence regarding East India Company and potential threat to India from Russia; Morris Brewery of Ampthill; Bedford-Ampthill-Woburn Turnpike papers; London Brick Company papers; Duke of Bedford's papers; legal papers including Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessions and Assizes; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Aspley Guise; Aspley Heath; Beadlow; Bedford; Biddenham; Bletsoe; Bromham; Caddington; Carlton; Chalgrave; Chellington; Clophill; Cranfield; Dunstable; Eaton Bray; Eggington; Eversholt; Everton; Flitton; Flitwick; Harlington; Haynes; Heath & Reach; Higham Gobion; Goldington; Hockliffe; Houghton Conquest; Hulcote; Husborne Crawley; Keysoe; Langford; Leighton Buzzard; Lidlington; Luton; Marston Moretaine; Maulden; Millbrook; Potsgrove; Pulloxhill; Ridgmont; Riseley; Salford; Silsoe; Stagsden; Stanbridge; Steppingley; Tebworth; Tingrith; Toddington; Totternhoe; Westoning; Wilden; Woburn; Buckinghamshire: Bletchley; Bow Brickhill; Edlesborough; Ellesborough; Emberton; Fenny Stratford; Great Brickhill; Little Brickhill; Little Hampden; Newport Pagnell; Newton Longville; North Crawley; Quainton; Stoke Goldington; Water Eaton; Wavendon; Winslow; Woburn Sands; Wolverton; Devon: Totnes; Essex: Newport; Kent: Lewisham; Penge; Sydenham; London: various parishes; Middlesex: Finchley; Hendon; Islington; Northamptonshire: Braunston; Australia: Victoria |
HF | HOOPER & FLETCHER of Biggleswade | Firm's records; probates and draft wills; legal cases; bankruptcy papers; client files; School Board records for Arlesey, Biggleswade, Campton, Everton, Langford, Potton, Shefford and Stotfold; Biggleswade Highway Board records; Biggleswade Registrar's records; Biggleswade Burial Board records; Biggleswade magistrates' records; Biggleswade National School records; Under Sheriff of Bedfordshire's records; Bedfordshire Law Society records; insurance company records; estate papers; manorial documents of Manor of Beadlow, Manor of Biggleswade, Manor of Clophill with Cainhoe, Manor of Sandy Rectory; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Arlesey; Astwick; Biggleswade; Blunham; Broom; Caldecote; Campton; Clophill; Cockayne Hatley; Dunstable; Dunton; Eaton Socon; Eversholt; Everton; Flitton; Girtford; Goldington; Gravenhurst; Greenfield; Harrold; Henlow; Ickwell; Langford; Maulden; Meppershall; Northill; Old Warden; Podington; Potton; Pulloxhill; Sandy; Shefford; Shillington; Silsoe; Southill; Steppingley; Stondon; Stotfold; Sutton; Totternhoe; Wrestlingworth; Durham: Durham; Lanchester; Essex: Stow Maries; Gloucestershire: Bledington; Foxcote; Moreton-in-Marsh; Stow-on-the-Wold; Hertfordshire: Ashwell; St.Paul's Walden; Huntingdonshire: St.Neots; Lancashire: Wigan; Middlesex: Hendon; Monmouthshire: Christchurch; Llanhilleth; Llantrissent; Nash; Newport; Oxfordshire: Idbury; Warwickshire: Knowle; Ireland: Dublin |
LK | LARKEN & CO of Newark [Nottinghamshire] | Whetham family archive; family papers; manorial documents of manor of Sokes alias Lawrence Place, Manor of Wyboston; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Begwary; Chawston; Colmworth; Duloe; Dunton; Eaton Socon; Great Barford; Honeydon; Roxton; Staploe; Thurleigh; Wyboston; Breconshire: Brecon; Llandaveloig; Llandwalley; Llomd Evailog; Llyell; Merthyr Kynock; Ystrodvelltey; London: Bishopsgate; Cheapside; East Cheap; Hanover Square; St.Clements; St.Martin-in-the-Fields; St.Mary Ax; Middlesex: Hackney; Kentish Town; Millbank; Stratford; Shropshire: Wem; Staffordshire: Stafford |
LS | LEEDS SMITH of Sandy | Potton Association for the Prosecution of Felons records; Sandy Gas Company records; records of Sandy charities including Bromsall, Palmer, Pearson, Town Lands, Wynne and Yarrow; election material; sale catalogues; Sandy - Potton Railway documents; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Bedford; Beeston; Biggleswade; Blunham; Caldecote; Carlton; Clifton; Clophill; Colmworth; Girtford; Eaton Socon; Everton; Harrold; Kempston; Marston Moretaine; Maulden; Mogerhanger; Potton; Sandy; Seddington; Silsoe; Stevington; Tempsford; Turvey; Wootton; Wyboston; Buckinghamshire: Newton Blossomville; Cambridgeshire: Gamlingay; Huntingdonshire: Bluntisham; Great Gransden |
NC | NEWTON & CALCOTT of Leighton Buzzard | Millard family papers; How family papers; 550 letters of Richard How of Aspley Guise (1784-1793); manuscript account of the trial of the Earl of Strafford (1639-1641); leases and deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Aspley Guise; Heath & Reach; Houghton Conquest; Leighton Buzzard; Linslade; Luton; Milton Bryan; Stanbridge; Woburn; Buckinghamshire: Aston Abbotts; Drayton Parslow; Edlesborough; Hollingdon; Slapton; Soulbury; Stewkley; Thornborough; Wavendon; Essex: Ilford; Middlesex: Bloomsbury |
NC/T | NEWTON & CALCOTT (THOMPSON) | Deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Billington; Heath & Reach; Leighton Buzzard; Linslade; Buckinghamshire: Stewkley |
PE | PEARSE of Bedford | Kempston Charity records; probate records; Pearse family private and business correspondence; manorial documents of Manor of Kempston Greys alias Hastingsbury, Manor of Kempston Hardwick, Manor of Kempston Daubeney, Manor of Kempston St.John's; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Bedford; Cople; Cranfield; Eaton Socon; Goldington; Great Barford; Husborne Crawley; Kempston; Lidlington; Marston Moretaine; Maulden; Old Warden; Potton; Sandy; Sharnbrook; Shillington; Sutton; Tempsford; Wilden; Wootton; Huntingdonshire: Abbotsley; Middlesex: Enfield |
RY | RAY of Leighton Buzzard | Wills; Leighton Buzzard Light Railway accounts; Leighton Buzzard Tile Company minutes; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Aspley Guise; Billington; Cardington; Eaton Bray; Eggington; Heath & Reach; Hockliffe; Kensworth; Leighton Buzzard; Linslade; Stanbridge; Tilsworth; Toddington; Buckinghamshire: Aston Abbots; Aylesbury; Bletchley; Bow Brickhill; Buckingham; Burcott; Cheddington; Cublington; Drayton Parslow; Edlesborough; Mursley; Northall; Stewkley; Wing; Hampshire: Winchester; Hertfordshire: Little Gaddesden; Montgomeryshire: Broniarth; Guilsfield; Oxfordshire: Watlington; Sussex: Hove; Warwickshire: Bulkington; Nuneaton; Ryton-on-Dunsmore; Woolston |
ST | SHARMAN & TRETHEWY of Bedford | (ST) wills; client files; Kempston National School records; Bedford Town Commissioners' material; Wilden enclosure records; legal papers; Bedford Building Society records; St.Leonard's Hospital, Bedford records; banking records; railway records; deeds to land; | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Aspley Heath; Bedford; Beeston; Biddenham; Biggleswade; Bletsoe; Blunham; Bolnhurst; Bromham; Cardington; Carlton; Chellington; Clapham; Colmworth; Cople; Cranfield; Dunstable; Eaton Socon; Felmersham; Flitwick; Girtford; Goldington; Great Barford; Harlington; Harrold; Hatch; Haynes; Hockliffe; Houghton Conquest; Kempston; Keysoe; Langford; Leagrave; Leighton Buzzard; Lidlington; Little Staughton; Luton; Marston Moretaine; Melchbourne; Meppershall; Northill; Odell; Old Warden; Pavenham; Pertenhall; Podington; Potton; Radwell; Ravensden; Renhold; Riseley; Salford; Sandy; Sharnbrook; Shefford; Shelton; Stagsden; Stevington; Thurleigh; Toddington; Turvey; Westoning; Wilden; Wilstead; Wootton; Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury; Clifton Reynes; Lavendon; Newport Pagnell; Newton Blossomville; North Crawley; Warrington; Wavendon; Woburn Sands; Cambridgeshire: Cambridge; Caxton; Chesterton; Gamlingay; Little Gransden; Wentworth; Whittlesey; Cornwall: Falmouth; St.Austell; Derbyshire: Ilkeston; Devon: Culmstock; Durham: Redmarshall; Gloucestershire: Dursley; Hampshire: Bournemouth; Portsea Island; Hertfordshire: St.Albans; Huntingdonshire: Buckden; Great Staughton; Hemingford Grey; Kimbolton; Somersham; Yelling; Isle of Wight: Yarmouth; Kent: Broadstairs; Bromley; Hackington; Harbledon; Lewisham; Newington; Tenterden; Lancashire: Liverpool; Middleton; Leicestershire: Carlton; Leicester; Lincolnshire: Croft; Deeping Fen; London: Broken Wharf; Clarendon Square; Middlesex: Golders Green; Hackney; Harlesden; Hendon; Kentish Town; Marylebone; Smithfield; South Kensington; Wealdstone; West Hampstead; Willesden; Wood Green; Monmouthshire: Abertillery; Aberystruth; Norfolk: Burnham Overy; Wells-next-the-Sea; Northamptonshire: Bozeat; Peterborough; Rushden; Weedon; Shropshire: Pontesbury; Shrewsbury; Staffordshire: Rowley Regis; Suffolk: Little Yarmouth; Newmarket; Roydon; Surrey: East Sheen; Lambeth; Mortlake; Wimbledon; Sussex: Brighton; Hastings; Warwickshire: Coventry; Yorkshire: Lepton; Sowerby; York; Borneo: Sandakan; Ireland: Baggotrath; Dublin; Killarney; Mountrath; West Indies: St.Vincent |
ST/A | SHARMAN & TRETHEWY of Ampthill | Deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Barton-le-Clay; Clophill; Flitton; Leighton Buzzard; Maulden |
SW | SMITH of Woburn | Kempston Charity deeds; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Bedford; Cranfield; Great Barford; Harlington; Harrold; Kempston; Milton Ernest; Pavenham; Potton; Toddington; Wilstead; Wootton |
WJ | WADE & JACKSON of Shefford | Wills; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Arlesey; Biggleswade; Blunham; Campton; Clifton; Clophill; Cranfield; Eversholt; Flitton; Flitwick; Gravenhurst; Great Barford; Haynes; Houghton Conquest; Langford; Maulden; Meppershall; Potton; Pulloxhill; Riseley; Sandy; Shefford; Shillington; Silsoe; Southill; Stopsley; Westoning; Wilden; Wilstead; Devon: Sampford Peverell; West Buckland; Gloucestershire: Hawkesbury; Horsley; North Nibley; Wickwar; Hertfordshire: Ashwell; Baldock; Hitchin; Ippollitts; Willian; Wymondley; Huntingdonshire: Little Stukeley; Lancashire: Colne; Ightenhill; Middlesex: Shoreditch; Norfolk: Ditchingham; Earsham; Suffolk: Bungay; Warwickshire: Birmingham; Wibtoft; Yorkshire: Addingham; Australia: Sydney |
WG | WADE-GERY & BRACKENBURY of St.Neots [Huntingdonshire] | Enclosure Acts and Award maps; Enclosure Commissioners' records for Colmworth, Keysoe and Pertenhall; Turnpike Trust Acts; legal papers; Wade-Gery family papers; election papers; River Ivel navigation records; railway records; Dean School records; Neale's Charity of Dean records; tithes; inventories; sale particulars; estate records; manorial documents for Manor of Beeston with Caldecote, late Trumpingtons, Manor of Beeston, Thorncote & Hatch, Manor of Dunton Goyes & Chamberleyns Bury, Manor of Eaton Socon, Manor of Millow alias Milhow, Manor of Riseley, Manor of Wyboston & Soke alias Lawrence Place; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Arlesey; Barton-le-Clay; Bedford; Beeston; Biggleswade; Bletsoe; Blunham; Bolnhurst; Bushmead; Caldecote; Campton; Cardington; Chawston; Clapham; Clifton; Colmworth; Cople; Dean; Duloe; Dunton; Eastcotts; Eaton Socon; Everton; Felmersham; Flitwick; Goldington; Great Barford; Harlington; Harrowden; Hatch; Hinwick; Holme; Honeydon; Kempston; Keysoe; Langford; Leighton Buzzard; Lidlington; Little Barford; Little Staughton; Marston Moretaine; Milton Ernest; Mogerhanger; Northill; Oakley; Old Warden; Pavenham; Pertenhall; Podington; Potton; Ravensden; Riseley; Roxton; Sandy; Sharnbrook; Shefford; Shelton; Southill; Stevington; Stotfold; Streatley; Studham; Swineshead; Tempsford; Thorncote; Thurleigh; Toddington; Westoning; Whipsnade; Wilden; Wilstead; Woburn; Wootton; Wrestlingworth; Wyboston; Wymington; Yielden; Buckinghamshire: North Crawley; Cambridgeshire: Benwick; Bourn; Eltiseley; Gamlingay; Great Horwood; Little Gransden; Littleport; Singleborough; Essex: Forest Gate; Hertfordshire: Pirton; Huntingdonshire: Abbotsley; Brampton; Brington; Buckden; Bythorn; Catworth; Covington; Eynesbury; Girtford; Great Gransden; Graveley; Great Paxton; Great Staughton; Great Weston; Huntingdon; Keyston; Kimbolton; Long Stow; Molesworth; Offord Darcy; Old Weston; Ramsey; St.Ives; St.Neots; Southoe; Tilbrook; Wintringham; Yelling; Lincolnshire: Leake; London: Aldersgate; Smithfield; Northamptonshire: Denford; Earl's Barton; Hargrave; Newton Bromswold; Peterborough; Raunds; Ringstead; Thrapston; Titchmarsh; Werrington; Yardley Hastings; Nottinghamshire: Newark; Rutland: Greetham |
WE | WEBBER & WILLIAMS of Ampthill | Wills; records of the firm; client files; estate papers; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Bedford; Cardington; Chalgrave; Clophill; Cranfield; Dunstable; Eversholt; Flitton; Flitwick; Gravenhurst; Great Barford; Greenfield; Harlington; Haynes; Heath & Reach; Higham Gobion; Houghton Conquest; Houghton Regis; Husborne Crawley; Kempston; Lidlington; Luton; Marston Moretaine; Maulden; Millbrook; Pavenham; Pulloxhill; Ridgmont; Shillington; Silsoe; Steppingley; Stondon; Tingrith; Toddington; Westoning; Wilstead; Woburn; Wootton; Buckinghamshire: Bletchley; Bow Brickhill; Fenny Stratford; Little Brickhill; Newport Pagnell; Newton Longville; Wavendon; Water Eaton; Hertfordshire: Baldock |
WI | WILLIS of Leighton Buzzard | Client files; deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Aspley Guise; Bedford; Billington; Chalgrave; Chalton; Dunstable; Eaton Bray; Eggington; Eversholt; Harlington; Hockliffe; Houghton Regis; Leighton Buzzard; Linslade; Marston Moretaine; Salford; Sewell; Stanbridge; Studham; Sundon; Tebworth; Tilsworth; Toddington; Totternhoe; Westoning; Wingfield; Buckinghamshire: Bow Brickhill; Edlesborough; Ledburn; Mentmore; Stewkley; Stoke Hammond; Hertfordshire: Harpenden |
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