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The Bennee family of Devonport

List of documents deposited with P&WDRO

John Williams

August 2019

Feb 2011


1.    Lease dated 24/12/1828 for 77 Duke St., Devonport
2.    Assignment of lease (dated 23/9/1835) for above property
3.    Lease dated 14/11/1883 for 4 St John St., Devonport
4.    3 receipts & summary for purchase of 19 Duke St. Devonport in 1885
5.    Receipt dated 18/11/85 for exchanging lease of 2 Clarendon Terrace, Devonport


May 2011

1.    12 letters dated between 1814 and 1824 – correspondence between Hannah Hooker (also known as Hannah Hunter) in Newark on Trent and Edward Bennee in Plymouth Dock
2.    25 letters from dated between 1811 and 1824 from Alexander Sheafe Burkitt in Brighton to Hannah Hunter in Newark
3.    11 letters from Donnison Bennee in London to his father Edward Bennee in Devonport.
4.    Wills of:-
a.    Edward Jones of Colchester 1750
b.    Rachel Jones of Colchester 1779
c.    Hannah Hooker of Newark 1823
d.    Edward Bennee (snr) of Devonport 1844
e.    Edward Bennee of Devonport 1856 
f.    George Stear Bennee of Devonport 1906
g.    Mabel Ernestine Bennee of Kingsand 1953
h.    Albert Edward Bennee of Kingsand 1956
5.    Parchment dated 1764 confirming John Bennee, mariner of Plymouth, being appointed a Free Burgess of Colchester.
6.    Pages from the Bennee Bible giving family birth marriage and death details
7.    21 pages from the Western Figaro and Independent Echo newspapers 1897-1901
8.    5 letters to Hannah Hunter from her solicitor and W A Sherman
9.    13 letters all connected with events following Hannah Hooker’s death
10.    5 miscellaneous documents including 2 letters to/from Cape Town.
11.    Extracts from the Family Tree