England Examples of Copyhold Property Records (National Institute)

Copyhold Property (cont.)
Chart: Successive Transactions at a Manor Court

Below is an example from the manor of Bromley St. Leonard’s, Middlesex showing an inheritance of a copyhold property by six children. They immediately sell it and the land is subsequently enfranchised (converted to freehold).

Chart: Inheritance, Sale and Enfranchisement of Property

There will be a variety of other documents in the court records, for example this from Stepney manor, Middlesex:

Chart : Demolition License for Copyhold House

Price has a nice example of using copyhold land documents via the new Manorial Documents Index online to tie up his Cowdery family in several parishes in Hampshire. Tee and Crook (Woodlake Cottage, World’s End – A Short History. Hampshire Family Historian Vol 30 #4, page 271-276) describe another copyhold Hampshire property through court rolls and other documents, ending with its enfranchisement in 1927 and demolition of an old cottage in 1979.

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