Catalogue description FFOOKS & DARLINGTON ARCHIVE

This record is held by Dorset History Centre

Details of D/FFO
Reference: D/FFO
Title: FFOOKS & DARLINGTON ARCHIVE
Description:

'Records of the firm of Ffooks, Solicitors, of Sherborne

 

The clients' bundles, which form the largest section of the accumulation, were and are filed alphabetically and include some client parishes as well as individuals and families.

 

The correspondence and financial records of the firm should be used to supplement information presented by the clients' papers. It is possible that they contain bills etc. also for clients whose papers are no longer extant. The indices of the bill books should help determine this.

 

The collection not only gives a picture of the practice of a solicitor in a country town in the late eighteenth and in the nineteenth centuries, but also throws light on families, trade, schools, societies, charities, tithes, manors, elections (local and general), railways and many other matters.
Date: 1570-1944
Held by: Dorset History Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Ffookes, Sherborne, solicitors
Physical description: 45 series
Subjects:
  • Dorset
Administrative / biographical background:

1779 is the earliest known date at which John Fooks was practising as a solicitor in Sherborne. His son, Thomas Fooks, was appointed Clerk of the Peace in 1826, an office which he and his descendants held continuously for nearly 100 years. Papers in connection with this office are to be found in the collection, as are Shrievalty and Lieutenancy papers. Thomas Ffooks was appointed Under-sheriff in 1864 and Edward Archdall Ffooks became Under-sheriff in 1888, and, at a date unknown, Clerk to the Lieutenancy.

 

From about 1848, William Fooks began spelling the surname "Ffooks".
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