Catalogue description Hodge (Baker) MSS

This record is held by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

Details of DD\HB
Reference: DD\HB
Title: Hodge (Baker) MSS
Description:

Somerset Deeds etc.
Date: 1619-1887
Arrangement:

PROPERTY TENURE AND PERSONAL ESTATE

 

1. Banwell, 1652-1746

 

2-5 Batcombe, 1734-1887

 

6. Bedminster, 1688-1876

 

7. Chipstable, 1707-1799

 

8. Churchill, 1747-1841

 

9. Compton Martin, 1797-1811

 

10. Creech St. Michael, 1619-1802

 

11. Cutcombe, 1694-1844

 

12. Dunster, 1706-1782

 

13. Huntapill, 1797-1857

 

14. Kingston Seymour, 1704-1763

 

15. Long Ahston, 1715-1829

 

16. Lyncombe and Widcombe (Bath), 1790-1813

 

17. Mark, 1782-1851

 

18. Monkton Combs, 1744-1812

 

19. Tickenham and Clevedon, 1705-1815

 

20. Wedmore, 1715-1855

 

21. Wiveliscombe, 1697-1826

 

22-26. Worle, 1646-1872

 

27. Wraxall, 1622-1766

 

28-29. Yatton, 1657-1854

 

30-36. Miscellaneous documents (Stone, Baker, Drake, etc., families), 1672-1892

 

The records remaining in the Somerset Record Office are mostly little deeds relating to properties in the Weston - Bristol - Bath area. In general the artificial arrangement imposed on the documents during preliminary sorting (at the time of deposit) has been retained, since it is not possible to retrieve the original arrangement. The majority were bundled topographically by parishes, in alphabetical order (1 - 29). Three original bundles were retained (30 - 32), and the remaining documents grouped in four bundles, one relating to the Baker family, Nailsea and Weston-super-Mare property (33), two arranged approximately alphabetically under place to which the document refers (34 - 35), and the last relating to the Drake family.
Held by: Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 8 boxes
Immediate source of acquisition:

H/487
Subjects:
  • Hodge and Company of Weston super Mare, Somerset, solicitors
  • Baker, Ernest E, d 1931, solicitor, of Weston super Mare, Somerset
  • Somerset
Administrative / biographical background:

The dual title Hodge (Baker) has been given to the collection since the documents were most probably accumulated by Ernest E. Baker, solicitor of Weston-super-Mare, who died in 1931 (Som. Arch. Proc., vol. LXXVII, p. 144). The Baker family records, also deposited in the Somerset Record Office (DD/BK), to certain extent supplement the records in this collection and both lists should be consulted for information. Hodge & Co. acquired the collection when they took over the Baker firm in 1938, and deposited them in the Somerset Record Office in 1939. Almost immediately, a large quantity of out-county documents was despatched to appropriate repositories.

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