Catalogue description Farnfield and Nicholls, solicitors, of Warminster

This record is held by Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

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Reference: 628
Title: Farnfield and Nicholls, solicitors, of Warminster
Description:

Seagram family of Bratton and Westbury

 

Whitaker family of Bratton

 

P.C.C. probates (unlisted)

 

Davis family of Bapton in Fisherton de la Mere

 

Local church court probates (unlisted).

 

Original wills not proved (unlisted).

 

Christopher Fricker decd. of Chitterne; Hinton family of Greenhill House, Sutton Veny

 

Heytesbury Hospital estate principally Chirton and Great Cheverell. Some unrelated material also included.

 

Coombes and Sainsbury families of Corsley

 

Bleeck family of Warminster

 

Ingram family of Upton Lovell

 

Halliday family of Warminster

 

Neate family of Middlehill, Box

 

Various families

 

Burgess family of Westbury

 

Various families including Hughes of Warminster, Parham of Chitterne and Astley of Everleigh

 

Phipps of Westbury

 

Various families

 

Solicitors' business records

 

Various

Date: 1540-1967
Related material:

See also WSRO Refs: 251, 567, 1539

Held by: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, not available at The National Archives
Copies held at:

Copies of the enclosure awards for sherrington and Pewsey and the section of the Westbury tithe map covering Chapmanslade and Hawkridge have been placed in the duplicate series.

Language: English
Creator:

Farnfield and Nicholls, Warminster, solicitors

Chapman and Ponting, Warminster, solicitors

Ponting and Marshall, Warminster, solicitors

Goodman, Timothy, fl 1829-1865, solicitor of Warminster

Wakeman, Herbert, fl 1852-1880, solicitor of Warminster

Physical description: 488 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Farnfield and Nicholls, solicitors, of Warminster

Administrative / biographical background:

This collection comprises the archives of the predecessors of the depositor principally Timothy Goodman, Chapman and Ponting, Ponting and Marshall of High Street, and Herbert Wakeman of Market Place in Warminster. It largely consists of the records of former clients with some business records of the several firms at both addresses.

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