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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D7213/2/20
TitleDeeds and other documents re property on Madeira handed over by the executors of the will of Mrs Edith Ann Johnson Bolton (d.1929), widow of Major William Edward Bolton (d. 1917) to Captain Crosthwait and Miss Edith Elizabeth Crosthwait in 1934
Date19th cent
DescriptionBundle of title deeds to Quinta das Maravilhas, Funchal, Madeira (bought by Major William Edward Bolton from Baroness de Roissard Gordon in 1883) dated 1818-1890, with related correspondence and papers, 1880s
Including:
/1 Brief Schedule of documents
/2-3 Two plans of the property 1876, one at scale 1:1000, the other at scale 1:2500;
/4-5 Two single letters, the first in Portuguese, the second in English
/6 Bundle of correspondence
/7 Draft legal/sale instructions
/9 Deed, 1890 (Portuguese)
/10 Translated copy of a deed dated 1883
/11 Draft deed, c1818 (Portuguese)
/12-13 ?Notes (Portuguese)
/14 ?Copy abstract of title (Portuguese)
/15 Bundle of copy deeds (Portuguese), with contents list (English)
Extent15 items
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorClients of Eddowes, Simm and Waldron of Derby, solicitors
LanguagePortuguese
English
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