Catalogue description Hewlett Record Agency: Papers

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Details of LRRO 67
Reference: LRRO 67
Title: Hewlett Record Agency: Papers
Description:

A collection of papers, mostly reports and notes of searches, office copies, transcripts and translations, mostly accumulated in the course of private record agency business conducted by the Hewlett family, of which the last two keepers of the land revenue records, Henry Gay Hewlett and Maurice Hewlett, were members.

Date: 1813-1897
Arrangement:

Most of the dates given refer to the documents copied or translated, rather than to the date at which the reports and papers were gathered together.

The series formerly belonged, as WF 2, to a separate Woods and Forests group which was abolished in 1960; and is complementary to LRRO 11. Many of the papers are unsorted.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: WF 2
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 355 bundles and volumes
Unpublished finding aids:

Many of the papers can be identified on a list of records held in the office of Messrs Hewletts, at 2 Raymond Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, in the 1880s which is now in LRRO 37/20

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