Catalogue description Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Deeds and Awards of Enfranchisement

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Reference: MAF 9
Title: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Deeds and Awards of Enfranchisement
Description:

This series comprises deeds and awards of enfranchisement of land made under the Copyhold Acts 1841 to 1894. A number of subsidiary papers containing evidence of title will be found in this series attached to those deeds and awards which are later than 1900. The names of individuals that appear in the catalogue entries after the names of the manors are the names of the tenants concerned.

Date: 1841-1925
Arrangement:

Alphabetical order by county and then by manor. Two or more items relating to the same manor are arranged in date order.

Catalogue entries for the items within each box have been arbitrarily numbered in sequence for system reasons; these numbers do not appear on the documents themselves.

Related material:

For registers to these records see MAF 76

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Agriculture, 1889-1903

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1903-1919

Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Commission, 1851-1882

Land Commissioners for England, 1882-1889

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1919-1955

Physical description: 369 box(es)

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