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Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division: Master Hawkins' Pedigrees
| Reference: | J 64 |
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| Title: | Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division: Master Hawkins' Pedigrees |
| Description: |
Pedigrees transferred from the chambers of Master William Francis Hawkins, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1933 until 1969. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master William Francis Hawkins (1933-1969), in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk, were Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams (1910-1932), Master Charles Burney (1877-1909), Master Edmund Boyle Church (1864-1876) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master George Whiting (1852-1863). |
| Date: | 1849-1925 |
| Separated material: |
For other papers of Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams, and his predecessors, see: |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Court of Chancery, 1875 Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875- |
| Physical description: | 4 bundle(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 1935 William Francis Hawkins, 1896-1979 |
| Selection and destruction information: | These documents were originally submitted to the court by claimants to the estates of deceased persons, and their preservation appears to stem from a Disposal Schedule of 16 August 1895, which expressly excluded like documents from destruction. Statutes, Rules and Schedules governing the disposal of Public Records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, pp 180-187). |
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