Manorial Records

Description

If your ancestors scarcely appear in the parish registers, or worse, if two or three of the same name occur at the same time: if your great grandfather dropped in out of the blue, yet there is no settlement certificate, and all the evidence points to his being a man of property if you are lucky, you will find the magic words, "my copyhold land" or "I have surrendered to the uses of my will " in an ancestors will. The ownership of that bit of property can be traced back to its first appearance in the family. If tracing the land takes you back to the sixteenth century and beyond, even unto the fourteenth century, if you are lucky, it may be that your ancestor was "to the manor born," which does not mean that he owned it, but, more probably that it owned him. This book takes you through the search of the records, where to find them and what to expect. 36 pages (A5)