Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::The Brentford "islands" | |
Posted by: | Nigel Moore | |
Date/Time: | 18/10/14 15:16:00 |
You’re welcome Guy, nice to find someone else interested in them. Just looking again at the Cardigan conveyance, I see that I was wrong to suggest that it inaccurately depicted the western section of the Swan’s Neck as still existing. All the water edge is shown with multiple parallel lines, whereas the section alongside the Bishop of London’s bit of land is not. So it is only indicating the property boundaries as formed by the former section of river. It is astonishing the level of detail available relating to the land ownership and conveyancing for this length of the Brent. The Grand Junction Canal Company had to detail who owned/occupied all relevant sections [which you can see roughly marked on the Deposited Map] and listed every purchase they made between 1793 and 1826 in a vast Book of Reference with accompanying Index listing the sizes of the parcels in acres, roods and perches. I obtained copies of most of these and gifted them to Chiswick Library, if anyone wishes to see them. Others are in the Metropolitan Archives. Specifically, re-conveying GIII’s and Dr Johnson’s “separated pieces”, and the various Conveyance and Indentures of Dr Johnson’s land from his heiress to James Montgomery, and later from Monty to the Great Western and Brentford Railway Co. The Ealing Tithe Map, by the way, was dated 1839, so I wasn’t far out. |