G'day All Doing a bit of thumb twiddling as a change from census work and I found this web site and wonder if the information contained therein may help some-one. http://www.durtnall.org.uk/DEEDSIndex.html <<<<<<<< This is a collection of descriptions of historical documents taken mainly from online auction catalogues, arranged by county. The Channel Islands, Ireland, Scotland, Australia and the USA are contained on a single page each, Welsh counties have their own page. There is also a page for military items and one for miscellaneous items and those with no location given. Most of the documents are indetures or other property related documents such as conveyances, mortgages, leases etc. Other documents include wills, bibles, letters, commonplace books etc. Many of these documents are sold into private hands and the information they contain is lost to researchers. In the process many collections of documents and bundles of deeds are broken up and the collective information they contain lost forever. Hopefully some of this collective information will be retained through these pages.>>> Warwickshire pages start at http://www.durtnall.org.uk/DEEDS/Warwickshire%201-100.htm but try some of the other counties such as Leicestershire as I found Warwickshire info there too. Some examples of information I found 1734 VELLUM INDENTURE concerning the county of WARWICK with 2 GOOD SEALS NO RESERVE This is a handwritten vellum indenture dated 14th November 1734 in the reign of King George II and is between Edward Jordan of Ward in the parish of Aston in Warwickshire, a miller, of the first part; Richard Turner of Saltley, a wood cutter of the second part and Elizabeth Handy of the third part. The document concerns property in Saltley, Warwickshire. There are three blue sixpenny revenue stamps and two excellent red wax seals with heraldic impressions by the "marks" of Jordan and Turner as they were both illiterate. Size. The document is approx. 27" wide x 20" high. Condition. There is a small hole near the bottom margin but otherwise in very good condition with the usual folding creases. and Handwritten English vellum indenture dated 1743 during the reign of George II being the conveyance of property "in the markett street" in Dodington in the County of Oxford between William Marshall of Farmborough in Warwick, Yeoman, and Anne, his wife, of the first part; and William Bazely, a Malter, of the second part. Nicely penned with flourishes, three blue revenue stamps with insert, tax staamp, two red wax seal on cloth tags, and nice docketing on verso. Fine condition, measures 30.5 x 19". --------------------------------------- Seems such a shame that these documents get sold off to collectors instead of to the people who would cherish them - Good hunting everyone Wendy Warwick List Admin