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Birchington mills files

Word documents, images and powerpoint presentation on the the windmills of Birchington.

Burgess, Jennie M

Legal papers relating to the sale of Herne Bay windmill.

An array of legal correspondence, papers, drafts and accounts associated with the parties to the sale of the windmill at Herne Bay in July 1879. The papers date between 13 July 1878 to 16 October 1880 and relate to: correspondence regarding the payment of succession duty on the deaths of Henry Stanley and James Alexander; a dispute as to responsibility for paying for the previous miller's fixtures (the miller, Thomas Wootton having been given notice to quit upon the sale of the windmill); ascertaining details as to the birth and death dates/ burial locations of various members of the Alexander family and other individuals previously having an interest in the mill (such as Edward Charles and Henry Stanley); queries regarding progress on the administration of James Alexander's estate. Some of the correspondence from the Alexander family is written on black-edged mourning paper.

Legal papers relating to the sale of Herne Bay windmill.

Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the Alexander family's instructions to sell their 'family property' at Herne Bay for £1,400 to Mr Collard 'alias Horne'. The papers include a draft 'Schedule of Title Deeds and Writings relating to a messuage Windmill and lands at Herne Bay' dating from 1824 through to 1879, the property having been sold by the Charles brothers (Edmund and Charles) and Henry Stanley (Eliza's widower) to [James] Alexander on 31 August 1869. The firm of solicitors is Emmerson & Co, Sandwich, Kent.

Legal papers relating to the sale of Herne Bay windmill.

Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the sale of "a freehold house windmill land at Herne Bay" by the Alexander family to "Horne otherwise Collard". The documents include: a very clear schedule of "title deeds & writings relating to a messuage windmill land & hereditaments at Herne Bay in the County of Kent"; the Alexander family's solicitor's draft responses to requisitions on title raised by the purchaser's solicitor, Walter Furley of Canterbury; the cash account of the Alexander family's solicitors (Emmerson & Co of Sandwich), showing the shares received by each of eight Alexander brothers and the succession duty paid;