| Description | The records in this collection relate mainly to the estate of the Tomkins family, bankers and mercers of Abingdon. Some business papers survive as well as records of the Provost Charity held by a member of the family, presumably as a trustee.
[For more information about the records in this collection please contact Berkshire Record Office.]
Summary
BUSINESS PAPERS: various papers, 1759-1846.
ESTATE PAPERS: papers relating to lands in Sutton Courtenay, Milton and Flitton, 1711-1834.
OFFICIAL RECORDS: commission as Ensign granted to Walter Joseph Sedgefield, 1863.
PARISH & CHARITY RECORDS: Dr J. Provost's charity, Abingdon, appointments, apprenticeship indentures and other papers, 1719-1879.
TITLE DEEDS: Abingdon, 1648-1854; Abingdon St Helen Without, 1691-1732; Drayton, 1755-1793; Fyfield, 1833; East Hagbourne, 1627-1822; Hanney, 1817; Harwell, 1797-1871; Marcham, 1690-1744; Radley, 1735-1736; Steventon, 1720-1821; Sutton Courtenay, 1579-1775.
Out County: Oxfordshire, 1659-1851; Buckinghamshire, 1648-1826; Hertfordshire, 1825-1831; London and Surrey, 1686-1881. |