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Buckinghamshire Completed Look ups / Administrations
« on: Saturday 13 June 15 08:47 BST (UK)  »
If someone died intestate in Bucks in the 1700s and held property would an administration of their estate have been made and would the record still exist?

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The Common Room / Strange Property Grant Arrangement
« on: Thursday 28 May 15 14:04 BST (UK)  »
I have been looking at an old grant in which it looks like a father grants land to his son in law on condition of knight service, but then the son in law grants it back to the father in law and his son and heirs in perpetuity unless the son has no heirs in which case the land reverts back to the son in law's heirs! As an example say we have:-

father = William Bigg
son = John Bigg
daughter = Elizabeth Worth nee Bigg
son in law = Robert Worth

so

1) William Bigg has made a grant of his land to Robert Worth and his heirs and
2) Robert Worth grants the land back to William Bigg and his son's Johns heirs with the exception that if John's heirs runs out the lands revert back to Robert Worth's heirs

Does this sound right? Has anyone seen examples like this? Perhaps it was a way to prevent your lands from being confiscated by the crown as normally if you left land to your eldest son and his line ran out the crown would confiscate the land and it would not get passed to any cousins like the Worths.

Hope this makes sense!

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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Relevance of Changing Coat of Arms?
« on: Saturday 18 April 15 18:21 BST (UK)  »
A Coat of Arms started back in Anglo-Norman times as:-

vair a fess gu

A bit later (pre-College of Arms) several members of the family slightly adapted it to

vair a fess gu fretty or (i.e. they added a gold cross hatch to the stripe in the middle)

and then (still pre-College of Arms) several of them started using the very different

gules a lion rampant vair crowned or

Does anyone know

1 - what does the addition of the gold cross hatch signify?
2 - why would a family start using such a radically different design as the lion rampant which only shares the vair coluring of their previous arms? Marriage?

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