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Can anyone help with identifying what this document is?

The Gloucestershire Archives catalogue refers to it as a fine, but I'm not convinced it is a fine. The wording refers to it as a "concordia", I think, but does not follow the normal convention "Hec est finalis concordia" etc. Also, it's not an indenture, i.e. the top edge is straight.

The text starts with the name of the county "Glouc", which is something I've seen in court records e.g. Assizes. I am wondering if this is perhaps the final outcome of a court case in one of the Equity Courts? Or something from the local manorial court (but if so why prefix the text with the county name?).

I am struggling with transcribing the text in full, but it appears to be some kind of property transaction involving land, pasture, meadows, dovecots[?], orchards [?] etc. being sold or leased by the Harrises to John Broade of Broad Campden.

OK, thanks for that Ray. The enquirer has details of the passenger lists, but those births certainly look interesting. I'd missed the Winifred because that date of birth is somewhat at odds with the passenger lists, where Winifred is shown as younger than Doris. But the coincidence is enough to make me think I should notify the enquirer and suggest he obtains the certificates. If Doris's exact date of birth were to match the date of birth the family has always assumed, that would make it an even greater coincidence (perhaps more than a coincidence?).

Pete

The other child was Winifred Mary, also now deceased. Her age was given as 3 on the passenger list when they departed for South Africa in 1919.

I have tried looking for children with matching forenames whose births were registered around the right time in the Bedfordshire area but have not found anything.

As you say, a needle in a haystack.

Yes, that's the one. I think the information is in the public domain already so I don't believe I'm betraying any confidences in confirming that. I am currently evaluating whether there is any realistic prospect of making progress with the case or whether it's a lost cause.

There's no specific address known. The only information I have available is what the descendants have told me, which is "Leighton Buzzard is where my uncle says she was adopted, however I have no documentation to back that up and nothing to confirm she was definitely born there."

As I say, this is a long shot.