Hello
Two Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) Wills, for Leonard Fosbrooke of Shardlow
Will of Leonard Fosbrooke of Shardlow Hall , Derbyshire.
02 September 1830
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D270604A very quick read of the first few pages only of the 1830, Fosbrooke mentions upon his death that they could sell one of his Estates (Shardlow named, with others) which might sell.
Estates were usually broken up into Lots and offered for Sale at Auctions (some advertised briefly in newspapers) and therefore not unusual for some Lots to remain unsold and still in the family ownership later.
A small snippet from the 1830 Will ...
And whereas by the Settlement made previous to my Marriage with my said dear wife Mary Elizabeth Fosbrooke a rent charge of five hundred pounds is secured to her my said wife in case she shall survive me and her assigns for life ...
So there was a Marriage Settlement once, before the 1830 Fosbrooke Will and their Marriage.
Also mentioned so far in the Will, Lands at Ravenstone and Snibston Leicestershire.
She was nee Mary Elizabeth Story and according to the Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, her Father was the Rev. Philip Story of Lockington Hall.
You are probably already looking at the Records of the Fosbrooke family of Shardlow D 447 at Derbyshire R.O. (other related family items in other collections)
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F16483https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13628693 ----------
Will of Leonard Fosbrooke of Shardlow, Derbyshire
20 July 1763
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D487021 ----------
These references in Burke's 19th Century books are useful for their family history and to find possible locations of other possible surviving document sources etc., should those at Derby R.O., be incomplete.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=Description:+Will+of+Leonard+Fosbrooke+of+Shardlow&source=bl&ots=qFyrj-9b1L&sig=ACfU3U1OWj0p2aIgfedmilGrNdVVXq0SkA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYr5PTwqTiAhWDVBUIHenBBQ4Q6AEwCHoECAkQAQ ----------
General Comments
If there was a 'Tail' on an English Estate, where it passes to a Son and Heir or a Daughter Heiress, then there may be an Estate Act, or Estates Act, (with a family name in the Act title), to break the 'Tail'. Some are held locally or in the Parliamentary Archives.
Oh yes, it is very exciting stuff, for the enquiring mind wanting a challenge.
Knowing their Family History too is useful, because when these great and medium sized Landowners died or moved house some Manuscripts were sometimes taken by them or family to one of their other Estates / Seats, or Sold off as Manuscripts with their great Libraries, or left with their Solicitors, or even left with the new owner of their former Seat or House, who have kept items in their house or family and now deposited them in Record Offices or University Special Collections, where they subsequently lived or died.
Wills online are only a small part of the Wills actually held.
Regarding a Manor of interest to me, they conducted an Enquiry / Inquiry Post Mortem between 1606 to 1608 into her Lands and her Estate Lands are listed by Field name too, some of which can be found in earlier Courts Baron Surveys, Surveys and Rentals of the Estate in the Medieval period.
It is really an offence to destroy old House Deeds, which go back into the Manor period, as they will very likely be Manorial documents.
Hopefully the Manor and Estate documents will be more useful.
A local lady told me their Solicitor binned their 400 year old Map and documents in front of them, because the property was now Registered, now she only has 200 year old Deeds, which have no original Map, only a modern Plan in a Sales Brochure marking the land, when her family offered the site for sale.
UK Land Registry Office, current documents and Maps at First Registration held for my area are usually only 20th Century at best, despite the Lands being mentioned in the time of Henry II and a rich source of documents going back 600 years and more.
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Generally. A Homebuyer should always read these Registered Titles too (not just the online summary) as the Title ought to summarise Covenants and Responsibilities at first Registration and have a Plan too.
New or recent Housing Estates are hiding so much in these wordy Conveyance documents, especially future costs that people simply sign to be responsible to pay for without even reading it (e.g. including a share of the future cost of part of the new housing estate road which the council never adopted part of, shared street lighting, or another was maintenance and repairs of a massive retaining wall which also gave rights for the Council to seize the 'Freehold' property if they couldn't pay). Conveyances and Plans should be read and checked at your own pace, which can be fully enquired about or an opinion sought first, before proceeding.
Mark
