Having had a long break in my research I have come across some information about my Cooks in Kingham, Oxfordshire. I believe I have found the house my ggggrandparents lived in before their deaths in the 1880's. It also said the house went to chancery and was later bought by a Joshua Cook (who may have been their grandson). Is there a way of researching this? Why would it go to Chancery if they had children? Any ideas would be very helpful, thankyou.
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Try searching the National Archives site, which has details of some Chancery cases:
The National Archives Quick Search
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If you can find a case in Chancery, then you will have a wonderful time.
There has to be enough money involved for it to be worth anyone's while to bring one (& in the fictional Jarndyce v Jarndyce, lawyers costs exhausted the estate)
It often happens because there IS a will, but its terms are imprecise.
I grew up with a tale of "Money Lost in Chancery" which I did not believe in the least... until, by pure fluke, I met a descendant of the family who had "Money Won in Chancery!"
It happened in the 1870s, was between surnames I had never heard of, and had taken my distant cousin fully a month to research it at Kew.
Victorian Chancery cases are not easy to research. The Byzantine filing practices mean the records may be in any one of a dozen places. But if you do find a way in to the subject, then the records are absolutely fascinating.Phoenix - with charred feathers
Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
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