can anyone tell me about chancery cases, and if they have had any experience accessing them? i was told today an ancestor is believed to have fought with his father, been disinherited and money went to chancery. a family member said they had found evidence of the case, but did not give any information on it. i know the national archives have started to index them, but so far i can't see anything helpful on the site. any help would be appreciated. the date would be 1830's, as the ancestor in question arrived in new south wales in 1838. nothing asides from his parents names are known. no idea of siblings etc and no evidence of a birth around 1818.
story goes he did something serious, and was exiled with a pension provided he never came home to england. upon arrival in australia, he burned the papers and bank book in a fit of anger and decided to have nothing to do with his family. this doesn't sound like it would have anything to do with a chancery case though?
story goes he did something serious, and was exiled with a pension provided he never came home to england. upon arrival in australia, he burned the papers and bank book in a fit of anger and decided to have nothing to do with his family. this doesn't sound like it would have anything to do with a chancery case though?
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