BISHOPSCOURT FARM, SHAPWICK, BLANDFORD, DORSET COLLECTION

Contains: correspondence concerning business matters arising from the deaths of R G Cave and William C Martin 1877-1934; accounts of the succession to personal property on the death of George Richards of West Almer, Dorset 1877; account of the personal estate and of moneys arising out of the real estate of George Richards of West Almer, Dorset 1877; account of Edward Cave with the parties and legatees entitled under the marriage settlement and will of George Richards 1877; executors cash account for Robert Gale Cave 1929; statement showing amount of cash required on the death of Robert Gale Cave c1927; executors cash account for Edward William Cave 1929; estate account for Edward William Cave 1930; estate account and division account for Edward William Cave 1929; quitclaim of Edward William Cave and Henry Richards from all claims by George Thomas Cull Bennett and Maria Louisa Bennet and others 1877; leases for West Chaldon Farm, Chaldon Herring, Dorset 1809; land and buildings in Fordington, Dorset 1814, 1821; Abbot's Court Farm, Winterbourne Kingston, Dorset 1905; biographical note on Robert Gale and his descedants 1900; live stock insurance policies 1935; receipts 1810-1812, 1877-1887; specification of work to be done at Bailie Leaze, Sturminster Marshall, Dorset 1933; valuation of household furniture and other effects of Edward William Cave at Fordington, Dorset 1822; valuation of livestock, hay, straw, roots, tillages, tenant right, implements etc for the purpose of stock taking at Bishops Court Farm, Shapwick, Dorset the property of Edward William Cave 1920; appointment of Elizabeth Gale as administratix of the property of her father William Stephens 1819; last will and testament of Edward William Cave 1821; appointment of Robert Gale, the elder and Elizabeth Cave as trustees under the will of Edward William Cave 1827; last will and testament of Robert Gale of West Chaldon, Dorset 1830; appointment of Edward William Cave and Henry Richards, the younger as trustees under the marriage settlement of George Richards and Anna Maria Mathews 1864; last will and testament of George Richards of West Almer, Dorset 1868; last will and testament of William Charles Martin of Bailie Leaze Sturminster Dorset 1930

The donor's family, after farming for many years in the Fordington area of Dorset, moved to Bishopscourt in 1877 Farm size: Bishopscourt Farm 846 acres; chalk and loam; tenants on Bankes estate

• CORRESPONDENCE
• ACCOUNTS
• DEEDS
• LEASES
• NOTES
• POLICIES
• RECEIPTS
• SPECIFICATIONS
• VALUATIONS
• WILLS AND RELATED PAPERS

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Presented on permanent deposit 18 March 1966 by E.R. Cave, (Farm Records Acession 66)

Compiled by Caroline Gould, 21 February 2003

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