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Decrees of the High Court of Chancery, London, 1748-1881
Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken | Comment | The decrees occur when in litigation it was necessary to, mainly, call for creditors or legatees to make claims.
The Gazettes wording is usually "pursuant to a decree", occasionally "whereas by a decree", of the High Court of Chancery.
The parties named in the "cause" or case are often given to help finding them in the National Archives Research Guide on Chancery Equity suits, and explained in their leaflet "Chancery Equity suits after 1558" https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/chancery-equity-suits-after-1558/, which is essential reading when researching such litigation.
When trying to find them in the National Archives catalogue search Discovery https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ (which will not always be successful) limit the search to the C class.
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| Surname | Barber | | First names | Charles | | Place | London  | | Rank | Esq. | | London Gazette date | 18 Aug 1801 | | Page | 1023 | | Details | The cause Cockerell v Barber. To enquire if George Barber, otherwise George Talbot Barber, the brother of Charles Barber, late of Calcutta, Esq., at Fort William, the testator named (who died in the Adelphi, in the Strand, Middlesex, in August 1799), and mentioned in his will, is dead, and if so his next of kin. The said George Barber is supposed to have gone into the EIC service at Bombay, as a recruit, several years ago, under the name of Talbot, and to have died at Bombay, on the 27 of August 1800. |
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The listing is of decrees made by the High Court of Chancery in London as reported on the official London Gazette, available online at https://www.thegazette.co.uk .
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