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Decrees of High Court of Chancery

Decrees of the High Court of Chancery, London, 1748-1881

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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.

	Surname	Barker
	First names	John
	Place	Straits of Sunda
	Rank	Commander
	Unit	Ship Union
	London Gazette date	18 Sept 1840
	Page	2100
	Details	The cause Parlby v Gilmore. The creditors of John Barker, late of Calcutta, mariner, who resided at Hackney, Middlesex, about the year 1814, who left England for Calcutta as Commander of the ship Marchioness of Wellesley, in or about April 1815, and who left Calcutta in or about November 1815, as owner and commander of the Ship Union, on a voyage ot Batavia and China, and was wrecked in the Straits of Sunda, in the Indian Ocean, and died in the Island Engano, in the said Straits, in or about November 1817, are to prove their debts.

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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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