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Title: Abbreviations Used in Baker's History of Northants
Post by: rkraeuatzd on Sunday 03 August 25 15:54 BST (UK)

Hello All,

I'm looking into the Grendon family of Caldecote and have found the attached family tree in Baker's as attached.

Would anyone happen to know what the abbreviations Esc. and Br. in the references at the bottom stand for or point to? Likewise what is Fermor's Evidence?

Thanks a million,

Richard

Title: Re: Abbreviations Used in Baker's History of Northants
Post by: Bookbox on Sunday 03 August 25 18:55 BST (UK)

Esc. stands for Escheat and shows that there was an Inquisition Post Mortem for the relevant person at the given date. IPMs are held at the National Archives and name-indexed in Discovery - see here ...
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/inquisitions-post-mortem/

They've also been calendared and abstracted online - see here ...
https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/ipm.shtml

Br. is probably John Bridges' History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire ...
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/49117-the-history-and-antiquities-of-northamptonshire-vol-1?offset=235659

Fermor - I'm less sure about this. 'Evidences' usually refers to a collection of documents, perhaps in this case the estate papers of the Fermor-Hesketh family at Northants Archives, as catalogued here?
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13551873

You could ask Northants Archives for more information.

Title: Re: Abbreviations Used in Baker's History of Northants
Post by: PrawnCocktail on Sunday 03 August 25 19:09 BST (UK)

You beat me to it, Bookbox. Just about to post the same thing!

Fermor's Evidences, in connection to Caldecote in Towcester, would undoubtedly be information from Sir Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret, or his estate papers, of which there are boxes and boxes at the Northants Record Office. Last I looked, they were roughly calendared, but not indexed!

Title: Re: Abbreviations Used in Baker's History of Northants
Post by: Bookbox on Sunday 03 August 25 19:22 BST (UK)

Glad you agree, PrawnCocktail  :)

Title: Re: Abbreviations Used in Baker's History of Northants
Post by: rkraeuatzd on Monday 04 August 25 15:51 BST (UK)

Thanks tremendously both Bookbox and Prawn Cocktail!

Lots to take in and lots to follow up on. Need a moment to digest and process the information


richard