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Hi Stanley

My Maslens come from Market Lavington - how far is that from All Cannings?  It seems an unusual name - do you know of any connections between your Maslens and mine?

Carolyn

All birth, marriage and death certificates are subject to copyright - my local Staples has a sign up saying they won't copy them - but the information on them can be reproduced.

Sorry - I hadn't realised.

In the 1851 Mary is living in Nelson Row, St Peters, Brighton, and the source reference is H0107/1645.  On the birth certificate of George, born in 1847, the address given is Little St James Street, Kemp Town, Brighthelmston.  I don't know Brighton at all so i don't know if this is helpful.

Thanks anyway,

Carolyn

To me it seems that it is Mrs Anderson who is entitled to the property and is giving it to your grandmother.  I would be trying to find out who Mrs Anderson was.

The property would have been passed to your grandmother by way of assent, if directly given from the estate, or conveyance, if given by Mrs Anderson after Mrs Anderson inherited it.  It is possible that the deed was registered, as even before national property registration through the Land Registry was in place there was a system of registration of deeds.  I don't know about London, I am based in Yorkshire, but here we can search in the West Riding Registry of Deeds for deeds registered before about 1970, when compulsory registration began to come in. 

If you can find a copy of the deed, it would probably show Mrs Anderson's full name and address, it may recite how she came to be transferring the property (either as owner or as Administrator), and it may even give a reason - usually a conveyance states the purchase price but if there isn't one it should say what the consideration was - eg "natural love and affection" if between family members.

You could even try the Land Registry.  If deeds contain information which needs to be passed on they keep copies and note it on the registers.

Good luck.

I was rather perturbed when looking for my birth certificate that the register office had some difficulty finding it.  I was beginning to wonder whether I existed at all when it was found - I was born in March but not registered until July.  This was - let's just say somewhere about 4 decades ago.  So its not just our dim distant ancestors who had better things to do than register their offspring.  I don't know if they were fined for it but whatever happened it wasn't a big enough deal for them to ever mention it.