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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Probate"”.
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A framework for probate research.
This thesis provides a framework for conducting probate research for interpretive purposes. The proposed framework will provide for the examination of individual households to produce a body of historic data. An evaluation will be included of the usefulness of this model for collecting information. …
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The Importance of Comprehensive Clinical Social Work Assessments for Determination of Older Adult Guardianship Petitions in Cook County Probate Court, Chicago, Illinois
… petitions brought forth in Cook County Probate Court, Chicago, Illinois.</p><p>The research involved exploration of legal case files and interviews with both mental health and legal professionals.</p><p>Comprehensive clinical social work assessments seem necessary in older adult …
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A study of wills and will-making in the period 1500-1533 with special reference to the copy wills in the probate registers of the Archdeacon of Bedford 1489-1533
Historians sometimes use information derived from sources the nature and function of which they do not fully understand. Wills and testaments from the medieval and early modem periods provide a notable example of this practice; they have been used by historians for the information which they …
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The organization of the courts of Missouri
… Until the adoption of the constitution of 1875, probate courts were established by special acts. Frequently the probate court of one county had a different jurisdiction from that of another county. The constitution of Missouri that was adopted in 1875 is in a great many ways entirely unsuited to …
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THE LAYERED SOCIETY: MATERIAL LIFE IN PORTSMOUTH, NH, 1680 TO 1740 (NEW HAMPSHIRE)
… from 1680 to 1740 through an analysis of the probate inventories of the estates of 234 males. It also details the methodology used to determine the twin biases of probate records--that people whose estates were probated were generally older and wealthier than people in the overall …
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Refinement and Architecture in Early Ypsilanti
… and Solon Robinson, historical buildings, and probate record inventories of Washtenaw County. Ypsilantians did not assume the genteel refinement that developed in the nineteenth century. They instead modified gentility to become a form of respectability that suited their needs. By examining one …
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Women at the Loom: Handweaving in Washington County, Tennessee, 1840-1860.
… County, Tennessee. The author examines probate inventories, wills, store ledgers, and census and tax materials to determine the identities of the weavers, the equipment and raw materials available to them, and the kinds of textiles that women wove. The author discusses the reasons many …
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The Brazilian Far West: Frontier Development in Mato Grosso,1870--1937
… and wealth holding through the analysis of probate records; and politics through the analysis of office holding, incumbency rates, and collective biographical data. The quantitative evidence developed in the dissertation has been cross-tabulated in order to yield new insights into the …
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Differing responses to an industrialising economy: occupations in rural communities in the Heart of England from the Restoration to the Railway Age (c. 1660 – c. 1840). Male occupational structure in the hinterland of the market town of Alcester, Warwickshire
… sources are used including the 1841 census, probate records, marriage licences and parish registers in order to compare occupations in thirty-six rural parishes centred on Alcester. The investigation focuses on various themes such as the changing interplay between agriculture and …
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Objects, emotions, and the household in Renaissance Prague, c.1570-1620
… of relationships. Using criminal court records, probate inventories, and surviving objects from museums, I construct narratives that imagine the emotional experiences of Prague’s inhabitants and seek to flesh out the early modern psyche. In the process, this thesis presents a new interpretation …
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The consumer and consumption in South Westmorland, circa 1700 to 1750: a Yeoman family's possessions and acquisitions
… new items across regions of the country, in probate inventories. It is now clear that understanding consumer behaviour involves more than counting the goods held at death, with lifecycle and regional influences playing a crucial part. Using these documents, the house and the extant …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… social history sources---vital statistics, probate records, and periodicals. I integrate these with literary sources---diaries, slave narratives, poetry, and prose. I also study the biographies of several early African American women and recreate biographies of others whose life story has …
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Recepción de las instituciones romanas en la biografía de Alonso Antonio de San Martín, hijo de Felipe IV
… law schools well documented, with particular probate matter analysis, where the restriction on the ability to dispose mortis causa of the bishops come to the nineteenth century, and its origin is found in Justinian.
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Gendered work: Women's paid labor in Barre, Vermont and Trinidad, Colorado, 1880--1918
… in Trinidad. Cross-checking these names against probate, city, and county court records, marriage and death records, newspapers, local manuscript collections, and oral histories, stories of a few hundred women emerged. The patterns in aggregate data provided an overall picture of female …
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The religion of the people in Winchester and Southampton, c.1558-c.1603
… including the records of town governors, probate records, visitation records, Consistory Court Records, Bishops' Registers, local courts, church wardens' accounts, and records of government. By continually comparing the cities, and discussing the evidence for religious belief and practice, …
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Shops, retailing and consumption in eighteenth-century provincial England: Norwich 1660-1800
… through newspaper advertisements, trade cards, probate inventories, diaries and contemporary visual representations of the city centre. While a clear transformation was detected across the century, the evidence suggests that change was cumulative rather than a big shift at a fixed point in time. …
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A century of change on the Lindsey marshland : Marshchapel 1540-1640.
… to be understood. A range of sources, including probate documents and parish registers, is used to examine the underlying economic and social structures of sixteenth and seventeenth century Marshchapel and to investigate the processes of change in this marshland community.
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Households of the Cape, 1750 to 1850 : inventories and the archaeological record
… (functions of spaces) within the house. These probate records thus provided invaluable information about houses, their contents and the placement of objects within the household, and could be investigated from the level of individual rooms on the day of appraisal to a range of houses over a …
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GOOD WIVES: A STUDY IN ROLE DEFINITION IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, 1650-1750
… of evidence from court records, account books, probate inventories, church records, paintings, embroideries, gravestones, genealogical records, captivity narratives, sermons, and the letters and diaries of husbands and sons.</p><p>The discussion is organized around three Biblical archetypes …
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The intersection between the Islamic law of inheritance and the South African law of succession
… Master of the High Court (responsible for the probate of all estates). I also conducted a document analysis of Islamic wills stored on record at the main Muslim judicial body in the Western Cape. The data extrapolated from my research identified various legal challenges encountered by people …
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