SD2053. The General Cemetery Company to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 255 (in part).
Kensal Green, Kensington, Middlesex
11 March 1857
No. 13735
By virtue of an Act passed in the second and third years of the Reign of his Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, “An Act for establishing a General Cemetery for the Interment of the Dead in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis”, We, THE GENERAL CEMETERY COMPANY, incorporated by and under the said Act, in consideration of the sum of Three pounds and three shillings to us in hand paid by George Goodin Barrett, of No 50 Wimpole Street in the parish of Saint Marylebone in the county of Middlesex Esquire Executor of the late Mary Trepsack do hereby grant and convey unto the said George Goodin Barrett the exclusive right of burial and interment in ALL THAT grave six feet and six inches long by two feet and six inches wide, situate and being in the consecrated part of ALL SOULS’ Cemetery at Kensal Green, in the parish of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, distinguished by the Number 13735 TO HOLD the same to the said George Goodin Barrett IN PERPETUITY, for the purpose of burial and of erecting or placing thereon, subject to the approval of the Company, a Monument in stone, PROVIDED that such a Monument shall be so erected or placed within six calendar months of the date hereof (unless licence for further time be obtained from the said Company), such GRAVE and Monument, with the appurtenances, to be so erected or placed, and from time to time kept in repair by the owner or owners for the time being, and to be subject to such rules, order, and regulations, as have been or shall from time to time hereafter be made by the said Company for the management and regulation of the said Cemetery, and the Vaults, Graves, and Monuments therein, or this Grant shall be void. GIVEN under the COMMON SEAL of the said Company this Eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Eton College Library.
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