These papers contain home and overseas correspondence of Messrs Lawford and Waterhouse, Solicitors, of Draper's Hall, London EC, who acted both for the East India Company and the India Office. The correspondence relates to Indian estates which from a legal point of view presented some difficulty ...
The first 29 volumes relate to European other ranks of the EIC/Indian Army only and are mostly confined to cases where an ordinary soldier left only his immediate personal effects - many were written at the point of death. Some involve larger estates. Occasionally a soldier's estate is recorded ...
The Military Estate Papers which commence in 1849 (Bengal), 1851 (Madras) and 1852 (Bombay), comprise estate accounts, wills, inventories and particulars of next-of-kin. The series relates mainly to European regular officers, medical officers and warrant/departmental officers (including subordina...