Chancery Records: Susan Moore

Chancery records at The National Archives are a wonderful resource. They cover diverse subject matter, such as family inheritance and wills, land and other property, debts, marriage settlements, apprenticeships, trade and bankruptcy. Thereby providing a rich and invaluable resource for family historians.

Susan Moore will be giving us an introduction to this resource.

About our speaker

After graduating from the University of St Andrews I have spent all my working life in archives and libraries carrying out historical legal and genealogical research for clients, and now specialise in Chancery Proceedings and other legal records, particularly those in the period 1500 to 1800.  My clients include those writing biographies, local histories, or house histories, lawyers, churches, bodies such as the National Trust, and genealogists and family historians.  Passing on my knowledge is important and I always pleased to give talks or write articles on Chancery records, and particularly enjoy my role as teaching Chancery records for Pharos Tutors.

I am the author of “Family Feuds – An Introduction to Chancery Proceedings” and “Tracing Your Family History in the Courts of Equity”.  I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a trustee of the British Association for Local History, an accredited member of the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA), and a member of the National Archives User Advisory Group.   I am also a member of the Friends of the National Archives, Society of Genealogists, and many family and local history societies.  

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