Edward Townsend Higgins

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An exchange of letters concerning a dispute [over land in Farnborough] heard in Chancery as Higgins v Barber. Comprises: letter from Edward Townsend Higgins, 17 Montague Street, Russell Square, London, to 'Mr Unwin' in Manchester, 24 March 1834, with reply, 26 March 1834, concerning the delay in the case coming on; letter from E.T. Higgins to T. Garrett of Gaydon, recording a verdict in the former's favour and against 'the bastard' and that the tenant of the land in dispute, one 'Cooknell', must now pay his rent arrears, 18 November 1834; letter from 'Mr Hardwick', Nottingham, to E.T. Higgins, congratulating him on the outcome of the case, 24 November 1834. The case concerned the claim to the estate on behalf of an illegitimate child of Charles Barber, born in 1828, who was later claimed to have been Barber's son by Elizabeth Huckell, whom he had married in 1826, but who in reality was the child of Barber's servant, Sarah Pickard (see ER4/300)