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Well, I've made my way across the pond in my family history and I'm having to explore some Great Britain references. Can anyone explain the meaning of the notation in the last set of brackets?

" [CTf271] An entail by Gilbert de la Legh, son of Michael, in 1321, which shows
Gilbert, Richard and Laurence, were brothers and his grandsons. [DDTo O/12/40]"

I understand the meaning of the notation in the first set of brackets (Christopher Townseley material archived in the British Library folio number 271] from my reference material, but there does not seem to be an explanation for the "DDTo O/12/40"

DDTO appears to be a Lancashire Archives reference code for various records related to Towneley of Towneley (presumably the Towneley family in Towneley, near Burnley). You can see the lists of documents included under this reference code here: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov. ... f09224d204. They use these codes for different records (e.g. DDTA is Tatton of Cuerden).

It seems to be an Archive Reference Code (Index Reference) which probably only has 'meaning' to the Archivists who created the referencing system as a finding aid: see: https://www.flarchives.co.uk/towneley-of-towneley.html.

Edit: Nick beta me!

The Lancs RO Catalogue is on https://archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview/

If I were you, I'd go to the Advanced Search and try that reference in the "Document Reference" item. I do find that sometimes our Catalogue References are a little wayward in relation to embedded spaces so you might try it both with and without the embedded spaces. Alternatively, start with just DDTo and seeing what stuff looks like underneath.

Incidentally, if you were looking at the same PDF that I found with Google, if you searched for just DDTo in that PDF, the last such reference in the PDF gave the clue about Lancashire RO.

BTW: I have moved this posting to the Research forum that is more appropriate.

Gentlemen,

Thanks for the assistance. Yes this is reference to the Towneley of Towneley Hall near Burnley.

I clearly missed the clue in the PDF. I will give those links a hit and see what I can find.

Ive visited your fine land 3 times, now I have a reason to come back!