Reference
X858/5
Title
Mortgage from Francis Butterfield of Luton,
butcher, Frederick Lawford of Luton, accountant, and his wife Sarah, nee Butterfield and Daniel Butterfield of Lilley in Herts., farmer, to James Burge of Luton, innkeeper, to secure £1600 with interest at £5%p.a., of:
(a) messuage, tenement or warehouse situate in George Street in Luton, now occupied by John Jefferson Kershaw and Company.
(b) messuage, tenement, or dwellinghouse with outbuildings, yard, garden and orchard containing three roods at the rear in George Street and adjoining (a), late in the occupation of Francis Butterfield, but now unoccupied.
(c) messuage, tenement or warehouse adjoining (b) in George Street, now in the occupation of Samuel Hooker, many years ago known by the name of Tingries, and bounded in front by George Street, by premises occupied by Joseph Godfrey on the SE, at the back by property belonging to the executors of the late Henry Pigott and to the NW by property of John Jefferson Kershaw and others.
Recites /3-4; that Albert Butterfield, son of Francis, died as an
infant on 14 Dec 1867; that the three living children have decided not to sell the realty but to mortgage it instead.
Endorsed with memoranda of:
- its production and acknowledgement by Sarah
Lawford, with declaration of its voluntary execution by her, 18 August 1871;
- Transfer of the Mortgage dated 9 Apr 1878 from JB to Frances Seymour of Bury Farm, Luton, widow and Jonathan Francis Seymour of Luton, farmer, and Henry Holyoak
of Luton, auctioneer, reciting the death on 19 Dec 1877 of James Burge, John Burge being the son of the original mortgagee, appointed in the will of his father dated 23 Nov 1877 as executor and devisee in fee, which will was proved in Northampton District Probate Registry on 26 Jan 1878.
Date free text
18 Aug 1871
Production date
From: 1871 To: 1871
Level of description
item