Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    Z937/12/2
  • Title
    Marriage settlement by Martha Wyles on marriage to Carolus Nicholls Field
  • Date free text
    1763 August 19
  • Production date
    From: 1763 To: 1763
  • Scope and Content
    (1) Martha Wyles, spinster, one of the daughters and co-heiress of Thomas Wyles, surgeon and apothecary, also one of the neices of William Findley gent in reversion of the premises of Martha Wyles, her widowed mother, all of Ampthill. (2) Carolus Nicholls Field, gent of Hitchin (3) John Bolding, surgeon and apothecary, and Thomas Hollingworth, maltster and cooper, both of Ampthill In consideration of intended marriage between (1) and (2) and provision of an annual payment of 50 by (2) for benefit of (1), (1) grants to (3) (a) her undivided third part and other part in cottage in Church Street, Ampthill, late occ by Thomas Wyles deceased and now John Bolding (b) her cottage in Church Street, now occ by Michael Morris, ironmonger, adj and formerly part of messuage once occ by Thomas Armstrong and now Widow Greenwall, which Martha Wyles and her sisters Ann and Lucy Wyles inherited on the death of the said Thomas Wyles as his daughters and co-heiresses (c) her undivided third part and other part of two messuages, and a toft and close of pasture lying in or near Shefford, the land late of William Rawlins and now Mary King, widow, on one side and the river running on the NW part of Shefford on the other. Also 1ac arable in Every Years Field and 11ac meadow in Lamas Mead, all in Shefford and late occ by Joseph Squire, Thomas Phipp and William Rust. (d) The White Hart inn late occ by John Blakely and now Daniel Wright, also another messuage with outhouses, stables, coach-house and part of the gardens with the Summer House, all in Ampthill and late occ by Thomas Armstrong and afterwards Mrs Armstrong his widow, and now Widow Green, devised by William Findley to his sister Martha, late wife of Thomas Wyles, for life, then to John Bolding, Martha Wyles the daughter and Ann Wyles Witnesses: Daniel Edmunds of Ampthill, and Thomas Taylor
  • Exent
    4, No. of pieces: 1
  • Secretary Hand
  • Format
    parchment
  • External document

    Z937 pedigree.pdf - Field and Nicholls pedigree

  • Level of description
    item
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