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(i) Correspondence: concerning the valuation and the granting of probate for the property of Jesse Bird (deceased)of Coombe Farm, a letter about Tithes payable to Queen Annes Bounty and also to Trinity College, Cambridge. Letters from William Simmons (millers and corn merchants) of Leighton Buzzard, Farmer and Stockbreeder Agricultural Gazette (with advertisement order form), confirmation of several auction sale lots to Capt. Beale of the Zoological Society, Whipsnade and a letterhead from Totternhoe Lime and Stone Co. Ltd., regarding a Town and Country Planning Application for extraction of chalk from land owned by the estate of Jesse Bird (deceased) 1935-44 (ii) Valuation of household furniture and effects at Coombe Farm, Totternhoe, property of Jesse Bird (deceased) 1937 (iii) Valuation: of live and dead farming stock, hay, corn, tillages and crops at Coombe Farm, Totternhoe, property of Jesse Bird (deceased) 1937 (iv) Valuations: for estate duty, of freehold properties at Coombe Farm, cottage and garden opposite, house, buildings and orchard, household furniture and live and dead farming stock, property of Jesse Bird (deceased) 1937 (v) Schedule: of articles of household furniture etc. at Coombe Farm, claimed by members of the family (Miss Audrey Bird, Miss Edna Bird, Miss Bessie Bird and Mrs. Bird) property of Jesse Bird (deceased) n.d. (vi) Will: draft copy of the will and testament of Jesse Bird (deceased) 1937 (vii) Accounts: copy of accounts for executors and trustees of Jesse Bird (deceased) detailing amounts paid to Mrs. May Bird, Miss Edna Bird, Miss Bessie Bird and Miss Audrey Bird as a share of income from the estate 1938 (viii) Agreement: (draft) with maps for the excavation of chalk at Coombe Farm connected with the Chiltern Range Preservation Scheme between the executors of Jesse Bird (deceased) and Bedfordshire County Council 1938 (ix) Account of Income: statement of income to estate of Jesse Bird (deceased) detailing receipts and payments between 1941 and 1942

1935-1944

From: 1935 To: 1944

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Bird, Jesse,
Simmons, William,
Beale,
Totternhoe Lime & Stone Co. Ltd.,
Bird, Audrey,
Bird, Edna,
Bird, Bessie,
Bird, May,
Zoological Society of London

valuations, PROBATE, Totternhoe Coombe Farm, tithes, Queen Anne's Bounty, chalk, furniture, livestock, agricultural implements, wills, plans, TOTTERNHOE, Cambridge Trinity College, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, WHIPSNADE