HN10/273/Paxton12

Draft Affidavit of John Thomas Green in Chancery Case 1886.P.1068 Mary Ann Ricketts Plaintiff and Thomas Lingard Green, John Thomas Green and Charles Dymoke Green, Defendants, very heavily annotated, stating: - his father John Green, surviving executor of Thomas Paxton, commenced business as a solicitor in 1824 at Woburn and continued until his death on 4 Jun 1885; - in 1857 John Thomas Green entered partnership with his father; - he and his clerks made a search in John Green's papers and could find no entry relating to Thomas Paxton's estate with the exception of a bundle of old account books and bills and probate of the will in a bundle in which probates were preserved once the estates had been wound up [see HN10/273/Paxton1-2]; - Paxton's widow had only two children living at the time of his death, Mary Ann rickets and Isabella, wife of Newland Scott; she remarried in 1839 or 40 a shoe maker in Heath & Reach; - Mary Ann Ricketts lived at Battlesden, two miles from John Green's place of business, from 1824 to 1883 and a daughter of Mary Ann Ricketts was maid servant in the employ of a married daughter of John Green who resided in a house adjoining his and had a daily opportunity of speaking with him on the subject; - he had kept the books of the firm from 1857 and nothing appeared in them about Thomas Paxton's estate

1886

From: 1824 To: 1886

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Green, John,
Green, John Thomas,
Ricketts, Mary Ann,
Paxton, Mary Ann,
Green, Thomas Lingard,
Green, Charles Dymoke,
Paxton, Isabella,
Scott, Isabella,
Scott, Newland,
Paxton, Thomas

John Green, John Thomas Green, specific solicitors, records management, shoemaker, affidavit, Chancery, legal papers, HEATH & REACH, BATTLESDEN, WOBURN