Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HN10/273/Thorp12
  • Title
    Will of Maria Thorp of Aspley Guise, spinster: - Frederic Thomas Tanqueray of Woburn, gentleman and Frederick Bassett of Leighton Buzzard, banker to be executors and trustees; - £50 to British & Foreign Bible Society; - £50 to Caroline Sophia Slee; - £100 to Martha Keens; - £100 to Harriet Keens; - £50 to each executor; - £500 to each trustee upon trust to purchase annuity for Martha and Harriet Keens in their joint names; - furniture etc. in her bedroom to Martha Keens along with labelled or listed kitchen furniture and utensils; - four china mugs on the whatnot in the drawing room to her cousin Henry Shewell Corder which "belonged to our grandparents when resident in London"; - plate, drawings, photographs, pictures, jewellery and ornaments of person to children of her cousin late Thomas Corder; - residue to her trustees upon trust for sale/conversion and division into eighths, one ninth to children of her late cousin Elizabeth Spence, trustees to stand possessed of one ninth upon trust and remaining seven ninths equally to children of Thomas Corder living at her death or, if living now but dead at her death then to their children; - one ninth held by trustees to be invested and benefits paid to Elizabeth, widow of her late cousin Thomas Corder, remainder to her daughter Mary Elizabeth Downing, remainder to her children; - "I desire my Said Executors in the Division of my Residuary personal estate to avoid as far as possible any sales by Auctions of my personal effects but if one is found to be unavoidable to remove such effects for the purpose to some convenient spot at a distance from Aspley Guise"; - witnesses: Sophy Ada Swann of Holly Cottage, Aspley Guise, spinster; Charles Herbert, clerk to Frederic Thomas Tanqueray
  • Date free text
    22 Mar 1894
  • Production date
    From: 1894 To: 1894
  • Level of description
    item
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