• Reference
    HN10/273/Wood1
  • Title
    Draft will of Bet Wood of Eaton Bray, single woman: - her nephew Jesse Wood and Joseph Pratt of Northall, Edlesborough [Buckinghamshire], farmer to be executors; - her freehold house in Eaton Bray in her own occupation, with outbuildings and orchards belonging of 3 or 4 acres to Jesse Wood subject to a legacy of £200 to John Wood Brown, (son of Susannah Brown, wife of James Wood); - freehold house and premises of 6 acres at Eaton Green and 7 or 8 acres in Eaton Bray meads and residue of real estate to her trustees upon trust for sale, dividing proceeds as follows: £10 to Joseph Pratt; one fifth remaining to James Wood; one fifth to her niece Mary Brinklow, wife of Charles Brinklow, one fifth to her niece Sarah Pratt, wife of Jeffrey Pratt, one fifth to her niece Hannah Holmes, wife of David Holmes and one fifth equally between widow of her late nephew George Wood and their children Ellen, Elizabeth and Priscilla; - personal estate to Jesse Wood absolutely; - witnesses Frederic Thomas Tanqueray of Woburn, solicitor; George Varney of Eaton Bray
  • Date free text
    31 Aug 1887
  • Production date
    From: 1887 To: 1887
  • Level of description
    item