HN10/347/8/10

Draft conveyance [lots of solicitor’s handwritten notes and corrections throughout] Parties: (i) Rupert Stanley Beak of Stanford Street, St.John’s Road, Abingdon [Berkshire], grocer; (ii) Gertrude Mary Beak of Highfield Ringwood [Hampshire], spinster; (iii) Arthur Beak of 16 Sirls Road [Gloucestershire], secretary and (i), executors and trustees under the will of Percy Bailey Beak, deceased; (iv) Thomas Osborn Day of 96 St.Aldates Street, Oxford and Matilda Jane Day his wife; (v) Ann Hayward Beak of 96 St.Aldate’s Street, Oxford, spinster; (vi) Catherine Beak of Weston Super Mare [Somerset], spinster; (vii) Ethel Isabel Beak of Atherstone Rectory, Stratford upon Avon [Warwickshire], spinster; (viii) Helen Beak of Beechborough, Twyford near Winchester [Hampshire], spinster; (ix) Minna Goddard the wife of John William Goddard of Churchdown [Gloucestershire], merchant; (x) Gerald George Beak of Borough Hall, Marston Hermitage [Berkshire] estate agent; (xi) said Arthur Beak; (xii) Eleanor Jupp of Charlton [Wiltshire], spinster; (xiii) Alan Thatcher of 11 Adam Street , Strand [London], solicitor; (xiv) Frederic Thomas Tanqueray of Woburn, Beds, gentleman; (xv) Martha Jane Downes of Hucclecote [Gloucestershire], spinster; (xvi) Sydney Bruce Morrison of Swindon [Wiltshire], solicitor; (xvii) William Jenner Lane of Poulton [Gloucestershire], retired farmer; (xviii) John Hoskins of Eastleach [Gloucestershire], farmer. Reciting: - part of the will of Isaac Beak of Little Lemhill, Lechlade [Gloucestershire] dated 1st May 1860; - Isaac Beak died on the 10th Sep 1860; - Matilda Beak died on the 6th Jul 1895; - George Beak died on the 16th Apr 1909; - George Beak only married once to the said M.Beak on the 1st Feb 1855, they had 11 children: Rupert Stanley Beak, Gertrude Mary Beak, Percy Bailey Beak, Matilda Jane Day, Ann Hayward Beak, Catherine Beak, Minna Goddard, Helen Beak, Gerald George Beak, Ethel Isabel Beak and Arthur Beak; - will of Percy Bailey Beak dated 26th Nov 1895; - Percy Bailey Beak died on the 11th Feb 1901; - mortgage dated 21st Dec 1893 between (1) Matilda Beak, Ann Hayward Beak and Catherine Beak (2) Ann Hayward Beak, Catherine Beak, Ethel Isabel Beak, Helen Beak and Gertrude Mary Beak (3) Fanny Louisa Rich; - transfer of mortgage dated 21st Dec 1901 between (1) William Tugwell and Tom Brooke (2) (xii); - Matilda Jane Day (nee Beak) married Thomas Osborn Day on the 14th Sep 1876 but there was no settlement on occasion of such marriage; - mortgage dated 7th Dec 1893 between (1) (x) and Matilda Jane Day (2) George Olney; - transfer and further charge dated the 1st Mar 1898 between (1) Julia Mary Olney and John Bradbury (2) (x) and Matilda Jane Day (3) Henrietta Bennett; - will of Jane Clarkson dated 24th Sep 1902 whereby a mortgage debt of £250 was transferred to (xiii); - mortgage dated 1st Nov 1897 between (1) (iv) (2) (xiv); - further charges dated 2nd Dec 1904 & 29th Dec 1905 between same; - mortgage dated 26th Oct 1907 between (1) (ix) (2) John William Goddard (3) (xv); - (ix) married John William Goddard on the 25th Jan 1887; - mortgage dated 26th Feb 1900 between (1) (x), (vii) (2) Horatio Clarkson and Jane Clarkson; - will of Jane Clarkson by which a mortgage debt of £100 were transferred to (xiii); - mortgage dated 24th Mar 1902 between (1) (x) (2) (xvi); - mortgage dated 26th Oct 1907 between (1) (iii) (2) (xv); - based on the recited mortgages, mortgage sums with interest are now owed to: (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv) and (xvi); - (i–x) have agreed to sell their rights, estates and interests in (a-b) to William Ashley Webb Ponsonby De Mauley and (xviii) [note: the name William Harding has been crossed out]; - further agreed that 1/11th of the purchase price will be paid to (i), (ii) and (iii) and the remaining 8/11th will be paid to (xvii) in trust for (xii-xvi). Operative: - in consideration of £1795 [£3750 being crossed out] (i) – (xvi) convey (a-b) to (xviii) and William Ashley Webb Ponsonby Lord De Mauley. Property: [see annexed schedule for greater detail] (a) Little Lemhill Farm, Lechlade [Gloucestershire] with all outbuildings, gardens etc. of 103a 3r 32p; (b) Pieces of land known as ‘The Meadows’ situate in Lechlade and Langford [Oxfordshire] of 42a 2r 30p; … ‘all which said premises first and secondly described are now together with an enclosing of meadow land known as Mill Close Mead also situate in the Parish of Langford in the occupation of the said William Harding as tenant thereof at an entire rent of £180’. Operative: - unto and to the use of (xviii) and William Ashley Webb Ponsonby Lord De Mauley free from all recited mortgages. - intended to be witnessed and signed by William George Rant of Abingdon, grocer; Thomas Brown of Abingdon, lineman for the Post Office; F.C. Ford of Churchdown, accountant; Thomas M. Davenport of County Hall, Oxford, solicitor; Edwin Cooper of Marlston, herdsman; Frank Treasures of Gloucester, solicitor.

c.1909

From: 1860 To: 1909

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Beak, Rupert Stanley,
Beak, Gertrude Mary,
Beak, Arthur,
Beak, Percy Bailey,
Day, Thomas Osborn,
Beak, Ann Hayward,
Beak, Catherine,
Beak, Ethel Isabel,
Beak, Helen,
Goddard, Minna,
Goddard, John William,
Beak, Gerald George,
Jupp, Eleanor,
Thatcher, Alan,
Tanqueray, Frederic Thomas,
Downes, Martha Jane,
Morrison, Sydney Bruce,
Lane, William Jenner,
Hoskins, John,
Beak, Matilda,
Beak, Matilda Jane,
Beak, Minna,
Rich, Fanny Louisa,
Tugwell, William,
Brooke, Tom,
Day, Thomas Osborn,
Olney, George,
Olney, Julia Mary,
Bradbury, John,
Bennett, Henrietta,
Clarkson, Jane,
Clarkson, Horatio,
Mauley, William Ashley Webb Ponsonby de,
Harding, William,
Rant, William George,
Brown, Thomas,
Ford, F.C.,
Davenport, Thomas M.,
Cooper, Edwin,
Treasures, Frank

grocer, mortgages, merchant, estate agent, Lechlade Little Lemhill Farm, Lechlade, Langford [Oxfordshire]