• Reference
    BHD78/14
  • Title
    Copy probate of will of John James Theophilus Stevens of Dunstable, gentleman: - Frederick Farr of Dunstable, surgeon and Thomas Coates Johnson of Dunstable, stationer to be trustees and executors and guardians of any children under age on the death of his wife; - bequeathing £19/19/- to each trustee; - charging all real estate with payment of his debts and expenses; - bequeathing £100 to his wife; - bequeathing all household furniture, plate etc. to his wife; - bequeathing residue personal estate to his trustees upon trust for conversion into money for investment and payment of interest to his wife, remainder, on death or remarriage of his wife, equally to his children; - devising all real estate to his trustees upon trust to pay rents etc. to his wife remainder, on death or remarriage of his wife, equally to his children; - clause allowing a trustee to act alone or appoint another trustee if his fellow trustee became bankrupt; - his wife not entitled to dower - witnesses: W.Stocker and W.H.Derbyshire, clerks to William Medland of Dunstable, solicitor
  • Date free text
    3 Aug 1857
  • Production date
    From: 1857 To: 1857
  • Level of description
    item