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Office copy will of Jacob Ayres of Roxton, farmer: - devising to his housekeeper Mary Church and her sons John and William as joint tenants: (a) his dwelling house and four acres of land in Roxton; (b) his new inclosed piece of arable of 18 acres in Hill Field in his occupation and abutting E on road from Bedford to Eaton Socon; (c) inclosure of pasture of two acres in Northill in occupation of Robert Ayers; (d) his cottage and orchard in Northill; (e) his small dwellinghouse with allotment of arable of 4a 1r 14p at Beeston, Sandy in occupation of Robert Ayers; - charging (e) with payment of a £10 annuity to his nephews Thomas Ayers and Jacob Ayers, sons of his dead brother Thomas; - devising to John Wood Ayers, son of his late nephew John Ayers of Roxton, farmer a cottage in Roxton called the Royal Oak ; - devising to Joseph Scruby of Roxton, butcher and Mary, his wife and James Church, son of Mary Church his cottage and blacksmith's shop in occupation of Thomas Lightfoot, shopkeeper in equal halves as tenants in common; - bequeathing £100 to Hannah, daughter of Mary Church; - devising and bequeathing the residue of his real and personal estate, including mortgage due to Samuel Wells on Royal Oak, to Mary Church and her two sons Thomas and William in equal shares; - witnesses: George King of Potton; Thomas Lightfoot of Roxton; John Ibbett of Roxton Proved in Archdeaconry of Bedford on 15 Apr 1820

8 Oct 1819

From: 1819 To: 1820

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Ayers, Jacob,
Church, Mary,
Church, John,
Church, William,
Ayers, Robert,
Ayers, Thomas,
Ayers, John Woods,
Ayers, John,
Scruby, Joseph,
Scruby, Mary,
Church, James,
Church, Hannah,
Lightfoot, Thomas,
Wells, Samuel,
King, George,
Ibbett, John

Roxton Royal Oak, Jacob will: Ayers, housekeeper, annuities, shopkeeper, blacksmiths, butcher, ROXTON, Roxton High Street, NORTHILL, Beeston