Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WB/Fordham4/1/Dun/W9
  • Title
    Copy Admission - Manor of Goyes and Chamberleyns Bury; George Day of St.Neots [Huntingdonshire], Steward; - reciting WB/Fordham4/1/Dun/W/8; - reciting will of Elisha Brown of 10 Feb 1870 devising certain cottages in Dunton to his sister Sarah Brown and certain cottages in Dunton to his sister Amelia Brown and remainder of his estate equally divided between his brothers James, Thomas, Obadiah, William and Simeon and his sisters Sarah and Amelia; James Brown and Obadiah Brown to be executors; - reciting death of Elisha Brown on 11 Feb 1870 and proof of his will in PPR on 14 Mar 1870 - reciting absolute surrender of 2 Feb 1871 pursuant to covenant of same date between (1) William Brown the elder, late a baker, now a husbandman; (2) James Brown of Dunton, baker; Thomas Brown of Stotfold, gardener; Obadiah Brown of Dunton, farmer; William Brown the younger of 12 Grafton Road, Seven Sisters Road, Holloway, London, carpenter; Simeon Brown of Ashwell [Hertfordshire], farmer; Sarah Brown of Dunton; Amelia Brown of Dunton; (3) James Brown of Dunton, baker; surrender by (2) to (3) for 75 of (subject to mortgage of 125): (a) newly erected tenement (built on the site of two cottages) with barn, yard, outbuildings and premises on Dunton Green formerly in occupation of William Brown the elder, now James Brown; (b) thatched tenement with barn and outbuildings adjoining (a) lately in occupation of John Gale, then David Masters the younger, now William Chamberlain; (c) clay bat built and slated tenement (recently erected by William Brown the elder, with barn in occupation of Stephen Cartwright; - admission of James Brown; 5/- rent; 5/- fine
  • Date free text
    2 Feb 1871
  • Production date
    From: 1870 To: 1871
  • Language
    English
  • Level of description
    item
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