WB/Fordham4/1/Sharn/RH1

Abstract of Title of William Islip and his Mortgagees to estate in Sharnbrook; abstracted by Day & Wade Gery of St.Neots [Huntingdonshire] (I) Mortgage of 30 Oct 1819 Parties: (1) Thomas Gell of Sharnbrook, gentleman; (2) Benjamin Welstead of Kimbolton [Huntingdonshire], gentleman; (3) Robert Talbot of Sharnbrook, gentleman Reciting: - lease & release of 1-1 Nov 1771 from (1) Charles Dymoke Willaume of Tingrith, gentleman and (2) Henry Fothergill, late of Bedford, then of St.Andrew, Holbourn [Middlesex], gentleman; to (3) Rev.David Tanqueray of Woburn of (a) Manor house called the Messuage by the Waterside, Sharnbrook, formerly in occupation of Joseph Godfrey MD, then Mary Langley, widow, then Thomas Wells; (b) cottage in Sharnbrook with barn or stable yard, garden, orchard and common in occupation of Thomas and John Wheatley; (c) closes of pasture on N side of (a) commonly called Dovehouse Close and Great Home alias Great Close divided by quick hedge containing together 14 acres formerly in occupation of William Harpen and Thomas Urnes, then Joseph Godfrey, then Mary Langley, then Thomas Wells; (d) close of pasture called New Close of 4 acres formerly in occupation of Joseph Godfrey, then Thomas Wells; (e) 2 closes of meadow called Long Holme or Mead and Little Holme or Mead then laid together and containing 6 acres on S side of (c)-(d); (f) close of pasture or meadow called Bridge or Burge Close of 5 acres, lying near (a) formerly in occupation of Joseph Godfrey, then Thomas Wells; (g) 144a 1r 0p of land, leys and meadow in open fields of Sharnbrook and Odell, part of which was enclosed as a stone pit or quarry formerly held by George Cobb, gentleman formerly in occupation of John Norman and William Corby then William Norman, John Hipwell, James Ward and John Dickens; (h) close of pasture bounding Bletsoe of 4 acres formerly in occupation of John Smith, then John Hipwell, then Thomas Wells; (i) royalty or liberty of fishing in River Great Ouse belonging to Manor of Langston alias Laughtons & Parantines with all islands, reeds etc. in river; - death of David Tanqueray in Jul 1780 intestate, without issue leaving Rev.ThomasTanqueray of Tingrith his only brother as his heir at law; - will of Thomas Tanqueray of 23 Oct 1782 devising his real estate to his son Charles; - lease & release [by way or marriage settlement] of 15-16 Feb 1797 (1) Thomas Tanqueray, then of Bicester [Oxfordshire]; (2) Martha Elizabeth Littlehales, spinster; (3) Margaret Littlehales; (4) John Laurentius Littlehales; Rev.Edward Tanqueray of Tingrith; Joseph Gascoyne Littlehales of Brazenose College, Oxford; Thomas Smith of Red Lion Street, London, gentleman in which (a)-(i) above were settled in trust; - lease & release 11-12 Jul 1805 (1) Charles Tanqueray; (2) Edward Tanqueray; Joseph Gascoyne Littlehales; Thomas Smith; (3) Thomas Gell; (4) Benjamin Welstead conveying (a)-(d) and (f)-(i) above ((e) having been long since sold) by description of (a) Manor of Ouse; (b) farmhouse and closes belonging in occupation of John Bodger in Sharnbrook and Bletsoe; (c) two cottages in Sharnbrook and Bletsoe in occupation of John Boddington and Daniel King; (d) right of fishing in River Great Ouse to use of (3) and (4) with life interest of (4) in trust for (3); - Inclosure Award for Sharnbrook of 20 Oct 1811 exchanging Thomas Gell's open field land for 14 separate allotments; - Thomas Gell exchanged 10 of his allotments with divers people retaining only the first four; - lease & release 14-15 Aug 1818 (1) Charles Welstead; (2) Thomas Gell; (3) Robert Talbot in which (3), at request of (2) paid 1,000 to (1) to discharge a mortgage and in which (3) paid 100 to (2), making 1,100 mortgage monies secured on (a)-(d) in lease & release of 1805; - Inclosure Commissioners allotted 4 allotments to Thomas Gell in respect of land purchased from William Drury Lowe amounting to 47a 2r 11p and other lands purchased from William Drury Lowe, of which Thomas Gell kept the first three and exchanged the fourth; - divers settlements, ultimately lease & release of 11-12 Oct 1819 (1) Ann Hind, late of Ardley [Oxfordshire], then of Mill End, Hambledon [Buckinghamshire], widow of Rev.Thomas Hind (ne Ann Andrews, late Ann Law, widow), devisee in will of Richard Lane, previously of Mile End, esquire; (2) Ann Hind (only child and heiress at law of Thomas and Ann Hind); (3) Thomas Gell; (4) Samuel Sharman senior of Wellingborough [Northamptonshire], esquire in which capital messuage etc. were conveyed to use of (3); - 1,100 still outstanding but all interest paid Operative Part: - (3) paid 6,900 to (1) (making a total mortgage debt of 8,000) on security of (a)-(c) below Property: (a) parcel of new inclosed land in Yard Brook containing 3a 1r 18p bounded: SE and SW by old inclosures of Thomas Gell; NW and N by old inclosures of and allotment to Samuel Cornish; being 2nd allotment to Thomas Gell in Inclosure Award in respect of land purchased from William Drury Lowe and Yard Brook of 6a 1r 39p was laid with it forming land containing 9a 3r 17p and was called Yard Brook; (b) piece of old inclosed ground in Sharnbrook adjoining Yard Brook called Dry Close and containing 8a 3r 24p; (c) ground lately part of an old inclosure also called Dry Close in Sharnbrook wit hancient fences and containing 6 perches bounded: SE by Riseley Road; SW and NW by Dry Close belonging to Thomas Gell; previously estate of John Gibbard, esquire, awarded to Thomas Gell by Inclosure Commissioners in exchange for his fourth allotment of 13 perches in respect of land purchased from William Drury Lowe; laid together with (b) to form land of 8a 3r 30p called Great Dry Close (II) Covenant of 20 Aug 1820 Parties: (1) Thomas Gell; (2) Robert Talbot Reciting: - (I) above Operative Part: - (2) lent a further 500 at 5% interest to (1) who covenanted with (2) that (a)-(c) in (I) above would be charged with 500 as well as 8,000 (III) Lease & Release of 30-31 Oct 1820 Parties: (1) Thomas Gell; (2) Robert Talbot Reciting: - (I); -(II); - 8,500 remained outstanding but all interest had been paid; - lease & release of 30-31 Oct 1810 (1) Rev.Thomas Hind and Ann, his wife; (2) Charles Abbot; (3) Thomas Gell in which a close of arable in Bletsoe was granted to use of (3); Operative Part: - (2) lent a further 800 at 5% interest to (1) on same security as the 8,500 already lent plus the close in Bletsoe formerly of Thomas and Ann Hind (IV) Lease & Release of 29-30 Oct 1822 Parties: (1) Thomas Gell; (2) Robert Talbot Reciting: - (I); - (II); - (III); - 9,300 still outstanding but all interest paid; - conveyance of further land (not abstracted) to (1) on 16-17 May 1820 Operative Part: - (2) lent a further 1,000 at 5% interest to (1) on existing security as well as that of land purchased on 16-17 May 1820 (V) Memorandum of 10 Oct 1825 that Robert Talbot was still owed 4,600 (VI) Will of Thomas Gell of 15 Feb 1823: - bequeathing to his son Edwin 500 to be paid as soon as he reached 24, with interest paid to him meanwhile and charging his personal estate with this payment; - bequeathing other small pecuniary legacies; - devising his real estate to his two sons Thomas and Richard to be divided equally between them; - appointing Thomas and Richard Gell executors; - death of Thomas Gell on 23 Jul 1823; - will proved in PCC 8 Nov 1823 (VII) Deed Poll of 10 Oct 1825 of Edwin Gell of South Molton Street, Oxford Street [Middlesex], coach maker: Reciting: - reciting (VI); - at his death Thomas Gell was seised of land in Sharnbrook, Bletsoe, Riseley, Felmersham and elsewhere in fee simple charged with legacy of 500 and interest; - Edwin Gell's 24th birthday was 17 Sep 1825; - Thomas and Richard Gell had paid Edwin Gell's 500 plus interest Operative Part: - Edwin Gell released to Thomas and Richard Gell all land charged with payment of the 500 legacy (VIII) Assignment of Mortgage of 1 Nov 1855 Parties: (1) Talbot Wallis of Shefford, gentleman; Thomas Knighton of Stony Stratford [Buckinghamshire], gentleman; (2) Thomas Gell of Sharnbrook, farmer and miller; Richard Gell of Sharnbrook, farmer and miller; (3) Talbot Wallis; (4) John Garrard of Olney [Buckinghamshire], gentleman Reciting: - (IV); - (V); - (VI); - death of Robert Talbot on 13 Feb 1833 after making will of 23 May 1821 bequeathing the residue of his real estate to his brother John Talbot of Olney [Buckinghamshire], gentleman whom he appointed executor; - proof of will and codicil on 14 Apr 1834 in PCC; - Robert Talbot died a batchelor leaving his brother his heir at law; - John Talbot died on 27 Apr 1841 having made his will of 25 Jan 1840 appointing George Wallis (since dead), William Talbot Wallis and Vincent Wallis (died in the testator's lifetime), Thomas Knighton and Thomas Collier (since dead) his executors and devising to them in trust all lands of which he was mortgagee; - Will and codicil of John Talbot proved in PCC on 16 Jun 1841; - death of George Wallis on 2 Dec 1847; death of Thomas Collier in Feb 1850; - 4,600 still outstanding on mortgage to Robert Talbot but all interest had been paid Operative Part: - (3) paid 4,600 to (1) at request of (2); - (1) assigned mortgage to (4) in trust for (3) (IX) Will of Thomas Gell of 21 Dec 1858: - appointing William Islip of Melchbourne, farmer and William Pickering of Beaumont Chase [Rutland], farmer executors; - divers bequests; - devising to William Islip his farm in his own occupation containing about 180 acres in Sharnbrook, Bletsoe and Felmersham with that part of River Great Ouse running over his land and close of land in Bletsoe in occupation of William Heritage subject to mortgage and charged with payment of 20 to Eliza Gebhard of Birmingham (X) Codicil of 18 Jan 1859 to will of Thomas Gell; - death of Thomas Gell on 8 Oct 1859; - proof of will of Thomas gell in PPR on 11 Jan 1860 (XI) Declaration of 2 Aug 1859 by Thomas Gell of Riseley, farmer that: - he was 70 years old and had lived in the neighbourhood of Sharnbrook and Riseley all his life; - he was well acquainted with Thomas Gell, late of Riseley, gentleman, afterwards of Sharnbrook and with his wife, Lucy, both deceased, the deceased Thomas Gell being the declarant's uncle; - he believed Thomas and Lucy Gell were married at Riseley and had several sons of whom Thomas Gell of Sharnbrook was eldest, only three living beyond infancy - Thomas, Richard and Edwin; - Thomas Gell the elder and Lucy his wife, died many years ago and Edwin Gell died some years ago; - Richard Gell died in Dec 1855 as a batchelor and was buried in Sharnbrook; - Thomas Gell the elder was owner of a valuable estate in Sharnbrook, through part of which Midland Counties Railway, Leicester to Hitchin Line ran; the estate was devised to his sons Thomas and Richard Gell; - Richard Gell died intestate and on his death his half of the estate came to Thomas Gell the younger as his eldest brother and heir at law (XII) Assignment of Mortgage of 22 Dec 1862 Parties: (1) William Talbot Wallis; (2) John Garrard; (3) Ann Pickering Islip of Sharnbrook, spinster; (4) Ann Islip of Luton, spinster; (5) William Islip; (6) Samuel Day of St.Neots [Huntingdonshire], gentleman Reciting: - death of Richard Gell as a batchelor on 14 Dec 1855, intestate, leaving Thomas Gell, his brother, as his heir at law; letters of administration being granted to Thomas Gell on 3 May 1856 by Archdeaconry Court of Bedford; - (IX) and (X); - estates were devised to Ann Pickering Islip and Ann Islip free from encumbrances and to William Islip subject to charges; - 4,600 still outstanding but all interest paid Operative Part: - (2) paid 4,600 to (1) who transferred the mortgage to (2) (XIII) Mortgage of 17 Apr 1863 Parties: (1) William Islip; (2) John Horrell of Oakley, farmer; Thomas Henry Murfin of Great Staughton [Huntingdonshire], common brewer; John Dawes Bletsoe to Barnwell [Northamptonshire], farmer Reciting: - (1) was seised of (a) and other property subject to annuity of 20 to Eliza Gebhard of Birmingham charged to it Operative Part: - (2) lent 2,000 at 5% interest to (1) secured on (a) amongst other property Property: (a) Lime Kiln Piece of 3a 3r 22p in Sharnbrook (XIV) Assignment of Mortgage and Mortgage of 11 Sep 1867 Parties: (1) John Horrell, Thomas Henry Murfin and John Dawes Bletsoe; (2) William Islip; (3) Henry Spencer Law of Richmond [Surrey]; Henry [Montagu, 6th] Baron Rokeby Reciting: - (XIII); - 2,000 remained owing but all interest had been paid Operative Part: - (3) paid 2,000 to (1) by direction of (2) and 6,000 to (2), totalling 8,000 at 5% interest secured on (a)-(b) Property: (a) Manor of Ouse; (b) closes of land, cottages etc. in Sharnbrook (exclusive of a small part sold off) of 183a 3r 17p subject to annuity of 20 to Eliza Gebhard of Birmingham and including 3a 3r 22p known as Lime Kiln Piece with public house (XV) Further Advance of 28 Jul 1869 from Henry Spencer Law and Baron Rokeby to William Islip of 2,000 at 5% interest (XVI) Mortgage of 20 Aug 1870 Parties: (1) William Islip; (2) Charles Day of Easton [Northamptonshire], gentleman Reciting: - (XIV); - (XV) Operative Part: - (2) lent 2,000 at 4.5% interest to (1) subject to mortgages totalling 10,000 as in (XIV) and (XV) (XVII) Further Advance of 12 May 1875 Parties: (1) William Islip; (2) Charles Day Reciting: - (XIV); - (XV); - (XVI) Operative Part: - (1) borrowed a further 2,000 at 5% interest from (2) (XVIII)Further Advance of 30 Aug 1877 Parties: (1) William Islip; (2) Charles Day Reciting: - (XIV); - (XV); - (XVI); - (XVII) Operative Part: - (1) borrowed a further 2,000 at 5% interest from (2) Observations on the within Abstract: - "The piece of land with Railway Inn & buildings therein containing together 2r 22p & forming Lot 9 at the sale thereof is the Southern part of an old Inclosure called in the Deeds Lime Kiln Piece which contained 3a 3r 22p"; - "The property comprised in the Indentures of 16 & 17 May 1820 recited in the Indre of 1st Nov 1855 forms no portion of this purchase"; - Mrs.Gell the wife of Thomas Gell the Testator of 15 Febry 1823 died many years before her husband"; - "The duplicate notice to quit served upon Mr.Newson the present tenant os sent with the papers - his tenancy expires at Lady Day next"; - "No Deeds are handed over to the Purchaser, but they are all included in the covenant to produce contained in the conveyance"; - "The Succession Duty account of Mrs.Gell who succeeded on the death of Richard Gell on 9th Dec 1855 & under his intestacy to a moiety of property held by Mrs. & Richard Gell in moieties is dated 8th Sept 1857 & is numbd Register A.J.1856 Fo.119 (Succession G1855.-108)"; - The Succession Duty Account of Wm.Islip on the death of Thos.Gell on 8th Octr 1859 made under his Will dated 21st Decr 1858 & proved at Northampton 11th Jany 1860 is dated 28th Septr 1860 & the Reference isegister S.1859 Fo.372 & there are 8 subsequent receipts for the instalments dated respectively 8th June 1861, 6 Decr 1861, 30 May 1862, 12 Decr 1862, 16 June 1863, 11 Decr 1863, & 15 June 1864 for 19.4.4 each"; C.R.Wade Gery St.Neots 18 Decr 1878

1878

From: 1771 To: 1878

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Islip, William,
Day & Wade Gery,
Gell, Thomas,
Welstead, Benjamin,
Talbot, Robert,
Willaume, Charles Dymoke,
Fothergill, Henry,
Tanqueray, David,
Godfrey, Joseph,
Langley, Mary,
Wells, Thomas,
Wheatley, Thomas,
Wheatley, John,
Harpen, William,
Urnes, Thomas,
Cobb, George,
Norman, John,
Corby, William,
Hipwell, John,
Ward, James,
Dickens, John,
Smith, John,
Tanqueray, Thomas,
Tanqueray, Charles,
Littlehales, Martha Elizabeth,
Littlehales, Margaret,
Littlehales, John Laurentius,
Tanqueray, Edward,
Littlehales, John Gascoyne,
Smith, Thomas,
Bodger, John,
Boddington, John,
King, Daniel,
Lowe, William Drury,
Hind, Ann,
Hind, Thomas,
Andrews, Ann,
Law, Ann,
Lane, Richard,
Sharman, Samuel,
Cornish, Samuel,
Gibbard, John,
Abbott, Thomas,
Gell, Edwin,
Gell, Richard,
Wallis, Talbot,
Knighton, Thomas,
Garrard, John,
Talbot, Robert,
Talbot, John,
Wallis, George,
Wallis, William Talbot,
Wallis, Vincent,
Collier, Thomas,
Pickering, William,
Heritage, William,
Gebhard, Eliza,
Gell, Lucy,
Islip, Ann Pickering,
Islip, Ann,
Day, Samuel,
Horrell, John,
Murfin, Thomas Henry,
Bletsoe, John Dawes,
Law, Henry Spencer,
Montagu, Henry (6th Baron Rokeby),
Day, Charles,
Wade Gery, Charles Robert,
Newson

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