• Reference
    WB/Fordham4/1/Stop/ST2
  • Title
    23 Feb 1880 Conveyance Parties: (i) Mary Hannah Cooke of 14 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne [Sussex], spinster; (ii) William Affleck of 30 Friday Street, City of London, warehouseman; Mungo McGeorge of 29 Cannon Street, City of London, wholesale clothier; (iii) John Gibson Smith of Luton, draper; (iv) James Hawkins of Stopsley, licensed victualler Reciting: - Mortgage of 26 Dec 1877 in which John Gibson Smith borrowed 200 at 5% interest from Mary Hannah Cooke secured on (a) ; - further charge of 17 Feb 1879 in which John Gibson Smith borrowed a further 100 at 5% interest; - conveyance and assignment of 7 Nov 1879 in which John Gibson Smith, a bankrupt, assigned all his real estate to William Affleck and Mungo McGeorge as trustees for sale to pay off his debts; - 300 still owing to Mary Hannah Cooke but all interest paid Operative Part: - (iv) paid 300 to (i) by direction of (ii) and (iii) and 150 to (ii) with approval of (iii); - (i), by direction of (ii) and (iii) conveyed, (ii) conveyed and (ii) confirmed (a) to (iv) Property: (a) eight cottages with yards, gardens and outbuildings in Stopsley, Luton bounded: NE by highway; SE by property of Henry Hyde SW by paddock late of George Sole, now Charles Inwards; NW by Bricklayers Arms; cottages in occupation of Robert Ford, George Whittimore junior, Richard How, Sidney Deller, James Whittimore, William Lawrence, George Biscoe and George Whittimore senior - premises conveyed to John Gibson Smith on 24 Dec 1877 - the description has the following names annotated in pencil - Harry Saunders, Mrs.Queneborough, Mrs.Vickers, Mr.Toyer, Mrs.Waller, Cain, Samuel Fensome, Mrs.Ward, Mrs.Plummer Witnesses: - Elizabeth Cooke, 14 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne; - Andrew McDowall, 14 Bow Lane, London, accountant; - Richard Cooke of Luton, solicitor; - George Bailey, Luton Town Clerk
  • Date free text
    23 Feb 1880
  • Production date
    From: 1877 To: 1880
  • Level of description
    item