Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WB/Green4/1/HoR1/6
  • Title
    Release to uses to bar dower
  • Date free text
    24 Mar 1827
  • Production date
    From: 1825 To: 1825
  • Scope and Content
    Parties: (i) John Cook of Houghton Regis, farmer; (ii) Joseph Freeman of Houghton Regis, miller; (iii) John Duncomb of Houghton Regis, bricklayer; (iv) Charles Duncomb of Dunstable, gentleman (v) Nathaniel Cartwright of Dunstable, gentleman, trustee for Charles Duncomb Reciting: - mortgage at WB/Green4/1/HoR1/3-4; - default in repayment by (iii) but no sale had yet been made by (i); - principal remained due but all interest had been paid; - (iii) had recently converted the cottage into three cottages in occupation of Richard Gosbell, Richard Scrivener and William Bourne Operative Part: - (iv) paid 160 to (ii); - (iv) paid 10/- to (i); - (i), at request of (ii) and (iii) released (a)-(b) to (iv); - (ii) at request of (ii) released (a)-(b) to (iv); - (iii) released (a)-(b) to (iv) Property: (a) several cottages in Houghton Regis in occupation of Richard Scrivener and William Bourne and party wall dividing them from other cottage in occupation of Richard Gosbell and remaining in ownership of John Duncomb; (b) piece of ground adjoining (a) measuring: SW-NE next to land of Widow Toefield 25 ft; SE-NW 77 ft; bounded SW by remaining piece of garden ground staying in ownership of John Duncomb; NE partly by estate of George Mellor, partly by land of Widow Toefield; with right of way to and from well on remaining yard of John Duncomb; right of way for John Duncomb and Richard Gosbell from that cottage through passage at NE end and rear of (a) Habendum: - to (iv), to use of (iv), to use of (v) in trust for (iv) to bar dower Witnesses: - Mary Gutteridge of Thorn, Houghton Regis; - John Guille junior, clerk to Nathaniel Cartwright
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