Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WL1000/1/FLWK2/3
  • Title
    Mortgage Parties: (i) Elizabeth Giddings the elder of Silsoe, widow; (ii) William John Giddings of Silsoe, carpenter; (iii) Elizabeth Giddings the younger of Silsoe, spinster; (iv) John Dowdeswell of Maulden, farmer and corn merchant Reciting: - will of John Read , late of Maulden, yeoman of 23 Mar 1846 devised (a) in WL1000/1/FLWK2/2 (now built on and constituting (a)-(d) below) to his son in law Charles Giddings of Silsoe and Elizabeth, his wife, the testator's daughter as tenants in common; - death of John Read on 28 May 1846 and proof of his will and codicil in PCC on 1 Aug 1846; - death of Charles Giddings on 25 Mar 1868; - (i) was now 60 and had four children - (ii) (aged 27), (iii) (aged 25) and two daughters under 21 and each child was entitled to a quarter of her estate Operative Part: - (i)-(iii) mortgaged (a) to (iv) for £150 at 5% interest Property: (a) four cottages facing road from East End, Flitwick to Maulden built by Charles Giddings in occupation of Daniel Deacon, George Wilson, Joseph Billington and William Langley; (b) messuage in course of erection by (i)-(iii) fronting road from east End, Flitwick to Maulden; (c) part of the close of sward land now used as a gravel pit with road leading to it from road from east End, Flitwick to Maulden and under management of William John Giddings; (d) remaining part of the close of sward under management of William John Giddings Witness: - John Greene of Ampthill, solicitor Indorsed with reconveyance of 4 Jul 1876 from John Dowdeswell of Maulden, farmer and corn merchant to William John Giddings of 28 Liverpool Street, Kings Cross [Middlesex], builder and Elizabeth Giddings the younger (Elizabeth Giddings the elder having died on 7 Feb 1876); witnessed by Arthur S. Wade Gery of Shefford, solicitor
  • Date free text
    21 May 1868
  • Production date
    From: 1846 To: 1876
  • Level of description
    item
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