X284/8/5/6

Sworn statement of John Rogers of Harrold, farmer, that: - he was aged 64 years; - born and lived his first seventeen years in Carlton; - he knew William Nichols, formerly of Carlton, farmer and his sister Margaret who, when he first knew her was widow of Joseph Pendred of Carlton, yeoman and that she had, by him, a son William; - he believed William Nichols and Margaret Pendred were only children of Roger Nichols, formerly of Carlton who died before the deponent's birth; - Margaret Pendred died before William Nichols; - William Nichols died about 40 years previously; - about 50 years before William Nichols was proprietor of a cottage and bakehouse in Carlton and continued so until his death; - that William Nichols occupied part of the cottage and bakehouse himself and let the other part, one of his tenants being John Gilbert; - a few years before his death William Nichols pulled the cottage down and built a new cottage, now used as three tenements in occupation of Elizabeth Steff, Joseph Harris and William Hartwell; - William Nichols' established his nephew William Pendred in his bakehouse as a baker, this bakehouse was also late in occupation of Robert Tressler, now of [blank] Mardling; - William Nichols' wife was named Elizabeth Lambert and it is believed that they had no children; - when William Nichols died his nephew William Pendred inherited his real estate as heir at law until he sold it to Thomas Pinkerd, late of Turvey, deceased, about 30 years before Sworn before Thomas Alston, JP

6 Aug 1822

From: 1758 To: 1822

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Rogers, John,
Nichols, William,
Pendred, William,
Pendred, Margaret,
Nichols, Margaret,
Pendred, Joseph,
Nichols, Roger,
Gilbert, John,
Steffe, Brincklow,
Harris, Joseph,
Hartwell, William,
Tressler, Robert,
Mardling,
Lambert, Elizabeth,
Nichols, Elizabeth,
Pinkerd, Thomas,
Alston, Thomas

deaths, private buildings & land, baker, baking, specific justices of the peace, CARLTON