Z1087/1/5/2

Copy Conveyance Parties: (i) Thomas Newman Oliver, late of 6 Old Fish Street, Old Change, London, upholsterer, but now of Princes Street, Cavendish Square [Middlesex], commercial traveller and James Cooper of St.Neots [Huntingdonshire], shoemaker; (ii) John Jefferies of Thurleigh, farmer, John Pither of 14 Parliament Street, Westminster [Middlesex], gentleman and Elizabeth Wells (widow of Samuel Wells, late of Thurleigh, minister of the Gospel) [executors and trustees of will of Samuel Wells, deceased]; (iii) Benjamin Howkins of Thurleigh, farmer Reciting: - Mortgage of 14 Oct 1853 in which Edward Walter Love lent 900 to Samuel Wells, secured on (a)-(b); - will of Edward Love of 9 Apr 1861 who, after devising his Preston Park Estate, devised the remainder of his real and all his personal estate to his half-brother Richard Bridgeman Barrow, his sole executor; - codicil to will of Edward Love of 9 Apr 1861, not affecting (a)-(b); - death of Edward Love on 23 Apr 1861 and proof of his will and codicil in PPR on 17 May 1861; - will of Samuel Wells of 24 Jun 1852 making John Jefferies, John Pither trustees and them and his wife Elizabeth Wells executors and executrix; he directed the trustees to sell such of his real estate as they thought fit; - death of Samuel Wells on 23 Nov 1860 and proof of his will in PPR on 10 Jan 1861; - transfer of mortgage of 8 Aug 1863 from Richard Bridgeman Barrow to Thomas Newman Oliver and James Cooper of the 900 lent on 14 Oct 1853, as noted above; - mortgage of 900 still owing to Thomas Newman Oliver and James Cooper, but all interest paid; - personal estate of Samuel Wells insufficient to pay his debts; - Benjamin Howkins had married Operative Part: - (iii) paid 900 to (i) by request of (ii); - (iii) paid 380 to (ii); - (i), at request of (ii) released to (iii) Property: (a) 18a 1r 14p of arable land in Weybridge Hill, Keysoe; (b) pasture called The Meadow of 3a 1r 36p (a)-(b) bounded: W by Turnpike Road from Bedford to Kimbolton; N by land of Benjamin Howkins; S or Se by lands of [blank] Crawley; E or NE by land of Benjamin Howkins Witnesses: - O.N.Wilkinson of St.Neots, solicitor; - James W.Gibbs, clerk to Slade & Mackenzie, solicitor of Westminster; - W.W.Ruffhead, clerk to [Leverton] Jessopp of Bedford, solicitor

9 Oct 1876

From: 1853 To: 1876

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Oliver, Thomas Newman,
Cooper, James,
Jefferies, John,
Pither, John,
Wells, Elizabeth,
Wells, Samuel,
Howkins, Benjamin,
Love, Edward Walter,
Barrow, Richard Bridgeman,
Crawley,
Wilkinson, O N,
Gibbs, James W.,
Ruffhead, W W,
Jessopp, Leverton,
Slade, Bedford & Slade

upholsterer, commercial traveller, shoemaker, farmer, Nonconformist individuals, Edward Walter will: Love, Samuel will: Wells, debt, general marriage, Turnpike 15, specific solicitors, solicitors' clerks, deaths