WL1000/1/Kem2/15

Attested copy conveyance

26 Jan 1882

From: 1841 To: 1882

Attested copy conveyance Parties: (i) Henry Mobbs of Northampton, ironfounder; William Mobbs of Northampton, grocer; Ann Pearson of Northampton, widow; (ii) Robert Barry Stafford of Bedford, auctioneer; (iii) Robert William Skevington of Bedford, farmer; (iv) Charlotte White of 35 Royal Road, Kensington Park [Middlesex], widow; (v) Annie Elizabeth Skevington of Bedford, spinster Reciting: - will of William Skevington of Bedford, baker of 8 Sep 1841 devising his messuage in St.John's Street, Bedford to his executors Thomas Shelton of Bedford, butcher and Emery Cranfield of Elstow, farmer as trustees to provide an annuity of £30 to Susannah Skevington, his wife, if she remarried and to hold in trust for his son Robert William Skevington; - death of William Skevington at Bedford on 12 Nov 1841 and proof of his will in Archdeaconry of Bedford on 28 Sep 1842; - death of Thomas Skelton at Bedford on 8 Jun 1843; - mortgage of St.John's Street property on 13 Jul 1844 by Emery Cranfield to Edward Ashwell for £350; - Susannah Skevington married William Chapman at Bedford on 14 Sep 1842; - Robert William Skevington became 21 on 30 Nov 1849; - conveyance of St.John's Street property by Emery Cranfield and Susannah Chapman to Robert William Skevington 30 Dec 1850 subject to mortgage and allowing Susannah Chapman's trustees Thomas Small and Robert White to receive her £30 annuity for life; - assignment of mortgage of 30 Dec 1850 by Edward Ashwell to William Parley; - forty year lease of two messuages in Pepper Alley, Bedford, St.John into Mrs Risely and Mrs.Gentle by St.John's Hospital to Robert William Skevington on 17 Nov 1859; - will of William Parley of 6 May 1854 devising all real estate to Charles William Coupland Givens and Willinger Davis as trustees; - death of William Parley on 20 Jul 1854 and proof of his will in PCC on 7 Aug 1854; - assignment of mortgage by Parley's trustees to William Turner on 24 Apr 1855; - conveyance of premises by Robert William Skevington to Robert White to secure £30 annuity to Susannah Chapman on 31 Jan 1860; - will of Robert White of 29 Sep 1856 devising all real estate to his wife Charlotte; - death of Robert White and death of Susannah Chapman at Bedford on 12 May 1862; - assignment of mortgage by William Turner to Stephen Pearson on 16 Oct 1869; - mortgage of St.John's Street property by Robert William Skevington to Robert Barry Stafford on 22 Mar 1873 subject to mortgage with Stephen Pearson; - will of Stephen Pearson of 26 Jan 1878 devising all real estate to Henry and William Mobbs as trustees and appointing Henry and William Mobbs and Ann Pearson as executors and executrix; - death of Stephen Pearson at Northampton on 18 Nov 1878 and proof of his will at Northampton DPR on 2 Jan 1879; - Henry and William Mobbs and Ann Pearson had agreed with Annie Elizabeth Skevington to sell (a) to her for £50; - Robert William Skevington agreed to assign to Annie Elizabeth Skevington the leasehold properties in Pepper Alley for the residue of the term Operative Part: - (v) paid £50 to (i); - (i), at request of (iii) granted and (ii) and (iv) confirmed (a)-(b) to (v); - (iii) assigned and (ii) and (iv) confirmed (c) to (v) Property: (a) two dwellinghouses with garden ground in Kempston with common street E, dwellinghouse of John Sletcher N and close of pasture of Francis Green S and W, formerly in occupation of Widow Keach and Beard, then Keach and Horner now [blank]; (b) cottage in Up End, Kempston adjoining Quart Pot public house formerly in occupation of Sarah Taylor, John Cox, John Ford and Samuel Ford, then Widow Ford, then Widow Teedon, now [blank]; (c) two messuages in Pepper Alley, Bedford, St.John into Mrs Risely and Mrs.Gentle Witnesses: - Robert White of 35 Royal Kennington Park [Middlesex], leather salesman; - H.W.K.Markham of Northampton, solicitor; - George Wilson Beattie, clerk to H.W.K.Markham; - Thomas S.Porter of Bedford, solicitor; - Joseph Willison, clerk to T.S.Porter; - Thomas Brown Taylor, clerk to T.S.Porter

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Mobbs, Henry,
Mobbs, William,
Pearson, Ann,
Stafford, Robert Barry,
Skevington, Robert William,
White, Charlotte,
Skevington, Annie Elizabeth,
Skevington, William,
Shelton, Thomas,
Cranfield, Emery,
Skevington, Susannah,
Chapman, Susannah,
Chapman, William,
White, Robert,
Small, Thomas,
Ashwell, Edward,
Parley, William,
Gentle,
Risely,
Givens, Charles William Coupland,
Davis, Willinger,
Turner, William,
Pearson, Stephen,
Sletcher, John,
Green, Francis,
Keach,
Beard,
Horner,
Taylor, Sarah,
Cox, John,
Ford, John,
Ford, Samuel,
Teedon,
Ford,
Markham, H.W.K.,
Beattie, George Wilson,
Porter, Thomas Simpson,
Willison, Joseph,
Taylor, Thomas Brown

BEDFORD, KEMPSTON, ironfounder, grocer, widow, auctioneer, farmer, wills, Bedford St.John's Street, Bedford Pepper Alley, deaths, annuities, specific marriages, Bedford St John's Hospital, KEMPSTON, Kempston Woburn Road, Kempston Quart Pot, leather salesman, solicitors' clerks, Thomas Simpson Porter, H.W.K. Markham