Reference
X95/338
Title
Abstract of Title of Thomas Sworder to Royal Standard on corner of Dumfries Street and Hastings Street, Luton
Date free text
1897
Production date
From: 1847 To: 1893
Scope and Content
Abstract of Title of Thomas Sworder to Royal Standard on corner of Dumfries Street and Hastings Street, Luton
(I) Conveyance of 10 Dec 1851
Parties:
(i) Hon.Patrick James Herbert Crichton Stuart (commonly called Lord James Stuart); Onesiphorus Tyndall Bruce of Falkland [Fife], esquire; James Munro McNabb of Hyde Park Street [Middlesex] (devisees in trust for sale in the will of 2nd Marquis of Bute, deceased);
(ii) Robert Smith of Luton, builder;
(iii) Thomas Hyde of Luton, surveyor
Reciting:
- will of 2nd Marquis of Bute of 22 Jul 1847;
- death of 2nd Marquis of Bute on 18 Mar 1848;
- proof of will of 2nd Marquis of Bute in PCC on 19 Apr 1848
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed (a) to (ii) for £196
Property [as shown on included plan]:
(a) close of building land, formerly in occupation of W.Clark, in Luton containing 28 poles bounded: NE by Dumfries Street; SE by another part of the close lately sold to William Bartlett; NW by Hastings Street; SW by another part of the close
Habendum
- to (ii) to uses of (ii), to use of (ii) for life, to use of (iii) during the life of (ii) in trust for (ii), to use of (ii) for ever
(II) Will of Robert Smith of 2 Jun 1874 appointing his sons John and Thomas and Joseph Brown Smith and his daughter Mary Ann Smith as executors and trustees and devising Standard, Dumfries Street, Luton with grocer's shop and four cottages adjoining in occupation of George Carter and others to his trustees upon trust to receive the rents and profits during the life of his son Charles Preston Smith and paying him 30/- per week for life then in trust for the children of Charles Preston Smith on his death or, failing issue, to others of the testator's grandchildren
(III) Death of Robert Smith on 11 Apr 1881
(IV) Proof of will of Robert Smith in Northampton DPR on 4 Nov 1881
(V) Deed Poll of 28 Dec 1881 of Thomas Smith of Castle Street, Luton, builder renouncing probate of will of Robert Smith and refusing to accept to devises and bequests made in it
(VI) Death of Charles Preston Smith as a bachelor on 19 May 1893
(VII) The grandchildren of Robert Smith living at the death of Charles Preston Smith were:
- the children of John Smith: William; Thomas; Eliza, wife of William Sheaf whom she married on 29 Oct 1885;
- the child of Thomas Smith: Albert Edward Smith;
- the children of Joseph Brown Smith: Elle Louisa; Caroline Ada; Lizzie Jane; William Robert; Amy Marion; Sarah; Minnie Florence;
- the child of Mrs.Chapman: Mary Ann Smith Osborn, wife of Robert Osborn whom she married on 21 Jun 1865
(VIII) Death of Joseph Brown Smith on 28 Apr 1891
(IX) Death of Mary Ann Smith
(X) Conveyance of 22 Dec 1893
Parties:
(i) John Smith of Market Hill, Luton, builder;
(ii) Mary Ann Smith of Market Hill, Luton, spinster; Thomas Smith of Gladstone Villas, Thames Ditton [Surrey], contractor; Eliza Sheaf, wife of William Sheaf of Breachwood Green, Kings Walden [Hertfordshire], farmer; William Smith of Park Street West, Luton, straw hat manufacturer; Albert Edward Smith of Church Street, Luton, architect; William Robert Smith of Park Square, Luton, confectioner; Ellen Louisa Smith, Caroline Ada Smith, Lizzie Jane Smith, Amy Marion Smith, Sarah Smith, Minnie Florence Smith and Elizabeth Chapman Smith all of George Street West, Luton, spinsters; Robert Osborn of Greenfield, farmer and Mary Ann Smith Osborn, his wife;
(iii) Thomas Sworder
Reciting:
- (II)-(IV) above;
- (VIII);
- (IX);
- weekly sum of 30/- was duly paid to Charles Preston Smith until his death;
- there were fourteen grandchildren of Robert Smith living at the death of Charles Preston Smith [i.e. (ii)]
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed (a) to (iii) for £1,250 paid to (ii)
Property:
(a) Royal Standard with yard, garden, stable and outbuildings on the corner of Dumfries Street and Hastings Street, Luton; with building at rear used as a shop or store all bounded: NE by Dumfries Street with a frontage of 26 feet; NW by Hastings Street with a frontage of 90 feet; SW by premises of Dolphin Smith; SE by a messuage, draper's shop and premises lately sold by (ii) to Charles Lewin and in occupation of (iii)