Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF11/32/3
  • Title
    Abstract of title of Margaret Burks, spinster, to copyhold messuage and land in Biggleswade
  • Date free text
    1796-1832
  • Production date
    From: 1796 To: 1832
  • Scope and Content
    Recites: 1) Copy of court roll of Manor of Biggleswade. Surrender by Charles Frederick Brooke of Fordington, Dorset, gent. (not admitted but heir at law and eldest son of James Brooke, formerly of Kingston Marchwood, Dorchester, Dorset, gent., deceased) and Richard Rudd of Great Queens Street, St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, gent., (devisee in fee of real estate of Ann Brooke, late of Tichfield Street, St Mary le Bone, Middlesex, widow, who was devisee of real estate of Thomas Brooke late of Queens Street, Lincolns Inn, gent., deceased), by Edward Rudd, their attorney. Admission of William Rands of Biggleswade, gardener a) house or cottage (with cottage right) then or late in occupation of Samuel Barber b) piece of pasture called Foster's Close, late in possession of William Knight c) 4 houses or tenements, then late in the possession of Thomas Page, William Larman, Widow Borough and William Chapman on a scite of ground (3 roods) with cottage right belonging (held by copy of Court Roll of Manor of Biggleswade) Rent 4s 10d Fine 1s 4d 16 Nov 1796 2) Copy of court roll of Manor of Biggleswade. Surrender by William Rands, admission of John Hunt of Biggleswade, gardener a) Cottage or house with cottage right then or late in occupation of Samuel Barber, Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, commonly called the Court House b) piece of pasture land called Forster's Close, then late in possession of William Knight Rent 2s 6d per annum, fine 10d 16 Nov 1796 3) Copy of court roll of Manor of Biggleswade. Admission of Margaret Hunt (aged 16), daughter of John Hunt, and Naomi Brown (aged 2), only child of Ann Brown, another daughter of Hunt, coheiresses of John Hunt, deceased (died intestate) a) toft or piece of ground whereon messuage or tenement formerly stood and ground laid to it, Biggleswade, in a place called the Backside (3 roods), formerly in the occupation of John Bury, afterwards of John How and late of John Hunt (Hunt admitted tenant 21 & 22 oct 1785 on surrender of William Goodman and Ann, his wife) b) house or cottage, with cottage right, then or late in the possession of Samuel Barber, in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, commonly called the Court House c) Piece of pasture called Forsters Close, late in possession of William Knight 28 Apr 1813 4) Copy of court roll of Manor of Biggleswade. Admission of Naomi Brown to Margaret Hunt's moiety of property in 3) above (she died under 21 years old) 23 7 24 Apr 1824 5) Copy of court roll of Manor of Biggleswade. Admission of Margaret Burks, late of City of Coventry but then of Biggleswade, spinster (only child of Margaret Burks, deceased - formerly hunt, only sister of John Hunt, late of Biggleswade, gardener, deceased), on death of Naomi Brown, granddaughter of John Hunt a) 2 cottages or tenements, Biggleswade, then in several occupations of Peter Stanley and Hannah Lawman, and piece of garden ground formerly in occupation of William Hunt and then of Thomas Hodges, AND cottage or tenement on Biggleswade then or late in occupation of John Leighton and piece of ground in the occupations of John Leighton and Peter Stanley, lying on north side of last mentioned cottage. Rent of 3.25d b) toft or piece of ground whereon messuage or tenement formerly stood and ground laid to it, Biggleswade, in a place called the Backside (3 roods), formerly in the occupation of John Bury, afterwards of John How and late of John Hunt (Hunt admitted tenant 21 & 22 oct 1785 on surrender of William Goodman and Ann, his wife) c) Court House as in b) above and cottage or tenement adjoining, erected and built by John Hunt on part of ground of cottage above. (formerly in occupation of Ann Empy, late of William Bury and then of Ann Hide, widow d) Forster's Close Fines 1 1/3 d 31 Mar 7 1 Apr 1826 6) Conditional surrender in £110 and interest by Margaret Burks [described in 1831 as late of City of Coventry but now of Deritend, Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire] (Mortgagor) by James bates of Biggleswade, licensed victualler her attorney in favour of Robert dolphin of Birmingham (mortgagee) Presents mortgage of 20 Nov 1831 property as above 4 May 1832 Abstract prepared by Webb & Dolphin 1832
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