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Abstract of Title of property of Jesse Thorn in Biggleswade

1884-1910

From: 1884 To: 1910

Recites: 1) Will of Edward John Foster of The Old House, Wimbledon (died 1 April 1895) appoints his wife Mary & her brother the Reverend Frederick Charles Kinglake Executors & Trustees confirms Marriage Settlement & gives specific legacies leaves residue to above Trustees for sale Made 17 July 1884 Codicil recites Will of father John Nathaniel Foster various powers identified; F.C.Kinglake replaced as Trustee by testatror's brother Hubert John Foster, Captain in Royal Engineers and his brother in law Robert Alexander Kinglake 5 July 1891 Proved Principal Probate Registry 26 June 1895 2) Deed Poll of R.A.Kinglake renouncing Executorship & Trusteeship 13 June 1895 3) Death of Mary Poole Foster 28 October 1907 4) Appointment of New Trustees i) Hubert John Foster, colonel in His Majest's Royal Engineers, residing at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (old Trustee) ii) Robert Christian Millar of Mall Park, Montrose in Scotland, Esq., Arthur Ernest John Perkins, Major in the Royal Artillery, then stationed in Malta recites Will of J.N.Foster (died 30 January 1891) lists children leaves to wife Mary Foster: Sandy Place Estate for her life Reversion of certain properties numbered in Schedule to E.J.Foster (Frances Mary granted an annual rencharge of £ 500) Will made 20 August 1874. Proved Principal Probate Registry 4 March 1891 recites death of Frances Mary Foster 9 March 1895 recites Admission of E.J.Foster Copyhold of the Manor of Biggleswade. 28 November 1894 reference to the Will of E.J.Foster recites Admission of Mary Poole Foster & Hubert John Foster as Trustees of the Will of E.J.Foster Copyhold of the Manor of Biggleswade and including a Copyhold Common Right to which J.N.Foster was entitled but never admitted 23 April 1896 recites after the death of E.J.Foster nearly the whole of the residuary personal estate was converted into money. Paid funeral & testamentary expenses and debts Including £1,377,8s,1d AND Legacy of £500 to Mary Poole Foster. recites some net rents & income retained by M.P.Foster and since her death been accounted to E.J.Foster's four daughters but no money yet made available property unsold of E.J.Fotser including: a)The Elms, Biggleswade (2 acres) b)Land, Plantations and Cottages adjoining London Road called Upper Holmside (24 acres) c)The Ploughed Delves (4 acres) abuttments: East: Upper Holmside West: Great Northern Railway d) Market Garden, part of Dolphin Garden & Dawson's piece in Lower Holmside on the south side of Saffron Road (2 acres) e) Lammas Meadows (60 acres) abuttments: South: Bridge West: River Ivel f) Part of the Back Meadows (also Lammas)(2A) abuttments: East: River Ivel North: Bridge g) Lands, brickfields, kilns & cottages in Hitchmead (42 acres) h) The Pightles near to the lower end of Hitchmead (8 acres) i) Garden Ground called The Gilletts (5 acres) j) Ten Common Rights (listed) in the Books of the Fen Reeves of the Manor of Biggleswade 18 March 1910 Copyholds only Copy of Court Roll of Biggleswade 23 April 1893

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Thorn, Jesse,
Foster, Edward John,
Foster, Mary,
Kinglake, Frederick Charles,
Foster, John Nathaniel,
Foster, Hubert John,
Kinglake, Robert Alexander,
Foster, Mary Poole,
Millar, Robert Christian,
Perkins, Arthur Ernest John,
Foster, Frances Mary

DEEDS, legal papers, BIGGLESWADE, Wimbledon, wills, marriage settlements, Royal Engineers, PROBATE, Australia Sydney, Scotland, Royal Artillery, Malta, Sandy Place, Biggleswade Manor, debt, Biggleswade London Road, Biggleswade Dolphin, Biggleswade Saffron Road, Fen Reeve