• Reference
    AL241
  • Title
    Will (attested copy) of John Poole, Stevington, yeoman.
  • Date free text
    11 March 1801. Proved 17 Oct. 1801
  • Production date
    From: 1801 To: 1801
  • Scope and Content
    --- £50 each to brother William, nieces & nephews Elizabeth Pettiford, Mary, Thomas, Sarah, Richard and James Poole, children of late brother Thomas; Sarah Poole & Ann, wife of James Grigory, daughters of brother William; nephew John Payne of Pertenhall. --- 1 guinea to nephew John Poole of Milton Ernest --- £40 to housekeeper Hannah Toms --- to brother William all wearing apparel, and moiety of copyhold cottage, 15ac arable, 1ac meadow, 5ac sward, Stevington for life, remainder to nephew William Benjamin Poole; copyhold cottage Church End, Stevington, for life, remainder to daughter Sarah --- to nephew James copyhold cottage & orchard, Pavenham. --- to nephew John messuage, 32ac arable, sward & woodland Stevington, and 6 copyhold and 1 freehold cottages inherited from uncle William, and malting Silver Street, Stevington. --- to William Benjamin Poole, messuage & land, Great Barford, and Harrold Mills; farmhouse & 56 ac. arable, 10ac past., 3 1/2ac meadow called Sheffields Farm (part free, part copyhold), Stevington, and all residue of real estate; remainder to Thomas his brother, remainder to their brothers and sisters in equal portions; executors to manage and improve the estate untill William Benjamin Poole marries or comes of age. --- all personal estate to executors William Rogers & Thomas Kidman in trust to pay debts & legacies, residue for benefit of William Benjamin Poole, remainder to his brothers & sisters in equal shares. [see also AL318 and AL346]
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  • Level of description
    item