• Reference
    AL841
  • Title
    Will (copy) Thomas Gurney, The Crescent, Bedford
  • Date free text
    12 Dec 1843. Proved 4 Apr 1844
  • Production date
    From: 1843 To: 1844
  • Scope and Content
    - appoints Rev. Ernest Hawkins (one of sons of late cousin Ann Hawkins deceased ) & Theed Pearse junior as executors & trustees; £100 each - all real estate vested in testator by trust or mortgage to trustees; confirms rent charge of £50 p.a. - to Emma Little (wife of Jn. Caruthers Little, Boston, Lincs, surgeon) all household furniture & effects -19 guineas each to Thomas Gurney Goldsmith, Elizabeth Ann Swann (wife of Rev. Charles Henry Swann) John Goldsmith, Frederick William Goldsmith (brothers & sisters of Emma Little); sister in law Eleanor wife of Thomas Chapman, Ampthill, surgeon), Frances Rust widow of William Rust; John Hawkins, Frederick Hawkins, William Hawkins & Ann wife of Thomas Casey (children of cousin Ann Hawkins deceased.); Theed Pearse senior, and daughter Lucy Pearse; Mary Grace, Wardrobes, Princes Risborough; Revd. Charles Swann, Ridlington, Rutland. - 10 guineas to servants Charlotte Deare, Emma Hawley & Henry Hull - estate, Kempston, Subject to rent charge to Mary Grace, to persons appointed by Emma Little, or in default to Emma Little & heirs - messuage, the Crescent, Bedford, purchased of John Tucker Austin et al., all other real estate, and residue of personal estate to trustees to sell, in trust for Emma Little or her executors.
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