Reference
CD315
Title
Probate of Richard Brooks late of Clophill, now Hexton, yeoman:
Date free text
25 Jul 1807, proved 17 Dec 1810
Production date
From: 1807 To: 1810
Accession number 1810, deposited 1947; Accession number 1811, deposited 1947 Accession number 1901, deposited 1949; Accession number 2134, deposited 1952; All catalogued at CD1-548
Scope and Content
To poor of Clophill £5 for bread; of Maulden £3;
To niece Ann Brooks, daughter of brother Thomas, a messuage in Clophill occupancy Thomas Parish; 2 tenements in yard adjoining occupancy Thomas Underwood; 4 cottages in Clophill occupancy Franks, Walduck, Burnidge, Partington; share in cottages opposite above, occupancy Currington & Titam (?); close adjoining occupancy John Chipperfield; subject to annuity of £12 p.a. to relation William Allen of Wellingborough (to whom clothes); then to his sister Charlotte Allen; then to her sister Elizabeth Allen;
also to niece Ann estate at Lidlington.
To Thomas Carter Burgess, commonly called Thomas Carter, illegitimate child of late niece Sarah Burgess, estate at Ampthill.
To James Burgess (another son), estate at Greenfield; to Lucy Burgess (daughter) estate at Maulden.
To William Burgess (son), estate in Bedford.
To Alice, wife of John Chipperfield of Clophill, butcher, estate at Gamlingay.
To niece Charlotte, wife of John Palmer of Greenfield, estate at the bottom of Clophill opposite the crosstree, occupancy Ezekiel Millard & [blank] Millard senior.
To Mary Arnold, daughter of late sister Alice, estate at Houghton Conquest & at Eastchurch, Sheppey.
To niece Sarah Fields £5.
Executors: Brother Thomas Brooks, nephew William Arnold, Joseph Pulley of Ampthill, surgeon.
Witnesses: James White, William & Elizabeth Greene. Codicils:8 July 1809; 9 May 1810.
Level of description
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