Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WL1000/1/Stev/2/27
  • Title
    Manor of Steventon Admission
  • Date free text
    9 Jan 1852
  • Production date
    From: 1846 To: 1852
  • Scope and Content
    Manor of Stevington Presentment of the death of William Robert Jefferies on 24 November 1846 seised of (a) messuage opposite Stevington Cross with garden, orchard or sward adjoining of 2½ acres formerly in the occupation of Samuel Risely, then Thomas Barton, now Alexander Field bounded by the village street called Church Street SE, the road from Stevington to Harrold SW. property of Robert Bowyer, Jeremiah Sansom and George Hudson NW and property of Thomas Bunting, Cox, Richard Eaton and (b) on NE; (b) messuage with blacksmith’s shop attached in Church Street adjoining (a) with a large piece of garden adjoining and formerly in the occupation of William Aspley and Richard Eaton, now Thomas Simpson and Alexander Field Jefferies’ will of 16 August 1846 appointed his wife Elizabeth as executrix and his brother Benjamin Jefferies and Thomas Street as executors and devised his copyhold property in Stevington to the use of Benjamin Jefferies and Thomas Street during the life of his wife to allow her to take the profits (or half the profits if she remarried) then after her death to the use of his youngest son John Robert Jefferies. A codicil of 3 November 1846 replaced Thomas Street with John Sellis Ayres of Great Barford, farmer. The will was proved in PCC on 7 March 1848 Admission of Benjamin Jefferies and John Sellis Ayres by Edward John Callum, their attorney before George Leeke Baker, steward, at Lincolns Inn, London.
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