WL1000/1/Stev/2/29

Manor of Steventon Absolute Surrender

31 Oct 1894

From: 1894 To: 1894

Manor of Stevington Absolute surrender of Thomas Clark, formerly of Pavenham, now of Dunstable, retired farmer by direction of John Robert Jefferies of Saint Helen’s Lodge, Ipswich [Suffolk], agricultural implement manufacturer before Edward Thurlow Leeds Smith, deputy steward of Robert Dennis to Charles Wells of Bedford, brewer, for £500 (a) a messuage opposite the cross in Stevington and the garden, orchard or piece of sward adjoining at the back containing 2½ acres formerly in the occupation of Alexander Field, now of Charles Wells’ undertenant and bounded by Church Street on SE, by the road from Stevington to Harrold on SW, by property of William Lord Hulatt and Robert Cox on NW and property formerly of Samuel Halifax, now [blank] on NE; (b) messuage used as a post office with a shoemaker’s shop attached in Church Street adjoining (a) with a large piece of garden adjoining and in the occupation of Jesse Cowley Witness: - Samuel Denny of 95 Christchurch Street, Ipswich, accountant

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Clark, Thomas,
Jefferies, John Robert,
Leeds Smith, Edward Thurlow,
Charles Wells Ltd,
Field, Alexander,
Hulatt, William Lord,
Cox, Robert,
Halifax, Samuel,
Cowley, Jesse,
Denny, Samuel

Stevington Cross, STEVINGTON, Stevington Church Road, Steventon Manor, farmer, agricultural implement manufacturer, steward, Edward Thurlow Leeds Smith, Charles Wells Limited, shoemaker, cobblers, accountant