Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WL1000/1/GB/1/1
  • Title
    Abstract of Title of the trustees under the will of Mr. Robert Ayres Jefferies deceased to a freehold messuage or tenement known as The Anchor with the garden and appurtenances situate at Great Barford
  • Date free text
    1881
  • Production date
    From: 1860 To: 1881
  • Scope and Content
    Abstract of Title of the trustees under the will of Mr. Robert Ayres Jefferies deceased to a freehold messuage or tenement known as The Anchor with the garden and appurtenances situate at Great Barford (I) Will of Benjamin Jefferies of Great Barford, gentleman of 24 October 1860, devising all his real estate, subject to an annuity of £20 bequeathed to Ann Bird, to his wife Edith for her life, remainder to their son Robert Ayres Jefferies; appointing Edith Jefferies executrix and Robert Ayres Jefferies executor (II) Death of Benjamin Jefferies on 3 December 1862 (III) Proof of the will of Benjamin Ayres in PPR on 29 January 1866 (IV) Death of Edith Jefferies on 1 May 1867 (V) Death of Ann Bird on 17 December 1868 (VI) Indenture of 1 May 1876 Parties: (1) Robert Ayres Jefferies; (2) Jabez Paine of Pavenham, farmer; Thomas Clark of Pavenham, farmer; Benjamin Robert Jefferies of Great Barford, son of (1) Reciting: - seisin of (i) of properties in the 2nd Schedule; - (i) had agreed to convey (a) to (ii) Operative Part: - (i) conveyed (a) to (ii) “for divers good causes and considerations” Property: (a) all the property in Schedule 2 Habendum - to the use of (ii) or ever subject to the incumbrances to which they were subject; upon trust for sale 2nd Schedule: (a) a messuage or tenement commonly called or known by the name or sign of The Anchor, Great Barford adjoining the churchyard with yard, garden and appurtenances formerly in the occupation of James Baker, now Litchfield Northern (VII) Will of Robert Ayres Jefferies of Great Barford, framer of 6 March 1876 appointing his son Benjamin Robert Jefferies and cousin Thomas Clark as executors; bequeathing an annuity to his wife, reducible if she should remarry; and devising all his real estate to his executors in trust for sale (VIII) Death of Robert Ayres Jefferies on 6 March 1878 (IX) Proof of the will of Robert Ayres Jefferies in PPR on 23 May 1878
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