Reference
X521/16/6
Title
Conveyance in Trust (certified copy)
Date free text
1 April 1875
Production date
From: 1875 To: 1875
Scope and Content
1) Rt Hon C J F Russell of Woburn; Sam Whitbread esq MP of Kensington Middx; William Stuart of Tempsford Hall esq, John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, esq.
2) Richard Orlebar of Hinwick esq, William Francis Higgins of Truvey (new trustees)
recites: Public meeting 28 April 1855 appointing committee.
- committee meeting 11 August 1855 resolve to try to lease land nr Northey Farm for 12 years.
- public meeting of subscribers 26 March 1856 - trustees shall be six - notes Brandreth & Barnard now deceased.
- 27 June 1856 committee agree to purchase land
- Deed of appointment & grant T C Higgins to trustees.
- School house & buildings erected.
- acting under 17 & 18 Vic Cap 86 'Act for better care & reformation of youthful offenders in Great Britain' was certified 9 April 1857 as efficient Reformatory School.
- 3 March 1875 meeting to fill places of deceased trustees.
- piece of land in Turvey & Carlton where formerly stood 2 messuages in occupation of John Ellington & Lawrence Bracegirdle.
- piece of land called Gurnescroft [sic - should be Grimescroft] - 2 acres abutting E common land called Gurnescroft Lane [sic] - another 1 rood in Carlton (both having lain together for many years)
- 2 acres in Carlton (abutting above Common lane E) - all 3 pieces now laid together abutting E Common left; N S W land of T C Higgins.
Consideration to be held in Trust agreeable 29 & 30 Vic cap 117. Witnesses Theed William Pearse, solicitor, Bedford.
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