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i) Elizabeth Horn, widow, late Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire, now Hertford
ii) Mary Gazeley, Lower Stondon, widow
iii) James Gazeley, Lower Stondon, labourer
Thomas Gazeley, Swinton, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, railway porter
Samuel Gazeley, Arlesey
John Gazeley, Shillington, labourer
Joseph Gazeley, Lower Stondon, labourer
William Jordan and wife Mary (formerly Gazeley, spinster)
Elizabeth Gazeley, Lower Stondon, spinster
John Vintinner and wife Ann (formerly Gazeley spinster), Meppershall
iv) Sarah Lines, Shillington, spinster
[recites will of Thomas Gazeley, Lower Stondon, farmer deceased 17 January 1847. executors wife Mary, brother John, nephew Joseph. proved Bedford 27 December 1847
--- to wife Mary all household and farm goods, and all copyhold estate Stondon
--- residue of real and personal estate to executors in trust with power to sell, wife to have income during widowhood, remainder to 8 children in equal parts
recites: Mortgage £100 @ 5% 6 April 1865
i) Trustees of Thomas Gazeley deceased
ii) Mary Gazeley
iii) Elizabeth Horn
--- estate of Thomas Gazeley, and covenant to surrender copyhold by way of mortgage £60 @ 5%
recites: John and Joseph Gazeley are since deceased
recites surrender by way of mortgage 7 April 1865]
£100 to i) £260 to ii)
i) at request of ii) and iii) to iv) [discharged of £100 mortgage]
--- close, late Woodland field, (4 acres) Lower Stondon, formerly in occupation James Gazeley, then Thomas Gazeley, then ii), abutting on Holwell road
covenant to surrender copyhold by way of mortgage to use of iv)
--- messuage and garden as above, now in occupation James Gazeley, John Gray, Samuel Nottingham
endorsed: Confirmation 8 November 1878
i) Octavius Baker, Fawley, Hampshire, miller
William James Horn, Handside Harfield, Hertfordshire, farmer
Edward Robert Spence, Hertford, gentleman
ii) Octavius Baker
iii) Sarah Lines
recites: Elizabeth Horn died 3 April 1878, will 8 March 1878, sole executor ii) devising real estate to i)
i) to iii) as above
attached, certificate acknowledging deed by married woman.10 April 1878