• Reference
    WJ571
  • Title
    Personal Estate of Jane Lafont, Burnes Lodge, Hertfordshire
  • Date free text
    26 Mar 1855
  • Production date
    From: 1855 To: 1855
  • Scope and Content
    Release of actions i) Elizabeth Mathias, Somerset, widow ii) Jane Francis, Kitters Green, near Abbotts Langley, Hertfordshire, widow iii) Morris Pryor, Baldock, esquire iv) Reverend Ogle Russell Lafont, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire [recites will of Jane Lafont, Burnes Lodge, Hertfordshire 14 November 1840, codicils 15 September 1848, proved 24 November 1854 --- executors, her son Reverend John Lafont, and nephew Joseph Steavenson --- jewellery and plate to Reverend John Lafont and wife Elizabeth --- to her daughter i) a ring in memory of her late sister Elizabeth Paget --- to daughter ii) remainder of personal estate (not consisting of stocks or securities) --- stocks and securities to executors as trustees – third to John Lafont, and third each to i) and ii) codicil: son John is since deceased, his share is transferred to iii) in trust to perform will of John Lafont recites: will of John Lafont, 10 April 1838, executors – iii), John Bayley and Aaron de Symonds; after devising the advowson of the rectory of Hinxworth, he devised residue of the estate to executors in trust] general release of actions and transactions concerning the personal estate of Jane Lafont, i), ii) and iii) to iv) excepting the shares of the estate due to i) and ii)
  • Level of description
    item