Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    ST640-641
  • Title
    DEED OF PARTITION i) Elizabeth Christian Skevington, Bedford, spinster, a daughter and coheiress of Thomas Skevington late of Newton Blossomville, Buckinghamshire, gentleman deceased, and a niece and coheiress of Carter Skevington late of Kempston, gentleman deceased and of his sister Ann Skevington, late of Kempston, spinster deceased ii) Ann Skevington, Bedford, spinster, the other daughter and niece and coheiress
  • Date free text
    7/8 Aug 1811
  • Production date
    From: 1811 To: 1811
  • Scope and Content
    Conveyance by ii) to i) in consideration £2,837..10s..2d of her undivided moiety of: Newton Blossomville ...messuage late in occupation Thomas Skevington now Henry Laughton ...messuage late in occupation Mary Timpson now Catherine Sharp ...orchard; close called Home close ...messuage in Newton Blossomville late in occupation John Wallis now Henry Harris ...messuage now in two tenements late in occupation William Edmunds now Michael Neville and John Andrews ...Abbey Orchard 1½ acres; pightle 1 acre planted with cherry trees ...messuage with orchard late in occupation William Manning now William Timpson and Samuel Morris ...close 1 acre 3 roods; Dovehouse Close 1½ acres; Gammocks Close 1½ acres; Poplar Close 1 acre 1 rood; Raynes Close 5 acres ...cottage in occupation Michael Reynolds 37 perches ...cottage with garden in occupation Thomas Joyce ...cottage with garden in occupation William Wood ...Townsend Close 3 roods 15 perches; Wood Close 7½ acres; Upper and Lower Isabell’s Closes 3 acres; Stantons Close 1 acre 3 roods; Coxes Close 3 acres 1 rood. These exchanged at enclosure from Farrer Grove Spurgeon Farrer, esquire in lieu of other land ..the Spong 1 acre 3 roods, exchanged on enclosure with Henry Laughton ...new allotments under Enclosure Award: 146 acres 23 perches; 3 roods 5 perches; 3 roods 32 perches; 1 acre 1 rood 6 perches; 26 perches; 5 perches, 1 acre 10 perches Clifton Reynes ...Reynes Close 10 acres; spinney 1 acre (with bounds) Conveyance by i) to ii) for premises of her undivided moiety of: Kempston ...messuage or tenement with close 2 acres in occupation Robert Tompkins ...5 roods meadow in Box Mead late in occupation James Smith, copyhold of Dawbeny and St Johns Manor, and enfranchised at Enclosure ...ground on Half Croft Furlong 1 rood 14 perches; 1 rood 23 perches; and close in Box end 2 acres 2 roods 13 perches granted under Enclosure ...also undivided seven sixteenth parts in: ...capital messuage or manor in Kempston formerly in occupation William Carter, Carter Skevington and James Smith ...cottage opposite formerly in occupation John Jackson now Robert Denton ...close adjoining manor, two little pightles containing 1 acre adjoining cottage, toft where a cottage formerly stood with pightle, toft where a messuage once stood and pightle making 7 acres formerly in occupation Edward Feux afterwards Robert White and James Smith ...Great Illens and Little Illens ...13 acres in the Box; 2 acres 27 perches in Box Meadow ...close called a Pennyland copy in Kempston once held of the manor of Greys ...8 acres 1 rood 27 perches in Box End Field ...32 acres 2 roods 38 perches in Box Meadow ...the pightle at Box End, 1 rood 27 perches; 7 acres 2 roods 9 perches and 3 acres 1 rood 13 perches on the Furlong behind the Boxes (with bounds etc.) Notes of enfranchisements of copyhold lands
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