LS760

Appointment of new trustees of the will of John Usher, deceased: i) Edward Thurlow Leeds Smith, Sandy, solicitor; ii) John Sydney Biss, Tempsford, dental surgeon, Edward Sills, Sandy, solicitor.

7 March 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

John Usher by his will dated 17 February 1890 and appointed Alfred Edward [sic - Ernest] Anthony and i) as executors and trustees. He died on 5 November 1904. Will proved (PPR) on 16 February 1905. Lois-Anne Usher, widow of said John, died on 8 September 1906. Alfred Edward [Ernest] Anthony died on 18 March 1920. Now i) as surviving trustee appoints ii) as trustees in place of A E Anthony, and conveys to them: freehold lands in 1st and 2nd schedules; copyhold lands in 3rd and 4th schedules, which will be surrendered at a Manor Court to use of ii); personal estate as in 5th schedule. 1st Schedule Bedford - Mission hall, Greenhill Street, and 20 Greenhill Street, tenant W Ward Blunham - 6 cottages (near Rawlins homestead), Gordon Cottage, 3 cottages adjoining Gordon Cottage, former parish workhouse, Finem cottages (1 acre), barns, stables and land (4 acres 1 rood 38 poles), close of meadow land called Finham and ozier bed (4 acres 2 roods 17 poles) with frontage to Blunham-Tempsford road, 1 acre 3 roods 29 poles in Great Barford Road. 2nd Schedule 1 moiety of: 7 cottages and 1 acre 2 roods at Beeston in Sandy; "White Foot Hill" (2 acres 1 rood) at Seddington in Sandy [marked "sold"]; "Lowlands" in Middlefield Road, Sandy; "Dunghill Field" (4 acres 2 roods) at Sandy, bounded on west by Great North Road; 4 acres land at Chalton, Moggerhanger; 8 acres 2 roods 22 poles land on north side of Cottage Road, Sandy; 8 acres land on south side of Cottage Road, Sandy; 4 acres 1 rood land at Sandy, bounded west by Great North Road; 1 acre 2 roods 22 poles land in Sandy bounded on east by Great North Road; 2 acres 3 roods 12 poles land in Sandy bounded on east by Great North Road ("and adjoining Oddie Cooper's Lane"); farmhouse etc (48 acres 3 roods 26 poles) in Colmworth and Eaton Socon. 3rd Schedule Meadow land (1 acre 1 rood 29 poles) in Blunham, bounded on west by public road to Tempsford; land at Blunham, part of Home field (17 acres 0 roods 16 poles); 1 acre 3 roods 39 poles in Great Barford Road, Blunham 4th Schedule Moiety of: messuage, bakehouse and land at Blunham (1 acre 35 poles); land (3 acres 4 poles) in South Field, Blunham 5th Schedule 35 £5 shares in Sandy Gas Co; 25 £1 shares in Bedford Sanitary Laundry; £300 due on mortgage dated 26 June 1913 of house and premises in Cambridge Road, Sandy, from Frederick William Hull; £500 (balance of 2 sums of £350 and £250) due on mortgages of 25 March and 4 May 1907 of house and premises at Willington, from Samuel Nicholls; £250 India 3½% stock; cash at bankers £222 19s 1d. Signatures of all. Witnesses Francis St L Blaine, clerk to Mr Leeds Smith, Alfred Ernest Marten, dental surgeon, Bedford

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Usher, John,
Leeds Smith, Edward Thurlow,
Biss, John Sydney,
Sills, Edward,
Anthony, Alfred Ernest,
Usher, Lois Anne,
Ward, W,
Rawlins,
Hull, Frederick William,
Nicholls, Samuel,
Blaine, Francis St L,
Marten, Alfred Ernest,
Sandy Gas Company,
Bedford Sanitary Laundry

BEDFORD, Bedford Greenhill Street, Knightsbridge, SANDY, Beeston, Seddington, Sandy Middlefield Road, Sandy Cottage Road, Sandy Cambridge Road, Great North Road, COLMWORTH, EATON SOCON, Chalton, Moggerhanger, WILLINGTON, BLUNHAM, Blunham Great Barford Road, Blunham Tempsford Road, wills, contractor, physician, architect, solicitor, solicitor's clerk, dental surgeon, Parish Workhouses, copyhold, Sandy Gas Company, Bedford Sanitary Laundry Co Ltd