LS786

Post nuptial settlement: i) Frederick William Usher; ii) Alice Mary Usher, his wife; iii) John Usher, Bedford, Edward Thurlow Leeds Smith, Sandy.

15 December 1883

From: 1883 To: 1883

i) wishes to make a settlement of his property. Now i) grants to iii) in trust: freehold property as in schedule; copyhold property to be surrendered into hands of Lord; leasehold property; personal estate. To hold on trust for sale and to invest proceeds or buy property. Income to be paid to i) and ii) during their joint lives, then for survivor, and then for children. If i) by his will does not leave sufficient property to provide for payment of legacies, then such payment may be a charge on the trust property. Schedule 1 Part 1 Freehold: The Orchard, Blunham (9 acres 2 roods 7 poles) Copyhold: (St John's College, Cambridge): 24 acres 3 roods 7 poles; 5 acres 3 roods 4 poles (Earl Cowper Manor): 7 acres 3 roods 4 poles; 0 acres 3 roods 3 poles; 1 acre 1 rood 5 poles; 1 acre 1 rood 19 poles with details of mortgages to which they are subject. Part 2 Undivided moiety of freehold: - messuage in High Street, Sandy - messuage and shop in High Street, Sandy - 8 cottages at Beeston - 10 cottages at Sandy - Till Land Field - land at Seddington - Bryants Field - Little Field, Willow Tree Field, Low Field - land at Chalton in Mogerhanger - land in Sandy on south side of Cottage Road - land on north side of Cottage Road - 2 pieces land in Sandy, 1 acre 3 roods, part leasehold, ie White Foot Hill, and land at Girtford - land at Sandy bounded east by Great North Road - messuage and land (Home Field) - seedhouse - land in Sandy adjoining Great North Road - allotment in North Hare Bridge Field and Black Ley Field in Colmworth - messuage at Colmworth - land in Colmworth - Eaton Close, Eaton Socon - land in Eaton Socon - land in Caldecote, Northill Copyhold - cottage and shop in Blunham - allotment in Down Field, Sandy - land in South Field, Blunham with details of annuitiants paid out of the property, mortgages and other charges. Part 3 Freehold - 24 and 24a, Gloucester Crescent, St Pancras, Middlesex - 4 cottages at Blunham (assured to Joseph Usher, father of i), by lease and release of 6 and 7 Feb 1839) - 20½ poles of land at Blunham (assured to Joseph Usher by lease and release of 11 and 12 Dec 1840) with details of mortgages. Part 4 - furniture and fixtures etc at 3 Park Place West, Middlesex Signatures of all except John Usher. Endorsed witnesses.

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Usher, Frederick William,
Usher, Alice Mary,
Usher, John,
Leeds Smith, Edward Thurlow,
St John's College, Cambridge,
Cowper, Earl,
Usher, Joseph

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