Reference
BC640
Title
Marriage settlement (by release - lease missing). [Copy]
Date free text
21 Sep 1809
Production date
From: 1809 To: 1809
Scope and Content
i) Reverend John King Martyn, Pertenhall, clerk; ii) Sarah Theed, Bedford, spinster; iii) Theed Pearse, Bedford, gentleman; marriage to take place between i) and ii); i) releases to iii) - Messuage etc, formerly in tenure of John Cleaton, then William Flint and now of Mary Wickham, widow, in parish of St Paul's, Bedford, called Well Street; North, said street; South, once Dr Courtman, now Bedford Charity; East, tenement belonging to St Paul's Church; - lands in Kempston called Hill Closes & Paradise (20 acres) - Sward ground on West and North of said closes called the Freeboard (1 acre); North, River Ouse; South, highway from Kempston to Bedford; - allotment piece, late part of open lands called Hamfield and Ham Meadow in Kempston but now enclosed (11 acres 1 rood 3 peck); North, (part) River Ouze; East, old inclosures of ii); South & North, (part) old inclosures of ii); South, (remaining part) road from Bedford to Kempston; West, new allotment of George Livius, Esquire; as in the Kempston inclosure award awarded to William Long, Esquire (8th allotment) to be held by iii) in trust as i) and ii) after their marriage shall appoint; Signatures (copy) i) and ii); Witnesses: (copy) Betty Watkins, John Upton; marked 'original settlement in the possession of Henry Littledale Esquire, the purchaser of the Kempston Estate, 6 Decr 1842 ..'
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