• Reference
    GA1000
  • Title
    Probate Will of John Knight of Harrold, gentleman
  • Date free text
    26 Jul 1819, proved 9Jan 1825 (3 codicils 1819-1821)
  • Production date
    From: 1819 To: 1825
  • Scope and Content
    To grandson Joseph Higgins, £600 To grandson Charles Higgins property in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, charged with payment of £600. To granddaughter Ann Higgins property in Finedon, Northamptonshire. To servant William Moore messuage in Harrold now occupied by him; after his death to grandson John Knight. To John Knight messuage in Harrold occupied by John Goodwin, Thomas Abraham, and John Knight labourer, bought from ? Mawbey; messuage called the Workhouse, now divided into tenancies and occupied by poor people; messuage occupied by the parish officers of Harrold; 4 messuage occupied by Joseph Douglas, Mrs. Cook, John Dawson and --? Summerfield, all which he bought from Thomas Millard; 4 messuages now made 5, occupied by Benjamin Allen, Joseph Valentine, --? King, John Tew and John Perkins, had from father Thomas Knight, deceased. The reversion expectant after the death of Flanders Pinkard; messuage in Harrold occupied by Flanders Pinkard, which John Knight bought from him. Remainder of real estate to son in law John Rogers, of Harrold farmer, grandsons William Higgins and John Rogers, upon certain trusts. Monetary bequests to daughter Ann, wife of John Rogers senior; grandchildren: William Rogers, William Higgins, John Rogers, Elizabeth Rogers, Mary, widow of John Saunders, Ann Higgins, Daniel Higgins, Hugh Higgins, William and Susas Knight, Ann, wife of Thomas Barnes; William Higgins upon certain trusts; Sally Wrey, housekeeper, (annuity); servant Katherine Coe; William Pinkard, John Tew, and William Nicholls of Harrold, John Bates of Silsoe, Samuel Poole of Wellingborough, labourers; John Rogers senior, William Higgins and John Rogers junior upon trusts. Forgive debts. owed to him by daughter Mary Rogers, son in law John Higgins and Benjamin Everett of Stanwick, Northamptonshire. Remainder of personal estate to John Rogers, William Higgins and John Rogers junior upon trusts. Executors John Rogers, William Higgins and John Rogers, junior. 3 codicils (1819-1821).
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