Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WE142-143
  • Title
    Marriage settlement (Lease and Release): i) Catherine Morris of Ampthill, spinster; ii) James Curtis of Alton (county Hampshire), esquire; and iii) Joseph Morris of Ampthill esquire, Thomas Ashby junior of Staines (county Middlesex), and Edmund Lucas of Millbank Street, Westminster esquire. On the marriage of i) and ii).
  • Date free text
    23, 24 Dec 1833; endorsed 23 November 1859
  • Production date
    From: 1833 To: 1859
  • Scope and Content
    ...A messuage in Ampthill, formerly in occupation of John Bolding, then William Stocking, late lewis Whitehead and Miss Peach, and now John Bowden and Isaac Townsend, with Dunstable Street on E., and ground late of Duke of Bedford on N.; also a close containing 7 acres, behind the said messuage; an allotment containing 3 roods 27 perches in a place formerly called the Warren [bounds given]; also a moiety of all the freehold of: a mansion-house in Church Street in Ampthill, with copyhold parts of the said mansion-house N. and W., buildings now in occupied with the public-house called the “Red Lion” E., and S. by Church Street; (all which said messuage late belonged to James Humphrey, deceased, and was in occupation of Thomas Flint and John Morris (grandfather of said Catherine); also a piece of freehold garden surrounded by a brick wall (purchased of Thomas Gostelow); also a piece of a close adjoining a piece of ground formerly called Woolman’s Hill on N., garden ground in occupation of Samuel Barton on S., and premises of John Morris (brother) on NW., and containing 2 acres 2 roods 8 perches; and remainder of freehold property of said Catherine in Ampthill. Also Covenant to surrender copyhold property ...A cottage in Bedford Street in Ampthill, the common street W., a messuage called the “Crown and Sceptre” N., and land late of said John Morris E. and S.; now in occupation of Joseph Young; together with cottages adjoining, in occupation of James Millard, James Billington and Edward Smith; also the moiety of the copyhold parts of the said mansion-house; also a piece of ground, formerly an orchard, then garden, and now laid down as sward with a piece called Woolmans Hill, and held of the Manor of Ampthill, bounded N. and E. by freehold part of a close lately called Woolmans Hill, S. by property purchased of Lord Holland, in occupation of Thomas Harrison and Thomas Chater, and the freehold property late of James Humphrey, and on W. by garden purchased of Thomas Gostelow; and one-fifth part of premises to which Catherine Morris was admitted in 1828, on the Surrender of Henry Ashby, Jane Morris, and Mary Ann Morris (devisees of John Morris, father of Catherine Morris); and also to the moiety of three-fifths of premises to which Catherine Morris was admitted on Surrender of her brother John Morris, Henry Ashby and Jane Morris. Witnesses: John Morris (Ampthill, brewer) and S Davis (attorney, Ampthill) 23, 24 Dec 1833 [Endorsed: Reconveyance and Release of Covenant of Surrender; dated 23 November 1859]
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